Sad Movies Challenge

[2saddleslab]

While flying to Guam I watched a documentary called The Young At Heart Chorus that had me in tears.

 

[FilterFunk]

"Threads" - a BBC made-for-TV movie about nuclear war and it's aftermath. About as bleak as movies get.

 

[ElectroVibe]

Requiem For a Dream

 

[The Owl]

Apocalypse Now
Legends of the Fall
Full Metal Jacket
Lorenzo's Oil
Schindler’s List

 

[oZZma]

The ones I remember that made me cry:

The belly of an architect (Greenaway)
Tokyo Monogatari (Ozu)*
Hana Bi (Kitano)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Elephant Man (Lynch)

*I think I cried for more than one Ozu's movie. Chishu Ryu, it's his face!!

 

[JimK]

Requiem For a Dream

I was going to mention that one...maybe the most depressing movie I have seen.

 

[Fretless1!]

"The Road" was not so much sad as depressing.

 

[MonetBass]

I just watched The Mist for the first time last week. What a messed up ending!

And it's not how King's story ended, which irritated me, because "The Mist" is one of few stories that completely freaked me out the first time I read it (but I like that).

"Big Fish" is one I have trouble watching without breaking down, particularly the hospital scene with the father and son.

 

[Ostie]

Saving Private Ryan
Dances with Wolves
Dead Poets Society
Sid and Nancy
The Zapruder film

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Every week Comet TV shows 9 hours of Outer Limits episodes on Thursdays & this week they started two hours early with two episodes from the 60's original show.
I'm not sure what it is about this show, but it's dark, & depresses me. I'll be up late watching tonight & then I just want to sleep for 12 hours, LOL!

 

[rtslinger]

The Note Book
Powder
Brian's song made for tv movie
The Champ
I am Sam
I would also add the Green Mile and Lovely bones

 

[Plake]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Romeo & Juliet
Old Yeller
Where the Red Fern Grows
On the Beach

Oh man, Where the Red Fern Grows was brutal.

 

[Solarmist]

Flight 93
The Brave One
Martyrs
The Mist

 

[hbarcat]

Here's an odd one.

The BBC version of
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Technically, it was originally aired as eight half hour serial episodes, but it's now available as a single four hour movie.

Not so much sad as depressing. It's the story of a man who is rescued from the destruction of the Earth (it was blown up to make way for a space bypass) by his friend, who turns out to be an alien.

The two travel together through time and space, and everywhere they go, life forms are killing and dying, usually for no good reason. They travel to the end of the universe and the end of time, long after all life has gone extinct, and watch the last few, ancient stars fade away.

Eventually they make it back to prehistoric Earth (before it was blown up) and discover that it isn't a real planet, but was constructed as an experiment by a powerful alien race to find the meaning of life. They also learn that the experiment will be successful and a future human will reveal the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything, but she dies in the Earth's destruction before she can tell anyone

The two meet humanity's ancestors and inform them that they're doomed and have no future.

The end.

I think there might be some underlying message that because everything is pointless and there is no long term future that you should make your own purpose, do what matters to you and live for the present.

Maybe.

 

[roller]

The Motorcycle Diaries

 

[blastoff99]

I kid you not, a whole bunch of years ago the local indy theatre ran a double feature of Shadowlands and Remains of the Day. Neither of those would make my top 5 list on their own, but together they were 265 minutes of really heavy going. Walked out of there and literally thought 'Nothing to do but kill myself, I guess.'

I didn't mean it at the time, and don't by the retelling mean to make light of either mental illness or of people seriously affected by sad movies. But wow, that was a LOT.

Top 5:

Schindler's List
Platoon
Green Mile
Silence
Pretty much anything with a dying dog

In the TV movies / series realm, I agree with the add of Brian's Song. Also, I somehow got to watch the first episode of the Roots remake when it first came out, and it hit me in ways nothing has maybe ever.

 

[Alkali Ike]

agree with "Killing Fields", the man from the story was murdered in L.A. years later & it's suspected it was part of a conspiracy

Haing S. Ngor - Biography - IMDb

Haing S. Ngor was a native of Cambodia, and before the war was a physician (obstetrics) and medical officer in the Cambodian army. He became a captive of the Khmer Rouge during the and was imprisoned and tortured; in order to escape execution he denied being a doctor or having an education. He moved to the U.S. as a refugee in 1980, and though he had no formal acting experience, he was chosen to portray photographer Dith Pran in The Killing Fields (1984) and won an Academy Award. He went on to a modestly distinguished acting career, while continuing to work with human rights organizations in Cambodia on improving the conditions in resettlement camps, as well as attempting to bring the perpetrators of the Cambodian massacre to justice. On 25 February 1996, Ngor was found shot to death in the garage of his apartment building in Los Angeles. Relatives and friends speculated that the killing was revenge for his opposition to the Khmer Rouge.