The saddest movie characters
 

I like sad movies and sad characters. It makes me think I'm still doing well and there's much worse problems than I thought there were. I think the saddest characters are:

- Curé d'Ambricourt from Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951)
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- Joe Buck from Midnight Cowboy (1969)
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- Selma Jezkova from Dancer in the Dark (2000)
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Please share your idea of sad character. I know there's much more. Just writing this post another sad characters are coming to my mind. Thanks.

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Can I include TV? Lily Raby in AHS Murder House. I've never seen a character cry so much.

Marty (Ernest Borgnine) - 1955.

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Could you insert a picture please? I would like to see this character,

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Lee Chandler. Just typing his name nearly made me cry.

I remember this one. Borgnine was great

Francis Dolarhyde, in Manhunter especially but also Red Dragon, is a pretty sad character.

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Not quite sadness, but I think Kirsten Dunst performs one of the most accurate portrayals of depression in Lars von Trier's Melancholia.

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Trying to find one of her sobbing but not having much luck. Really good actress. In the show she's looking for her lost baby.

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Carrie Mulligan in Never Let Me Go (2010)...is the saddest movie character I've seen.

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I remember this one,You're right, it was difficult to watch,

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Found a gif of her sobbing. I found her portrayal of a mother's grief very real and gut wrenching

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Tom Hanks Two-Fer:

Andrew Beckett - Philadelphia (1993)

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Chuck Noland - Castaway (2000)

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Watching this last night...


Mrs. Pell, Mississippi Burning...
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What makes her such an intriguing character though is that it's underplayed by McDormand and the filmmakers.
It's a quiet sadness, yet when you watch her little mannerisms, you can see inside she's screaming for help.

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Jacob in Jacobs Ladder

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Specially moving, a scene in which Jake is crying for his dead boy.

What movies are # 5, 7 and 9??

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#7 is The 400 Blows.
Can't think of the other two.

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Mickey Rourke in Angel Heart trying to convince himself he knows who he is

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Sorry, 5 is The Best Years of Our Lives and 9 is La Strada. Rodent is correct on 7.