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??

Shadowlands, especially when Lewis and the stepson cry together.

Franheaton re The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, what I find far fetched is that the boy is the son of a Nazi camp commander and yet is very naive, doesn't seem to understand where he is, has not been indoctrinated with Nazi ideology, (like anti semitism) doesn't seem to know who Hitler is. He is not that young so I find this very very unlikely, his father and the whole German education system would have been drilling it into him.

Also a bit distasteful that the main tragedy seems to be presented as what happens to him rather than the death of all the other predominately Jewish children in the death camp. It seems to minimise it in a way, although the final scenes are distressing and touching of course.

Dr. Zhivago
Schindler’s list
Room

Stuart Little

Marley and me
Benjamin button
A monster calls... literally had a low mood for days!
A star is born proper made me sob

Philomena, Judi Dench and Steve Coogan were superb, and it made me so sad/angry at what those women were put through.

Hatchi and Marley & Me. Seen them both a few times and cry my eyes out every time

Haven't watched it for a good few years now, but did anyone else cry when the horse sinks in the swamp in Never Ending Story?

I was going to say Angela's Ashes, but I see it has been mentioned already!

Great movie!

Also, I struggle watching titanic 💔

@SazCat

Omg yes! I sobbed every single time.. That whole film was sad, scary, dark and depressing to me as a kid but I loved it!

The 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac with Gérard Depardieu ,

ANY version of Romeo and Juliet - apart from the 2013 version, that was %^&*ing awful.

The Dresser - Tom Courtnay and Albert Finney.

I'm a sucker for unrealised/unconsummated love stories

Lion

Eight Below
Marley & Me
The Horse Whisperer

Well the Bridges of Maddison County is the only film I've ever seen that has brought a tear to my husbands eye.
Me on the other hand, I well up quite often but rarely blub.
Armaggedon
Schindler's List

How could l not have mentioned Toy Story 3.

Life is Beautiful
The boy in the striped pyjamas
Terms of Endearment
Love Story

I doubt it's easy to source anymore, a movie called Project X, released in 1986 I think. Has Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt in it. Many tears have been spent on it.

Ah here we go:

Graduate student Teri MacDonald has trained a chimpanzee named Virgil to use sign language. When her research grant is not renewed, she is forced to sell Virgil.

He is taken to an Air Force base to be used in a top-secret research project involving flight simulation.
Airman Jimmy Garrett is assigned to the same chimp project. Virgil and Jimmy quickly bond, and Jimmy discovers that Virgil has been taught sign language.

Unbeknownst to Jimmy, once the chimps reach a certain level in operating the flight simulator, they will be exposed to a lethal pulse of radiation to determine how long a pilot may survive after a nuclear exchange in carrying out a second-strike.

Deep end of the ocean. The book was worse though.
The original Storm Boy

Oh god I remember Project X. Awful.

Edward Scissorhands was another.

Deep end of the ocean book indeed. Ugh.

Schindler's List

Toy Story 3.

"What? You want your mommy back? She never loved you."

Notebook

How could I forget Bambi? As a four year old I spent the entire film waiting for Bambi's mummy to come back.