The Best Movies That Had A Sad Ending

[Yavin4]

Terms of Endearment is probably number one.

[DS1]

1. Terminator 2

[Parche]

2. Saving Ryans Privates

The X-Rated Version.........:cry: :cry: :hi:

The main character got a little teste and went nuts...............:rofl: :hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

13. You made me spit on my monitor...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[begin_within]

54. and the sequel

Shaving Ryan's Privates

[BeachBaby]

3. "The Bridges of Madison County".

When she's in the truck with her hand on the door handle but she can't bring herself to open the door and run to the love of her life. And so she watches him drive away forever.

UGH. :(

[Parche]

4. Why Aren't You In GD Where You Belong?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :woohoo: :hi: :hug:

[BeachBaby]

9. Ya smartass!

:rofl: :hi: :pals:

[malta blue]

7. that was the first one that came to mind for me

:hi:

[BeachBaby]

10. Hey sis!

:hi:

Well GMTA! And we probably should consider the fact that we're kinda twins, ya know. :loveya:

[Shell Beau]

5. The Life of David Gale

[MaggieSwanson]

19. I love that movie.

And I cry every time.

[MrScorpio]

6. Spartacus

You can't debate the sadness of two friends that are forced to fight to the death and the survivor being crucified.

[MnFats]

51. "Go to sleep, my brother."

and this after all of the slave army claims to be spartacus -- in effect volunteering to die in his place.

[MikeNearMcChord]

62. Just great acting in that movie Olivier, Ustinov and Charles Laughton

just stole that movie from Kirk Douglas, it is my collection.

[MikeNearMcChord]

63. I also forgot, Glory,the story of the 54th Mass Infantry

the African-American unit formed to fight in the Civil War. The soundtrack was excellent too.

[panhead1961]

8. Brians Song

[zanne]

11. Any movie where the dog/cat/horse/rabbit/bird dies...

That includes 90% of movies with animals in them.

[BrklynLiberal]

15. Yeah! "FLUKE"

The man dies, comes back as a dog...finds his family..but at the end must leave them. Sounds corny...but I cry every time I see it.

[Taverner]

36. I gotta admit I cried when they killed Two-Socks in "Dances with Wolves"

[Scout]

95. me too, and the horse (i forget its name) n/t

[MnFats]

52. would that include 'fatal vision?"

[Burma Jones]

12. Monster's Ball

[TZ]

14. Green Mile.

All of them KNOWING not only was John Coffee innocent but he was an extraordinary person as well. Golly I think I cried for the last 40 minutes of that movie...

[fizzgig]

85. yup

hell, i cry when i read the book, too

[Forkboy]

16. Grave of the Fireflies

Greta, but totally sad movie.

[jobycom]

27. Holy GOD! That's a sad movie. One of two I've vowed never to watch again.

The other was "Bridge to Terabithia," but that was because I didn't know how it would end, and the girl reminded me so much of my daughter I had nightmares for weeks after it. My poor daughter still gets told to "be careful" a lot more than normal because of that film.

[Pale Blue Dot]

17. The Lives of Others, Cinema Paradiso, E.T. nt

[AlCzervik]

18. Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage.

[BOSSHOG]

20. Cool Hand Luke

Paul Newman gets shot and killed at the end. Very sad.

[bikebloke]

23. Another one I never saw the end to.

There are a bunch of films I started watching on teevee as a kid, but had to go to bed for school. Someone already helped me out with the end of The African Queen.

Maybe I ought to put Cool Hand Luke on my Netflix queue.

[BOSSHOG]

24. Its my favorite movie of all time

And Paul Newman is my favorite actor of all time so I might be just a tad biased but I'd highly recommend you give it a shot. And wonder why Kennedy and not Newman got the Oscar.

[kath]

31. Regarding the Oscars that year:

1967 was an absolutely *incredible* year for movies. Here are the major awards:
(* indicates winner)

Best Picture
Bonnie and Clyde, Warren Beatty, producer (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts)
Doctor Dolittle, Arthur P. Jacobs, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)
The Graduate, Lawrence Turman, producer (Embassy Pictures)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Stanley Kramer, producer (Columbia)
*In the Heat of the Night, Walter Mirisch, producer (United Artists)

