We watched that as a family not too long after my Grandmother passed. The whole room was crying at the end and my eyes are watering just thinking about it
🎯🎯 Facts I started putting pictures up of my loved ones after watching that movie…. My kids will never not know who my Grandparents are and what they meant to me, just in case that’s how the afterlife really works
This movie just makes me want to cherish life. It is such a beautiful movie that was horribly marketed as seemingly just a love story, which is why I never bothered watching it until some time in the past two years. It has become one of my all time favorites.
Agreed. And this one is a fantastic movie, not just an emotional guilty pleasure
Also for tears, the Time Traveler's Wife. Didn't make me sob as much as the book, maybe because I was dealing with loss when I read it, but the movie still gets me choked up.
Im not a movie crier and I just watched the Arrival and fully cried at the end which I did NOT expect. It is a trip. Made me go into my daughter’s room and just hug her
I hadn't seen Arrival in years, kinda forgot how it ended, so I threw it on a couple months ago. With my (then) two month old sleeping on my chest.
Yeah I fucking bawled.
That scene and when he awakes from his sleep stasis and has to watch his children grow up in front of him over video records was just.. devastating. Matthew McConaughey dug deep at something to get that reaction. Maybe just imagining his own children like that, I don't know but it always manages to bring a tear to my eye.
Life is Beautiful is my go-to! My roommates finally let me pick a movie if I watched all the Star Wars with them. So I sought out the saddest movie that I loved.
We made fancy dinner and were drinking whiskey to celebrate. I unfortunately passed out before I could see my roommates cry, but they ultimately loved the movie.
To this day I can’t watch the scene when Forest ask’s Jenny if his son is smart. The way Tom Hanks acts that scene makes me lose it completely. Every single time.
Schindler's List
Silenced
The Color Purple
Hachiko: A Dog's Story
Cry Me a Sad River
Oldboy
Titanic
12 Years A Slave
A Taxi Driver
Million Dollar Baby
The Pursuit of Happiness
Okja
Cart
The Flowers of War
All Quiet On The Western Front
Train to Busan ( that one scene )
Up ( that one montage )
Schindler's List is just horrific. I was already in bits by the last act of the film, but what well and truly finished me off was the final scene where it cuts to present day.
Not Deniro's Taxi Driver. There is this movie called "A Taxi Driver" who became a working class hero by taking a jornalist to document crimes of the Korean dictatorship.
He was forgotten by history until the journalist himself gave an interview on TV and mentioned he never knew his name given their language barrier.
They reunited and his story became popular.
Schindler’s List - Agreed. I read the book a long time ago but never saw the movie because of how incredibly heartbreaking it is. Will never forget how I felt reading the ending.
they were originally going to do voice overs for that scene but Michelle Yeoh suggested the silence + text which is so much more impactful because the rest of the movie is so big and loud and there's so much happening, the sudden break in stimulus was really effective
Maybe Stepmom? It's about a mother with young children who is dying and has to come to terms with losing everything in her life, while knowing that her death will basically hand her life over to a woman that she hates.
I was going to post this. It's the worst movie I've ever watched. Nothing has stuck with me like this movie. The hatred I have for some of the people in this movie.
I never cry at movies, but this one got me
I won a PSP from a Stacker arcade game and Click was one of the free movies I could get with it.
I still remember crying at the end watching this on a PSP...
Beaches (1998) makes me anyone who watches it sob every time. Also: One Day, Love & Other Drugs, Brokeback Mountain( if you have never seen this… beautiful beautiful movie that made me boohoo), I am sam
Holy shit, great rec. I never see this recommended and it is devastating. As a boy I cried my eyes out over the ending of this movie every time. Rick(y) Schroeder, Jon Voigt, Faye Dunaway: 1979. I need to go hug my dad...
La Vita e Bella (1997). When he talks on the microphone with his son in the concentration camp and the mother hears there voices and knows they are alive.....pfffff damn it gets me every time. And then the ending happens and I'm just Niagara falls at that point.
The last thing I saw that had me really weeping was Barbie. The positive messages for men in that movie are so powerful. The messages for women in that movie are so powerful. The whole thing is just so... tender.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. I’ll be depressed for a month, minimum, after watching that movie. Adorable, excellent movie, but I refuse to watch it again. I remember the last time I watched it; I went outside after and the sun was setting. I was boohooing, just fucking bawling, at evening primroses opening up. It gives overwhelming feelings of existential dread, amongst others.
