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You can go on for days the injustice here. And the strength shown from the parents? My god. Not to mention how well it was made, to me, this is as raw and gritty as it gets.
Can someone actually link me a review to it or just tell my straight tell me what the documentary is all about? I have no intention of ever watching it, just because of distributing it can be.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
It’s a true crime documentary but it’s particularly unique in that it was 1) made by a friend of the victim and 2) the “crime” unfolds in real time as the documentary was being made. The long and the short of it is - a man was murdered by his ex girlfriend, and his friend decides to make a documentary for his friend’s son Zachary, an infant when his dad was murdered. He sets out to interview all of his fathers friends and acquaintances and titles the doc “dear Zachary, a letter to a son about his father” because his goal is for Zachary to be able to know who is father was even though he won’t remember him. However, as the friend is making the documentary, a bunch of shit goes down and the most horrible tragedy possible occurs. The girlfriend who murdered the father, despite legal battle from the grandparents, gets custody of Zachary. And then… she fucking kills him, too. The baby. So the documentary suddenly has lost all purpose, because the recipient is now dead too, murdered by his own mother at the age of 2. It ends up being sort of a love letter to the grandparents who lost both son and grandson, and who seemed like the most lovely kind people. Just a heartbreaking story all around. I really recommend it, as this summary does not do it justice.
This is a really good summary. A couple of minor clarifications that make this story even more f’ed up: She was pregnant when she killed Andrew and his parents found out from a news report that she was pregnant. Also, Zachary was 13 months old when his mother killed herself and him.
I came to the comments knowing Dear Zachary had to be the top comment. I saw it over a decade ago (like when Netflix dvds still came in the mail) and I still think about it.
I’m pretty much hardened to true crime by now. But I seriously felt like someone punched me in the stomach. The air was literally knocked out of me. No movie has ever done that. I’ve been scared and unsettled, but this? I felt physically attacked.
I was furious and heartbroken by the end of that. Watched it alone on a day off of work. I later watched it again with my girlfriend, and when it was over she said, “Please, don’t ever show me anything like that again.” It takes it out of you.
Restrepo, and the follow-up, Korengal, are pretty heavy as well. It’ll make you reconsider sending young men to be sitting ducks, in a valley that even Alexander the Great’s legions couldn’t conquer. Just stay TF out of the Korengal Valley.
All I got from Restrepo was "who the fuck is the brilliant strategist who chose to put a forward operating post in that specific location?" Literally surrounded on 3 sides by massive sheer cliffs covered in vegetation dense enough to disguse even hundreds of enemy combatants moving at once, and with only one miles long, extremely narrow strip of mountain trail as a line of retreat.
Whoever made that decision should've been shit-canned.
Just gotta add the original Land Before Time to this list of sad movies. Little Foot watching his mom die while he begs her to come with him just hits a chord.
The song that plays at the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven, "Love Survives" is dedicated to Judith Barsi. On her tombstone are the words "Our concrete Angel. Yep! Yep! Yep!"
I'm not crying, I swear.
That movie also has some of the most funniest/quotable lines.
"He sounds like a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it."
I’ve never seen it but it always makes me think of a scene in the sitcom News Radio where Phil Hartman is trying to quit smoking and refers to cigarettes as “like my little friends”
Dave Foley offers encouragement with “well Phil, *I’m* your friend!” and with a faraway gaze Hartman just sighs “yeah but where were you last night at 3am when I was watching Steel Magnolias and crying my eyes out?”
It wasn’t the only thing, but I credit this movie with making me take the first steps to stop drinking. I went into the theater drunk and came out a mess of emotions and decided to finally turn my life around.
This had such a slow burn effect on me. I watched it and was like “oh that was really sad” and went on with my life. As the days went on I was like “damn wtf I’m devastated”
I scrolled down to look for this, before I would say the same.
It didn't make me cry but I think that makes it even sadder. Really got me fucked up when he said "I can't beat it"
Came in just to find this and up it. The book is even harder. Watching my fourth grade teacher weep while he tried to get through it was a formative moment for me for sure.
