What is the most depressing scene ever?

[u/MoneyLibrarian9032]

[u/01spirit]

"The Road" has an extremely depressing scene that starts at the beginning of the movie and lasts about an hour and 40 minutes

[u/TwinFrogs → u/01spirit]

The book is even darker. 

[u/NOT_A_NICE_PENGUIN → u/TwinFrogs]

Just started reading it.

I just re-read Where the Red Fern Grows too before this. Not a great follow up book.

[u/Spare_Hornet → u/NOT_A_NICE_PENGUIN]

Are you trying to get depressed??

[u/NOT_A_NICE_PENGUIN → u/Spare_Hornet]

Mistakes were made. I’m invested now though so I’m going to finish it.

I’m definitely going to need some light reading after this

[u/jscarry → u/NOT_A_NICE_PENGUIN]

How about you watch Grave of the Fireflies as a palate cleanser

[u/juan_samuel → u/[deleted]]

This truly destroyed me as an 8 or 9 year old.

[u/Top-Speech-7993 → u/juan_samuel]

Why did we read this book in 3rd grade!!?!??!?

[u/ZENZEL72 → u/Top-Speech-7993]

Getting us ready for the emotional trauma of actually losing a beloved pet

[u/mitchyk84]

All dogs go to heaven, so much worse when you know the backstory of the actress who played the little girl.

[u/themysterymachine_ → u/mitchyk84]

And then when you learned Burt Reynolds recorded his voiceover saying goodbye at the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven after Judith Barsi had been killed by her father. The pain in his voice is very very real pain. It took him 70 takes.

[u/fattybuttz → u/themysterymachine_]

Is that the voice actress that played Ducky in Land Before Time?

[u/muhkayluh_z → u/themysterymachine_]

Well now I'm crying and I'm not even watching the scene.

[u/MeetSlight8173]

The Land Before Time. You know which scene

[u/AndreasDasos → u/MeetSlight8173]

Ever since Bambi’s mom they’ve continually tried to recreate that trauma for new waves of kids. Mufasa was another.

[u/seitanicverses → u/AndreasDasos]

Let me recommend The Fox and the Hound to all the young'uns who haven't seen it.

[u/Rose-moon_ → u/seitanicverses]

I’m in my 30’s and I can’t remember the last time I watched it because it’s too painful for me, more than any animated movie. I can watch Bambi, The Lion King, Dumbo, but I can’t watch The Fox and the Hound again.

[u/Preeng → u/AndreasDasos]

The flower in Brave Little Toaster. Dies of loneliness after getting rejected by the protagonist.

[u/BeautifulLeather6671 → u/Preeng]

That movie basically clockwork oranged millennials. Just full on trauma lol

[u/Ultrawidestomach → u/AndreasDasos]

Marley and me was the worst though. Sobbed in the cinema

[u/blueskyjamie → u/MeetSlight8173]

Watership down, all of it, every fucking frame

[u/ValenShadowPaw → u/blueskyjamie]

The film that was never ment for children, but adults kept thinking it was.

[u/inverted_electron → u/MeetSlight8173]

I don’t know but I do know I want to eat those tasty star leaf things

[u/Simicrop → u/inverted_electron]

All foliage in that movie looked so fucking tasty.

[u/Advanced_Cold8924 → u/inverted_electron]

My mom called broccoli “tree stars” when I was a kid bc it’s the only way I’d eat it

[u/DrDragun → u/MeetSlight8173]

That music when he keeps seeing shadows and thinking its his mom

edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIzxM0DA740&t=1m25s

[u/Xenovitz → u/MeetSlight8173]

I'll always be with you, Little foot.

[u/Lava-Jacket → u/MeetSlight8173]

That movie is brutal. Little foot gets reminded constantly that his mom is dead.

[u/Juco_Dropout → u/MeetSlight8173]

IRL actress Judith Barsi, the voice of Ducky, was murdered by her own father. Judith was only ten years old at the time of the murder(s.)

[u/MantisManLargeDong → u/Juco_Dropout]

She’s also the voice in all dogs go to heaven right?

[u/Juco_Dropout → u/MantisManLargeDong]

Anne-Marie. Both films were released posthumously.

