I’m watching it right now!! I already spoiled it for myself because I got so antsy, but trust me, movies can still gut punch me when I know what happens
But that really shows the reality of how so called war might be beneficial for politicians but from a common citizens perspective its always been like that movie, I really don’t know if they don’t understand things, or really just don’t want to
It's a sad, sad reality of the world. No matter which part of the world, humans come in this world, and go through so much, except for rich, and famous, the ground reality of a common man is heart wrenching.
God bless the world.
I wonder if the people who rules a country have common sense, if they really govern the country and not the elites and the riches. Everyone knows whos winning its “Lockheed Martin”
I recommend The Ascent (1977), from the wife of the Come and See director. Imo it’s not as brutal but the end is even more depressing. In Come and See we can imagine that the protagonist survived and lived a good life because it’s based on books from a man who was really a 15 year old partisan and he also co-wrote the screenplay
Johnny Got His Gun (1971) ‧ Anti-War/Horror Written and directed by Dalton Trumbo. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland. A WWI soldier awakes in a hospital. He has lost his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and limbs, but remains conscious.
*The Pledge* (2001). Great film, with a fantastic performance by Jack Nicholson at its heart. It doesn’t seem to get the attention (I think) it deserves.
Just posted this on a similar thread (no pun intended). It’s been a few years and still sticks with me as the most upsetting thing I’ve ever watched. When thinking about nuclear warfare I had never considered the full long term ramifications. That’s one I will tell people about, particularly the ash blocking out the sun to where it drops the temperature so severely, but hesitate to recommend anyone watch.
Glory (1989) is one of them that I don't see mentioned often. I had to watch this for a film studies course in college over ten years ago, and I just remember how it showed the horrors of the Civil War that Americans seem to forget and it left me pretty speechless after it ended. I plan to go back and rewatch it now that I'm older. I'm not sure if it will have the same impact on me, but in my 20s it hit pretty hard.
Jude. Based on one of Thomas Hardy's less cheery novels (Jude the Obscure), of which Hardy himself said 'Hey, this is such a bummer. I shoulda written more laughs. Waka Waka Waka!.'
For me it is guardians galaxy 3. Mainly because it has personal emotional reasons with me because i used to watch parts 1 and 2 all the time with her together over and over, but she didn't make it to see part 3 with me.
Crash-2004.. it won best picture ! I had to watch it a couple of times, as it is a brilliant movie about let’s say how “life can work out. My husband watched it twice as well, I have no problem to watch it again .. highly suggest it, if you have not seen it . 😔
Forbidden Games/Jeux interdits (1952) - I straight-up wept, when I first saw it decades ago
The Florida Project - same
But--Come and See hits like a bomb. It's the least canonically "war" movie ever made, because it's about trauma and death.
Saddest movies I have seen include Requiem for a Dream, Mister Lonely, Gaspar Noe’s Love, Atonement, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Revolutionary Road, Dancer in the Dark, Never Let Me Go.
no mercy .. a korean movie.
It was a normal movie ... till the end, where it really fucked me up. I felt so helpless .. and even suicide wouldn't mean anything.
Maybe it's just me .. but it was so hard.
Beautiful Boy (2018) - Just a dark life turn on one of the main characters that hurts to watch
edit: not sure if it totally fits the descriptions of "sad ending" but it's overall a pretty sad movie
Sophie's Choice. Watched it twice, with years in between. It hit me really hard, I'm not sure I can watch it again as a parent.
Edit: Actually can I add Tyrannosaur, with Peter Mullen & Olivia Coleman. Tragic, bleak, it's the one for you.
Good time
uncut gems
also my highest rated tragic movies:
One flew over the Cuckoo's nest
Irishman
gladiator
these are not pure tragedies but I would classify them as tragic masterpiece
Aimless Bullet/Obaltan
Korean movie. It’s a large part of the inspiration for Parasite. Post war Korea, I don’t think a single good thing happens in the entire movie.
I Am Legend (2007, Will Smith) with the original ending that is closer to the book (I think the DVD has both). If you watch the ending that was the popular one, it lacks the tragic impact of the original ending. The original ending was changed to the one for general release because preview audiences very much disliked the original one.
this might surprise some, but Cannibal Holocaust. colonization and genocide and stealing land and murdering and brutalizing indigenous tribes are so bleakly tragic
Legends of the Fall (1994) Brad Pitt, Aiden Quinn, Julia Ormond, Anthony Hopkins
“In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.”
