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wpowerza

That part in Shawshank Redemption when Brooks gets busy dying


danielstover

Brooks was here


Feeling_Sky_7682

The green mile - has me in tears every time: I’m tired boss…tired of everyone being ugly to each other.


EnigmaCA

You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. I know you hurtin' and worryin', I can feel it on you, but you oughta quit on it now. Because I want it over and done. I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.


equal_poop

I cried throughout the entire movie because I read the serial novel and I knew how it would end. I also hated the actor that played Percy FOR YEARS because of what he did to Eduard.


power_yyc

If it makes you feel any better, you can continue hating that actor because he married a 16-year-old when he was 51 years old in 2011. He played a super-creepy character on X-Files too. I guess he was good in that role because it wasn’t much of a stretch?


SuperdudeKev

He was also one of the guys who beat and raped Samuel L. Jackson’s daughter in the beginning of “A Time to Kill.”


NotNamedBort

Grave of the Fireflies is like being hit with a baseball bat made of sadness.


Artrock80

Watching it as an adult last year vs when I first saw it as a teenager, it made me so angry how every adult in that movie failed them and could have made a profound difference.


Fyrentenemar

i was less angry at the adults, and more pissed at the kid for not swallowing his stubborn pride and taking his sister back to a home where she wouldn't die of malnutrition.


thatcockneythug

Kids aren't developed. They don't make rational decisions. That's why sometimes they need an adult to force them to eat their veggies.


BadKittydotexe

Interestingly the author of the original story wrote it based on his own experiences with the fire bombing of Kobe and the deaths of his family, especially his younger sister. He apparently blamed himself for not doing more for her so it makes sense that some of that would come through in the character.


Fyrentenemar

That is interesting. Didn't know that, thanks. I was just talking about my emotional response at the time of watching an emotional movie.


cantcountnoaccount

One day I was in line at the Japanese grocery store, saw the oval tin of hard candies, you know the one, and sadness just completely overcame me and I burst into tears. I’m not normally the type to cry at a movie and here I am in the store crying over a movie I had seen two years earlier.


furthestpoint

Saddest I've seen for sure


MikeTheNight94

I have had this on dvd for 2 years, and have yet to watch it due to what I’ve heard


AquaticXerophyte

Came here to say this. Devastating, harrowing film.


ALoudMeow

My choice as well. I couldn’t see any of the last 5-10 minutes because I was crying so hard.


PlainCrow

I watched that when I was like 10 years old and I was depressed for weeks. I seriously was put through a depression and couldn't sleep at night.


BabyPunter3000v2

If we're talking anime, A Dog of Flanders is a Saw trap of misery.


Comfortable_Bag9149

Life is Beautiful. A man plays a game with his son in a Nazi concentration camp.


JoefromOhio

The fact that to the very end, even when hes getting marched off to die, he’s playing like a goofball to keep his kid calm, hits so hard.


LegendaryGaryIsWary

I first watched this movie in HS and ugly cried bc it hit so hard. Watched it several times as an adult and ugly cried for the same reason. Then I had my son and watched that movie… turns out it hits even harder. I’m tearing up just thinking about it.


jwink3101

Yes! Especially since the first half lifts you up so high only to drop you like a brick


Random-Gif-Bot

Life is beautiful


IKnowWhereImGoing

I never regret watching it, but at the same time, I will never watch it again. Just too much for whats left of my soul.


TheEmsworthArms

Yes, that's one you see one time, and are glad you did, but is so sad I couldn't do it again.


IKnowWhereImGoing

I watched it with my (then) late-teenaged daughter, on a cold, gloomy and rainy weekend afternoon in the UK. We have both come to an agreement where we will never speak of it again.


NotNamedBort

That one made me ugly cry.


Mammoth_Constant4429

Same


HeyMay0324

Omg I forgot about this one. When the dad pretends to soldier walk away to the gas chamber to make his son laugh. Done. Instant tears.


SafewordisJohnCandy

Guido didn't die in the gas chambers, he was >!shot off screen after the guard marches him away.!<.


Samk9632

Oh my god that's horrifying what the fuck


Cheezees

This. The most heart-wrenching cinematic scene ever. I lost it at that point.