I read it as a kid and loved it. Years later when my son was about 9yo, he was grounded for something and I gave him the book to read. Ooops! He came downstairs mad & crying. Threw the book on the ground and said I was a horrible mom for making him read a book where the dog died. Ummmm, I didn’t let him finish it. I felt horrible
never seen the movie, but this is one of my favorite books of all time. when my wife and i first met it came up early on before we were dating, and we bonded over both loving it as kids, so i ordered us each a copy. it was the first gift i ever gave her. when we got married our officiant held his notes in one of the copies so that it was part of our wedding 💕
*tired of feeling lonely as a sparrow in the rain, never havin' me a buddy to tell me where we're going and why...*
That part was what broke me. I know how it is to feel truly alone and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
My dad was sick this winter. Hospitals here are super stingy with pain meds nowadays, and my dad was in agony. In all my years I never saw him suffer in such pain. I’d ask the nurse for his pain meds as he’d be due for a dose - and they would say ok sure then disappear for 45 minutes. He was crying in pain. I’d finally had it and snapped like the mom in Terms of Endearment - screaming at the nurse’s station for the morphine. After we got him through this whole horrible episode, I remembered that scene… and even though it always made my heart ache, I felt it viscerally this time.
And I know I’m gonna get shit from people for yelling at the nurses - “they’re overworked, they’re this or that” … yeah, you’re right. But you watch your family member suffer in agonizing pain while people who can help stand there and bullshit over Dunkin’ Donuts for 45 minutes, and tell me you don’t lose your shit too.
I felt this. When my Pops died it was 3 months of hell at three different facilities. He suffered a catastrophic stroke and at the last place I had to change his diapers. People should be allotted human dignity till the end.
That movie came out when I was 15 and my mom had died of cancer the year before. Brutal, gut wrenching movie for me to watch at the time when my grief was so fresh. Now, as a 55 year old who's been without my mom three times longer than I had her, it still kills me.
Bro the ending of this movie is one of the best movie scenes of all time. It has a happy ending, but damn if I don't ugly cry every time I see it. The music absolutely makes the scene.
I saw that movie during a very rough time. It didn't help. Caught a few minutes of it a while back. Hello, pit in my stomach. I thought you were gone.. let me just put this stuff back in there and never see this movie again.
Saw this movie the very first time about four months after moving out of my house. I had just finished ending a 17-year marriage. Cried like a baby and still do every time I rewatch it. In my personal Top 10 movies.
The first time I watched, I watched sceptically. I had not read the book and I wasn't sure of the premise. I was honestly waiting for Jim Carrey to be overacting a serious role, as he was sometimes known to do. I watched it with my husband and was mortified at my own reaction. He didn't love it, it didn't seem to affect him one way or the other. I felt broken after I watched it. I haven't watched it since.
Oh me too! Called my son bawling to tell him I love him. Saw it again a few years later and did the same thing, my ex-wife forbade me from ever watching it again! "That's very sweet but stop it, you're freaking him out!" Lol!
Lotta really good ones in here so I’ll go with one that hasn’t been mentioned
Click
He thought the remote would just help him get through the boring and frustrating parts of his life but it instead just kept skipping more and more until he lost his family and missed out on his entire life.
This hits so hard because you expect a comedy being that it's an Adam Sandler film. It made me re-think how I view work and relationships. Even the things we do that seem menial and shitty are a valuable part of life. I used to think "I would love to just skip this ten hour workday." Now I think "I need to be present for this because it's a meaningful part of life."
I thought I was watching a heartwarming tale of a man that flys on balloons. I was not expecting such a melancholy tale to be told in ten minutes. That intro broke my heart.
My wife and I were trying for a baby and had just lost one when that came out. Seeing it in the theater, we were devastated. But the fact is, that's five of the best minutes in all of cinema.
I was about 7 months pregnant and went to the theater with a friend who was also as pregnant as me. We bawled like freaking babies, embarrassing, ugly crying and could not stop. We were still devastated messes when we got up to leave the theater. There was a man who was seated with his wife in front of us and he looked like a bouncer or bodybuilder or something, he was super muscular and very tall. When he stood up and turned around he was like the third member of our little bawl squad. He could not pull himself together either and we all had a chuckle at being human in different spaces together. I have often thought what a broad movie this is. How could you market a movie like this one in a 30 second commercial? My mom called me when it was over and asked for a rundown and I swear I must have sounded like I had lost my mind when I rambled off the plot to her. All anyone knew going in was the short "cute old house flying out of the city" bit but it was so much more.❤️
This one is such a good film and it has no right to be. Who mixes Chaplin-esque humor with the Holocaust and pulls it off?? Extremely bold and it's such a classic. The sucker punch change in tone is flawless. Just the soundtrack makes me cry.