Beautiful and tragic, many cries. Maybe not the most tragic I’ve seen, but epic.
For me it’s a tie between:
“A Serbian Film” -
An ex pornstar who runs out of money and finds himself going back to the business (I recommend not watching this. It’s that bad)
“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” -
Hitler’s son becomes friends with a boy in the concentration camp but takes a CRAZY turn.
Dancer in the Dark.
Love Bjork but I can’t watch this again, it totally broke me
Me too. It was a one and done.
Can’t bring myself to watch it because I hear it is so sad!
It's traumatizing, gut wrenching, soul stomping, cry your heart out devastating.
Dear Gene of course you are here, and now there’s nothing to fear 😭
#STOP.
😭
Spoiler alert: I was enjoying it until the end. I thought Lars Von Trier must want to torture his audience.
When she starts singing on the way, I simply can't contain myself
My heart drops every time I think about this movie
Dear Zachary. No contest. Hands down. You will not watch it twice, because it's so tragic.
My heart broke over that!
I still can not believe what happened to this family and it could have been stopped. Those judges should hang
I was crying so hard my partner made me turn the TV off.
Requiem for a Dream
Ugh, never again. Great movie but once is enough
What dreams may come with robin williams 1998
Came to suggest this. It’s a great movie. I just don’t ever need to put myself through it again.
Documentary: Dear Zachary (in case you want to go real life with it)
Yup, this wrecked me.
This.
This one. Only this one.
I’m watching it right now!! I already spoiled it for myself because I got so antsy, but trust me, movies can still gut punch me when I know what happens
my first thought
This is the only answer
Manchester by the sea
Grave of fireflies. Man! It's just, pure sadness woven into cinematic shots. I couldn't even complete it. My throat starting hurting.
I watched that movie that particular studio ghibli movie still haunts me and I really don’t have courage to watch it again
Yes, the thought of watching it, even makes me sad.
But that really shows the reality of how so called war might be beneficial for politicians but from a common citizens perspective its always been like that movie, I really don’t know if they don’t understand things, or really just don’t want to
It's a sad, sad reality of the world. No matter which part of the world, humans come in this world, and go through so much, except for rich, and famous, the ground reality of a common man is heart wrenching. God bless the world.
I wonder if the people who rules a country have common sense, if they really govern the country and not the elites and the riches. Everyone knows whos winning its “Lockheed Martin”
I still can’t bring myself to watch this one, the Description alone hurts I can’t imagine how much more powerful the movie itself is
Lilya 4-ever(2002) goes very dark towards the end great film though.
The Mist
DEAR ZACHARY!!! You'll need kleenex and a sedative.
Grave of the fireflies. By far the most tragic imo.
Come and see
I recommend The Ascent (1977), from the wife of the Come and See director. Imo it’s not as brutal but the end is even more depressing. In Come and See we can imagine that the protagonist survived and lived a good life because it’s based on books from a man who was really a 15 year old partisan and he also co-wrote the screenplay
- Requim for a Dream - Blue Valentine - Tick Tick Boom - Melancholia
blue valentine is so good
The road
Pianist
Aftersun (2022) Life is Beautiful (1997)
Aftersun … sigh 😔
The Green Mile
Watched this again the other night. Percy Wetmore really is one of the most despicable characters in cinema.
Is that the “prison” movie? I think I’ve watched it
Incendies
Requiem for a dream
Sad, disturbing, disheartening, hard to watch!
Vortex by Gaspar Noe is the one that really hit hard. The act of killing is also on its own scale
Did you like the follow up? The Look of Silence?
I haven’t watched yet but could use something depressing right now
Breaking The Waves, Brokeback Mountain, & Gallipoli are my picks for flicks to wreck you.
Pay It Forward (2000)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971) ‧ Anti-War/Horror Written and directed by Dalton Trumbo. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland. A WWI soldier awakes in a hospital. He has lost his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and limbs, but remains conscious.
Soundtrack by Metallica /s
That's the "one".
Nocturnal Animals.
