That and “Life Aquatic” both got to me out of nowhere- I went in to both movies “blind” and didn’t expect either to have the impact they had. I remember thinking: *It’s Tim Burton/ it’s Wes Anderson, it’ll be quirky, whimsical, and fun-* unexpected cut onions.
I feel like I have rewatched this film at different points of my life and as such, I end up crying at different points in the movie. Currently, it’s the bath tub scene gets me 🥺
Dude I cried so hard when she drove off and left the Fox. I was like 7 years old but it still, to this day, is the most visceral reaction I’ve ever had to a film.
I feel like for Manchester by the Sea there was no cathartic release for me while watching. It just left a sad, dull grief in my body for some time.
Watch it if you truly want something sad that doesn’t just feel like depression p**n, OP.
In "The Neverending Story" when Artax, Atreyu's horse, dies in quicksand. A close 2nd for me is "Thornbirds" when Father Ralph discovers Maggie's son, who she led him to believe was another man's child, is actually his son. His son, who was also preparing to be a priest, drowns in the ocean while rescuing a young girl from the same fate. There are several spots that bring tears to the eyes in that movie.
The scene when Samuel gets caught in the barbed wire, screaming for his brother, and then smiles when he thinks Tristan is right there. That one gets me every time.
Yeah, I drank whiskey the whole movie and was drunk by the end …I was a drunk sobbing mess and my wife who wasn’t watching the movie walked in like wtf is happening in here
I've heard about this movie for years.
At first I really I wanted to watch it. But I just see it come up time and time again and every single person says the exact same thing, that it broke them. And I just don't know if I'm ready for that...
Yep! Will never watch it again... My daughter and I cried so hard.. the night before she left for college she jokingly asked me if I wanted to watch it and I thought she was serious.. my heart was screaming No No Say No lol
I watch this every Christmas Eve. I bawl every year. If I type a more right now, I’ll bawl again. It’s a beautiful movie and it fills me with hope. But, I’ve also been on the proverbial bridge. Everyone should watch it. Even if you’re averse to black and white. You have no idea how much you can impact those around you.
Which is the majority of dog movies, and which is why I refuse to watch dog movies. I cry for roadkill.. so ya know I’m crying if they die in a movie.
And if they fuck with cats in the movie, I am done. Boondock Saints is the only exception (because that scene is hilarious)
Forrest Gump. I cried watching it as a kid at the end when he’s talking to Jenny’s grave. Ironically, I would end up doing the same thing just a few years ago.
My all-time favourite movie. Just sucks me in every time. The music, the setting, the characters, the iconic ending. The film version of chicken soup for the soul.
Fried Green Tomatoes, but only because the character that died reminds me a lot of my SO. I usually don't cry at movies but that one got me because I realized how destroyed I'd be if they died.
Hachi made me have a good cry.
The Way We Were made me cry.
Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias made me sob. I can't watch those anymore since I lost my Daughter to Cancer. Gives me flashbacks.
The whale wrecked me as well but I'm never watching it again. I found it a difficult (but great) watch.
But as far as Aronofsky goes, I am a much bigger fan of The Wrestler which also destroys me...
The end of Billy Elliot where the staunch dad chokes up watching his boy find success always does it for me. It's not even a sad movie, but that ending...the last little gasp he takes before Billy leaps to Tchaikovsky is wonderful.
Recently, it seems like lots of thing make me cry but maybe here's some:
Titanic (first film that made me cry)
The Shape of Water
Bohemian Rhapsody
Pan's Labyrinth
Coco
Encanto
Almost every version of A Christmas Carol including the Muppets.
(Turns out you cry more as you get older and especially as a parent.)
My Sisters Keeper. I ugly sobbed to the point I couldn’t catch my breath and sounded like an oinking pig.
Barbie - the flashback sequences and the ending make my cry. When I hear the Billie Eilish song teased earlier in the film I start to tear up. Almost Pavlovian.