Saving private Ryan, when Mellish breaks down after getting off the beach and in the cemetery when old Ryan is trying to earn all the sacrifices made on his behalf
Mine all have a slight dose of science fiction or fantasy, with some kind of love story.
-About Time (seconded from an earlier comment)
-The Time Traveler's Wife
-I Origins
-Perfect Sense
-Another Earth
-Never Let Me Go
-Spring (this one is beautifully shot in Italy, there is a sci-fi and *very slight* horror element to it though, but it's not meant to be scary or anything)
Everything is Illuminated. It seems like nobody has seen it and it’s one of my favorites. A man goes to Ukraine on a trip to research family history and hires a guide and his father to take him across the country. It’s a little quirky but damn it gets me every time I watch it
ps I love you and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, I think I’ve never cried so much as with Pinocchio, seriously cried the whole movie, never watching it again, too real
"Field of Dreams."
I think this is a somewhat common answer for other guys and I agree. I cry every time I see the protagonist playing catch with his dad at the end and joked about it with my buddies that we all do, whether or not we admit it. We said that it's a chick flick for dudes.
Up! How is Up not on this list?
I cried at the *credits* for Up. When I realized they were showing us Carl's scrapbook with all the things he did with Russell.
Midnight Sun (2018) is the best movie if you want to cry, I literally cried a few hours after the movie and even though it's been 3 months watching it but still just thinking about the movie brings tears to my eyes every time......
Well, I don't know if these will leave you feeling empty (like, hello mamma mia is on this list), but these made me weep:
Over The Moon
Prince of Egypt
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Toy Story 2
Inside Out
Finding Nemo
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Pinocchio
Brother Bear
Tarzan
Lion King
Pocahontas
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Mamma Mia 1 & 2
Florence Foster Jenkins
Mary Poppins
Saving Mr. Banks
Marley and Me
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
And then movies that are so fucked up that they will leave you feeling empty (didn't make me cry though):
\- The Color Purple
\- Pianist
\- Full Metal Jacket
\- Precious
My dad was crying watching Hacksaw Ridge last night. For a anime movie suggestion I got pretty messed up after watching Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms.
Coco
Most Pixar movies have at least some moment where I get at least a little emotional. Coco made me fucking weep though.
Just rewatched finding Nemo recently and that one had me teary eyed
We watched that as a family not too long after my Grandmother passed. The whole room was crying at the end and my eyes are watering just thinking about it
🎯🎯 Facts I started putting pictures up of my loved ones after watching that movie…. My kids will never not know who my Grandparents are and what they meant to me, just in case that’s how the afterlife really works
About Time (2013)
This one has me sooooobbing every time. That scene with him as a young boy with his dad at the beach.
I dare anyone with children or deceased parents to try to get through that movie without completely breaking down.
This movie just makes me want to cherish life. It is such a beautiful movie that was horribly marketed as seemingly just a love story, which is why I never bothered watching it until some time in the past two years. It has become one of my all time favorites.
Agreed. And this one is a fantastic movie, not just an emotional guilty pleasure Also for tears, the Time Traveler's Wife. Didn't make me sob as much as the book, maybe because I was dealing with loss when I read it, but the movie still gets me choked up.
Portrait of a lady on fire Paris, Texas Arrival
+1 for Arrival
i cried at the end of Portrait of a Lady on Fire... such a good movie!!!
"Grave of the Fireflies (1988)" & "Bridge to Terabithia (2007)"
oh yeah bridge to terabithia made me cry when i was a kid
Bridge to Terabithia is a trauma to me. I can't rewatch the tragedy even if I force myself
Haven't seen Bridge to Terabithia yet. Will it still make me emotional as an adult or is it a kinda nostalgic thing?
Not nostalgic. Just emotionally crushing and sad.
I was literally about to write these exact two movies. Both of them are complete traumas and will change the way people view movies altogether.
Children of men
Masterpiece
Im not a movie crier and I just watched the Arrival and fully cried at the end which I did NOT expect. It is a trip. Made me go into my daughter’s room and just hug her
I ugly cried at the end when I first watched. Amazing story.
I hadn't seen Arrival in years, kinda forgot how it ended, so I threw it on a couple months ago. With my (then) two month old sleeping on my chest. Yeah I fucking bawled.
Saving Private Ryan Interstellar Contact What Dreams May Come
Something about Interstellar that really gets to me. There are so many guy-wrenching scenes in that film. “Don’t let me leave Murph!!” 🥺🥺😢😭😭😭😭
That scene and when he awakes from his sleep stasis and has to watch his children grow up in front of him over video records was just.. devastating. Matthew McConaughey dug deep at something to get that reaction. Maybe just imagining his own children like that, I don't know but it always manages to bring a tear to my eye.
