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What's the most heartbreaking film you've watched?

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LudoBear · 22/03/2021 11:40

I've just watched Mums List. Proper sobbing watching it and I don't even have children.

Eight Below, Haachi and Marley & Me are sad too.

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glittereyelash · 22/03/2021 20:57

A time to kill. The part where the little girl sees her father after being raped and left to die and says I'm sorry I dropped the groceries daddy. Absolutely heartbreaking 😢😢

GrumpyHoonMain · 22/03/2021 20:58

@LudoBear

I've just watched Mums List. Proper sobbing watching it and I don't even have children.

Eight Below, Haachi and Marley & Me are sad too.

The Indian version of Kramer vs Kramer. Omg I haven’t ever cried so much since.
Crinkle77 · 22/03/2021 20:58

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but Lorenzo's Oil just had me in floods.

SeaKelp101 · 22/03/2021 21:05

About time

HotSauceCommittee · 22/03/2021 21:08

"The Hate U Give". I went to the cinema on my own and cried barely suppressed shocked tears.
The 12 year old DS cried his eyes out at "Planes, Trains and Automobiles".

Goleor · 22/03/2021 21:12

Song for a raggy boy , it's the most heart breaking movie I've ever watched. Had a profound affect on me and I honestly would never watch it again.

17CherryTreeLane · 22/03/2021 21:12

It's been mentioned a few times...

'Wake up champ...wake up...'

😭😭😭

Spillanelle · 22/03/2021 21:15

I remember absolutely sobbing watching Moulin Rouge in the cinema

Also Brokeback Mountain and Atonement.

Not a film but I watched It’s a Sin recently and that broke me. I’ve never been so emotional after watching anything.

MrsSugar · 22/03/2021 21:19

Only the brave and about time.
Seen both at the cinema and had to sit there for a bit to square myself up a bit after. Both sad in different ways x

firstimemamma · 22/03/2021 21:20

The Magdalene sisters

MrsApplepants · 22/03/2021 21:27

My Sisters keeper

OhWhyNot · 22/03/2021 21:29

The Changeling I felt really upset for a few days
Schindler’s List
Lion
12 Years a Slave

I love Leaving Las Vegas but feel drained after. From the moment they meet you know it’s doomed

I won’t watch Sophie’s Choice

cortex10 · 22/03/2021 21:34

Sarah's Key with Kristin Scott Thomas.

GiveMummyTheWhizzer · 22/03/2021 22:03

I cry at everything. However The Impossible (the one about the Boxing Day Tsunami) absolutely broke me. Took me about 4 hours to watch as I had to keep pausing it as I couldn't see!

Forgothowmuchlhatehomeschoolin · 22/03/2021 22:06

Who will love my children? Proper tear jerker.
Sleepers is a fantastic film but chilling that it is a true story.

JackieTheFart · 22/03/2021 22:11

@cortex10

Sarah's Key with Kristin Scott Thomas.
I didn’t know this was a film. The book is harrowing enough.
Crazycrazylady · 22/03/2021 22:15

Still Alice has stayed with me for ever..

NeedToKnow101 · 22/03/2021 22:44

Never let me go. I cried literally from beginning to end. Partly because I had already read the book, which made me cry uncontrollably from roughly just after the middle to the end.

Loads of other films too, but this one sprang to mind.

eatthepineapple · 22/03/2021 22:45

Agree with loads of these! It seems my fave genre of film must be tearjerkers!

I cried ugly tears at Should I Stay, pretty much all the way through it! It was so sad I don't think I could handle watching it again!

Laeta · 22/03/2021 22:48

I can't watch any films about the Holocaust.

Elephant Man watched it at the cinema when I was about 15. I cried so much I was bent double.

Beaches

Champ

Mmmmm these are all 80's films, maybe i've got harder as I've got older!

Sobbed at Never Let me Go, the book. Read it years ago and it still hasn't left me.

Anne Hathaway in Les Miserable ....

Ifyourefeelingsinister · 22/03/2021 22:52

Lion. Cried and cried - but I completely recommend, it's incredible

Timeisavirtue · 22/03/2021 22:54

The notebook
Pay it forward
The deep end of the ocean
Clouds

Timeisavirtue · 22/03/2021 22:54

A dogs purpose

junebirthdaygirl · 22/03/2021 23:09

Already mentioned..Manchester by the Sea
Fabulous movie but heartbreaking.

TalkToTheWind · 22/03/2021 23:18

Kramer vs Kramer - the boy looks like my brother ( they are the same age) and the parents looked like mine at that time.

The way we were - the end when Katie and Hubble bump into each other and he asks about his daughter...