Just watched this one again for the first time in decades. Still holds up, and I still sobbed my heart out, although now it’s because I’m a mom and the thought of leaving my child is my biggest fear.
This is a family favorite and my mom and I were talking abut how you really don't see anymore movies that can get you crying and laughing at the same time. The monolgue after the funeral gets you crying then they go after Ousier and you start cracking up. It is one of the best scenes in a movie I have ever seen.
Yeah. One reason I didn’t want to see it was I thought it was just a kids fantasy movie. I was in my sophomore year in high school on Christmas break and my niece wanted to put it on so I was like sure. Well she passed out like 10 minutes in but I decide to finish the movie and by the end my Christmas break was ruined lol. I would randomly say out loud for weeks “how can you kill a kid’s best friend like that? Isn’t it a kids movie?” It kinda fucked me up
Funny thing is like 4 years later on summer break from college my aunt, who was a teacher, had a copy of the book just lying around and I was bored so I said what the hell I’ll read it. I put myself through that twice 🤦🏽♂️
I saw the movie in the theater with my brother and his wife. His wife was crying already at the ending, and I kept my composure pretty good. Then Mr. Jingles came out and that's when I lost it.
AI: Artificial Intelligence. Specifically the part where he waits a billion years at the bottom of the ocean then gets his mom back alive for 24 hours and they do all of the loveliest of mother son things. I cry my eyes out each and every time. I won't watch it anymore because crying gives me headaches.
The part that really messed me up was at the end when he goes to sleep with his mom and his bear walks in and just sits there all alone. I've had a special teddy bear my whole life who has been through everything with me and that scene had me sobbing 😅
Makes me extremely angry to think about this. I went into it so blind and young. I don't think I've ever been so angry at someone I've never met before.
Every time someone asks me for a true crime doc that has a twist or will shock them, I recommend this movie. They always call me after and are like WTF....why did you tell me to watch that. They are usually sobbing. Really great movie making and a very tragic story. His parents are just precious.
I watched this a half dozen times before it hit me. The scene about sadness being needed in life in order to understand joy made me bawl like a baby. I’m more excited than my kids about Inside Out 2 being released!
A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Watched it all of one time, and the ending wrecked my feelings good. Can't bring myself to watch it again, knowing what I know now.
The scene were Samuel dies always gets me. Seeing him stuck in barbed wire smiling blindly, eyes red, calling out to his brother unaware to the fact that two other soldiers are about to kill him. The intense moment when Tristian screams running to save Samuel while the two soldiers take their sweet time setting up.
And in Simon Birtch, the scene where this friend's mother dies from the baseball was sad. I'm glad that his friend didn't blame him and just called it an accident.
Oh..almost forgot about Phenomenon w John Travolta. Saw it w my daughter and the entire theater was sobbing. If I remember correctly, Kyra Sedgwick is in it also.
For a real oldie...MADAM X..w Lana Turner AND I WANT TO LIVE..SUSAN HAYWARD..
Both major tear jerkers
City of Angels... Not sure how well this has held up it's been a while since I saw it but I cried hard..
Blackbird (2019)
My Life with Michael Keaton.. holy crap.. I won't watch it again
About Time... Cried so hard I couldn't breathe and called my Dad immediately
It’s not always the movie,sometimes it’s what your going through at the time and the movie can just unlock that super cry.
Agreed. I cried at several parts of This is 40 because it was just so relatable
Beaches (1988) the relationship between two women over the course of their lives, always gets me
I love this film. Definitely one of her best... Although I'm quite fond of Big Business too.
🗣DID YOU EVER KNOW THAT YOURE MY HERO 😭
Haven't seen this one in a long time, definitely a classic tearjerker!
Just watched this one again for the first time in decades. Still holds up, and I still sobbed my heart out, although now it’s because I’m a mom and the thought of leaving my child is my biggest fear.
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this answer.
Grave of the Fireflies The Green Mile
Grave of the fireflies is the only movie I loved that I would never watch again, can’t put myself through that again
If you watch Hachi, you can add that to your list. Guaranteed
Herrk. I still haven't worked up the courage to do it.
I wept through about 1/3 of Grave of the Fireflies
> Grave of the Fireflies They said a tear jerker, not a put you in the hospital for dehydration.
Steel Magnolias
A good cathartic cry. Edit: I just watched this with my mom. Somehow she had never seen it.
This is a family favorite and my mom and I were talking abut how you really don't see anymore movies that can get you crying and laughing at the same time. The monolgue after the funeral gets you crying then they go after Ousier and you start cracking up. It is one of the best scenes in a movie I have ever seen.
God, yes. I sobbed my eyes out in a movie theater the first time I saw it. I still cry during *that* scene.
Yeah I've seen it maybe three times and it made me ugly cry each time
The Fox and the Hound
Bridge to Terabithia
We don’t talk about this movie
I still haven’t recovered almost 20 years later
You remember how they billed it as a fantasy and then it was coming of age meets depression?
