Sad Films

[map71070]

As a lover of a good weepy I was wondering what films turned other ABers into snivelling wrecks? I have loads including the old favourites like ET!! My most recent one is Brokeback Mountain which was an utter blub-fest!

[Llamatron]

The Green Mile.
Right at the end when Mr Jingles ambled out and gave the cotton reel a nudge. I just broke down.
I'm still not sure why.

[Pippa68]

Sommersby, A League Of Their Own, Armageddon, Sixth Sense, Sound Of Music...

Heck, even Ice Age & Toy Story 2 made me weep like a baby!

[rosekat]

'Sophies choice' for me. only seen it the once but never again Heartbreaking and hopefully a 'choice ' none of us will have to make. Another one 'the vikings'. For some strange reason it upset me when i was a youngster and the memorys stay with me till this day.

[map71070]

Yeah rosekat Its strange how you remember films from when you were young. I remember going to see The Incredible Journey when I was little and sobbing for hours afterwards. Mind you animal things always do that to me

[violetblue]

Best I've ever seen was 'Mar Adentro' (The Sea Inside), the true story of a diver's 30-year fight for the right to die after being paralysed in a diving accident. It is absolutely the most heartbreaking film I have ever, ever seen, but not manipulative. I don't cry at many films but tears were streaming down my face towards the end, and I looked around to see that even the blokes were crying too - all of them. It won the best foreign film oscar last year.

[violetblue]

Oh yes, Sophie's Choice too, though The Sea Inside was even sadder. And the 'I'm Spartacus' scene still makes me blub.

[Pippa68]

Oh crikey I forgot about Sophies Choice...heart wrenching! and Escape From Sobibor..I fill up just thinking about it :o(

[horselady]

Bridges of Madison County

[smiffy65]

The champ, brilliant tearjearker

[campbellking]

A film from 1984 called 'Annie's coming out' which I think was an Australian film made more people cry around me than I've ever seen in a cinema. It was based on the true story of some disabled children stuck in an institution, and the parts were played by actors with disabilities. It showed how a child with cerebral palsy did have normal intelligence, despite the negative beliefs of her carers, and how she could communicate with others. The story reflected her battle through the legal system to go and live in the 'outside world'. Cried and cried, especially when her best friend dies, and then when she finally gets legal permission to leave.

[pennyb04]

Yup, Green Mile, Sophie's Choice, but also City of Angels, how unfair is that film?! Oh yeah, just about every Lassie film ever made, even though I haven't seen them all 'cos you just know how upset they're gonna make you.

[pingping]

Beaches - gets me every time.

[jeanette1976]

I totally agree with Beaches... another equally heart-wrenching tear-jerker is Fried Green Tomatoes which is another film about friendship. Green Mile and Forrest Gump always make me cry too :C

[turquoise]

The Green Mile does it for me all the time!

[Pippa68]

Oh gawd ~ I remember 'Annies coming out'. It was very moving ~ and horrific in parts.

Beaches, of course. The shot of Bette Midler looking over and realising the end had come..*sniff*. And Fried Green Tomatoes..many parts of that movie made me cry. It doesn't take much ~ I even cried during 'Lilo & Stitch' (his little family speech at the end).

'Goodnight Mr Tom' sapped all my energy.

[feebee]

The Elephant Man is the saddest film I've seen. It makes it even sadder to know that it is a true story.

[St Germain]

"Watership Down" still upsets me. I remember when I went to see it at the flicks when it was first released - I must have been six or seven years old and I kept in those tears until I got home (behind closed doors). Damn those evil nazi rabbits! I think the last time I felt a manly tear well up in the corner of my eye was when I went to see "Saving Private Ryan" - the bit near the beginning when the war office bod and a priest get out the car to inform Ryan's Mum that two of his brothers have been killed. God, the humanity of it! The end of "Blackadder goes Forth" chokes me up a bit as well - in a manly way, of course.

[virgovad]

the champ definitely - or "Who Will Love My Children"

[Valendina]

Oh blimey. There's loads. Definitely Green Mile - the bit where he can't wear the hood as he's afraid of the dark makes me cry. First time i saw it i had to pause the film to go get more hankies!
Stepmom, with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon is a lovely film, but very sad. Anyone else seen this?
Beaches is a definite.
A Walk To Remember with Mandy Moore is a real weepy too. It's certainly not your normal teen movie. Anyone agree?
What Dreams May Come, Bicentennial Man and Patch Adams - all with Robin Williams.
Steel Magnolias, also with Julia Roberts.
Armageddon - when Liv Tyler touches the screen with her hand as Bruce Willis disappears.
I agree with you, Jeannette1976 - Fried Green Tomatoes is a great film, and all Jessica Tandy films seem to make me sad!
Yeah, Pippa68, Goodnight, Mr Tom is a real tearjerker.
Also, The Lion King when Mufasa dies. In fact, lots of Disney movies are pretty sad when you think about it.
Crikey, there's just so many. I could go on forever!

[alijangra]

Watership Down and Crash