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??

The Constant Gardener.

I don’t know why, it was just such a tragic story, but with a satisfying ending.

I have 3 to offer.
Beaches - a popular choice
Who will love my children
My sister's keeper

Hachi
One day
The notebook

And the film that made me have an actual breakdown... me before you

Oh and About Time. But its one of my favourite films ever

Armaggedon every single time, proper sobbing and The Green Mile.

I cry a lot at films, Endgame made me cry in the cinema recently all the way through.

Marley and me is the saddest film ive ever seen. Last watched it 7yrs ago before i got my oldest ddog and not watched it again nor will i i cant cope with the ending 😭

As a child: Ring of Bright Water.

As an adult: Highlander.

Someone mentioned Precious which shows how the eponymous main character is treated badly by everyone and heart goes out to her. Another film within a maligned eponymous character is Albert Nobbs with Glenn Close. Both characters had such hard lives but made the best of them

Gorillas in the mist very very sad

A star is born
Beaches

I just saw 'Maudie' on Netflix - very sad but quite uplifting at the same time. Amazing performances from Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke.

So many of the films everyone has mentioned resonate.
I would add 'The way we were'.
Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. Beautiful film and heartbreaking. Makes me bawl.

So many films make me cry, but here are a few

Black Beauty
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Steel Magnolias
The Green Mile
Forrest Gump
My Sister's Keeper
The Pianist
The Book Thief

The Round Up - A french film about the Vichy police rounding up Jews for deportation to Auschwitz

The Devil's Arithmetic- Kirsten Dunst plays a Jewish New York teenager who is transported back to 1941 Poland and is sent to a death camp, even sadder now because Brittany Murphy is the other lead.

There are so many more!

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I saw Ring of Bright Water as a child

So traumatised, I sobbed all the way home and for days after, I've never been able to watch it again, traumatised for life

Poor Midge 😓

I agree with those who said grave of the fireflies. It’s just devastating. I watched it over a decade ago and I still remember how much it affected me so strongly.

The Green Mile and The Champ made me cry more than anything else

The prince of tides
Legends of the fall

Honkytonk Man. One of the most underrated films of Clint Eastwood.

So many... but two which left me speechless were:

Land of Mine (about kids really. German POWs about 15-17 years old clearing landmines. Beautifully done.)

Poetry- a Korean film. The ending is one of the most powerful endings I’ve ever watched. Astounding. It’s 100% on Rotten Tomatoes for a reason.

Land of Mine is 91%

Great movies. Deep. No fluff. Nothing Hollywood about them.

Grave of the Fireflies. Probably the only film that has ever made me sob out-loud.

The Bridges of Madison County, Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood at their finest. Sob my heart out every time though!

The Polar Express

Edward scissor hands

The green mile.

Finding Neverland. It's kate Winslet and her sons not johnny depp that make me cry.