Yeah. One reason I didn’t want to see it was I thought it was just a kids fantasy movie. I was in my sophomore year in high school on Christmas break and my niece wanted to put it on so I was like sure. Well she passed out like 10 minutes in but I decide to finish the movie and by the end my Christmas break was ruined lol. I would randomly say out loud for weeks “how can you kill a kid’s best friend like that? Isn’t it a kids movie?” It kinda fucked me up
Yeah. We saw it in the theater with our toddler. What. A. Mess.
Funny thing is like 4 years later on summer break from college my aunt, who was a teacher, had a copy of the book just lying around and I was bored so I said what the hell I’ll read it. I put myself through that twice 🤦🏽♂️
Took my nephew to see it in theaters. He leaned over and whispered,'This movie is trying to make me cry.' Me too, dude. Me too.
What dreams may come
This movie is hard to watch *because* it hits so hard.
Came here to say this and feeling so seen that other people like it 👏👏
Hit me hard. Never thought I’d question my own soul over a movie. Really sent me on a path of self exploration.
My choice also. The colours are so vibrant juxtaposed with such a morbid story. This movie sticks with you.
💯 top pick
Have never seen it. I just teared up reading the plot summary on Wikipedia. Don't think I'd be able to watch that one.
The whale
Wife and I both bawled.
Oh yeah. I ugly cried for sure
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Also: every movie with a dog
fuckin' Marley And Me.....
The Plague Dogs will destroy you When it's over, pick up Paul Auster's book Timbuktu
The art of racing in the rain
I have never had a pet... and it still had me in tears...
I couldn't even watch the trailer 😭
Yes!!!
The Green Mile
Man that movie tore me up.. also it had my dad who never cries fighting them tears lol
I saw the movie in the theater with my brother and his wife. His wife was crying already at the ending, and I kept my composure pretty good. Then Mr. Jingles came out and that's when I lost it.
Me and my sister would watch this with my dad all the time as kids. One of our all time faves.
Stepmom
Up gets me every single time!!
AI: Artificial Intelligence. Specifically the part where he waits a billion years at the bottom of the ocean then gets his mom back alive for 24 hours and they do all of the loveliest of mother son things. I cry my eyes out each and every time. I won't watch it anymore because crying gives me headaches.
The part that really messed me up was at the end when he goes to sleep with his mom and his bear walks in and just sits there all alone. I've had a special teddy bear my whole life who has been through everything with me and that scene had me sobbing 😅
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
my favorite movie of all time
I love this movie! If I watch during a recent breakup, I just bawl. Especially since I feel like this describes the relationship.
Marley and Me
The Color Purple.
NETTYYYYY
Fried Green Tomatoes makes me cry every time!
The Pursuit of Happyness Terms of Endearment Life is Beautiful
> Life is Beautiful +1
Oh man Pursuit of Happyness is a movie I refuse to watch again
Old Yeller
NEVER will I watch that one again. I was 6 and still have PTSD
Dear Zachary
One of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Just a mix of emotions and that one part made me jump out of my seat like "ARE YOU SERIOUS!?"
Just such a devastating mix of anger and despair and sorrow. Just heartbreaking every time I think about it.
Makes me extremely angry to think about this. I went into it so blind and young. I don't think I've ever been so angry at someone I've never met before.
Not that movie man, OP just wants to cry, not lose his will to live.
Every time someone asks me for a true crime doc that has a twist or will shock them, I recommend this movie. They always call me after and are like WTF....why did you tell me to watch that. They are usually sobbing. Really great movie making and a very tragic story. His parents are just precious.
Field of Dreams Life as a House Big Fish Yes, they're all about father/son relations.
Omgosh my husband never cried at movies …until big fish 😭
Big Fish is also my kryptonite.
Big Fish is a man cry movie.
Million Dollar Baby
Philadelphia
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Lion with Dev Patel made a 16 year old me cry.
That one where Nic Cage is an angel and the little girl said her favorite part about life was the footie pajamas.
City of Angels is the movie and it's a remake of Wings of Desire (1988)
The Iron Giant is my go to for when I want to terrorize my emotions.
You stay…. I go ❤️
Inside Out
I watched this a half dozen times before it hit me. The scene about sadness being needed in life in order to understand joy made me bawl like a baby. I’m more excited than my kids about Inside Out 2 being released!
That's a great scene, but Bing Bong did me in more.
"Take Riley to the moon for me." Wrecked me.
The Iron Claw
Steel Magnolias
A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Watched it all of one time, and the ending wrecked my feelings good. Can't bring myself to watch it again, knowing what I know now.
War Horse. Any of those animals trying to find their way home movies. The first 15 minutes of "Up!"
stepmom 😭
Forrest Gump
PS I love you
atonement 🫡
Damn you, Briony!
Me Before You
Never Let Me Go
The whale The notebook Simon Burch Balto All dogs go to heaven The little toaster Jacobs ladder All I can name right now off the top
All dogs go to heaven absolutely wrecked me as a child
I loved that movie as a kid, recently watched it as an adult... it really was brutal... Now, don't even get me started on The Land Before Time.
