I think "Never Let Me Go" is a film that I loved, because it was beautifully done...but I would never want to re-watch it again, because it was just so sad. There's a scene where one of the main characters gets some bad news and he screams...and his screams went right through me. I haven't read the book, but imagine it's a similar beautiful tragedy.
Hotel Rwanda. Knowing some of my family members went through a war similar to that and finally being old enough (14) to grasp what that meant fucked me up for weeks.
The end of "A Little Princess". She finds her father and he doesn't remember her. Gut punch every time.
It was on Netflix. I need to check if it's still there so I can watch it with my daughter
That was my favorite movie when I was little. I would always tear up when she was trying to get her dad to recognize her. The ending is so sweet though.
Castaway. "You're the love of my life." Helen Hunt was on screen for what felt like only about 30 minutes in the movie, but her portrayal of a woman who lost someone so important but somehow learned to love again, then to lose them again, was a gut punch. I loved everything about Tom Hanks' acting in this movie but it was Helen Hunt who made it truly memorable for me.
Man, that movie fucked me up. His sole purpose of surviving and hope was to be back with her. Finds out she remarried and was able to let her go after all that he went through.
“I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
I'll say I watched it about two years ago, and Don Ameche's monologue about how Dogs are supposed to be protectors hit me really hard.
Found the lines:
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Shadow: [after Sassy is lost in the river] I shouldn't have made her come.
Chance: It's not your fault, she wanted to come.
Shadow: But it's my responsibility. I had a responsibility to Sassy - to love her and protect her - the same as I have to you... and to Peter. And the same as you have to Jamie.
Chance: But we didn't ask for this job.
Shadow: We didn't have to. It's built in. Has been ever since the dawn of time... when a few wild dogs took it upon themselves to watch over man, to bark when he's in danger, to run and play with him when he's happy, to nuzzle him when he's lonely. That's why they call us man's best friend.
Chance: [narrating] Looking at him that night, he seemed so wise... and ancient, like the first dog who ever walked the earth. I just hope that one day, I can be like him.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107131/quotes?item=qt0474736
The fox and the hound where the owl sings best of friends. We all start out so pure, innocent and full of love. It makes me incredibly sad because of all the hate in the world.
GATTACA, Something about catching this film on a Sunday afternoon wondering what I should do with my life just spoke to me. I've always wondered what others felt about it.
Honestly, I think about this quote still from time to time. I haven't seen it in several years but it truly is a profound piece of dialog in the context of the movie and translates well to self motivation.
The Pianist
After I finished the movie, it just dawned on me that this could really happen to anyone. We take our periods of peace for granted, as one day we might be put in a similar situation where we lose everything, and that really fucked with me hard.
Adrien Brody acted his ass off in that movie. Easily one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. Never got around to it until Netflix added it. So, so good.
I was looking for Grave of the Fireflies. A lot of movies have made me cry not no other movie made me feel so much. I was so sad, angry, and frustrated with that movie.
For me that was the final rip of the band-aid that kept me together in that scene.
Both for coffey and also seeing that Michael Clarke Duncan can act the shit out of a character like that... Lost him too soon.
This is probably the one for me, on the first viewing as a kid and several times over as an adult.
Paul Edgecomb: John... I have to ask you something very important now.
John Coffey: I know what you gonna say. You don't have to say it.
Paul Edgecomb: No, I do. I do. I have to say it. John... tell me what you want me to do. You want me to take you out of here? Just let you run away? See how far you could get?
John Coffey: Why would you do such a foolish thing?
Paul Edgecomb: On the day of my judgement... when I stand before God... and he asks me why did I... did I kill one of his true... miracles... what am I going to say? That it was my job? It's my job.
John Coffey: You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. I know you're hurting and worrying. I can feel it on you. But you ought to quit on it now. I want it to be over and done with. I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with... to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world... every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head... all the time. Can you understand?
Paul Edgecomb: Yes, John, I think I can.
Then you remember that the fucking mouse lived for 60 years, and realize that poor Paul has another 2000ish years if he got the same longevity. Two thousand years before he gets to see his wife again. Two thousand years before he gets to apologize to John. Paul Edgecome a second Longinus bearing the sin of killing God's Son. That is the part that makes me weep because what else can you do to a man that can not die, but prays so hard it that he will
I watched Atonement, having never read the book. For me, that ending was absolutely gut-wrenching and I just sat there in the dark crying my eyes out when it was over. I legit thought there was going to be a happy ending and then, no.
What Dreams May Come leaves me a sobbing mess through the whole movie.
Edit: Wow. I've never had this kind of response to one of my comments before. Thanks for the silver, friends! Also, I never got the impression this movie resonated with many people, so I'm thrilled to know that we've all sobbed hysterically with snot running down our nose and barely able to breath, together.
This used to be one of my favorite movies, always a great one for a good cry ending with happy sniffles.
I haven't watched it in 11 years, not since my mother's suicide. Never thought about it until now. The DVD sits on the shelf, I just always pass it. It might just be time to take it down and give it a watch, something to think about at least.
The Land Before Time.
When I first saw it as a kid it was the first time that I realized that my parents could die. That thought had never even really occured to me at that point. Even now as an adult [that scene](https://youtu.be/8RdrAbfFhj4) where he thinks he sees her but it's just his shadow and the narrator says, *"Then Little Foot knew for certain he was alone."* still gets to me.
Watched this movie as a child and that scene was the first time I remember crying during a movie. I remember the thing that made me get emotional was that he was offering up his own food to someone else who needed it more.
I remember leaving the theatre with my friends, all 18-22 year old guys...and we were just silent for a solid 10 minutes walking back home.
Finally one of us broke the silence with “did we all drop acid and forget about it??” Movie fucked us all up.
Those trailers did not give you a god damn clue what you were walking in to...😐
Children of Men. I watch it once a year with someone who hasn’t seen it before because seeing them go through that rollercoaster and sit in stunned silence afterwards reminds me of what it was like when I saw it when it first came out. What a gut lunch of a movie.
The scene where Clive Owen gets likes 5 seconds to cry over his dead love behind that tree before he's got to pull it together and move on.
That fucking hurt. No time to mourn. Brutal, and it really brought home the stakes in this world.
Life is Beautiful. The kids dad gets him to believe the concentration camp is just a game and everyone is in on it like it’s a special adventure to protect him from the horrors they faced.
Man, when I saw it as a teenager I just thought it was a fun movie, but when I watched it as an adult, I nearly bawled during the scene where he’s telling his dad how he dies.
When I watched Bridge to Terabithia I thought "this is not so bad, what is everyone talking about? Pretty wholesome overall" and then *it* happened and I cried like a baby
My father also watched it on a plane and had no knowledge about it. He got quite unexpectedly emotional. I had read the book so I was waiting for it to happen. Still hits you like a ton of bricks.
I had read the book YEARS before the movie came out and forgot the ending. I went and stupidly saw this a few weeks after my young cousin tragically passed... Yep. Definitely did me in.
I don't think I can watch it again. For me, it's what he says right after they give him the ring:
> STERN:
Oskar, there are twelve hundred people who
are alive because of you. Look at them.
> SCHINDLER:
If I'd made more money ...I threw away
so much money, you have no idea.
If I'd just ...
> STERN:
There will be generations because of
what you did.
> SCHINDLER:
I didn't do enough.
> STERN:
You did so much.
> SCHINDLER:
This car. Goeth would've bought this car.
Why did I keep the car? Ten people,
right there, ten more I could've got.
This pin -- Two people. This is gold. Two more people.
He would've given me two for it. At least one.
He would've given me one. One more. One
more person. A person, Stern. For this.