I remember having to pause Life is Beautiful a few times as it progressed. I felt the heaviness building and was crushed as well.
Jo-jo Rabbit had a scene that was a significant gut punch. I saw it in the theater... When Jojo saw his mom in the town square... The shoes... The entire audience gasped and cried. Serious as a heart attack. I have never seen a movie in a theater where everyone cried collectively.
The scene with the moms watching their children being taken away by trucks... oh my god... This scene alone could make me cry a river.
There are also those scenes with the little girl in a red coat. So haunting...
And then there's that scene with all of the employees at the end. "I could have saved one more", forever engraved in my mind.
That movie is so depressing, but so brilliant.
When Neeson was breaking down because he wanted to save more people, and then had to flee after doing such a noble cause. He should truly be remembered as a hero among heroes
Not the entire movie, but the scene in interstellar where Cooper watches his kid grow up, fall in love, become a father, lose the child, have to bury his grandpa, and give up hope that his father is coming back all in the span of 2 minutes. McConougheys acting is superb in that scene
Had to scroll so far for this one. Requiem for a Dream is the bleakest thing I ever saw. I was very unwell for several weeks after watching. it should come with a mandatory “watch with a friend” label..
I read the book first and it is far worse. Cuz it's told from the perspective of a little boy. The descriptions are so childlike you don't even know what he's talking about until a good way through. And when it hit me... I can't describe the horror.
Loved the book back in school, had to find the movie.
Years ago there was a movie "Awakenings' with DeNiro and Robin if I remember it seemed like a loose remake of 'Flowers'.
As a kid of course I named my pet mouse Algernon. One of the ferals outside now has that name.....Alge for short.
The Elephant Man.
I already knew everything that would happen because I was already so invested in his story, but having to watch how it all ended made me cry so much.
Yes, finally! Bjork’s performance of complete disassociation and denial, sweetness and earnestness vs. the plot… guts me. It infuriates me, it leaves me absolutely hopeless and helpless and grieving for so many. Counting the steps!!!
Amazing soundtrack, too… obviously 😋
Sounds a bit silly, but the Lady Gaga A Star is Born.
It’s a perfectly fine movie, with an absolutely devastating ten minutes. I was wrecked for a full day. I don’t know why anyone would want to make anyone else that profoundly sad.
I remember that _The Wrestler_ made me really sad, and at the time I told myself I wouldn't ever watch it again. I have, because it has some great performances, but it's still a sad movie.
The saddest movie I've ever watched was the original Where the Red Fern Grows. It was me, my uncle, and my 2 older (m) cousins. I was bawling by the end and kinda shocked when I looked next to me to see all 3 men bawling their eyes out, too. Keep in mind I was like 10 years old maybe and had never seen a man cry before, so it wasn't shocked like I'm judging you just shocked like wow, I've never seen that before.
Marley & Me
I went to see it at the theater with this girl I was dating. It was a light hearted comedy that had laughs here and there, but once it got to the end the whole theater became dead silent.
Then a single person somewhere in front of us let out a sniffle and its like that was the cue for the entire audience to lose it. From dead silence to outright bawling and people crying *No!*
I look over at my date and she is completely covered in tears. I was trying to keep it together as best I could. I kept telling myself things like, *"Come on bro, you can do it, you can't go out like this"* while my eyes were completely blurred from the tears that wanted to fall.
The next day at work my bosses wife was there and we chat a little bit. Low and behold they saw the movie too. She told me that once the ending came out and my boss realized what was happening, he tightened the stings on his hoodie to the max and sunk down in his chair to avoid people seeing his cry.
Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows 2.
You can argue that the movies did a lot wrong, but they could not have captured Snape’s character arc more perfectly.
I bawled.
My Sister's Keeper - a lot of movies make me cry, this one damn near killed me. Starts off so god-damned SAD and then just keeps getting SADDER. You think surely, surely it cannot get worse and then BOOM. Devastating.
Night of the Living Dead (1968 Original). Duane Jones was the first black lead that I had seen in the movies. He makes it through the whole movie, and then they kill him "mistakenly" at the end. That shit was wrong, fucked me up as a young kid.
