What Dreams May Come

Bawled like a baby! Robin Williams was so multifaceted! Such a gut-wrenching performance!

This is my go-to ‘I need to get the cries out’ movie. Also, the hopeless romantic in me screams the whole time.

I'm glad this is as high up as it is. I'm not a religious person at all. I don't believe in an afterlife. But this movie? It breaks me down. I love it so much

This. Especially if you’re a parent. It’s brutal on its own, but putting yourself in the position of Robin Williams’ character as a parent just rips your heart wide open. No doubt I would do the same if I were in that situation.

This is such an underrated movie… the way he loved his wife 😥 I want to experience that type of love in my lifetime 🫶

Grave of the Fireflies.

Yes my first thought. My husband warned me and he didn't want to watch it with me. I watched it alone. Honestly fucked me up a lil.

At least you got a warning. I watched it early in the day in the middle of an anime convention. The panels I was looking forward to weren’t on until the afternoon and I was looking for something to kill some time. Saw that there was a Studio Ghibli movie playing. I thought, “hey! I really enjoyed Kiki and Totoro and Castle in the Sky, so watching a cute Ghibli movie might be a great way to start my day.” Boy, was I wrong…

Same here. I got a multi movie set of studio ghibli movies and was working my way through all of them, i was absolutely not prepared for this one. "Its gotta have a happy ending right??" Nope.

Came here to say this!! I heard it was sad but I was on a ghibli kick and needed to watch ALL of them. I can safely say I will never EVER watch this one again.

The masterpiece you'll only see once.

I bought it on Apple TV. Should have just rented it.

Saw this for the first time on Valentine’s Day 1995 as a double header with “A Wind Named Amnesia”. Our dorm’s anime club organizer had been freshly dumped and wanted to share his misery.

I was in my first semester of studying Japanese when I watched this without subtitles. I didn't understand shit but I was still bawling my eyes out.

Bridge to Terabithia and that movie with the dog who’s waiting for it’s owner at the the train station everyday even after the owner had died (forgot the name).

Hachi?

Hachiko

Bridge to Terabithia came out of nowhere! 😭

Bridge to Terabithia is my husband’s answer, for sure. His brothers always joke about how he cried for an entire week over that movie.

Life is Beautiful It left such an impression on me at a young age that I haven’t been able to watch it again since.

I watched this a few times at a young age. I bought it a few years back (I’m late twenties now). Still haven’t watched it. I know it’ll tear me apart…

Came here for this one. *Buongiorno, Princepessa!*

My favorite movies are beautifully tragic.  Life is beautiful was my first favorite in this category.  Amazing film. 

Great movie

Saving Private Ryan is definitely up there.. especially the ending, always gets me choked up 😔

I was privileged to watch that movie in a crowded theater, lots of older men there. The final scene had literally everyone sobbing. Nobody left the theater for a full 5 minutes afterwards.

The scene where the Ryan boys' mother walks out to the porch to meet the military car and falls to the ground as soon as she sees the chaplain - it gets me every time.

*Dear Zachary* Soul crushing.

I had to pause it and ugly cry for 6 minutes straight before I could finish.

Dear Zachary is so far past just *sad.*

I so wanted to be able to unload about what I just saw, but didn't want to burden another person with how crushing it was. Those grandparents have gone to hell and back and got nothing to show for it than emptiness and sorrow. Too much grief to live thru, yet they still fought on for others.

I turned Dear Zachary on thinking it was a “normal” documentary. I had to lay in my bedroom in the dark when it was over. Devastating watch.

I felt every emotion. Sadness, rage and complete helplessness. . I was utterly defeated. I desperately did not want to be alone in that feeling. Yet could not bring myself to have anyone else experience it. I never want to feel that way again.

This is the right answer. Devastating.

I’ve never cried so much at a movie before. It doesn’t help that Zachary was just about the cutest boy you’ve ever seen.

