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[wakingrufus]

ok cinema-heads: recommend me the SADDEST movie you can think of... go!

[Hero]

ok cinema-heads: recommend me the SADDEST movie you can think of... go!

just watched the Diving Bell & the Butterfly last nite....

saddest movie i've seen in some time

[M_Rots]

ok cinema-heads: recommend me the SADDEST movie you can think of... go!

This is a good question, but one which requires thought. I can name you a whole string of films that make me cry, but very few of them are sad, per se.

[brobee]

ok cinema-heads: recommend me the SADDEST movie you can think of... go!

just watched the Diving Bell & the Butterfly last nite....

saddest movie i've seen in some time

that movie actually made me happy. it's depressing, but so much more alive than movies usually are. hard to feel sad at a movie that reminds you how beautiful the world is.

my vote goes to y tu mama tambien. maybe not sad in the traditional sense, but

Spoiler

that ending makes me tear up every time.

if you haven't seen it, do.

[vamos]

Magnolia.

This one might not make much sense, but A Perfect Storm made me cry so hard that I couldn't breathe when I was younger.

Also I watched Punch Drunk Love yet again and I have decided that it is literally perfect. The perfect movie in every single way, down to the smallest detail. Every shot, every movement, every nuance in every face and every color in every frame. Perfect. Beautiful art. I tried as hard as I could to ruin it for myself, to find a flaw, but I was unable to. I recommend that you guys revisit it and take another look if you haven't already.

[Ogawa]

The one film that always makes me cry, guaranteed, is The Iron Giant. The whole "You can choose who you want to be." "Superman." thing always turns my eye faucets on. I don't know if it's SAD sad, though.

The Fountain makes me cry like a baby, as well.

Oh, just want to throw in and say Punch-Drunk Love is an incredible film.

[caley]

The saddest movies I have ever seen

Nobody Knows: A mother of four hooks up with a new boyfriend, and leaves her kids alone for many months in modern-day Japan. The kids are forced to fend for themselves, until the mother's return, before she leaves again.

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There are two scenes that are particularly damaging. The youngest girl has a pair of sandals that squeak when she walks, and when her birthday comes up and the mother isn't around, the oldest son decides to celebrate her birthday by letting her go outside with him for a walk at night. The sound of her sandals squeaking in the night is so sad. Later, the girl dies, and the rest of the kids decide to load her into a suitcase, and her sandal makes a squeaking sound as they seal it up and it's HEART-BREAKING

Samaritan Girl: A korean film. A young girl acts as her friend's pimp, the friend dies, and the girl decides to go back and sleep with all her friend's clients and pay them back, as a way of atoning for her friend's death. The girl's dad finds out his daughter is sleeping with men, flies into a rage and it's....really depressing.

Dancer in the Dark: Bjork plays a woman slowly going blind trying to raise enough money for a vision-saving operation so her son doesn't have to go through the same thing. And since it's Lars Von Trier, everyone in America screws her over.

Ratcatcher: About a boy growing up in poor Scotland. There's a couple moments of whimsy, but overall it's just punishingly sad.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul: An old woman falls in love with a Algerian immigrant in Germany. Everyone disapproves of their union. Also explores the deplorable conditions of working immigrants. Not cheery.

In Cold Blood: About the chilling murder of a nice family by two young men. First you feel bad for the one murderer, then you feel bad for the family, then you just feel bad.

[M_Rots]

The Fountain made me cry for Aronofsky's career.

[theremin]

The one film that always makes me cry, guaranteed, is The Iron Giant.

It's the first thing I thought of, but I thought very few people would feel the same way.

[Slackmo]

ok cinema-heads: recommend me the SADDEST movie you can think of... go!

[brobee]

The one film that always makes me cry, guaranteed, is The Iron Giant.

It's the first thing I thought of, but I thought very few people would feel the same way.

iron giant is sad, but more importantly, the iron giant is amazing. the best animated film ever, i believe. i watched it again a couple months back and was shocked at how well it's held up. and the ending is close to a downer, but it plays out like the pacifistic inversion of the ending of independence day when drunk randy quaid saves humanity by flying straight into the spaceship. which makes the ending about something bigger and more noble. sad, yes, but also inspirational.

however, i think we can all agree that patch adams is the saddest movie ever.

[Ogawa]

The Fountain made me cry for Aronofsky's career.

Eh, if it's a failure at least it's a very interesting failure. I don't think it's a failure, though. And his new film looks really good and is receiving all sorts of praise on the festival circuit. Just won the Golden Lion at Venice (same festival where The Fountain was booed).

