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

[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.

Short Term 12

Cargo 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Cargo for me too. The ending made me cry so much.

Gorillas in the Most
Million Dollar Baby
Gran Torino
A Star in Born
Greyfriars Bobby

All proper tea jerkers

The Angelina Jolie film is The Changeling. V moving.

Marley and Me made me cry but v much 'circle of life' stuff.

Heartbreaking = Sophie's Choice, Wind that Shakes the Barley, Maria Full of Grace, I Daniel Blake,... anything that illustrates how needlessly awful human beings can be to each other.

Not a film but just finished Unauthorised Living which made me cry at the end

@middleager I think that's Changeling? Based on a true story too, what they did to his Mother was heartbreaking.

A Perfect World with Kevin Costner has always been one of my favourite films but bloody hell. That ending. I know he kidnapped Casper but still 😭

Imitation game. I didn’t even see the beginning but watching him decline at the end had me in floods, imagining how the real Turing would have felt.

I haven’t seen most of the films on this thread which knowing me is probably for the best!

@vampirethriller

Cargo for me too. The ending made me cry so much.

The ending made me sob so hard..

Holding the man.

Lion.

I found Leaving Las Vegas heartrending and emotional. It stayed with me for a long time after I watched it.

Kramer vs Kramer. I watched it the first time when I was quite young (about 12) as my Dad was a big Dustin Hoffman fan. It had a deep effect on me.

The Champ.
On Golden Pond.
The English Patient.

*CagneyNYPD" I had forgotten On Golden Pond. Such a moving film.

Also going to add Truly Madly Deeply.

The Fault in Our Stars. Cry all the way through it every time.

Million Dollar Baby
Pan’s Labyrinth
La Vie Est Belle
Arrival

The Deer Hunter
The Pianist
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Sophie's Choice
The Way We Were
Funny Girl

And I only have to hear music from ET to start crying!

Also going to add Truly Madly Deeply.

I've not seen this is years heart broke into many pieces watching it.

Philadelphia

A Monster Calls

Haatchi
No question about it

The Arrival. Found it really deeply disturbing and upsetting. Still hate to think of it now. Wish I had never watched it.

I think it because it played on a thought I often have, of how when we choose to have a child, we are ultimately condemning them to die one day, yet we still choose to do it.

Documentary: Dear Zachary, A Letter to a Son About His Father
This was so upsetting I couldn't even cry

Drama: A Boy in Striped Pyjamas
The ending. I have only watched once, could not rewatch

Soapy/chick flick: Titanic
Breaks me every time I watch it

There’s loads of films I sob at but the truly saddest is Lion.

The whole story is heartbreaking and (without giving away spoilers!) the very very end where you find out what really happened...

His poor mother. Absolutely beautiful film

Schindlers list, The boy in the striped pyjamas are pretty full on emotionally, but Gallipoli and The Mission both had me in tears. The ending of Gallipoli when you see the young men going over the top to certain death having already seen their mates mown down by machine guns.....Devastating

Atonement

Pretty much all of the above, but the one that absolutely broke me was Incendiary.