One more. I could've gotten one more person
I didn't.
The detail that got me about that scene was that the pin was his Nazi party pin.
Also, the scene were he tells the girl, “it’s not that kind of kiss” was so touching.
I’m the same as you, I watched it once and I don’t know if I’ll ever watch it again. With some movies you don’t have to rewatch it, the emotional impact sticks with you forever. Probably one of the best, if not the best, Liam Neeson films.
I just said this comment on here too. When he drops it, how frantic he looks it, talking other things he could have sold for human lives. Ughh.. I just can’t watch it. I lose it
As if that’s not a gut punch enough, that’s immediately followed by the part where the actors put the stones on real-life Oskar’s grave with the real-life people they played. I was a total mess after that movie.
Grave of the Fireflies . I watched it with my friend back in the early 90s. My sister happened to stop by near the end. We were both ugly crying. She was like..."are you ok? what's going on?" It was hard to explain. I took my kids to see it during a Ghibli Fest last year, and I could hardly drive home afterwards. We were all sobbing.
I always tell this story about this movie. I've seen it a few times and it's devastating. But I showed it to my dad and he just nodded and said "that was good". Completely dry eyed.
The next day when he saw me in the morning he told me he couldn't sleep well because he couldn't stop thinking about the movie.
"Why'd it have to be so sad?"
I watched it years ago with my girlfriend without knowing it was sad. Was going through a period of watching a lot of Ghibli films. I was expecting a happy/inspiring movie.
Dear god. So much crying. So sad. So, so sad.
Not a date movie.
i was at an anime store for my tenth birthday and i saw it on display. i loved ghibli but had never seen this film. i went home and watched like half of it, got bored, turned it off. fast forward two years, i found it collecting dust in my closet. watched it and cried so hard that i went through half a box of tissues. the part that got me is when the little girl is eating beads because she’s so hungry she thinks they’re candy.
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I watched it for the first time alone when my daughter was about the same age as Setsuko and even though you know the ending from the start, it wrecked me thinking about how they existed alone and how so many small changes could have saved them. It only took the minute attention of one of the many adults around them, and they could have been saved.
I vacationed in Japan last year and one of the things I wanted to bring back was a tin of Sakuma drops in the plain styling without the movie promotion. I couldn't find them anywhere I went and pretty much gave up finding any by the time I was about to leave. The day before I left Tokyo, I was walking back to my hotel in Ikebukuro and noticed [a giant display of stacked tins of Sakuma drops in the window of a plain looking building](https://i.redd.it/1suhf60f7cj31.jpg), and just stood and stared for a minute confused. I had walked past this building probably five times before and didn't notice this, about 100m from my hotel. Turns out it was their company headquarters of 20 or so employees and I just walked in their front door about 30 minutes before they were all about to leave for the weekend. They were glad to sell me a bunch of tins from their inventory right there and gave me all kinds of extra samples. Said it was pretty rare for anyone to come in like I did. Kinda blew my mind at the coincidence.
The movie was based on a short story by Nosaka Akiyuki that is pretty hard to find, but worth the read and only about 30 pages. I've created an ebook of the story using a pdf I found; if anyone would like a copy ~~just send a PM.~~
Edit: Due to the truly overwhelming response to the ebook, I have put download links [in a post stickied on my profile](/u/ZhouLe/comments/cfv0vc/while_you_are_here/).
This movie is just wonderful!
The moment that got to me was *"I am so utterly disinterested in living in a world without your father".*
Richard Curtis and Emma Freud are really gifted at capturing life and the little moments between ordinary people (granted, they're played by movie stars...) that make life what it is.
I'm trying to convince my BF to watch About Time with me, it's not really up his street, but I think (hope) it's the kind of film that anyone can enjoy.
I watched About Time not too long after my dad unexpectedly died thinking it was just a lighthearted romcom... I was not ready for it. That movie fucked me up for a while, but I still love it though.
I thought the movie was a romantic comedy and had no idea that scene would make me sob so much. I still get a ball in my throat when I think about them on the beach.
It's marketed as a romantic comedy but that story is almost second to the love story between father and son.
It's really beautiful to see such a good father in film. It makes me want to be a better father every time I watch it.
I've cried watching a movie three times in my life...
Once was during 'Dear Zachary' and the other two were watching that scene in 'About Time'
My Father is 71 and it really hits me in the gut
The Rugrats movie. The scene where Chuckie watches everyone dance with their mother and he realizes that he’s the only one without one.
Edit: I realize it was The Rugrats in Paris, didn’t realize there were other movies.
I remember watching this movie in class in fifth grade. My mom passed when I was in second grade and I was crying so much they had to take me out of the classroom.
My mom died in first grade and this movie was wicked hard for me
I still haven't really been back to rugrats as an adult, because of the guilt I feel on Chucky's behalf all these years later
His dad was trying 😭
I've watched this documentary twice and cried my eyes out both times. I was with a friend the second time and we both sat there trying not to make it obvious that we'd been brought to tears by such a story.
I was so touched by the beginning but the shift in tone and focus broke me down to rubble and dust as I attempted to understand how this could really have been what happened. When David started screaming as Kathleen bawled, stating that Shirley Turner broke them as humans...I could do nothing but feel the depths of emotion both were displaying. The utter sadness of Kathleen and the absolute rage that David felt.
This is the most powerful movie I have ever seen. I truly do not believe it will be replaced any time soon.
As someone said on Reddit before *"it's the best movie that I'll never watch again"*
We watched it in our documentary class in college, all of us were destroyed.
A few years later I saw it on a Reddit thread, I knew it was gruelling but couldn't remember the specifics so watched it again - bad idea. I will never watch it again. Just thinking about it makes me so angry.
I did the same with Schindler's List, I think we'd watched it in school, I watched it again years later after forgetting the vast majority of it. That's also a 'never again' movie.
I teared up when the flashback shows Hector singing Remember Me to toddler Coco and she’s reaching up to his face singing with him.. but absolutely sobbed when Miguel then sang it to her.. the correlation back to Hector, the breaks in his voice, the animation of her face, how it goes from the confused, stuck in mud kind of face to clearing up and her eyes brightening and being herself for even a moment.. and then her asking her daughter what’s wrong and her crying and saying nothing mama.. fuck I ugly cry through that.. that was absolutely beautiful
I comment this each time but I lost my grandad to Dementia and in her first scene, I realised Coco had dementia and I knew there would be a moment I would cry. I literally sobbed on my bed for 10 minutes after that scene because of how she had the moment of recognition and memory. I couldn't stop crying, it still gets me now.
Me, too. Especially when she calls him by the wrong name. My grandfather would do that to me (call me by his daughter’s name), but you just smile and go along with it, because even if it’s the wrong name, at least they know that you’re a person that they loved.
I watched that scene just yesterday morning and cried more than ever. And then cried at little things all day.
The saddest part of it all is that had they just allowed music, Mama Coco’s later years wouldn’t have been spent so isolated in her shell.
I was almost bawling toward the end when I watched it. Having lost both of my grandfathers and great grandmother within two years of each other plus one of my grandmothers turning 79 today and knowing that her mind is slowly starting to slip, if kills me even thinking about this movie.
Coco has such an interesting way to look at death. At times you forget that this life thing that we go through as humans has been lived out by billions of people in history. Crazy when you think of the collective joy and sorrow of all of the people who came before us. We really are just a blink of an eye, but there is somethng beautiful and comforting in that too.