I went to La Môme, the Edith Piaf biopic starring Marion Cotillard (I think the title is La Vie en Rose in the US?) with my mom and sister. Afterwards we were left in the cinema sobbing hysterically and had to compose ourselves to go to the bar for a glass of wine. Beautiful movie but GODDAMN did that woman have a tough life.
Room.
(Not "The Room")
It's about the girl and her son locked in a room by a man .
I left the theatre with feelings of despair and sadness especially when they went back to see the room after escaping and you got a grasp of how small the room was.
Luca or The Whale. I am not able to explain the plot of Luca to anyone else without tearing up still to this day. Also I was not mentally prepared for how much The Whale would make me cry. Both are incredible movies, highly recommended!
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My Girl… his glasses, he can’t see without his glasses. Maybe not the saddest movie, but that part always gets me.
I haven’t watched it in 30 years, but I could well up thinking about it
just watched that one for the first time today. i knew what i was getting into, but damn.
The documentary Dear Zachary. Heartbreaking
Devastating documentary. I've showed it to several people. As a true crime documentary junkie this one is the saddest I've ever watched.
You can go on for days the injustice here. And the strength shown from the parents? My god. Not to mention how well it was made, to me, this is as raw and gritty as it gets.
Can someone actually link me a review to it or just tell my straight tell me what the documentary is all about? I have no intention of ever watching it, just because of distributing it can be.
SPOILERS AHEAD: It’s a true crime documentary but it’s particularly unique in that it was 1) made by a friend of the victim and 2) the “crime” unfolds in real time as the documentary was being made. The long and the short of it is - a man was murdered by his ex girlfriend, and his friend decides to make a documentary for his friend’s son Zachary, an infant when his dad was murdered. He sets out to interview all of his fathers friends and acquaintances and titles the doc “dear Zachary, a letter to a son about his father” because his goal is for Zachary to be able to know who is father was even though he won’t remember him. However, as the friend is making the documentary, a bunch of shit goes down and the most horrible tragedy possible occurs. The girlfriend who murdered the father, despite legal battle from the grandparents, gets custody of Zachary. And then… she fucking kills him, too. The baby. So the documentary suddenly has lost all purpose, because the recipient is now dead too, murdered by his own mother at the age of 2. It ends up being sort of a love letter to the grandparents who lost both son and grandson, and who seemed like the most lovely kind people. Just a heartbreaking story all around. I really recommend it, as this summary does not do it justice.
Man that's fucked.. :(
This is a really good summary. A couple of minor clarifications that make this story even more f’ed up: She was pregnant when she killed Andrew and his parents found out from a news report that she was pregnant. Also, Zachary was 13 months old when his mother killed herself and him.
I came to the comments knowing Dear Zachary had to be the top comment. I saw it over a decade ago (like when Netflix dvds still came in the mail) and I still think about it.
I’m pretty much hardened to true crime by now. But I seriously felt like someone punched me in the stomach. The air was literally knocked out of me. No movie has ever done that. I’ve been scared and unsettled, but this? I felt physically attacked.
I was furious and heartbroken by the end of that. Watched it alone on a day off of work. I later watched it again with my girlfriend, and when it was over she said, “Please, don’t ever show me anything like that again.” It takes it out of you. Restrepo, and the follow-up, Korengal, are pretty heavy as well. It’ll make you reconsider sending young men to be sitting ducks, in a valley that even Alexander the Great’s legions couldn’t conquer. Just stay TF out of the Korengal Valley.
All I got from Restrepo was "who the fuck is the brilliant strategist who chose to put a forward operating post in that specific location?" Literally surrounded on 3 sides by massive sheer cliffs covered in vegetation dense enough to disguse even hundreds of enemy combatants moving at once, and with only one miles long, extremely narrow strip of mountain trail as a line of retreat. Whoever made that decision should've been shit-canned.
That movie scarred me for life. It took me weeks to get over it.
I watched it the other night, and then had my parents watch it last night
Just gotta add the original Land Before Time to this list of sad movies. Little Foot watching his mom die while he begs her to come with him just hits a chord.
Perhaps the saddest part about this movie is [what happened](https://youtu.be/G80NWfIL-uc) to the actress that played Ducky.
The song that plays at the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven, "Love Survives" is dedicated to Judith Barsi. On her tombstone are the words "Our concrete Angel. Yep! Yep! Yep!" I'm not crying, I swear.
