Saddest movie you've ever seen?

[daringred_]

homeward bound. i love that movie, but i literally can't watch it because parts of it, including the ending, would make me bawl my eyes out again lol. there are definitely other movies i can't/won't rewatch for the same reason, but of course none of them are coming to mind when i need them to rip. anything involving animals dying or having to say goodbye in some way, especially if it's animated, will usually get to me tbh.

 

[Tao]

Wreck-It-Ralph when he smashes Vanellope's kart.

One that hit me extra deep for personal reasons, the end of Onward where the big guy gets a couple of minutes with his temporarily ressurected dad one last time. Hit me right in the feels thinking of my grandad and how I would like even just a couple minutes.

 

[allainah]

Interstellar.

 

[King Dorado]

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

directed by Zhang Yi-Mou
starring Ken Takakura

Spoiler: everybody cries

 

[nightglow]

The Boy in Striped Pajamas. There may have been one that was more sad but I don't remember. Memory problems.

 

[Livia]

I used to watch a lot of sad movies. Der Untergang is my favorite movie and to me it’s the saddest. Other sad movies I remember: Das Boot, North Face, Turtles Can Fly, Lost and Delirious, Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod/ Gloomy Sunday, Katyn

 

[CylieDanny]

Coco ;-; it hit so hard, it was so beautiful. But that one song just made me tear up.

 

[milktae]

i watched hachi a few years ago bc my teacher let us watch it and i started sobbing

 

[moo_nieu]

maybe my sisters keeper? i saw it in theaters so its been a while (no idea about the quality of the movie) but i remember it being really sad and i cried a lot. also bridge to terabithia, grave of the fireflies, a silent voice, and perks of being a wallflower were great but really sad. watched/read where the red fern grows in school, and that one is a tear jerker as well. im sure there are more sad movies ive seen, but these are what come to mind right now

 

[thatawkwardkid]

I know this movie gets made fun of but Cast Away.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

The ending to How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World hit me hard. It took me a really long time to get over it.

 

[Plume]

The Neverending Story.

 

[Nefarious]

Any movie that ends with an animal's death.
I remember watching Hachi as a kid and sobbing so hard afterwards, no matter how hard I tried to stop, I couldn't. It hit me so hard that I had to hide away upstairs where my parents couldn't hear. Honestly, with the way I reacted back then I'm kind of afraid to rewatch it haha. I'd consider it the saddest movie I've ever watched just by that first viewing.

There's a couple of non-animal centric movies that do make me tear up every time I watch them, but still enjoy them enough to rewatch frequently. Most notable one's are Toy Story 3 (The incinerator scene and Andy's goodbye) and A Silent Voice (literally the whole movie haha).

 

[Bobbo]

A tie between The Rose and Stand By Me.

 

[bellasmaster]

some of these movies are nothing compared to the sadness that is schindler's list. i challenge anyone of any gender or age to watch it and not cry.

 

[slzzpz]

some of these movies are nothing compared to the sadness that is schindler's list. i challenge anyone of any gender or age to watch it and not cry.

While I do think Schindler's List is a sad movie, Life Is Beautiful is probably a way more depressing film imo.



Also, "The Road" is pretty depressing and grim.

 

[bellasmaster]

While I do think Schindler's List is a sad movie, Life Is Beautiful is probably a way more depressing film imo.



Also, "The Road" is pretty depressing and grim.

adding to watch list. thanks.

 

[CrankyCupcake]

Yikes. I will always remember how hard I bawled watching the 2004 Japanese movie called Ima, ai ni yukimasu. (In English it's called Be With You. I believe there is a Korean remake of it in 2018. I have not watched the remake nor do I want to.) Cried like a baby. I was, at the time, the mother of a young child and so the movie hit me really hard.

I don't watch sad movies anymore. I do my crying these days watching anime.

 

[daringred_]

thought of another one recently. bolt. the last quarter or so of the movie (if you've seen it, you'll probably know what i'm referring to) made me really emotional the several times i watched it. just the song barking at the moon from the movie is enough to strike a chord in me. not the sad kind, but a melancholic/bittersweet kind, if that makes sense. like it makes you feel something, but it's not sadness.

also tinkerbell: legend of the neverbeast. i think i pirated it lol, but the ending made me cry, especially with the song that plays. i think it's the first of those movies to have a truly sad ending, mostly because it was also saying goodbye to us, the audience, as disney had axed the fairy movies and the other two or so they had planned were dropped. a real shame, too, since i think they're such a good set of movies, and i really like them even to this day.

 

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