Saddest film you've ever seen?

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So I'm sitting here watching Seven Pounds (Will Smith)
I've seen this film loads of times, but it never fails to make me cry. Like proper ugly cry, tears streaming, everything.
This is the only film that does this to me. I think it's so underrated.

What movies do this to other people??

Dumbo Bambino’s Watetship down Legends of the Fall

Bambi even 😬

Il Postino... so beautiful and sad

and Life is Beautiful. hard to watch

Haachi (sp?) was so sad. I cried so much I must have been dehydrated

Dead Poets Society
Awakenings
Philadelphia
Green Mile
Dead Man Walking
Stepmom
Boys Don't Cry
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
The Stoning of Soraya M
The Boy In The Stripes Pyjamas
12 Years A Slave
The Fault In Our Stars

Particularly significant to me is One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. I first saw it in high school, I was about 13. The ECT scene was particularly poignant, with tears uncontrollably rolling down my face in high school, and every time I see it since, despite relations with my mother having irrevocably changed.

My mother underwent ECT, and yes it was done without a sedative (today done under a general anaesthetic). I was 11. She told my brother, my father, and me all about it, in detail.

So this scene always destroys me. This is incredibly identifiable but I really don't give a crap. ECT back then was barbaric.

I’ve cried at most of the ones mentioned. On Chesil Beach is the one that sticks out of late!

Haichi: A Dog's Tale; no film has hurt me so bad and made me uncontrollably sob so much like this film did.

RainyAfternoon - oh yes Life is Beautiful :(

Turner and Hooch
Marley and Me
My Sisters Keeper
Pursuit of Happyness

I, Daniel Blake
I can't remember the last time I cried at a film but did at this one

I'm so glad so many other people cried watching Hachi! I thought I was just being a massive wimp!
There's not much that can't make me cry, but that film did, in buckets!

My Girl gets me every time.
This is slightly outing if anyone knows me in real life but my husband only has to say 'he can't see without his glasses' and I get tearful. Selling up just thinking about it...

Also Pay it Forward and Green Mile.

I've got 'I, Daniel Blake' recorded but I'm not sure I dare watch it :/

No, I,Daniel Blake, looked a bit real and gritty to me, frustrating.

Never let me go with Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield destroyed me. What a sad, sparse film about mortality and what it is to be human...

Also, Arrival and Lion.

Bore off.
I swear some people just go through these posts to see what they can nit pick at it*

It's hardly nitpicking. You said he hid himself and cried for 20 minutes as a result of watching a film that was totally unsuitable for him, poor kid.

Au revoir les enfants gets me every time. Such a beautiful, brave film.

It's a Wonderful Life. "George Bailey, the richest man in Town"

White Christmas "We'll follow the old man wherever he wants to go" Both times.

Love Actually, Emma Thompson bedroom scene.

Fields of Dreams "No Ray, it was you" and Doc Graham going over the line.

Signs, "Tell Merrill to Swing away".

Beaches know it’s naff but still. Last saw it when I was 18 and cried watched at 43 and cried again! Kids were baffled. Also weirdly the montage of la la land I was sobbing in the cinema. Other “sad” films leave me stone cold. That slobbery dog in Marley and me no thanks

The saddest 3 films I have ever seen are:
The Son’s Room (Italian)
Sophie’s Choice (Meryl Streep)
Red Road (set in Glasgow)
They all made me so sad I wished I hadn’t watched them. I’ve also blubbed my eyes out at:
Schindler’s List
Titanic
Million Dollar Baby
Betty Blue

One of the toy story films which had little parachuting soldiers in it. We went to see it (pre-arranged with friends and kids) a couple of hours after I'd heard that a friend had died in a parachute accident. Absolutely howling.

Also years ago went to see My Girl to get away from everything for a few hours after a friend died at college. We had no idea what the film was about, it just looked like a 'safe' kids movie - bloody hell were we wrong.

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He cried at The Lion King and My Girl too - am I daft for letting him watch those too?

There's always one person who has to have a dig at the OP on MN.

Threads
The wind that shakes the barley
I, Daniel Blake
Testament
Dear Zachary

The end of cool runnings....

Many many more aswell

Oh and 'Freaks'. I still want to punch the bitch in it.

I'm a crier, I cry at everything but I've never cried so hard watching a film as I did at the Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Les Mis. Really ugly sobbing happened at those films. I've also cried at nearly every children's film going including but not limited to
Coco
Ferdinand
Toy Story 3
Cinderella (live action)
Dumbo
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast

Grown up films
Schindlers list
Saving Private Ryan
Titanic
The Help
Gladiator the list goes on really