Movie's to make your insides hurt
This is for movies that make a tear form in your eyes, gets you all sentimental, or simply sad.
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- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..this will make your soul hurt as you watch four people's lives unwind and fall apart with the abuse of heavy drugs. The more you watch, the lower the characters get, the more you wish you could just somehow make them all stop the madness.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettTilda SwintonTells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.a very interesting movie, it's sad to see a man slowly begin to fade away and how close being an infant and a decrepit old man are so close to each other. instead of seeing an old man close his eyes, you see an infant slowly close his eyes and go sleep..
The parts where his wife grows older and he grows younger and how she slowly has to take onthe role of mother and grandmother for him, not being able to love him as a man as he once was. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.i know i've used this on other lists on here, but this is still a tear jerker. All the bull and hell they go through to just go home, that not all heros live and return. The battles become more and more desperate until in the end, most of our heros are dead or dying.
- DirectorPaul HaggisStarsDon CheadleSandra BullockThandiwe NewtonLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.loaded with powerful scenes that pull and tug at multiple emotions at once. From the racist cop who sexually harassed a woman, and now has to climb through a burning wreck to try and save her. To the locksmith who witnesses his little girl get shot in his arms trying to protect him from a disgruntled client, to a good intentioned cop who's demented mother blames for all the bad things thta have happened in their lives. This movie has some heavy moments.
- DirectorKang Je-kyuStarsJang Dong-gunWon BinLee Eun-juWhen two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.All the pain and danger the older brother goes through for the sake of protecting his brother, and his brother doesn't understand this. When the younger brother finally finds the skeletal remains of his brother in a trench decades later as an old man, you feel his pain as he kneels before the corpse and tearfully talks to it, asking his dead brother why didn't he ever come home, why didn't he ever write, call, or visit. and now he finally knows why, his brother died protecting him.
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.there's enough sad scenes in this film to justify wrist slitting, but seeing the loveable oaf that if Forrest Gump, take on and face harrowing moments and experiences with a calm demeanor, watching his best friend die in Vietnam, the love of his life dying from AIDS, to his mother finally passing, it's sad to see the ones who mean the most to him die one by one until it's him and a son he barely knows.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsHilary SwankClint EastwoodMorgan FreemanFrankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.what started out as an inspiring underdog story, quickly turns into a gut wrenching tale of failure, defeat, and disappointment.
great acting, tense, but utterly sad. - DirectorShane MeadowsStarsBob HoskinsDanny NussbaumTobyIn a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Soon he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organize a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tight-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.did not expect how this movie ended. It was really inspiring at first, but then it just gets darker and darker.