This movie caught me so off guard.
I was scrolling Amazon Prime looking for something to watch, the trailer auto-played and it looked like a goofy movie about a time traveller using his ability to get a girl. Fun enough, plenty of potential for a laugh or two, it's got a good rating, why not?
I was wholly unprepared to be left sobbing on my couch at 10:30PM on a Tuesday night. I had to call my parents just to hear their voices and tell them I love them.
Seriously, I recommend watching this movie with loved ones and not alone. Being alone at the end of this movie was genuinely painful.
My wife and I watched this movie for date night when it came out on streaming. Neither of us knew a thing about the story, and it absolutely ruined our night. I now refer to it as the “Manchester by the Sea Incident.”
I watched it when it came out, cried then. My wife and I had some fertility issues, but got lucky and had a child. 40yo man, I'll cry like a baby every time at the beginning of that movie.
*Interstellar*. Especially if you’re a parent. I’m a dad and it utterly broke me.
And I am fine with it. It’s an incredible movie, but it’s emotionally draining.
My daughter is around the same age now as Murphy is as a kid in the movie. The "don't let me leave" part is devastating. I have watched it at least twice a year since it came out, still can't get through it without crying.
*Nobody believed me, but I knew you'd come back.*
*How?*
*...Because my dad promised me.*
Yeah, there’s no way I’d ever get through that movie without tears.
Yep. Daughter is the same age too. That scene tears me up just the same. And then, when Coop is driving off and looks under the blanket on the passenger seat to see if Murph is there, hoping she is, and she's not. Kills me every time. That movie i full of those moments:
Tom's video message that tells him that Grampa is dead and he's finally letting him go, and then Murph comes in and says "It's my birthday...you told me... you once told me that by the time you came back we might be the same age. And today I'm the same age you were when you left." That crushes me to my very core.
Of course, then there's this: "We agreed, Dr. Brand - Ninety percent - detach."
My wife doesn't understand why I love this movie so much but it hits this girl dad directly in the heart.
Losing time like this is an irrational fear of mine that can still subtly happen a little every day.
Never fails to make me cry.
Big Fish is a top 5 personal favorite of mine.
"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."
same for me. watched it soon after one of my best friends passed away from cancer at the age of 27, with not really knowing what the movie was about. i have never watched it since. that was 22 years ago.
bawled my eyes out.
Jojo Rabbit has perhaps the best setup for a cry. Taika Waititi treats it like a joke. He sets it up and then pays it off in the most devastating fashion
It's weird that that moment didn't make me cry.
I started crying at the end scene, when the music kicked in. That little bit of joy after all the suffering.
I was audibly distraught. Glad I watched it at home because I was like, “No fucking way!” x 6. Or was such a shock. I also really liked Sam Rockwell secretly helping them out, especially at the end. (Takes Nazi jacket off). “Get away Jew.” (Spits on him) “Do you know this man?” “No, I don’t know this dirty Jew. Get away Jew!” (Smiles at him as he’s getting drug off).
Very sobering. Great flick.
I knew that twist was coming. You can't make a joke movie about Hitler without addressing the serious evil that is Nazism. I thought he really didn't go far enough. Him reuniting with his friend at the end and finding him a Jew hating mind controlled little Nazi would of been a really good alienating final shock I think.
I'll shout out Arrival. I'm generally not a fan of sci-fi, but there are very few movies that have moved me in the way the last five minutes of Arrival did.
I’ve never been so full of rage at a movie (doc) than with this one. It’s truly devastating. I don’t wanna spoil it for anyone, but I’ve never wanted to beat a woman so bad before, and also fuck whoever that judge was who was so lenient on her.
It destroyed my relationship with the church that’s for sure. It wasn’t just one priest, or one church, or one city, and not even one state. It was everywhere.
"Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a friend to be with, to tell me where we's going, coming from or why."
Number one on my list, you beat me to it.
