What's the saddest film you've ever seen?

[annik]

I think I'd say Rosemary's Baby. Honestly I cried like a crazy person through most of it and for some time after. It stayed with me for ages. It still gives me shivers. I mean it was a little unsettling and I don't watch a lot of horror but mainly it was just so desperately, desperately sad.

Anyway apologises if I'm covering old ground here...

 

[Badjedidude]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Maybe not the saddest that I've seen, but it's the one I've seen most recently that I found to be sad. Just... tragic, the whole thing.

ALSO:

I'm probably the only guy who teared up for this movie. Gods and Generals. There's nothing glorious or redeeming about Americans killing Americans on such a mass scale. Just tragic and sad as ****. Gettysburg is the same.

 

[theSmokingRabbit]

The Road

 

[annik]

I asked my mum this she said Love Story.

 

[Latasluos]

I asked my mum this she said Love Story.

Lol that's funny

 

[annik]

I asked my mum this she said Love Story.

Lol that's funny

Any reason?

 

[Latasluos]

I thought she was saying any love story in general, sorry didn't notice it's a movie...


I thought Never Let Me Go was a very sad one

 

[annik]

I thought she was saying any love story in general, sorry didn't notice it's a movie...


I thought Never Let Me Go was a very sad one

Oh right I see you're point
Yeah I never saw that but I read the plot and it sounded really sad.

 

[Latasluos]

I thought she was saying any love story in general, sorry didn't notice it's a movie...


I thought Never Let Me Go was a very sad one

Oh right I see you're point
Yeah I never saw that but I read the plot and it sounded really sad.

It really is, and the music makes it even more sad (very beautiful music though )

 

[freedom]

this is the first one that comes to mind:

 

[annik]

It really is, and the music makes it even more sad (very beautiful music though )

Yeah I thought the same about The Hours. I had to buy the soundtrack because I was over watching the film because I loved the music so much. I only own 3 soundtracks so it was a big deal for me. I'd buy a 4th if I could find it cheap!

this is the first one that comes to mind:

I've always wanted to see that.

 

[Naleena]

Titanic.

 

[Skorian]

Leaving Las Vegas

 

[silver birch leaves]

I agree that Never Let Me Go is extremely sad, yet beautiful. My picks:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pan's Labyrinth
Antichrist (2009) - my favourite, but I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. It may be perceived as too dark and too violent, but certainly it's the saddest movie I have ever watched.

 

[Vagrant Legacy]

While I don't know what the saddest movie is that I've ever seen, the first one that came to mind this time was The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Also, Silver Birch - Antichrist was, imo, a very good movie. It was terribly disturbing, but I wouldn't call it "sad". Just disturbing, or unnerving.

 

[TheSolitaryMan]

Million Dollar Baby
Grand Torino - Both sad films with Mr. Eastwood in them as a bonus

Saving Private Ryan brought me near to tears three freaking times when I last saw it. An intense and also very humbling film.

Touching the Void - a true docufilm with interviews about a guy who crawled and climbed miles on his own with a broken leg with the vague hope of saving himself after a disasterous mountain climb. He lived because he was very, very lucky in the end. A harrowing film.

Gladiator - Sort of a surprisingly sad ending in some ways, though uplifting in others.

No Country For Old Men - Evil "wins"! Odd sense of sadness rather than heart wrenching upset though.

And that's just off the top of my head

 

[annik]

Grand Torino - Both sad films with Mr. Eastwood in them as a bonus

Stunning, stunning film and yes totally sad. Amazing. God I love that film!!

 

[Rayri]

Grave of The Fireflies. The first movie that made a tear escape my eye. Ever. I broke down at the end.

 

[condemnedsoul666]

Grave of The Fireflies. The first movie that made a tear escape my eye. Ever. I broke down at the end.

the Studio Ghibli movie?

 

[DreamerDeceiver]

The Pianist, The Godfather Part III, and Braveheart come to mind.