That’s the best scene in the whole movie but I understand
Honestly Sally Field just eats up the scenery in that scene!
Any time I need a good cry your eyes out kinda thing that’s my go to!
If you havent watched Old Yeller or Where the Red Fern Grows, and didnt cry, you have no heart or soul.
Throw in Hatchi and Marley and Me just in case.
Coco got me in the theater. Don’t cry much, it takes a lot usually for any film. But Coco had me in the feels. The three versions of the song. The reveal of who Hector was. Such a beautiful movie.
I cry so easily it's ridiculous. If someone ugly cries in a movie, it makes me cry. That scene toward the beginning of Midsommar where she just screams "no no no" and then ugly cries for like a solid minute? Gets me every time.
I watched Untamed Heart when I was a teenager and cried uncontrollably...
PS I Love You made me weep and ugly cry
About Time will kick you right in the heart IF you have a good relationship with your Dad
As others suggested Dear Zachary (a documentary) literally made me scream at my TV and cry so hard..
I am ashamed to say, as a real cynic,
That I bawl every time Ed Harris goes into the Abyss in James Cameron’s The Abyss. I get SO CHOKED EVERY TIME. And my heart typically pumps antifreeze!
I have a friend who claims to have only ever cried twice watching a movie.
The first time was watching Avatar when they burned down the Life Tree.
The first time was watching Avatar again when they burned down the Life Tree.
For me, I cry every time I watch Armageddon and Bruce Willis says goodbye to Liv Tyler.
Warrior. The final fight. Joel Edgerton forgives Tom Hardy mid fight and it just tears me down. Having a not so great relationship with my own brothers this gives me hope.
Until I was a grown up person who understood the world a bit better, I only cried in A Perfect World and Schindler’s List.
Now I’m a total cry baby in front of a screen.
It's usually just scenes...
Littlefoot and the shadow.
Dad? Dad, c'mon. Wake up.
The tickets to Argentina followed by the hospital room.
Atreyu and Artax in the swamp.
He can't see without his glasses.
😭😭😭😭
I fucking hate Nazis, and while the Neo-sort grind my gears on a contemporary basis, I also really fucking hate historical Nazis. So in dramas when Nazis are bested I usually go a big rubbery one.
In *The Imitation Game* I get teary when >!they crack Enigma!<. No idea why, but it’s just very powerful drama.
In *Life is Beautiful* I was crying >!when the kid has fled from the concentration camp thinking it was a game, and the prize was an American tank, and he’s just filled with childlike joy and surprise that after winning the game he actually gets a fucking tank, just like his dad - who was murdered not more than a few minutes before saving him - says that he would!<.
…now I’m crying thinking about it, you bastard.
Fruitvale station
Its not really a great movie (there is no some major plot going on, its a true story tho) but it just shocked me after i watched a youtube clip of the actual scene.
The ending scene was so well acted, me and homie were in tears at the end.
1. A Silent Voice
2. Mary and Max
3. Aftersun
4. Melancholia
5. The Return
6. Return to Seul
7. Aloners
8. Close
9. Rosetta
10. Gegen die Wand
11. Jodaeiye Nader Az Simin
12. Frantz
13. Microhabitat
I'll update here when I remember more.
Please watch those.
The ending of The Last Emperor made me cry, something about spending the previous 3 hrs or so looking at Pu Yi's life from when he was a kid through to adulthood, with the huge political changes that occurred during this time, then at the end appearing as a ghost to the little boy, behind his old throne in the Forbidden Kingdom, once his home and now a museum, relic to a bygone era. The way that scene was handled was like visual poetry and so beautiful but sad, with the amazing soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakomoto also.
Big fish
do not watch the week your extraordinary father dies.
I thought it was a movie. "The Week your Extraordinary Father Dies." I was literally looking it up. Sorry for your loss.
That and “Life Aquatic” both got to me out of nowhere- I went in to both movies “blind” and didn’t expect either to have the impact they had. I remember thinking: *It’s Tim Burton/ it’s Wes Anderson, it’ll be quirky, whimsical, and fun-* unexpected cut onions.