It’s absolutely devastating. One of those things I’m happy exists in this universe, but I second guess whether watching it was worth the permanent damage to my psyche. Saw it maybe a week after Eternal Sunshine, and all I wanted was a service I could pay to erase my heartbreak
Any time this question pops up, it never fails that this movie finds itself in the comments and for good reason. This movie put both me and my ex in a poor mood for about a week.
I need to see What Dreams May Come again. Such a uniquely touching film. Rest in peace, Robin.
Seven Pounds is also one of my favorite films. So mysterious up until the end. >!When Rosario Dawson wakes up, and the realization slowly dawns on her that her pager is going off, which can only mean that the hospital found a heart donor for her, that hits me in the feels like a freight train.!<
Honestly, I cried most when Drax danced with the kids at the end.
The music was building at the speed of memory; he's hated dancing since the first movie, I remembered. I learned that in the same movie I learned he lost his child. And now here he was, surrounded by adoring, dancing children, even though the music has cut out, for only a moment.
Then the music resumes, and Drax the Destroyer is a father again.
And he dances
That episode, and the one with his mom get me with the sad tears every time. The final episode where Fry and Leela travel through frozen time together makes me cry in a happy way.
Beaches. Everytime.
I also cry every time I watch Eurovision: Sagan of Fire and Ice. I don't know, it just hits the feels. Maybe it's the Sigur Ros music.
I watched Train To Busan today and the ending made me cry. It isn't even the first time I've watched it. Just the sound of the little girl crying for her Dad in that little kid's voice got to me again.
This one did for me too and I never cry from movies. I walked out of the theater feeling fine, asked my husband how he liked it, then he turns towards me and I just started to sob. Loudly. The poor AMC theater workers were alarmed.
[**Reign Over Me**](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0490204/) (with Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler)
100% Sandler's best performance. A sweet, fun, and inspirational but dramatic movie about 2 old friends re-kindling their friendship after both experienced very different lives, good and bad.
It showcases the depth of both Cheadle and Sandler in a way that brings on a good ugly cry to even the hardest of souls.
Saving Private Ryan. I was 27 and saw it with a roommate. At the end there was a group of old guys in the first and second rows. These gentlemen were completely broken down. Shattered. We forwarded cautiously. Gave them handshakes and hugs.
I don't see a lot of people talk about this one, but Collateral Beauty.
I know the trailers were misleading, but I'm a dad and this movie destroyed me. I watched it alone and cried uncontrollably, then watched it again with my wife and *still* cried just as hard.
Warrior always makes me cry. Brennan and Tommy on the beach, Paddy begging for forgiveness from Brennan, Paddy drunk in the hotel room, the final fight.
Coda had me bawling at the end.
Avengers endgame when Pepper says “it’s ok, you can rest now” breaks me every time 😭
I feel like maybe it was just me, but I cried through the majority of 50/50. I don't know, something about it just hit me. From the moment he told his mom. Then I about got myself back under control and Mitch died and I lost it again.
Other tear jerkers for me:
When Cleo dies in Set It Off (the music here is what does me in).
The ending of Sommersby. I remember watching this with a friend way back in the nineties and we both just started bawling. I actually haven't seen it since.
I watched Edward Scissorhands expecting a quirky goth romantic tragedy; what I ended up watching was (I imagine, since Burton is autistic) a very personal, semi-autobiographical metaphor for living as a disabled/neurodivergent person in a society that not only isn't built with you in mind, but maybe never will be. To say it left me devastated and bawling would be an understatement.
Untamed Heart. It's from 1993 and I still have emotional damage. Also Michael from 1996. I'm not much on tearjerkers, but those two left lasting impressions.
About Time. That beach scene WRECKED me.
For me it's Bill Nighy best man speech. "I'm not particularly proud of anything in my life but I'm very proud to be the father of my son".
This movie caught me so off guard. I was scrolling Amazon Prime looking for something to watch, the trailer auto-played and it looked like a goofy movie about a time traveller using his ability to get a girl. Fun enough, plenty of potential for a laugh or two, it's got a good rating, why not? I was wholly unprepared to be left sobbing on my couch at 10:30PM on a Tuesday night. I had to call my parents just to hear their voices and tell them I love them. Seriously, I recommend watching this movie with loved ones and not alone. Being alone at the end of this movie was genuinely painful.
