Movies that make you cry (saddest movies)

[Mal12345]

What the hell did I watch, then...

The video I posted was from The Godfather Part III lol

 

[gromit]

Little Women when Beth dies OMG and then when the maid is putting the petals over her dolls

 

[Arctic Hysteria]

Emotional as I am, only a few selective films can make me my tears fall

Grave of the Fireflies (who wouldn't cry over this movie?)
Girl, Interrupted (I could personally relate to certain things in the movie)
The Fountain (the soundtrack makes me)
Memories of Murder (at the very very last scene)
Hachiko
The Wrestler
Lust, Caution

 

[Romello]

About Schmidt
Schindler's List
Gandhi
Crash
...that's it. All of these films had one singular chilling scene each of such insane emotional magnitude, usually toward the end of the picture.

 

[five sounds]

The Fox and the Hound and The Green Mile

are the two that come to mind.

 

[Flâneuse]

To be honest, movies usually have to be really obvious and melodramatic to actually get me to cry (think Titanic or something) - and then when it lacks subtlety/nuance I don't actually enjoy the movie on a deeper level, it's just emotional porn that only stimulates the shallower layers of emotion. I've noticed that most of the sad or bittersweet movies that I consider good (for example, The Hours and Lost in Translation) move me but don't actually elicit tears.

An exception is the final scene from American Beauty (in my top five favorite films ever), which gets me misty-eyed every time I see it. It's far from the saddest thing I've ever watched, though - it's more bittersweet and life-affirming than thoroughly tragic.

 

[johnnyyukon]

The Fox and the Hound and The Green Mile

are the two that come to mind.

I couldn't finish The Fox and the Hound Recently.

buuuuuuuut, I'd say M. Knight Shyucksmyball's film version of The Last Airbender (but because he pooped on the classic cartoon series).

 

[five sounds]

I couldn't finish The Fox and the Hound Recently.

it's been forever since i've seen it, and i honestly don't even remember what is so sad about it, but i just remember being profoundly sad every time i watched that movie. and it takes a lot for me to be moved to tears like that by a film.

 

[johnnyyukon]

it's been forever since i've seen it, and i honestly don't even remember what is so sad about it, but i just remember being profoundly sad every time i watched that movie. and it takes a lot for me to be moved to tears like that by a film.

Lol, I don't remember how it ends either and what's so sad! haha. Is there an echo in here? : D

But yeah, these feelings coming up from my childhood gave me a sense of dark foreboding so I stopped. Man, maybe I'll read the synopsis and it will be less traumatic.

It's literally the only movie I remember from my youth that made me cry. So I was scawed.

 

[Tellenbach]

Watch this scene from "The Champ" and try not to cry:

The Saddest Movie in the World: How do you make someone cry for the sake of science? The answer lies in a young Ricky Schroder

"The final scene of The Champ has become a must-see in psychology laboratories around the world when scientists want to make people sad."

 

[magpie]

I've cried during a lot of movies but The Wind That Shakes the Barley makes me weep.

Also, Edward Scissorhands and Pan's Labyrinth, which I saw as a kid and which was traumatic. I still haven't been able to rewatch it since but hearing the theme music still makes me cry.

 

[EtaCarinae]

Lilja 4-ever and Dancer in the dark were the most intense for me.

(I felt like reviving this thread.)

 

[Lord Lavender]

Never. Wasting my bodys water supply on fake actors faking death is stupid and not conductive to Darwinam ideals (I kid ).

I cried when Solo got killed bu his son and I also cried when Luke hugs his father at the end of Star VI plus I also cry at the theme song of The good the bad and the ugly as it was my grandfathers faveorate film plus he looks like Eastwood as well so

 

[Hiraeth]

From memory, I cried during Schindler's List, I Am Sam, My Dog Skip, The Fox and the Hound, A Little Princess, Sophie's Choice, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Harold and Maude. Although, I'm usually good at holding my tears in, so these were either when I was very young or when I was alone watching them.

 

[StrawberryBoots]

A documentary about what Hitler did to the Jews and The Passion of The Christ. Most of the time I have an awareness people are acting a script in movies, so for that reason, I don't feel sad.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

It didn't make me cry, but I thought the ending of The Fountain was probably the most beautiful ending to a movie that I've ever seen. Lots of tragic undercurrents, too.

 

[LEGERdeMAIN]

Movies don't make me cry, however, they may illicit an emotional response that makes water come out of my eyes. I don't think this has happened yet but the closest I would have come was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. On the literal level it was fine, although Clementine reminded me of a couple of exgfs who interrupted that natural flow of my life force. Oh well, now all I can think about is the months and years of my youth wasted on flaky, careless windbags. I can't finish this post. Fuck you, Dannie....

 

[EtaCarinae]

Speaking of sad movies, this compilation sums it up pretty well... Makes me cry hard, even though I have only seen about half of the movies. I think most of them have already been mentioned in this thread:

 

[loveruins]

I cry a lot in movies + tv shows but A Walk To Remember is a movie where I sob for hours after it's over.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

I recently re watched Saving Private Ryan, and I teared up at the end. That had never happened to me before, but I havent seen it in a while and my eyes are more grown up now.

In interstellar where Matthew Mcounaghy (sic?) comes back to the ship and years have passed and he watches all the messages from his kids as they grow up. I always cry at that part.