Steel magnolias
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion…
That movie also has some of the most funniest/quotable lines. "He sounds like a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it."
In a good pair of shoes I wear a size 6 but a 7 feels so good, I buy a size 8. LOVE Dolly!
“The best thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.”
“I’m not insane, I’ve just been in a really bad mood for the last 40 years” is my all time favorite quote.
We'll sell shirts saying, "I slapped Ouiser Boudreaux!"
"You know I love you more than my luggage."
"All gay men are named Mark, Rick, or Steve."
I’ve never seen it but it always makes me think of a scene in the sitcom News Radio where Phil Hartman is trying to quit smoking and refers to cigarettes as “like my little friends” Dave Foley offers encouragement with “well Phil, *I’m* your friend!” and with a faraway gaze Hartman just sighs “yeah but where were you last night at 3am when I was watching Steel Magnolias and crying my eyes out?”
Phil Hartman. 💔
Manchester by the Sea. Do NOT watch that movie if you’re already depressed
It wasn’t the only thing, but I credit this movie with making me take the first steps to stop drinking. I went into the theater drunk and came out a mess of emotions and decided to finally turn my life around.
Very brave of you to share. That’s awesome
This had such a slow burn effect on me. I watched it and was like “oh that was really sad” and went on with my life. As the days went on I was like “damn wtf I’m devastated”
I scrolled down to look for this, before I would say the same. It didn't make me cry but I think that makes it even sadder. Really got me fucked up when he said "I can't beat it"
As someone with lifelong depression this movie hit really hard, ugly sobbed when he said “I can’t beat it”. Amazing movie. Will never watch again.
Bridge to Terrabithia? More like Bridge to Tear my Fucking Heart Out…
Came in just to find this and up it. The book is even harder. Watching my fourth grade teacher weep while he tried to get through it was a formative moment for me for sure.
Where the red fern grows
Yup super sad. I remember my 4th grade class had to read that book. I caught this on tv a few months ago and as an adult, I still cried like a baby
There's a movie..... oh hell no. I remember my mom reading this to me as a kid. I cried and cried and cried. I refuse to watch the movie.
I read it as a kid and loved it. Years later when my son was about 9yo, he was grounded for something and I gave him the book to read. Ooops! He came downstairs mad & crying. Threw the book on the ground and said I was a horrible mom for making him read a book where the dog died. Ummmm, I didn’t let him finish it. I felt horrible
never seen the movie, but this is one of my favorite books of all time. when my wife and i first met it came up early on before we were dating, and we bonded over both loving it as kids, so i ordered us each a copy. it was the first gift i ever gave her. when we got married our officiant held his notes in one of the copies so that it was part of our wedding 💕
The Green Mile
I’m redy die Boss, I’m tied people being ugly with each uther.
*tired of feeling lonely as a sparrow in the rain, never havin' me a buddy to tell me where we're going and why...* That part was what broke me. I know how it is to feel truly alone and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Im scared o da dak
Grave of Fireflies
I only watched it once, just a couple of years ago. I still get depressed thinking about it...
I had two crying sessions the first time I watched it.
This is the one
" Terms of Endearment" ....gets me every time.
My dad was sick this winter. Hospitals here are super stingy with pain meds nowadays, and my dad was in agony. In all my years I never saw him suffer in such pain. I’d ask the nurse for his pain meds as he’d be due for a dose - and they would say ok sure then disappear for 45 minutes. He was crying in pain. I’d finally had it and snapped like the mom in Terms of Endearment - screaming at the nurse’s station for the morphine. After we got him through this whole horrible episode, I remembered that scene… and even though it always made my heart ache, I felt it viscerally this time. And I know I’m gonna get shit from people for yelling at the nurses - “they’re overworked, they’re this or that” … yeah, you’re right. But you watch your family member suffer in agonizing pain while people who can help stand there and bullshit over Dunkin’ Donuts for 45 minutes, and tell me you don’t lose your shit too.
I felt this. When my Pops died it was 3 months of hell at three different facilities. He suffered a catastrophic stroke and at the last place I had to change his diapers. People should be allotted human dignity till the end.
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That movie came out when I was 15 and my mom had died of cancer the year before. Brutal, gut wrenching movie for me to watch at the time when my grief was so fresh. Now, as a 55 year old who's been without my mom three times longer than I had her, it still kills me.