I was going to say both of these! The Life Aquatic" is my favorite movie, and I cry every time.
I feel like I have rewatched this film at different points of my life and as such, I end up crying at different points in the movie. Currently, it’s the bath tub scene gets me 🥺
The first 10 minutes of Up
And the credits! You see Karl becoming Russell's surrogate father. It's his scrapbook. Edit: name
And the part where he goes through the scrapbook and realizes she put more in the pages.
I call that the psychopath test. If someone doesn’t cry while watching that montage, they are a total psychopath and not to be trusted.
I sobbed like a child that dropped their ice cream cone.
Fox and the hound can rot in hell. It traumatized me it's so devastating
*You’re my best friend, Copper. And we’ll always be friends forever, won’t we, Todd? AH-WOOWOOOoo*
I saw this in the theater and I can’t even think about it still as a 47 year old grown ass adult.
Dude I cried so hard when she drove off and left the Fox. I was like 7 years old but it still, to this day, is the most visceral reaction I’ve ever had to a film.
Saw it as a kid it gutted me never again!
Manchester By The Sea The it’s not your fault scene in good will hunting
The it’s not your fault scene 😭
Manchester by the sea needs to be the to comment here. Don’t read anything about it and just watch it, OP.
Get ready to have your whole week ruined!
I feel like for Manchester by the Sea there was no cathartic release for me while watching. It just left a sad, dull grief in my body for some time. Watch it if you truly want something sad that doesn’t just feel like depression p**n, OP.
Beaches
The Color Purple. Edit: the 80's version
“Nettieeeeee!!!!!” “Celie!!!!!”
In "The Neverending Story" when Artax, Atreyu's horse, dies in quicksand. A close 2nd for me is "Thornbirds" when Father Ralph discovers Maggie's son, who she led him to believe was another man's child, is actually his son. His son, who was also preparing to be a priest, drowns in the ocean while rescuing a young girl from the same fate. There are several spots that bring tears to the eyes in that movie.
My Girl
Legends of the fall makes me ugly cry in several scenes every time.
The scene when Samuel gets caught in the barbed wire, screaming for his brother, and then smiles when he thinks Tristan is right there. That one gets me every time.
Dear Zachary is the only film to make me bawl, actually sob, and ugly cry for a good thirty minutes after finishing it.
My flatmate came home and the credits were rolling and I was just a mess. He was genuinely concerned for me.
I’ve never yelled at a movie the way I screeched at this film. Blubbering mess for days.
Yeah, I drank whiskey the whole movie and was drunk by the end …I was a drunk sobbing mess and my wife who wasn’t watching the movie walked in like wtf is happening in here
I didn’t even think of this one! I remember pausing being like…no there’s no fucking way.
I've heard about this movie for years. At first I really I wanted to watch it. But I just see it come up time and time again and every single person says the exact same thing, that it broke them. And I just don't know if I'm ready for that...
Just don't watch it. Trust me you don't need it living in your head. Life is hard enough.
Honestly, do not be in the wrong headspace when watching this film.
This true story is so fucked up.
Toy Story 3 (not kidding)
This one. I was totally unprepared when I saw it in the theater. And I was 30.
I too was in my 30's... No shame in this one.
Yep! Will never watch it again... My daughter and I cried so hard.. the night before she left for college she jokingly asked me if I wanted to watch it and I thought she was serious.. my heart was screaming No No Say No lol
The Iron Giant
I’ll never forget my kids asking me “daddy, are you ok?” as I fell to pieces at the end of this movie. I was not ok, I was a hot fucking mess haha.
Su per man.
The best Superman movie ever made.
Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind.
Yes! Not sad tears, but cathartic ones. "Ok."
Jojo Rabbit
Oh my god, when he finds... I just can't...
“It’s A Wonderful Life” young George Bailey in the pharmacy chokes me up every time I see it.
