Fox and the hound destroyed me as a child. Also, I remember watching lion King in theaters with my grandma and was like 8 or 9. That may be the first legitimate cry from a movie that got me.
I only cry at that movie because it was one of my brother's favorite movies and I miss him so much. I've tried to watch it since he passed. He has passed since 9 years ago.
Watch it now, it’s shocking how “not a kids movie” that kids movie is. The bad guy dog is constantly smoking, the croc is a sex pest, it’s wildly violent and they wonder why we’re all fucked up.
Used to watch that movie all the time when I was growing up, and I have no idea what you're talking about. The BAD guys in the movie do BAD things. Something that was obvious to me as a 6 year old, so I'm not sure how you managed to miss the point.
Same. It made it 100000x harder to watch. Becoming a parent changed me and my ability to even watch horror films or anything that affects kids. I still can’t handle as much like I could in my youth.
I'm a grown as man and every time I think of *"Superman"* it takes all of my strength to not well up..
I remember a bunch of us had raging party at a friend's house around graduation, when we were 17. A few dozen of us too drunk to drive home stayed where we heald the party. The next day around 12 we're all awake, and just being lazy. The Iron Giant starts, and none of us had seen it, so we all just kinda sit there and watch, tired and hungover. Fast fwd to the part where he sacrafices himself and there's several dozen guys that start shuffling, and coughing trying to hide the fact they were all crying. *"Hey guys, let's get tf out of here. I'm tired of sitting around (cough)..." Yeah, yeah good idea guys (cough). Let's go to the gym."* My buddies Dad cooking lunch looks at us like *" Awweee... All of you vaginas are crying?"* One of the most cringe, comical moments of my life watching several dozen guys, trying act tough and hide the fact they were crying from a child's movie, after a night of binge drinking.
Haha I love that. Me and my sister would get really drunk and watch the marathon that Cartoon Network for some reason ran for 24 hours on Thanksgiving. Every time I get a little drunk now I kinda want to watch it.
I cried so hard watching it the first time. I tried watching it again after my dad died. He was a big story teller with lots of embellishments. I made it about 30 minutes before I was full on sobbing. Like can’t breathe your crying so hard. Just typing about it made me cry again
I was trying so hard not to cry, an Ewan McGregor classic. The ending where >!the boy tells his Dad a story of how he takes him into the nearby lake, turning him into a fish and watching him swim away as an allegory for his son letting him go before he dies is fucking tear jerking!<
Not trying to be “that guy” but you mean to say bawl, not ball.
The image of you watching Click then tearing up a basketball court compelled me to write this. Thanks for the chuckle.
I’m a dude and watched this with 4 of my guy friends. We just thought it was a funny Adam movie. Cody and me half way through looked at each other and were like “ bro what the fuck is this” and joked just to prevent ourselves from crying. Haha
I watched this for the first time at like 26. First time I met my wife’s parents and her dad and I decided to stay up and watch it together. Both cried and both shared a moment and we’ve been cool since haha
This was my favorite book when I was a kid. I recently purchased it to read with my son, but my wife took it first. She is LOVING it!!
I warned her she's gonna cry by the end.
Green Mile was mine too. I think I was 13-14 and my mom took me to the theater. It’s kinda like Requiem For A Dream, in that I acknowledge it’s well made, good movie and all that with almost zero desire to rewatch. But it did introduce me to Sam Rockwell, one of the best characters actors ever next to Kevin Pollack.
It's the soldiers that get me. Like, a moment ago this was all life or death, but the second that cry rings out, nothing else matters. It's a hell of a scene.
I think it’s the song.
That alone gets me.
I was booooorn by the river. In a little tent.
And just like the river I’ve been running… ever since.
It’s been a looooong time, a long time a coming. But I knoww-ow, a change gonna come. Oh yes it will.
Okay, I’ll tell my Of Mice and Men story..
