Naturally, I chose this one, but what do you think is on this list?
"Oh Look, a deli meat!"
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the yarn princess and the painted veil not to mention the cure, brokedown palace, windstruck and the list goes on...just sad
champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends
The man in the moon
Atonement
Moulin Rouge
Premonition
Romeo + Juliet
The Notebook
Gone with the Wind
Titanic
Sunshine
Basically any movie where a main character dies or when there is no happy ending. Gosh it just tears my heart apart
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I would never think of The Man in The Moon as a depressing movie. Especially after watching my absolute No 1 in this category - Haneke's Siebente Kontinent (Seventh Continent). As No 2 I'd rank '83 movie Testament, and at No 3 I can't make up my mind between Rebecca Miller's Angela and Moodysson's Lilja 4-ever.
And there are some other still not mentioned and quite depressing movies, including "Elsker dig for evigt", "Breaking the waves", "Peter Ibbetson", "Gruz 200", Romanian movie "Maria", "Threads", "Intimacy" and South African "Yesterday".
As some posters emphasized, there is a difference between depressing and sad movies, some tried to say that whenever a hero dies it is depressing. I'd say that this is sad, and even death is not necessary to make a movie sad, but to say that a movie is depressing there must be a lot more reasons, inducing a lot more feelings. So, as examples of sad, beautiful but not depressing movies I'd offer "Lettre d'une inconnue", "Johnny Belinda", "West Side Story", "Bear's Kiss", "Los amantes del Circulo Polar", and some of already mentioned by others like "Legends of the Fall", "Dancer in the Dark", "Green Mile" or even "Léon".
mean creek, léon, my girl, once upon a time in america
shareSchindler's List is the most depressing film I have ever seen, over three hours of sadness that will affect you for months.
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Man in the Moon
Green Mile
Million Dollar Baby.
Yeah I agree Million Dollar Baby is depressing and long. I went to sleep woke up and was like "this thing is still on?"
House of Sand and Fog. About halfway through and I'm like,"This csn't have a happy ending,"
The Christmas Shoes. Words can't describe...
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A Walk to Remember
shareIf anyone knows a movie sadder than 'Grave of the Fireflies' I'd like to see it.
shareRequiem For A Dream is a pretty depressing movie, but IMO the saddest most depressing movie I ever watched and couldn't finish was Hatchi: A dog's story with Richard Gere.
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Reviving an old thread here! but:
Marley and me
I am Legend
I want to fly on a magic carpet, to meet with the king of the Potato People and beg for my freedom.
Also reviving, since I just finished this movie!
There's tearjerking and there's heartbreaking, and then there's depressing. There's also 'movies with endings which are so emotionally unsatisfying that I throw them into a wall when I'm done'.
This, obviously, was a tearjerker, although it evades falling into the last category because I just had a sense of doom all through it -- I don't know why.
Schindler's List was heartbreaking, but the ending helped...very, very slightly.
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Love Story! Now, THAT was freaking depressing as hell.
I didn't see the movie Jacob Have I Loved, but I did read the book by Katherine Paterson. If the movie was half as depressing as the book, I would completely agree. Now Caroline (the sister of the narrator) is a sister I would love to hate!
The Green Mile - heartbreaking
Movies with endings so unsatisfying I've thrown them into a wall -- Sommersby. Like this one, it did end up with a significant character dying, but right up until the end, I kept thinking there would be some reprieve. But no. Sucktastic damn movie.
Legends of the Fall
Million Dollar Baby
Requiem For a Dream
Atonement
The Believer
The Departed
"Why We Fight" episode of Band of Brothers
The Diary of Anne Frank
Also, any movie where the dog dies. I refuse to watch any movie about a dog because you know it's going to *beep* die in the end, and for some reason I really can't handle animals dying in movies. I remember the first movie I ever cried during (that I remember) was Mighty Joe Young when the ferris wheel fell on Joe and I thought he died.
"And then he started cheating...especially at magnetic travel scrabble."
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Also, any movie where the dog dies. I refuse to watch any movie about a dog because you know it's going to *beep* die in the end, and for some reason I really can't handle animals dying in movies. I remember the first movie I ever cried during (that I remember) was Mighty Joe Young when the ferris wheel fell on Joe and I thought he died.
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I agree with you on the dog loss thing. I loved Road Warrier, and always wondered why Mel had to loose his brilliant, loyal pup in the first reel. He was so cute!