Saddest movie ever

[Tskware]

Glory had me shedding some tears.

Also based on a true story. The opening scene of Antietam is reminiscent of Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Keeping the faith]

Lorenzo's Oil

 

[HeismaNole]

Blue Valentine

I watched that when it first came out about 13 years ago. I remembered it being a downer. Watched it again on HBO a few months ago and it's just so damn depressing all around. Dead dog, raising kid that's not yours, wife hates you, gets the wife fired, and gets left. The movie ends on that note.

 

[thabigbluenation]

Requiem for a dream was disturbing and sad

 

[SkyPrince1]

Terms of Endearment.
The scene with Debra Wingers character in the hospital being visited by her youngest son for the last time.

 

[SkyPrince1]

Requiem for a dream was disturbing and sad

I put it in the category with " Leaving Las Vegas".
Very depressing but not really a tear jerker.

 

[JDHoss]

Also based on a true story. The opening scene of Antietam is reminiscent of Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan.

And the end of Saving Private Ryan as well. The only sound in the sold out theater was the muffled sobs of several people as everyone quietly filed out.

 

[JGCraw]

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Dog follows his owner to the commuter train every day and is there waiting for him when he comes back each day from work. The owner dies at work. Then it follows the dog who obviously doesn't know what happened to his owner.

If you love dogs, do NOT watch this movie. Dang it was sad.

I went to his statue in Tokyo . Tear jerker movie.

 

[JDHoss]

The Zone of Interest is another sad, depressing Holocaust movie. It's subtitled, but well worth watching. It follows the daily life of Auschwitz Commander Rudolph Hoss and his family, who lived right outside the camp walls. It's a combination of sad, disturbing and disgusting as these people merrily went on with their daily lives knowing the horrors that were happening on the other side of that wall in their backyard.

The Zone of Interest (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[august-west]

Transformers the movie 1986.

I was like 8 or 9 and they killed Optimus in the opening act. I was devastated. That whole movie was some serious violence and death. Some pretty dramatic crap for young me. But it was the 80s. They had balls back then. We all did. It was rated PG or R. no in-between. R usually meant you were going to see a boob.

Dude, put that in a “spoiler” for those of us who haven’t seen the movie yet.

 

[DreadLox]

Philadelphia. The home movie at the wake.

My wife says Dancer in the Dark was so sad it's impossible to rewatch. (I didn't see it.)

 

[christophero]

Apollo dying in Rocky 4 was traumatizing to me as a youngster. Especially because Drago was a dirty fighter.

 

[Hank Camacho]

Backdoor to Chyna.

 

[WayneDougan]

Backdoor to Chyna.

Damn it, Hank. I was coming in here to drop a similar type of reference.

 

[BC_Wader]

Road to Perdition. Just a downer for 2 hours.

It’s a great flick but it’s just an emotional drag the whole way. Then when you think something good finally happened, bang.

GREAT movie.

 

[BC_Wader]

In my experience my saddest movies ever are:
Shindlers List
The Champ
The Green Mile
Philadelphia
The Pianist
It's a Wonderful Life

I'm sure there's more I can't think of at the moment. I cried at all those listed and not ashamed to say I did.

 

[BC_Wader]

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

Dog follows his owner to the commuter train every day and is there waiting for him when he comes back each day from work. The owner dies at work. Then it follows the dog who obviously doesn't know what happened to his owner.

If you love dogs, do NOT watch this movie. Dang it was sad.

Forgot that one. Based on a true story. Dog movies get me big time. My Dog Skip and Marley and Me I can hardly hold it together.

 

[DSmith21]

Robert Redford's brutal directorial debut which won best picture and screenplay in 1980.

 

[Nightwish84]

Watership Down is another one I'll mention. I'm good never seeing animated animals die again for the rest of my life.