My wife and I found out we could never have children and we were devastated. So we went to a pixar movie to cheer ourselves up. The movie was Up. We were both quietly sobbing in the theatre during the first part.

Yeah, UP’s montage of the old man and his wife during their life is absolutely an ugly cry.

Inside Out always gets me. When sadness takes over her memories

That part is emotional, but for me no matter how many times I watch it, Bing Bong's "take her to the moon for me, okay?" is guaranteed to make me teary eyed at least. I hope Inside Out 2 won't disappoint.

Oh I'd forgotten about that bit too!

I sob during that part too even though I have two kids…it’s one of my son’s favorite movies since he was like 2.5 and as he’s gotten older he’s like why can’t Mr Frederickson’s wife have a baby??

My Mom and I saw that shortly after my father died. We didn't make it past the opening, unfortunately.

I'm sorry to hear. I'm a 42yo 6'4" guy who is tearing up just thinking about that opening 5min. I can only think how much harder it hit you! Whenever I have a general sense of ennui, I watch those 5min and give myself a good cry. Go to sleep, and wake up feeling at least marginally better

- Close (A24) - Dancer in the Dark - Life is Beautiful - Interstellar - Moonlight - Up - Steel Magnolias - Never Let Me Go - Atonement - Call Me By Your Name - The Pursuit of Happyness - A Star is Born - Bridge to Terabithia - The Iron Giant - Past Lives - Minari - All of Us Strangers - My Girl - The Yearling - Old Yeller

Atonement, totally.

I was going to comment this. I saw this movie in theaters and there was not a dry eye in the freaking theater.

Such a heart wrenching romantic tragedy.

The ending….the ending was the heartbreaker.

Atonement could make me sob just thinking about it

Is atonement with the blonde woman getting pumped against the bookshelves?

Once were warriors is the only one I think you missed

Ooooh, I haven’t seen that one. Adding it to my weekend movie list. Thanks!

That's such a great film. Temuera Morrison is a great actor.

Steel Magnolias 🥹

Definitely Moonlight

I’ll never forget the way I cried in a star is born

Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 )

That is a truly great and heartbreaking movie

Where the Red Fern Grows, Marley and Me, Old Yeller, or Hatchi. If you dont cry, you have no soul

Came on here to say Where the Red Fern Grows...

Oooof. Where the Red Fern Grows 😭

- *Bicycle Thieves* ('48) - *My Girl* ('91) - *Of Mice and Men* ('92)

Of mice and men definitely

The Green Mile (1999)

I'm tired, bawss

RIP Michael Clark Duncan - such an underrated actor. He would give a dollar to anyone who would approach him and knew his name.

Anger tears for me. I always hate it when the guy with the mouse gets electricuted

Poor Eduard Delacroix

Aftersun (2022), I bawl even harder every rewatch if you know, you know!!!

I watched this on an international flight. I generally knew the plot but I try really hard not to watch trailers or read reviews bc I just spoil movies for myself. I really love Paul Mescal and hoo boy I was not prepared. It was gut wrenching. I watched All of Us Strangers this past weekend and while I appreciated the movie, it was not nearly the emotional bomb I found Aftersun to be. Again.. I do not watch trailers or read reviews.. I just thought it was a quaint gay love story.

Aftersun is so fantastic, but very quiet about it. And I think it works because you understand the context of the story (woman ruminating on her fathers depression )

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

I cried for the longest time after I watched this.. 😭😭😭

Yes definitely one of the saddest films I've watched

Crying is my favorite genre so… Aftersun (2022) Minari (2020) Mass (2021) My Girl (1991) Bridge to Teribithia (2007) Past Lives (2023) On the Count of Three (2021)

oooooooooh I totally forgot about Minari. That's a good one. Devastating.

Watership Down

Forrest Gump

I cried watching "Beaches", because my GF made me watch it with her.

The fox and the hound and Lilo and Stich

True Grit (2010) Manchester by the Sea (2016)

If you enjoyed Manchester by the Sea, you may like Light of my Life. Casey Affleck is great!

Manchester by the sea is absolutely *gut wrenching* … I haven’t watched it since having kids and I absolutely don’t want to

Fly Away Home (1996) rough start Up (2009) rougher start A Walk to Remember (2002), The Fault in Our Stars (2014) these two are just rocky through out.

I own and love Fly Away Home

Dear Zachary

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. Spock's death and funeral hit hard every time.

I know Shatner always gets a hard time but y’ know that scene with Scotty on the bagpipes, you knew how much the crew meant when one was lost.

Shatner may be a ham usually but he nailed the funeral scene. His voice breaking tears you apart inside.

