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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy vote for saddest movie ever.
I know it came from the book, but my vote is for "The House of Sand and Fog."
SWBTATTReg
(22,296 posts)nmgaucho
(527 posts)by Vittorio De Sica
Funtatlaguy
(10,906 posts)Turin_C3PO
(14,167 posts)Aristus
(66,587 posts)Shattering, both of them.
sweetloukillbot
(11,227 posts)CrispyQ
(36,614 posts)I couldn't stop crying.
3catwoman3
(24,172 posts)Bawling by the last part.
lamsmy
(155 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Yavin4
(35,460 posts)It's truly sad and depressing that he continues to make horrible movie after horrible movie.
I don't know how he does it, but wish he would stop.
Turin_C3PO
(14,167 posts)Now Im like, wtf did I find funny about this swill?
Nay
(12,051 posts)pretzel4gore
(8,146 posts)The show was disparaged by review, but ...it was so sad (Jack played a hobo who helps a pret-t homeless girl etc) ..mind you i was a kid back then and kids are stupid😒
ZZenith
(4,138 posts)Requiem for a Dream aint exactly a zany comedy either.
I kind of like sad movies sometimes - leave the theater feeling better about your own life.
leftieNanner
(15,218 posts)How about Brokeback Mountain. The short story made me weep, as did the movie.
When he finds his own shirt hanging inside the other one just about destroyed me!
petronius
(26,616 posts)SKKY
(11,847 posts)...can't decide which. Depends on my mood I guess.
bluestarone
(17,183 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 20, 2018, 10:35 PM - Edit history (1)
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(11,512 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,113 posts)miyazaki
(2,271 posts)I don't think i'll ever see it again.
Another Japanese soul-crusher was "Nobody Knows".
Ferrets are Cool
(21,126 posts)as a reminder of what WAR really is. Having said that, I cannot watch it twice. Too damned hard for me to do.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)The greatest movie I will never watch again.
It was the movie that introduced my wife and me to the concept of "projectile crying".
Behind the Aegis
(54,087 posts)Coventina
(27,234 posts)Could have been impacted by watching right after my grandmother died.
eta: "The Love Guru" (sorry, couldn't resist!)
sakabatou
(42,233 posts)Talitha
(6,673 posts)It's the painfully beautiful story of Olympic Russian ice skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov.
Once in a while, I'll watch it when I need a good cry.
SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,141 posts)wildflower
(3,196 posts)The aftermath of a nuclear attack. I don't think I could ever watch it again.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)Wish I had never watched it.
A movie about the dumbest guy who ever got in a boat. I was shaking my damn head through the whole thing.
I'm no salty sea dawg, and even I know you should at least have a life jacket on when things go bad.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)I kept watching for something positive to happen for the dumb schmuck & then the movie was over!
It was dreadful. Ugh!
enid602
(8,700 posts)Anita, an Argentine film about a girl with Down syndrome who loses her mother in the AMIA bombing, and becomes homeless.
RGinNJ
(1,021 posts)consider_this
(2,206 posts)3catwoman3
(24,172 posts)...divided by brothers fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)An Affair to Remember - Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant
global1
(25,318 posts)A 1956 film with Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. Power played Duchin. The way the movie ended was just the saddest.
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