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.

Yes, the twelve days of Christine is a prime example!

Anyone said big fish yet?

@middleager

I can't remember the name, but it's a film with Angelina Jolie, directed by Clint Eastwood telling the true story of a mother whose son goes missing and then seemingly returns.

The Changeling

I sobbed repeatedly watching the series its a sin on channel 4 recently too

The Champ
Philadelphia
P.S. I Love you
Notebook
Beaches
All make me sob!

Beaches.
P.s. I love you.
Forrest Gump.

Beaches always gets me

Wonder
The fundamentals of caring
Unbroken
Welcome to Marwen

All tearjerkers but uplifting as well.

Out of Africa. The music, the plane, Robert Redford 🥲

Also agree with Ring of Bright Water and Dumbo.

A Hungarian film called "White God".
I had to stop it at one point and cry properly for 10 minutes before I could go on

Life is Beautiful
The Boy in the striped pyjamas
Leaving Las Vegas
The Champ

@Pinksmyfavoritecolour

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

Agree about the Magdelene sisters 😭

Atonement 😢

Never let me go
A film based on the book by Kazuo Ishigiro... About a dystopian future where people are bred as "duplicates" from prisoners and the underclasses specifically for the purpose of having their organs harvested for the rest of society. At the end I just sat in the cinema and couldn't move. Very powerful and frightening as you do think it might actually happen.

The 3rd episode of it's a sin with Colin still has me in tears at the memory of it.

Just saw that Empire of the Sun is on Iplayer. I can never watch that again- so traumatic. From my poor scarred childhood memory:
-Heartbreaking song as main theme of film
-Near the beginning, Jim (Christian Bale) gets separated from his parents in a crowd

• Ends up in a Japanese prison camp. They get sent on a death march. The lady who has been looking after Jim, Mrs Victor, dies. Jim thinks he sees her soul going up to heaven but later finds out it was one of the nuclear bombs that was dropped on Japan.
• There's a bit when Jim makes friends with a downed kamikaze pilot, who is barely older than him. The pilot offers him a peach, but is then shot. I can vividly remember the visual of the blood running all over the peach.

-Technically it has a happy ending because Jim is reunited with his parents at the end, but he has PTSD and is such a hollowed out husk of a boy that there's no joy from his side. This film is a PG and it's one of the most upsetting films I've ever seen!

Marley and Me. The last bit when the dog is PTS. Much to close to home at the time.

@minou123

Sleepers - with Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Minnie Driver and others.

Watched it years ago but too heart breaking to watch it again, even though it is an excellent film.

It was so hard hitting wasn’t it. It really upset me.

Dancer in the Dark. It's a masterpiece of a film but I can never bring myself to recommend it to anyone because I was genuinely traumatised by it. It strongly affected me for weeks afterwards. No film has ever upset me so much, before or since.

Lion

The boy in the striped pyjamas

Cried buckets at both

A dogs purpose. The last five minutes get me weeping,luckily in a good way.

@kerkyra

A dogs purpose. The last five minutes get me weeping,luckily in a good way.

I was in bits! I can no longer watch sad pet related films.

Cold mountain...surprisingly depressing. It haunted me for days.. Possibly because didn't expect it.

Anything about the holocaust.. The pianist being particularly one I remember. Books more so though. Boy in the striped PJs didn't get under my skin though... I feel no more sorrow for that innocent child than any other killed in it..I'm not sure why people seem to connect more to him than the others that died.. And absolutely no sympathy for his parents at all...in some ways I'm not displeased commandant finally got a little understanding of what he was doing to the Jews...

I'd read marley and me on a long flight.. The film didn't upset me as much as the book which I really struggled not to make a fool of myself about.

I watched Sophie's Choice before I was a parent and I have never forgotten it. Now that I have two kids I genuinely have nightmares about this film. Meryl Streep was extraordinarily in it.

Also, I can never watch the Green Mile, The English Patient or Philadelphia again. They're beautiful films but I just can't go through that again!

I was horrified by The Bridge to Terabithia. I was reading it with my then primary aged son and found it devastating.

It’s A Sin

I swear my brain chemistry has changed forever since watching that.

Cant believe nobody has mentioned Kes yet!

Not as traumatic as a lot of these, but News of the world on Netflix with Tom Hanks had me shedding a tear recently, girl with shit luck eventually gets a happy ending. A good Sunday afternoon film.

The Kite Runner