Saddest movie?

[Amaris]

It was said by tsq and several others, but Grave of the Fireflies was also the first movie I thought of upon seeing the title. Holy jebus, that movie is a metric fuckton of depression.

 

[Mojochi]

Life Is Beautiful. Something about the humor Benigni brings to it makes it even harder to swallow than Schindler's List

Braveheart probably deserves a mention in here,

And Million Dollar Baby, which I can't even watch, because it's just too hard

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Ironweed is near the top of my list, already mentioned upthread.

One of the things that makes it so great is that it is a personal tragedy that doesn't essentially require any grand events for its backdrop. It could happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Nicholson and Streep are, as reputed, outstanding. But it's a real downer.

 

[Winged Victory]

I love watching sad movies. Anyone catch The Impossible with Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor? Wow, depressing and sad. I bawled my eyes out during a scene where he makes a phone call home. Very sad, but I highly recommend the movie.

I don't know if it's still available on Netflix but I'll never forget this documentary, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father. Holy moly. Sad, angry, depressed, it makes you feel the whole gamut of emotions. True story too.

 

[Mooch]

Titanic. Deep Impact, mainly Tea Leoni's storyline. Melancholia too, at the end.

 

[Sagart]

The end of Toy Story 3 always destroys me. Every bloody time.

 

[arthur2sheds]

Somewhere in Time

Also the ending of Stand By Me

 

[Gov Kodos]

Harold and Maude, a wonderful black comedy romcom that is both sad and life affirming.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Les Miserables (2012).

I mean, Hathaway had only 15 minutes of screen-time and she turned me into mush.

 

[Lt. Cheka Wey]

Full Metal Jacket.

 

[publiusr]

My two votes would be The Virgin Spring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_Spring
and Bless the Beasts and Children: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_the_Beasts_and_Children_%28film%29

Also disturbing was what I consider to be Boris Karloff's best movie--Targets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targets

In the film's finale at a drive-in theater, Orlok — the old-fashioned, traditional screen monster who always obeyed the rules — confronts the new, realistic, nihilistic late-1960s "monster" in the shape of a clean-cut, unassuming multiple murderer.

Too real.

 

[NCC-1701-B]

A Soldier's Girl - A Showtime TV movie, but a true story. It is as equally shocking as it is sad. I was crying for a long while after it, and it's certainly not a film I think I could watch again. Once is definitely enough. It's also sadder to me because it's quite relevant to my life.

 

[the G-man]

I actually cried at the end of the original Godzilla when they sucked the oxygen out of Tokyo bay and killed him.

 

[flipjack]

The whole Jenny thing in "Forrest Gump" was incredibly sad.

 

[Forbin]

Another for Grave of the Fireflies.

It hits me a bit hard since my Dad flew fighter-bomber raids on Japan in 1945.

 

[Opus]

Shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis. The man finally finds love only to have it ripped from him by cancer, and the personal conflict he endures as he comes to terms with the pain of loss. It's gut-wrenching.

 

[Forbin]

The Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark". I dare anyone not to get choked up at the end of that.