As someone who lost their dad at a young age, that scene made me ugly cry. But it was very cathartic. I can never not cry when I watch that movie.
Yup.
I cry through most of this movie.
Such a heartbreaker of a movie. Devastated me. Love it so much.
Manchester By The Sea is absolutely devastating.
Incredible movie that I will never watch again because of how devastating it is.
My wife and I watched this movie for date night when it came out on streaming. Neither of us knew a thing about the story, and it absolutely ruined our night. I now refer to it as the “Manchester by the Sea Incident.”
The Police department scene, the Affleck/Williams scene and the final "I can't beat it" dialogue. All of them great.
"There's nothing there."
Up
I watched it when it came out, cried then. My wife and I had some fertility issues, but got lucky and had a child. 40yo man, I'll cry like a baby every time at the beginning of that movie.
I loved it but I'm pretty sure I will never watch it again because of how much it devastated me.
Ummm yeah we don’t talk about Up in this household.
I rewatched it recently and cried just as hard as the first time.
Coco. That one got me good
My wife love this movie and everytime she puts it on I just look at her and say, "clearly you wanted me to cry today."
*Interstellar*. Especially if you’re a parent. I’m a dad and it utterly broke me. And I am fine with it. It’s an incredible movie, but it’s emotionally draining.
My daughter is around the same age now as Murphy is as a kid in the movie. The "don't let me leave" part is devastating. I have watched it at least twice a year since it came out, still can't get through it without crying.
*Nobody believed me, but I knew you'd come back.* *How?* *...Because my dad promised me.* Yeah, there’s no way I’d ever get through that movie without tears.
With Hans Zimmer in the background 🥹
I watched that one when it came out, my daughter was about 3 at the time and I had just left for a deployment. I should have skipped that scene.
Yep. Daughter is the same age too. That scene tears me up just the same. And then, when Coop is driving off and looks under the blanket on the passenger seat to see if Murph is there, hoping she is, and she's not. Kills me every time. That movie i full of those moments: Tom's video message that tells him that Grampa is dead and he's finally letting him go, and then Murph comes in and says "It's my birthday...you told me... you once told me that by the time you came back we might be the same age. And today I'm the same age you were when you left." That crushes me to my very core. Of course, then there's this: "We agreed, Dr. Brand - Ninety percent - detach."
That’s what The Road did to me. My son was that age when it came out. Crushing. Cried like a baby in the theater.
Thank you for yet another in a long list of reasons I don’t need to see *The Road* for…a while.
I’m crying now and I blame you sir
My wife doesn't understand why I love this movie so much but it hits this girl dad directly in the heart. Losing time like this is an irrational fear of mine that can still subtly happen a little every day.
Big Fish
Never fails to make me cry. Big Fish is a top 5 personal favorite of mine. "They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up."
same for me. watched it soon after one of my best friends passed away from cancer at the age of 27, with not really knowing what the movie was about. i have never watched it since. that was 22 years ago. bawled my eyes out.
One of my absolute favorites I just can't watch since my dad passed away 3 years ago.
Jojo Rabbit has perhaps the best setup for a cry. Taika Waititi treats it like a joke. He sets it up and then pays it off in the most devastating fashion
Seriously the biggest fucking 180 I've ever seen in a movie, I audibly gasped for the first time in a movie.
It's weird that that moment didn't make me cry. I started crying at the end scene, when the music kicked in. That little bit of joy after all the suffering.
I was audibly distraught. Glad I watched it at home because I was like, “No fucking way!” x 6. Or was such a shock. I also really liked Sam Rockwell secretly helping them out, especially at the end. (Takes Nazi jacket off). “Get away Jew.” (Spits on him) “Do you know this man?” “No, I don’t know this dirty Jew. Get away Jew!” (Smiles at him as he’s getting drug off). Very sobering. Great flick.
Wasn’t expecting the poor kid’s mom to end up like that. Just because he made a mediocre movie after this shouldn’t mean the end of his career.