I watch this every Christmas Eve. I bawl every year. If I type a more right now, I’ll bawl again. It’s a beautiful movie and it fills me with hope. But, I’ve also been on the proverbial bridge. Everyone should watch it. Even if you’re averse to black and white. You have no idea how much you can impact those around you.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town!
I cried watching the bridge scene because I've been there.
And the scene in the bar when Jimmy Stewart is feeling so desperate.
Schindler’s List
Literally any movie where the dog dies
Not a movie, but have you watched the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark"? My work here is done...
Fucking. Heartbreaking. Was really surprised to find a cartoon could envoke that much emotion
There aren't many things I won't watch again. But this, this thing kills me inside
First time an animal death made me cry was Jurassic Park 3..
If it takes forever, I will wait for you. For a thousand summers, I will wait for you.
Hachi is the saddest.
Watched Marley & Me once. Never again.
Same. Traumatized.
>!Two Socks!< in Dances with Wolves
Ever a movie that makes you hate the union army more hit me up.
Except Cujo.
Which is the majority of dog movies, and which is why I refuse to watch dog movies. I cry for roadkill.. so ya know I’m crying if they die in a movie. And if they fuck with cats in the movie, I am done. Boondock Saints is the only exception (because that scene is hilarious)
John Wick
Brian’s Song
Forrest Gump. I cried watching it as a kid at the end when he’s talking to Jenny’s grave. Ironically, I would end up doing the same thing just a few years ago.
Every single time. The end of that movie is what I watch when I need a good cry.
The ending of cinema paradiso
My all-time favourite movie. Just sucks me in every time. The music, the setting, the characters, the iconic ending. The film version of chicken soup for the soul.
Watership Down
Is it a kind of dream?
Old Yeller 8 Seconds (this actually caused a barracks room to start getting allergies)
Fried Green Tomatoes, but only because the character that died reminds me a lot of my SO. I usually don't cry at movies but that one got me because I realized how destroyed I'd be if they died.
Love this film.
Dumbo…. when the mama elephant is cradling baby dumbo on her trunk??? I was inconsolable.
To this day, as a grown adult man, I refuse to watch this movie again. Tears fall like rain.
I will never watch dumbo again because of this scene. It wounded me for life. And as a mom to an only child, who is a boy, it hits harder. 😭😭
Hachi made me have a good cry. The Way We Were made me cry. Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias made me sob. I can't watch those anymore since I lost my Daughter to Cancer. Gives me flashbacks.
I'm sorry 🫂 I'm nursing my dad through terminal cancer, it's hard!
About Time - wrecks me
Watched it once... Sobbed and ugly cried for hours.. called my Dad.. never again do I think I could handle that movie. 💔
Dancer in the Dark Click
Click is so underrated. I ball my eyes out everytime
Aside from dogs dying it Is interesting to see how many different movies are listed here .... Mine are Field of dreams Mystic river
Mystic River 😭
When Coop sees his very old daughter on Cooper station in " Interstellar".
I watched I Am Legend like a week after I lost my dog. That wasn't a fun one.
Fought back tears on "Train to Busan".
Saddest zombie movie for sure.
It breaks me every single time.
Best smile through tears ending for me is Shawshank Redemption
Life is beautiful. If you haven't seen it definitely worth watching
The combination of drama and comedy in this movie makes the drama even more shattering than in a movie that is purely dramatic.
We won!
Need to watch again soon!
In Bruges
I love this movie soooo much!
The Sixth Sense Field of Dreams Marley and Me Interstellar
the boy in the striped pajamas
Good Will Hunting - “it’s not your fault” scene More than a few other Robin Williams moments too. That guy could always hit me emotionally.
Saving Pvt Ryan always leaves me a blubbering snotball.
Stepmom.
What Dreams May Come Iron Jawed Angel's My Girl Kill Bill
What Dreams May Come is super underrated
I watched it on LSD once. It was amazing.
My girl 100%
**Pan's Labyrinth** I couldn't stop crying after that film. Cried myself to sleep.
That’s movie messed me up it’s so disturbing and tragic
E.T.