Best Actor
Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde
Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke
*Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night
Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Best Actress
Anne Bancroft, The Graduate
Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde
Dame Edith Evans, The Whisperers
Audrey Hepburn, Wait Until Dark
*Katharine Hepburn, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Actor in a Supporting Role
John Cassavetes, The Dirty Dozen
Gene Hackman, Bonnie and Clyde
Cecil Kellaway, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
*George Kennedy, Cool Hand Luke
Michael J. Pollard, Bonnie and Clyde

Actress in a Supporting Role
Carol Channing, Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mildred Natwick, Barefoot in the Park
*Estelle Parsons, Bonnie and Clyde
Beah Richards, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Katharine Ross, The Graduate

Directing
Richard Brooks, In Cold Blood
Norman Jewison, In the Heat of the Night
Stanley Kramer, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
*Mike Nichols, The Graduate
Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde

http://www.popculturemadness.com/Trivia/Oscars/Top-1967-O.html

BTW, when we watched CHL a few years back, hubby and I thought exactly the same as you - "why the heck didn't Newman get an Oscar for that?". So I looked it up, and was amazed at what an incredible year 1967 was.

There's a very good book about 5 of the movies made that year, by Mark Harris called "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood"

Here's the jacket blurb from the book:

An epic account of how the revolution hit Hollywood, told through the stories of the five films nominated for the 1967 Academy Awards

The year is 1963. The studios are churning out westerns, war movies, prudish sex comedies and overblown historical epics, but audiences whose interests have been piqued by an influx of innovative films from abroad are hungering for something more, something new. At Esquire, two young writers hatch a plan to create a movie treatment that they hope will attract the director Fran�ois Truffaut: the story of the gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Mike Nichols, an improvisatory comedian turned neophyte theater director, gets his hands on an obscure first novel called The Graduate and wonders if he's ready to make the jump to Hollywood. Warren Beatty, just 26 years old and struggling through a series of flops after the success of Splendor in the Grass, decides to take his career into his own hands, but can't seem to settle on his next move. Dustin Hoffman, sleeping on friends' floors and scrounging for temp work in New York, struggles just to get an off-Broadway audition. Sidney Poitier, after two dozen movies, still yearns for something that seems completely unattainable: a good role. And 20th Century Fox, on the brink of financial catastrophe, puts all its hopes in a genre-the family musical-that will revitalize the company and then nearly destroy it again.

Pictures at a Revolution tracks five movies-the milestones Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, the popular hits Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and In the Heat of the Night, and the big-budget disaster Doctor Dolittle-on their five-year journey to Oscar night in the spring of 1968. It follows their fortunes through the last days of the studio system and the first sparks of a cultural upheaval that would launch maverick new stars and directors, topple more than one industry titan from his pedestal, and redefine what American movies could be. In 1967, moviegoers witnessed the arrival of taboo-shattering sex and violence on screen, the debuts of Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway, the return of Katharine Hepburn and the poignant farewell of Spencer Tracy, the audacious risks taken by Warren Beatty, Arthur Penn, Mike Nichols and Norman Jewison, and Hollywood's agonized attempt to grapple with an incendiary moment in American race relations, with results that would change Sidney Poitier's career forever.

By tracing the gambles, the stumbles, the clashes and the creative partnerships that produced these films, Mark Harris captures both the twilight of old Hollywood and the dawn of a new golden age in studio filmmaking. Based on unprecedented access to the actors, directors, screenwriters, producers and executives whose movies defined the era, as well a wealth of previously unexplored archival material, Pictures at a Revolution is an utterly original, revealing, and entertaining history of a true cultural watershed.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1594201528/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

(probably more than you wanted to know, but I did really enjoy that book. and loved most of those movies...)

[BOSSHOG]

74. Thanks very much for that info

67 was a great year for movies. Everytime I see of list of best movies or best ever or stuff like that Cool Hand Luke is the only movie that pops into my head. Ethos, pathos, logos all wrapped into one, an intriguing plot, great actors, comedy, and a great deal of sadness. I am afraid we will soon miss Paul but thank goodness he leaves us with so many great portrayals.

[bikebloke]

50. Thanks for the tip.

It's in my queue and shifted near the top. And this time I'll get to see it in widescreen and colour.

There's goes a lack of communication.
:applause:

[kath]

30. You beat me to it.

Watched it with our girls a few years back (we're trying to give them a good education in classic good movies) and they were SOOOO upset at the ending. The movie came up in conversation a few weeks back, and one said "that was the worst movie ever". People DO get a little too used to happy endings...

[ncrainbowgrrl]

21. Dead Man Walking, Au Revoir Les Enfants, The Perfect Storm (nt)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

22. "The Bicycle Thief".......