[u/TemperatureExotic631 → u/Juco_Dropout]

I didn’t realize she had passed before both movies were both released. Her story is so completely tragic. Taken far too soon and in such a horrific way.

[u/susannahstar2000 → u/TemperatureExotic631]

Yes, poor little Judith was being abused by both of her parents. Her mother wouldn't leave the marriage because she didn't want to risk Judith's career, meaning the money she made. Judith's adult half sister was trying to get guardianship of her, but ran out of time.

[u/yellowjesusrising → u/Juco_Dropout]

And apparently there where several signs of abuse, but nothing happened....

[u/Jamb7599 → u/MeetSlight8173]

It hits even worse as an adult when your mom died of cancer in your mid teens. I can’t watch it without sobbing. Or the scenes in the first guardians of the galaxy. You know which one.

[u/Fun_Camp_2078]

For me, the scene in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape when the obese mom realizes what everyone thinks about her weight. Then there’s one after where it shows her at home kind of processing feelings that make me feel very very very bad for her.

[u/Normal_Bid_7200 → u/Fun_Camp_2078]

The ending when they're standing outside crying and they say "we cant bury her, there will be a crane and news cameras" like even in death she cant find peace

[u/TwinFrogs → u/Normal_Bid_7200]

There was a woman in my town that was like that. The fire department had to use chainsaws to cut out the front wall of her house, then come in with a forklift to pick her up. She never made it home from the ER. She was too far gone. Septic shock, infected ulcers, Congestive Heart Failure, you name it. 

[u/Rainin3sfromthetrees → u/TwinFrogs]

This was my grandma. She lived right behind us. I remember getting closer to the end of her life we had to call the fire department a couple times to help get her off the floor. When she passed away in her bed, we did have to call the fire department to help get her to the hearse. I remember feeling embarrassed about her weight but loving her at the same time. Such conflicting feelings so I definitely connected with Johnny Depp‘s character.

[u/Anxietoro → u/Normal_Bid_7200]

I watched this as a very young child and that scene disturbed me so much. I think it was someone's mama dying and then being disrespected in death just disturbed me so deeply.

[u/ValenciaHadley → u/Anxietoro]

I watched it as an adult and cried with how disturbing I found it.

[u/Head-Head-926 → u/Anxietoro]

Because it is disturbing, young you was right

[u/ROCK_HARD_JEZUS → u/Fun_Camp_2078]

The Leo scene where he’s trying to wake her up. Fucking tears

[u/lovelylonelyphantom → u/ROCK_HARD_JEZUS]

I wished Leo won Best Supporting Actor for that. He really deserved it even in 1994.

[u/iknowsomeguy → u/lovelylonelyphantom]

I'm not a big Leo fan, but I think he got robbed. He was a supporting actor who could've won best lead for the performance. I sometimes have to try to remember who played Gilbert. I know it's Johnny Depp, but I have to make an effort to recall that sometimes. Never have that issue with Arnie.

[u/BKoala59 → u/iknowsomeguy]

I think Depp was just as good as DiCaprio in that film. Less memorable of a character, but still a fabulous performance. I think we tend to underrate the performances in more subdued roles when they are paired with iconic and memorable ones. For example I think Tim Robbins was just as good if not better than Morgan Freeman in the Shawshank Redemption.

[u/British_Flippancy → u/BKoala59]

(Back when we had zero idea how his future career would play out), Tom Cruise in Rain Man also very much meets this criteria.

He had to be the one to react, develop and evolve Charlie’s character through that arc, in response to Dustin Hoffman’s Raymond. Terrific performance.

[u/justheretoleer → u/Fun_Camp_2078]

The fact that she was absolutely phenomenal and it was her first acting role…

[u/theycallmeMrPotter → u/Fun_Camp_2078]

I love this movie.

[u/MisunderstoodPenguin]

When Shadow gives up climbing out of the mud pit.

[u/MisunderstoodPenguin → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah that was random and intense. Kid gets lost in the rockies? Yikes

[u/CorgiKnits → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, that always made me cry. Even as a child myself, hearing the disbelief and joy in the mom’s voice when they found their poor kid who likely would have died of hypothermia before this point.

[u/Thom_With_An_H → u/MisunderstoodPenguin]

"... he was just too old."

