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.

@Wineloffa

Philomena. I was a sobbing mess by the end of it. And it’s based on a true story which made it even more devastating.

Ditto

Sleepers.
The boy in the stripped pajamas
Steel magnolias, a film that made me laugh and sob at the same time
Beaches still makes me ugly cry

And Dumbo... only have to hear baby mine song and I'm a gonner

Lion...waiting for him to be reunited with his brother after being reunited with his mother..and finding out what happened to him. Read the book and again..got me.

Monster calls...

Jojo Rabbit..the butterfly scene onwards!

Orphanage..when she realises what happened to her son

Haunting of Hill house..the last episode.. its the music!!
And Bly Manor again..certain scenes with music.

@Sunshinesky1981, I promise I'm not normally a corrective wanker but "The boy in the Stripped pyjamas" made me laugh!

It's like one of those change a letter, ruin a film things 🤣

Room

Saw it in the cinema and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house!

The Road
Life is Beautiful
Pan's Labyrinth

I Daniel Blake. Probably would have felt worse had I not been warned that the Cannes jury when seeing it had been in tears, so expected it to be distressing.

@Sunshinesky1981

Sleepers. The boy in the stripped pajamas Steel magnolias, a film that made me laugh and sob at the same time Beaches still makes me ugly cry

And Dumbo... only have to hear baby mine song and I'm a gonner

God, I only have to see the tiniest clip of Dumbo's mum being locked away and I'm wreckage - I'm welling up thinking about it!

Also, the end of Cinema Paradiso.
The English Patient.
I also saw The Elephant Man at the cinema and pretty much cried all the way through.

Shadowlands is a beautiful film about love and loss.

I struggle with any Holocaust (or similar tragedy) related films now.

Charlotte Grey

Beaches
Awakenings. He lost out twice 😢😢

I saw Schindler's List at the cinema. When the credits rolled, nobody moved. It was so strange. Everyone just stayed in their seats. Apart from sniffing & sobbing, it was silent.

I sobbed my heart out at the English Patient too. I just kept thinking about poor Kristin Scott Thomas stuck in that cave waiting for her love.

As a teen, I loved The Color Purple. Watched it over and over again and cried in the same 4 places every single time...just hearing the music makes me cry.

I love these threads. I am goin g to watch Cargo tonight.

Was a snotty gibbering wreck watching Philadelphia on my own in the cinema with nothing to wipe my nose on but my sleeve. Gorgeous.

Also cried at Sleepers, and could not watch that now I have sons of my own.

Atonement and The English Patient are two of my absolute favourite films, and I always cry at both.

The Green Mile.

They shoot horses, don't they.

The pianist. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Pay It Forward, watched it before having kids and don't think I could watch it again now I have.

Beaches
The Time Travellers Wife
Dear John

@TheLittleRedToothbrush

I agree with you about Room - the book was way more disturbing. The film fell short in comparison.

Hachi cried my eyes out

@middleager the changeling
This is a film I've always meant to watch and never got around to. I know the story well and what happened to the real son etc but never seen the film. Thanks for the reminder xx

Terms of Endearment

Any film where the dogs dies which is every film with a dog in it! I can't think of one film with a prominent dog character that doesn't die.

[quote clpsmum]@middleager the changeling
This is a film I've always meant to watch and never got around to. I know the story well and what happened to the real son etc but never seen the film. Thanks for the reminder xx[/quote]
It still haunts me after watching it quite a few years ago. It's a harrowing story.