Top tragic movies
 

What are some of the greatest tragic movies you've seen? Help me build my list.

American History X
Titanic
Terminator 2
A Walk To Remember
Gladiator
Artificial Inteligence
Million Dollar Baby

LOL @ Terminator 2.

baby geniuses

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Kids

Shane
Bambi

Most tragic movies I've seen:

10. Leaving Las Vegas
9. Bullet in the Head
8. When the Wind Blows
7. Paths of Glory
6. Au Revoir les Enfants
5. The Deer Hunter
4. Pan's Labyrinth
3. Lilja 4 Ever
2. Children Underground
1. Grave of the Fireflies

Kids in tragic movies, especially in stories based on reality, are just unbearable to me... Those last three I never want to see again and wish I could un-see if you know what I mean.

Terminator 2 :lol: aside, would most people consider Gladiator to be a tragedy? Yes, his wife and child are murdered, but he becomes a hero, takes down a despot, and ultimately gets a happy ending, reuniting with the loved ones in the afterlife.

My vote goes to Atonement.

The Vanishing (I still consider this to be the best ending I've ever seen to a movie, I just wish it weren't a foreign film so I could get my friends to watch it.)

You can watch the remake! oh wait, they took out the ending, WTF WERE THEY ON.

Snow Angels - which is excellent btw.

Ratcatcher

Requiem for a Dream. Doesn't get much more tragic than that.

I'd also say The Mist is pretty damn tragic, at least the ending is.

I would second Requiem for a Dream....Very Tragic.

I would also add Kids (1995) to the list.

Grave of the Fireflies
Se7en
A Better Place
SLC Punk
The Butterfly Effect (DC)
Battlestar Galactica Mini-Series (I'd consider that a movie. Remember when :sad:)

Do the Right Thing comes to mind.

United 93

Gettysburg

that and Raymond Briggs "When the Wind Blows"

Thanks to you and Hiro11, I'll never watch WtWB ;)

in no particular order

Romeo+Juliet
Mulan Rouge
Pans Labyrinth
Dancer in the Dark
House of flying Daggers
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
2046 (by director Wong Kar-Wai)

Haven't seen this one yet, but the poster is intriguing. :p
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in that case try to read the comic strip book Ethel & Ernest: A True Story again by Raymond Briggs, and try not to cry at the story's conclusion.... man, I'm in a real sad funk now...

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no other film though made me into a sobbing emotional trainwreck:

This Little Life

Arlington Road

Nobody Knows (Japan)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (S.Korea)

Chinatown

Come and See
Il Postino
Life is Beautiful
The Sweet Hereafter

sappy, but definitely sad:
Love Story
The Way We Were

Ordinary People
Sophie's Choice

legends of the fall
the green mile
one flew over the cuckoo's nest

Would Passion Of The Christ count? When I saw it in the theatre, it seemed that nearly everybody there was full of tears, although the ending got a huge round of applause.

Also, no one has mentioned Larry Clark's Bully yet.

City of Angels

"Jesus of Nazareth" with the best actor ever to play Jesus---Robert Powell is just amazing in this flim.

Great list of movies everyone. :up:

The Bicycle Thief
Brief Encounter
La Strada
Au hasard Balthazar
Easy Rider
Das Boot
Solas
The Return (2003)

Agreed. It makes you feel guilty spending money on dvds.

Chinatown
Ballad of a Soldier
Grave of the Fireflies

Bambi grows up to be the leader of the herd.

The Virgin Suicides
The War Zone

Are you having a laugh?

'Ironweed'... my pick for as good as the US has ever done...

'Hero'...

'The Lower Depths'... i prefer Kurosawa's...

'Hara Kiri'...

'Andrei Rublev'...

'The Iceman Cometh'... (Lee Marvin as Dickey version)..

'Le Cercle Rouge'...

'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'...

'Charly'...

'The Banquet' aka 'Legend Of The Black Scorpion'...

'Winter Light'...

there's a few...

The Passion of the Christ! Why did they have to kill poor ol' Jesus? If he would have lived, then everyone would have to pay for their sins which makes more sense...

Here are some other ones:
Schindler's List
Crossroads
Hotel Rwanda
New York Minute
Seven
Blonde Ambition
Platoon
Little Black Book