Saddest Animated Films

[CoriSCapnSkip]

Couple things I find extremely difficult to believe:

--That this thread made it to twenty posts without mentioning Grave of the Fireflies: Grave of the Fireflies Movie Review (1988) | Roger Ebert

--That Grave of the Fireflies originally played in 1988 with My Neighbor Totoro, an absolute delight which can be enjoyed by viewers of any age from four up. Things in Japan may be quite different, but the thought of these two films playing together fairly staggers the mind!

 

[Coyo-T]

Yes! Saw this as a child and my best friend said her little sister bawled her eyes out over it.

It's so hard to find anyone who even remembers this film! (It never even had a home video release until a few years ago.) My understanding is that a lot of schools actually assigned kids to watch it when it aired, and a LOT of kids were in tears afterward. (I cry watching it as an adult. That ending song!)

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

It's so hard to find anyone who even remembers this film! (It never even had a home video release until a few years ago.) My understanding is that a lot of schools actually assigned kids to watch it when it aired, and a LOT of kids were in tears afterward. (I cry watching it as an adult. That ending song!)

It was widely promoted at the time but I remember no school discussion other than the playground conversation with my friend.

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

If I'm in a bawling mood or want to be, The Little Drummer Boy is great at pushing the largest amount of the right buttons in the least amount of time. A woman who wrote a series of articles in Redbook about her sons, Jack, Drew, and William, said when they watched The Little Drummer Boy, Jack cried again, and it was hard to imagine a boy being able to summon such compassion for a puppet and then cream his little brother for dropping his toothbrush down the toilet.

 

[Coyo-T]

If I'm in a bawling mood or want to be, The Little Drummer Boy is great at pushing the largest amount of the right buttons in the least amount of time. A woman who wrote a series of articles in Redbook about her sons, Jack, Drew, and William, said when they watched The Little Drummer Boy, Jack cried again, and it was hard to imagine a boy being able to summon such compassion for a puppet and then cream his little brother for dropping his toothbrush down the toilet.

Nestor the Longed-Eared Christmas Donkey was my favorite of the Rankin-Bass stopmotion specials- though it always confused me as a kid who was the "real" Christmas doneky (as I'd seen Don Bluth's The Small One once at an even earlier age and thought it was Small One!)

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

If it's worth anything I cried at the end of the cartoon of The Hobbit.

 

[CYRUS]

Couple things I find extremely difficult to believe:

--That this thread made it to twenty posts without mentioning Grave of the Fireflies: Grave of the Fireflies Movie Review (1988) | Roger Ebert

--That Grave of the Fireflies originally played in 1988 with My Neighbor Totoro, an absolute delight which can be enjoyed by viewers of any age from four up. Things in Japan may be quite different, but the thought of these two films playing together fairly staggers the mind!

I saw that first film, it was a real downer.

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

I saw that first film, it was a real downer.

See the second, cheer yourself up.

 

[Toni_S_UK]

The Land Before Time - The part where Little Foot's Mother dies

 

[Neesy]

Those first few moments of UP had me bawling.

I started crying at the part where they paint the nursery and then she goes to the hospital

Spoiler

and I have never even had a miscarriage!

 

[twiggymarie]

The Little Matchgirl. I cry every time.

 

[Grandpa]

Lady and the Tramp. When the hound was pinned underneath the wreck and presumed DOA and the Scotty started his mournful howl, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

 

[Kurben]

Always cry when watching this

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

The Lion King and The Fox and the Hound have some very distressing scenes, too.

 

[Wayoftheredpanda]

I absolutely love animated movies (especially hand-drawn ones with more adult themes) I would say the saddest animated movie I've seen is The Iron Giant, I've seen it so many times and it's just such a wonderful movie, sad, funny, and heartwarming at the same time.

 

[Klerekast]

I said this before in another thread, but The Brave Little Toaster. That movie is downright depressing. All those poor appliances and cars, they are actually dying. And not gently, either.

Alfred J. Kwak has many tearjerking moments as well. It's not a movie, it's a series, but it's animated. Most episodes left me deeply affected.

 

[kelliblue]

I have always loved The Corpse Bride. The animation is so beautiful and Gothic.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Watership Down