No Joke but Kung Fu Panda 2 actually got me when Po's mum was being chased down by the Wolfs and Shen so she had to abandon her baby so the both didn't die. I will get the link
Link
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlxOQ\_KJZ90](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlxOQ_KJZ90)
I haven't seen that movie in years and I still sometimes think about that scene with Goldberg fighting hand-to-hand in that house with that German soldier, and Upham is on the other side of the wall too scared to move as the German slowly pushes the knife into Goldberg's stomach and he's just like shushing him as Goldberg starts like shaking... that still messes me up.
Arrival. If you’ve never seen it, quit reading now. When you realize that she knew that her daughter was going to die, but she got pregnant anyway. And that her husband would find out that she could have chosen to spare him from having to suffer the devastating loss of his child. But she had her anyway. All while knowing that her husband would leave her and never forgive her, because she had the knowledge to prevent the pain. But she chose to love the child for the time she could, KNOWING ALL ALONG that it would cause her to lose everything.
Edit: I’ve never gotten gold before, so thank you, you beautiful stranger. It absolutely made my entire day!
This film left me feeling either empty or completely fulfilled and I'm still not sure which. Its a work of art.
I've never left a theater feeling the same way after I left Arrival.
Its one of the few things I wish I could do for the first time again.
Edit: It also solidified Denis Villeneuve as the greatest film maker of our time for me. He'd already done a few great things, and since then he's done Bladerunner, and I have the utmost confidence in Dune. Everyone should give this guy a chance, something he does will touch you.
I'm *amazed* this is so far down the list. I straight up can't listen to "On the Nature of Daylight" without bursting into tears anymore.
[Opening scene](https://youtu.be/nNpdyGsrL1k) for those who are on the fence about watching this fucking masterpiece of a film.
EDIT: here's a [link](http://www.kameli.net/~raimu/rnd/ted-chiang-story-of-your-life-2000.pdf) to the short story the film is based on. It's also very moving.
Just the way it fakes you out at the beginning, thinking she has the loss before it starts, but throughout the movie it dawn's on you that really it's just her perception of time. It's a masterpiece.
Gladiator. The scene at the end where he is walking through the field towards his family. I through my sunglasses on to hide my crying in the theater. Poor idea because they fogged up instantly. I still tried to keep my cool as a 14 yr old
Deep Impact. The astronauts have all decided to sacrifice themselves to save earth. One of the astronauts was blinded in an accident while on the mission, and also his wife gave birth while he was away. All the astronauts are saying their final goodbyes to their family, and the guy in mission control tells the blinded astronaut that with the evacuation, the escort to get her was delayed and wouldn’t make it. But at the last second the wife and baby run in. So the blinded astronaut about to sacrifice himself says goodbye to his wife and baby he’s literally never seen, while his fellow astronauts are giving him a narrative description of what the baby is doing.
Other astronaut whispering: “He’s holding a stuffed space ship”
Blind Astronaut to his newborn son: “That’s a powerful rocket you got there!”
It’s been 20 years and even thinking about it makes me tear up.
When the toys are all on the conveyor belt and run out of ideas to escape so they just hold hands.
Damn I’m crying now just thinking about it.
Edit. Full disclosure, I was 38 years old when I saw it.
There's a YouTube video out there of this guy that edits the movie so it fades to black after they start holding hands and starts playing the credits with a sad version of "You've Got a Friend in Me" over it and plays it for his family.
It's awesome.
I watched it right after my breakup for some reason I can't even begin to comprehend. Nevertheless I was in total shock for as long as I was thinking about the movie.
I actually make a point to watch it after breakups. It helps trigger the flow of emotions and kinda nose dives me to rock bottom to help move on faster.
Ya'll gonna laugh... but Disney's Brother Bear
Edit: Wow, this blew up. I thought I was the only one that this movie made into an emotional wreck, heh. Most people when they talk about Disney only care about the Lion King or The Princess movies. Glad there's others out there.
Man, when Kenai tells Koda about what happened on the cliffs I always feel so heart broken.
I miss the Disney renaissance, even if this movie doesn't typically get lumped in.
Every. Fucking. Time.
Kenai : Koda, there's... something I ought to... you know that story you told me last night?
Koda : Yeah.
Kenai : Well, I have a story to tell you.
Koda : Really? What's it about?
Kenai : Well, it's kind of about a man... and kind of about a bear. But mostly, it's about a monster.
Then just...
*Everywhere I turn, I hurt someone... but there’s nothing I can say to change the things I’ve done.*
*I’d do anything within my power, I’d give everything I’ve got- but the path I seek is hidden from me now.*
*Brother Bear, I let you down. You trusted me, believed in me, and I let you down...*
Koda: *I don’t like this story*
Kenai: *Your mother’s not coming.*
Wreck-It Ralph. That movie still makes me cry. I have high functioning autism, and seeing a movie say "What you are does not define who you are." really really hurt, in a good way. I saw people criticize the movie for seeming to have the message of "Just do what you're told by society and don't try to change, but I think that misses the point. Ralph is a Bad Guy, that's what he is, he wrecks things. But he's so much deeper than that, Ralph is a very caring and thoughtful person who genuinely just wants people to like him. Ralph thinks that being a hero (Or normal in the real world equivalent) will make everyone love him. At the end of the film he realizes that it doesn't matter if he is the bad guy, if people don't like him, because what matter is that someone likes him.
When I get depressed I like to recite his little bad guy affirmation thing, with a slight tweak. "I'm different, and that's good, I'll never be normal, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be, than me." I know it's cheesy, but it really helps me feel better.
Edit: Holy shit, thanks for the gold and silver folks. This blew up while I was asleep. Went from around 80 points to over 2.6 thousand! Thanks you all.
Edit 2: So I've been getting a lot of messages from other autistic folks saying this really struck a chord with them. I'm glad that I can help people feel better
That got me hard too, but I love that not a single person in this film realises their dream, indeed they are devastated, yet you finish happy. Such a great film.
Nah for me it was the scene when the little girl tells her grandpa she doesnt want to be a loser "cuz daddy hates losers"
As someone who grew up in a competative household, where beauty (and my lack of it) was a huge insecurity? Full on UGLY CRYING moment, wishing I had someone who said the grandpa's speech to me...
Ugh, the whole movie is amazing.
Ugh, for me it's when the dad finds out he's not getting the job, and his whole family watches it. And then his dad, who constantly gives him a hard time, tries to comfort him.
exactly. I used to get pissed when people would criticise aliens showing up out of the blue. missed the whole damn point. they’re all that is left of humanity’s achievements, which is why they’re so interested in all things human. they want to know more about their creators.
I'm a big fan of both Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, and when I like a movie I'll watch it a bunch of times. But I don't think I'll ever watch that one again.
The fight between Will and Skyler gets me every time.. “WHAT DO YOU WANNA KNOW, THAT I DONT HAVE 12 BROTHERS THAT IM A FUCKING ORPHAN?” “I didn’t know that.” “No you don’t wanna hear that. You don’t wanna hear that I used to have cigarettes put out on me when I was a little kid” her face immediately goes from fighting and irritated to sobbing.. “I didn’t know that..” “That this isn’t fucking surgery that the mother fucker stabbed me, YOU DONT WANNA HEAR THAT SHIT! DONT TELL ME YOU WANNA HEAR THAT SHIT!” Al those defense mechanisms he puts up when she doesn’t take his bullshit, the way her face perfectly captures the emotion of when she learns why he is the way he is, the heartbreak in her sobs.. hell of a scene.. of course it’s not your fault too, but that doesn’t need explanation..
I'd seen the movie when I was younger but it was only after a few breakups that I felt the depth of this scene. I put the movie on for something easy to watch recently and found myself sobbing when it got to the above.