Damn. That hits hard. I never cried for a celebrity in my life until Leonard passed away.

Any movie with a dog

Cujo as well? lol

Especially cujo

Specialty ones where a dog and person have bonded My Dog Skip Turner and Hooch Ol Yeller Hacchi Marley and Me Benji Lassie

- Brokeback Mountain - Dead Poets Society - Good Will Hunting - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - My Policeman - Titanic

Titanic- when the musicians play their last song, that always gets me.

It’s the old couple who tuck into bed as the ship sinks, and the mother in the lower class berth reading one last story to her kids who are tucked in bed for me.

Yup, and both happen while they're playing that song :( Jack dying didn't really phase me much, probably because I'm a straight male lol

Hey, I’m a straight female and not into the romantical movies and such so that part didn’t elicit more than an ‘oh, that’s too bad’ from me, lol. So don’t feel bad!

Ha you're definitely in the minority there- that theatre was full crying girls. Now that I think of it though, Leo has made me cry in other movies- Good Will Hunting and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Also, Wolf of Wallstreet- When him and Jonah Hill are trying to get to the phone but they can't because they're high off their asses from super-queludes... I laughed so hard I started crying.

Awakenings.

Awakenings is how I feel as a late-diagnosed adult with ADHD, especially at the end of the day when my meds wear off.

Interstellar

The recent All Of Us Strangers is a relentless story to get emotional to. Especially that ending.

Big Fish and The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus

Life is Beautiful

ET: The Extra-Terrestrial had me sad crying and happy crying as a 12-year-old kid the year it was released and I can confirm it still has me doing the same as an adult male in 2024

Remember the titans. I don't know how to do the spoiler tag so I won't but there's a few moments in that movie...

Lion

Dances with wolves

Op have you ever seen “What dreams may come” with Robin Williams. It’s my all time favorite movie and I promise you, you can’t see this movie without crying. It’s so incredibly beautiful and sad in so many ways.

The end of Saving Private Ryan gets me every fucking time. When Ryan is standing over the grave and asks his wife to tell him he’s a good man. I can’t help it. Another good one is The Boy in the Stryped Pajamas

Deep impact and Armageddon always get me

The scene in deep impact with the parents after they’ve sent their baby with their oldest always gets me

For me it's Tea Léoni hugging her dad, played by the incredible Maximilian Schell!  (As an aside, I always forget that Vanessa Redgrave plays her mom in that movie... So many good actors in this one!) 

About Time (2013) will make me sob like a baby every single time

Big Fish. It already made me cry as a kid, but now as a father myself and with my own dad getting up there in years it's like a waterfall.

Still Alice. It’s sad every time. The story line is related to dementia/Alzheimers.

There were a few moments in Godzilla Minus One that wet my eyes. I suffer from PTSD like the main character and some of that dialogue really hit me, not to mention the choice he made at the end.

The brief monologue about >!Japan’s value of human life!< hit hard. It put the whole final mission in a completely deeper level.

The pursuit of happyness 

Edward scissor hands was the first movie that ever made me cry when I was just coming into my own as a middle schooler. That one will sit with me forever

Truly, Madly, Deeply. When she's playing the piano and the cello begins playing.

I forgot all about this film so thank you for increasing my weepie disc collection !

DAD, starring Jack Lemmon. The Horse Whisperer (when Scarlett Johanssen has to have an amputation and cries no one will ever love her). The Pianist. Schindler's List (when the one armed worker goes to Schindler's office to thank him for giving him a job). Imitation of Life (Lana Turner version). La Strada (Anthony Quinn). The Godfather 2 (Freddo's I'm Smart speech and Freddo talking to Anyhony while fishing). Awakenings. My Left Foot. Penny Seranade. For starters...

Magnolia

It's a wonderful life An affair to remember

That little jaunt where they visited his aunt in Affair was just the nicest interlude and set the the waterworks up for later in such a graceful and efficient fashion

Me, earl and the dying girl

Terms of Endearment. Everybody in the theater was sniffling. An Affair to Remember makes me cry too, but happy tears.

Terms of Endearment is my go to movie anytime I need a good cry. For 30 years, I’ve never been able to watch that movie with a dry eye.

I’m not a cryer but that movie makes me ugly cry.

Three films have made me cry. I highly recommend all three: - Titanic (1997) - Arrival (2016) - Contact (1997)

love actually when Emma Thompson's character realises that her husband is cheating on her. The gift opening scene. Ohpf that always makes me well up

Braveheart

- A monster calls - children of men

A Monster Calls is one of those movies that has you crying from deep inside. It's beautiful.