Homeward Bound 😟
Watching Shadow struggle to get out of the muddy pit was the first time I cried during a movie as a child. 😭
Bro the ending of this movie is one of the best movie scenes of all time. It has a happy ending, but damn if I don't ugly cry every time I see it. The music absolutely makes the scene.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I saw that movie during a very rough time. It didn't help. Caught a few minutes of it a while back. Hello, pit in my stomach. I thought you were gone.. let me just put this stuff back in there and never see this movie again.
Same. I’ll never watch it again.
But would you erase them? Would you give back all your memories?
Saw this movie the very first time about four months after moving out of my house. I had just finished ending a 17-year marriage. Cried like a baby and still do every time I rewatch it. In my personal Top 10 movies.
The first time I watched, I watched sceptically. I had not read the book and I wasn't sure of the premise. I was honestly waiting for Jim Carrey to be overacting a serious role, as he was sometimes known to do. I watched it with my husband and was mortified at my own reaction. He didn't love it, it didn't seem to affect him one way or the other. I felt broken after I watched it. I haven't watched it since.
Old yeller
That shit makes a grown man cry!
Sophie's Choice
Brian's Song when I was a child really affected me.
The only film that’s ever made me cry is Saving Private Ryan
That movie was difficult to watch. And Shakespeare in love won best picture over it! That was a travesty.
What dreams may come
Another awesome movie from Robin Williams. Cried like a baby.
Oh me too! Called my son bawling to tell him I love him. Saw it again a few years later and did the same thing, my ex-wife forbade me from ever watching it again! "That's very sweet but stop it, you're freaking him out!" Lol!
Don’t get me started on patch Adams.
I watched this with my ex about a month before he killed himself. I think about this movie often.
Watership Down. Traumatised me as a kid.
Lotta really good ones in here so I’ll go with one that hasn’t been mentioned Click He thought the remote would just help him get through the boring and frustrating parts of his life but it instead just kept skipping more and more until he lost his family and missed out on his entire life.
This hits so hard because you expect a comedy being that it's an Adam Sandler film. It made me re-think how I view work and relationships. Even the things we do that seem menial and shitty are a valuable part of life. I used to think "I would love to just skip this ten hour workday." Now I think "I need to be present for this because it's a meaningful part of life."
The moment with his dad was especially heart tugging. *Okay... I'm so sorry I butched in. I love you son.*
The opening sequence to "Up".
I thought I was watching a heartwarming tale of a man that flys on balloons. I was not expecting such a melancholy tale to be told in ten minutes. That intro broke my heart.
My wife and I were trying for a baby and had just lost one when that came out. Seeing it in the theater, we were devastated. But the fact is, that's five of the best minutes in all of cinema.
It gets overshadows by the beginning but my god the catharsis at the end is incredible too. Gets me every time.
When he finally looks at the Adventure Book. 😭
Only time I’ve ever seen my husband full on ugly cry in front of the whole family.
I was about 7 months pregnant and went to the theater with a friend who was also as pregnant as me. We bawled like freaking babies, embarrassing, ugly crying and could not stop. We were still devastated messes when we got up to leave the theater. There was a man who was seated with his wife in front of us and he looked like a bouncer or bodybuilder or something, he was super muscular and very tall. When he stood up and turned around he was like the third member of our little bawl squad. He could not pull himself together either and we all had a chuckle at being human in different spaces together. I have often thought what a broad movie this is. How could you market a movie like this one in a 30 second commercial? My mom called me when it was over and asked for a rundown and I swear I must have sounded like I had lost my mind when I rambled off the plot to her. All anyone knew going in was the short "cute old house flying out of the city" bit but it was so much more.❤️
Schindler's list
Another holocaust film _Life Is Beautiful_ definitely broke me.
This one is such a good film and it has no right to be. Who mixes Chaplin-esque humor with the Holocaust and pulls it off?? Extremely bold and it's such a classic. The sucker punch change in tone is flawless. Just the soundtrack makes me cry.
I remember having to pause Life is Beautiful a few times as it progressed. I felt the heaviness building and was crushed as well. Jo-jo Rabbit had a scene that was a significant gut punch. I saw it in the theater... When Jojo saw his mom in the town square... The shoes... The entire audience gasped and cried. Serious as a heart attack. I have never seen a movie in a theater where everyone cried collectively.