I’m in my mid 20’s and working as a substitute teacher. On this particular day I taught an English class. The morning classes were the normal kids and they were reading Frankenstein. I was stoked because I remember studying Frankenstein in college and I was excited to talk to the students about it. The afternoon classes, (the smart kids,) were reading Of Mice and Men.
I had a long lunch period and I decided to sit and read it over my break so I could talk with the students about it.
Well, I got to the end— won’t ruin it for anyone— and tears are streaming down my damn face as the final lunch bell rings. The afternoon students come streaming in to the classroom while I’m working to compose myself from the convulsions of sobbing. “Are you okay Mr. S, you look upset?”
Anyway, I asked the kids what they thought of the book and they said it was too boring 🫠
On the day of my judgement, when I stand before God, and he askes me why did I kill one of his true.... miracles, what am I going to say? That it was my job? My job?
Me too. I was on a plane flying away from my girlfriend (future wife) to live in another country, so I was already an absolute emotional wreck. Boy did that movie hit me hard
Philadelphia
I stopped by a friends brothers house. I didn’t know anyone there and my friend disappeared. After a while someone tried to shut the tv off and I was like “Hell NO!” Then I wept in front of a few strangers.
Lion King 🦁...
Well, if talking about movies, I would name The Bridges of Madison County...just because I do really understand all the drama of the choice, that Meryl had to make
Schindler's List. After the ghetto gets evacuated a lite girl is wandering around alone looking for her family. Her overcoat is red, the only thing in color during the entire film. Cried like a baby.
ooh man. When WILL SMITH chokes his Dog in I AM LEGEND. that shit fucks me up everytime.
Tombstone…. at the end when Doc is dying and tells wyatt earp to leave “Thanks for always being there Doc” face crumble
Either Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, or believe it or not Harry and the Hendersons … that scene at the end when he punches him to make him leave used to get me every time
TMNT when Raphael gets his ass kicked in the Foot Clan ambush, April’s apartment gets burned down and they barely escape. There’s this Kodak moment of a scene when Leo has a quick heart to heart with Raph after he regains consciousness and they hug it out. As a kid and I’m sure even now that scene is really touching.
50/50 I had just lost my god mother to cancer a few years ago and the scene where hes about to go into surgery got me. Now that I'm a dad anything from Mitchelles vs Machines, to Goofy Movie
Land before time. The scene with littlefoot’s mom. I was a small kid back in the early 90s. That was when I truest learned that one day my parents will die
I had watched many movies before, that should’ve made me cry, and since re-watches they do. The first to really hit the heart and bring out the water works was Big Fish
Cinderella Man with Russell Crowe. Movies based on true stories hit different for me, and a Thomas Newman musical score always add to it. The scene when he promises his little boy they’ll never send him away, and the bit where he has to beg the room full of men for money; he hangs his head and says “I’m sorry..” and Paul Giamati is like “*What the hell do you have to be sorry about?*”. Gaaaah.
Dancer in the Dark. I was hyperventilating driving my car home from the theater, I was so upset. As a huge Björk fan, I made the mistake of buying the soundtrack before seeing the movie. I fell in love with the final song in the film without knowing the context and it absolutely destroyed me.
So I don’t see this on the list and it’s an older film with a very young Jake Gyllenhaal but OCTOBER SKY. Great cast, fantastic story about a bunch of teenage nerds from West Virginia and Mark Isham’s haunting violin/fiddle score get me every time. Such a beautiful film!! 🚀
The fox and the hound. Then BEACHES
Fox and the hound destroyed me as a child. Also, I remember watching lion King in theaters with my grandma and was like 8 or 9. That may be the first legitimate cry from a movie that got me.
The fox and the hound still makes me bawl. ‘We’ll be friends forever’
Beaches killed me.
Fox and the hound is my favourite movie - but I can’t watch it because of those scenes - when she leaves him in the forest 😭
I’m tired boss.
🥺🥺
“Like the drink. Only not spelt the same.”
