Saddest Movie

It take a bit of the 'sad' out of a movie when I feel the director is being ham handed in making it SAD. It makes me feel too manipulated. That is why "The Champ" and "Terms of Endearment" don't really make my list. It just felt like they were trying to hard to go down a checklist of things that make people cry and crossing them off.
 
+1 for Schindler's List. Usually when the credits start to roll 1/4 to 1/2 of the movie-goers start making their way to the exits. No one moved for the longest time.

In Saving Pt. Ryan, the part that tears me up is when old man Ryan is asking his wife if he is a good man.
 
I second charlotte's web. Especially being a kid and seeing that. At least Templeton had me in tears of a different kind and gasping for breath after his schmorgasbord song and dance.
 
bedhead, I agree with you.

Which is why I would place Requiem for a Dream on the list. To see those people ruin their lives over drugs is very sad.

Leaving Las Vegas was also very sad, imo.
 
I was dumb enough to take my college sweetheart to see Schindler's List on our first date. I thought it was just another war movie. To this day, there is absolutely no way I'd be able to sit through that movie now that I have kids. I don't agree with hate but I can understand how it could motivate people to do bad things (i.e I'd have no problem pulling the trigger on OBL); HOWEVER, for the life of me, I just cannot understand how anyone could hurt a child.

Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers always gets me.

The end of Big Fish. Had no idea what the movie was about when my wife dragged me to it. I - literally - ignored the last 15 minutes of the movie and stared at my soft drink as I don't do emotional in front of other people; not my wife and especially not strangers.

All that being said, the absolute saddest movie - and it's not even close - is a documentary titled, "Dear Zachary: ..." I don't want to spoil it for anyone but, if you haven't seen it, I suggest it with one caveat. Your day, week and possibly month will be ruined.
 
I second (or third) Terms of Endearment but for different reasons. The way the family struggled financially is exactly how it was in our family growing up. When the mother is trying to find enough change to get her son a candy bar I lose it. I lived that scene many, many times growing up. What made it worse was that we kind of lived in a middle to upper middle class neighborhood (Richardson).
 
Sorry to thread hijack, but what I wrote (above) got me to thinking.

One year, when I was about 12, a bunch of my friends from Heights Elem. decided to go roller skating. It probably couldn't have been more than $3. We - literally - did not have enough money for me to go. So, my best friend - who also ended up at UT many years later btw - my mother, two younger brothers and I, spent 2 hours collecting pennies from every nook and cranny in the house until we somehow made it to $3. I remember not even caring that I had to dump down $3 in change in front of my friends to get into the skating rink

Point being the most emotional movie scene moments will have ties to your own life and/or past.

I watched a documentary last week called "The Kids Grow Up". It was about a father getting ready to take on the challenge of sending his daughter across the country, thus, becoming an empty-nester. I thought that part would get to me as my daughter is getting ready for high school and I'm not looking forward to send her off to college. However, the most emotional scenes were the exchanges between the father and his own father and the gulf that had divided them.
 
Saw a preview about the documentary Dear Zachary mentioned above and knew to stay away...

I got ambushed by the movie My Girl, thinking it was just some cute kid's movie with that kid from Home Alone....
 
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