sad films

[penlid]

what is the most uppsetting film you hav EVER seen? the one that made you cry the most? thnks

[andy-hughes]

Whistle Down The Wind, The Railway Children at the end, when Jenny Aggutter says "Daddy ... my daddy ...", Dead Poet's Society, and The Deer Hunter. The last two I saw in the cinema, and cried like a crying thing.

[SaxyJag]

The Railway Children - that scene where Bobby's standing on the platform and the steam clears slowly to reveal (turn up the reverb) ...

... "Daddy! My Daddy!"

[joko]

powder

[joko]

lion king

[NACL]

if tv shows count, i CRIED so much my cat hissed at me! when billy died on allie mcbeal...

[aurelia]

I'm with Ronnie 3 - It's got to be Who will love my children? I've got it on Video and I have watched it twenty times and each time I am greeting away.

After that it would be Gallipoli - we got shown it for our history at school and every single one of us girls was greeting and bawling in class and all the boys were staring at us as if we were nuts - Mel Gibson was in it and his mate got killed

[jump79]

Recent ones:

1 million dollar baby

I Am Sam

I didn't cry, just a little sniffle for each.

[Aschenbach]

I watched Platoon when I was very young and was upset by the scene where Bunny kills the Vietnamese villager.

Ward Minter - good example of an upsetting (piece of) film. I felt something similar during an account of infanticide among a herd of hippopotamuses. I'll spare the details.

Crying at a movie is a pleasurable experience in comparison. Dances With Wolves is a favourite of mine.

[willa]

City of Angels; Jacob's Ladder; and Truly, Madly, Deeply. When Juliet Stevenson bawls her eyes out (so gut-wrenching) to her therapist, I just lose it.

[auntiebertie]

Mrs Miniver and The King and I and Brief Encounter...

[auntiebertie]

And Railway Children for the 'Its my daddy' line - and Million $ Baby which I saw on a plane where I was howling so much I had to hide under the blanket! And how about Ray or Random Harvest.......

[shineybomb]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

and also City of Angels

[muppeteer]

bambi when the mother dies:(

[reinganum]

For me the ultimate sad films are La Strada (Fellini, 1954) Anthony Quinn is a strong man in a circus (I could tell you more but I don't normally like to put spoilers in the answers); and Robert Bresson's Diary of a country priest which is really bleak. However neither of these are tear-jerkers in the normally accepted sense.

[just jools]

Philadelphia.

Schindlers List - at the end where Liam Neesan walks round the real cemetery I just lose the plot completely.

And Passion of the Christ, where he is being flayed - I start crying and don't stop for the rest of the film!

[perjozlyne]

OMG Platoon where Willem Dafoe is left behind (it's the music mainly) and Jacob's Ladder defo when Culkin grabs Robbins hand and walks him up the stairs.
A german movie "jenseits der stille" catches me out at the end every time, first time i watched it with my mum and we had an argument, by the time the mom in the movie dies and the daughter makes peace with her dad, me and my mum were howling like mad. :)
love it tho