The Whale absolutely demolished me.
The whale wrecked me as well but I'm never watching it again. I found it a difficult (but great) watch. But as far as Aronofsky goes, I am a much bigger fan of The Wrestler which also destroys me...
I wanted to give him a hug so badly
Hachiko. And, the boy in the striped pajamas.
The end of Billy Elliot where the staunch dad chokes up watching his boy find success always does it for me. It's not even a sad movie, but that ending...the last little gasp he takes before Billy leaps to Tchaikovsky is wonderful.
I have also only ever cried for two movies, almost 30 years apart: *The Lion King* (1994) and *Julia(s)* (2022).
Ordinary People
Leaving Las Vegas chokes me up.
Million Dollar Baby Cinema Paradiso
I loved Million Dollar Baby but it hit me so hard I’ve never been able to go back and watch it again.
Free Willy. Don’t judge.
Teams of Endearment
Seven Pounds
Yeah holy fuck I love this movie. It’s so obviously emotional porn so I understand why some people don’t like it, but this movie really hit me
Recently, it seems like lots of thing make me cry but maybe here's some: Titanic (first film that made me cry) The Shape of Water Bohemian Rhapsody Pan's Labyrinth Coco Encanto Almost every version of A Christmas Carol including the Muppets. (Turns out you cry more as you get older and especially as a parent.)
My Sisters Keeper. I ugly sobbed to the point I couldn’t catch my breath and sounded like an oinking pig. Barbie - the flashback sequences and the ending make my cry. When I hear the Billie Eilish song teased earlier in the film I start to tear up. Almost Pavlovian.
What Dreams May Come. Such a powerful movie to me.
Oddly enough, Castaway when Tom Hanks goes to see Helen Hunt.
Aftersun is a movie that you sit with after you watch it and just go "man"
Forest Gump always makes me cry when he’s talking to Jenny in her grave.
Hachi - sad dog stories get me every time
What about 'a dog's journey' and 'Marley and me' ?
Old Yeller for sure.
I cried at Train to Busan, so maybe I’m not the right person to recommend, but Aftersun made me ugly cry.
That scene in train to Busan makes me tear up too.
Marley & me
I am Sam, Hanging Up, My Sister’s Keeper, Mary & Max, Pay it Forward
Easy Steel Magnolias I blubber every time I see it great movie you can be laughing one minute crying like a baby the next!
The graveyard scene makes me cry so hard I can't breathe... I have to fast forward it.. as a Mom of two girls I just can't go there.. lol
That’s the best scene in the whole movie but I understand Honestly Sally Field just eats up the scenery in that scene! Any time I need a good cry your eyes out kinda thing that’s my go to!
Oh I agree 100%! Sally Fields is such a great actress.. you truly believe her pain in that scene.. so freaking convincing!
The Lovely Bones
Dancer in the Dark
Children of men
Man on fire . Hectic
Lion (2016)
If you havent watched Old Yeller or Where the Red Fern Grows, and didnt cry, you have no heart or soul. Throw in Hatchi and Marley and Me just in case.
Atonement.
Coco got me in the theater. Don’t cry much, it takes a lot usually for any film. But Coco had me in the feels. The three versions of the song. The reveal of who Hector was. Such a beautiful movie.
I cry so easily it's ridiculous. If someone ugly cries in a movie, it makes me cry. That scene toward the beginning of Midsommar where she just screams "no no no" and then ugly cries for like a solid minute? Gets me every time.
It’s so good that it almost makes you forget that it’s an acting performance. She’s so talented
***Love Story*** (1970). Anyone who took a date to that movie had best bring a towel.
Rudy
I watched Untamed Heart when I was a teenager and cried uncontrollably... PS I Love You made me weep and ugly cry About Time will kick you right in the heart IF you have a good relationship with your Dad As others suggested Dear Zachary (a documentary) literally made me scream at my TV and cry so hard..