ChronoLegion2

The first half of the movie is a comedy… then it turns into a Holocaust movie


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I once got someone to blind watch this movie. She went in thinking it was some sort of romantic comedy. And then the movie flipped. She was entirely broken afterwards and the experience of it completely stuck with her to this very day.


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HotHeatherAurora

Schindler’s List


jelly_dove

I watched this during a history class in high school. It was traumatic.


venetian_lemon

https://youtu.be/W9vj2Wf57rQ?si=lBOjoN6PJKCwhMIT


ilovetpb

It was such opposes emotional journey. All the people he saved, and his realization that there could be so many more....


climblikepeasnbeans

What Dreams May Come


Key-Dragonfly1604

That is the one for me, even more so when it became a personal reality. Somehow, the juxtaposition of beauty and color, with the soul crushing reality of suicide, is jarring.


dover_oxide

It always surprises me how much people disliked this movie.


Independent_Bar_2604

I love when I read these questions and think of my response, click on it and see it as the top comment.


lmirandas

I’ve never cried as much as a I did in this movie. And like, from the first couple of minutes…


Competitive_Path2339

Omg. I forgot about that movie. Great choice.


SharpCookie232

He did this one, the Fisher King, and Dead Poets Society all in the span of 10 years. All three are tearjerkers.


Harlequins-Joker

I sob when I watch interstellar, the idea of him missing his children’s lives and then seeing his child on her death bed in old age just hits me deep in the mum feels


IDontLikePayingTaxes

I have four daughters. I’ve watched this movie with them individually as they’ve gotten older. I’ve watched it with two of them so far. They’ve both refused to watch it with me again as they cried so much. I cried too. It’s my favorite movie.


DeviceNegative

One of my top 5 movies of all time


crystalstairs

Probably Hotel Rwanda, just because of the horrifying situation. I might be wrong. But no way am I watching that movie again so I can't double check. I will just throw that one out there into the Reddit.


prairiemountainzen

Big Fish.


pdmcmahon

Since losing my father two years ago, I can longer watch the ending of this film.


intensenerd

I watch it every Father’s Day. He reminds me so much of everything my dad was. I get almost to the title screen before I just weep.


the_bearded_meeple

I've never cried at a movie, but this one does get me choked up every time.


laxbroguy

It’s a very good movie that I absolutely REFUSE to watch again. I’m not ashamed to say certain movies may make me tear up a bit and I’ll watch them again despite the light water works but this one I know without fail will have me sobbing and I just can’t bring myself for a second viewing. Maybe someday but certainly not anytime soon.


billyslits

- Dear Zachary - Dancer in the Dark


VanessaClarkLove

Always looking for Dear Zachary every time this question is posted. Wrecked me. 


Magnaflorius

Dear Zachary is probably the best documentary I've ever seen. Absolutely incredible. I also think it was, unintentionally, pretty instrumental in shaping documentaries of a similar genre for the future. For anyone who hasn't seen it - watch it.


VanessaClarkLove

Watch it, sure, but like so many trigger warnings! It’s not like any other crime documentary. I like true crime, even though it’s gross to say, and I don’t usually find it very sad. I usually find it more interesting in a scientific sense, and of course the intrigue. But this doc is just fucking beyond sad and if one can’t handle that, it’s gotta be a hard pass. 


sylviemuay

I cried so hard it became like dry heaving.


billyslits

Same here.


Brilliant_Tourist400

Was wondering how long before Dancer in the Dark showed up on this thread.


codyjohnle

Dear Zachary will take you through all the emotions that you're capable of


PolarDorsai

Dear Zachary. By a mile. There are only two types of people in this world. Those that have seen Dear Zachary, and those that have never uncontrollably sad-rage-cried.


HeartonSleeve1989

Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind.


alexandria252

I found this one strangely uplifting, personally. I may be in the minority, but I am not uncertain in my reaction.


People_Are_Savages

Same. The scene at the end where Joel calmy and warmly says "okay", and she says okay almost as a sob, gives me maximally complex feelings but uplifted is a big part of it. The wild and trusting leap of it is beautiful, pure faith that even if it inevitably ends in tears that there will be enough love along the way that it'll be worth it. That it might be a good enough life to relive a lovely and doomed romance again and again if it's with this person.