A few clips and some interviews right here

[brobee]

yeah, the fountain was only a failure critically and commercially. opinion, verbal or financial doesn't always correlate precisely to the merit of a film. and the fountain had some cringeworthy moments (astral tai-chi?) but those were minor enough to not muddy the rest of the film. the first time i saw it was was so high that the movie terrified me. the second and third times i saw more of the weaknesses, but also more of the film's inherent goodness. there are plenty of movies which contemplate death, but few which do so with this much grace.

[Magnus Malcolm]

The one film that always makes me cry, guaranteed, is The Iron Giant.

It's the first thing I thought of, but I thought very few people would feel the same way.

And I still need to see this.

I wouldn't declare it the saddest movie ever by any means, but I think About Schmidt is a pretty damn sad movie. As has already been said, this one requires some thought, I'm sure 20 better candidates will come to me later. Oh, Taps is a pretty sad movie too, but again, nowhere near the saddest.

[M_Rots]

The one film that always makes me cry, guaranteed, is The Iron Giant.

It's the first thing I thought of, but I thought very few people would feel the same way.

And I still need to see this.

I wouldn't declare it the saddest movie ever by any means, but I think About Schmidt is a pretty damn sad movie. As has already been said, this one requires some thought, I'm sure 20 better candidates will come to me later. Oh, Taps is a pretty sad movie too, but again, nowhere near the saddest.

Taps is sad once. On about the fifth viewing, it becomes hilarious.

[vamos]

One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest

[Magnus Malcolm]

The one film that always makes me cry, guaranteed, is The Iron Giant.

It's the first thing I thought of, but I thought very few people would feel the same way.

And I still need to see this.

I wouldn't declare it the saddest movie ever by any means, but I think About Schmidt is a pretty damn sad movie. As has already been said, this one requires some thought, I'm sure 20 better candidates will come to me later. Oh, Taps is a pretty sad movie too, but again, nowhere near the saddest.

Taps is sad once. On about the fifth viewing, it becomes hilarious.

I guess that depends if you buy into what's going on. I for one, do. I saw it for the first time in a high school philosophy class, and my teacher was so in love with it that you couldn't help but become enamored yourself.

[Magnus Malcolm]

"The greatest Western ever made." -my film professor.

Everyone seems to love this film so much. I've always just liked it. Anyone here willing to help me out by making the case for its brilliance that I seem to be missing? I just prefer The Man who Shot Liberty Valance when it comes to John Wayne, and I wouldn't consider either film "the greatest Western ever made."

[caley]

A young trophy wife, in the parlance of our times

The Big Lebowski: Had to watch this again (Third time in under a year) after reading the great multi-page article in the current Rolling Stone. It might just be my favourite movie again.


What could be more hollow than to die alone, unloved?

The Proposition: Good call, Magnus. I never would have gotten around to seeing it if you hadn't spoken so highly of it. Great, bloody, barren western. My dad (Western fan from way back, who is apprehensive about anything off the beaten path) even loved it.


Because I look like George Clooney...

Confessions of A Superhero: I see Radio Hitchcock and TJenz both saw this, did anyone else? My sister walked in last night, put it in the DVD player and said "You have to watch this, it's hilarious." Then after it started she went "And sad...very sad, too." And it is. It's a weirdo little documentary about the people who dress up as superheroes in front of Mann's Chinese Theater and pose for photographs with tourists. Superman seems, at first, like a nice enough guy, but as the movie goes on, he becomes creepier, especially with his bizarre insistance that he's the son of Sandy Denny, yet no one in her family knows who he is. Batman is pretty much insane. His repeated insistance that he looks just like George Clooney becomes the funniest running joke of the film. Wonder Woman is your typical smalltown girl wanting to get away to the big-city type. How odd that the guy who sold his Super Nintendo to move to LA, live on the streets and do auditions, is the most well-adjusted person you meet in the cast. It's a pretty entertaining movie that doesn't overstay its welcome. Definitely worth a rent.

[M_Rots]

"The greatest Western ever made." -my film professor.

Everyone seems to love this film so much. I've always just liked it. Anyone here willing to help me out by making the case for its brilliance that I seem to be missing? I just prefer The Man who Shot Liberty Valance when it comes to John Wayne, and I wouldn't consider either film "the greatest Western ever made."

I can help you make a case against it: I don't generally apply "PC' values to films, but The Searchers is so unbelievably racist, it makes me sick.