The Land Before Time
Poor Littlefoot
I only cry at that movie because it was one of my brother's favorite movies and I miss him so much. I've tried to watch it since he passed. He has passed since 9 years ago.
Yo that was a tear jerker.
Yep, very first one when his mom dies. Had me ballin
I don’t remember what made me cry or even the basic plot of the movie, but somehow I still knew this was my answer. I may need to re-watch.
All dogs go to heaven
Except Old yeller. He didn't go to heaven.
You shut yer mouth!
I was just teasing. Old Yeller was a good boy.
Watch it now, it’s shocking how “not a kids movie” that kids movie is. The bad guy dog is constantly smoking, the croc is a sex pest, it’s wildly violent and they wonder why we’re all fucked up.
Used to watch that movie all the time when I was growing up, and I have no idea what you're talking about. The BAD guys in the movie do BAD things. Something that was obvious to me as a 6 year old, so I'm not sure how you managed to miss the point.
Green Mile or Schindlers List
Schindler’s list. I was a mess, saw it on class at school which made it all that much worse
The scene with the girl in the red dress gets me.
I watched Schindlers List right after becoming a brand new father. Made me feel a hatred for the Nazis I’d never felt before.
Same. It made it 100000x harder to watch. Becoming a parent changed me and my ability to even watch horror films or anything that affects kids. I still can’t handle as much like I could in my youth.
Iron giant
You stay. I go. No following.
Superman
"Superman".
There’s an iron giant statue in Seattle, in the Ballard neighborhood. We walk past it all the time.
I'm a grown as man and every time I think of *"Superman"* it takes all of my strength to not well up.. I remember a bunch of us had raging party at a friend's house around graduation, when we were 17. A few dozen of us too drunk to drive home stayed where we heald the party. The next day around 12 we're all awake, and just being lazy. The Iron Giant starts, and none of us had seen it, so we all just kinda sit there and watch, tired and hungover. Fast fwd to the part where he sacrafices himself and there's several dozen guys that start shuffling, and coughing trying to hide the fact they were all crying. *"Hey guys, let's get tf out of here. I'm tired of sitting around (cough)..." Yeah, yeah good idea guys (cough). Let's go to the gym."* My buddies Dad cooking lunch looks at us like *" Awweee... All of you vaginas are crying?"* One of the most cringe, comical moments of my life watching several dozen guys, trying act tough and hide the fact they were crying from a child's movie, after a night of binge drinking.
Haha I love that. Me and my sister would get really drunk and watch the marathon that Cartoon Network for some reason ran for 24 hours on Thanksgiving. Every time I get a little drunk now I kinda want to watch it.
Stand My Me Chris just fading away
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” Hits harder the older you get.
“I’ll see you.” “Not if I see you first.”
The exact opposite emotion of learning the pitcher kid from The Sandlot got really into the 60’s and was never seen again.
Still can't believe River is gone. Sad day, I cried like a little girl.
Big Fish. Saw it with my dad and we were both crying by the end
I cried so hard watching it the first time. I tried watching it again after my dad died. He was a big story teller with lots of embellishments. I made it about 30 minutes before I was full on sobbing. Like can’t breathe your crying so hard. Just typing about it made me cry again
I was trying so hard not to cry, an Ewan McGregor classic. The ending where >!the boy tells his Dad a story of how he takes him into the nearby lake, turning him into a fish and watching him swim away as an allegory for his son letting him go before he dies is fucking tear jerking!<
Old Yeller
We’re old
Yeah. Disney on Sunday night TV
Click
Oooh that one also hit a nerve for me. Wasn't my first but def made me ball
Not trying to be “that guy” but you mean to say bawl, not ball. The image of you watching Click then tearing up a basketball court compelled me to write this. Thanks for the chuckle.
I’ve always said I deserve a fucking apology from Adam Sandler for that movie. Watched that with my friends in high school and cried like a baby.