This is the only movie that made me cry.
Interstellar is so sad.
Life is Beautiful (1997) Me Before You (2016)
Life is Beautiful is my go-to! My roommates finally let me pick a movie if I watched all the Star Wars with them. So I sought out the saddest movie that I loved. We made fancy dinner and were drinking whiskey to celebrate. I unfortunately passed out before I could see my roommates cry, but they ultimately loved the movie.
To this day I can’t watch the scene when Forest ask’s Jenny if his son is smart. The way Tom Hanks acts that scene makes me lose it completely. Every single time.
Schindler's List Silenced The Color Purple Hachiko: A Dog's Story Cry Me a Sad River Oldboy Titanic 12 Years A Slave A Taxi Driver Million Dollar Baby The Pursuit of Happiness Okja Cart The Flowers of War All Quiet On The Western Front Train to Busan ( that one scene ) Up ( that one montage )
Schindler's List is just horrific. I was already in bits by the last act of the film, but what well and truly finished me off was the final scene where it cuts to present day.
Good movies but why tf did taxi driver make you cry, and oldboy? Oldboy should be making you want to throw up, not cry, weird man
Not Deniro's Taxi Driver. There is this movie called "A Taxi Driver" who became a working class hero by taking a jornalist to document crimes of the Korean dictatorship. He was forgotten by history until the journalist himself gave an interview on TV and mentioned he never knew his name given their language barrier. They reunited and his story became popular.
Seconding Okja! I can't recommend this movie enough!
Ugh, Million Dollar Baby broke me and that was before I had kids and never cried.
Schindler’s List - Agreed. I read the book a long time ago but never saw the movie because of how incredibly heartbreaking it is. Will never forget how I felt reading the ending.
Everytime - Color Purple scene where Mista' throws the sister off the premises
I can watch just the last 10 minutes of Color Purple and sob my eyes out. Last 10 minutes of It's Wonderful Life as well.
Marley and me
Shawshank redepmtion, The green mile the episodes Camping, Onesies, and Space from Bluey
Shawshank makes me happy cry, and The Green Mile makes me ugly snot cry 😢
Aww yes, red broke my heart.
Tears felt down when John said : He killed them with their love. That's how it is every day, all over the world
Space from Bluey! As a single mom too, it hits hard
Bluey is suprisingly wonderful.
Big Fish. Edit: I read that fast and it seemed my gummy kicked in. I also agree with Green Mile for the emptiness feeling.
Damn, came here to say the same thing. The ending gets me every time.
Same. My number one tearjerker.
Philadelphia and Old Yeller.
Everything Everywhere All At Once had me sobbing at two rocks
Why were the rocks so god damn moving omg
Immigrant parent-child trauma exists even in the rock-verse. I related a little too hard lol
they were originally going to do voice overs for that scene but Michelle Yeoh suggested the silence + text which is so much more impactful because the rest of the movie is so big and loud and there's so much happening, the sudden break in stimulus was really effective
Brokeback Mountain and Tears of Endearment.
*Terms* of Endearment
Rain man, it perfectly incapsulates male love/care.
Manchester by the sea crushes me
same
The end of La Bamba is heartbreaking
I’ve watched eternal sunshine of the spotless mind 5+ times & cry everytime, also the movie Amelie makes me cry but not sad tears.
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind is really good! Wish I could find more movies like it
Good Will Hunting
Everything everywhere all at once
House of Sand and Fog Requiem for a Dream The General's Daughter
requiem for a dream was really good but it didn’t really make me feel emotional, more just uncomfortable
Maybe Stepmom? It's about a mother with young children who is dying and has to come to terms with losing everything in her life, while knowing that her death will basically hand her life over to a woman that she hates.
The Lion King(1994).
Mr Holland’s Opus
Dear Zachary i absolutely gut wrenching
Angry tears. Make sure to hydrate before viewing. It's a lot.
I was going to post this. It's the worst movie I've ever watched. Nothing has stuck with me like this movie. The hatred I have for some of the people in this movie. I never cry at movies, but this one got me
Are You there God it’s me Margaret Ignore stereotypes about the book or target audience it hits
Field of Dreams My Girl Guardians of the Galaxy 3
Inside Out wrecks me every time.
Watership down - about fucking rabbits
The ending of the deer hunter, was not expecting it. Made me a blubbering mess for a minute or two.