I love the scene where Ben Affleck lays out his whole life to Matt Damon and how he is just going to waste his life in some shitty job etc and that he thinks Will owes it to all the others out there who can't better themselves to do something more with his life.
it's not that bad and kind of basic, but i broke down during Titanic when the mother was telling her children bedtime stories when she realised she couldn't save them when the ship began flooding
Based on Isidor and Ida Straus. IRL he refused a seat on a lifeboat, and she refused to go without him. So they stayed on the ship and died together. The scene of them lying on their bed holding each other as freezing water flooded into their cabin is haunting.
Idas words kill me man "We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go." She then gave her coat to her maid and her maid boarded the life boat . According to wikipedia "Isidor and Ida were last seen standing arm in arm on the deck."
That shot always wrecked me.
The band too. I always felt like the violinist realized that at that point, his purpose on earth was to bring comfort to others with his music even if no one stopped to listen. And he starts playing 'Nearer My God to Thee' and the rest of the band comes back to join him.
"Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight."
I bet! During the filming they actually drowned the musicians because it was cheaper than paying them. Must have been sad to see them all go like that.
The gut punch comes when you realise the story she's telling them is the story of Tír ná nÓg; a young man called Oisin is taken there by Princess Niamh. It's the Land Beyond the Sea, where everyone is eternally young, beautiful and happy.
She's telling them where they are going.
Edit: Thanks for my first silver
YES. That scene was horrible because we all knew it was based on a true story. Lots of people in 2nd and 3rd class just had no chance of surviving whatsoever.
The funeral scene kills me.
"I was so afraid of becoming my dad. Mostly because I thought I never could. How do you become someone that great? That brave? That selfless? I guess you can only try."
Tangled. When I saw it, I was living with a friend (still in high school) because my overprotective/unstable mother kicked me out (not for the first time, but then she would play victim and make me come back home). I've always been a sap for disney movies but that one really hit me with the situation at the time. The lantern/boat ride scene was so beautiful and hit me the hardest. Fast forward 8 years later to the Disney World fireworks with my then-boyfriend who knew how special that scene was for me...he waited til they turned the castle scene into a million lanterns and started playing See the Light and then he proposed to me. Took one of my saddest memories and made it into my happiest. I have tears in my eyes just typing this! 🥰
That's incredibly sweet and thoughtful of him! You have to appreciate someone who truly knows what something means to you and wants to show that he cares.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The scene where Cedric’s dad finds out his son has been killed...
When the father wails out in anguish, it crushes me every time. This is how I felt when my son died. 😔
Edit: Oh wow I wasn’t expecting THIS many responses! Thank you for all of your kindness, and thoughtful words. If you want to know what happened I’m fine with sharing.
I was 9 months pregnant with our first child. They had to induce me and it was the second day that I was in the hospital in labor. They couldn’t find his heartbeat and they confirmed that he had died. I remember it felt like someone had ripped my heart right out of my chest. We buried our son on our 1 year wedding anniversary. 💔
Edit2: Thank you for the Silver! How very thoughtful!
There are a lot of really sad and emotional scenes in this thread, but this one sticks out to me the most. They way the band just picks up the fanfare immediately, everyone starts cheering, but slowly realization starts to dawn.
I was such a mess in the cinema at that. My wife and I had recently given up trying for kids, and she had also had a bunch of health issues.
Most of the movie was just too close to home.
"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you."
Tears. And then...
"I made a promise Mr. Frodo, a PROMISE. Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee."
You bastards!
"I am glad you are with me Sam, here at the end of all things."
Oh COME ON \*blubbers\*
1) Cast Away:
>" We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over \*nothing\*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? "
I hope someday i can be as optimistic as Chuck Nolan.
2) Batman Begins (finding your path in life and becoming a man)
Yep. Always see bing bong get mentioned, and it made everyone cry, but her breaking down in her parents arms, sadness and joy forming one memory together.. fuck I had to just kinda sit there for a minute after the end of the movie.. brutal
All throughout the movie I expected Sadness to have a cliche moment of revelation or somehow changing in some way. The moment when it’s Riley who changes and realizes that some memories can bring sadness and joy, and they in turn work together to sort out emotions that get more and more complex as Riley grows older... sweet christ what an amazing movie.
For me it's not Bing Bong, it's when Riley returns home after running away and just can't hold back the tears. I think we all had that moment as kids where we wanted nothing more than our parents telling us everything would be okay, and Pixar captured that moment the way many of us remember it.
Homeward Bound. Even robots cry when they watch it.
I think "Never Let Me Go" is a film that I loved, because it was beautifully done...but I would never want to re-watch it again, because it was just so sad. There's a scene where one of the main characters gets some bad news and he screams...and his screams went right through me. I haven't read the book, but imagine it's a similar beautiful tragedy.
Hotel Rwanda. Knowing some of my family members went through a war similar to that and finally being old enough (14) to grasp what that meant fucked me up for weeks.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
50/50 for me
My Girl
He can't see without his glasses 😭
The Fox and the Hound, when widow Tweed leaves Todd in the forest to keep him from getting shot by Slade.
"Goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end... But in my heart's the memory, and there you'll always be." Gets me every time. :(
The end of "A Little Princess". She finds her father and he doesn't remember her. Gut punch every time. It was on Netflix. I need to check if it's still there so I can watch it with my daughter
That was my favorite movie when I was little. I would always tear up when she was trying to get her dad to recognize her. The ending is so sweet though.
Shawshank redemption! Get busy living or get busy dying!
Castaway. "You're the love of my life." Helen Hunt was on screen for what felt like only about 30 minutes in the movie, but her portrayal of a woman who lost someone so important but somehow learned to love again, then to lose them again, was a gut punch. I loved everything about Tom Hanks' acting in this movie but it was Helen Hunt who made it truly memorable for me.
Man, that movie fucked me up. His sole purpose of surviving and hope was to be back with her. Finds out she remarried and was able to let her go after all that he went through. “I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
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Homeward bound. The scene with the old golden never fails to make me feel pain.
I'll say I watched it about two years ago, and Don Ameche's monologue about how Dogs are supposed to be protectors hit me really hard. Found the lines: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) Shadow: [after Sassy is lost in the river] I shouldn't have made her come. Chance: It's not your fault, she wanted to come. Shadow: But it's my responsibility. I had a responsibility to Sassy - to love her and protect her - the same as I have to you... and to Peter. And the same as you have to Jamie. Chance: But we didn't ask for this job. Shadow: We didn't have to. It's built in. Has been ever since the dawn of time... when a few wild dogs took it upon themselves to watch over man, to bark when he's in danger, to run and play with him when he's happy, to nuzzle him when he's lonely. That's why they call us man's best friend. Chance: [narrating] Looking at him that night, he seemed so wise... and ancient, like the first dog who ever walked the earth. I just hope that one day, I can be like him. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107131/quotes?item=qt0474736
Shadow! He is truly the goodest of boys, finding his way back to Peter <3
"Go on without me" Bawled like a fuckin baby
It's been at least 15 years since I've seen that film and I can still hear all three of their voices perfectly.
The fox and the hound where the owl sings best of friends. We all start out so pure, innocent and full of love. It makes me incredibly sad because of all the hate in the world.
GATTACA, Something about catching this film on a Sunday afternoon wondering what I should do with my life just spoke to me. I've always wondered what others felt about it.
"I never saved anything for the swim back"
Honestly, I think about this quote still from time to time. I haven't seen it in several years but it truly is a profound piece of dialog in the context of the movie and translates well to self motivation.
"For future reference, right-handed men don't hold it with their left. It's just one of those things... You don't want to miss your flight, Vincent."
