Sounds cheesy but I am going to admit it!!

I cried watching TITANIC (runs away in embarassment). And I rushed straight to the counters the day the DVD was out, and I cried again LOL!

I can't remember any other tho..

city of angels, dragonfly, pay it forward, armageddon and ghost are probably my top five tear jerkers. A different kind of tear jerker was white chicks, I laughed so hard, the tears were as though i was crying. If you hadn't guessed, I'm a massive softie!

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A different kind of tear jerker was white chicks, I laughed so hard, the tears were as though i was crying. If you hadn't guessed, I'm a massive softie!

For the sake of all that is good and holy, I hope you were laughing because it was so stupid, not because it was funny.

I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but one of the most moving -- and saddest -- movies I've ever sat through (multiple times) is Brian DePalma's CASUALTIES OF WAR, which is based on, unfortunately, a true story that ran in "The New Yorker" magazine.

Set in Vietnam, and starring Sean Penn & Michael J. Fox, a group of soldiers go out on patrol and kidnap a young Vietnamese girl and use her as their sexual plaything. This film just rips your heart out.

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vega posted:

city of angels, dragonfly, pay it forward, armageddon and ghost are probably my top five tear jerkers. A different kind of tear jerker was white chicks, I laughed so hard, the tears were as though i was crying. If you hadn't guessed, I'm a massive softie!

I strongly agree with you about Angelsif you mean City of Angels (1998) with Nicholas Cage. The other movies on your list are also defintely sad movies.

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I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but one of the most moving -- and saddest -- movies I've ever sat through (multiple times) is Brian DePalma's CASUALTIES OF WAR, which is based on, unfortunately, a true story that ran in "The New Yorker" magazine.

Set in Vietnam, and starring Sean Penn & Michael J. Fox, a group of soldiers go out on patrol and kidnap a young Vietnamese girl and use her as their sexual plaything. This film just rips your heart out.

I'm glad you posted this movie. It's one I haven't see in its entirety, only a few bits and pieces. I hope to get a chance to see the whole movie though someday.

Has anyone ever seen that short clip of the monster/creature who runs out of food, and has the pet plant. He cant find the food, and eats his best friend because he is starving, though he doesnt see the tomato the plant had produced for him? It is probably the saddeset movie, if not thing i have ever seen.

Has anyone seen "Breaking the Waves"? Wow. I will never forget this movie.

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Has anyone seen "Breaking the Waves"? Wow. I will never forget this movie.

I actually saw it in the theater. I can't decide which is more of a downer, Breaking the Waves or Dancer in the Dark.

Dancer in the Dark is more explicit in its sadness, but both films are very troubling. Still, of Von Trier's movies, Dogville affected me the most BY FAR. I was shaking when I walked out of the theater.

Back to the saddest movies, I've shed tears to most of the installments in The Decalogue. Part one is probably the saddest thing "movie" I've ever seen.

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Still, of Von Trier's movies, Dogville affected me the most BY FAR. I was shaking when I walked out of the theater.

Dogville is among my top 10 favorite films and I was pulverized by the end of the movie and the slow transformation into a dark and ominous ending.

OK, since I'm not sure that anybody cares, but even more so, why shouldn't I, I'll link to my original thoughts on Dogville. It's not really enlightening, but somebody might find something to like or dislike in my post.

True, Mark F -- it is a very polarizing film, though I am certainly in the camp that finds it a masterpiece. It's easily one of the best movies of the decade thus far and gets my vote as the single best film of 2004, by a landslide.

umberto d. the bicycle thief both by vittorio de sica its really a heart warming film.
and also in the mood for love by wong kar wai
coz i really thought in the end they will both end up with each other but unfortunately they did not!

Hello.
Love Liza, 2002.
The Brown Bunny. Go on and hate it, make a joke, it still haunts me.

Soul of the Game (1996) is a fantastic, underappreciated movie about Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball and the subsequent snubbing of Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and other, more worthy African American ball players. True story and truly heartbreaking. If you can't feel the pain expressed by Delroy Lindo and Mykelti Williamson, you need to place two fingers on your jugular and check for a pulse. If no pulse is found, promptly contact your local funeral home.

Has nobody mentioned "Field Of Dreams"? It's not sad as much as uplifting, but it has made me and others I know shed tears.

There's an old animated version of "Animal Farm" that's about as intense as anything I've seen..at the end when the horse gets hauled off to the glue factory, and the other animals are chasing after the truck in total shock and terror..wow.

I did not find "Requiem for a Dream" to be sad... it has so few moments that *aren't* meant to be sad, that the whole thing was kind of numbing for me, and simply unpleasant and unredeeming. You watch four people's lives go to pieces, with no real motivation other than the catch-all "drugs," and then at rock bottom, it ends. Hmmm...I miss the point.

when I was child... never ending story, when horse die.

I had to think about The Never Ending Story, but now that you mention it, I definitely recall the scene and it was sad. It was a powerful scene from a great children's classic by Michael Ende. Thanks for reminding me of it.

I cried a lot at Bambi when I was a kid, heh.

Saddest movie I've seen, by far, is The Sweet Hereafter. The whole film has this oppressive feeling of hopelessness and loss, and it doesn't get a lot better at the end. The only movie I can think of that actually deserves the word "haunting".