breaking the waves. i could barely sit through it, it was so difficult to watch. i felt such empathy and sadness toward emily watson's charachter it was almost unbearable.
gallipoli. especially after they reach the peninsula. the knowledge of the ANZAC forces' impending death was heartbreaking. and the last minute--jesus christ. it was even more upsetting after i visited the gallipoli national battlefield in turkey. it was the most moving place i had ever seen. i reacted in a way i never thought i would (and i had been to a concentration camp before), but this was the saddest and most desolate place i had ever seen. the endless rows of graves, the trenches that had been preserved since the war. my 3 friends and i took a private tour and were the only tourists there (it was december and bitterly cold). perhaps what affected me most was how most of these young men were forgotten by time; normandy is still remembered as d-day survivors still live, but few soldiers live from the WWI era, if any. i know it's a part of history--wars happen and soldiers fade with time, but thre was something so desperatey sad about gallipoli. especially considering the nature of the battle--turkish machine guns versus ANZAC bayonets and small rifles. nonetheless, there was great respect shown to the ANZAC soldiers shown by the turks after the war. their graves were well maintained and cared for as though they were children of turkey. the waste of life and the respect given to the men who died was truly extraordinary. the film demonstrated the futility of war and the innocence of the men going to battle--the fear, the comraderie, the bravery, the humour in the face of death. what a fine film.
the saddest film you've ever seen? :cry:
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Well... I'm always crying if anything bad happens to animals in films. This is why I avoid Disney. The saddest film... Hmmm... "Dancer in the dark" perhaps. And I always cry at the end of "Donny Darko", that is a damn sad movie.
24 Hour Party People made me cry.
Nah.. just kidding of course.The very first film i ever remember watching made me cry as a kid.The Incredible Shrinking Man.Just freaked me out a bit at the age of 5 or however old i was at the time.At the end he was just fighting all alone against the spider.
When I was a kid "Where the Red Fern Grows."
The movie aboput the execution of the retarded guy, "Dead Man Walking."
The English Patient--When Amon Goth returns to the cave, after the Tommies mistake him for a German spy thus delaying him, to find the adultress dead
Downfall--the scene where Madga Goebels gives her children all 5 or 6 kids, sedatives, waits til they fall asleep and returns to put cyanide capsules in their mouths. Killing one's own children for a political cause. Very sad. It was like watching her kill her children twice. How could/can anyone do that?
AgentWood wrote: 2) gallipoli. especially after they reach the peninsula. the knowledge of the ANZAC forces' impending death was heartbreaking. and the last minute--jesus christ. it was even more upsetting after i visited the gallipoli national battlefield in turkey. it was the most moving place i had ever seen. i reacted in a way i never thought i would (and i had been to a concentration camp before), but this was the saddest and most desolate place i had ever seen. the endless rows of graves, the trenches that had been preserved since the war. my 3 friends and i took a private tour and were the only tourists there (it was december and bitterly cold). perhaps what affected me most was how most of these young men were forgotten by time; normandy is still remembered as d-day survivors still live, but few soldiers live from the WWI era, if any. i know it's a part of history--wars happen and soldiers fade with time, but thre was something so desperatey sad about gallipoli. especially considering the nature of the battle--turkish machine guns versus ANZAC bayonets and small rifles. nonetheless, there was great respect shown to the ANZAC soldiers shown by the turks after the war. their graves were well maintained and cared for as though they were children of turkey. the waste of life and the respect given to the men who died was truly extraordinary. the film demonstrated the futility of war and the innocence of the men going to battle--the fear, the comraderie, the bravery, the humour in the face of death. what a fine film.
I'm impressed that you're so aware of the battle and history of the Anzac Cove landings, AW. Not generally something so well known outside of these shores. Senseless slaughter indeed. A decent movie too, helped along by Mel Gibson looking young and fresh and sounding Aussie. Also possibly the best use of Jarre in a soundtrack.
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The Lord Of The Rings-RETURN OF THE KING! Not that I cried,mind! I laugh through "Little House On THe Prairie"!!
But that film,I've seen twice now,the last half-hour is just...
I was going to say Breaking the Waves as well. The ending of "The World of Apu" got me sobbing in the middle of the college library...not my coolest moment.
twist wrote:
Downfall--the scene where Madga Goebels gives her children all 5 or 6 kids, sedatives, waits til they fall asleep and returns to put cyanide capsules in their mouths. Killing one's own children for a political cause. Very sad. It was like watching her kill her children twice. How could/can anyone do that?
Yep, gets to me everytime too
At the end of PHILADELPHIA when the old footage of Andrew`s life is showing as Neil Young's song (?) plays.