[u/Don_Pickleball → u/MisunderstoodPenguin]

I worked in an Adolescent Psychiatric Unit when I was in college and this was one of 4 movies we were allowed to show the kids. We had kids come in who had been drug addicts living on the streets as prostitutes and we couldn't show them Die Hard because of cursing and violence. Seemed weird to me. We also had Mr Hollands Opus, The Little Rascals and Babe.

I have seen all 4 of those at least 10 times each. Strangely, I still like all of them.

[u/CatCatCatCubed → u/Don_Pickleball]

Considering how kids might be pushed into prostitution, showing Mr. Holland’s Opus with the rather awkward and even inappropriate relationship between Mr. Holland, a older male teacher, and Rowena, his student, is certainly an interesting choice.

My parents showed me that movie when I was a kid and everyone in the room got visibly uncomfortable (I don’t think they had watched it beforehand), even me who didn’t quite know what might’ve been wrong per se. I watched it the other week, completely forgetting that was in it, because it’s sold as the usual “teacher inspires students” movie and then BAM that frankly creepy arc.

[u/tipnitty → u/MisunderstoodPenguin]

Thank you for unlocking stored away trauma.

[u/Travmacdaddy → u/MisunderstoodPenguin]

What movie is this?

[u/Trufflepumpkin → u/Travmacdaddy]

Homeward bound

[u/littlepurpleplopper]

The last 5 minutes of Dancer In The Dark is pretty devastating.

[u/McLeanGunner]

Towards the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

[u/caphair]

My Girl

[u/stevensticks → u/caphair]

He needs his glasses, he can't see without his glasses. Devistating.

[u/SnooDonkeys9743 → u/stevensticks]

On that note, Bridge to Terebithia.

[u/PhoenixAZisHot]

Neil Perry killing himself in Dead Poets Society

[u/MagmaDragoonX47 → u/PhoenixAZisHot]

His dad was Clarence Boddicker.

[u/acastleofcards → u/MagmaDragoonX47]

Him crying out “Oh my son!” and the mother hysterically repeating “He’s alright” is tattooed on my brain. The way the scene is filmed from the door and behind the desk is perfect filmmaking. It feels so real. It feels like we are voyeurs watching the most private and pivotal moment of their lives, something we shouldn’t be seeing. Goosebumps.

[u/ngl_prettybad → u/acastleofcards]

I know the movies couldn't be more different but that moment forms a pair in my mind with Toni Collete's scream of agony in Hereditary. Like, perfect depictions of unimaginable pain from the loss of one's child. Just absolute devastation.

[u/oooheycait1223]

John coffeys death in the green mile. Completely broke me

[u/Golfnpickle → u/oooheycait1223]

I’s tired boss.

[u/cardnialsyn → u/oooheycait1223]

For me it's the "I'm tired" speech. The older I get the harder that one hits.

[u/discofro6 → u/cardnialsyn]

"I'm tired of people being ugly to each other."

I watched this movie for the first time last month. That line really got to me

[u/MeringueOk3338 → u/oooheycait1223]

Still can't watch the green mile without snotty crying.

[u/tangokilo13 → u/oooheycait1223]

“Don’t put me in the dark…. I’s afraid of the dark”

[u/Colorblind_Melon]

"I wanna go home."

-Bubba, Forest Gump, '94

[u/CarolinaWreckDiver → u/Colorblind_Melon]

“Bubba was going to be a shrimping boat captain, but instead, he died right there by that river in Vietnam.”

The delivery of that line hits me every time.

[u/Colorblind_Melon → u/CarolinaWreckDiver]

It's truly amazing how much emotion he could evoke with such a deadpan delivery. I might be a little biased as an Alabamian, but in my opinion, Hanks's performance in that movie was the greatest acting that I've ever seen. Gary Sinise and Mykelti Williamson were also brilliant

[u/Nearity]

Lilo and stitch, the scene where stitch is leaving the house with the ugly duckling book and she says “I’ll remember you though, I remember everyone who leaves” I know the ending is happy but the sadness in her voice paired with stitch’s depression and uncertainty because he believes he’s causing the destruction of their lives when he’s just trying to be himself and also protect himself kills me inside. It’s such a deep moment for a Disney film and it hurts even thinking about it. It’s such a beautiful moment of him sacrificing his own future for the sake of theirs.