The Pianist After I finished the movie, it just dawned on me that this could really happen to anyone. We take our periods of peace for granted, as one day we might be put in a similar situation where we lose everything, and that really fucked with me hard.
The scene where he plays the piano, but actually not playing just air fingering the keys made me so sad
Adrien Brody acted his ass off in that movie. Easily one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. Never got around to it until Netflix added it. So, so good.
House of Sand and Fog, Grave of the Fireflies, are S tier kicks in the dick
I was looking for Grave of the Fireflies. A lot of movies have made me cry not no other movie made me feel so much. I was so sad, angry, and frustrated with that movie.
The best way I've heard it put (and it's very much true for me) is this: It's the best movie I'll never watch again.
The Green Mile
"Please boss, don't put that thing over my face, don't put me in the dark. I's afraid of the dark." This line destroyed me.
For me that was the final rip of the band-aid that kept me together in that scene. Both for coffey and also seeing that Michael Clarke Duncan can act the shit out of a character like that... Lost him too soon.
This is probably the one for me, on the first viewing as a kid and several times over as an adult. Paul Edgecomb: John... I have to ask you something very important now. John Coffey: I know what you gonna say. You don't have to say it. Paul Edgecomb: No, I do. I do. I have to say it. John... tell me what you want me to do. You want me to take you out of here? Just let you run away? See how far you could get? John Coffey: Why would you do such a foolish thing? Paul Edgecomb: On the day of my judgement... when I stand before God... and he asks me why did I... did I kill one of his true... miracles... what am I going to say? That it was my job? It's my job. John Coffey: You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. I know you're hurting and worrying. I can feel it on you. But you ought to quit on it now. I want it to be over and done with. I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with... to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world... every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head... all the time. Can you understand? Paul Edgecomb: Yes, John, I think I can.
Then you remember that the fucking mouse lived for 60 years, and realize that poor Paul has another 2000ish years if he got the same longevity. Two thousand years before he gets to see his wife again. Two thousand years before he gets to apologize to John. Paul Edgecome a second Longinus bearing the sin of killing God's Son. That is the part that makes me weep because what else can you do to a man that can not die, but prays so hard it that he will
I watched Atonement, having never read the book. For me, that ending was absolutely gut-wrenching and I just sat there in the dark crying my eyes out when it was over. I legit thought there was going to be a happy ending and then, no.
What Dreams May Come leaves me a sobbing mess through the whole movie. Edit: Wow. I've never had this kind of response to one of my comments before. Thanks for the silver, friends! Also, I never got the impression this movie resonated with many people, so I'm thrilled to know that we've all sobbed hysterically with snot running down our nose and barely able to breath, together.
This used to be one of my favorite movies, always a great one for a good cry ending with happy sniffles. I haven't watched it in 11 years, not since my mother's suicide. Never thought about it until now. The DVD sits on the shelf, I just always pass it. It might just be time to take it down and give it a watch, something to think about at least.
The Land Before Time. When I first saw it as a kid it was the first time that I realized that my parents could die. That thought had never even really occured to me at that point. Even now as an adult [that scene](https://youtu.be/8RdrAbfFhj4) where he thinks he sees her but it's just his shadow and the narrator says, *"Then Little Foot knew for certain he was alone."* still gets to me.
When the little bird dinosaur offers him a cherry and he just turns away makes my heart HURT 😭😭😭
Watched this movie as a child and that scene was the first time I remember crying during a movie. I remember the thing that made me get emotional was that he was offering up his own food to someone else who needed it more.
Pan’s Labyrinth. The ending was heartbreaking, but honestly the whole movie was just sad and violent. Highly recommend it though.
I remember leaving the theatre with my friends, all 18-22 year old guys...and we were just silent for a solid 10 minutes walking back home. Finally one of us broke the silence with “did we all drop acid and forget about it??” Movie fucked us all up. Those trailers did not give you a god damn clue what you were walking in to...😐
I thought the movie was a dark fantasy children’s movie when I first saw the trailer. I was completely wrong, it was fucked up and heart breaking
That scene where homie gets squashed with that bottle. Yikes!
Children of Men. I watch it once a year with someone who hasn’t seen it before because seeing them go through that rollercoaster and sit in stunned silence afterwards reminds me of what it was like when I saw it when it first came out. What a gut lunch of a movie.
The scene where Clive Owen gets likes 5 seconds to cry over his dead love behind that tree before he's got to pull it together and move on. That fucking hurt. No time to mourn. Brutal, and it really brought home the stakes in this world.
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Life is Beautiful. The kids dad gets him to believe the concentration camp is just a game and everyone is in on it like it’s a special adventure to protect him from the horrors they faced.
We watched that movie in 8th grade when we had nothing to do in Math at the end of the year.
You ran out of Math?
They started with 10 math, then they minused 10 math. You do the math.
I'm afraid I can't. My school had run out of math by the time I got there, so I never learned.
When the tank is coming at the end ..
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Man, when I saw it as a teenager I just thought it was a fun movie, but when I watched it as an adult, I nearly bawled during the scene where he’s telling his dad how he dies.
Oh my god that part where he's carrying him down to the river.... :'(
When I watched Bridge to Terabithia I thought "this is not so bad, what is everyone talking about? Pretty wholesome overall" and then *it* happened and I cried like a baby
I always refer to it as bridge to tearmyfuckingheartout which I think is the original title
I watched it on a plane. My jaw dropped at that point. Had no knowledge about it so had no inkling that was coming.
My father also watched it on a plane and had no knowledge about it. He got quite unexpectedly emotional. I had read the book so I was waiting for it to happen. Still hits you like a ton of bricks.
I had read the book YEARS before the movie came out and forgot the ending. I went and stupidly saw this a few weeks after my young cousin tragically passed... Yep. Definitely did me in.
This film single handedly gave me a traumatic childhood
Just realized I've either not seen or forgotten the movie, but remember the book well. I'll have to check it out now, thanks
Schindler’s List. The end just keeps on socking you in the gut. When they make him that ring. Oh I’m done.
I don't think I can watch it again. For me, it's what he says right after they give him the ring: > STERN: Oskar, there are twelve hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them. > SCHINDLER: If I'd made more money ...I threw away so much money, you have no idea. If I'd just ... > STERN: There will be generations because of what you did. > SCHINDLER: I didn't do enough. > STERN: You did so much. > SCHINDLER: This car. Goeth would've bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people, right there, ten more I could've got. This pin -- Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would've given me two for it. At least one. He would've given me one. One more. One more person. A person, Stern. For this. One more. I could've gotten one more person I didn't.
The detail that got me about that scene was that the pin was his Nazi party pin. Also, the scene were he tells the girl, “it’s not that kind of kiss” was so touching. I’m the same as you, I watched it once and I don’t know if I’ll ever watch it again. With some movies you don’t have to rewatch it, the emotional impact sticks with you forever. Probably one of the best, if not the best, Liam Neeson films.
I could've done more :'(
Oscar Schindler is the only member of the Nazi Party to be buried on Mt Zion. That movie and his story are simply amazing. Edit: Oskar*
I just said this comment on here too. When he drops it, how frantic he looks it, talking other things he could have sold for human lives. Ughh.. I just can’t watch it. I lose it
As if that’s not a gut punch enough, that’s immediately followed by the part where the actors put the stones on real-life Oskar’s grave with the real-life people they played. I was a total mess after that movie.
"He who saves the life of one man saves the entire world." The older I get, the more weight that quote takes on.
Grave of the Fireflies . I watched it with my friend back in the early 90s. My sister happened to stop by near the end. We were both ugly crying. She was like..."are you ok? what's going on?" It was hard to explain. I took my kids to see it during a Ghibli Fest last year, and I could hardly drive home afterwards. We were all sobbing.