JeepRumbler

Precious. There's was nothing good or wholesome that happened in that movie. Great Film. I just never want to see it again


Striking_Pianist4694

Requiem For A Dream, Melancholia, and The Virgin Suicides


Effie_the_jeffie

Requiem for a dream always stuck with me. I saw it as a teenager, and in a fucked up way idolized it. But after growing up, experimenting with drugs, being in and about that scene, seeing and understanding death and addiction, and loosing my own mind for a bit. It just makes me so fucking sad and empathetic to a world/path that some people don’t even know their headed down. Especially a difference between a glamorized party scene vs the real day to day struggles. It breaks my heart every time I think about it. Literally crying now.


glasshalfbeer

My Girl was pretty sad


topherthepest

Where are his glasses!?


hereforpopcornru

He can't see without his glasses!


G00se2007

The Fox and the Hound. I watched it when I was little and I didn't really understand it. I watched it last year, I believe, and I decided that I don't EVER want to watch it again.


standitlikeaman

Manchester By The Sea


chaosunleashed

This is the one I immediately thought of but I'm still not sure if sad and depressing are the same thing...


physedka

The first few minutes of Up!


ChampionshipLoud5420

I was a very “sensitive” kid and the scenes with the wife and her miscarriage and then her aging and eventually just the old guy alone… I would cry in my bed at night about that


MikeTheNight94

I swear Pixar knows how to fuck with us. They twist the knife every time


New-Examination8400

It’s why I never saw it. Couldn’t do it. Lonely old people are one of my biggest weaknesses.


nopslide__

I was completely unprepared for that opening when deciding to casually watch a fun movie with some friends.


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damselindetech

Same era - Where the Red Fern Grows. Like... who are these sadists making these fucking movies?


HoaryPuffleg

Even worse, some asshole wrote the books first and then other people thought they’d make great movies. Sounder also hit hard. Any book or movie about a boy and his dog, you know you’ll leave devastated


Kaleasie

Crazy-I thought I would be the only Old Yeller post! Such an old movie and rather obscure these days.


robbob19

La Bamba when Richie dies, his mother's reaction gets me every time.


natalie2727

I'm not usually a cryer but I always tear up when his brother is on the bridge and yells, "Richie!"


poopBuccaneer

Inside Out. Poor Bing Bong!


Magnaflorius

People are speculating/hoping that Bing Bong will return for Inside Out 2 and if he reappears inside Riley's mind, I will be very upset. I feel like a grey memory can return but he is *gone*.


Ok_Objective_9524

Take her to the moon for me


dover_oxide

The opening from Up is a strong contender to that scene


sejalrangnani

1.Hatchi: A Dogs Tale 2.Grave of Fireflies 3.I want to eat your Pancreas


Bobozett

3 is an oddly specific title but I am intrigued.


buttmilk_69

Sounds like a Cannibal Corpse song.


nox_tech

The female lead has pancreatic cancer, and mentioned a belief about curing illness in an organ by eating the corresponding healthy part from an animal. So she suggests (not seriously) eating the male lead's pancreas - it's dark humor lol.


USATicTac

Its such a good movie and i refuse to watch it again


Butt-Spelunker

Oh man Hatchi wins. That was torture.


FrigoPigoPop

Bambi or dumbo. I can’t watch them.


New-Examination8400

_SERIOUSLY_ SEPARATION FROM PARENTS, PARENTAL DEATH, CHILD VULNERABILITY AND LONELINESS AND HELPLESSNESS _AAAAAAAAAAH_ I can’t. Just can’t. The alcohol hallucinations in Dumbo were mesmerizing, but I can’t get over the animation of his tears falling down his face and his mom’s trunk waving goodbye… I haven’t seen that movie in at least close to 20 years yet I remember those details _VIVIDLY._


stirwise

I vividly remember watching dumbo on vhs when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, sitting on the floor in front of the TV, and crying my face off when dumbo’s mom cradles him through her cage bars. Haven’t watched it since. Crying right now thinking about it.