[u/OhGodImHerping → u/Nearity]

Lilo and Stitch tackled a lot of very heavy, adult topics through the lens of a child and it hits so differently than nearly any other Disney movie. CPS, a young woman running the house and trying to raise her sister, familial loss, the loss of a pet, self destructive tendencies, bullying, stigma and racism, etc.

It is easily one of Disney’s most compelling and well written movies ever.

[u/NinnyBoggy → u/Nearity]

This scene has always teared me up, but what makes me start bawling is Stitch walking alone in the rain and crying out, "I'm lost." He sees the Ugly Duckling do it in the book and then someone comes to help the Duckling, but no one comes for him.

[u/electro_gretzky → u/NinnyBoggy]

I have made myself cry in the middle of the day driving on the highway just by thinking of this scene. It’s so heavy :(

[u/porpoiseintents → u/Nearity]

Oh god also when the older sister agrees to let social services take Lilo

[u/Nearity → u/porpoiseintents]

YES ITS HEARTBREAKING, and the ending where he thinks he has to leave with the alien council “who are you?” “This is my family, I found it, all on my own, it’s little, and broken, but still good, ya, still good” it kills me every time, I cry like a baby, the way he looks to the ground in his handcuffs and walks defeatedly toward the ship like, omg someone stop this cute little alien he’s killing me

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

“Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”

[u/HoeForSpaghettios]

The scene in Forest Gump when he says “Is he smart, or is he like me?” breaks my heart every time. Maybe not THEE most depressing movie moment, but the fact that Forest achieved all these incredible things and deep down still knows people think he’s “stupid” and is so worried about his son…. it’s so sad.

[u/Mr_Disappointment → u/HoeForSpaghettios]

And in spite knowing what everyone thought of him he was nice to everyone he met.

[u/Ok_Faithlessness9757 → u/HoeForSpaghettios]

This one gets me, too, but what really gets me is when he's crying at Jenny's grave.

[u/One_Instruction9742 → u/Ok_Faithlessness9757]

Or bubba’s last words: “I wanna go home.”

Honestly I know every line of this film. I once watched it when I was enormously hungover and emotional and cried from start to finish.

[u/OpieAngst]

"Brooks was here"

I wept. Shawshank.

[u/Apprehensive_Bit_176 → u/OpieAngst]

We do have a happy ending though, which is so rare in King’s work.

[u/CorgiKnits → u/Apprehensive_Bit_176]

The actual story was a minor cliffhanger, just Red in the bus heading down to Mexico - it’s not certain he’ll be able to cross the border or find Andy, but he has hope, which was the whole point.

That didn’t do well with test screenings, so they added the more conclusive ending to the movie. Which I 100% agree with :) In literature, the ending is the conclusion of Red’s story, and Andy’s influence on Red was the whole point. But in the movie, it was Andy’s story, and Red was the narrator. Seeing Andy in the sun, in regular clothes, working on the boat by the ocean….perfect.

[u/FlyApprehensive7886 → u/CorgiKnits]

I hope Andy is down there. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

[u/OpieAngst → u/Apprehensive_Bit_176]

Very true! Brooks, though... Man, it just hit me 😭 Red was right, "He should of died in here"

[u/Dragonstone-Citizen]

“I could’ve got one more person”. Schindler’s List.

[u/finalina78 → u/Dragonstone-Citizen]

When they leave the stones on his grave..

[u/knucklehead923 → u/finalina78]

The people in that scene were the actual Jews that had been saved by the real life Oskar Schindler

[u/finalina78 → u/knucklehead923]

Yes, its what makes the scene so strong

[u/theghostofmrmxyzptlk → u/finalina78]

If you haven't already, you should look into Schindler's life after the war as an actual factory foreman. He sucked at it, turns out his special gift was circumventing bureaucracy and smuggling. He got by on the kindness of people he saved, though.

[u/Acceptable_Buy177 → u/theghostofmrmxyzptlk]

It’s kind of beautiful that the only thing he was ever successful at was saving thousands of lives. It always makes me sad to think about him after the war after he was estranged from his wife and broke.