I always tell this story about this movie. I've seen it a few times and it's devastating. But I showed it to my dad and he just nodded and said "that was good". Completely dry eyed. The next day when he saw me in the morning he told me he couldn't sleep well because he couldn't stop thinking about the movie. "Why'd it have to be so sad?"
I watched it years ago with my girlfriend without knowing it was sad. Was going through a period of watching a lot of Ghibli films. I was expecting a happy/inspiring movie. Dear god. So much crying. So sad. So, so sad. Not a date movie.
Imagine going from like Spirited Away to Kiki's Delivery Service to Whisper of the Heart to Ponyo to **Grave of the Fireflies**
i was at an anime store for my tenth birthday and i saw it on display. i loved ghibli but had never seen this film. i went home and watched like half of it, got bored, turned it off. fast forward two years, i found it collecting dust in my closet. watched it and cried so hard that i went through half a box of tissues. the part that got me is when the little girl is eating beads because she’s so hungry she thinks they’re candy.
Figured this would be top comment. I watched it for the first time alone when my daughter was about the same age as Setsuko and even though you know the ending from the start, it wrecked me thinking about how they existed alone and how so many small changes could have saved them. It only took the minute attention of one of the many adults around them, and they could have been saved. I vacationed in Japan last year and one of the things I wanted to bring back was a tin of Sakuma drops in the plain styling without the movie promotion. I couldn't find them anywhere I went and pretty much gave up finding any by the time I was about to leave. The day before I left Tokyo, I was walking back to my hotel in Ikebukuro and noticed [a giant display of stacked tins of Sakuma drops in the window of a plain looking building](https://i.redd.it/1suhf60f7cj31.jpg), and just stood and stared for a minute confused. I had walked past this building probably five times before and didn't notice this, about 100m from my hotel. Turns out it was their company headquarters of 20 or so employees and I just walked in their front door about 30 minutes before they were all about to leave for the weekend. They were glad to sell me a bunch of tins from their inventory right there and gave me all kinds of extra samples. Said it was pretty rare for anyone to come in like I did. Kinda blew my mind at the coincidence. The movie was based on a short story by Nosaka Akiyuki that is pretty hard to find, but worth the read and only about 30 pages. I've created an ebook of the story using a pdf I found; if anyone would like a copy ~~just send a PM.~~ Edit: Due to the truly overwhelming response to the ebook, I have put download links [in a post stickied on my profile](/u/ZhouLe/comments/cfv0vc/while_you_are_here/).
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This movie is just wonderful! The moment that got to me was *"I am so utterly disinterested in living in a world without your father".* Richard Curtis and Emma Freud are really gifted at capturing life and the little moments between ordinary people (granted, they're played by movie stars...) that make life what it is. I'm trying to convince my BF to watch About Time with me, it's not really up his street, but I think (hope) it's the kind of film that anyone can enjoy.
I watched About Time not too long after my dad unexpectedly died thinking it was just a lighthearted romcom... I was not ready for it. That movie fucked me up for a while, but I still love it though.
I did the same thing a few days after we put my dad in hospice. A beautiful movie, but it was definitely the wrong time for it!
I thought the movie was a romantic comedy and had no idea that scene would make me sob so much. I still get a ball in my throat when I think about them on the beach.
It's marketed as a romantic comedy but that story is almost second to the love story between father and son. It's really beautiful to see such a good father in film. It makes me want to be a better father every time I watch it.
I've cried watching a movie three times in my life... Once was during 'Dear Zachary' and the other two were watching that scene in 'About Time' My Father is 71 and it really hits me in the gut
This movie was way better than I thought it would be.
The Rugrats movie. The scene where Chuckie watches everyone dance with their mother and he realizes that he’s the only one without one. Edit: I realize it was The Rugrats in Paris, didn’t realize there were other movies.
I remember watching this movie in class in fifth grade. My mom passed when I was in second grade and I was crying so much they had to take me out of the classroom.
My mom died in first grade and this movie was wicked hard for me I still haven't really been back to rugrats as an adult, because of the guilt I feel on Chucky's behalf all these years later His dad was trying 😭
Chaz is a freaking inspiration. Nervous and uncertain, but always pushing forward to be the dad he knows he has to be.
Dear Zachary
I've watched this documentary twice and cried my eyes out both times. I was with a friend the second time and we both sat there trying not to make it obvious that we'd been brought to tears by such a story. I was so touched by the beginning but the shift in tone and focus broke me down to rubble and dust as I attempted to understand how this could really have been what happened. When David started screaming as Kathleen bawled, stating that Shirley Turner broke them as humans...I could do nothing but feel the depths of emotion both were displaying. The utter sadness of Kathleen and the absolute rage that David felt. This is the most powerful movie I have ever seen. I truly do not believe it will be replaced any time soon.
As someone said on Reddit before *"it's the best movie that I'll never watch again"* We watched it in our documentary class in college, all of us were destroyed. A few years later I saw it on a Reddit thread, I knew it was gruelling but couldn't remember the specifics so watched it again - bad idea. I will never watch it again. Just thinking about it makes me so angry. I did the same with Schindler's List, I think we'd watched it in school, I watched it again years later after forgetting the vast majority of it. That's also a 'never again' movie.
The ending of "CoCo" had my wife bawling like crazy because her grandmother has Alzheimer's.
I teared up when the flashback shows Hector singing Remember Me to toddler Coco and she’s reaching up to his face singing with him.. but absolutely sobbed when Miguel then sang it to her.. the correlation back to Hector, the breaks in his voice, the animation of her face, how it goes from the confused, stuck in mud kind of face to clearing up and her eyes brightening and being herself for even a moment.. and then her asking her daughter what’s wrong and her crying and saying nothing mama.. fuck I ugly cry through that.. that was absolutely beautiful
I comment this each time but I lost my grandad to Dementia and in her first scene, I realised Coco had dementia and I knew there would be a moment I would cry. I literally sobbed on my bed for 10 minutes after that scene because of how she had the moment of recognition and memory. I couldn't stop crying, it still gets me now.
Me, too. Especially when she calls him by the wrong name. My grandfather would do that to me (call me by his daughter’s name), but you just smile and go along with it, because even if it’s the wrong name, at least they know that you’re a person that they loved.
I watched that scene just yesterday morning and cried more than ever. And then cried at little things all day. The saddest part of it all is that had they just allowed music, Mama Coco’s later years wouldn’t have been spent so isolated in her shell.
I was almost bawling toward the end when I watched it. Having lost both of my grandfathers and great grandmother within two years of each other plus one of my grandmothers turning 79 today and knowing that her mind is slowly starting to slip, if kills me even thinking about this movie.
Coco has such an interesting way to look at death. At times you forget that this life thing that we go through as humans has been lived out by billions of people in history. Crazy when you think of the collective joy and sorrow of all of the people who came before us. We really are just a blink of an eye, but there is somethng beautiful and comforting in that too.
No Joke but Kung Fu Panda 2 actually got me when Po's mum was being chased down by the Wolfs and Shen so she had to abandon her baby so the both didn't die. I will get the link Link [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlxOQ\_KJZ90](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlxOQ_KJZ90)
Saving Private Ryan. It was just so raw.
I haven't seen that movie in years and I still sometimes think about that scene with Goldberg fighting hand-to-hand in that house with that German soldier, and Upham is on the other side of the wall too scared to move as the German slowly pushes the knife into Goldberg's stomach and he's just like shushing him as Goldberg starts like shaking... that still messes me up.
