Favorite sad movies

[Younger Brother]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 4:08pm

Hey all! I'm a sucker for sad movies and was wondering, if anyone could recommend any? Some of my favourites are Precious, For Colored Girls, The Color Purple and Prayers For Bobby. I also cry everytime I watch The Sixth Sense during the scene with Toni Collette and Haley Osment in the car.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 4:11pm

Artificial Intelligence, it severely traumatized me as a child, and to this day remains one of the only films that makes me cry.

[BWFan101]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 4:22pm

Shadowlands

And I can't even think about La Bamba without crying!

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 4:25pm

Stepmom and Ice Castles. It has to be the original Ice Castles though, not the remake.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 5:07pm

Amour, Winter's Bone, Blade Runner, Life of Pi, The Lost Weekend, Brokeback Mountain, The Nun's Story, Story of Women, Cries and Whispers, Sounder, Brief Encounter, Waterloo Bridge (Leigh, Taylor), A Christmas Carol (Sim), A Star is Born (Garland, Mason), Capote, The Night of the Hunter, Nights of Cabiria, Life is Beautiful, Gone With the Wind, The Garden of the Finzi Continis, The Children's Hour, Pixote, Pan's Labyrinth, Opening Night, Boys Don't Cry, The Member of the Wedding, The Heiress, A Cry in the Dark, Far From Heaven, Raise the Red Lantern, Great Expectations, Jude, Heavenly Creatures, Wild Strawberries, A Tale of Two Cities, Anna Karenina, Camille, Terms of Endearment, Vertigo, Modern Times, Days of Heaven, Jane Eyre (Welles, Fontaine), Rebecca, The Reader, Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake, Enemies: A Love Story, Les Miserables (Bauer), The Remains of the Day, The Sixth Sense, Stand by Me, Dolores Claiborne, Chinatown, The Devil's Backbone, Stella Dallas, Waltzing with Bashir, It's A Wonderful Life, The Apartment, The Purple Ross of Cairo, Tokyo Story, My Left Foot, Spartacus, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Emigrants/The New Land, I Want to Live!, Requiem for a Dream, A Portrait of Jenny

















Updated On: 4/14/13 at 05:07 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 6:14pm

Empire of the Sun
Secrets and Lies
Joy Luck Club
Europa Europa
Au Revoir Les Enfants
A Passage to India
The Ice Storm
Another Year
The Virgin Suicides
Raise the Red Lantern

Updated On: 4/14/13 at 06:14 PM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 6:43pm

Need to separate this:

Non-Disney animated movies:
Grave of the Fireflies
The Iron Giant
Waltz with Bashir

Disney animated movies:
Dumbo
Bambi
Pinocchio

Pixar:
Toy Story 3
The first 15 minutes of Up

Haneke:
All of them.

Spielberg:
A.I.
The Color Purple
E.T.

Live-action:
Sirk's version of Imitation of Life
Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day
Make Way for Tomorrow
Clean, Shaven
The Ice Storm
The Shootist
The Kid
City Lights
The Bicycle Thieves
Umberto D.
Zhang Yimou's To Live
Ivan's Childhood
Ballad of a Soldier
It's A Wonderful Life
David Cronenberg's The Fly
Mulholland Drive
Brief Encounter
In the Mood for Love
Once
Birth
Never Let Me Go
The Gospel According to St. Matthew- Nobody does a bible story like the atheist Pasolini

Updated On: 4/15/13 at 06:43 PM

[dreaming]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 7:14pm

Beaches, Stepmom, The Natural (isn't so much sad as it is touching-if you don't cry during the last scene you have no heart), It's a Wonderful Life, Imitation of Life (Lana Turner version), Life is Beautiful, On Golden Pond (it's an oldie, but it gets me crying), An Affair to Remember, Dead Man Walking, Shadowlands.