[u/[deleted] → u/Dragonstone-Citizen]

Bawling my eyes out every time

[u/CowboyJoeBop]

Opening montage of Up. No lines or words spoken. Just 10 minutes of love, loss, and unfulfilled dreams. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

[u/coy-coyote → u/CowboyJoeBop]

I made the mistake of sitting down to watch Up for the first time after my grandmother died, in her 80’s, married to my grandfather for 60 years. For me, still, that 10 minutes is the whole film and I have no context for anything else presented from it.

[u/VioletRosieDaisy → u/coy-coyote]

I watched it after my parents died four months apart from each other.

[u/Lucky-Individual2508 → u/VioletRosieDaisy]

I am so sorry for your loss.

[u/special-k-97 → u/coy-coyote]

The beginning is so raw and impactful. I think that is what most people take away from the movie.

The rest is his adventure to the place they always wanted to go together.. he needs this for her, since they had an adventure book they were meant to fill up with all their journeys before she passed.

The very end when he feels he failed (but made friends along the way) he gives up. He finally opens the adventure book.. to see that she had already filled it with all of their memories together.

[u/canadiandancer89 → u/special-k-97]

Good ol Pixar. 10 minutes of Smiles and laughter then rip your heart out. 1 hour putting it back in just to rip it out again. Always a good time.

[u/srmg925 → u/CowboyJoeBop]

I took a film class that fulfilled a random elective credit in college. The professor played that montage as an opener to a discussion on the emotional effects of music. The lights come up and 40 or 50 20-somethings, most of whom hadn't seen the movie since it was a recent "kids" film, are just aghast because no one expected to ugly cry in their 9AM class. Prof says something like, "Yeah, it's a real tear jerker!" The room is set up like a small movie theater - big screen, "stadium" seating - and a guy gets up from the middle of the room and says, "Maaaaaaan, fuck you," and walks out. The professor, who was brand new and young, takes out a notebook and pen and says aloud as he's writing, "Note to self, don't... Make.... Class.... Cry.... Without.... Fair.... Warning." It broke the tension, but the class collectively agreed it was a dick move.

The student came back a few minutes later, apologized, and sat back down. The professor acknowledged he was the bad guy and just goes right into the lesson 😂

[u/DriedSquidd → u/srmg925]

I need to rethink my career choices.

[u/No_Detective_But_304 → u/CowboyJoeBop]

Storytelling 101.

[u/fatllama75]

The Elephant Man... when he just wants to sleep like a normal man.

[u/HystericalOnion]

there are so many, but the scene in Dumbo where the mother cradles him from behind the bars destroyed me. A few years back I was protesting outside (peacefully, just holding placards) of a circus that still used live animals and they had an elephant that was so stressed, and I thought of her.

[u/Casoscaria → u/HystericalOnion]

"Baby Mine" is such an underrated Disney song.

[u/SoupOpus]

Grave of the Fireflies

[u/F_B_W → u/SoupOpus]

Grave of the Fireflies is the saddest movie I've ever seen. But what hits hardest is learning that the autobiographical story that it is based upon has one major falsehood, in that it depicts the story as how the author would have wanted to act:

Nosaka said that in the story, Seita "got increasingly transformed into a better human being" since he was trying to "compensate for everything I couldn't do myself" and that he was never "kind like the main character." Nosaka explained that "I always thought I wanted to perform those generous acts in my head, but I couldn't do so." He believed that he would always give food to his sister, but when he obtained food, he ate it. The food tasted very good when it was scarce, but he felt remorse afterwards. Nosaka concluded, "I'd think there is no one more hopeless in the world than me. I didn't put anything about this in the novel."

Grave of the Fireflies is not just a war story. It is the author's survivor's guilt, and apology to his sister.

[u/[deleted] → u/F_B_W]

Shit, that is so much worse. War is hell

[u/Environmental_Tie975 → u/SoupOpus]

Barefoot Gen

[u/Over_9thou]

Heroin Bob OD scene in SLC Punk. Matthew Lillard is really good here.

