The saddest movies ever produced.

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Considering how I just picked up Midnight Cowboy on BluRay, I think this thread is appropriate.

My list includes the aforementioned classic, and the movies below.

Irreversible
I Stand Alone
Grave of the Fireflies
Shame (2011)
Barefoot Gen 1 & 2
Requiem for a Dream
Sophie's Choice
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Oslo, August 31
Dear Zachary
Raging Bull
The Godfather Part II
Samaritan Girl
Cries and Whispers
Bad Education
The Human Condition 1-3
Fires on the Plain
Sid and Nancy

That is a good list to start with.

Have you see When The Wind Blows?

Yeah, "Grave of the Fireflies" was a tearjerker.

That one that killed John Wayne, and the entire rest of the cast.

I'm not really one for sad movies.

A few others for consideration, though:

- All is Lost
- American Beauty
- The Green Mile
- Philadelphia

... and

- The Godfather, Part III (Especially if you compare the ending with the equivalent scene in The Godfather, part I):

I'd like to add a netflix series:

Bojack Horseman

Not tearjerking, but devastating and depressing. Also pretty funny.

Cross Of Iron.
The Alamo (the Billy Bob Thorton version).
The Great Gatsby (the Leonardo Dicaprio version).
The Saddest Music In The World.

UGH grave of the fireflies kIlled me :^( i also have some kind of phobia of nuclear war, that didnt help either. i love studio ghibli animations but im sure as hell not watching that one again.

have you seen mary and max ??? thats probably one of the best movies ive ever seen, it definitely fits the sadness factor, yowch!! even though its also one of the funniest, cleverest, and most stylistic one ive seen! not to mention one of the main characters is an aspie, thats a plus! each time i watched it too, it never failed in making me really sad

"Threads" directed by Mick Jackson. Its about a nuclear holocaust that takes place in Sheffield, England. It shows how humanity declines after a nuclear war.

"The Pianist" directed by Roman Polanski

You are probably thinking of "The Conqueror". By 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew had been diagnosed with cancer. Forty-six then died of it, including John Wayne, Dick Powell and every leading supporting cast member in 1953, the year before production started, the US Atomic Energy Commission had tested 11 nuclear weapons at Yucca Flats in Nevada - including two exceptionally “dirty” above ground tests with high degrees of fallout. After each detonation, huge clouds of radioactive dust were blown into the atmosphere before floating downwind and accumulating in the funnel of Snow Canyon, 220km to the west. Or more precisely, exactly where The Conqueror would be shot in 1954.