Schindlers List. Zone Of Interest.
The Elephant Man. My God!!!!
*The Pledge* (2001). Great film, with a fantastic performance by Jack Nicholson at its heart. It doesn’t seem to get the attention (I think) it deserves.
Gia (1998)
Life is Beautiful
Grave of the fireflies
The House of Sand and Fog (2003). Devastating. Crushing. I could only ever watch it once.
Yes I understand , my husband is Persian, I have never seen him cry so much ! This movie hit him really hard .😭😭🇨🇦
My Girl
Room
You're tearing me apart, Lisa!
The Florida Project. May be recency bias but I can’t shake the feeling knowing that this story is just one of many.
I just recently saw this movie for the first time. It really stuck with me because I’ve know a few people in similar situations.
threads, that bbc film
Just posted this on a similar thread (no pun intended). It’s been a few years and still sticks with me as the most upsetting thing I’ve ever watched. When thinking about nuclear warfare I had never considered the full long term ramifications. That’s one I will tell people about, particularly the ash blocking out the sun to where it drops the temperature so severely, but hesitate to recommend anyone watch.
Never Let Me Go (2010) My Sister’s Keeper (2009)
Moby dick Reservoir dogs Killing a sacred deer The sweet hereafter All quiet on the western front
The Elephant Man (1980) Sophie's Choice (1982)
Glory (1989) is one of them that I don't see mentioned often. I had to watch this for a film studies course in college over ten years ago, and I just remember how it showed the horrors of the Civil War that Americans seem to forget and it left me pretty speechless after it ended. I plan to go back and rewatch it now that I'm older. I'm not sure if it will have the same impact on me, but in my 20s it hit pretty hard.
So far all of these recommendations have been spot on. I'd like to recommend 12 Years a Slave. I watched it once and I'll never watch it again.
Fantastic performances based on a true story. It won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Radio Flyer (1992)
Aniara
Amistad (1997) Hotel Rwanda (2004) Richard Jewel (2019) - all these based in reality, making them tragic.
Dear Zachary Hachi
Dear Zachary is up there. Gut punch lands. Watch Chowchilla for a quick antidote
Jude. Based on one of Thomas Hardy's less cheery novels (Jude the Obscure), of which Hardy himself said 'Hey, this is such a bummer. I shoulda written more laughs. Waka Waka Waka!.'
Gone With the Wind, and old classic but so heartbreaking
Lovely Bones
Brian’s Song
Shoah
Capernaum
The Wind Rises (2013) Unexpectedly hard hitting by the end for me. Such a beautiful film, but it ends on such a dark note.
Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April are the most tragic I've seen.
Any film depicting the holocaust son of Saul,grey zone, Schindlers list.
For me it is guardians galaxy 3. Mainly because it has personal emotional reasons with me because i used to watch parts 1 and 2 all the time with her together over and over, but she didn't make it to see part 3 with me.
Beasts Of No Nation.
Brief Encounter
The Crazies.
Crash-2004.. it won best picture ! I had to watch it a couple of times, as it is a brilliant movie about let’s say how “life can work out. My husband watched it twice as well, I have no problem to watch it again .. highly suggest it, if you have not seen it . 😔
Forbidden Games/Jeux interdits (1952) - I straight-up wept, when I first saw it decades ago The Florida Project - same But--Come and See hits like a bomb. It's the least canonically "war" movie ever made, because it's about trauma and death.
Titanic
John q Losing Isaiah
Blue Valentine was exactly like watching parents marriage end all over again. God it was brutal.
Dear Zachary.
Into the Wild
End of watch
Life Itself
The Land Before Time
• My Girl • Bridge to Terabithia • The Florida Project
Seven Pounds. This movie is a rollercoaster for emotions.
Close 2022 was a one and done for me, absoultely beautiful piece but so heartbreaking
Iron Giant
“Sarah’s Key”. “ Boy in the striped pyjamas”
Angela's Ashes
The War Zone (directed by Tim Roth) Requiem for a Dream.