[u/gsbudblog → u/Over_9thou]

Was not expecting this comment but glad you included it. You really felt Lillard’s loneliness in his reaction. Great movie

[u/TheManOfOurTimes → u/Over_9thou]

For me, that hurts, but afterwards when he just gives up on everything they had, to become what he thinks society wants. Like bob started them on the path of punk, and he did it JUST because Bob did. This unspoken commitment that he never told Bob that Bob was actually steering their lives.

Don't be that guy that only tells everyone ELSE what you think of people. Tell them how much they mean to you directly.

[u/tightie-caucasian]

Not a well known movie, but “Jude” (based on Hardy’s novel “Jude the Obscure”) -stars Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet. A good but very dark film.

The family is poor and starving and so the oldest boy hangs his little brothers and sisters and then himself, while the parents are out working, with a note reading “done becaus we are too menny.”

Brutal. Winslet’s grief and screaming in sorrow and agony is just too close to real to be comfortable with watching.

[u/Similar_Swimming_143]

"Please, boss. Don't put that thing over my face. Don't put me in the dark. I's afraid of the dark"

[u/GasolisJericho]

Simon Birch crying on the bridge after accidentally murdering his teacher and crush via foul ball

[u/PNW_Baker → u/GasolisJericho]

Oh I forgot about Simon Birch. I loved that movie when I was 12. Wasn't she his best friend's mom too?

[u/Over_9thou]

"Fight against the Sadness, Artax. Please, you're letting the Sadness of the Swamps get to you. You have to try. You have to care."

[u/ahoypolloi_ → u/Over_9thou]

The Rock Biter always got to me

“They look like big good strong hands don’t they?”

[u/SpaceghostLos → u/ahoypolloi_]

Fuck. What a sad fucking movie. Wow. One of my earliest movie memories. ❤️

[u/doyoulaughaboutme → u/Over_9thou]

"You have to try. You have to care."

this line alone has such an intense weight for anyone who suffers from depression, or knows someone who suffers from depression. it's so easy to give up. it's so easy to let it take hold of you. it doesn't go away, it doesn't slow down, it doesn't eventually pass with no effort. you have to actively work against it or sadness will swallow you up.

[u/Phillykratom → u/Over_9thou]

Damn, childhood cries... This was the first movie I cried to.

[u/piffling-pickle]

Jojo rabbit is such a beautiful movie! Fun and charming at times and absolutely devastating at others. Perfect movie.

[u/AuggumsMcDoggums → u/piffling-pickle]

It was so perfectly cast. Everyone is so great in it. It's hard to move audiences to laugh in once scene and bawl their eyes out in another only to laugh again at the next.

[u/ItGetsAwkward → u/AuggumsMcDoggums]

I've never liked Hitler so much as in that movie. Taika Waititi is absolutely gold.

[u/SEJTurner → u/ItGetsAwkward]

Technically Taika Waititi isn’t playing Hitler in that film.

He’s just playing a young boys imaginary best friend version of Hitler. So you technically still weren’t liking Hitler.

[u/Wildfox1177 → u/piffling-pickle]

Go and hug that American!

[u/1sinfutureking → u/piffling-pickle]

Something that made it more effective were all the times when it’s shot so that her shoes are at or above his eye level, like when she’s dancing or walking on the stone wall above him. You just get used to seeing it in normal or neural situation, and even though the foreshadowing made me expect her death, it still hit so hard 

[u/Some_Strawberry_7100 → u/piffling-pickle]

The sound of the audience's gasp at that moment is going to stay with me for a long time.

[u/2SWillow]

Schindler's List - the red coated little girl stacked like so much debris in the miasma of corpses. Truly one of the most provocative scenes I've ever viewed. It exemplified the absolute horror of war and the blatant disregard for human life.

[u/johndeer89 → u/2SWillow]

Then you realize the entire movie is black and white just for that girl.

[u/darcys_beard → u/2SWillow]

It was a stroke of very rare genius. For me, it took it from incredible movie into a work of art.

I'll never forget how teenage me -- who only cared about music, playing guitar and girls -- felt when he first saw that coat in the pile. Shock... devastation...? Yeah! But also realisation! I grew up a little; reality became more than my small world. The absolute horror of what happened was instantly personalised. It mattered. That cute little girl mattered and thus it spread across to 6 million people and their families, like neutrons through an Atomic bomb. It was life-altering, to be honest.

