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.
Life is Beautiful (the tank arriving)
Pride of the Yankees (Lou Gehrig's farewell speech)
Field of Dreams (Kevin Costner's father showing up)
Titanic (the sinking scene, especially when the old couple is lying in bed)
Contact (when Jodie Foster sees her father)
And the MLB 12 commercial where the Cubs win the world series.
This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father made. This was his gift to me.
For me, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) is the most depressing film ever! I'd lost faith in humanity for couple of days!
shareMine have to be
Dancer in the Dark, just the final half hour and also the bit in the middle (you know the bits I mean)
A Short Film About Killing (the ending to that left me in a fraught emotional state for several days)
The Impossible (the whole thing was absolutely one of the most intense things I've ever seen, it's hard to pick out a single point when I was in floods for most of it) (note, this is tied with Life is Beautiful)
The bit where the kid dances on the train station in the Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jai Tue Ma Mere (I Killed My Mother), again, basically the whole last half hour, there was no single moment but the way the film rushed to its crescendo struck a chord with me and to this date hasn't fully left me
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"A man who does not spend time with his family can never be a real man."
I've cried at several of the movies mentioned above. But bawling crying films I remember the most:
Life is Beautiful (at the end)
Il Postino (at the end)
Hair (at the end)
Also the abandonment scene in AI
Sophie's Choice, having to pick which child to keep
Those two for now....
Funnily enough I didn't cry at 'Life is beautiful' but, most recently, I had a blub whilst watching 'Carve her name with pride' at the very end (I won't spoil it for you). 'ET' gets me everytime but I've had to stifle my sobs not for my daughter to notice!
Totally unexpectedly, 'Freedom Writers'.
La Vita è Bella. Mainly the last scene but also a few other.
Requiem For a Dream. The two old ladies crying on each other's shoulders.
The Fountain. Yikes, several times... Together we will live forever. I wish I could erase my memory and watch this one for the first time again.
Million Dollar Baby. No need for spoilers, anyone who's seen it knows what I'm talking about.
Werckmeister Harmóniák. End of the riot scene when they find the old man and the music starts. Bone-chilling.
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I didn't cry when the father was shot, I was stunned but still had a lingering hope that he would pop up out of nowhere like usual and yell "good morning princess"
But I did cry when Joshua climbed out of the tank and yelled "mama, mama" and then his adult narration started.
Other emotional movies that hit me hard are:
The Breakfast Club
Riding in Cars with Boys
American Beauty
Harold and Maude
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Chocolate War
Dancer in the Dark
End of American History X
End of Life is Beautiful
End of Forrest Gump
End of Marly & Me
I can't really pinpoint it, but Wild Strawberries
Most of these plus end of Pay it Forward
Jim.. if this is the end for me.. promise one thing... host the Dundies
Even remembering the last shot of Silent Running has me welling up.
Abandoned drone robot (who we have grown very fond of) watering the last trees in the universe from a toy watering can......
OK off to get tissues.
Roy 72.