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Top Sad Movies (that I have seen)…

This post is going to make me sound like the biggest wuss, but oh well, shove it!

So, every once and awhile I just want to accompany a bad day (or a miserable one or whatever) with a sad movie to just bring me down even further. It is my “company” in “Misery loves company”.

Awhile back, I made a list of movies that I found incredibly (or mildly) sad. Below is my list (missing many I am sure) in no particular order.

  1. Life as a House
  2. Stepmom
  3. Million Dollar Baby
  4. Beaches
  5. Steel Magnolias
  6. Walk to Remember
  7. Passion of the Christ
  8. The Pianist
  9. Finding Neverland
  10. Pay it Forward
  11. Life of David Gale
  12. The Color Purple
  13. Higher Learning
  14. Cold Mountain
  15. Angels in America
  16. Big Fish
  17. Mask
  18. Philadelphia
  19. I Am Sam
  20. Ladder 49
  21. 21 Grams
  22. In America
  23. Radio
  24. Crash
  25. Meet Joe Black

 What movies do you like to cry to?

  1. Shelly
    May 27, 2008 at 5:37 pm | #1

    The Green Mile
    My Best Friend’s Wedding (I know it’s not a sad movie, but it makes me cry every time!)
    Lion King, Bambi, Dumbo (come to think of it, most Disney movies make me cry)
    I’ll have to come back b/c I’m sure I’ve got more!

    • sandy
      July 3, 2009 at 1:34 pm | #2

      i like ur fev movies my fev are also disney movies these movies make me cry all the time i watch them

  2. May 27, 2008 at 10:58 pm | #3

    Okay, maybe a totally predictable answer: “E.T.”. But before you say anything — it gained a whole new dimension of meaning for me last year, when I couldn’t handle going to work the day after Virginia Tech (and I work in a University, albeit one on the other side of the country), and I needed to be alone and have a good cry. Good ol’ E.T. and Elliott didn’t let me down.

  3. Jen
    May 29, 2008 at 1:15 pm | #4

    I try to avoid sad movies, but I’d have to say the last really sad movie that I saw was Becoming Jane. It was based on Jane Austen’s life and I was bawling by the end. I don’t think it was supposed to be sad, but it struck a chord for me.

    This post would be great for the Movie Madness Carnival that I am hosting at my blog. Click the link for more details and leave me a comment to let me know if you will be participating:

    http://dailymishmash.com/2008/coming-soon/

  4. May 29, 2008 at 7:12 pm | #5

    Ugh, you forgot The Notebook!

  5. emjay217
    May 29, 2008 at 7:13 pm | #6

    only left out the Notebook cause that would really make me look like a wuss! HAHA

  6. Tina Bina Ballerina :)
    June 6, 2008 at 10:38 am | #7

    City of Angels. Atonement.

  7. Michaun
    June 22, 2008 at 8:21 pm | #8

    The first, and one of the only movies to make me cry was Terms of Endearment. In my opinion the saddest scene in any movie is when Debra Winger says goodbye to her sons. I cry just thinking about it!

  8. Caitlin
    July 10, 2008 at 11:02 am | #9

    You forgot about Titanic,too. I have seen it for about 20 times but it still makes me cry.

  9. Kaprice
    July 29, 2008 at 10:19 pm | #10

    Definitely Simon Birch;;
    the ending is the main cry-moment on there.

  10. Kira Mac
    November 13, 2008 at 10:51 pm | #11

    hi, i was looking for a sad movie so i entered this site….i cry to movies A Walk to Remember, Passions of the Christ, and The Pianist!!! those movies make me forget the happy times and remember the sad times….

  11. Claudia
    November 16, 2008 at 6:16 pm | #12

    Sad movies are cathartic, I just looove sad movies. I have seen so many, (I go to the movies to watch sad movies or war movies. Million Dollar Babe, the Pianist are great. So are the Champ, Kramer Vs. Kramer, well, there are thousands I could name here. THe only sad movies I don´t watch are those involving animals, such as Gorillas in the Mist. I have not seen it and will never see because those type of have the opposite effect on me, they make me depressed.

  12. December 5, 2008 at 12:28 pm | #13

    thnx… i hope that help me by find some movies like:
    (if only)

  13. jessica
    December 10, 2008 at 6:44 pm | #14

    you forgot ps i love you i cried during that whole movie
    and my life without me was pretty sad :] but a good movie

  14. lily
    December 29, 2008 at 8:41 pm | #15

    marley and me saddest movie i have ever seen! bawled my eyes out…:’(

  15. roberta
    December 29, 2008 at 8:44 pm | #16

    the fourty year old virgin..i mean it is soooo depressing that he has never had sex before in his life it makes me cry! honestly i bawled for two hours straight..

  16. Jae
    January 21, 2009 at 4:37 pm | #17

    “awakenings” with robert de niro and robin williams. it is a great movie, and really sad!

  17. meghan
    January 25, 2009 at 1:59 pm | #18

    the titanic. i just finished watching it and i’m pretty much sobbing.

