Most emotionally upsetting movie you ever watched!

Feelslikefar said:
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The son of the Commander of a concentration camp befriends a Jewish boy on the other side of the wire.
As you watch, you hope all will turn out ok.
Like Schindler's List, some movies just had to be made, as a reminder to all of us.
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I agree about this one. It does pack a punch and makes the audience think about our wilful blindness to real life horrors.
 

When I was very young I watched “The old Man Of The Sea” with Spencer Tracy. I was devastated by the movie, crying uncontrollably to the point that my Mum was concerned.

As an adult, Sophie’s Choice had a similar impact. I just cannot imagine having to make such a choice.I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
 

"Titanic". So many sad moments like the band choosing to stay on deck of the sinking ship playing their final song, "Nearer My God To Thee" in order to calm the people, the Captain riddled with guilt locking himself in his wheelhouse as it fills with water, and watching thousands of his passengers drowning, Rose and Jack's final moments in the frigid water, and the senseless mistakes that were made like half empty lifeboats leaving.
 
"Imitation of Life" 1959. I cried so much at the end my older sister was embarrassed and left me alone in the theater!

Two single mothers and their daughters team up. One family black, the other white. The black girl was able to pass for white.

I'll never forget this movie. Based on the novel by Fannie Hurst. There was also a movie version in the 1930's I believe the decade was. I never saw the earlier one. I think I will!

This film so important in strengthening my already held views that civil rights would become the big influence of my life.
 
Kadee said:
I almost forget what about Notebook thats a 2 boxes of tissues movie
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@Kadee Isn't that a romance I keep hearing about? I, in my cowardly way, steer away from anything requiring tissues and turn to rom-coms only! :) Just can't help it. I was born with an overload of empathy and even movies and books affect me too much emotionally!
 
Hereditary (2018; Toni Colette); not because it's a very scary, supernatural movie since I don't believe in the supernatural but because one of the characters when possessed heartbreakingly reminded me of a family member.
 
Pepper said:
"Imitation of Life" 1959. I cried so much at the end my older sister was embarrassed and left me alone in the theater!

Two single mothers and their daughters team up. One family black, the other white. The black girl was able to pass for white.

I'll never forget this movie. Based on the novel by Fannie Hurst. There was also a movie version in the 1930's I believe the decade was. I never saw the earlier one. I think I will!

This film so important in strengthening my already held views that civil rights would become the big influence of my life.
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I loved both versions and also "Pinky," about a young light skinned black woman "passing." They all tell so much about how differently people were treated at the time.

StarSong said:
Schindler's List left me weeping and speechless. War movies are difficult for me to watch because man's inhumanity to man is on full display.

I cannot/will not watch movies where children are abused, tortured, kidnapped, killed or otherwise victimized.
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Same here. If I had been warned about the children in "Slumdog" I never would have gone but it was praised as a "feelgood movie." (?)
 
I can think of quite a few, but Five Minutes in Heaven stands out for me. Also Sophie's Choice, Hotel Rwanda, and Manchester by the Sea.
 
"Philomena" starring Judi Dench. True stories really affect me...especially regarding children in harms way. I took my mother with me and when we walked out of the theater to the parking lot she was all talkative about what a good movie it was. I couldn't talk for holding back the tears. When I got in the driver's seat I couldn't start the car and just burst into tears. I didn't want her to see me like that but it took me a moment to gain my composure.
 
Lara said:
"Philomena" starring Judi Dench. True stories really affect me...especially regarding children in harms way. I took my mother with me and when we walked out of the theater to the parking lot she was all talkative about what a good movie it was. I couldn't talk for holding back the tears. When I got in the driver's seat I couldn't start the car and just burst into tears. I didn't want her to see me like that but it took me a moment to gain my composure.
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I don't want to sound unmanly but I think I just found someone with the same kind of heart I was given! Grief and tears come all too easy even with books and movies!
 
Feelslikefar said:
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The son of the Commander of a concentration camp befriends a Jewish boy on the other side of the wire.
As you watch, you hope all will turn out ok.
Like Schindler's List, some movies just had to be made, as a reminder to all of us.
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Trust me, no German of my generation will ever need to be reminded. We took on the guilt of our fathers for many years, and the whole era between 1933 - 1945 left an indelible mark on us. To the rest of you I say: "don't ask yourself how could they do that?" but rather "How could we do that?"

We, the Germans of my generation, will never, ever trust humanity to automatically do the right thing again! All it takes is

a) unsettled times and
b) a populist who is a good orator who can whip up the tempers, and speak to the deepest fears of the masses, to bring them to a boiling point! Maybe Jan. 6th might be a good example?

Regrettably that kind neighbour of yours, whom you got along with so great before your regime changed, can now inexplicably betray you for having said something that doesn't agree with present doctrine.

I wish this were a cynical and unrealistic view of humanity, trouble is I have seen the land of Bach, Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, Nietsche, Kant turn into something unworthy (to say the least) of its history.

And if it can happen there it can happen anywhere, as it already did in Rwanda, Nigeria, the Congo, the Sudan, Yemen, Cambodia, Kurdistan, China, present day India (Hindu vs. Muslim), Iran. etc.!

These people are NOT savages but normally kind and civilised folk, but hatred is a disease that can spread all too easily and infect the "Naked Ape" almost overnight if given the right climate.

Sorry, for getting preachy in a light hearted group but I had to say it!
 
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Old Salt said:
Trust me, no German of my generation will ever need to be reminded. We took on the guilt of our fathers for many years, and the whole era between 1933 - 1945 left an indelible mark on us. To the rest of you I say: "don't ask yourself how could they do that?" but rather "How could we do that?"

We, the Germans of my generation, will never, ever trust humanity to automatically do the right thing again! All it takes is

a) unsettled times and
b) a populist who is a good orator who can whip up the tempers, and speak to the deepest fears of the masses, to bring them to a boiling point! Maybe Jan. 6th might be a good example?

Regrettably that kind neighbour of yours, whom you got along with so great before your regime changed, can now inexplicably betray you for having said something that doesn't agree with present sentiment.

I wish this were a cynical and unrealistic view of humanity, trouble is I have seen the land of Bach, Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, Nietsche, Kant turn into something unworthy (to say the least) of its history.

And if it can happen there it can happen anywhere, as it already did in Rwanda, Nigeria, the Congo, the Sudan, Yemen, Cambodia, Kurdistan, China, present day India (Hindu vs. Muslim), Iran. etc.!

These people are NOT savages but normally kind and civilised folk, but hatred is a disease that can spread all too easily and infect the "Naked Ape" almost overnight if given the right climate.

Sorry, for getting preachy in a light hearted group but I had to say it!
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And very much the reason I avoid humanity as much as possible. I take my hermiting seriously.
 
When I was too young to go see such a movie, the original House of Wax with Vincent Price, kept me awake at nights for months.
 
I just remembered one that makes my skin crawl to this day. The Fly with Vincent Price. That scene where the fly is caught in a spider web, crying "help me, help me!" (Shudder)
 

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