Not a movie but a series, band of brothers. Last episode hits you in the feels
The one that broke me was the second-to-last one, "Why We Fight". If you know, you know.
On the topic of TV shows, The Last of Us episode 3
Grandpa, were you a hero in the war? Waterworks every single time.
CODA
Interstellar. Homeward Bound.
I don’t cry at anything but somehow the ending of Click got me?
You probably were caught off guard by what appeared to be another stupid Adam Sandler romp. I know I was
I won a PSP from a Stacker arcade game and Click was one of the free movies I could get with it. I still remember crying at the end watching this on a PSP...
Requiem for a Dream, if you want to feel empty this is for you
*”…..The Refrigerator……”* , *”I just wanted to be on television.”*
Kubo and the two strings
Miracles from heaven, A man called otto, Miracle in cell no 7
Usually I don't cry when watching movies. But I saw Philadelphia recently. Maybe there were one or two tears.
Forrest Gump, Bridge To Terebithia, Titanic, The Iron Giant, Wall-E, Logan, The Green Mile, Toy Story series
Beaches (1998) makes me anyone who watches it sob every time. Also: One Day, Love & Other Drugs, Brokeback Mountain( if you have never seen this… beautiful beautiful movie that made me boohoo), I am sam
Dumbo, how could those crows be so cruel?
Seven pounds
Soul from pixar, gladiator and braveheart
Hatchi... everytime and it's a true story
Sophie's Choice Silkwood
Coco destroyed me.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
The Pursuit of Happyness
Pay it forward.
The perfect storm
I Am Sam rips my guts out every time I watch it. Every. Time.
Stepmom Steel magnolias Bambi The Lion King The Land before time My Girl
Terms of Endearment.
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, if you like dogs
Only the Brave (2017)
The secret Garden
Clouds A man called Otto Five feet apart Brokeback mountain Hachi: A dog's Tale/hachiko Past Lived Interstellar
Capernaum
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
The Champ, circa 1980 I believe......
Holy shit, great rec. I never see this recommended and it is devastating. As a boy I cried my eyes out over the ending of this movie every time. Rick(y) Schroeder, Jon Voigt, Faye Dunaway: 1979. I need to go hug my dad...
Green Mile Schindler’s List The Champ Old Yeller Marley and Me Rocky II
Eight below , watched this with my daughter when she was 14 , we both cried at the end.
five feet apart is so sad
Marley and me
District 9, Chappie, God's Not Dead, passion of the christ, last Christmas, Soul
Lovely bones, Girl with matches
Armageddon
La Vita e Bella (1997). When he talks on the microphone with his son in the concentration camp and the mother hears there voices and knows they are alive.....pfffff damn it gets me every time. And then the ending happens and I'm just Niagara falls at that point.
A.I Artificial Intelligence is the saddest fucking movie ever
The last thing I saw that had me really weeping was Barbie. The positive messages for men in that movie are so powerful. The messages for women in that movie are so powerful. The whole thing is just so... tender.
Whisper of the Heart is the only film I've ever cried at. It's not sad - it just got me. Toy Story 3 and Up came close.
FORREST GUMP when Bubba dies
The Milk of Sorrow Past Lives Pan's Labyrinth Casting Blossoms To The Sky Nights Of Cabiria The older I get the more it happens lol
Pan's Labyrinth
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. I’ll be depressed for a month, minimum, after watching that movie. Adorable, excellent movie, but I refuse to watch it again. I remember the last time I watched it; I went outside after and the sun was setting. I was boohooing, just fucking bawling, at evening primroses opening up. It gives overwhelming feelings of existential dread, amongst others.
Fucking Marley and Me. Saw that shit in the theater and never watching it again. Seems like the purpose of the movie was to make you cry lol
Everything Everywhere All At Once made me tear up several times. And I'm not a cryer. That easily became one of my top ten favorite films of all time.
Saving private Ryan, when Mellish breaks down after getting off the beach and in the cemetery when old Ryan is trying to earn all the sacrifices made on his behalf
Jojo Rabbit Hope Floats…every time Steel Magnolias and I’m not even a Julia Roberts fan
Pans labyrinth!
Mine all have a slight dose of science fiction or fantasy, with some kind of love story. -About Time (seconded from an earlier comment) -The Time Traveler's Wife -I Origins -Perfect Sense -Another Earth -Never Let Me Go -Spring (this one is beautifully shot in Italy, there is a sci-fi and *very slight* horror element to it though, but it's not meant to be scary or anything)
Lovely Bones
I was watching Frequency and it hit unexpectedly. First tears I shed over my dad since he passed 7 years ago. They were happy sad tears
Fox and the Hound no question
Dumbo. Terms of Endearment.
