What are some great sad movies
 

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The Green Mile

Grave of the Fireflies.

I always found these particularly sad as a kid:

Regarding Henry
Simon Birch
The Cure

They might all suck now. I can't be sure of this...

Requiem For Dream.
Donnie Darko.
American Beauty.

Brian's Song

Rudy

Armegeddon

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lol

up in the air, if you've ever been unemployed for a prolonged amount of time

Are we talking 'sad' or 'harrowing/depressing'?

Because like I dunno, Big Fish is a sad film, so is Eternal Sunshine. Something like Requiem for a Dream though, that is fucking utterly nightmarish, not 'sad'.

Hurt Locker has some sad stuff in it.
Dr. Strangelove is pretty sad if you think about it.

Paths of Glory (another kubrik film)
Most comedies would be really sad if there weren't so much humour in them.

i.e. Harold and Kumar, drive all the fuck around to get a ffucking burger. how fucking sad, they get almost fucking killed by rednecks and shit

The War At Home (not the TV show. This was a movie that came out in 96')

Monster's Ball

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Brothers

Breaking the Waves
Dancer in the Dark
Make Way for Tomorrow

These are more soul crushing than sad though.

Ladder 49

Yeah like Big Fish. Fucking love that

This.

A thousand times this.

Homeward Bound

this movie legit made me cry.

Police Academy IV

I never thought as Big Fish as a sad film, I actually felt uplifted at the end.

Don't know about great, but The Fall is definitely pretty good at least. Pan's Labyrinth is great and sad.

Shotgun Stories, Lars and The Real Girl, Welcome to Sarajevo, In The Valley of Elah, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Counterfeiters, Junebug, Brokeback Mountain, Shooting Dogs, No Man's Land, The Fountain.

All very good to great and quite sad.

Donnie Darko
My Girl

Seven Pounds
Eternal Sunshine
The Wrestler

The Notebook :(

I love that fucking movie, but it's just so sad.

My Life

Reign Over Me

If you can watch either without crying at least once, you are a fucking liar.

A Walk to Remember

Not a movie, but the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama.

:'(

When Shadow falls into that sewer/pit :'(:'(:'(:'(

'Uplifting sad' as opposed to 'soul destroying sad' I suppose

Also, Atonement.

Forest Gump has its moments.

"Lilja 4-ever" is the saddest movie I have ever seen.

Little Children
Paths of Glory
About Schmidt
Dancer in the Dark
Synecdoche, New York
Mean Creek
Revolutionary Road
House of Sand and Fog
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Lonesome Jim (not overall but "inherently")
Happy-Go-Lucky (like half really happy and half sad though)

Terminator 2


I'm not trying to be funny, the ending made me so sad as a kid. Bah, it still does.

This and Stand By Me.

Word.