  18. Declan Leahy
    January 27, 2009 at 5:54 pm | #19

    How about sophies choice? definatly one for the list.

  19. melissa
    February 16, 2009 at 3:54 pm | #20

    braveheart
    a walk to remember
    romeo and juliet
    click
    raise your voice
    step mom
    troy
    flicka
    bridge to terabithia
    dead man walking
    sisterhood of the traveling pants
    lader 49
    world trde center
    eight below
    king kong
    little women
    saving private ryan
    we were soldiers
    full metal jacket
    and remember teh titains
    …. there are tons more but i wont list them all for you… you’d get bored

  20. Amy
    February 22, 2009 at 12:54 pm | #21

    the boy in the stripped pyjama’s
    is one of the saddest and most effective movies i have ever watched,
    its about a young german boy who moves near a concentration camp during he second world war and is so innocent to what is going on, and becomes friends with a jewish prisoner.
    the ending will have you in tears

  21. Alex
    March 1, 2009 at 5:22 am | #22

    The Fountain
    The Reader
    Grave of Fireflies (Japanese Movie – Anime)
    I Am Sam

    Recommended if you want to cry

  22. Lucy
    March 12, 2009 at 12:12 pm | #23

    Try watching “Hearty Paws”. I don’t think you can find it in the US because it is a Korean film. I did find it on youtube though. It is in Korean but has English subtitles. This movie has to be the saddest I have seen. Give it a try… it’s also really good!

  23. March 13, 2009 at 7:12 pm | #24

    Terminator 2. Yeah… People always forget that one.

  24. paris
    March 26, 2009 at 2:12 pm | #25

    cant believe nobody mentioned who will love my children gotta be 1 of the saddest films ever ever created :(

  25. Me
    April 19, 2009 at 1:27 pm | #26

    FINDING NEVERLAND WAS THE SADDEST MOST BEAUTIFUL MOVIE I HAVE ever SEEN. I CRIED FOR HOURS BUT YOU JUST CANNOT STOP WATCHING IT!

  26. Alex
    May 7, 2009 at 5:55 am | #27

    What about “City Lights” from Chaplin?

  27. Ryan
    June 2, 2009 at 6:50 am | #28

    Seven Pounds

    • chris
      July 7, 2009 at 5:02 pm | #29

      I AGREE! finally somebody says 7 pounds
      very sad but great casting

  28. Mario Espinoza
    June 4, 2009 at 1:15 pm | #30

    The most sad movie of all time is THE CHAMP (1979). Oh my god! That little boy crying because his dad just dead… Is too much.. too much…

  29. me
    June 9, 2009 at 11:03 am | #31

    what about: marly and me, hotel for dogs,we are marshall and no reservations

  30. ai
    June 11, 2009 at 11:25 pm | #32

    yeah hearty paws was sad..

    miss potter always makes me cry, dawn anna does too. they both are based on true life story.

  31. Agnes
    June 24, 2009 at 6:00 pm | #33

    The Green Mile – I watched it with my friends, and not one of them cried. Ugh, heartless… Couldn’t stop crying at the end.

    Edward Scissorhands – I cried constantly from the moment he breaks the hands til the ens.

    Forrest Gump – When he’s remembering Jenny by her grave… So sad!!

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Wonderful film…

  32. RAJA
    June 28, 2009 at 11:55 am | #34

    Midnight Cowboy – My favorite film…..I can’t able to sleep after watched this movie. I never forgot RICCO & JOE BUCK.

    Children of Heaven ….. This one too. I cried for ALI & ZAHRA

  33. jane
    July 3, 2009 at 8:08 am | #35

    what about: if only? the saddest movie ever!

  34. chloe
    July 7, 2009 at 2:22 pm | #36

    Artificial Intelligence: AI always has me going
    Stepmom :)
    A Moment to Remember(Korean film)
    & another Korean movie, suitably named ‘Sad Movie’ – That one hurt A LOT

  35. mimi
    July 12, 2009 at 5:16 am | #37

    ei ei My Girl is one of the saddest movies that i’ve ever seen, i cried my eyes out with this one

  36. mimi
    July 12, 2009 at 5:17 am | #38

    But if you want to cry you must watch: the notebook, a walk to remember, titanic and my girl. I wish i hadnt seen any of these movies, that way i could watch them again without knowing the endings!!

  37. joe
    August 4, 2009 at 10:06 pm | #39

    angela’s ashes
    i love that film and i don’t cry watching movies and the 1st time i saw that i was in bits with tears running down my face

  38. Erica
    August 14, 2009 at 1:50 am | #40

    the english patient… its long but well worth it!

  39. chloe
    August 25, 2009 at 12:04 pm | #41

    the note book. it is amazing! i never really cry in films but that had me in tears from half way threw the film till the end. i loved it. also a walk to rememeber had me crying.

  40. xxxxxxx
    September 12, 2009 at 8:43 pm | #42

    “Keith” is the best movie ever

  41. Rikke Winther
    September 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm | #43

    Or how about Pearl Harbor and Armageddon? Those movies always makes me cry at the end..

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