And Springsteen's song from that movie is a tearjerker , too
johnboy586 wrote: bunny genocide has never been so horrific!!
Glenn Close may beg to differ on that one
a couple of old ones here...
Brian's Song Something For Joey
not that I ever cry or anything!
I love 1987 wrote: Brian's Song
yep, that one does it. we had to watch it in 6th grade and i was sobbing at my desk.
Everytime a Star Trek movie decided to kill off a major,well loved character,Wrath Of Khan/Generations/Nemesis,just to increase box office takings! It's an outrage!
The moment in "Trainspotting" when they find the dead baby always got to me :(
And you can't have a sadder movie series than "Police Academy" when you realize it's the slow decline of Steve Guttenberg's acting career 
Boatraceface wrote: The Champ
The Boy loses his hero Dad,his dad is EVERTHING TO THIS KID
beat that I have never cried at another film, before or since...devastating
Hmm... interesting. I can't find a sad movie. Let me think of it.
**** Found one: Ein glückliches Jahr (1972) by Lino Ventura, with Clade Lelouche. I'm not sure about the orginal French title - is it Ano Bon?
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Hmm... interesting. I can't find a sad movie. Let me think of it.
**** Found one: Ein glückliches Jahr (1972) by Lino Ventura, with Clade Lelouche. I'm not sure about the orginal French title - is it Ano Bon?
I think it could be Bonne Année by Lelouche and with Ventura.
Jean-Philippe Ravier wrote:
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Hmm... interesting. I can't find a sad movie. Let me think of it.
**** Found one: Ein glückliches Jahr (1972) by Lino Ventura, with Clade Lelouche. I'm not sure about the orginal French title - is it Ano Bon?
I think it could be Bonne Année by Lelouche and with Ventura.
Yep that's the one. :) The only reason I bothered even to order the movie was that Mireille Mathie was supposed to "play" in it. So I watched the movie which was ok just to see the 20 seconds of Mireille Mathieu sitting in a gay club and saying "Merci". 
But it was such a bummer for that old robber that he got trapped so stupidly ;)
Life is Beautiful makes me cry :(
twice too..when his daddy is taken away and shot..and then especially when he's riding in his tank (the first place prize!) and sees his mommy! aww..*sniff*
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: So I watched the movie which was ok just to see the 20 seconds of Mireille Mathieu sitting in a gay club and saying "Merci".
You are very fond of her ! By the way, the last time I saw her on TV, she sang in Russian !!!
crying... can be for various reasons... sadness (as depicted in the topic) but also for sheer beauty...
in random order, here is a few, for various reasons:
revenge of the sith requiem for a dream baraka (when host of seriphim kicks in, its all over) 24 hour party people terms of endearment (seriously the first time..?) schindler's list
p.s. am i missing the whole point?
Malle's Au Revoir Les Enfants, especially at the end when Jean is discovered at the school by the Nazis, and makes eye contact with Julien for the last time ever.
The Killing Fields and Schindler's List as well, obviously the survival theme of people in desperate situations really hits close to home for a lot of folks.
Jean-Philippe Ravier wrote:
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: So I watched the movie which was ok just to see the 20 seconds of Mireille Mathieu sitting in a gay club and saying "Merci".
You are very fond of her ! By the way, the last time I saw her on TV, she sang in Russian !!!
I realise it's odd to like her. She's considered the face of a certain epoche and style - that of the 70s and even my parents don't give a damn about her because she was on the official Russian radio almost every day back in the 70s. But on the other hand I always listened to the likes of Engelbert Humperdinck and Elvis Presley, so her traditional pop with French blend is just alright for me.
But the main reason is that a friend of mine was really a fan of her and he put a record on 3 years ago while I was stiing in his drawing room (before I never HEARD her songs though her name was very familiar). And I got interested and then in 2003 I went to see her live in concert and then I bought some CD collections. Now I want something more :)
[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: Malle's Au Revoir Les Enfants, especially at the end when Jean is discovered at the school by the Nazis, and makes eye contact with Julien for the last time ever.
The Killing Fields and Schindler's List as well, obviously the survival theme of people in desperate situations really hits close to home for a lot of folks.
You're right. Actually I saw the saddest movie in my life. It's called "Gray Flowers", a documentary by a Georgian director, about children (well, teenagers) in the juvenile prison camps in the mid-90s. You see how they torture each other very cruelly, their stories and how their "zone leaders" do whatever they want over the rest. An absolutely unhuman show. 
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[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: Malle's Au Revoir Les Enfants, especially at the end when Jean is discovered at the school by the Nazis, and makes eye contact with Julien for the last time ever.
The Killing Fields and Schindler's List as well, obviously the survival theme of people in desperate situations really hits close to home for a lot of folks.