Train to Busan
Grave of fireflies.
The 2004 movie "Crash", specifically the invisible cloak scene. Every. Time.
October Sky
Close (2022) The Father (2020)
The Green Mile Dear Evan Hansen Courage Under Fire 50/50 Good Will Hunting
Everything is Illuminated. It seems like nobody has seen it and it’s one of my favorites. A man goes to Ukraine on a trip to research family history and hires a guide and his father to take him across the country. It’s a little quirky but damn it gets me every time I watch it
The Life Aquatic. Also the >!tape scene!< in Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar Wai) breaks my heart every time.
*Searching for Bobby Fisher* (1993) was the last one I watched that made me cry.
Ladder 49
ps I love you and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, I think I’ve never cried so much as with Pinocchio, seriously cried the whole movie, never watching it again, too real
The Bear
Planes Trains and Automobiles
"Field of Dreams." I think this is a somewhat common answer for other guys and I agree. I cry every time I see the protagonist playing catch with his dad at the end and joked about it with my buddies that we all do, whether or not we admit it. We said that it's a chick flick for dudes.
These days, nearly all of them.
The Father Interstellar Documentary’s: LA92 The 12th
The Green Mile. You all know why. You fucking know “don’t put me in the dark. I’s afraid of the dark.”
Hachiko (2009)
Miracle in cell no 7 (Korean movie).. it will make you laugh and cry
Toy Story 3 when Andy said goodbye to Woody 😭😭
Hachiko, Miracle in cell no.7, two tear jerkers
cinema paradiso
Million dollar baby & Into the wild*these movies shook me
A dogs purpose
Marley and me. I cried and cried.
Lion, the ending hits like a truck
Up! How is Up not on this list? I cried at the *credits* for Up. When I realized they were showing us Carl's scrapbook with all the things he did with Russell.
Eight Blow (Paul Walker) when one of the Huskies has to stay back so the others can make it to safety.
Hatchiko Tears of endearment
The Neighbor's Window (2019), absolutely wrecked me and everyone in the theater. It's a 20 minute short, won an Oscar, free on YouTube
*Lamb* *Watership Down* *The Father* *Shadowlands* But the greatest weepy ever made is hands down... *When the Wind Blows*
Hachiko P.S I Love You One day Jab we met (bollywood) but there’s a Hollywood version of it too.
Hachi - A Dog's Tale
James and the Giant Peach
Midnight Sun (2018) is the best movie if you want to cry, I literally cried a few hours after the movie and even though it's been 3 months watching it but still just thinking about the movie brings tears to my eyes every time......
I don't remember all of them but the last two that made me cry where Tyrannosaur and The whale
Gone with the Wind and The Green Mile absolutely drained me of tears.
Orenji (2015) Also known as 'Orange'
Cry? Brian’s Song! Of course didn’t everyone? “I love Brian Piccolo, I want you to love him too!”
Everything Everywhere All At Once
It’s a wonderful life & requiem for a dream
hachiko
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, 2012 with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley Marley & Me, 2008 with Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston
The Whale (happy tears, by the way)
I cried the first time watching the Lion King when Mufasa died
Atonement Hachi La La Land Interstellar
The Reader
Turner and Hooch. Tom Hanks' break out movie showing his range.
Well, I don't know if these will leave you feeling empty (like, hello mamma mia is on this list), but these made me weep: Over The Moon Prince of Egypt \- Toy Story 2 Inside Out Finding Nemo \- Pinocchio Brother Bear Tarzan Lion King Pocahontas \- Mamma Mia 1 & 2 Florence Foster Jenkins Mary Poppins Saving Mr. Banks Marley and Me The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King And then movies that are so fucked up that they will leave you feeling empty (didn't make me cry though): \- The Color Purple \- Pianist \- Full Metal Jacket \- Precious
The Light Between Oceans The Painted Veil
Blue is the Warmest Color
Recently Interstellar and The Whale
Feeling empty….. Se7en Cry…. Patch Adams.
Not a movie but I just watched 1883 and I was a mess.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Every episode of the tv show This Is Us. It always made me sob.
The sixth Sense car grandmom scene
CODA. Cried like a baby
My dad was crying watching Hacksaw Ridge last night. For a anime movie suggestion I got pretty messed up after watching Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms.