So, we kind of spoiled the top film on our list of the saddest movies in the previous paragraph where we gave away that iconic horror novelist Stephen King had two of his works on our roundup. Coming in at the number one spot is Frank Darabont’s 1999 four-time Academy Award-nominated film, The Green Mile. Another introspective look at the bonds of humanity, the film centers around Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), an officer assigned to death row duties at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary.

Though he’s met a lot of folks waiting in line for death, he never met someone quite like John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a massively built man who was convicted of killing two young sisters. While his size may have made him the prime suspect, his gentle attitude gave off nothing of the sort which in turn made Paul question the likelihood of this man truly being the monster he was made out to be.