Wotta gut-wrenching film.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

26. Excellent choice.

:thumbsup:

[begin_within]

56. you're my movie buddy

I've mentioned "Bicycle Thief" several times on this forum, always to deaf ears. Actually I think the ending has a tiny ray of light to it.

[Adsos Letter]

25. "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"

kind of a mix of happy and sad at the end.

[jobycom]

28. A very interesting, painful, sad ending, to me, was "Immortal Beloved."

That was heart wrenching.

[WCGreen]

97. Yea, that part where Ode to Joy is playing while he is laying in the

pond getting lost amongst the stars...

One of the best shots in all of cinema, my opinion of course.

[pokerfan]

29. The Great Escape (1963)

All but three of the 76 escapees were rounded up and eventually returned to POW camps except for the FIFTY who were executed by Hitler's direct order.

"Look, sir, you talk about the high command of the Luftwaffe, then the SS and the Gestapo. To me they're the same. We're fighting the bloody lot. There's only one way to put it, sir. They are the common enemies of everyone who believes in freedom." - Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (Richard Attenborough)

[hedgehog]

32. Big Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SR_DW0jsFM

[LostinVA]

33. A River Runs Through It

[taterguy]

34. Breaker Morant

[WinkyDink]

47. Brilliant choice! I couldn't move after that ending!

[Taverner]

35. Requiem for a Dream

Oh, why does that movie haunt me so?

[WinkyDink]

43. (Oops! Meant to post above!)

[Hawkeye-X]

45. That movie finally arrived after waiting 2 weeks..

And I just started the movie, but decided I wanted to watch prison break season 3 (which also came at the same time that movie did)

[JackCo]

37. The Notebook

I cry every time I see this.

[Hardrada]

38. All Quiet on the Western Front, The Seven Samurai, Breaker Morant

The Manchurian Candidate, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Parallax View

[mitchum]

39. Aquirre, The Godfather, To Kill A Mockingbird, Midnight Cowboy...

Dog Day Afternoon, The Searchers, McCabe & Mrs Miller, Boogie Nights, Raging Bull
All great movies. I like the sad.

[Greyskye]

40. Life is Beautiful

:cry: :cry: :cry:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/



Won 3 Oscars. Another 52 wins & 27 nominations http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/awards

[JustAnotherGen]

59. Two crying eyes

That's one of mine too!

[JustAnotherGen]

61. My picks

Life is Beautiful
Auvoir Les Enfants
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Imitation of Life (original)
The Color Purple
Steel Magnolias
The Outsiders

[DarkTirade]

65. I'm surprised it took this long for it to be mentioned.

I've only seen it once. I don't know if I can handle seeing it a second time. Gettin' a bit misty-eyed just thinking about it.

[Greyskye]

83. I agree!

I don't think I could watch it again either. Brilliant, brilliant movie, amazing acting, and incredibly, amazingly heart wrenching.

It has to be one of the most memorable portrayals of selfless love I've ever seen. Juxtaposed with the comic elements... :wow:

[Genevieve]

41. The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, Brokeback Mountain, Schindler's List.

nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

42. Selena

She was just 23 years old. :(

[WinkyDink]

44. "Anna Karenina" (V. Leigh); "Old Yeller"; "West Side Story"; "A Tale of Two Cities" (Bogarde); "Mid-

night Cowboy"; "Brokeback Mountain"; "Marie Antoinette" (Norma Shearer); "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (Kinski).

[crimsonblue]

46. Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

I was so incredibly sad that Lucas didn't kill off Jar Jar.

[Danger Mouse]

93. You win the thread.

[DarkTirade]

94. Umm... don't you mean Episode I?

:P

[crimsonblue]

98. No, I meant Episode 3.

It made sense (sort of) for Jar Jar to last the entirety of Ep 1. But, I so badly wanted to see Anakin cleave off Jar Jar's head with a lightsaber. Meesa thinksa it'd be coolsa.

[Hawkeye-X]

48. Brubaker

I got pissed at the stupid state Senator for firing that guy - and cried when he left and the prisoners all rallied to say goodbye to him.

I liked the movie very much.

It should have won the Oscar that year, honestly.

[bigwillq]

49. Brokeback Mountain

:cry:

[MnFats]

53. Nobody's mentioned "Sophie's Choice?"

you insensitive wretches! I cried for a week! and I;m a macho guy!
i can never watch that again...the soliloquy (sp, yeah) at the end iis absolutely crushing.