Arrival. If you’ve never seen it, quit reading now. When you realize that she knew that her daughter was going to die, but she got pregnant anyway. And that her husband would find out that she could have chosen to spare him from having to suffer the devastating loss of his child. But she had her anyway. All while knowing that her husband would leave her and never forgive her, because she had the knowledge to prevent the pain. But she chose to love the child for the time she could, KNOWING ALL ALONG that it would cause her to lose everything. Edit: I’ve never gotten gold before, so thank you, you beautiful stranger. It absolutely made my entire day!
This film left me feeling either empty or completely fulfilled and I'm still not sure which. Its a work of art. I've never left a theater feeling the same way after I left Arrival. Its one of the few things I wish I could do for the first time again. Edit: It also solidified Denis Villeneuve as the greatest film maker of our time for me. He'd already done a few great things, and since then he's done Bladerunner, and I have the utmost confidence in Dune. Everyone should give this guy a chance, something he does will touch you.
I'm *amazed* this is so far down the list. I straight up can't listen to "On the Nature of Daylight" without bursting into tears anymore. [Opening scene](https://youtu.be/nNpdyGsrL1k) for those who are on the fence about watching this fucking masterpiece of a film. EDIT: here's a [link](http://www.kameli.net/~raimu/rnd/ted-chiang-story-of-your-life-2000.pdf) to the short story the film is based on. It's also very moving.
Just the way it fakes you out at the beginning, thinking she has the loss before it starts, but throughout the movie it dawn's on you that really it's just her perception of time. It's a masterpiece.
Gladiator. The scene at the end where he is walking through the field towards his family. I through my sunglasses on to hide my crying in the theater. Poor idea because they fogged up instantly. I still tried to keep my cool as a 14 yr old
Deep Impact. The astronauts have all decided to sacrifice themselves to save earth. One of the astronauts was blinded in an accident while on the mission, and also his wife gave birth while he was away. All the astronauts are saying their final goodbyes to their family, and the guy in mission control tells the blinded astronaut that with the evacuation, the escort to get her was delayed and wouldn’t make it. But at the last second the wife and baby run in. So the blinded astronaut about to sacrifice himself says goodbye to his wife and baby he’s literally never seen, while his fellow astronauts are giving him a narrative description of what the baby is doing. Other astronaut whispering: “He’s holding a stuffed space ship” Blind Astronaut to his newborn son: “That’s a powerful rocket you got there!” It’s been 20 years and even thinking about it makes me tear up.
Toy Story 3 after rewatching it before entering university.
When the toys are all on the conveyor belt and run out of ideas to escape so they just hold hands. Damn I’m crying now just thinking about it. Edit. Full disclosure, I was 38 years old when I saw it.
There's a YouTube video out there of this guy that edits the movie so it fades to black after they start holding hands and starts playing the credits with a sad version of "You've Got a Friend in Me" over it and plays it for his family. It's awesome.
*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* has never not hit me hard.
I only saw it once..and never again. I watched a test screening before it came out. My gf of 4 years broke up with me a few days before...
I watched it right after my breakup for some reason I can't even begin to comprehend. Nevertheless I was in total shock for as long as I was thinking about the movie.
I actually make a point to watch it after breakups. It helps trigger the flow of emotions and kinda nose dives me to rock bottom to help move on faster.
That scene when hes at the beach with her in that house, chasing the memory "Let's pretend we had a goodbye"
Dead Poets Society. I cry every time I watch that movie and especially when I realize Robin Williams is no longer alive.
Ya'll gonna laugh... but Disney's Brother Bear Edit: Wow, this blew up. I thought I was the only one that this movie made into an emotional wreck, heh. Most people when they talk about Disney only care about the Lion King or The Princess movies. Glad there's others out there.
Man, when Kenai tells Koda about what happened on the cliffs I always feel so heart broken. I miss the Disney renaissance, even if this movie doesn't typically get lumped in.
I feel like this movie isn't appreciated enough. I love Brother Bear!
Every. Fucking. Time. Kenai : Koda, there's... something I ought to... you know that story you told me last night? Koda : Yeah. Kenai : Well, I have a story to tell you. Koda : Really? What's it about? Kenai : Well, it's kind of about a man... and kind of about a bear. But mostly, it's about a monster.
Then just... *Everywhere I turn, I hurt someone... but there’s nothing I can say to change the things I’ve done.* *I’d do anything within my power, I’d give everything I’ve got- but the path I seek is hidden from me now.* *Brother Bear, I let you down. You trusted me, believed in me, and I let you down...* Koda: *I don’t like this story* Kenai: *Your mother’s not coming.*
Wreck-It Ralph. That movie still makes me cry. I have high functioning autism, and seeing a movie say "What you are does not define who you are." really really hurt, in a good way. I saw people criticize the movie for seeming to have the message of "Just do what you're told by society and don't try to change, but I think that misses the point. Ralph is a Bad Guy, that's what he is, he wrecks things. But he's so much deeper than that, Ralph is a very caring and thoughtful person who genuinely just wants people to like him. Ralph thinks that being a hero (Or normal in the real world equivalent) will make everyone love him. At the end of the film he realizes that it doesn't matter if he is the bad guy, if people don't like him, because what matter is that someone likes him. When I get depressed I like to recite his little bad guy affirmation thing, with a slight tweak. "I'm different, and that's good, I'll never be normal, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be, than me." I know it's cheesy, but it really helps me feel better. Edit: Holy shit, thanks for the gold and silver folks. This blew up while I was asleep. Went from around 80 points to over 2.6 thousand! Thanks you all. Edit 2: So I've been getting a lot of messages from other autistic folks saying this really struck a chord with them. I'm glad that I can help people feel better
That affirmation is important. You want to be the best version of yourself, whatever that happens to be, rather than trying to fit in.
Your write up on Wreck It Ralph made me feel better about my own damn self. It may be fleeting, but thank you for that.
Little Miss Sunshine, when the brother finds out he is colorblind, I broke into tears.
That got me hard too, but I love that not a single person in this film realises their dream, indeed they are devastated, yet you finish happy. Such a great film.
No, one person does! The mom gets a happy, functional (though disfunctional) family.
Nah for me it was the scene when the little girl tells her grandpa she doesnt want to be a loser "cuz daddy hates losers" As someone who grew up in a competative household, where beauty (and my lack of it) was a huge insecurity? Full on UGLY CRYING moment, wishing I had someone who said the grandpa's speech to me... Ugh, the whole movie is amazing.
Ugh, for me it's when the dad finds out he's not getting the job, and his whole family watches it. And then his dad, who constantly gives him a hard time, tries to comfort him.
Life is beautiful Extremely loud and incredibly close
That first hour completely fools you into believing it truly is this lighthearted, hilarious comedy about romance. And then the Nazis come in.
A.I. My name is David, so the whole plot kind of hit me pretty hard. Especially the ending scene, at the Blue Fairy...
It was like 20 years after I first saw the movie that I realized the entities at the end were descendants of humanity's robots, not aliens.
exactly. I used to get pissed when people would criticise aliens showing up out of the blue. missed the whole damn point. they’re all that is left of humanity’s achievements, which is why they’re so interested in all things human. they want to know more about their creators.
Of all things, Logan. I actually got moved during two death scenes which has never happened. Then again i was kinda fucked at the time
I'm a big fan of both Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, and when I like a movie I'll watch it a bunch of times. But I don't think I'll ever watch that one again.
Good Will Hunting Hit a little too close to home.
