maroon barchetta said:

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I don't know if it is sad so much as it is a punch in the gut, but in the mid-80's there was a made for tv movie called The Day After. It was people trying to survive after the U.S. and the USSR nuked each other.

People came to school depressed the next day.

In the early 2000's, SciFi Channel decided to air it again. The promos billed it as "the darkest hour in American television history".

It was pretty dark and something you worried about as a Cold War kid.

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this

The Elephant Man

Where The Day Takes You.

For some reason it has stuck with me for decades since I was a teen.

RightWingConspirator said:

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The Elephant Man

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That one was rough. Especially in middle school.

I know Seinfeld made out during the movie but Schindler's List makes me cry multiple times.

1. Cleaning out the ghetto.
2. Girl in red dress ending
3. Scene with kids hiding
4. The person that lived with the gun malfunctioning
5. Schindler grieving about not selling more to save more Jews.

Yes, this one is rough to watch. I've seen many of the movies mentioned in this thread but The Elephant Man was probably to movie that hit me hardest.

I saw "The Champ" in 1979 and Ricky Shroeder brought me to tears in the theater when I was seven years old. I vividly remember that.

Also, the end of "Juno" gets me every single time.

Bang the drum slowly

I'm probably going to get laughed off the forum for a dude, but.....The Notebook is probably my favorite movie ever and also happy/sad to me.

The passion of the Christ

Terms of Endearment

Infinity War

MaroonStain said:

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Infinity War

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Too soon

I don't wanna go

Life is beautiful

Wonderful movie - incredibly sad

It is crazy how good he was in that scene as a kid.

Stand By Me always gets to me.

BrazosDog02 said:

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I'm probably going to get laughed off the forum for a dude, but.....The Notebook is probably my favorite movie ever and also happy/sad to me.

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Hey, when James Garner cries, I cry too.

Almost every non-comedy, sports movie has some sadness for me…

213 Grove said:

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Click. Gets me everytime

Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Walk to Remember

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Click hits so hard especially as a father.

Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the stream with George C. Scott.

Testament

The Bombardment on Netflix.

This is about a true story from the Netherlands during WWII. It is a theater rarely seen on film and helps prove my point that WWII was so epic that there are thousands of great movies that could be made.

The fact that the story is true and in many ways is an exorcism of some of the haunting aspects of the war in the Netherlands makes it even more somber.

The depiction of the Mosquitoes in combat was terrifyingly realistic.

This movie shows the brutal random nature of war and particularly WWII. Great movie too. Give it a try.

Hogties said:

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The Bombardment on Netflix.

This is about a true story from the Netherlands during WWII. It is a theater rarely seen on film and helps prove my point that WWII was so epic that there are thousands of great movies that could be made.

The fact that the story is true and in many ways is an exorcism of some of the haunting aspects of the war in the Netherlands makes it even more somber.

The depiction of the Mosquitoes in combat was terrifyingly realistic.

This movie shows the brutal random nature of war and particularly WWII. Great movie too. Give it a try.

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Well this just vaulted to the top of my must watch list.

Mosquito fighter-bombers have been depicted pretty well in movies such as Mosquito Squadron and 633 Squadron, but you point out the big difference in classic WWII movies and more modern efforts, the latter of which tend to depict the reality and not necessarily the patriotic feel-good-isms as seen in older movies. Take for instance Masters of the Air, which took the glamour away from the bomber boys and gave us a real look at what flying at 35K feet in an unpressurized aluminum tube amid Nazi flak and fighters really meant.

Life As A House

The end of Von Ryan's Express.

Anyone seen Dear Zachary?

It's a documentary. That movie will absolutely gut you.

No surprise there are a ton of dog movies here. Most loyal and loving creature that God ever gave us.