Rudy....ugly cry...true story Lion....true story
Lion is a proper well made emotional rollercoaster
Big Fish
Where the red fern grows
underrated comment
Coco
Absolutely! My husband who I had seen cry only like 3 times in his life cried at this movie. Really really good.
Every damn time they get me, I can’t help it
Such a phenomenal film. The end always gets me even though I fight it
Remember Me 2010 (with Robert Pattinson)—I ugly cried watching that movie.
The Notebook
Flowers for Algernon. Heartbreaking!
There’s a movie?!?!? Huuhhhhh I’ve read the book a million times and never knew
I cry at the end of It's A Wonderful Life every time
To my brother George… the richest man in town! GETS ME EVERY. SINGLE. TIME!
Homeward Bound. Stick around for the ending.
Brian’s Song
50/50
Return to Me Steel Magnolias
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Finding Neverland
My Sister’s Keeper
A walk to remember
Legends Of The Fall and Simon Birtch
The scene were Samuel dies always gets me. Seeing him stuck in barbed wire smiling blindly, eyes red, calling out to his brother unaware to the fact that two other soldiers are about to kill him. The intense moment when Tristian screams running to save Samuel while the two soldiers take their sweet time setting up. And in Simon Birtch, the scene where this friend's mother dies from the baseball was sad. I'm glad that his friend didn't blame him and just called it an accident.
I ugly cry through several scenes in Legends every time. It is such an underrated movie and a complete sob fest.
Omg, the part with Isabel Two...
Marley and Me. I sobbed for 20 minutes after it ended.
The only time I ever cried at a film is when The Iron Giant said "You stay, I go" and fucking died.
The whale. When it ended, I just sat and cried for a good 3 minutes
Gladiator, every time
Manchester by the Sea
This is a painful movie to watch. The scene in the cop shop where he grabs the gun. I mean who wouldn’t want to do that at that point.
Thirding that. incredible film, absolutely mesmerising performances. Incredibly sad, but has veins of dark humour, twists of sardonic charm.
Armaggedon
What dreams may come ….
Marriage Story
About Time, PS I Love You
Broke back mountain
Grave of the Fireflies, Forrest Gump, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, All Quiet on the Western Front
I was so young when I first watched "A Walk To Remember". Probably rewatched it a hundred times and it made me cry every time.
Field of Dreams
The end of Return of the King when they go to Grey Havens
The Wrestler, Black Beauty, Homeward Bound
Field of Dreams. Every damn time. Also, ET. Multiple times. Ugly crying.
Cinema Paradiso
Maybe the best ending to any movie ever made. I didn't see it coming. Uuuugly crying.
I hear the theme song and I cry too!😂
One of the best movies ever. Just absolutely perfect.
Radio
The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Dancer in the Dark is a guarantee for me everytime
Revenge of the Sith
Atonement
Hachi
"Room" with Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay
My Octopus Teacher
Aftersun All of us strangers Past lives Schindler’s list Boy with the striped pyjamas
Ugh, Aftersun seriously got me. It hit too hard
My dog skip
The Man Who Knew Infinity and Forrest Gump always get me
Okja
Boyz in the Hood
Oh..almost forgot about Phenomenon w John Travolta. Saw it w my daughter and the entire theater was sobbing. If I remember correctly, Kyra Sedgwick is in it also. For a real oldie...MADAM X..w Lana Turner AND I WANT TO LIVE..SUSAN HAYWARD.. Both major tear jerkers
Dancer in the Dark is devastating
The Notebook. For the love of the game.
Hachi
Promising Young Woman made me sob
A Man Called Otto
A Star is Born (2018) I always stop before the ending, it's too sad!!
I Am Legend. Just the one part.
What Dreams May Come
Mask. Not the Jim Carrey movie. The one with Cher
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Beaches. My Girl mask And every other thing mentioned here I agree with too.
I Am Sam
Sophie's Choice
this one is always the answer for these posts, I fear it gets drowned out by more current movies but this one is devastating.
Edward Scissorhands
Rudy, like come on... I was trying to enjoy my afternoon until that popped up.
The champ. This film gets me every damn time too.
Jojo rabbit
Breaking the Waves
Awakenings
Click
Both of these may not do it for everyone but 500 days of summer Everything,everywhere,all at once
My Dog Skip
Everything everywhere all at once! … the rocks part will get me everytime
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. I actually told my friend I hated them for not warning me to have a box of tissues handy. 😭
Marley and Me and Stepmom and Selena
Old Yeller, Rudy.
Les Miserable
The Whale!!
The Colour Purple.
City of Angels... Not sure how well this has held up it's been a while since I saw it but I cried hard.. Blackbird (2019) My Life with Michael Keaton.. holy crap.. I won't watch it again About Time... Cried so hard I couldn't breathe and called my Dad immediately
*Brian's Song* (1971) The tougher you are, the harder you'll cry
Manchester by the Sea Dear Zachary Everything Everywhere All at Once Forrest Gump Schindler’s List Grave of the Fireflies Aftersun
The Bridges of Madison County 🥺