What's the saddest movie you've ever seen?

Another entry would be 'Night, Mother

"I Smile Back," with Sarah Silverman in a surprisingly dramatic role as an alcoholic, drug addicted wife and mother.

It was so devastatingly sad, I don't think I could ever watch it again. Silverman was excellent in it, though, and should've received an Oscar nomination.

Bump

Secrets and Lies

"Au Hasard, Balthasar" and "Mouchette": Robert Bresson's saddest masterpieces.

Wendy and Lucy, OP? You crack me up.

You remind me of that book "Nickle and Dimed" that came out in 2001. I was at my bff's place (near the Cloisters) and she had that book on her coffee table. She usually slept until noon (I was always up at 7), so I picked it up and read the whole thing in one sitting, my mouth agape the entire time.

Like, hunh? People don't know that half the US population lives like this? They assign this book to college students? How oblivious the middle and upper (etc.) classes are to the plight of the everyday American! Honestly, you could have knocked me over with a feather.

Son, if you think Wendy and Lucy was depressing, you need to get out more, and learn a little about how the other half lives. In fact, you can come by my place; I'll be happy to take you on a tour of the neighborhood.

That's a whole hell of a lot of assumptions in a tiny little post, r6.

Come Back Little Sheba and Sophie’s Choice.

[quote]Like, hunh? People don't know that half the US population lives like this? They assign this book to college students? How oblivious the middle and upper (etc.) classes are to the plight of the everyday American!

No, they don't. That's the whole point of books like NICKELED AND DIMED: to educate people about what they don't know.

I would think you'd be happy that wealthy college students would be reading about a socioeconomic world not their own. How else are they going to learn about it?

Pretty much any Lars von Trier film. Dancer in the Dark was devastating.

I don’t remember if it’s the saddest movie I’ve ever seen, but I remember SOBBING after watching The Deer Hunter. In first run——obviously, I’m an elder gay.

Come Back Little Sheba is a good one too r8

Cries and Whispers is up there

Deer Hunter is pretty bad

Grave of the Fireflies

Never Let Me Go

Schindler's List (Obv)

Another vote for Sophie's Choice

Max and Mary

Marley & Me. Yes, I was sobbing.

Don't you MARY! me.

come and see

When I was a young gay boy: Somewhere in Time, with v Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour

All Mine to Give

I love a tearjerker but I was ugly snot-crying during Hachi:A Dog's Tale.

Original Wuthering Heights with Olivier. At Cathy’s death I was sobbing hysterically in front of my TV.

House of Sand and Fog

Where the Redfern Grows

Sophie's Choice

Why has no one mentioned Brokeback Mountain?

As an adult: Requiem For A Dream, Jacob's Ladder, Indecent Proposal, Bridges of Madison County, Terms of Endearment.

As a child: E.T. and Dumbo had me crying so hard I couldn't breathe.

Old Yeller

When I was a kid in grammar school they showed us Sounder. That film affected me so deeply, I can't watch it to this day. If I'm flipping channels and I realize it's on I can't flip fast enough. Born Free also got to me.

I wouldn't say it's the saddest, but my go-to good cry movie is We Are Marshall. All of these people in small town, trying to soldier on & recover from a devastating accident and Ian McShane is a good as the the town asshole who can't really put words to his grief.

Au revoir les enfants

Two documentaries. One by Todd Verow called Bottom. 2011 or 2012. It's a cum pig bottom. The other is about gay hustlers in Montreal - Men for Sale (2008). It's very beautiful, and sad. Bottom is ugly and sad. Achingly sad.

You can watch Men for Sale here: It is respectful and simple. The men are young and mostly tender and it's heartbreaking.

One guy said that Marvin’s Room was the only movie that ever made him cry no another one told me that My Life was the only one that ever made him cry. The Fountain had me sobbing. I believe all of those movies are about cancer.

Bambi. I don’t want to give it away,

SIX WEEKS!

Madame Bovary

- Such a sad story.

Leaving Las Vegas

Sex And The City 2 - something that was a big part of my life died on the screen.

"Dawson's 49 1/2 Load Weekend"

"Brian's Song". A TV movie from the 1970s. James Caan and Billy Dee Williams

Not familiar with it, r37, but I am intrigued.

Bicycle Thieves

R38 It's the true story of Brian Piccolo, who played for the Chicago Bears and died of cancer at age 26, and his friendship with teammate Gale Sayers.

The final scene is absolutely devastating. And to this day, I can't listen to the movie's theme song by Henry Mancini without tearing up.

Another good one, r39