Saddest movies - Let it out bro

[Zelos Wilder]

I'm curious, what movies have you watched, that hit you on an emotional level to where it sticks out.

I'll go first.

Requiem for a dream. It's the type of movie you watch once, then down a bottle of crown and cry-sleep.

 

[Mediocre]

Not a movie but the episode of The Simpsons where Homer eats the poisonous puffer fish and he thinks he's about to die, I still remember watching that episode when I was younger and it hitting me right in the feels.

 

[Zelos Wilder]

Not a movie but the episode of The Simpsons where Homer eats the poisonous puffer fish and he thinks he's about to die, I still remember watching that episode when I was younger and it hitting me right in the feels.

Damn I totally forgot that episode exists. Shit hurt.

 

[Man vs persistent rat]

The Human Condition wears me down like no other.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

This will sound dumb, but the scene in Interstellar where he’s going through decades of messages about the times he’s missed with his kids. Also, even more dumb, Click made me cry when the dad died. Maybe I just have a thing where fathers losing or being away from their kids and vice versa hit me hard for some reason.
Also, anything that’s a “Hachiko story”, you know the kind. Loyal dog, master dies or leaves, dog waits until it dies as well. Those hit me hard, just something about the undying loyalty and love in a creature that will not give up, no matter how long it has to wait.
In that vein, I’d have to go with the Futurama episode ”Jurassic Bark”, even if that’s old hat by now. Maybe it’s the contrast between that part and the rest of the series that makes it stand out so much.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

Not a movie but the episode of The Simpsons where Homer eats the poisonous puffer fish and he thinks he's about to die, I still remember watching that episode when I was younger and it hitting me right in the feels.

The episode where he's reunited with his mom and she has to leave him again at the end. Him just sitting on the hood of his car, silently staring into the night sky is what hit me in the feels the most.

As for saddest movies, the ending of Stand By Me almost always gets me choked up. Good friends, people you thought in your naive childhood would always be there eventually splitting off and going their own way. Rare is it for a childhood friendship to last into adulthood. Always makes me reflect on my childhood friends and wonder where they are now and how they're doing. That final line he types "I never had friends in life like the ones I had when I was twelve....Christ, does anyone?" really gets to me.

 

[Opiophile]

The old anime The Grave of the Fireflies fucks me up every time I watch it.

Spoiler: Movie Spoilers

Especially the part where Setsuko's ghost is running around the bomb shelter, to the old phonograph music. That part makes me cry like a bitch every time.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

Call my tastes in sad movies shit, but 50 First Dates really made me feel bad for Adam Sandler's character Henry, and even worse for Drew Barrymore's character Lucy. Can you imagine falling in love with a woman who will never remember you each morning she wakes up, never being able to reminisce over old stories of times you shared?
Can you imagine BEING that woman? Waking up with a husband and daughter you know nothing about, having to relearn it all knowing that you'll only forget them again.
That shit fucked with me quite a bit for a movie that was supposed to be a comedy.

Also, the Futurama movie "Bender's Big Score" where Future Fry From The Past (Lars) finally has a chance to be with Leela, to be the man she wants him to be having matured during his decade spent in the past pining for her, and he has to throw it away because he realizes that as a time-paradox duplicate he's doomed to die and break her heart.
Futurama was always surprisingly good at tugging the heartstrings for a zany animated comedy.

 

[Pale Empress]

There was a movie that I saw back on some premium cable channel in the mid 00s called Neverwas, it starred Ian McKellen and Aaron Eckhart and was obviously banking on McKellen's role in LotR. Anyhow the premise is that McKellen's character is a delusional old man who's built an elaborate fantasy world in his head based upon a children's book written by the father of Eckhart's character.

I don't remember much about the plot besides the setup and the ending segments but it resonated with me because I was an adolescent coming to terms with the absolute state of the world and the fact that reality is so much worse than a comforting fantasy world where everything has a happy ending. What's really depressing to me is the idea of shattering the illusion of happiness and pulling someone out of their comforting delusion into the madness of the real world. Additionally there's just something inherently sad about delusional/mentally handicapped people in movies.

I looked it up recently and apparently the movie wasn't exactly well received so I haven't seen it since then, but the feelings I got from it still stick with me.

Neverwas (2005) - IMDb

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern. With Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte. A psychiatrist searches for insight into the life of his father, who was an acclaimed children's author. But he is shocked when his journey leads him to believe that the fantasy-land his father...

www.imdb.com

 

[A single cheeto]

Also not a movie, but the star squids episode of Courage still fucks me up.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Princess Kaguya is so sad

 

[Muttnik]

Since we're talking about sad Futurama shit, Luck of the Fryrish actually gets even more tears out of me than Jurassic Bark. If you've ever had a sibling, sometimes you'll hate each other. But at the end of the day, the impact you leave on them shines through. Fry's brother naming his kid after Fry and then Fry realizing this makes me bawl my eyes out.

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

The first pokémon movie when ash turns into stone

 

[Marco Fucko]

I genuinely cried when I saw The Last Jedi because it was so fucking bad.

 

[Kacho]

Saturday Night Fever. You go into this movie thinking it's going to be a goofy fun movie about dipshits clubbing and dancing in the 70s, and to a degree it is. Then you get to the last 10-15 minutes, everything unravels rapidly and you're assaulted with a parade of depression, rape, and death. It catches you completely off guard.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

I don't like dogs, but "Hachiko" (japanese version, I haven't watched the american one) hit me right in the feels.


(Edited because of an oopsie.)

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Hmm, no mention of Hachiko (japanese version)?

Open up your slanty jap eyes and read better, it was mentioned above.

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

The Fool by Bykov.
Double sad to me since i lived in simular house with simular people.

 

[Next Task]

Babe 2: Pig In the City.

No, really. It opens pretty much with the Farmer from the first film having a massive heart attack, and then spends about 90 minutes heaping torture and cruelty on animals, followed by a wacky five-minute segment at the end - which doesn't at all make up for the all the misery leading up to it. Starving animals, dogs almost getting strangled to death ... it's just relentless.

There's other films. There's definitely episodes of TV shows (a few seasons in with characters you've grown to love and the showrunners can really fuck you up). But I don't think I've been as miserable because of a film, and not because it was bad.

 

[NumberingYourState]

I have to nominate The Machinist.

The grimdark lighting is actually more suited towards psychological dramas such as this. A man loses his mind, loses his weight, loses his identity after not being able to sleep for a year. He continues to go to work in this shambled state knowing that he could make a fatal slip-up until he does. When he does, the truth of what he sees versus what is actually there begins to show itself and the breakdown is simply epic. Imagine being consumed by your own guilt until you're best friends with your worst self.