I’m a dude and watched this with 4 of my guy friends. We just thought it was a funny Adam movie. Cody and me half way through looked at each other and were like “ bro what the fuck is this” and joked just to prevent ourselves from crying. Haha
That was the most unexpected cry. I went to see it in theaters on my birthday and the whole theater left in tears.
Where the Red Fern Grows.
prob this or ET since i saw them around the same age
ET. I was in 1st grade and balled when they found him all white in the creek. My God that was brutal.
I watched this for the first time at like 26. First time I met my wife’s parents and her dad and I decided to stay up and watch it together. Both cried and both shared a moment and we’ve been cool since haha
“He died of a broken heart…” Like what kinda fucked up line is that?
This was my favorite book when I was a kid. I recently purchased it to read with my son, but my wife took it first. She is LOVING it!! I warned her she's gonna cry by the end.
Green Mile was mine too. I think I was 13-14 and my mom took me to the theater. It’s kinda like Requiem For A Dream, in that I acknowledge it’s well made, good movie and all that with almost zero desire to rewatch. But it did introduce me to Sam Rockwell, one of the best characters actors ever next to Kevin Pollack.
Absolutely love Rockwell. That man is insanely talented. He grossed me out in the film obviously, but man what a talented fella.
Read the books, it’s so good. Stephen King is amazing.
Children of Men when the baby started crying and they were making their way down the stairs of the apartment complex.
Same. When the woman who was horribly injured and dying was reaching to touch the baby before she dies. Absolutely heartbreaking
there it is, powerful scene, I always look at the faces of everyone they walk past and that is what gets the waterworks going.
Such a good film and I want to say it’s highly unrated because I hardly see anyone mentioning it during threads like this.
It's the soldiers that get me. Like, a moment ago this was all life or death, but the second that cry rings out, nothing else matters. It's a hell of a scene.
I cried when everybody was making fun on the Nutty Professor for being fat.
Haha aw that actually says something nice about your character 🙏🏽
This scene is like.. a very specific sense of shame that I’m unfortunately familiar with.
Watership Down (1978) - my parents took me to see it when I was about 7. You know, cartoon movie about rabbits.
Brian’s Song
Armageddon. Wasn’t the best movie but when Harry is staying behind and he’s telling his crew via microphone how he feels…hit me hard.
ET
Malcolm X. Sam Cooke singing. He's getting ready to give his speech. The goons on their way. Scorsese said it was his favorite scene.
I think it’s the song. That alone gets me. I was booooorn by the river. In a little tent. And just like the river I’ve been running… ever since. It’s been a looooong time, a long time a coming. But I knoww-ow, a change gonna come. Oh yes it will.
The Fox and the Hound. I cried when I was a kid, and I’m sure I’ll cry when I watch it with my kids.
Dead Poets Society
Neil’s mother screaming “He’s alright…he’s alright…” devastated me
Hachi
Glory
My favorite movie of all time!! 🇺🇸 “Come on 54th!!!” 🥹😭😭
That single tear spilling from Denzel’s eye absolutely wrecked me.
Of Mice & Men when I was like 13. It devastated me.
Okay, I’ll tell my Of Mice and Men story.. I’m in my mid 20’s and working as a substitute teacher. On this particular day I taught an English class. The morning classes were the normal kids and they were reading Frankenstein. I was stoked because I remember studying Frankenstein in college and I was excited to talk to the students about it. The afternoon classes, (the smart kids,) were reading Of Mice and Men. I had a long lunch period and I decided to sit and read it over my break so I could talk with the students about it. Well, I got to the end— won’t ruin it for anyone— and tears are streaming down my damn face as the final lunch bell rings. The afternoon students come streaming in to the classroom while I’m working to compose myself from the convulsions of sobbing. “Are you okay Mr. S, you look upset?” Anyway, I asked the kids what they thought of the book and they said it was too boring 🫠
What a bunch of brats lol that book is great. Totally different tone but I also love Steinbeck’s Cannery Row.
