Saddest movie you've ever seen?

[tessa grace]

Was thinking about this after a discussion with some friends. So what's the saddest movie you've ever seen?

From the top of my head it might be dead poets society. I remember bawling my eyes out on a flight once (quietly, i would never disrupt any passengers) after watching that movie.
Also not sure if it counts but the short film "if anything happens i love you" really, really sucked to watch. It was so sad.

 

[Alienfish]

Breaking the Waves. If you've watched it you know.

 

[amemome]

I cry suuuuper easily so even things like the first Pokemon Movie and Coco/Toy Story make me tear up uncontrollably...

I guess the most emotionally draining/thematically sad movie I've watched was Oldboy. I didn't cry for this one but it just completely drained me of any happiness and I finished the movie feeling so empty inside.

 

[LadyDestani]

I love Dead Poets Society! But the saddest movie that comes to my mind is Grave of the Fireflies. It's an anime movie about the tragedies of war and especially its affect on children.

 

[fairysyndrome]

seconding Grave of the Fireflies. that movie is incredibly miserable and hardhitting it was my first ever Ghibli film and it upset me so badly it took several years before i was willing to watch another one

 

[tessa grace]

when it comes to anime I must say a silent voice ruined me

 

[p e p p e r]

Dancer in the Dark, the movie was so amazing, but I don't think I could ever watch it again

 

[VanitasFan26]

The movie Titanic made by James Cameron. Everytime I hear that song (My heart will go on) it makes me cry.

 

[Midoriya]

I’ve watched tons of sad movies, including anime ones, and there’s only one movie that ever made me cry. The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith. I was a lot younger at the time, but the message of the movie being about homeless people and how tough life is for them really spoke to me. There was a statistic at the end of the movie that showed how many people are homeless just in the United States alone, and it really just tied the whole movie together.

 

[duckvely]

i watched the movie hachi when i was little and i remember bawling my eyes out, don't think i can ever watch it again

 

[LadyDestani]

Ah, speaking of animal movies, I was forced to watch Where the Red Fern Grows when I was in elementary school. That movie made me cry so much. I never wanted to watch it and will never watch it again.

 

[DaisyFan]

Dead Poets Society was a great movie!

For me, I would say My Girl and The Fault in Our Stars. The final scenes of those movies made me cry.

 

[VioletUV]

Miracles of the Namiya General Store
it was a random movie i saw while on the plane and idk if it was the exhaustion or what, but it made me nearly cry for some reason lol
also i didnt know it was a book before

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

Movies, shows, games, books, etc. do not make me cry.. I've gotten close a couple times.

The saddest movie I've seen that's coming to mind right now is Pixar's Up, but I'm sure I've seen sadder movies than that

 

[Violet Witch]

Marley and Me. The ending was too sad for me that I vowed never to see it again.

 

[Lt.Savior]

It’s Dancer in the Dark for me. It left me very unsetteled. Maybe i’ll watch it again i don’t know yet. But i still very much recommend it.

 

[Stikki]

Wendy and Lucy. It's a criminally underrated film about a homeless woman and her dog, that forces you to see just how bad life can get and how your initial judgements of somebody might be very unfair and basically kicking them while they're down. And the bond between human and animal, to the point of it being utterly unselfish on either side. The dog doesn't die or come to any harm, but it's not exactly a happy ending all round, just quietly hopeful at best.

 

[Xara]

i’ve watched a handful of movies (and shows) that have made me cry, but the one that really got to me was a girl like her. i watched it on netflix back when i was in 8th grade and it ruined me. it made me cry so hard that i genuinely thought that i was going to die, and i had to pause the movie for a bit to calm down.

i think the reason it affected me as much as it did is because i was imagining myself as the main character’s best friend, and my best friend at the time as the main character. the movie is about the relentless bullying that led to the main character attempting to uh, unalive herself and the aftermath of it, and while neither i nor my friend were being bullied at the time, she talked about unaliving herself a lot (as did i), and that movie made me realize that she could actually attempt it one day, and that scared the crap out of me. imagining us in that situation and my fear of it becoming a reality is likely what led to me having such an intense emotional reaction, but it was definitely a devastating movie without all that. i enjoyed it, but 8th-grade me was not prepared lmao.

 

[Belle T]

Since a lot of people are mentioning Grave of the Fireflies, I thought I'd be derivative and mention a film with similar themes and set in the same time period: In this Corner of the World (Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni). I'm not sure if I'd call it the absolute saddest film I've ever watched, because despite everything, it ends on a relatively optimistic note. But it does have some very emotionally devastating moments that had me pausing the movie to collect my bearings. It's a simple, slice of life story that isn't really narratively connected (i.e. there's no established plot build up that leads to a resolution); it's just a peek into the lives of a Japanese family during World War II, both the good and bad. It explores so many different angles of how the lives of the family is impacted, from things like food shortages, to the atom bombs, to the social climate. It's a very engaging movie to me.

Ah, speaking of animal movies, I was forced to watch Where the Red Fern Grows when I was in elementary school. That movie made me cry so much. I never wanted to watch it and will never watch it again.

When I was in fifth grade, a friend of mine and I were on a field trip and heaven only knows why our teacher thought that a good movie to put on during a field trip to the museum was Where the Red Fern Grows of all things. Cue two young girls in the middle row of the bus sobbing loudly, one of them being me.

 

[Stella-Io]

Any movie with a dog as a main or THE main cast

Then the dog dies

Marley and Me and Little Heros made me cry. I don't even remember what Little Heros was about, I just remember the little girl had an old hound dog named Fuzz or somethin, and it was made clear that the dog was old from the beginning of the movie. Well, ofc, the dog ended up dying. I cried. Then torwards then end of the movie the girl is gifted a new hound puppy. She ends up naming the dog Little Fuzz. Then I cried more.

What's worse, was that I saw the movie in school. With other people in the classroom. I was not warned about a dog dying. I was tryin real hard to not let others know I was crying. I think a few kids knew thou.