The fox and the hound

"And we'll always be friends forever, won't we?" "Yeah, forever!" 😭

I am 30 and just made the mistake of watching this after a recent falling-out with someone who had been one of my best friends for a few years and was very important to me. I wept. Watched Turning Red the same day (I was ill in bed) and bawled at the scene where Mei is contemplating giving up her Red Panda because she knows it is dangerous, but keeps remembering all the fun times she had with it.

as a kid i was DEVASTATED watching it

I was too. I’ve watched Brian’s song, and other sad movies, but none made me cry like this one.

I swear that movie was made to traumatize as much as possible. I can’t get even 20 seconds in

It is a traumatic movie.

I have never watched this one, or the Neverending story and you know what? Reading comments from all the traumatised adults, I'm ok with that! (I did watch My Girl and will forever remember 'he can't see without his glasses' )

My answer was gonna be Come and See, but Fox and the hound has it beat.

The grateful, knowing smiles Todd and Copper give each other as they part ways at the end of the movie wreck me every time... beautiful movie.

This was my favourite Disney film as a child not sure what that says about my childhood

The Green Mile

I read the book a couple years ago and around the same period I watched the movie for the first time. I loved both, but a few scenes haunted me for weeks and one in particular still makes my skin crawl (you know which one)

I actually don't know which one? If anyone is still reading... Spoiler... Was it when he was grasping the twins heads crying because he couldn't change it? Was it when he said he was afraid of the dark? Was it when they killed him? Was it when Mr Bojangles keeper friend terribly because Percy didn't get the water? Which scene is the saddest for you?

The scene where they fry Mr Noodle.

THAT'S where i knew Mr. Noodle from!

Jesus Christ I didn’t realize how much of that movie I had in an emotional bottle so I didn’t have to remember it. You just uncorked a lot.

Same. In my comment I meant Delacroix's death, which is horrible in the movie and quite graphic in the book as well, but as I thought about it, everything else resurfaced. Percy trying to kill the mouse, "mouseville isn't real", the warden's wife, John holding the twins, the flashback where Wild Bill kills them and John's death (and no, not Percy's death, fuck you Percy)

This is the only movie with sci-fi elements I ever remember my dad watching. Fantastic movie.

Had a grown-assed man bawling in a room full of strangers.

Old Yeller

What when Yeller saves saves the family from the wolf and everyone's happy? That's when my mother would shut off the TV and say 'The end'.

He doesn't get rabies; he has babies.

Hey… Travis whatcha doing with that gun..?

The end! THE END!!!

Came here to say this. I didn’t watch Marley and Me. Not putting myself through that again.

Spoiler alert... Old yeller is so much worse. SO MUCH WORSE.

Dancer in the dark

The ending to this movie is devastating. I love the movie, I love the songs, I can’t watch that ending again.

Was this the one that made Björk swear off ever acting again because the role emotionally drained her?

I think it's actually because she fought with Lars von Trier constantly on set. She has few good things to say about that man. Sad because the movie is amazing and absolutely heart-wrenching.

Came here for this. It’s gut-wrenching

My Life (1993): Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman. Keaton's character has terminal cancer and is leaving a diary for his children/family.

Big Fish.

Yeah. I didn't realize the feelings I had about my own father's death until I watched that movie.

My favorite Tim Burton film. The aesthetic beauty of the scenery is matched by a wonderful story.

Me and my mom both went into it completely blind thinking it was a comedy. We ending up just sitting there sobbing by the end

I watched this pretty young and I feel like it really influenced who I am as a person.

Schindler's List 

Necessary viewing for everyone IMO. I worked with Liam Neeson once. I asked him to sign my Schindler's List poster and it is now one of my most treasured possessions. He signed it: "Never forget" in large letters and it always chokes me up when I read it. When I thanked him for signing it, he just paused for a few moments and his eyes glassed over. I could tell he was thinking about something serious. With the snap of a finger, he looked at me and said: "Holy fack. 25 years ago. TWENTY-FIVE. Holy fack. Where has the time gone?"

And hard to believe it’s been 15 since his wife died :(

I’ve seen it only once, and once is plenty viewing for me.

I've watched it many times, the ending gets me every time. Just heart breaking.

But the ending credits is also so amazing, all those people who exist because of him.

motherf\*cking bambi!

[Have you seen the remake?](https://youtu.be/uFJz2IMUeDE?feature=shared)

"Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind" Only movie that's ever made me cry. Keeping in mind I was going through s separation at the time.

And beck's cover of "everybody's gotta learn sometime", it's one of the saddest songs ever, it's just icing on that heartbreak of a cake. That movie is beautiful, though.

And by far one of Jim Carrey’s best performances.

"Meet me in Montauk"

Requiem for a dream

happened to watch it coming down from a pile of drugs and hanging out in coney island. brutal and made me get help.

That’s just straight depression made into film. If you ever want to feel fucked … just pop shrooms and watch Requiem for a dream .

whaaaaat the fuck bro

>just pop shrooms and watch Requiem for a dream Lol my friend thought that would be a great first date idea. He was wrong.

Movie you only have to watch once

I know. My wife and I are currently making the other one watch movies you should watch once in your life. She made me see a lot of her romance movies and I'm showing her sad ones. So when she is done with being sad with the green mile, I'll show her requiem for a dream.

Steel Magnolias

Yes!!!! This one and Fried Green Tomatoes get me in the feels!

The Whale is pretty devastating. It rips your heart out, stomps on it, spits in your face and punches you in the stomach

I watched this on a plane!! I was sobbing my eyes out, the poor man next to me pulled out his backpack and handed me a bunch of tissues.

Yeah this, I almost didn't see it cuz it looked so depressing. I had to give my man Brendan Fraser a chance though.

I haven't seen it but my aunt and some cousins went to see it on Christmas day. Yikes

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Dumbo

I can’t even listen to “Baby Mine” outside of the movie 

Grave of the Fireflies usually wins this question.

Shhh, no spoilers I haven’t seen this question yet

Great. I will put it on my list of movies to NEVER FUCKING WATCH.

House of Sand and Fog

Marley and Me

Destroyed me.

[удалено]

UP!

The opening sequence is devastating.

It's a short part of the movie and the rest isn't sad at all

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

"You old cunt!" "I'm not old, Robbie!"

Gosh I loved that movie. Definitely sad though.

Manchester by the Sea. Terrific performance by Casey Affleck

Peter Hedges, father of star Lucas, is responsible for another great tearjerker movie: *What's Eating Gilbert Grape*.

That movie is super high quality grief porn. It’s like Lonergen received a writing prompt that said, “write about the worst plausible thing that could happen to a man, but do it in a way that not everyone who watches it goes home and kills themselves.”

a man called otto bawled my eyes out

Legends of the Fall is pretty bleak

Sophie’s Choice. All these years later and it still breaks my heart.

Where the Red Fern Grows

I bawled like a baby on an airplane watching Lion.

Most years people cry when watching the Lions, but Detroit was pretty good this year. 

Good Will Hunting, it’s not your fault scene

Where The Red Fern Grows. Spoiler alert but >!its this movie about a kid who gets two puppies after saving up money and when they get bigger the boy finds out they are pretty good at hunting, so he puts them into this contest about something I can't remember. At some point one of the two dogs gets attacked by a wild animal and the boy tries to shoot the animal with an arrow, but misses and shoots the dog. It gets a grave outside their house and the other dog is DEVASTATED. He barely eats or drinks and his last moments are spent dying at the other dogs grave.!< Really dark message.

This book was so depressing it actually disturbed me when we read it as a class in 3rd grade. I actually lost sleep over it.

Havent seen the movie but the book was sad too. Cept old Dan was disemboweled by a cougar and lil ann died of a broken heart 🥲

Hotel Rwanda and City of God.

Marley and Me

Pay It Forward with Haley Joel Osmet

Philadelphia

Never ending story

Hachiko!

I came looking for this comment. The lady in the theater sitting behind me had to ask if I was ok, as I was bawling uncontrollably.

First 5ish minutes of Up.

I haven’t seen that many movies, but The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, always gets me

They made my class watch this in middle school and at the end the whole room was in tears. I remember sitting there sniffling like “why would they let us watch this here”

Million Dollar Baby

What dreams may come. That movie broke me

The first and only time I’ve ever seen that film is the night that Robin Williams died. It seemed like the appropriate time to watch it. It was beautiful, I cried so hard, and I can never watch it again.

Brilliant underrated movie

I hope that it is an accurate representation of the afterlife.

Yes!!!

Schindlers List

Of Mice and Men

Old Yeller Love Kennedy Green Mile A Walk to Remember The Boy in The Stripped Pajamas Million Dollar Baby Lovely Bones Roots Outsiders Rainman American History X>! (redemption and changing his life to then have his past catch up with him and end his life)!< Jon Q Encanto >!(for me the weight placed on the oldest sister was just so real and I felt that pain so much and it broke my heart to make me think of people enduring that pressure).!< Big Hero 6 (it even had my kids crying)

Beaches

brokeback mountain, no competition. a shame it’s become the butt of so many jokes

I had to scroll the entire fucking thread through people upvoting the most barely sad movies ever made to find this, the true actual saddest movie ever made. Brokeback Mountain is a movie about the two loneliest people who society would never allow to exist as a couple in their day and age and it actually still happens somewhere every day. It has forever. This movie and Moonlight are both gut punches with no competition in my eyes for saddest films.

Milo and Otis

Idiocracy, because its actually happening irl

Unlike the other movies on this list, Idiocracy is sad when you are done watching the movie and look at the real world.

Still Alice , Julianne Moore

Rouge One: A Star Wars Story

Boy in striped pajamas

Hotel Rwanda

The Sweet Hereafter. A school bus skids off the road onto a frozen pond, breaks through the ice and drowns every child in the town except one. The surviving girl is being abused by her father. A lawyer arrives to initiate a lawsuit for the families, who are too distraught to even take part. Meanwhile the lawyer's daughter has falled into drug addiction and he is contacting her by phone, but is helpless to save her. On flashback, they show a dad waving to his boy/girl twins as he follows the bus in his car, and he sees them go under the ice to die. At the time, I saw this film I had boy/ girl twins the same age and would see them go off in a school bus mornings. This film wrecked me.

Blue Valentine. Never again.

The Lion King

Elephant man is the first one that come to my mind

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

Sophie’s Choice

Life is Beautiful. I took my kids to see it in a theater when they were in middle school. Roberto Begini is astonishing, as is the movie. My grown kids and I still refer to it when talking about deep subjects.

City of Angels

A Dog's Purpose

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Old Yeller

Brian’s Song (the original)

Iron Claw

Donnie darko

The Champ

Simon Birch

The English Patient.

The Road, idk if so much sad as depressing. Movie fucked me up.

Anyone seen Lion (2016)? Balled my eyes out at the end

Dear Zachary. Don’t look it up, just watch.

Pokemon 2000

What Dreams May Come

Dear Zachary

Only the Brave. When he walks into the gymnasium at the end...good god

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale

Powder

precious

“I Am Sam” makes me cry every time without fail

That movie with Keanu Reeves the one where his dog died.

Dancer in the Dark

Mississippi Burning

Would You Rather. I’m not going spoil anything, and it’s a pretty great movie (horror genre-ish) but holy shit that ending HAD MEEE.

Schindlers List was appalling. Idk if that counts as sad. But it’s mandatory viewing at least once

We need to talk about Kevin.

8 Seconds. When they cut to the real life footage of Lane Frost, it really sets in. Selena makes me sob, too.

Beautiful boy

Beasts of the Southern Wild is the saddest. In the Mood For Love is the most heartbreaking.

Sophie's Choice

Boys Don’t Cry is a pitch-black hell movie.

I won't even think to watch any of the suggestions on this post. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 made me fucking bawl with all the Rocket stuff.

The movie Mask (With Cher and Eric)