1.) Donnie Darko- This movie to me was sooo sad because the guy (Donnie) has emotional problems/hallucinations which seem really real. Somehow a satellite falls into his bedroom but misses him so he basically escapes death. Well, he falls in love with a girl at his school, but when he starts to see things that tie into his near-death experience people start to think he is crazy...even his school psychologist. Well, his hallucination is this big dark bunny, who I will picture below, that is missing an eye and it starts to tell him things about time travel or something and how someone close to him will soon die. Well, the bunny Frank, tells Donnie to do things that are supposedly preventing this person (the girl Donnie loves) from dying. Meanwhile, everyone still thinks he is crazy but his psychologist is trying to find out what is going on...well...the story goes on from there and we learn a bit more about Donnie's life and how he is depressed and stuff but how this girl he likes is bringing him out of the depression. Well, there are some climaxes in the movie. One is where you find out who Frank the bunny is (he is actually a guy who died in a black scary rabbit costume on Halloween. He was with his girlfriend and two guys came up to him and shot him in the eye...I don't remember what happened to the girl. Well, they never found Frank's body 'cause the guys hid him and his girlfriend or something in a tomb. So Donnie ends up finding it). Meanwhile, Donnie begins to see and realize that the death of the close love one is going to occur. So somehow he stops it from happening and thus he gets sent back into the past and is sleeping when he wakes up...it is the night the satellite frrom his roof falls into his room, well it turns out that he was supposed to die or something and he does. This is even before Donnie met the girl he loves so when she sees that something tragic has happened to this new guy, she just feels sad and rides off, never knowing he loved her. I found it really sad that way because Donnie had a hard life and he was getting all screwed up and he actaully found someone to love and it is all taken away. I almost criedd at the end.

name a movie that you thought was incredibly sad and tell us why! Also, tell us about one of the sad scenes. (Don't just name a movie and not give a reason, thats boring!)

becoming jane

i saw this recently and while it is not by any means one of my favorite movies i did think it quite sad. its one of those boy meets girl, they fall in love kinda things but theres so many things standing between them and no matter wat they do they cant make it work. they end up running away together but while there on there way she finds a letter to him from his sister i think saying thank you for the money he gave to her cus she really needed it etc etc and jane realizes that he has to support his family and wont be able to take care of her so she leaves and they never end up together regardless of the love they feel for each other and i thought that was quite sad. i couldnt imagine loving someone that much and having to make the decision to leave them.

1) The Painted Veil. The entire thing is composed exquisitely, everything is so deliberate. The acting is really beautiful, especially on Edward Norton's part. And the ending just makes me bawl my eyes out every time.

2) The Dead Poet's Society / Swing Kids: I usually lump these two together, just because they're so similar. They're both period pieces (the first a 1950s boys prep school, the other Nazi-controlled Berlin), filmed in very similar ways, with the same archetypal characters. The same actor even plays the lead in both films! Nevertheless, they're both wonderful for their straightforward, honest storytelling, and the endings of both are fantastic.

i loved donnie darko but the sadest are:

thirteen( it makes me cry so everytime i see it), it reminds me of how horrible life can get and how easily things can go bad, its about two 13yr old girls who bascially go off the rails and its about drugs/ sex/ self harm.
The sadist sence was the end when one of the girls mother finds out what she's been doing and see breaks down and screams.

Titanic-need i say anything (yeah i know its lame..)

WARNING: There be spoilers.

What Dreams May come - Doctor Chris Nielson meets his true soul mate Annie, marries her and has two children. The children die in a car accident, and Chris dies four years after that. Ending up in heaven, he is guided by friendly guardian angel Albert through the afterlife, and he is reunited with his dog and children. His wife Annie tries to cope with their deaths while Chris watches from above and tries to reach out to her, but she can't go on. When he finds out his wife had committed suicide and has been sent to hell, he desperately searches for her spirit, journeying through Heaven and Hell along the way. He tries to bring her back to heaven with him from hell but in her hell she doesn't know who he is or that she even died, she lives in a broken down house and thinks her husband and children are still dead. He tries to get her to remember him but she can't, so he gives up heaven to stay in hell with her, which means he will forget everything also and think his children are dead and their house is ruined. She finally see's him as her husband and realizes what happens, then they go and live in heaven together.

Made me cry so much, just watching the parents deal with the children dying and then the husband dying. Saaaaad.

Graves of the Fireflies [anime mind and i watched it when i was about 5 so it was pretty bad and left a huge mark back then]

About a young boy[about 10] and his little sister [about 5] who are caught in the middle of WW2 and their town gets bombed. They see their mother die and they have to fend for themselves. Shows a lot of love and affection between the siblings but what happens, although inevitable is very sad.

I'm terrible at writing summaries, so I stole the plot outlines from IMDB, but I have seen the movies and I highly recommend them, they make me cry everytime.

Legends of the Fall
Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to dispise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fiance, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother's fiance, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow's favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jelousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructable bond.

American History X
This flashback-laden film delves into the world of a former neo-NAZI and shows how his hatred spawned itself in his younger brother. After committing a brutal assault and Derek is sent to prison. There he sees that all humans have potential and all life should be respected. His life turned around and back out on the streets he tries to cure his brother of the same disease that took him.

Donnie Darko isn't sad....

my list:
Cocoon
Philadelphia
American History X
Mask
Life Is Beautiful
Leaving Las Vegas
Man On The Moon
Rurouni Kenshin Tsuiokuhen
City of Angels
21 Grams

I'd prolly pick 21 Grams for number one saddest movie

WARNING: There be spoilers.

What Dreams May come - Doctor Chris Nielson meets his true soul mate Annie, marries her and has two children. The children die in a car accident, and Chris dies four years after that. Ending up in heaven, he is guided by friendly guardian angel Albert through the afterlife, and he is reunited with his dog and children. His wife Annie tries to cope with their deaths while Chris watches from above and tries to reach out to her, but she can't go on. When he finds out his wife had committed suicide and has been sent to hell, he desperately searches for her spirit, journeying through Heaven and Hell along the way. He tries to bring her back to heaven with him from hell but in her hell she doesn't know who he is or that she even died, she lives in a broken down house and thinks her husband and children are still dead. He tries to get her to remember him but she can't, so he gives up heaven to stay in hell with her, which means he will forget everything also and think his children are dead and their house is ruined. She finally see's him as her husband and realizes what happens, then they go and live in heaven together.

Made me cry so much, just watching the parents deal with the children dying and then the husband dying. Saaaaad.

<3 one of my favorites. that one and Life Like a House

beaches
terms of endearment
life as a house
armagedon-so sad
stand by me
man on the moon
the titanic
mysterious skin
ghost

tytanic made me cry lol