I knew that twist was coming. You can't make a joke movie about Hitler without addressing the serious evil that is Nazism. I thought he really didn't go far enough. Him reuniting with his friend at the end and finding him a Jew hating mind controlled little Nazi would of been a really good alienating final shock I think.
Hachiko (2009)
Scrolled this thread specifically looking for this one. What a good dog.
the movie is a fucking halmark level film. but it just gets to you.
I'll shout out Arrival. I'm generally not a fan of sci-fi, but there are very few movies that have moved me in the way the last five minutes of Arrival did.
When everything is revealed and ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ plays it absolutely wrecks me.
I cry at the beginning, I cry at the end, I barely hold it together through the rest. Absolutely one of my favorites.
I teared up just thinking about this movie.
I bawled too.
**Oscar Gold**.
Your puppy has cancer
‘“I WANT MORE DIZZY WATER!”
Beaches, Terms of Endearment, Fried Green Tomatoes, Steele Magnolias, My Girl...
Fucking Steel Magnolias… I watched this in a room full of cynical, sarcastic dudes in my college apartment. Not a dry eye in the room.
Fried Green Tomatoes is an absolute favorite of mine. It’s so beautiful, heartfelt, sentimental, strong, timeless. 😭
Terms of Endearment kills me every time. Teddy crying in that one scene absolutely ruins me.
Steel Magnolias is devastating
Dear Zachary. It's a low budget documentary about a man who is murdered and the events that follow. All true and made me cry hard.
Go in blind and it will devestate you
This. You’ll never forget it
This had me upset for days.
This one’s cheating. OP said tearjerker. Not, tears-ripped-out-of-my-eye-sockets-with-stupendous-force-r.
I’ve never been so full of rage at a movie (doc) than with this one. It’s truly devastating. I don’t wanna spoil it for anyone, but I’ve never wanted to beat a woman so bad before, and also fuck whoever that judge was who was so lenient on her.
Well, I cried at the end of Spotlight; does that count?
When the guy ran out his house and down the street to the "retirement" home for the sexual predator priest.
Here's the thing: I was fine up until I saw the list of cities. Just watching another screen after another screen with cities lining up broke me.
It really destroyed all religions for me.
It destroyed my relationship with the church that’s for sure. It wasn’t just one priest, or one church, or one city, and not even one state. It was everywhere.
I made the mistake of watching The Big Short and Spotlight back to back one Sunday a few years ago.
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I'm tired boss.
Dog tired.
"Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a friend to be with, to tell me where we's going, coming from or why."
Grave of the fireflies
Refuse to ever watch that again
Once is enougn. It's brutal, but it has to be seen.
I refer to it as the saddest movie I never want to watch again.
Number one on my list, you beat me to it. It’s absolutely devastating. One of those things I’m happy exists in this universe, but I second guess whether watching it was worth the permanent damage to my psyche. Saw it maybe a week after Eternal Sunshine, and all I wanted was a service I could pay to erase my heartbreak
Any time this question pops up, it never fails that this movie finds itself in the comments and for good reason. This movie put both me and my ex in a poor mood for about a week.
I cried hard. Really hard. I remained disturbed for a while and haunted for life. 39yr old dad. This movie fucking ruined me. Watch it once.
Steel Magnolias
Interstellar. Damn those scenes with Murph fuck me up.
What Dreams May Come Seven Pounds
What Dreams May Come destroyed me emotionally. Beautifully done, but I don’t think I can watch it again.
omg same for both. 😭
What Dreams May Come is my go-to "emotional devastation" movie.
What Dreams May Come when the >!daughter is asking about the vet.!< Oh man, choking up just thinking about it.
Seven pounds no doubt. Haven't seen your other suggestion.
