Top 10 Saddest Disney and Pixar Animated Movies

The Top Ten
1 Up

The first 10 minutes had everyone in the theater bawling, adults as well as children. Such a sweet film. It's also comedic it had us laughing one minute and crying the next. I recently watched it for about the 100th time, and I still cried at least 5 times. It's also quite a relatable film as it involves love, loss, friendship, etc.. It's so powerful and just an overall fantastic story which I'm sure everybody, young or old, would enjoy. I can't recommend it enough!

Inside out before this. INSIDE OUT BEFORE THIS! BWHAHAAHAHAahaha...*breaths in*. I know inside out is sad, but compared to up, it's like crying if you accidentally walked on lego. In inside out, we see a charming character die. In this movie, we don't hear any words, but still feel like we are their when they show us the clip of Ellie and Carl's life. And when Ellie dies, only a brain dead person had dry eyes.

In like the first 5-10 minutes of the movie you feel like you know this couple and when Ellie dies. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE cries. It has a beautiful story that makes everyone's heart melt.

Inside Out may be more depressing than Up, but Up is a truly emotional movie that captures sadness and grief perfectly, even better than a movie ABOUT sadness and grief.

2 Inside Out

The great thing about this movie is that it isn't perfect. How would you like it if Joy had never fallen into the pit with Bing Bong and Bing Bong was never forgotten and they all made it back to headquarters and the moral of the story was, "Quit wining and hot glue a smile onto your face." But instead, (Spoiler alert) Joy falls into the pit, we get a beautiful scene where Bing Bong sacrifices himself so that Joy and Sadness can save the trainwreck that is at this point Riley, which they do and even though everything doesn't end perfectly, at least there's progress being made, and the moral is, "You can't live without sadness and that emotions never die."

The five tearjerker moments:

#1: Riley crying in front of her class - I felt really bad that I cried on the inside.

#2: Joy failing to go up through the tube - I felt really bad and shocked.

#3: Joy crying while in the Memory Dump - I just about (JUST ABOUT) teared up for this one.

#4: Bing Bong fading away - I cried very badly. (*sniff*)

#5: Riley tearful brooding to her parents about Minnesota - I cried the hardest because I CAN COMPLETELY RELATE TO IT! T_T (I just wish I could go back to where I've grown up my entire life entirely as both a kid and teenager...

The movie seemed to have gotten sadder and sadder as it went on...

This movie is the only movie I have ever cried watching in a theater. and that doesn't take much because I am an extremely emotional person. What I like most about it is the fact I could relate a lot to what Riley was going through with moving and everything happening at once. A very emotional movie that brought tears to my eyes and trying to shield my face. I knew I should have sat in the back. I also love the animation style of the film and the hidden Easter eggs through out the movie. Great film. Great characters. Awesome.

This movie makes me cry during the time when Joy and Bing Bong fall into the pit where Riley forgets memories and stuff. It made me cry when Joy cried. I mean, it's the EMOTION joy. The emotion who brings us happiness and she cried. And when Bing Bong sacrificed himself and told Joy to take Riley to the moon as he was soon forgotten. It also saddened me at the ending.

I think by far its one of the best animated movies I have seen. Its very touching too.

3 Big Hero 6

! SPOILER! it isn't always shown, but as a student majoring psychology, I can tell the grief and emotional dynamic that happens to the main character due to what he loss

I don't know which is sadder. Hiro's brother dies. Or he says that he is satisfied with his care and baymax uses his rocket arm to get Hiro out of the portal.

I really think this is an emotional movie. I cry every time I watch it!

Very emotional. It's the best Disney movie and emotional

4 Bambi

I hope hunters take this lesson seriously: Stop killing animals for no reason! They don't deserve it, and Bambi's story is definitely not fake. It's happening to millions of animals worldwide, and we have to stop it! Imagine if someone shot your mother or father! How would you feel? Why would hunters do that? I remember walking into Dick's and seeing all the hunting things and CRYING! I never cry! I hate it! Please make the torture stop, hunters!

