I thought about this a bit and decided, the movie had to be a good one. I wasn't going to highlight a movie that was sad but lousy. There are a lot of those--mostly romances. So my five saddest movies would be CALVARY, MOONLIGHT, PRIEST,ORDINARY PEOPLE and MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. I am sure given this task tomorrow others would come to me.
What movies would you choose?
I avoid sad movies like the plague. I get all the sadness I can handle from the news.
ReplyDeleteAlthough they can be cathartic if they are not political.
ReplyDeleteYeah, CALVARY was well done but one I would never watch again.
ReplyDeleteMe either. Once you know the ending, you can't go back.
ReplyDeleteEdward Scissorhands had me in tears. The closing scene in Schindler's list, with the line of survivors and their descendants stretching off into the distance... That's all I can think of right now.
ReplyDeleteTERMS OF ENDEARMENT.
ReplyDeleteSee this is why I would revise it every day. When we visited Krakow, Schindler's List came right back to me. Seeing the places where they filmed it was haunting.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that both WEST SIDE STORY and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (two of the greatest musicals ever made) have first halves that are joyous and exuberant but then they descend into an incredible solemnity and sadness in their final hour, they`re still marvelous movies of course but its just something i`ve noticed about them.
ReplyDeleteThe 9:23 posting is not mine.
ReplyDeleteI would chose Umberto D by Vittorio Da Sica as the saddest movie I have ever seen. And Rene Clement's Forbidden Games as a close second.
I thought ONLY THE BRAVE that I saw last week was sad.
ReplyDeleteIt sure sounded sad. Firefighters have to be at the top of the list of brave people.
ReplyDeleteFalse Steve-you make great comments. Why not post them under your own name?
ReplyDelete400 BLOWS too, the real Steve O
OLD YELLER. Without a doubt the saddest movie I ever saw.
ReplyDeleteStill get the chills. So, took SHANE.
ReplyDeleteWhat Rick said.
ReplyDeleteOLD YELLER was the first one I thought of, too. I'm still mad at Fred Gipson.
ReplyDeleteIN AMERICA and THE MAGDALENE SISTERS come immediately to mind.
ReplyDeleteMAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937) directed by Leo McCarey, and HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) directed by John Ford.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see Real Steve cite FORBIDDEN GAMES< as I did on FB.
ReplyDeleteAmong the films I didn't mention on FB are PONETTE, which as I've mentioned elsewhere almost made me hate it for seeming to seek humor in the anguish of a five year old girl trying to cope with her mother's sudden death, till an ending which made up for that, and PRIEST...though one that might've been unutterably sad if it didn't intentionally make one angry was MARTYRS.
Still mean to watch THE MAGDALENE SISTERS, which has been sitting on the DVR for years now. Expect I'll be as angry as during MARTYRS.