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.

Five feet apart when I watched it during the first lockdown.

Avengers Endgame. RIP Tony Stark .

Iris - had to have a little breather halfway through to compose myself.
The Killing Fields
Hotel Rwanda

Requiem for a Dream will make Marley and Me look like a Disney film and will leave a gaping hole in your chest for days. I wouldn't watch it alone like I did.

Mia and The White Lion - particularly the end where there were game hunters in helicopters above trying to shoot the lion (that Mia's family raised) and she is screaming at her dad (who was involved in a culling plot) and crying and screaming at him to stop them from shooting the lion before he got to the safety over the bridge into the Amazon. The choppers were hovering over the lion's walk and following him while Mia and the family just stood there crying and screaming at the choppers stalking the lion, and in the end the father risked his life by walking in front of the lion and blocking the choppers above. Real heart in your mouth 5 box of tissues, I was so sure one of the choppers stalking the lion would get a shot off.

Oops I forgot "I, Daniel Blake"

Found this haunting to watch as I was helping two friends (both fallen on awful times within weeks of each other but for very different reasons) at the time navigate the system.
Brilliantly done but harrowing to watch.

For Sama. I had to pause it to compose myself as I was sobbing.
It's a true docu film filmed first hand about the Syrian conflict.

Cathy Come Home

I loved The Help but the ending was so sad with Mae-Mobley crying for Aibilene.

Hilary and Jackie. Poor Jacqueline Du Pre, what a sad ending to an interesting full but too short life. The sadness exacerbated by the haunting strains of Elgar 's cello concerto, played by her.

@PajamasnoDramas

Films don’t usually get me but ET still makes me so tearful and Watership Down. Why make kid’s films so upsetting? It’s all with the editing and music.

In the more grown-up genre The Elephant Man, Schindler’s List but the worst, and never likely to be beaten is La Vie en Rose. It’s a biopic of the life of Édith Piaf.

It's the soundtrack of Watership Down the does me in. Can not listen to Bright E yes without wanting to sob my heart out!

The scene that got me most in Schindler's List is where it shows ashes coming out the chimneys. Chilling.

The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas

I just watched this recently and I was actually in tears as it’s so emotional and Real .
It’s called “Homeless to Harvard”.
It’s a True Story .
Trust me you won’t be disappointed .

Grave of the Fireflies - so bleak and heart breaking, I would go back in time and not watch it if I could!

Dumbo. The first one, not the re-make. Breaks my heart when his mother is locked up and she puts her trunk through the cage.

Red dog. I have never cried so much at a film before, and every time I try to tell anyone about it I start welling up again!

ET. And The Outsider. And Inside Out

@Werkwerkwerkwerkwerk

I, Daniel Blake. One of those that made my bottom lip tremble and I actually sobbed. So so sad

The tragic thing about I, Daniel Blake is that it is still happening. There are THOUSANDS that have died trying to navigate the DWP system.

Slumdog millionaire, when they blinded the little boy so he could become a beggar for them 😭

@Whatamesssss exactly right; I think that's why it got me so bad. A lot of films I can suspend my disbelief, bit this was so raw and real.

@Colbinabbin

Precious.

I sobbed through most of it. The trauma and challenges Precious faced were heartbreaking.

Totally agree. Was a sobbing mess after that and I'm normally a hard faced cow Every time I watched Schindler's list I cried. Until I read the bio , written by those he saved. I won't spoil

I, Daniel Blake and (going back a bit) Midnight Cowboy.

Kes is very sad too.

Into the Wild
Thelma & Louise

The Note Book
Marley and Me
Schindler's List
I've not watched we need to talk about Kevin because I read the book. That was a hard enough read.

Steel Magnolias gets me EVERY TIME, and the recent version of A Star is Born with Lady Gaga is heartbreaking. Oh, and The Fault in Our Stars.

Devil's knot based on a true story, I'd wanted to watch it for so long 5 mins in I ran out of the room hyperventilating, that was in 2014 and I've still not had the courage to try again!