[Film] The most heartbreaking films of all time

[aftershavedave]

Has anyone mentioned Hook yet?

 

[Giraffe]

Watership Down

 

[Weststander]

Shadowlands with Hopkins and Winger, the true story of part of C.S.Lewis’s life. A real tear jerker.

 

[The Clamp]

Shadowlands with Hopkins and Winger, the true story of part of C.S.Lewis’s life. A real tear jerker.

Great shout.

 

[Boys 9d]

"Manon des Sources", especially the scene where the character played by Yves Montand realises that the man he drove to his death many years before was his own son.

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[aftershavedave]

"Manon des Sources", especially the scene where the character played by Yves Montand realises that the man he drove to his death many years before was his own son.

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That's a fantastic film!

 

[Super Sub]

I’m known for shedding the odd tear during a film. Biggies for me are The Green Mile, The Last Samurai and recently watched Arthur The King.

 

[Weststander]

Interesting list, including many mentioned in this thread. Surprised that I’d watched most of them.
https://thecinemaholic.com/saddest-movies-of-all-time/

 

[Insel affe]

American History X

 

[Whoislloydy]

Iron Claw, came out last year and tells the story of the Von Erich wrestling family from the 1980s. Although it seems they had to leave much of the truth out because they thought it would make too depressing of a movie.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Kes
Kubrick's Paths of Glory.

 

[Titanic]

Love Actually.
Four Weddings and a Funeral.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Life is Beautiful.
Also a Brazilian film called Pixote, simply because it (unintentionally) highlights the hopeless plight of São Paulo’s street children.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Billy Liar. FFS get on that train, Julie Christie is waiting for you!

Another vote for Cinema Paradiso. Just hearing the music sets me off, but it is the best ending of any film I have ever seen.

The way that Spielberg presented 'Somewhere' in his West Side Story was pretty devastating.

 

[SeagullinExile]

The last scene of 'the killing fields'

And it's a (relatively) happy ending to a horrendous real life story

On the same subject, ‘First they killed my father’ is a thought provoking film. The unknown Sareum Srey Moch is truly remarkable in the main role. I highly recommend it.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Leave No Trace, a film without peers.

Stunning.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/leave_no_trace

 

[Cosmic Joker]

Au Revoir Les Enfants
About Jewish kids hiding out from the Nazis in a rural Catholic boarding school in occupied WW2 France. A true story which is autobiographical from the childhood of the director Louis Malle.

 

[Grizz]

All of us Strangers absolutely destroyed me, utterly heartbreaking. The conversation he has with his mother in the kitchen about coming out was very similar to what happened to me. Very emotional.

The Father with Anthony Hopkins was also very emotional, superbly acted all round.

 

[rippleman]

Ring of Bright Water

I was traumatised seeing the otter get splattered by a madmans spade. Still makes me shudder more than 50 years later.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Von Ryan’s Express. Poor Frank gets it right at the end.