The guy who shot Bambi's character is the worst Disney character of all time

If someone shot my father or mother I'm gonna shoot him back.

I almost became a vegan after I watched the mom die

5 Toy Story 3

If you grew up watching the Toy Story movies as I did this one pulls at your heart strings. If your like me you feel like you grew up with Andy's toys as well and so there's that emotional connection you share with the characters. Not the saddest Disney movie but definitely top 5.

It's certainly the most unpredictable Disney movie, even the part where Lotso turns evil is almost impossible to predict unless you've watched the movie before or read this review.

The ending made me cry

Cried at the ending and when they accepted there death and held hands

6 Brave

WOW! This movie was like! The Mother and Daughter relationship is very well shown! I thought this movie would be like AVERAGE but when I watched this movie for the first time it had BLOWN my mind like anything! The last scene when Merida's mother turns to normal was even more EMOTIONAL! I literally cried that time! One of the best movies from Pixar!

I cry at this movie every time. Even if I am not a daughter I still love the Mother - Daughter relationship. The ending is so sad.

The end makes you very sad, and also it's very touching! Lovely movie!

This movie is beautiful and heartbreaking an needs to be higher.

7 The Fox and the Hound

There is only one sad scene, but lt reaches The Green Mile levels of sadness. It's downright depressing. And surprisingly, lt does not involve the titular hound. This is the saddest lt gets.

This should be #1. Watch it and if you don't cry or even get sad, there's something wrong with you.

I cried in the end, seeing them apart is sad, needs a better sequel!

Two individuals driven apart by sociatal norms. This happens in REAL LIFE.

8 The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Such a heartbreaking movie!

I hate this movie

9 Toy Story 2

The Jessie & Emily moments!

10 The Lion King

I think The Lion King is the saddest Disney movie because Simba's Daddy died. By his own brother, that's just sad and they talked about it nearly talked about it for nearly all of the second part, but by the way, The Lion King is the best Disney movie ever!

YES! The Lion King is of course a sad one. When I saw this movie I was very angry with Scar, who murdered Mufasa. I almost cried when Mufasa died and when Simba was crying and calling for help. That was the most emotional scene in that movie.
That's why The Lion King is the one of the best and sad movie of Disney!
We have to admit. Disney is really a multi- talented company.

Don't give me death threats for this or something but I love this movie but it's super overrated. I find it extremely sad and bawl my eyes out every time.

This one didn't make me cry at all. It's a great movie but it definitely isn't very sad

The Contenders
11 Monsters, Inc.

I cry every time Boo goes home

The ending, then a soft sob

12 Dumbo

One of the reasons I hate circuses, especially Ringling Bros, animal cruelty is the worst thing you can do, hope all animal cruelty people burn in hell

The seen where Dumbo's mother is rocking him in her trunk and dumbo starts to cry makes me feel so sad. I feel so sorry for dumbo

WHY ANIMAL CRUELTY WHY! okay number one its not ethical to whip a innocent animal number two why are you separating dem

This film is so sad especially when Dumbo's mother sings baby mine to him and dumbo gets upset,this film is so sad

13 Wall-E

This is the best movie of all it just proves that even the kind ones can get left behind and that all of the robots who were classed as broken were the best ones of them all

This should be 2nd, 11th is way too low

I cry every time

14 Coco

At the end when migil (sorry if I spelled that wrong) sang remember me to coco so she would remember hector and then she starting singing along with him! And she pretty much didn't talk the whole movie that part and the part when hector was singing to coco those two parts just got me I started crying it pretty sad

I cried in coco when hector sang remember me to coco and I cried in the ending

This movie is my FAVOURITE Pixar movie. It had its sad moments.. - Swampert02

My tears never fall this easy until I saw coco

15 The Rescuers
16 The Good Dinosaur

I found this movie disappointing. It wasn't the lack of realism, it was just... Not what I expected. A sad movie doesn't make a movie necessarily bad, like how parents were complaining about how "Inside Out" was too sad. Too SAD?! Uh-uh, you can't expose your children to sadness? Anyway, this movie was a bit more frightening than sad, but still eye-watering all the same.