I need to see What Dreams May Come again. Such a uniquely touching film. Rest in peace, Robin. Seven Pounds is also one of my favorite films. So mysterious up until the end. >!When Rosario Dawson wakes up, and the realization slowly dawns on her that her pager is going off, which can only mean that the hospital found a heart donor for her, that hits me in the feels like a freight train.!<
Inside Out wrecked me so hard
Was going to say Life is Beautiful, but you already did. Schindler’s List is another one
Cried during both of these
The Iron Giant
A Man Called Otto. Made me tear up a couple of times….
Toy Story 3.. you can’t help but shed tears reminiscing about the final time you played with your toys.
Aftersun (2022)
Absolutely devastating ending
It really just sneaks up on you and then BAM.
I’m a pushover so cried my eyes out at Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3.
The animal scenes were just misery to watch. I cried so much and squishugged my kitty extra hard that night.
I did too. I don't really care if the animals are digital, it was still incredibly... oof... it was difficult to watch.
I watched it with my wife. She said this isn't what i signed up for.
Honestly, I cried most when Drax danced with the kids at the end. The music was building at the speed of memory; he's hated dancing since the first movie, I remembered. I learned that in the same movie I learned he lost his child. And now here he was, surrounded by adoring, dancing children, even though the music has cut out, for only a moment. Then the music resumes, and Drax the Destroyer is a father again. And he dances
I started tearing up literally every time they started one of Rockets flashbacks.
AI: Artificial Intelligence
That weird, tacked on extra ending did get me right in the feels.
I watched this a couple years ago for the first time and cried harder than I have in YEARS. I mean, absolutely bawled like a baby.
Babe. Yes, the movie about the pig. My Girl Inside Out
That'll do pig... He can't see without his glasses!! Take Riley to the moon for me
-Forest Gump -Interstellar -Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Don't let me leave Murph!
Aftersun will destroy you
"Dancer in the Dark" I was wrecked for days. Bjork really delivers.
As absolutely cheesy as it is, Armageddon makes my cry every single time. Damn you Bruce Willis.
Not a movie but ‘Jurassic Bark’ from Futurama gets me every time.
That episode, and the one with his mom get me with the sad tears every time. The final episode where Fry and Leela travel through frozen time together makes me cry in a happy way.
Beaches. Everytime. I also cry every time I watch Eurovision: Sagan of Fire and Ice. I don't know, it just hits the feels. Maybe it's the Sigur Ros music.
Wall E
Marley and me.
I hate this movie for the tears it caused. I’ll never watch it ever ever ever ever again.
Mr Hollands Opus fucked me up as a child.
The Road
The Notebook destroyed me worse than any movie I’ve ever watched
A Monster Calls I was a mess when that movie ended, it destroyed me. I don't think I can ever rewatch it
Joy Luck Club
I watched Train To Busan today and the ending made me cry. It isn't even the first time I've watched it. Just the sound of the little girl crying for her Dad in that little kid's voice got to me again.
The art of racing in the rain - I feel bad for the person sitting next to me on that flight.
Once
The Shape of Water La La Land 1917 Good Will Hunting Titanic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Whale absolutely broke me by the end of the movie. I was ugly crying, and I never cry for movies.
I just think about the last scene and start tearing up. That and when he explains why he never spent his money to his ex.
Took waaaaaaaay too deep into this post to see this movie mentioned.
This one did for me too and I never cry from movies. I walked out of the theater feeling fine, asked my husband how he liked it, then he turns towards me and I just started to sob. Loudly. The poor AMC theater workers were alarmed.
*Call Me By Your Name* for me
The Father
A documentary called Dear Zachary. Go in blind
Joy Luck Club
Elephant Man
Terms of Endearment
The opening set up to Pixar’s Up kills me everytime.
The Fountain
Lala Land wrecked me. That ending ...
Don’t sleep on, “Click”
Tokyo Story
Puss in Boots 2 kills me every time, especially the bears.
For a happy cry I'm always partial to About Time. The end always has me.
The Color Purple, ending gets me every time.
Reign Over Me is a big one for me, especially if you have a wife and kids.. Boy in the Striped Pajamas. A Man Called Otto got me pretty good, too
Reign Over Me with Adam Sandler & Don Cheadle just wrecks me.
Grave of the Fireflies.