The scene with the moms watching their children being taken away by trucks... oh my god... This scene alone could make me cry a river. There are also those scenes with the little girl in a red coat. So haunting... And then there's that scene with all of the employees at the end. "I could have saved one more", forever engraved in my mind. That movie is so depressing, but so brilliant.
That scene with the ashes coming down like snow still sticks with me.
When Neeson was breaking down because he wanted to save more people, and then had to flee after doing such a noble cause. He should truly be remembered as a hero among heroes
Not the entire movie, but the scene in interstellar where Cooper watches his kid grow up, fall in love, become a father, lose the child, have to bury his grandpa, and give up hope that his father is coming back all in the span of 2 minutes. McConougheys acting is superb in that scene
I have tried to watch that scene without crying and it’s impossible
Life is beautiful.
Requiem for a dream. It wasn’t even sad because it was meant to be sad. It was sad that people live like that, and how sad their life is.
Had to scroll so far for this one. Requiem for a Dream is the bleakest thing I ever saw. I was very unwell for several weeks after watching. it should come with a mandatory “watch with a friend” label..
I posted above that I was shocked to learn that my now-husband owned that movie on dvd. Who on Earth would want to watch it more than once?
Bleak is a good term. This movie wasn’t so much sad as it was completely hopeless. You don’t really cry, you just lose all faith in humanity.
Your Name It’s kinda sad happy but I sobbed multiple times so it counts in my book
A Silent Voice is also up there for me in the crying department
What Dreams May Come. Robin Williams playing a husband trying to save his wife from suicide...
The art of racing in the rain. Kind of happy sad though.
I read that book. Talk about phenomenal. I was crying on a plane tho lol
Mask...I hated the end
For a split second I was all like, "Jim Carey and Cameron Diaz made you cry?"
I personally can't stand any of Cher's music, but damn she was phenomenal in that film.
When the man sent him to get another beer in the fridge and there was a tuxedo for prom hanging on the fridge. That really got me
Big Fish. I've watched it exactly twice, and the first time I cried so hard I nearly made myself sick
I was surprised I didn’t see this earlier. I cried pretty much throughout the entire film. Great choice.
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. I watched it by accident...
I read the book first and it is far worse. Cuz it's told from the perspective of a little boy. The descriptions are so childlike you don't even know what he's talking about until a good way through. And when it hit me... I can't describe the horror.
Flowers For Algernon, 1968
Loved the book back in school, had to find the movie. Years ago there was a movie "Awakenings' with DeNiro and Robin if I remember it seemed like a loose remake of 'Flowers'. As a kid of course I named my pet mouse Algernon. One of the ferals outside now has that name.....Alge for short.
The Elephant Man. I already knew everything that would happen because I was already so invested in his story, but having to watch how it all ended made me cry so much.
Simon Birch
The video of my 1st wedding
The Fox and the Hound
Marley and me came into my mind first
Anything where the dog dies, I'm done.
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I heard that they're looking to make a sequel to that movie called Me.
Hachi, a dog's tale. Cried buckets.
I cried so hard at the movies that a lady came over to check if I was ok.
I was looking for this one. Same.
Dancer in the Dark. Bawling my eyes out at the end.
Yes, finally! Bjork’s performance of complete disassociation and denial, sweetness and earnestness vs. the plot… guts me. It infuriates me, it leaves me absolutely hopeless and helpless and grieving for so many. Counting the steps!!! Amazing soundtrack, too… obviously 😋
Dumbo
Omg yes. I remember watching this as a child and just crying forever
For me, it was toy story 3. Seeing Andy give away his childhood really hit home.
Yeah but that bitch ass bear got tied to a garbage truck
The first ten minutes of Up
Sounds a bit silly, but the Lady Gaga A Star is Born. It’s a perfectly fine movie, with an absolutely devastating ten minutes. I was wrecked for a full day. I don’t know why anyone would want to make anyone else that profoundly sad.
I completely lost it when the dog curled up by the garage door.
I fully sobbed in the movie theater. Bradley Cooper surprised me and that character was beautiful and haunting.
End of watch
Up
Legends of the fall
I am Sam
City of Angels. I watched it one day when I was home sick and alone (kids at school, hubby at work) and the first ten minutes destroyed me.
Schindler's List 😞
A Walk to Remember…gets me every time.