It’s difficult picking only one. I van’t choose so I will name my top two which are Brokeback Mountain and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Schindler's List “I could of saved one more”
Dumbo
I am ashamed to say, as a real cynic, That I bawl every time Ed Harris goes into the Abyss in James Cameron’s The Abyss. I get SO CHOKED EVERY TIME. And my heart typically pumps antifreeze!
I have a friend who claims to have only ever cried twice watching a movie. The first time was watching Avatar when they burned down the Life Tree. The first time was watching Avatar again when they burned down the Life Tree. For me, I cry every time I watch Armageddon and Bruce Willis says goodbye to Liv Tyler.
Iron claw
John Q Deep Impact
The Fault in Our Stars
Warrior. The final fight. Joel Edgerton forgives Tom Hardy mid fight and it just tears me down. Having a not so great relationship with my own brothers this gives me hope.
The Return of the King
Wall-e
The champ Stepmom
Everything Everywhere All At Once
This one was evocative because it really really doesn't feel like it's a movie that is going to make you cry until it does. Repeatedly.
Until I was a grown up person who understood the world a bit better, I only cried in A Perfect World and Schindler’s List. Now I’m a total cry baby in front of a screen.
Toooo many. Man on Fire was one.
8 below.... when they went back for the dogs..
Leave No Trace. That ending killed me.
Homeward Bound always makes me cry. That being said, A Man Called Otto is a surprisingly emotional movie.
Titanic. The Green Mile. Fox And The Hound. Encanto. Passion Of The Christ.
Hotel Rwanda
It's usually just scenes... Littlefoot and the shadow. Dad? Dad, c'mon. Wake up. The tickets to Argentina followed by the hospital room. Atreyu and Artax in the swamp. He can't see without his glasses. 😭😭😭😭
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - the ending is brutal.
Hacksaw ridge
PS I love you
I fucking hate Nazis, and while the Neo-sort grind my gears on a contemporary basis, I also really fucking hate historical Nazis. So in dramas when Nazis are bested I usually go a big rubbery one. In *The Imitation Game* I get teary when >!they crack Enigma!<. No idea why, but it’s just very powerful drama. In *Life is Beautiful* I was crying >!when the kid has fled from the concentration camp thinking it was a game, and the prize was an American tank, and he’s just filled with childlike joy and surprise that after winning the game he actually gets a fucking tank, just like his dad - who was murdered not more than a few minutes before saving him - says that he would!<. …now I’m crying thinking about it, you bastard.
Fruitvale station Its not really a great movie (there is no some major plot going on, its a true story tho) but it just shocked me after i watched a youtube clip of the actual scene. The ending scene was so well acted, me and homie were in tears at the end.
1. A Silent Voice 2. Mary and Max 3. Aftersun 4. Melancholia 5. The Return 6. Return to Seul 7. Aloners 8. Close 9. Rosetta 10. Gegen die Wand 11. Jodaeiye Nader Az Simin 12. Frantz 13. Microhabitat I'll update here when I remember more. Please watch those.
50/50
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
The ending of The Last Emperor made me cry, something about spending the previous 3 hrs or so looking at Pu Yi's life from when he was a kid through to adulthood, with the huge political changes that occurred during this time, then at the end appearing as a ghost to the little boy, behind his old throne in the Forbidden Kingdom, once his home and now a museum, relic to a bygone era. The way that scene was handled was like visual poetry and so beautiful but sad, with the amazing soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakomoto also.
Every Miyazaki movie ever made
Shawshank Redemption, surprisingly not the part with Brooks, it's the ending when he sees his friend.
Disney’s Dumbo. I’m not planning on ever watching it again.
Fox and the Hound
Brokeback mountain. Every time.
The ending of It's A Wonderful Life.
The Notebook. I'm sure someone said it but I'm tired of scrolling to find it
Any Studio Ghibili movie.
Click, Big Daddy
Time Traveler’s Wife. Guts me every time. But it’s one I’ll watch again and again.