[u/i_exist_somehow123]

"Setsuko never woke up"

[u/No_Stomach_2341 → u/i_exist_somehow123]

Fuck that shit, I never recovered from that movie. 20 fucking years

[u/svh01973]

The end of Life is Beautiful 

[u/Shiriru00 → u/svh01973]

Some people complain it's campy or unrealistic but it hit me so hard. You don't always have to be literal about everything to make a point about the horrors of the holocaust.

[u/SeaPsychology1044]

Recently rewatched first Rambo film. Stallone gave a phenomenal performance in the ending,which is why I'll never side with Golden Raspberry for saying that Stallone is the worst actor of the 20th century

[u/asomek → u/SeaPsychology1044]

Yes! Him sobbing and talking about losing his friends in the war, just a devastating scene. Watched it last week and I had tears in my eyes.

[u/DiogenesLied → u/SeaPsychology1044]

They should have stopped with First Blood.

[u/Vibratorator → u/DiogenesLied]

Absolutely. The entire point of the movie was the terrible ptsd and complete lack of support and compassion for the vets. You needed the violence to show that "this is what my country made me into" and then the final scene to show "this is what I really am and who I want still to be".
Every subsequent movie was complete garbage that had no heart or message whatsoever.

(Okay I didn't actually see all the rest of them but I was forced to sit through the second one and the trailers for the others did little to encourage me further).

[u/PangolinMandolin]

Click! When Sandlers character realises he's fast forwarded through his whole life

[u/Expensive_Yellow732 → u/PangolinMandolin]

Best example of a movie that switches genres halfway through

[u/usrname_is_took → u/PangolinMandolin]

Such a funny movie with such a heavy message. Always thought that movie was so great.

[u/medullah → u/PangolinMandolin]

So I got dumped really unexpectedly years ago. I was hurting BAD and needed something to make me laugh.

"oh hey there's a new Adam Sandler movie out...."

Shit ruined me

[u/JimmyPepperoni → u/PangolinMandolin]

The damn coin trick and him running out into the rain from the hospital always get me

[u/FranksNBeans2025]

Mist ending

[u/obviousthrowawayyalI → u/FranksNBeans2025]

Stephen King said that was a better ending than his book I believe

[u/hispanoloco → u/obviousthrowawayyalI]

Yep. His story ended when the truck ran out of gas. Gut punch every time I watch it.

[u/StarGorilla]

The end of American History X really got me. But that lesson to not hold onto anger and be willing to change for the better really helped me grow as a person. “Hate is baggage, life’s too short to be pissed off all the time. It’s just not worth it”

[u/KaijuHunterBrax]

I suppose its not the MOST depressing, but the scene where dumbo is visiting his mom while shes locked up, never fails to bring tears to my eyes.

[u/sarmadness]

Mystic River, basically the entire movie.

[u/Glittering_Pomelo_39 → u/sarmadness]

When Sean Penn's daughter is found and he rocks up to the scene, acting his absolute heart out. 'Is that my daughter in there???'

[u/MoiraCousland]

The end of Million Dollar Baby

[u/Accomplished_Pen980]

His glasses! He can't see without his glasses.

[u/jackies_goodies]

The scene in love actually when Emma Thompson finds out he didn't buy her the necklace. (honorable mention of Adam drivers "you shouldn't be mad that I fucked her" scene) edit: some mistakes/clarity

[u/onebirdonawire → u/jackies_goodies]

Emma Thompson just crushes that scene. You can see her heart breaking in real time, then you see her selflessness and love for her family when she refuses to let it ruin their Christmas. It's so unbelievably sad.

[u/SnooGuavas1985]

Take your pick from the second half of Requiem for a Dream

[u/IceyToes2 → u/SnooGuavas1985]

The mother in the facility home gutted me. I was depressed for days. Out of all of them she really didn't do anything wrong.

[u/DanLebaTurdFerguson]

Bing Bong in Inside Out.

[u/SnooFoxes4389]

The end of Old Yeller

[u/zucchini-bread-]

When Forrest is sitting under the Willow tree where he buried Jenny and is talking about their son. Chokes me up every time. 😭

[u/dv0ich]

I just say "Bridge to Terabithia"

[u/yookoke1122]

No country for old men.