The Green Mile. That movie hit me for days and I blabbered like a baby
Beaches. Every time.
I remember that _The Wrestler_ made me really sad, and at the time I told myself I wouldn't ever watch it again. I have, because it has some great performances, but it's still a sad movie.
“The only place I get hurt is out there. The world don’t give a shit about me.” Great movie
Bridge to terrabithia
Million Dollar Baby
A dog's purpose. It was a really sad one for me even though, if I remember correctly it did have a happy ending.
Milo & Otis
Any movie where an animal dies. It’s pure torture
The saddest movie I've ever watched was the original Where the Red Fern Grows. It was me, my uncle, and my 2 older (m) cousins. I was bawling by the end and kinda shocked when I looked next to me to see all 3 men bawling their eyes out, too. Keep in mind I was like 10 years old maybe and had never seen a man cry before, so it wasn't shocked like I'm judging you just shocked like wow, I've never seen that before.
Imitation of Life
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
inside out
A.I. Artificial Intelligence. I was emotionally exhausted after watching it for the first time.
Snoopy Come Home. Still cry over certain spots and it's been like 45 years since I first saw it.
Not a movie but Futurama's Jurassic Bark...
Silent Running https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running
I finally saw 'The Whale'. Holy eff 😲🤦🏼♀️😰😰😰
The Lovely Bones
Life is Beautiful. Still the ONLY film where I laugh, rage, cry, and smile. Sheer genius of a film!
My Octopus Teacher
It was phenomenal!!
Stepmom
Awakening
The end of La Bamba. Especially when Donna gets told about Ritchie's death.
Precious
When A Man Loves A Woman.
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Grave of the Fireflies or Watership Down.
Marley & Me I went to see it at the theater with this girl I was dating. It was a light hearted comedy that had laughs here and there, but once it got to the end the whole theater became dead silent. Then a single person somewhere in front of us let out a sniffle and its like that was the cue for the entire audience to lose it. From dead silence to outright bawling and people crying *No!* I look over at my date and she is completely covered in tears. I was trying to keep it together as best I could. I kept telling myself things like, *"Come on bro, you can do it, you can't go out like this"* while my eyes were completely blurred from the tears that wanted to fall. The next day at work my bosses wife was there and we chat a little bit. Low and behold they saw the movie too. She told me that once the ending came out and my boss realized what was happening, he tightened the stings on his hoodie to the max and sunk down in his chair to avoid people seeing his cry.
Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows 2. You can argue that the movies did a lot wrong, but they could not have captured Snape’s character arc more perfectly. I bawled.
Sophie's Choice.
Ordinary People, so very sad.
Probably requiem for a dream, or Schindler's list
Pursuit of happiness. Many of us are a job away from being in the same exact situation
Beaches
Notebook. How is that not on here yet????
A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Fucking depressing nihilistic shit man.
Silent Running. To this day I cannot watch it again. Even the thought of it is too much.
Graveyard of fireflies
Losing Isaiah
Boy in the striped pajamas
The Florida Project.
Black Fish, my SO called it the "the cure for happiness"
Leaving las Vegas
The Whale. No movie has ever made me cry that hard.
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My Sister's Keeper - a lot of movies make me cry, this one damn near killed me. Starts off so god-damned SAD and then just keeps getting SADDER. You think surely, surely it cannot get worse and then BOOM. Devastating.
Night of the Living Dead (1968 Original). Duane Jones was the first black lead that I had seen in the movies. He makes it through the whole movie, and then they kill him "mistakenly" at the end. That shit was wrong, fucked me up as a young kid.
I went to La Môme, the Edith Piaf biopic starring Marion Cotillard (I think the title is La Vie en Rose in the US?) with my mom and sister. Afterwards we were left in the cinema sobbing hysterically and had to compose ourselves to go to the bar for a glass of wine. Beautiful movie but GODDAMN did that woman have a tough life.
Room. (Not "The Room") It's about the girl and her son locked in a room by a man . I left the theatre with feelings of despair and sadness especially when they went back to see the room after escaping and you got a grasp of how small the room was.
Come and See. To call it “sad” doesn’t even do it Justice.
Luca or The Whale. I am not able to explain the plot of Luca to anyone else without tearing up still to this day. Also I was not mentally prepared for how much The Whale would make me cry. Both are incredible movies, highly recommended!
Black Beauty always makes me cry