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??

AI Artificial Intelligence, watched it once and found it so upsetting I’ve never been able to watch it again

Au revoir les enfants by Louis Malle

From Wikipedia
The film is based on events in the childhood of the director, Louis Malle, who at age 11 was attending a Roman Catholic boarding school near Fontainebleau. One day, he witnessed a Gestapo raid in which three Jewish students and a Jewish teacher were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz. The school's headmaster, Père Jacques, was arrested for harboring them and sent to the concentration camp at Mauthausen. He died shortly after the camp was liberated by the U.S. Army, having refused to leave until the last French prisoner was repatriated. Forty years later Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, granted Père Jacques the title of Righteous Among the Nations.

Elephant Man. Has me in tears every time.

Schindler's List and Room

Mrstwiddle I agree about AI. I watched in the cinema and was sobbing towards the end when he his mother is recreated. My DH was mortified!!! I've never watched in again.

Also Dumbo for obvious reasons! And The Fox and the Hound the scene where she takes Todd back to the forest 😥😥 I used to cry at that when I was 10!

The Passion Of the Christ. Traumatised me that did. Sobbing at the cruelty in it.

The version of A Star is Born with Barbra Streisand.

Wow there's loads I haven't seen, need to make a must- see list! Think I'm going to give Manchester By The Sea a go..

Armageddon used to make me cry too.

So many parts of Love Actually make me cry, but not necessarily because they are sad..

I cry a lot at Boxsets too..
Sons Of Anarchy and Wentworth are the worst for it.

And funnily, never found The Notebook sad, but I did cry when Allie went back to Noah, but tears of happiness.

God I'm such a melt sometimes

Collateral beauty
Ugly crying galore

Oh yes brokeback mountain! When he is at the mothers house and smells his shirts makes me bawl!

@crosser62

Oh god Collateral Beauty broke me! Any parents worst fear

One where the audience was sobbing was Born on the Forth of July. Was in America with a good few older women in the cinema. Probably lost loved ones in Vietnam.

An old one but Imitation of Life.

Philadelphia

Never let me go.

I will never watch that film again. I couldn't sleep after watching that. It's very interesting but I don't know if I would recommend watching it. You won't get a good feeling out of this one. Thought provoking though.

Madame X,
Imitation of life,
Wuthering heights.

Changeling

All of the above pretty much and yes, yes to bloody Emma Thompson! Recently, it been The Children's Act. And I cried at A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody in the cinema. Oh Freddie you were such a talented human being and it all got a bit much for me trying to control sobs.

The old Lassie movies, The Champ, Fried Green Tomatoes, the Notebook... but Lion most of all 😭😭😭

Actually, I recently watched Dumplin’ on Netflix which had the tears rolling too

I, Daniel Blake
Schindler’s list

Sophie's Choice. It stayed with me for years.

The Abyss. Where Ed drags Lynsey through the freezing water. Get the zapper. She's gone. It's over. The snot and tears, no, Lynsey, you've never given up on a godamned thing in your life, fight, fight. Nurse, the screens.

Schindler's List - it's the only film that has ever made me actually cry, and I've watched 95% of the films mentioned on this thread.

The boy in the striped pyjamas

I watched Dumplin last night, @AiryFairy1, isn't it fab!?
Made me teary but not sob. I can't believe there aren't more people talking about it, such a good film.
I can still remember the first film that ever made me cry as a kid, Free Willy... 🥺