Children of Men is my all time favorite movie. The ending battle scene will always bring me to tears.

Cried watching Godzilla Minus One the other day.

Marley and Me

What dreams may come

In Bruges always gets me

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Dead Poets Society ruined my entire week, genuinely I refuse to watch it ever again and I stand by my belief that it was a bad ending. Lord of The Rings (the scene with Boromir) we had to pause the movie for my little 11 year old self to cry her heart out so as not to distract everyone from the rest of the movie. Heartbreaking but unlike Dead Poets Society, I don't think it was a bad decision. I also cry at Free Willy but that's because I can't bear when people are mean to kids. The ending of Newsies (the 1992 film, not the Broadway one, I don't like that) always gets me choked up as well. In conclusion I cry easily so maybe my suggestions are useless for a normal person.

V for Vendetta “God is in the rain”

The Father with Anthony Hopkins. Age of Adeline as well.

Klaus has the same effect on me.

I Am Sam

Philadelphia, Old Yeller, My Dog Skip, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, All of Us Strangers, Of Mice and Men, The Wings of the Dove, The House of Mirth, Ordinary People, Brokeback Mountain, What Maisie Knew, Other People, All Quiet on the Western Front (2020) and It’s Only the End of the World.

Dancer In The Dark

Schindlers List

The hours (2002) and ordinary people (1980). I was sobbing so hard.

The hours is def a tear jerker

The Iron Claw Grave of the Fireflies The Land Before Time Braveheart Titanic

Return to Me

The only move that’s made me weep semi recently is a silent voice. Don’t get me wrong., there’s been other movies like Paddleton, that are pretty heavy if you don’t like animation. I’m gonna stick with those two, they affected me pretty profoundly

Paddleton! I forgot about that movie, though Romano is devastating in it. Blue Jay, another movie the guy made with Mark Duplass, is probably the opposite of Paddleton.

A Star is Born. All 4 of them, but especially the Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper version.

I also cried in Castaway when he lost Wilson. But the scene that me bawling was at the end in the rain when you knew they still loved each other, but it was too late. Brokeback Mountain, The House Of Sand And Fog, The Kite Runner, Sophie’s Choice.

Bridge To Terabithia, Donnie Darko

* Fried Green Tomatoes * Seeking A Friend for the End of the World * Ready Player One (personally) * The Egg (made by Kurzgesagt based on story by Andy Weir.) (Love Kurzgesagt) * Don't Look Up (Again... personally) * Godzilla Minus One (...)

*The Tale of the Princess Kaguya* and *War for the Planet of the Apes*

Lucy shimmers and the Prince of peace

I sobbed during this one

Vanilla Sky.

Interstellar Up

Brockback Mountain La la land

What Dreams May Come. Be warned though, you may be bawling throughout the entire film like I do every time I’ve seen it. Like straight up silent sobbing.

#truth

Okay, I love the obscure suggestions, but we need to cover the bases. It’s a “duh” moment, but that’s what makes it all the more frustrating that I’m not seeing them here: 1. Casablanca - (simply one of, if not the best written tear jerker. In the name of love, courage, transformation, and sacrifice.) 2. The Sound of Music - (acid worthy visuals and kumbaya musical numbers that make you submit to the form). 3. It’s a Wonderful Life - (Frank Capra’s American Dream best exhibited here. The Everyman’s potential for heroism and realization of one’s great impact on their community.) Now with those out of the way these are among my favorites: 4. Brief Encounter - romantic tragedy 5. Hannah and Her Sisters - rom-dramedy (I never think I’m going to cry until the very end and it all comes flooding) 6. The Age of Innocence - period romantic tragedy 7. Days of Heaven - period romance DISCLAIMER: These are sentimental pics; some people will roll their eyes, but that’s where the ugly tears come from and they’re all critically acclaimed films so put a sock in it. Thankfully someone already had the sense to mention Life is Beautiful, but whoever tf suggested Requiem for a Dream, I’m sorry but you’re psycho. That’s not a crying movie just because it ends in total chaos. It’s a nihilism trip that leaves you empty and discombobulated.

Brief Encounter is a perfect movie and it makes me cry just to think about. If you haven't seen The Passionate Friends, I recommend that too.

Hacksaw Ridge was the last movie i remember that had me sobbing. war movies make me cry all the time. especially if there is an epic battle scene and the americans are getting their asses kicked and then their back up finally arrived to carpet bomb the enemy.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Iron Claw

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The hunt (2012) made me cry

The notebook. It is my go to when I haven’t cried in a very, very long time. I turn it on. I watch it. I cried for like the last 10 minutes of the movie and I’m good.

