Saddest Films You've Ever Seen

Gosh, I'd forgotten Dead Man's Shoes. What a bleak film that is.
 
How about Charlie the movie version of Flowers for Algernon. ---- I want to tell myself that it's better to have a few moments in the sun than none, but that's just not how it feels.
 
@Parson I forgot that one! Sad, but the scenes leading up to it made me more scared than anything.

@Vince W I didn't see that one, but I saw the second film in the newest franchise, where the roles were reversed. I almost cried when Spock was speaking with Kirk. I did see the one scene in the film you referenced, but it didn't tug at my heartstrings. It's probably because in the newer one, Spock actually cries. I was also touched when Spock's dad finally told him that he married Spock's mother because he loved her.
 
Most of mine have been mentioned, except for:
D.A.R.R.Y.L. and Space Raiders

Now these two never actually made me cry and I've not seen either of them in at least 30 years but I do remember watching them over and over out of some sense of morbid fascination with that sense of bleakness. I seem to remember them both having happy endings but the journeys are rocky ones!

@dannymcg never seen The Champ but that wee lad had me tearing up just now!
 
Toby Frost said:
I watched Twelve Monkeys recently and was struck by how downbeat it is. I'm not sure "sad" is exactly the word - more bleak and depressing - but I'd expected a much jollier film given that Terry Gilliam directed it.
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You'd think that Terry would make happy, jolly films - but really when you think about it most of them aren't, or at least rarely work out well for the protagonist.
 
Toby Frost said:
I'm not sure that Threads and 1984 are sad so much as relentlessly depressing, although the last scene of 1984 is sad. Heavenly Creatures always strikes me as very sad, as does the ending of Brazil, for quite similar reasons. Both are quite charming films, in a strange way, which adds to the effect.

One film that should be sad and isn't it Labyrinth. There's a bit at the end where it looks as if the heroine is going to "grow up" and bid all the creatures good bye - but no, stuff that, they all appear and dance around. That's the spirit.
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Now Threads seems like an overly grim drama; back in the 80s it was a forecast of what everyone was expecting to happen at any time.

And yes, Labyrinth has a great ending; David Bowie could never be all bad, and anyway who wouldn't want to grow up to be King of the Goblins?
 
Shindler's List When I watching it in the movie theaters , all of us in the audience were crying . :cry:
 
BAYLOR said:
Shindler's List When I watching it in the movie theaters , all of us in the audience were crying . :cry:
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Same here... Then the entire audience stood up and applauded. Never seen that before or since.
 
Serenity
Rule 1: never get attached to a character in a Joss Whedon production...
 
I'd certainly agree with Foxbat's Silent Running. (The closing music helps)
But even more, Peter O'Toole's Don Quixote makes me cry every time.

He's just so pure and pathetic.
 
Toby Frost said:
I watched Twelve Monkeys recently and was struck by how downbeat it is. I'm not sure "sad" is exactly the word - more bleak and depressing - but I'd expected a much jollier film given that Terry Gilliam directed it.
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And for that, I truly hate that film.
 
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