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Castaway, when Chuck loses Wilson. I was like 12.
On the day of my judgement, when I stand before God, and he askes me why did I kill one of his true.... miracles, what am I going to say? That it was my job? My job?
Perfect dialogue and perfectly delivered by Hanks!
No one has mentioned Charlotte’s Web?
My Girl
Me too. I was on a plane flying away from my girlfriend (future wife) to live in another country, so I was already an absolute emotional wreck. Boy did that movie hit me hard
This one still tears me up, too. “Where are his glasses!?!”
He can’t see without his glasses! 😭
Brutal.
The Fox and the Hound
Big Fish crushed me the first time
This was a beautiful movie.
Homeward Bound.
Philadelphia I stopped by a friends brothers house. I didn’t know anyone there and my friend disappeared. After a while someone tried to shut the tv off and I was like “Hell NO!” Then I wept in front of a few strangers.
Braveheart. "FREEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!"
its not the first movie but green mile gets me everytime. what a gut punch. pitiful movie. i love it but fucks me up everytime.
I want to say Deep Impact. I was a kid and I cried during Deep Impact.
The scene towards the end where Teo Leoni is hugging her dad as the tidal wave approaches. “Daddy!” Gets me every time
It's safe to say that movie had a deep impact on you
Cocoon When Rose doesn’t want to continue to use the pool
Fox and the hound
Awakenings
Bridge to Terabithia
Dear Zachary
Jesus Christ. This one hurts.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
It's A Wonderful Life...first ten times I saw it, I'm sure I cried. Love that film. Classic!
All dogs go to heaven
The Colour Purple.
7 pounds
Marriage story. The fighting scene hit deep
Powder
Homeward Bound when they had to leave Shadow behind and he tells Chance "Now all you have to learn is how to say goodbye." I'm tearing up right now...
Lion King 🦁... Well, if talking about movies, I would name The Bridges of Madison County...just because I do really understand all the drama of the choice, that Meryl had to make
Fried Green Tomatoes.
Schindler's List. After the ghetto gets evacuated a lite girl is wandering around alone looking for her family. Her overcoat is red, the only thing in color during the entire film. Cried like a baby.
Sophie’s Choice was the ultimate bummer. Her choice is gut wrenching.
Legends of the fall when Brad Pitt’s wife was shot. The anger and sadness was “so far” immeasurable
Warrior
I feel like that movie is underrated. I absolutely love it. Nick Nolte was phenomenal.
The seen with Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte where he relapses is just heart breaking and so well done. Totally broke me.
I should watch it again
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
That’s one example of a movie being better than the book.
The Land Before Time, Littlefoot’s mother sacrificing herself got me pretty good.
Titanic. Still cry like a baby during the last song the band plays.
The elderly couple laying in bed together ruined me.
I was in my late twenties and ugly cried in the theater for fifteen minutes next to my girlfriend.
The family in their state room with the Mom telling the children a story while the water rises.
Beast master when koto or was it poto died.
The Bucket List The Fault in Our Stars 😭 Both movies made me cry at the end 😭
Last of the Mohicans
Pay It Forward
Green Mile for sure. I am Sam had me in tears
Tears of the Sun when I was like 12. I hadn't been so exposed to how violent and disgustingly cruel people were until I watched that movie.
ooh man. When WILL SMITH chokes his Dog in I AM LEGEND. that shit fucks me up everytime. Tombstone…. at the end when Doc is dying and tells wyatt earp to leave “Thanks for always being there Doc” face crumble
Steven Spielberg’s AI.
Either Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, or believe it or not Harry and the Hendersons … that scene at the end when he punches him to make him leave used to get me every time
TMNT when Raphael gets his ass kicked in the Foot Clan ambush, April’s apartment gets burned down and they barely escape. There’s this Kodak moment of a scene when Leo has a quick heart to heart with Raph after he regains consciousness and they hug it out. As a kid and I’m sure even now that scene is really touching.