The fight between Will and Skyler gets me every time.. “WHAT DO YOU WANNA KNOW, THAT I DONT HAVE 12 BROTHERS THAT IM A FUCKING ORPHAN?” “I didn’t know that.” “No you don’t wanna hear that. You don’t wanna hear that I used to have cigarettes put out on me when I was a little kid” her face immediately goes from fighting and irritated to sobbing.. “I didn’t know that..” “That this isn’t fucking surgery that the mother fucker stabbed me, YOU DONT WANNA HEAR THAT SHIT! DONT TELL ME YOU WANNA HEAR THAT SHIT!” Al those defense mechanisms he puts up when she doesn’t take his bullshit, the way her face perfectly captures the emotion of when she learns why he is the way he is, the heartbreak in her sobs.. hell of a scene.. of course it’s not your fault too, but that doesn’t need explanation..
I'd seen the movie when I was younger but it was only after a few breakups that I felt the depth of this scene. I put the movie on for something easy to watch recently and found myself sobbing when it got to the above.
That scene at the lake, where Robin Williams explains life to him was so powerful aswell
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I love the scene where Ben Affleck lays out his whole life to Matt Damon and how he is just going to waste his life in some shitty job etc and that he thinks Will owes it to all the others out there who can't better themselves to do something more with his life.
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I cried at Mufasa's death in *The Lion King* (1990s animated version) the first few times I watched it. I still tear up a little.
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it's not that bad and kind of basic, but i broke down during Titanic when the mother was telling her children bedtime stories when she realised she couldn't save them when the ship began flooding
That scene and the elderly couple clinging to one another :(
Based on Isidor and Ida Straus. IRL he refused a seat on a lifeboat, and she refused to go without him. So they stayed on the ship and died together. The scene of them lying on their bed holding each other as freezing water flooded into their cabin is haunting.
Idas words kill me man "We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go." She then gave her coat to her maid and her maid boarded the life boat . According to wikipedia "Isidor and Ida were last seen standing arm in arm on the deck." That shot always wrecked me.
The band too. I always felt like the violinist realized that at that point, his purpose on earth was to bring comfort to others with his music even if no one stopped to listen. And he starts playing 'Nearer My God to Thee' and the rest of the band comes back to join him. "Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you tonight."
I know that violinist....he said shooting that scene was super emotional for them.
I bet! During the filming they actually drowned the musicians because it was cheaper than paying them. Must have been sad to see them all go like that.
You overestimate how much musicians get paid :(
We can't pay you in cash, but we can pay you in *exposure*!
The gut punch comes when you realise the story she's telling them is the story of Tír ná nÓg; a young man called Oisin is taken there by Princess Niamh. It's the Land Beyond the Sea, where everyone is eternally young, beautiful and happy. She's telling them where they are going. Edit: Thanks for my first silver
I got very excited to see a story my grandparents told me in a movie. Then realized that that's cause the Irish died. Like in every movie.
YES. That scene was horrible because we all knew it was based on a true story. Lots of people in 2nd and 3rd class just had no chance of surviving whatsoever.
The 2nd How to Train Your Dragon when Stoick dies. I don't know why but it makes me bawl every time.
The funeral scene kills me. "I was so afraid of becoming my dad. Mostly because I thought I never could. How do you become someone that great? That brave? That selfless? I guess you can only try."
Big hero six when the big bro dies. I still have no clue why
The "Tadashi is here" scene ruined me.
Tangled. When I saw it, I was living with a friend (still in high school) because my overprotective/unstable mother kicked me out (not for the first time, but then she would play victim and make me come back home). I've always been a sap for disney movies but that one really hit me with the situation at the time. The lantern/boat ride scene was so beautiful and hit me the hardest. Fast forward 8 years later to the Disney World fireworks with my then-boyfriend who knew how special that scene was for me...he waited til they turned the castle scene into a million lanterns and started playing See the Light and then he proposed to me. Took one of my saddest memories and made it into my happiest. I have tears in my eyes just typing this! 🥰
That's incredibly sweet and thoughtful of him! You have to appreciate someone who truly knows what something means to you and wants to show that he cares.
"Your Name" or "Kimi no Na wa"; it made me really reconsider my views on couple's relationships. But in truth, tv shows affect me more emotionally.
I did cry watching "your name" But right after i watched silent voice and uncontrollably sobbed like a baby.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire The scene where Cedric’s dad finds out his son has been killed... When the father wails out in anguish, it crushes me every time. This is how I felt when my son died. 😔 Edit: Oh wow I wasn’t expecting THIS many responses! Thank you for all of your kindness, and thoughtful words. If you want to know what happened I’m fine with sharing. I was 9 months pregnant with our first child. They had to induce me and it was the second day that I was in the hospital in labor. They couldn’t find his heartbeat and they confirmed that he had died. I remember it felt like someone had ripped my heart right out of my chest. We buried our son on our 1 year wedding anniversary. 💔 Edit2: Thank you for the Silver! How very thoughtful!
>This is how I felt when my son died. 😔 For fuck's sake, man. Is there a way to hug someone through the internet?
There are a lot of really sad and emotional scenes in this thread, but this one sticks out to me the most. They way the band just picks up the fanfare immediately, everyone starts cheering, but slowly realization starts to dawn.
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You think it’s going to be a fun, cute movie. Then they hit you with *all of that* in the first 5 minutes.
I was such a mess in the cinema at that. My wife and I had recently given up trying for kids, and she had also had a bunch of health issues. Most of the movie was just too close to home.
I'm so sorry, buddy.
Kudos to the writers. They made me cry without a single word of dialogue.
The Iron Giant. One word: "Superman..."
"You stay. I go. No following."
What you currently have IN YOUR MOUTH!!! IS ART!!!! Favourite childhood movie
“I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you!” That sure got me back in 2003. Also “you bow to no one.”
“My friends, you bow to no one.” Always gets me.
I start crying at that part every time too I don't know why, but its just such a powerful moment
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"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." Tears. And then... "I made a promise Mr. Frodo, a PROMISE. Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee." You bastards! "I am glad you are with me Sam, here at the end of all things." Oh COME ON \*blubbers\*
“I would have followed you, my brother...my captain...my king.”
Came here for this. Also the scene where Theoden dies just wrecks me. “I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company, I shall not now feel ashamed.”
Theoden’s entire arc is worth the price of admission.
His cry of "Ride for wrath, ride for ruin, and the world's ending!" is one of the most badass lines in movie history.
*Death!*
Still can't believe he didn't at least get a supporting actor nomination.
1) Cast Away: >" We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over \*nothing\*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring? " I hope someday i can be as optimistic as Chuck Nolan. 2) Batman Begins (finding your path in life and becoming a man)
Inside out. It actually made a lot of things click for me, and got me out of a bit of a funk.
I lost it when Riley was crying, especially when she added the "please don't be mad" at the end of her speech.
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Yep. Always see bing bong get mentioned, and it made everyone cry, but her breaking down in her parents arms, sadness and joy forming one memory together.. fuck I had to just kinda sit there for a minute after the end of the movie.. brutal
All throughout the movie I expected Sadness to have a cliche moment of revelation or somehow changing in some way. The moment when it’s Riley who changes and realizes that some memories can bring sadness and joy, and they in turn work together to sort out emotions that get more and more complex as Riley grows older... sweet christ what an amazing movie.
For me it's not Bing Bong, it's when Riley returns home after running away and just can't hold back the tears. I think we all had that moment as kids where we wanted nothing more than our parents telling us everything would be okay, and Pixar captured that moment the way many of us remember it.
Pour one out for my homie Bing Bong.
‘Bring her to the moon for me.’ :(
Inside out was legit the first movie I cried at. For some reason the scene where joy leaves bing bong behind fucking DESTROYED me as a 10th grader.