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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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EvilOnion · 22/03/2021 17:06

@Whatamesssss you've just reminded me of All dogs go to heaven!

Fox and the hound traumatised me too, when the little old lady is driving the fox into the woods.

gollymissdolly · 22/03/2021 17:07

Philomena

The boy in the striped pyjamas (any Holocaust film has me in tears)

Who will love my children (a true story).I watched it with my DM many years ago and we were both sobbing .

Whatamesssss · 22/03/2021 17:08

[quote EvilOnion]@Whatamesssss you've just reminded me of All dogs go to heaven!

Fox and the hound traumatised me too, when the little old lady is driving the fox into the woods.[/quote]
Ah yes Fox and the Hound. I saw it at the cinema when I was very young, great film. It had a profound effect.

Ihadthelastlaugh · 22/03/2021 17:08

The Lovely Bones. Wish I'd never watched it.

Queenoftheashes · 22/03/2021 17:09

Free Willy. Marley and Me (only saw for first time recently and was a wreck for hours). Dumbo. The Lion King.

Anything with animals in it apparently.

BurgundyBells · 22/03/2021 17:13

Lion was a great film but I don't remember it being sad? Not tear-jerking sad. Very thought provoking

Oh my...it's the most I've cried at any film ever I think. The type of film where I finished watching, had a cry, thought I was over it, then it popped into my mind an hour later and I welled up again.

I thought it was so good that I encouraged dh to watch it the next day and when he did the dc (aged 12 and 10) sat and watched it with him. Both ds1 and Ds2 were bawling by the end of it. Dh never cries about anything (I've seen him cry maybe twice in 16 years) and even he welled up at the end (although he denied it, but he did!).

kaco · 22/03/2021 17:15

A Dog's Purpose

I cried for most of the film.

rwalker · 22/03/2021 17:16

I watched a film based on true story young lad very sporty at school had an accident and told he would never walk again . PE teacher got him swimming and he made remarkable recovery set him the goal of swimming the channel.
He did it at the end teacher dived in and swum the last bit with him they where hugging extsatic them camera cut the PE teacher collapsed and died .

Mrsjayy · 22/03/2021 17:17

I've tried to watch a Dogs purpose twice I just can't get through it.

GlitterFairy01 · 22/03/2021 17:21

@gollymissdolly who will love my children had me sobbing! Have you seen a similar style film- where are my children? Another upsetting film (I think it was a true story)

Although I can’t watch these type of films since having children.

bengalcat · 22/03/2021 17:22

Schindlers List and Bambi

Sunshinesky1981 · 22/03/2021 17:22

[quote EvilOnion]@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 🤣[/quote]
Didn't even notice i had done that.... would have been an entirely different film Grin

Whatamesssss · 22/03/2021 17:22

@Mrsjayy @kaco I know, not only does the dog die, it dies eleventy billion times. I just can't watch any film with a dog in it now.

SausageCrush · 22/03/2021 17:24

Ring of Bright Water.

Mrsjayy · 22/03/2021 17:25

I can't. Imagine going to the cinema to watch a dogs purpose I bet it was messy 😂

Kpo58 · 22/03/2021 17:26

Grave of the fireflies

RaskolnikovsGarret · 22/03/2021 17:28

Cry Freedom
Philadelphia

Icantrememebrtheartist · 22/03/2021 17:29

Who will love my children? The ultimate tearjerker of a film! I watched it when I was pregnant, I was in bits. And then bizarrely it was on again when I was expecting baby no 2 and I was in bits even more because I couldn’t imagine finding a home for my toddler and handing them over. I don’t know how that poor woman found the strength to not only find homes for all her children but to watch them all go before she died.

Beaches was so sad.

Awakenings I found that film so sad because it was based on a true story.

Icantrememebrtheartist · 22/03/2021 17:32

Gollymissdolly We have the same taste in films! 😊 I sad Who will love my children and you’ve reminded me Philomena was another one I cried but was also so angry for her.

stackemhigh · 22/03/2021 17:34

Salaam Bombay

Ikora · 22/03/2021 17:36

City of Life and Death based on the Rape of Nanking, Japanese soldiers brutalised Chinese women and children and there was enforced state approved rape and women forced in to comfort camps.

On another note there is an episode of inside number 9 on BBC I player called The 12 Days of Christine. It is truly amazing and both the film and this episode, each episode is a short stand alone story had me crying in a way I didn’t think was possible watching something on the screen.

Cam77 · 22/03/2021 17:38

Grave of the Fireflies
Brokeback Mountain

PrintempsAhoy · 22/03/2021 17:40

Oh gosh yes, grave of the fireflies Sad

38thparallel · 22/03/2021 17:42

Not a film but a series - Crash Landing on You.
Maybe one day, like East Germany, Korea will be reunified.

Pinksmyfavoritecolour · 22/03/2021 17:43

I Daniel Blake and sorry we missed you, both so real. And the Magdalene sisters has continued to haunt me.