Can someone recommend a sad book or movie?

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Something akin to Weatherman maybe.

Something depressing but not without something redeeming.

Why would you want to peruse a sad book or movie? Isn't life sad enough? Anyway, I don't know about the "something redeeming" part, but the Virgin Suicides movie was downright sob provoking.

The movies Wit with Emma Thomson and Awakenings with Robin Williams

^^ Yaye, greetings TheMidnightJudge. I believe I very much enjoyed the animated film named "Grave of the Fireflies" and this is perhaps very upsetting. I am very sorry if you do not enjoy this however.

Nineteen Eighty-Four. I weep at the end of the film, and the novel's end is sad enough. It's just the impact is greater with music and John Hurt staring at the camera.

If you're a Doctor Who fan, I recommend Logopolis or The Curse of Fenric. I know that it is a TV show, but still...

Book:
I Know This Much Is True-Wally Lamb
Sea of Fertility ( 4 book series) Yukio Mishima



Movie:
Sling Blade
A Dangerous Woman
Rachel,Rachel (old film-starring Joanne Woodward & directed by Paul Newman)


that's all I can think of right now

'the five people you meet in heaven' Mitch Albom

Sad but uplifting. Don't know about movies.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring.
very poignant movie. Also "The King of Masks".

Books:
Anything by Dickens
"Angela's Ashes"
"Giants in the Earth"
"Rule Number Two"
"Dog Heroes of September 11th"

The film, "Marley" is very sad...especially for all of us dog lovers. Make sure you have kleenex tissues if you watch it... or Puffs with lotion would be better.

Birdsong by Sebastien Faulks is very sad and amazingly good, a sad movie that's coincidentally very similar is Atonement which is also excellent.

I've haven't got the best taste, but...

Books:

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres(don't judge it on the awful movie). Had me sobbing, and still makes me tearful thinking about certain parts.
Atonement by Ian McEwan


Movies:

Atonement (man, does that mother make me sob every time)
Blood Diamond

Sry, forgot to say it earlier. 'The book thief' is a good book that is very sad.

Though why do you want sad books?

Movie: The Killing Fields,
Hotel Rwanda,
Taegukgi(a korean war film, it's one of my favorite films of all time. I couldn't stop crying at the end.)

Books: First They Killed My Father,
The Kite Runner,
Surviving The Killing Fields,
The Land of The Green Ghosts

Thanks for the recommendations

Why something sad you ask?
Partially to provoke Catharsis.
Partially to feel empathy.
Partially, so I can be sad about something, and know that I'm not the only one in the universe effected by it.

The Pianist
Reign Over Me
Gladiator
Braveheart
Titanic
The Perfect Storm
Edward Scissorhands
Sweeny Todd (the second movie Johnny Depp's been in where he's a depressed barber )

Forrest Gump; although I am quite aware it's a love it or hate it type of film, give it a shot if you haven't already seen it.