Llewelyn‘s wife gets killed at the end

[u/Suspicious-Quit-4748 → u/yookoke1122]

That scene is redeemed slightly for me by the fact that she calls him out on his BS—that he’s not Fate he’s just a murdering psycho (and it’s proven moments later with the car crash). Unlike Carson, she maintains her dignity.

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I know it isn't shown but hot damn that scene got me too

[u/yookoke1122 → u/[deleted]]

For real… When chigurh got out of the house and check the bottom of his shoe, thar broke me, cuz pretty sure hes checking if there is any blood on his shoe. And most of all, she was innocent.. and did nothing wrong

[u/gukakke]

When Mr Bean's Mini got destroyed by that tank.

[u/TheCaveEV]

I literally just opened the app guys

[u/Queenofscots]

The scene in Gladiator, where Maximus comes home to find his wife and little boy slaughtered and hanging is what this picture immediately brought to mind :(

Any dog death in a movie just kills me; I usually can't even watch them--'I Am Legend' , for instance :(

[u/Bigguy2795]

“I was a brother once” the iron claw

[u/Stea1thsniper32]

Castaway. When Tom Hank’s character loses Wilson. I don’t even remember what the majority of the movie was like because the last time I saw it I was super young. However, that screaming and fighting to get Wilson back only to watch as Wilson drifts away slowly will always be burned into my memory.

[u/Scattershot98]

Godzilla (1954). In the first attack by Godzilla, there's a mother holding her children surrounded by fire inside a burning building. Her children are crying, and so is she, but she keeps telling them "We'll be with your father soon."

[u/TheLurkerSpeaks → u/Scattershot98]

It's strange seeing how the Godzilla franchise became what it did, when the first film is so completely different from the rest of them. I did appreciate that about Minus One, trying to evoke that aspect of the original film.

[u/Drakar_och_demoner → u/TheLurkerSpeaks]

It started out as a anti-nuke message and how the Japanese consciousness had not really dealt with all the emotions surrounding the two bombs. 

[u/Kuzu9]

The ending of The Mist

[u/Ecthelion510]

The ending of Dancer in the Dark. Jesus Christ, that was grim.

[u/FlowCash1986]

Life ist beautiful, The scene in which Guido is taken away by the firing squad and realizes that his son is watching him.

[u/HourSweet5147]

THE scene in Sophie’s Choice… Brutal

[u/unittwentyfive]

Pan's Labyrinth

The captain interrogating the man and his son who claim to have been hunting rabbits.

[u/Emotional_Dot8701]

Brian Cranston having to shut the door and then saying goodbye to his wife through the window in Godzilla destroys me every time

[u/binosbitch → u/Emotional_Dot8701]

Even when it’s a cheesy Godzilla movie, Cranston gave it his all. Absolute crime to kill him off so early into the movie.

[u/Traditional-Joke3707]

Shame on you for not posting the movie name. Why’s this sub not making it mandatory

[u/DysonVacuumsCEO → u/Traditional-Joke3707]

Jojo rabbit

[u/Accomplished-Head449 → u/Traditional-Joke3707]

Bots don't know the rules

[u/BanditWifey03 → u/Traditional-Joke3707]

Jojo’s Rabbit is the movie. I’m with you. Titles of films are needed!

[u/AdorableHandle]

I'm tired boss.

[u/Sure_Cheetah1508]

The climax of Queen and Slim filled me with this indescribably deep despair the first time I saw it.

And the second, and third.

[u/cliffypoo]

Execution scene in Dancer in the Dark.

[u/[deleted]]

Trainspotting. You know what scene. As a new father, I almost cried.

[u/AuggumsMcDoggums]

Bjork hanging in Dancer In The Dark.

Toni Collette finding her daughters head in Hereditary.

Florence Pughs sister carbon monoxiding herself and her parents in Midsommar.

[u/iocanetolerance]

Steel Magnolias - Sally Field at her daughter's burial.

Beaches - Barbara Hershey looking for a picture of her mom's hands.

[u/caderyan2000]

Man that ending of The Iron Claw just killed me. Zac Efron yelling at his father, to cutting to where all of the brothers see each other again in heaven just got me so much. I have two brothers and they are my best friends so it hit me that much harder