Heartbreaking Films

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  • gfedex
    gfedex Posts: 226 Member
    Never Let Me Go.

    Seriously. For a week after watching it I'd start awake when I was trying to sleep, thinking "Oh god. That movie was so depressing." It's one of the only films I have no interest in seeing again, specifically because it was too sad.
  • MayMaydoesntrun
    MayMaydoesntrun Posts: 805 Member
    Philadelphia Story came out about 1 month after my brother died of AIDS. Hit pretty close to home.

    I'm so sorry you lost your brother to that terrible disease. Philadelphia had me squalling. A truly touching movie.
  • stealthSLOTH
    stealthSLOTH Posts: 695 Member
    Dancer in the Dark.

    Any Aronofsky film, some mentioned above. They are great films, but I can only stomach seeing each one ONCE!
  • tinak33
    tinak33 Posts: 9,883 Member
    Titanic
    Katyn (Polish film)
    Life is Beautiful
    Les Miserables
    Schindler's List
    Christmas Shoes

    There are some that make me cry the first time I watch it, and then if I watch it again, I might get slightly teary eyed, but that's it.
    With Katyn, I cried a little, but was mostly staring at the silent credits in shock.

    ETA:
    7 Pounds
    Hachi - I was rather surprised by that one. But it makes me cry a little every time I see it.
  • Southernb3lle
    Southernb3lle Posts: 862 Member
    My Girl (the part where mac gets stung by bees and dies. :'( )
    My Life
    The Patriot (I think I cried through the whole movie..it really got me)
    Benjamin Button (the end)
    I am Sam
  • qballjr13
    qballjr13 Posts: 174 Member
    Pursuit of Happines - AMAZING movie but very very emotional...especially when you have kids!
  • Southernb3lle
    Southernb3lle Posts: 862 Member
    Schindler's List--- (and I'm not even Jewish)

    Actually I couldn't even finish watching the movie..it bothered me that much! :(
  • mareeee1234
    mareeee1234 Posts: 674 Member
    A walk to remember
  • KellyDeitrick
    KellyDeitrick Posts: 76 Member
    Oh yea...Once Were Warriors...gosh I bawled like a baby!
    Haichi - A dogs tale - That got me and my hubby
    PS I love you

    Too many to list!
  • Shikonneko
    Shikonneko Posts: 187 Member
    A Little Princess. I watched the movie maybe once a few years after it came out, never again. Bawled like a baby.
  • Junken_Diraffe
    Junken_Diraffe Posts: 716 Member
    Les Miserables
    Life of David Gale
    Up <~~saddest 5 minutes in cartoon history!!!

    Drawing a blank... lots that have already been mentioned. I'm such a girl, I cry at everything!
  • HappyNinjaStar
    HappyNinjaStar Posts: 353 Member
    Some of the mentioned ones are good, but these are the two though provokers that made me cry at the end:

    Donnie Darko

    Pans Labyrinth - don't let the subtitles scare you away, this is one of only two subtitled films I would ever recommend, the story is so amazing there isn't much need for talking.
  • MayMaydoesntrun
    MayMaydoesntrun Posts: 805 Member
    My Sister's Keeper was rough.
  • kaybelieve
    kaybelieve Posts: 118
    The Help!

    Such a beautiful film, perfectly cast too!

    I watched this a few days who, loved it!! I wonder how many calories were in Minnie's pie...

    :laugh: quite a few considering the growth on Hillys lip!
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    My Sister's Keeper was rough.
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    Yes, great film!
  • carriempls
    carriempls Posts: 326 Member
    Dancer in the Dark

    It was nearly impossible for me to NOT sob out loud in the theatre. I watched it a few eyars later at home and cried and cried and cried out loud. Don't think I'll ever watch it again.
  • kikilieb
    kikilieb Posts: 118 Member
    I bawled at Les Miserables
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    The Help!

    Such a beautiful film, perfectly cast too!

    I watched this a few days who, loved it!! I wonder how many calories were in Minnie's pie...

    :laugh: quite a few considering the growth on Hillys lip!

    :laugh: she deserved it!
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    The boy in the striped pajamas

    Blue Valentine (though I love this movie)

    Armageddon (always makes me bawl like a baby when Grace says goodbye to her dad)

    Revolutionary Road

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  • PopCorn_Said
    PopCorn_Said Posts: 119
    Steel Magnolias...
  • LittleMissNerdy
    LittleMissNerdy Posts: 792 Member
    The Green Mile

    Marly & Me: I actually started crying before anything bad even happened because I knew how it ended.
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member
    I cried as in full on sobbed in
    I am Legend (I literally can not watch that movie anymore)
    La Vita E Bella (Italian movie about a father and son in a Nazi concentration camp)
    Six Feet Under series finale (TV show on HBO but I full sob every time I finish the series... it's the best 15 minutes of TV ever IMO)


    I'm sure there are more but those are my full on sobbing ones.
  • kikilieb
    kikilieb Posts: 118 Member
    Also, Dumbo, Bambi and E.T. still make me cry.
  • Mia_RagazzaTosta
    Mia_RagazzaTosta Posts: 4,885 Member
    ET
    Antwone Fisher
    The Green MIle

    I can't think of any more :sad: :brokenheart:
  • LittleMissNerdy
    LittleMissNerdy Posts: 792 Member
    Oh and "All Dogs Go To Heaven"


    Basically for me, any movie where a dog gets hurts and/or dies.

    Turner & Hooch is another one!
  • stresco
    stresco Posts: 354 Member
    Showgirls
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    This seriously isn't on here yet?

    Grave of the Fireflies
  • kikilieb
    kikilieb Posts: 118 Member
    Oh and "All Dogs Go To Heaven"


    Basically for me, any movie where a dog gets hurts and/or dies.

    Turner & Hooch is another one!

    I agree! It breaks my heart to see animals get hurt :(
  • perfectingpatti
    perfectingpatti Posts: 1,037 Member
    Haichi - A dogs tale - That got me and my hubby

    This is in my Netflix queue! I've heard many grown men cry over this one!
  • Kaddyshack21
    Kaddyshack21 Posts: 225 Member
    The documentary Dear Zachary. It completely wrecked my life for like a month.

    yep that was unbelievably depressing. Especially if you are a parent.

    Tuesdays with Morrie.~ had to watch this for my HCA course. 20 women bawling in the dark. NICE.

    We are Family ( hindi) ~ Think Stepmon but far more dramatic.

    Kal Ho Naa Ho ( hindi) ~ About a man Raj who is dying and falls in love with a woman Tina but doesn't let her know about his condition, her current best friend Khalid is madly in love with her so before Raj dies he sets them up.( even thoughTina has finally fallen in love with him.) B A W L I N G ( not actual names in the movie but it was too hard to follow otherwise)

    Ishaqzaade (hindi) ~ translates to rebel lovers. based on true stories on the thousand of people of who are killed every year because they fall in love with people outside of their caste or their religion. At the end of the movie the kill each other when they realize that they are outnumbered so that their love can win and not the world hate. Heart breaking.

    P.S. I love you. ~ Hey a Non Hindi film what a shocker.

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