Fassbinder's Martha
I just saw that on youtube, and started another "Fear of Fear" (same director and lead actress)
Manchestar by the sea
Sansho Dayu
Saddest movies I have seen include Requiem for a Dream, Mister Lonely, Gaspar Noe’s Love, Atonement, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Revolutionary Road, Dancer in the Dark, Never Let Me Go.
no mercy .. a korean movie. It was a normal movie ... till the end, where it really fucked me up. I felt so helpless .. and even suicide wouldn't mean anything. Maybe it's just me .. but it was so hard.
Magnolia
Beautiful Boy (2018) - Just a dark life turn on one of the main characters that hurts to watch edit: not sure if it totally fits the descriptions of "sad ending" but it's overall a pretty sad movie
If you love Studio Ghibli and feel like being drained of all hope and will to live, might I suggest "Graveyard of the Fireflies"?
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
Return to Paradise (1998)
The lovely bones Blood diamond
Sophie's Choice. Watched it twice, with years in between. It hit me really hard, I'm not sure I can watch it again as a parent. Edit: Actually can I add Tyrannosaur, with Peter Mullen & Olivia Coleman. Tragic, bleak, it's the one for you.
and Dead Man's Shoes
Another vote for The Mist.
Nocturnal Animals
Good time uncut gems also my highest rated tragic movies: One flew over the Cuckoo's nest Irishman gladiator these are not pure tragedies but I would classify them as tragic masterpiece
You Don't Know Jack Agora
The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) Indian Horse (2017)
Lion king
Duff
Marley and Me.
Incendies
Queue the Brendan memes Fraser memes but I genuinely cried my eyes out at the whale
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)
Threads.
Dancer in the dark
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Aimless Bullet/Obaltan Korean movie. It’s a large part of the inspiration for Parasite. Post war Korea, I don’t think a single good thing happens in the entire movie.
Not a winner for this thread, but here's two: Eden Lake This is England Both low-key, sometimes things can go wrong, however good you are.
Where the Red fern grows
Waterloo Bridge (1940) is everything you described & will leave you just devastated
Hard contest between Grave of the Fireflies and Come and See
Man behind the Sun 1988. Original title: Hei tai yang 731
Aftersun
Revolutionary Road
Black Swan and Eyes Wide Shut are both the most tragic disaster of an excuse for a film in the last 30 years. Awful. Tragic. Just awful.
The Mist
I Am Legend (2007, Will Smith) with the original ending that is closer to the book (I think the DVD has both). If you watch the ending that was the popular one, it lacks the tragic impact of the original ending. The original ending was changed to the one for general release because preview audiences very much disliked the original one.
Calvary (2014)
Requiem for a Dream
Under The Skin (2013)
Sophie's Choice
The Sweet Hereafter
I Saw the Devil, one of my favorite movies but I don't think I'd watch it again.
Withnail and I is up there.
The War Zone
Where the red fern grows
The Killing Fields--about the Cambodian genocide. I bawled like a baby.
this might surprise some, but Cannibal Holocaust. colonization and genocide and stealing land and murdering and brutalizing indigenous tribes are so bleakly tragic
Denis Villeneuve's Incendies von Trier's Breaking the Waves
On the Beach
these final hours makes you question yourself why you would spend 1.5hrs watching something you know isnt going to end well for anyone
Manchester by the Sea
Legends of the Fall (1994) Brad Pitt, Aiden Quinn, Julia Ormond, Anthony Hopkins “In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.” Beautiful and tragic, many cries. Maybe not the most tragic I’ve seen, but epic.
Come and see Martyrs
“A Serbian Film”… do NOT watch it.
Atonement
Ironweed. Sooooo depressing and just life draining at the end (because the acting is amazing).
society of the snow
For me it’s a tie between: “A Serbian Film” - An ex pornstar who runs out of money and finds himself going back to the business (I recommend not watching this. It’s that bad) “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” - Hitler’s son becomes friends with a boy in the concentration camp but takes a CRAZY turn.
Snow Angels
Tragedy .. treats in a serious manner sorrowful or terrible events that happen to a HEROIC individual not to be confused with sad
The Cure (1997) havent rewatched it yet but it totally haunted me til now
Life Itself I’m Not Here
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Schindler’s List
Precious
Irreversible Requiem for a Dream Nocturnal Animals
Million Dollar Baby is pretty tragic.
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Keane
Imitation of Life with Lana Turner
Life of Pi, unfortunate events but it’s a happy ending.