It was emotional, but not realistic, and the lack of realism is why this movie is the worst movie ever made by Pixar, it sucks and if they added realism into this movie, then the comet would hit the Earth and the dinosaurs would be extinct, no lie, Lots of fictional movies have lots of realism, and this had none, what a waste of money.

An extremely disappointing movie, and it's emotional scenes didn't carry through for me. Except there is a scene near the end in which the movie ripped my heart out and stomped on it.

I love The Good Dinosaur it was very touching and moving. Thunderclap is my favorite I wish there where more scenes of him and his flock.

17 Frozen

This isn't sad at all. I went into a public place and they turned on this movie.
BORED ME FOR AN HOUR! The part where it was "supposed" to be sad,
the part where Elsa is stuck in a room and Anna dies, I didn't fell depressed.
I actually cheered instead.

This movie isn't sad because it has a basic ending. You know what's gonna happen.

Its one of the most dramatic movies I ever saw but it's not very sad

I didn't cry at all while watching this movie, not a single moment!

18 Wreck-It Ralph

The scene were Ralph has to destroy the car that he and Vanellope made together is completely heartbreaking for me. He is crushing her dreams (both literally and figuratively), because he wants to protect her, and this was the one thing that he had ever made instead of wrecking.

"You really are a bad guy! " This dialogue is enough to make us cry! It's like HEARTBREAKING for Ralph as well as for us!

Oh come on, he was literally going to kill himself to save the arcade and this movie is only 14th?

Why in the HELL is Brave higher than this?!

19 Zootopia

Like real animals everywhere, Nick had to deal with prejudice. Sure, it's fictional, but people kill animals because they think they're harmful or because they did something that wasn't their fault. This isn't exactly the lesson, but I hope someone thought of this once.

This movie defiantly had its sad moments. For example, when Nick was revealed to be a victim of prejudice as a young child was a very sad moment. Also, Judy's heartfelt apology to Nick was sad as well. Inside Out seemed a bit more depressing.

Don't hurt my precious baby con artist fox! Nick is one of my favorite animated characters ever, second only to Dimitri from Anastasia and the Star Wars cartoon people who don't count

It's not very sad but the movie does really show how screwed up society is and how bad racism/sexism is. It also shows us that animals are living things, too.

20 Finding Dory

At times it could be sad, and it did it well! Rate this 10/10 and is sad when it needs to be.

This one was a tear jerker, I won't spoiler it but my dad cried when my mom was DESCRIBING it

Honestly This almost made me cry first time watching it

Started bawling in the theater and cried on the way home

21 Brother Bear

Definitely should be higher on the list! The story behind Koda is what seals the deal!

This movie is a whole entire emotional rollercoaster and I cried.

22 Finding Nemo

Extremely heartbreaking

How is this not higher

23 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

This movie is just so sad! Can't believe the stupid queen poisens her! I always cry when snow white dies!

It's so sad that Snow White dies! I have cried off this

Not sad at all to be honest

Where's lilo and stich

24 The Iron Giant

This isn't a Disney movie

Not exactly a new approach for Disney seeing as to how it's not... y'know... made by Disney...

That movie was heartwarming but still it made me cry

Um... this was not made by Disney.

25 How to Train Your Dragon 2

When toothless was hypnotized and tried to attack Hiccup and his father saved him and died, I was crying so hard.

I agree that it is sad, but is it sad enough to have it on a list made pf Disney and Pixar movies?

Idiots trolling this with Dreamworks on purpose

Whoever added this is stupid. Sure, Stoick dying was sad, but httyd 2 is DreamWorks, not Disney.

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