What is your top five saddest movie scenes?
For me
Once were Warriors (mothers reaction to finding her daughter)
Life is beautiful (Death of father, arrival of tank)
Crash (daughter getting "shot")
Color Purple (sisters getting separated)
All Blacks loss to Australia in the rugby world cup semi-final....haha kidding.
...The All Blacks lost to France this year, not Australia.
I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.
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There's a scene in Sophie Scholl near the end when Sophie is visited in her cell by her mother - a real tear-jerker ...
The end on Von Ryans Express is pretty sad as well.
In First of the Few when the designer (forgot hos name) sees the Spitfires flying over him
The last ten minutes or so of Nurse Edith Cavell ....
Life is Beautiful - when Guido dies, the tank arrives, and the little boy shouts 'We won!' (never cried so much at a film, and for so long afterwards)
An Affair to Remember - when Cary Grant realises Deborah Kerr is paralysed.
Goodbye Mr Chips - When he's dying, and he says 'I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys.'
It's A Wonderful Life - When Auld Lang Syne is playing, and Harry says 'To my brother George - the richest man in town!'
Random Harvest - When Smithy remembers - 'Paula!'
Waterloo Bridge - when Vivien Leigh's killed herself, and Robert Taylor's remembering her (cut to her V/O - "Oh, Roy I love you. I've never loved anyone else)
And in my corny but goody list:
Edward Scissorhands
Titanic
Little Women
The Notebook
Armageddon
Moulin Rouge
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I don't generally cry at movies, and I haven't seen The Color Purple so I wouldn't know...but the death of the father, arrival of tank (I actually only started crying when the tank arrived) is the saddest, most beautiful scene ever. And I had mixed feelings about Crash, but the "daughter getting shot" scene made me cry in silent shock, and that alone makes me not go on a rampage about it winning Best Picture (though I'm not sure it deserved it).
SO I guess I agree with you, then.
And though I didn't cry during it, the entire final third of Moulin Rouge! (from the Roxanne part to the end) is my third choice for saddest scene...so I guess specifically when he returns to the Moulin Rouge to "pay his whore" and then she dies.
And next would have to be another Italian classic, The Bicycle Thief (or Thieves), at the very end...I don't want to give it away, though. Again, I didn't cry.
Finally, Love Actually. When Emma Thompson opens the present and has to excuse herself to cry...I was tearing up when she patted her face so that she wouldn't disturb the makeup. SO sad.
Hard to say, but Schindler's List makes me cry more than all other sad movies combined. It moves me beyond words.
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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (the entire last hour I was sobbing)
United 93
Life Is Beautiful
Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
Philadelphia
The Green Mile
Ordinary People
There are many others, I just can't think of them. I'm a sap when it comes to movies, I cry at the drop of a hat. Any movie that has to do with heroism especially gets me.
"Schrutes produce very thirsty babies."- Dwight Schrute
When Guido and his son go on the speaker and start shouting out to the mother and she gets up and hears them and realizes they are still alive; that was it for me. I wept a river and it took an entire kleenex box to clean it up.
This was one of the best films of all time (gee, I wonder how many times people said that about this film? lol). I remember as a kid, watching tv and hearing about this movie ALL the time, and I didn't know what all the fuss was about. I only saw it today for the first time, and it was truly beautiful. Anyway, now I know what all the fuss was about, a unique and special movie. Funny and clever, sad and depressing, but either way, it was brilliant, absolutely brilliant. And for all the reasons everyone is listing here. This is what movies are all about. I just wish there were more like them.
The saddest films that I ever cried about or teared over that I can remember were:
(not order)
Rent: The scene where they're are all in the Church at Angel's funeral.
La Bamba: When Bob screams out Ritchie's name after he dies.
La Vita e' Bella: When Guido gets shot by a Nazi after hiding his son from harm.
Io Non Ho Paura: When Michele gets shot by his father after trying to rescue his kidnapped friend.
The movie I remember crying the most in was when I was a very little girl and it was about a boy with a dog in a sled race and the dog dies just before the finish line so the boy picked him up and carried him over the line (I was about seven at the time!!) but I now have no idea what the movie is!!
It has stuck with me for years so if anyone as any idea what movie it is . . . please let me know!
Other than that, the most unusal movie I ever cried in was "what women want" I have no idea how that happened!
Movies I cried uncontrollably w/ snorting and hyperventilation:
1. Life is Beautiful
2. Dancer in the Dark
3. The Pianist
4. The Color Purple
5. Ordinary People
6. Terms of Endearment
7. Kramer vs. Kramer
8. Before Sunrise (oh give me a break...I probably just had PMS..sue me)
9. Boyz N the Hood (when the mom receives the letter w/ her son's SAT scores)
There's probably a bunch more. I'm a sap. But not a drop during Beaches or Steel Magnolias, honest. :-)
My Life (most depressing movie ever)
Cocoon
My Girl
Deer Hunter
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
"Yo soy un hombre sincero, que lo jamas presentera" - Jose Martí