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My vote for saddest movie ever. (Original Post) kairos12 Oct 2018 OP
Beaches, Bette Midler nt SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #1
Umberto D nmgaucho Oct 2018 #2
Marley and Me Funtatlaguy Oct 2018 #3
+1 Turin_C3PO Oct 2018 #14
I read the book and saw the movie. Aristus Oct 2018 #4
Dancer in the Dark nt sweetloukillbot Oct 2018 #5
Hachi: A Dog's Tale CrispyQ Oct 2018 #6
Oh, lordy yes. 3catwoman3 Oct 2018 #36
Sophie's Choice lamsmy Oct 2018 #7
yeah. fierywoman Oct 2018 #33
I'm still not over seeing it decades ago. Guilded Lilly Oct 2018 #38
Any Adam Sandler movie Yavin4 Oct 2018 #8
+1. yonder Oct 2018 #10
I used to love his movies as a kid. Turin_C3PO Oct 2018 #13
Open Water. Nay Oct 2018 #9
Gigot' with Jack E. Gleason... pretzel4gore Oct 2018 #11
The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman. ZZenith Oct 2018 #12
Didn't see the movie, but the book was devastating! leftieNanner Oct 2018 #15
Breaking the Waves (1996) is my vote, and I'll second ZZenith on 'Requiem...' (nt) petronius Oct 2018 #16
"Life is Beautiful" or "Terms of Endearment".... SKKY Oct 2018 #17
Where the Red Fern Grows! bluestarone Oct 2018 #18
Love Story. nt Hotler Oct 2018 #19
The Grave of the Fireflies The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2018 #20
Once through was soul crushing. miyazaki Oct 2018 #23
This one is the winner...every person should be required to watch it just once Ferrets are Cool Oct 2018 #31
Yes. Grave of the Fireflies. Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #40
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas. Behind the Aegis Oct 2018 #21
The Trip to Bountiful Coventina Oct 2018 #22
Grave of the Fireflies sakabatou Oct 2018 #24
My Sergei (1998) Talitha Oct 2018 #25
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" leaves me in a puddle everytime. SaveOurDemocracy Oct 2018 #26
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951 version) 50 Shades Of Blue Oct 2018 #27
Testament (1983) wildflower Oct 2018 #28
'All is Lost' Bfd Oct 2018 #29
Me too. Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #41
Thats exactly what i said through the whole movie! Bfd Oct 2018 #42
Anita enid602 Oct 2018 #30
Brian's Song RGinNJ Oct 2018 #32
Radio Flyer consider_this Oct 2018 #34
I wept at Shenandoah, with Jimmy Stewart - a family... 3catwoman3 Oct 2018 #35
Two classics: Totally Tunsie Oct 2018 #37
The Eddie Duchin Story.... global1 Oct 2018 #39

Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
8. Any Adam Sandler movie
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 12:47 PM
Oct 2018

It's truly sad and depressing that he continues to make horrible movie after horrible movie.

 

pretzel4gore

(8,146 posts)
11. Gigot' with Jack E. Gleason...
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 01:08 PM
Oct 2018

The show was disparaged by review, but ...it was so sad (Jack played a hobo who helps a pret-t homeless girl etc) ..mind you i was a kid back then and kids are stupid😒

ZZenith

(4,125 posts)
12. The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman.
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 01:23 PM
Oct 2018

Requiem for a Dream ain’t exactly a zany comedy either.

I kind of like sad movies sometimes - leave the theater feeling better about your own life.

leftieNanner

(15,137 posts)
15. Didn't see the movie, but the book was devastating!
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 01:27 PM
Oct 2018

How about Brokeback Mountain. The short story made me weep, as did the movie.

When he finds his own shirt hanging inside the other one just about destroyed me!

SKKY

(11,815 posts)
17. "Life is Beautiful" or "Terms of Endearment"....
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 03:59 PM
Oct 2018

...can't decide which. Depends on my mood I guess.

bluestarone

(17,002 posts)
18. Where the Red Fern Grows!
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 08:07 PM
Oct 2018

Last edited Sat Oct 20, 2018, 10:35 PM - Edit history (1)

See it here!

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miyazaki

(2,247 posts)
23. Once through was soul crushing.
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 08:47 PM
Oct 2018

I don't think i'll ever see it again.

Another Japanese soul-crusher was "Nobody Knows".

Ferrets are Cool

(21,108 posts)
31. This one is the winner...every person should be required to watch it just once
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 09:54 PM
Oct 2018

as a reminder of what WAR really is. Having said that, I cannot watch it twice. Too damned hard for me to do.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
40. Yes. Grave of the Fireflies.
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 08:37 AM
Oct 2018

The greatest movie I will never watch again.

It was the movie that introduced my wife and me to the concept of "projectile crying".

Coventina

(27,151 posts)
22. The Trip to Bountiful
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 08:45 PM
Oct 2018

Could have been impacted by watching right after my grandmother died.

eta: "The Love Guru" (sorry, couldn't resist!)

Talitha

(6,608 posts)
25. My Sergei (1998)
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 09:00 PM
Oct 2018

It's the painfully beautiful story of Olympic Russian ice skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov.
Once in a while, I'll watch it when I need a good cry.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
41. Me too.
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 08:44 AM
Oct 2018

A movie about the dumbest guy who ever got in a boat. I was shaking my damn head through the whole thing.

I'm no salty sea dawg, and even I know you should at least have a life jacket on when things go bad.

 

Bfd

(1,406 posts)
42. Thats exactly what i said through the whole movie!
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 10:37 AM
Oct 2018

I kept watching for something positive to happen for the dumb schmuck & then the movie was over!
It was dreadful. Ugh!

enid602

(8,629 posts)
30. Anita
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 09:50 PM
Oct 2018

‘Anita,’ an Argentine film about a girl with Down syndrome who loses her mother in the AMIA bombing, and becomes homeless.

3catwoman3

(24,023 posts)
35. I wept at Shenandoah, with Jimmy Stewart - a family...
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 10:39 PM
Oct 2018

...divided by brothers fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
37. Two classics:
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 10:43 PM
Oct 2018
Imitation of Life - Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, Sandra Dee

An Affair to Remember - Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant

global1

(25,261 posts)
39. The Eddie Duchin Story....
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 02:28 AM
Oct 2018

A 1956 film with Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. Power played Duchin. The way the movie ended was just the saddest.

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