Updated On: 4/14/13 at 07:14 PM

[Jim Colyer]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 10:06pm

I try to avoid sad movies, preferring upbeat musicals.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 10:15pm

I love Stepmom.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 10:28pm

Brian's Song
Love Story
Stepmom
Prince of Tides (parts of it especially)

I'm sure there are a million others I'll think of later. Well, maybe not a million.

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 10:40pm

My Girl.

Used to be Steel Magnolias, but I think I saw it too many times.

I'm pretty sure I am Sam was the first movie I remember actually crying at.

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 11:24pm

As awful as it is to some, Beaches gave me emotional trauma at some point.

And gay, it gave me gay too.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/14/13 at 11:28pm

FIELD OF DREAMS

Last month I watched it for the first time since my Dad died over 7 years ago and my roommate asked if I needed him to call 911. I was an emotional mess like I hadn't been since the first time I saw STEPMOM in the movie theater and the Chinese tourists next to me asked me if I needed help.

You see when I cry, I cry HARD.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 7:53am

Oh I forgot Steel Magnolias. Probably because it is also pretty funny. And Philadelphia. I seriously lost my **** in the car for 20 minutes after that movie before I could drive.

[kadu335]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 8:43am

Don't worry Jordan... I always end up crying in the end of movies. It's quite embarrassing. The movie doesn't even need to be that sad! haha

The funny thing is I'm not an emotional person when it comes to my own life. I hardly ever cry when I'm in a difficult or sad personal situation.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 9:16am

That's funny because I'm actually the same way. But show me a Hallmark commercial and I'm an emotional mess for the rest of the night.

[kadu335]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 9:40am

Hahaha

Last week I saw a movie called 'Loggerheads' with a couple of co-workers I'm not even that close with. Worst decision ever! I tried really hard not to cry but It wasn't successful at all. People are still teasing me about it 5 days later haha

[suestorm]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 9:44am

"Let the Right One In" was way sad on so many levels

Updated On: 4/15/13 at 09:44 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 9:49am

I saw Loggerheads a few years ago and it bummed me out too.

Such a good movie.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 9:52am

For me, as well, the first 15 minutes of Up.

The end of Marley and Me. I knew it was coming, and that didn't help it at all.

I often cry when a movie brings up a painful subject in my life. I only cried during one viewing of The Notebook, and that was mostly because a grandmother was suffering through dementia and forgetting me all the time.

It sounds crazy to throw in an Adam Sandler movie, but there's a scene in Click that 100% of the time will make me cry. It's when he realizes he fast-forwarded through the last time he saw his dad. When he has to rewind and watch that moment as a silent observer, it is painful to him (and me) how he treats his dad. He then pauses it so he could just stand next to his dad and say the Goodbye he didn't get to.

[kadu335]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 10:03am

I enjoyed the movie as well, tazber. Nice story and pretty good acting!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 10:11am

I forgot about LOGGERHEADS. Man, that was a sad one.

MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS always makes me sob, also. And if you've never seen LORENZO'S OIL, be prepared to cry like someone turned on a faucet in your eyes.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 10:14am

Love Story?!?! I was too young to miss the big deal when it came out, but I watched it for the first time a few years ago and I was stunned at how AWFUL it was. I couldn't even figure out what was wrong with her (besides her acting). The doctor came in and was like, "It's her brain. It's inoperable." Or something to that ambiguous effect. He might as well have said she had a "brain thing" or a "brain cloud". That movie just made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

And when Ali MacGraw was cast in Festen on Broadway, I knew the production was doomed.

Festen (aka The Celebration) is another of my picks. Fantastic film.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 10:19am

I don't normally cry from movies either. Now I remember, I did cry at the end of Les Miserables. Except for some of the really popular music, it was my first exposure to it.

I've been noticing as I get older that a lot of Disney movies seem sad before the ending. Except The Fox and the Hound. That ended really sad. I was watching Homeward Bound one night recently and cried when the dog fell in the hole & couldn't get out. I saw the movie before and knew the outcome, but it seemed sadder for some reason.