• Million Dollar Baby
• A Beautiful Mind

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. It's incredibly beautiful.

Grave of the Fireflies. Haven't watched it, but heard a lot of things.

Ghost World and it's spiritual successor The Last Black Man in San Fransisco. They're not portraits of despair, but they have an underlying melancholy and poignancy that affected and stuck with me me more than most tragedies I've watched.

• Manchester By The Sea
• Irreversible
• Gone Baby Gone
• Instructions Not Included

If you ever want to hate nazis even more, watch Come and See

Threads (1984) - about living through nuclear fallout

Requiem for a Dream (2000) - about desperation, loneliness and addiction

The Wolf House (2020) - about Colonia Dignidad

Skinamarink (2023) - about children who wake up in their family home and their parents have disappeared, as have all the windows and exterior doors

My idea of "sad" is probably a bit abstract, but here are a few off the top of my head:

• The Fountain
• Vanilla Sky
• House of Flying Daggers
• Gattaca
• Hero
• Eye of the Beholder

Schindler's List 🤔

Grave of the Fireflies

The Cranes are Flying

Tokyo Story

Pather Panchali

Ikiru

Oslo, 31 August

I don't usually get emotional at movies but Cinema Paradiso (specifically the 2h53 Director's Cut version, which is extra sad) got me like