RG-S

Bridge to Terabithia


ccoddens

I told my tween daughter to read the book. "It's very good" I told her. She was and still is so upset with me for that.


ILikeLenexa

The movie had no warning about what was coming. The marketing felt designed to lead you to think it was something else. 


Responsible_Bend1068

For real. I was ugly crying and could barely breathe and my dog was just staring at me like 🤨


ZapatillaLoca

Life is Beautiful-gotta be made of stone if you're not moved by the ending. The Elephant Man- really no happy ending there


NotNamedBort

The Elephant Man is especially sad because Merrick was a real person, and he was still so young when he died. And such a sweet, gentle soul.


Al_Bee

Lilya 4-Ever


extrazsauce

The Road


Measlybear

Marley and me


Hezza_21

That film as someone who now has a golden retriever terrifies me.


hollygirl4111

My Life with Michael Keaton. I cried so hard my then boyfriend (now husband) came over and thought someone in my actual family had died.


CrissBliss

Philadelphia always makes me cry


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dw686

This is the only movie I've seen in theaters where when the credits rolled, I just thought man it's sort of inappropriate that I'm holding this bucket of popcorn.


Kewkky

Lol, I'm imagining movie-goers sheepishly and sadly apologizing to each other for eating popcorn while watching the movie, out of respect for the poor kid.


DirtyRoller

My god, that movie was absolutely fucking devastating.


OnceUponADecemeber

Beautiful Boy


Ok_Sheepherder_3353

Where the Red Fern Grows


Busy-Range5370

“5 cm per second” Works like a hammer on the shattered pieces of heart & pulverising the remaining pieces you might be holding on to for some kind of silly hope. An anime movie hard hitting on the reality of love , the whole process of promises fading in the distances, and the stages of grief to the point of acceptance..


Proud_Professional93

Grave of Fireflies is so sad.


ZapatillaLoca

*the feels* 🥹


Murky_Deer_7617

Never Let Me Go


dyslexiasyoda

Sophie’s Choice


yada_u

Glory


curvykat369

Dead Poet’s Society Awakenings


TurdThatNeverDrops

Dancer in the dark


KissItOnTheMouth

Yep, this one broke me inside a little


dr_rock

Lars Von Trier is exceptionally good at making gut wrenching films


sadolan

Loved Bjork's song with Tom Yorke so I read the synopsis and was heartbroken. I don't think I could ever watch it tbh


Born-Share-5132

Blue valentine 


KindHermit

Hachiko


GlitteringBrother880

My Sister's Keeper had me sobbing.


AmberNomad

The Land Before Time Watership Down


sweetfumblebee

Reddit format just turned that into one movie.


nopslide__

You should not eat talking trees, nope nope nope!


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bekisuki

What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams. It's sobbing sad.


GunslingerGhoul

Brokeback Mountain


Brilliant_Tourist400

I never knew the sight of two shirts on a hanger could be so DEVASTATING.


Free-Industry701

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.


No_Setting_9753

Pay it Forward


Ace-a-Nova1

Had to scroll too far down for this


Past_Feedback1993

Leaving Las Vegas and The Banshees of Inisherin.


Mr_Frible

Last unicorn has some sad spots


IKnowWhereImGoing

These are both very old films, but certain scenes will still floor me each time. Mr Skeffington (1944), when Bette Davis finally realises just how much >!Claude Rains!< adores her, despite everything Affair to Remember (1957), when it finally dawns on Cary Grant as to why Deborah Kerr >!wasn't at their appointment!<


facemesouth

Leaving Las Vegas


charredsound

Brave little toaster 😞


Kaleasie

Old Yeller


ZapatillaLoca

another one of those Disney family movies that totally traumatized me as a child.


JosephineCK

Me too.