You're right. Actually I saw the saddest movie in my life. It's called "Gray Flowers", a documentary by a Georgian director, about children (well, teenagers) in the juvenile prison camps in the mid-90s. You see how they torture each other very cruelly, their stories and how their "zone leaders" do whatever they want over the rest.
The name of Georgia reminded me that I'd taped, but hadn't gotten round to watching a documentary entitled Children Of Beslan, and the mindless massacre of children. The survivors of this tragedy tell their story, I'm quite positive I'll be thinking about them long after the show has ended.
John Cains wrote: Godfather 3. Now that did make me cry.
at how shit it is compared to the other 2?
mysilentface wrote:
requiem for a dream
the bit at the end where sarah comes out to meet her friends at the hospital always makes me go all numb.
Why o why Ellen brnstyn didn't get an oscar for what i can only think of as one of the best performances ever is beyond me, can't remeber who won that year, might have been that tart julia roberts
patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:
John Cains wrote: Godfather 3. Now that did make me cry.
at how shit it is compared to the other 2?
It's like comparing a Reliant Robin to a Rolls Royce. Mind you, I did see it again no so long back and it wasn't as bad as I remembered it.
John Cains wrote:
patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:
John Cains wrote: Godfather 3. Now that did make me cry.
at how shit it is compared to the other 2?
It's like comparing a Reliant Robin to a Rolls Royce. Mind you, I did see it again no so long back and it wasn't as bad as I remembered it.
when i watched the trilogy in the chronolgic video box set form, it does fit in ok to be fair. but on its own, i will not touch it, i think i've watched it once on DVD in over 3 yrs of owning it
yes, "Something for Joey" made me cry like a child...wait i was a child! "Terms of Endearment" with Debra Winger on the death bed, how could you not cry. And lastly, "Million Dollar Baby" i cried like a bitch
Boatraceface wrote: i have million Dollar baby,but have yet to watch it..Was it sad?
well, it's bestest you see it first, it's a terrific movie so don't want to spoil it in any way.
Boatraceface wrote: i have million Dollar baby,but have yet to watch it..Was it sad?
The last half an hour's the best bit. Very moving and pretty hardcore.
forgot about The Killing Fields, good one Green.
Speaking of Southeast Asia, anyone seen the movie "Cyclo"? Tough one to watch.
AgentWood; Anzac day is a national holiday (I think) in NZ, so at least they remember it, even if no-one else does...
Re; Saddest film... Tough one, there's so many...
- Missisippi Burning.
- The Killing Fields.
- The Wrath of Khan; always makes me shed a tear when Spock (sort of) dies...
craig's digitalwaters wrote: AgentWood; Anzac day is a national holiday (I think) in NZ, so at least they remember it, even if no-one else does...
Re; Saddest film... Tough one, there's so many...
- Missisippi Burning.
- The Killing Fields.
- The Wrath of Khan; always makes me shed a tear when Spock (sort of) dies...
ANZAC day is a national holiday in Oz, as well. i went to a great ANZAC party in scotland where much foster's and castlemaine XXXX was imbibed.
as for the killing fields, that one gets me every time. especially the end where the two men meet again in the refugee camp and john lennon's 'imagine' starts playing. that it's a true story makes it even more moving.
it's a shame that dr. haing s. ngor was murdered in a robbery a few years ago--especially since he survived the killing fields, only to be murdered in LA. 
When The Wind Blows: a cartoon film from the creator of 'The Snowman'. It's about this elderly couple who survive a nuclear bonb, and then gradually waste away. The last shot always gets me.
JFK: glorifying Jim Garrison's disgraceful and sick persecution of two innocent people is sickening. What's worse is that Stone has David Ferrie confessing his involvement in the murder of JFK, despite the fact that Garrison made all the charges up in his head.
Oh and "Ring Of Bright Water".I've avoided it for years then I get it given to me as a freebie in the Sunday Papers.Save The Otter!!!
johnboy586 wrote: watership down still upsets me, bunny genocide has never been so horrific!!
Oh my god... I forgot about that one... I saw that as a child in a movie theatre... I'm shocked until today... I can't ever watch that movie again... Even if I think of the ending I still cry waterfalls today...
Bere wrote:
John Sludden wrote:
ET
even if i only see the last 5 minutes, when ET says to elliott, 'i'll be right here' before boarding the ship, i burst into tears.
monty wrote: Oh and "Ring Of Bright Water".I've avoided it for years then I get it given to me as a freebie in the Sunday Papers.Save The Otter!!!
AWWWW .... i rememeber that film!!.Cried too
Digital Mike Binoche wrote: Independance Day , that was fucking Sad alright
That film is not fucking sad, it's fucking stupid...