[Lil Missy]

70. Oh, that one broke my heart too. I felt so heavy hearted after that movie.

If you like Meryl Streep, another really sad one was "Ironweed."

Another one that comes to mind is "Frances", about the real life of Frances Farmer. Jessica Lange played the part.

Also, Vanessa Redgrave comes to mind with her portrayal of a Holocaust victim in " Playing for Time." Also a very heart wrenching movie.

I'm sure I could come up with others, but I am already aging myself.

[JustAnotherGen]

104. Oh God

Playing for Time :cry:

[applegrove]

87. Yes. Most of the movies here are quite heartwrenching. Terms of Endearment too.

[Critters2]

55. The Stepmother. nt

[Captain Hilts]

57. Mr. Roberts. nt

[MikeNearMcChord]

58. Goodbye Lenin, but it was cool in a way.

[valerief]

60. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? nt

[Lil Missy]

71. not to mention, "Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte." Another tragic classic.

[sarge43]

64. King Kong (the original)

Sunset Boulevard

Das Boot

The Manchurian Candidate

[BlueIris]

66. "Gladiator." "...There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized."

::thud::

[Digit]

67. Patch Adams

So sad at the end.

[OneMoreDemocrat]

68. The Elephant Man....

Beautiful Film.

[nytemare]

80. Barber's adagio

Was well used in that ending.

[sammythecat]

69. I thought "Monster" was a very sad movie.

There's a bunch, but that one comes to mind right now. "The Crying Game" was another.

[Bear down under]

72. Kagemusha

Though I suppose it's more a classical tragedy than a weepie. One feels not so much sad as empty at the end, mourning for what might have been. Still, it's one of the great movies.

[Pharlo]

73. Love Story

[Ivan Sputnik]

75. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Sad for the main character anyway. Lobotomies are always sad....

[nytemare]

81. Bittersweet...

With Chief escaping. That is my #1 film of all time.

[AwakeAtLast]

76. My Girl

A movie about two young kids reduces me to tears every time. :cry:

[pagandem4justice]

77. All the ones that have been mentioned, plus BEACHES, and...

Pay it Forward, Bicentennial Man (middle is boring, but the ending is sad and makes a great point about the nature of humanity), A.I., Leaving Las Vegas (though I'll never watch it again because the whole damn movie is SO depressing!), Steel Magnolias (duh!)...

[u4ic]

78. Remains of the Day

[Lorien]

79. Amadeus, Laurence of Arabia

just two that come to mind.

[Dem_4_Life]

82. Steal Magnolias nt

[Skittles]

84. Hilary and Jackie n/t

[Catchawave]

86. West Side Story

Maria: All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets, or guns, with hate. Well now I can kill, too, because now I have hate!

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[JeanGrey]

88. I cry everytime I see Terms of Endearment and I've seen it

twenty times probably.

Also, "Imitation of Life". When that girl throws herself on her dead mother's coffin that she dissed because her mother was black and she was passing as a full white. God, that was awful in terms of tears!

Also, the end of "Thorn Birds".

[ElizabethDC]

89. The Way We Were n/t

[Submariner]

90. "Easy Rider"

When the two beautiful Harley's were wrecked when they crashed and burned. :cry::cry:

[Danger Mouse]

91. No Country For Old Men hasn't been mentioned yet?

That movie kicks ass, and has just about the most depressing ending ever.

[PassingFair]

92. Frances.

Jessica Lange was GREAT in it.



The woman who played her mother, Kim Stanley, gave
what I think was one of the best performances ever
captured on film.

Chilling.

[CBHagman]

96. Matewan.

A brilliant piece of filmmaking from John Sayles, and so suspenseful, but gut-wrenching.

[Gregorian]

99. It's a Beautiful Life

A very tame, family film, as it starts out. He even jokes about his train ride to the prison camp. He makes it all the way to the day they are liberated. Then the funny, kind, positive, happy go lucky guy get's machine gunned down in the end.

[The Doctor.]

100. "Secondhand Lions"

Robert DuVall, Michael Caine. Brilliant film.

[Connonym]

101. and never, ever got the attention it deserved

I should watch that again tonight.

[SKKY]

102. Life is Beautiful...

...Amazing, amazing film.

[Lindsey]

103. The Deer Hunter, Brokeback Mountain, Brian's Song-just to name a few..