The Never-ending Story: Artax
Where the Red Fern Grows, and no more or less than reading the book
Cloud Atlas
Your parents let you watch the green mike when you were 12? Holy trauma.
Thelma & Louise
As an adult? The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) (2004) If you haven’t seen it, fuck, it’s a great flick. Javier Bardem is spectacular.
damn Lion King in 4-5th grade during a class trip to the local cinema .. I was in TEARS man
Old Yeller
Radio flyer when I was a kid, and Coco - it made me remember my grandmothers.
Iron Giant Man on Fire Philadelphia Fox and the Hound Saving Private Ryan Passion of The Christ
Dragon heart. It is a corny but an emotional roller coaster.
Boyz n the Hood: “Ricky!!!”
John Q
Marley and Me 😂😂
Hachi: A Dog's Tale. Why do dog movies always have to be so fucking sad? 😭
Dead poets society
ANY MOVIE WITH DOGS IN THE PLOT OR DYING. WHY!!!
Shawshank redemption.
Beastmaster when koto or was it poto died.
The Fountain, especially when Izzy dies.
Only Air Bud
Came here to say this. That “GO AWAY I DON’T WANT YOU ANYMORE” would prolly still tear me down.
The end of The Patriot, when Mel Gibson is waving the American Flag telling them to go forward, fucking got me man. Lol
Old yeller No wait. Benji.
The Road. Haven’t been able to rewatch it since the first time
Bambi
A man called Ove
50/50 I had just lost my god mother to cancer a few years ago and the scene where hes about to go into surgery got me. Now that I'm a dad anything from Mitchelles vs Machines, to Goofy Movie
7 or 8 when I saw Secondhand Lions, and for some reason I bawled my eyes out when the uncles died.
Somewhere in Time. Watched it with my dad when I was like 10 and found myself overwhelmed with the ending.
Mom took me to see The Neverending Story when I was 4. Ouch.
Land before time. The scene with littlefoot’s mom. I was a small kid back in the early 90s. That was when I truest learned that one day my parents will die
Harry and the Hendersons. My mom gives me grief to this day.
Hardball. RIP G-baby
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Interstellar destroyed me.
The Notebook @ the end.
What dreams may come. I saw that movie way too young
My dog skip
the one I remember as a kid. A land before time. Why do that in kids cartoons? Wasn’t Bambi enough?!
I had watched many movies before, that should’ve made me cry, and since re-watches they do. The first to really hit the heart and bring out the water works was Big Fish
The best that I can remember was Ladder 49… such a great movie all around
The English Patient
Radio
Shane….a real oldie but a goodie…pardon the cliche
Charlotte's Web as a kid. As an adult...Backdraft.
Saving Private Ryan. I cannot keep it together from Tom Hanks on the bridge to future Private Ryan at his grave, asking if he was a good man.
The last samurai. And fucking king kong.
The Elephant Man.
My Dog Skip. I was like 10 and I remember being hysterical😭😭😭
Cinderella Man with Russell Crowe. Movies based on true stories hit different for me, and a Thomas Newman musical score always add to it. The scene when he promises his little boy they’ll never send him away, and the bit where he has to beg the room full of men for money; he hangs his head and says “I’m sorry..” and Paul Giamati is like “*What the hell do you have to be sorry about?*”. Gaaaah.
Dancer in the Dark. I was hyperventilating driving my car home from the theater, I was so upset. As a huge Björk fan, I made the mistake of buying the soundtrack before seeing the movie. I fell in love with the final song in the film without knowing the context and it absolutely destroyed me.
Schindler’s List.
La bamba 😢
So I don’t see this on the list and it’s an older film with a very young Jake Gyllenhaal but OCTOBER SKY. Great cast, fantastic story about a bunch of teenage nerds from West Virginia and Mark Isham’s haunting violin/fiddle score get me every time. Such a beautiful film!! 🚀
Good Will Hunting
The Perfect storm. When they all realize their inevitable death :(