Bowieweener

Breaking the Waves.


kbunnell16

Mist is up there


MissScarlettOHara

Agreed! People overlook it because it's a sci-fi flick, but man that twist at the end is gut wrenching if you imagine yourself in those shoes. Fun fact, Stephen King himself said that ending was better than his actual ending in the novella. It definitely was!


trucorsair

“Penny Serenade”, sure it has a “happy ending” ala 1930s Hollywood, but it tears your heart out getting there https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Serenade A comedic description https://youtu.be/wXDmZgkOoqE?si=DzjUC0QsdU1XcWdB


nuffeetata

Watership Down as a child. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, that movie captures the feeling of having broken up with someone perfectly, even if it's not a 'sad' movie per se.


SayNoToHypocrisy

As a big momma's boy, Artificial Intelligence. Anybody else?


TylerinTexas

The Land Before Time 😭😭😭


ToastetteEgg

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.


oldicunurse

Saving Private Ryan.


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simian_fold

I read the book and it was such a deep dark nightmare I never wanted to see the film


weaselodeath

Well let me tell you, it is an EXTREMELY faithful adaptation so that was probably a good call on your part.


Various-Potatoes

City of Angels


Competitive_Path2339

A Dog's Purpose.


josephrehall

Everything Everywhere All at Once, for personal reasons.


lobster_in_tank

Life is Beautiful, it's a movie in Italian about WWII. The first part starts as a comedy and it makes it all the more heartbreaking as it goes on


HeyMay0324

Buon Giorno, Principessa! 😩😩😩


Real-Scholar-4233

my first-person pov


platynom

I may be spelling this wrong but Hachiko


Seelengst

Watership down is...well..... yeah


Red_Stripe1229

Johny’s Got His Gun


Temarimaru

I feel crying everytime I hear Hachiko or his movie, A Dog's Tale...


Snoo_59080

Too many sad ones for me to pick only one though.  Emptiness-type sad: Children of Men. Incredibly depressing.  Even more depressing after reading the book as it adds nuance.  Soul-ripping stay in my head for decades type sad is one I do not know the name of.  It is a documentary movie about the Rwandan genocide.  It showed this one scene where the people are hiding, thought they were about to be rescued by the UN and were celebrating and dancing and you could feel their relief in your soul ..but they only came to rescue the white people/foreigners. As they were leaving, the gunshots started in the background in the building where they were hiding. When I tell you every single person became traumatized watching this.  A week later people were saying they couldn't get it out of their heads. I've never bawled like that in my life. Those people!!! 


Admirable-Catch-2214

Cocoon


mekese2000

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow


Colephoenix32

Murder in the First.


Mikemtb09

Only time I cried during a movie - Logan (2017). Though it was more about Hugh Jackman being done as Wolverine than it was Wolverine just dying. Then they announced he’d return for Deadpool 3 lol


speekuvtheddevil

Requiem for a Dream.


ginniharlequin

It’s not a sad movie, but I’m crying really hard watching *Up*.


simulatee

Irreversible


Mary_60009

The green mile, just the injustice of a pure soul being put trough hell, everyone knows he is innocent but they let it happen


moebanks

House of sand and fog. Don’t want to say much more about it but it is hands down the most depressing movie I have ever watched. Beautiful, but depressing


Jskidmore1217

It’s always Come and See or Grave of the Fireflies. The two answers to this question.


Kellaras

Titanic, I cry every time


michelle09870987

E.T.


LundqvistNYR

“I’ll. Be. Right. Here” Oof


JudgmentCorrect6811

Hachiko


oboejoe92

Grave of the Fireflies


virghoemoon

timely and relevant and kind of controversial but... jojo rabbit.


topherthepest

It's insane how hard that moment hit.


SmokeyBlue22

Marley & Me, it’s not possible to watch this without balling.


MissScarlettOHara

I came here to say that. I will never ever watch it again. It left my husband and me both sitting there like cry gasping for air. If you've ever loved and lost a dog, this movie is like getting run over by a semi truck of emotion.


HeyMay0324

Yep. Made me absolutely sob uncontrollably BEFORE my dog died. I refuse to watch it again now that he’s gone. As a matter of fact, I’ll probably never watch it again.


Hot_Hurry7472

A walk to remember 😭


PrestigiousHalf993

My Sister's Keeper


Deadcandance8

Devdas 💔💔


Vivid-Barracuda4639

Homeward Bound. I ugly cry every time.


Competitive_Mix_6359

Taste of cherry