Favorite sad movies- Page 2

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 10:21am

FOX AND THE HOUND is one of the most needlessly sad movies EVER MADE. I saw it once when I was a kid and it destroyed me. I was a wreck for weeks.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 10:23am

I cry easily, so this list would be too long, but films that I love and that had me embarrassingly sobbing:

The Color Purple
The Joy Luck Club
Love is Never Silent (TV)

At least the last one was in my own home.

[kadu335]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 10:31am

When I was a kid, Disney's The Rescuers was one of my favorite movies and I would ALWAYS cry during the "Someone's Waiting For You" scene... I remember my dad saying "this kid isn't normal" while watching me cry haha

[IAMWHATIAM]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 10:32am

Old Yeller
Captains Courageous
Brief Encounter
City Lights
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Charly
Splendor in the Grass
Bambi
Boys Don’t cry
E.T.
Brian’s Song
Sophie’s Choice
Midnight Cowboy
Brokeback Mountain
The Elephant Man
Ordinary People
Terms of Endearment
Longtime Companion
Field of Dreams
The Champ
Finding Neverland
In America
Sunshine (a made for TV movie from the 70’s)

[John Adams]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 11:54am

I totally agree with AI (when she leaves him in the woods and he's pleading with her... UNGH!), Steel Magnolias, and so many others mentioned here.

The one movie I don't see listed yet is Cinema Paradiso. The ending, with Ennio Morricone's amazing underscoring, is a movie lover's wet dream.

[kadu335]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 11:57am

I love Cinema Paradiso, John Adams! I saw that movie countless times with my grandma (who is Italian). One of my favorite movie scores as well. Morricone also did the score of another one of my favorite italian movies, Malena.

Updated On: 4/15/13 at 11:57 AM

[John Adams]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:03pm

>> "I love Cinema Paradiso, John Adams! I saw that movie countless times with my grandma (who is Italian). One of my favorite movie scores as well."

I don't want to give away the ending, but is that not THE most romantic and love-filled thing you've ever seen on screen??? ...and all without a word of dialogue.
[JA weeps, even as he types...]

I'm happy you appreciate that movie, too! :)

Updated On: 4/15/13 at 12:03 PM

[kadu335]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:10pm

It is indeed, John! :)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:13pm

There's Always This

[morosco]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:16pm

Fried Green Tomatoes.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:17pm

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:19pm

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas got me good the first time

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:20pm

Oh, I bet he did.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:27pm

Yeah, I cannot say The Fox & The Hound as that would require me to call it a favorite. My reaction was the same as Jordan's and it still sticks with me.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:32pm

My two favorite sad movies are both animated. I think The Plague Dogs is just heartbreaking--as a teen I rented it for my twin sis when she was sick because she loved Watership Down so much, and at the end I just remember we both were in tears and she basically told me she hated me for showing her that... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUDzklWlvho

And my all-time most devestating movie has to be Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies. Which even watching the trailer makes me tear up--but a gorgeous movie (I was really glad Ebert picked it as one of his top movies) and I think a pretty important one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_KCRIDbEXM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:36pm

Has nobody mentioned SCHINDLER'S LIST? Had Oskar Schindler lived I'm sure he would have been a belieber.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:44pm

The Magdalene Sisters! That movie stunned me.

I didn't mention Schindler's List because to me, it was something beyond a "sad movie". I saw it the day it opened and to this day, it is the only movie I've ever seen where NOBODY in the audience got up to leave until the credits finished rolling and the lights came back up. People were in shock. As we exited the theatre, the line of people waiting to get in for the next viewing saw our faces as we were leaving and their expressions were "What have I gotten myself into?"

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:55pm

We went to Schindler's List with my Jr High School girlfriend (I know...) for her birthday. I think we all had the reaction Matt describes--I haven't seen it since.

[John Adams]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 12:59pm

>> "I didn't mention Schindler's List because to me, it was something beyond a "sad movie"."

Yeah, I kinda go along with Mister Matt on this one. I think of Schindler's List as a documentation of a human tragedy. I wept, but not at all in a "good" way.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 1:12pm

Both Plague Dogs (at least for anyone sympathetic about animal abuse) and Grave of the Fireflies, while animated, I think fit into that documentation of a tragedy definition, albeit one on a more small scale.

For a movie I would actually call a *fave* sad movie, I have to go back to another animated fave I was obsessed with as a kid--The Last Unicorn. And look it's on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwJbTmerdqc

[John Adams]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 2:00pm

I shied away from Plague Dogs when it came out. As a kid, I LOVED Richard Adams' books and felt pretty burned by the poor animation and storytelling in the Watership Down movie.

I felt the same way about Don Bluth's horrible movie version of Robert C. O'Brian's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (which, even as an adult, is still an enjoyable read).

But back to topic and Jordan Catalano's reference to Up - I cried like a baby in that movie. I even left the cinema wearing my 3-D glasses so nobody would see...

Updated On: 4/15/13 at 02:00 PM

[HoldThatThought]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 5:13pm

Definitely Schindler's List and this part in Goodwill Hunting (It's not your fault):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkST5-ZFHw

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 5:20pm

John--I *love* The Secret of NIMH but I see it as a different work--I grew up having the book read to me, and yet I think Bluth's film is great in its own way.

Whereas I think Plague Dogs, much more than Watership is a fiathful adaptation. And that more devestating.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 5:27pm

Ordinary People

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/15/13 at 5:31pm

BABE
TOY STORY 2
TOY STORY 3
BILLY ELLIOT

and of course

RUDY