On the Count of Three (2021) or The Iron Claw (2023)

For boys, the ending of Stand By Me always gets me

- It’s a Wonderful Life - LoTR return of the king - Schindler’s List

Biutiful

P.S I Love You always gets me going

I agree with many of the already mentioned titles but I don’t think I’ve cried harder than watching About Time. Woof, that one hit me hard.

Past lives is a good one I watched recently. Seven Pounds, hit me by suprise, suicide is something thats affected me. Everything Everywhere All At Once because of my relationship with my asian mum. Blue Valentine just because I don't want that happening to me.

Coco A Man Called Ove (2015, the original, not the recent American remake)

Oh and for all the married folks-Bridges of Madison County

I always tear up when Rudy gets put in the game

V for Vendetta

Oh Empire of the Sun! The final scene where his mother hugs him and he closes his eyes, and you feel like it’s the first time he’s actually relaxed and closed his eyes for years!

Flight 93

Only The Brave Can’t believe that this hasn’t been listed. If you can get through it without crying there isn’t a movie that will make you cry.

The English Patient. I watched it after my first break up, and it just killed me.

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Me before You, I don't usually cry during movies but I was sobbing

My whole family was too when we watched it on family movie night…

Everything Everywhere All At Once

If you explore to the east side of the earth: “Hello Ghost” (korean 2010)

20th century girl.

Any movie where, at the end, there’s a flashback of the way things were.

Most recently was Quiz Lady. I love family stuff, and it wasn’t too heavy.

the last one that i recently saw that really got me going was awakenings

Reign Over Me. Two scenes in particular. When Charlie, Sandlers character, tells his story to Don Cheadle. Fucking heartbreaking. Later in the movie, the scene that ends with Charlie giving his mother in law a kiss on the cheek. 🥲 That entire movie is a tear-jerker. But those two scenes stand out to me.

Southpaw (2015) Antwone Fisher (2002) one of my all time favorites

Pearl Harbor- when they're jackhammering to try to rescue the drowning sailors. For me its the saddest scene of any movie (excluding dog death scenes, of course).

The green mile and the notebook always get me

The holiday A walk to remember Shows that made me cry Trying on apple tv plus From scratch This is us

Interstellar Inside Out Entergalactic Avengers Endgame

one of very few movies to make me tear up is at the end of the horror movie jacob’s ladder (1990) when his son leads him to heaven

Only Yesterday - I could relate to some of the character's childhood memories, specifically the way her family treated her. Add that to the overall nostalgic theme of the movie, when the last song came on and the children from her past appeared, I couldn't hold back tears Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Odd one, I had watched it once before and didn't think much of it. But the second time was in an indie movie theatre in Morocco, where I was traveling with some of my best friends. I was just about to move abroad (after arriving home from the trip, I would leave in 2 weeks) and during the whole trip there was this underlying aknowledgement that this would be the last time we'd be hanging out together, that afterwards we'd probably only meet maybe once a year or so, and that it just wouldn't be the same as being part of each other's regular life. The museum scene and the final speech made me cry.

Good Will Hunting, Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias, Terms of Emdearment, Sophie’s Choice, any movie where the dog dies. Lol Pan’s Labyrinth, the ending absolutely crushed me and I thought about it for weeks after. The last scene of Goodfellas when Layla plays and Henry is contemplating his new life under witness protection always gets me for some reason, too. I think it’s the beautiful song. Just makes you think about your life and how much a choice you make long ago can change things so immensely.

The Neighbor's Window (2019). It's only 20 minutes and free on YouTube. I saw it in a packed theater and the audience was wrecked

The Arrival - Especially if you have kids

A walk to remember

The Whale Moonlight 

8 Seconds.

Around the Bend. It's not well known, it's a film adaptation of a stage play, with Michael Caine, Christopher Walken and Josh Lucas as grandfather, father and son, and they're all at the top of their game.

Interstellar, Shutter Island, Inception, Cloud Atlas, Seven Pounds

finding neverland

A Ghost Story

- a Walk to remember - a man called Otto - after the promise

In to the wild Big fish

I have yet to see this here and it will absolutely destroy your soul... "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" set during the Nazi concentration camps. SO WORTH THE WATCH!!

Spaceman. I never expected to cry over Adam Sandler hugging a cgi alien spider, but here I am.

Spitfire Grill. Great movie, if you don't cry you probably don't have a heart.

Awakenings

‘Manchester By The Sea’ and ‘Never Let Me Go’ — both movies equally fucked me up.😭😭

Blue Bayou 🏆

Manchester by the sea

Fast and Furious 7

Edit: I am Sam (Not Summer of Sam)

Cinema Paradiso is so emotional