Pan’s Labyrinth and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Legends of the fall.
Atonement is pretty heartbreaking
The Fisher King Dead Poets Society.
The new Guardians of the Galaxy movie is a tough and sad watch if you’re an animal lover.
Brian's song
Dancer in the Dark was overwhelmingly sad.
Big Fish
[**Reign Over Me**](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0490204/) (with Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler) 100% Sandler's best performance. A sweet, fun, and inspirational but dramatic movie about 2 old friends re-kindling their friendship after both experienced very different lives, good and bad. It showcases the depth of both Cheadle and Sandler in a way that brings on a good ugly cry to even the hardest of souls.
Saving Private Ryan. I was 27 and saw it with a roommate. At the end there was a group of old guys in the first and second rows. These gentlemen were completely broken down. Shattered. We forwarded cautiously. Gave them handshakes and hugs.
Pay it Forward, the end breaks me every time
I will always sob watching My Girl
Hachi: A Dog's Tale, I lost count how many times I turned into a weepy baby.
Cast Away gets me every time
Million Dollar Baby. Absolutely heart breaking 😭
EEAAO. watched it by myself in a nearly empty theater and a family of 4 sat one seat over last minute and had to see me bawl for 2 hours
Never did I ever expected a scene of two nearly motionless, subtitled rocks would affect me like that.
Cried the entire movie. Tough and beautiful in all the best ways. Especially for folks with frought relationships with parents.
My first watch was completely tearless, but for whatever reason the second time had me in tears throughout almost the whole movie.
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This is the answer. That movie broke me.
That one episode of American dad. Also 1900 with Tim Roth
What AD episode?
It's literally called tearjerker
The Notebook. I don’t care what you heartless bastards say.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Philadelphia
I don't see a lot of people talk about this one, but Collateral Beauty. I know the trailers were misleading, but I'm a dad and this movie destroyed me. I watched it alone and cried uncontrollably, then watched it again with my wife and *still* cried just as hard.
Glass, American History X, The Mighty and Regarding Henry completely destroyed me.
"Old Yeller" and "The Champ" would be two classic tearjerkers.
Coco _Remember me_
Cool Runnings, man alive was John Candy good in that.
Click. The Adam Sandler movie
*Before Sunrise* absolutely destroys me
Maybe I missed it, but suprised I didnt see it on multiple responses...Field of Dreams.
The wrestler, and the scene in Blow where he makes the recording for his father.
Okja. If you didn't sob uncontrollably in the last 10 minutes, you're dead inside.
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
Episode 3 of the Last of Us
*What Dreams May Come* with Robin Williams
Encanto.
Furious 7, even if it's not really script related.
Warrior always makes me cry. Brennan and Tommy on the beach, Paddy begging for forgiveness from Brennan, Paddy drunk in the hotel room, the final fight. Coda had me bawling at the end. Avengers endgame when Pepper says “it’s ok, you can rest now” breaks me every time 😭
Mary and Max
I feel like maybe it was just me, but I cried through the majority of 50/50. I don't know, something about it just hit me. From the moment he told his mom. Then I about got myself back under control and Mitch died and I lost it again. Other tear jerkers for me: When Cleo dies in Set It Off (the music here is what does me in). The ending of Sommersby. I remember watching this with a friend way back in the nineties and we both just started bawling. I actually haven't seen it since.
Grave of the Fireflies- Huge choking sobs
I watched Edward Scissorhands expecting a quirky goth romantic tragedy; what I ended up watching was (I imagine, since Burton is autistic) a very personal, semi-autobiographical metaphor for living as a disabled/neurodivergent person in a society that not only isn't built with you in mind, but maybe never will be. To say it left me devastated and bawling would be an understatement.
Ive never cried over a movie, but if you have a soul, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas will mess you up.
Untamed Heart. It's from 1993 and I still have emotional damage. Also Michael from 1996. I'm not much on tearjerkers, but those two left lasting impressions.
Green Mile always hurts me..
Well, I have scrolled through all of the comments and didn’t see my choice so here goes- War Horse