Saddest film you've seen

[donna]

I remember crying my eyes out at The Day They Gave Babies Away, with Glynis Johns.

[Gazza]

The 1956 film of A Town Like Alice.



First saw it on television in the 60s and remember the whole family being upset. It was the first time I'd seen my dad cry which made it even worse!

[donna]

morning Gazza, yes I did see it but for the life of me cant remember it.

[batman]

ATLA is on Film4 quite often .... Peter Finch, Virginia McKenna, Japanese prisoner of war camp ... ring any bells?

[donna]

knew Viginia was in the film but no , not really will have to try and get hold of copy.

[batman]

Available for a fiver from amazon.co.uk or from your local over-priced high street retailer.

[donna]

great batman Im checking it out, didnt she die just recently, very nice woman married to Bill Travers , takes me back to Geordie.

[Steve Crook]

name='donna']great batman Im checking it out, didnt she die just recently, very nice woman married to Bill Travers , takes me back to Geordie.

Bill died in 1994, but Virginia hasn't died recently - unless it was very quiet and nobody noticed which I would find hard to believe



Steve

[donna]

thought I heard she did last year, might be mistaken nice woman she is.

[Steve Crook]

name='donna']I remember crying my eyes out at The Day They Gave Babies Away, with Glynis Johns.

That's often cited as the film guaranteed to get most people crying



Steve

[Dave Rattigan]

The end of The Elephant Man made me cry lots when I first saw it. I would have been about 14, and it was the first time I ever heard Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.



Coincidentally, at school the very next day, our headmaster happened to be taking us for music, and he got out this big old-style gramophone. He said he was going to play a record and we were to say what we thought of it. It was of course the Adagio for Strings. I couldn't help but dissolve into tears, prompting lots of worried girls to fuss over me afterwards!

[Freddy]

The Elephant Man, saw this in my twenties and cried but I think the common weepy for men is the american film, Field Of Dreams. Hits close to home for a lot of blokes.



Freddy

[faginsgirl]

Elephant man for me!



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[DB7]

One of two animated films; Plague Dogs or When the Wind Blows.

[penfold]

Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc. Unrelenting and unflinching......

[Steve Crook]

name='Freddy']I think the common weepy for men is the american film, Field Of Dreams. Hits close to home for a lot of blokes.



Freddy

Not me. Someone builds a sports stadium and some people come to play and to watch sports there? What's the big deal? I could understand him crying if nobody came



Steve

[Gazza]

I watched Dead Man's Shoes for the first time tonight. Was alone which didn't help. Didn't cry but welled up/choked up at man's inhumanity to man.

[Steve Crook]

I cry regularly at the best films. Sometimes because they're sad, sometimes because they make me so happy. It doesn't matter if I'm alone or not



Steve

[hankoler]

I think the war film MORNING DEPARTURE has a nvery sad ending .

[Freddy]

name='Steve Crook']Not me. Someone builds a sports stadium and some people come to play and to watch sports there? What's the big deal? I could understand him crying if nobody came



Steve

Have you seen it Steve?





Freddy