Tonight it’s TV night, we prepare pizzas or popcorn (according to our desires) and we choose our film… There is something for everyone, depending on our mood or the person we are with. opt for one romantic movie like Titanic, for a war film like 300 or for a documentary film like Kidpoker which relates the life of the poker player Daniel Negreanu.
Today we have a sensitive soul and the desire to shed a little tear. So let’s take a look at the saddest films in cinema. What will be THE saddest film? The answer is just below.
TOP sad film n°10. Forrest Gump
Release date: 1994
Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is a big-hearted boy growing up in Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s. A simple-minded little boy, he has remarkable running talents which he puts to good use several times in his life, such as during the Vietnam War. Forrest Gump will try different professions throughout his life while juggling the real world. Through the destiny of the main character, several decades of American history are told in this superb film.
TOP sad film n°9. Seven lives
Release date: 2009
Ben Thomas (Will Smith) seeks redemption through heroic deeds. His secret is his greatest pain and pushes him to do everything to complete his mission: to change the lives of seven people. Only one thing could call everything into question… love.
TOP sad film n°8. Lion
Release date: 2017
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the story of a little boy, Saroo, living in a small village in the heart of India. One morning Saroo wakes up alone on a train after having fallen asleep on a bench while waiting for his brother to go to work. Thousands of kilometers from his family and his village, Saroo is lost, left to his own devices. Taken into an orphanage, he will be adopted by an Australian couple. Years have passed and Saroo still thinks of his family in India. With the few memories he has in mind, he will make it his mission to find the place where he comes from. A vital quest strewn with pitfalls…
TOP sad film n°7. Never forget
Release date: 2004
Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) are hopelessly in love despite their differences. Since their meeting in the 1940s, love has always triumphed. Today Allie no longer remembers, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, thanks to Noah she can remember every moment of her life. Every day Noah reads to her the words she herself wrote in her diary.
TOP sad film n°6. Still Alice
Release date: 2014
Alice Howland played by Julianne Moore has everything to be happy: married, mother of three children, she is also a renowned linguistics professor. This perfect picture is marred when he is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. From then on Alice will fight a daily battle to remain herself. A moving film.
TOP sad film n°5. The green Line
Release date: 1999
Cold Mountain, Louisiana, in a prison, a new inmate arrives. It is about John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant, sentenced to death for the rape and murder of two little girls. As his execution approaches, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), the head warden of the penitentiary, becomes more and more intrigued by this new inmate. Doubting John Coffey’s guilt, Paul Edgecomb will form strong bonds with the prisoner.
TOP sad film n°4. My life for yours
Release date: 2009
Anna (Abigail Breslin) was created to help her sister Kate who was suffering from leukemia. Throughout her young life, Anna will undergo operations to allow her sister to have a transplant and to fight the disease a little more. One day, Anna takes her parents to court to demand her emancipation and to have access to her body. Her mother, a former lawyer, played by Cameron Diaz, returns to service to defend her cause, that of her husband and that of Kate.
TOP sad film n°3. Our opposite stars
Release date: 2014
Although her latest treatment seems to have stopped the progression of her illness, Hazel, 16, suffers from cancer that she knows is incurable. To pass the time she joins a support group where she meets Augustus, a boy in remission. An immediate attraction and a deep and true attachment between the two teenagers will change their fight against illness.
TOP sad film n°2. Schindler’s List
Release date: 1993
Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is a brilliant German industrialist who runs a kitchenware factory in the 1940s. He supplies the German army and rubs shoulders with the Nazis in Krakow, essential to his business. Among his employees are Jewish workers who gradually make him realize the barbarity of the regime he serves. Oskar Schindler then understands the threat weighing on the Jews and his workers. He will then transform into a resistance fighter by protecting the Jews who work for him and then saving hundreds of men and women from the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
TOP sad film n°1. Life is beautiful
Release date: 1997
In Italy, Guido (Roberto Benigni), with dreams in his head, meets Dora with whom he falls madly in love just before the Second World War. She was to marry a pretentious bureaucrat but leaves everything to go with Guido with whom she has a son, Giosé, five years later. Time passes, the Second World War is underway and Guido, who is Jewish, is deported with his son. For love Dora will follow them. In the concentration camp Guido will invent stories for his son to avoid the horror of reality and will make him believe that they are in fact in a game with a magnificent life-size tank to win.
