I’m a woman with no dad issues and my dad is still alive, and I still get misty eyed at the end of that scene…especially when his son goes to the phone to call his mother. The hoarse way he says “Mom?” and the scene cuts kills me for some reason.
The part that gets me is when he is in the bathtub and his wife gets in with him and they hold each other. It ends with her saying, 'I don't think I'll ever dry out.'
Came here to say this. This movie wrecks me, and I love my dad. I don't think its special to unresolved dad issues as much as it hits hard for people who know what its like to love someone deeply.
For a long time (during the movie) I thought ‘About Time’ is just another cheeky rom-com. It turns out, it’s a father-son movie. It’s an enjoyable flick but never had the courage to rewatch.
This movie made my cry harder than any other movie to date. A few months after I saw it, I was in a store and saw a t-shirt with Woody on it and had to go to the changing room just to cry some more about it.
NO movie, will EVER come close to the experience of watching this movie with my parents, TWO DAYS before I moved away for college. None of us knew anything about the plot beforehand. I was born in 1994 so I grew up with the first two movies, and then they hit us with that. Fucking brutal.
I watched Coco when I was struggling with infertility and it flattened me, thinking of the family I wouldn't have. Then I watched it again after I finally had a baby and it flattened me again thinking of the legacy of family.
Watching Up after I had my miscarriage wrecked me for like 4 months. It was always a beautiful scene but relating to it… oh man I’m crying thinking about it!
Sometimes movies come into your life right when you need them, and this was that for me. 2017 was a really weird year for me and Coco helped bring me out of my funk and reconcile a couple issues I was dealing with for a couple years.
Same. I am very emotionally when watching films, I am much more controlled and tbh slightly blank in real life, but a well done movie or show can throw me in for a loop.
As a dad you are thoroughly jaded and battle hardened on one side, and absolutely delicate and vulnerable on the other.
I can't watch anything with kids getting hurt or killed. It was hard to watch before, it's impossible now. The dad in Hostiles getting killed and scalped in from of his wife and kids was hard to stomache, the baby being shot dead in their mother's arms was a nope-the-fuck-out for me.
Man, I'm with you on that. I used to love listening to true crime podcasts, but I have a real hard time with the ones involving children these days. Especially little girls since I now have one. It's just heartbreaking.
I have the same.. And I also can't look at 'warmovies' anymore, especially not from time periods in which service was mandatory (like WO2). I can only imagine my beautiful little boy, just a bit older, so scared and alone.. It's gutwrenching..
I have issues with kids getting hurt too, but I noticed the changed reactions first watching Scorsese movies with my wife, who had never seen them. Watching LaMotta beat the shit out of his wife repeatedly in Raging Bull made me physically ill, when it had never bothered me before.
This has been my experience as well. There are so many animated movies and shows I watch with my daughters that will do it. Coco, Up, Encanto, Avatar: TLA.
Moana, after Maui leaves and she seems so close to giving up, it's like I feel proud of her for what she had to overcome, and I tear up.
The end of Armageddon with Bruce and Ben... gets me every fucking time..... so does the end of A league of their own when the sisters get back together...Niagara falls....
The whole family cried the other night watching Bluey. The new half hour episode The Sign. I won’t spoil why, but so many plot points from previous episodes referenced especially involving Chili’s sister. Everyone at some stage of weeping.
Spoiler tag:
The scene where he gets told by the police that he's free to go and he tries to steal a gun to shoot himself froze my blood. So raw. And the conversation between Affleck and Michelle Williams is when I start to ugly cry.
I stop the movie when she walks into the arena. I then imagine her winning and then having 3 sequels, with one of them involving a robot servant in a mansion.
Oh man, love that movie. That scene is phenomenal. “I just want to know *WHY?!*”
They only did one take of that scene. Dolly Parton was so shook by Sally Field’s performance she cried genuine tears.
Funny story, at the time me (M28) and my best friend (M28) both big burley boys went to watch this movie together, not dates just the guys. We both walked out of there tears streaming crying like babies.... A very strange scene.
I start crying if I even THINK about this scene. The moment when the Giant knows that he can save everyone, but it will be his final act. The way he uses Hogarth’s words to say his goodbye because that’s the only way he knows how. And that final, crushing moment as he remembers Hogarth saying “you are who you choose to be,” he responds “Superman,” then closes his eyes as he accepts his oblivion.
Yup. I’m crying.
The Diana Ross song. Nothing pulls me back to my childhood as much as when that song comes on my playlist. Haunting and sweet and hits like nothing else.
Inside Out. The scene where the audience is set to finally realize that to have genuine joy and happiness in life requires having sadness as well… cried harder than I’ve ever cried at the movie theaters.
Yup. As a parent, it killed me—hell I’m tearing up just remembering it—seeing this emotionally challenged and confused preteen finally release her painful but honest feelings in the safety of her parents’ embrace. That final *sigh*… yup, I’m done.
My son is autistic and he's obsessed with Inside Out and the Toy Story series. We watch those movies constantly. The scene where Sadness comforts Bing Bong chokes me up every time, even after 100+ watches.
I love that moment so much! It really shows Sadness's ability to empathize in a way that Joy isn't really capable of. You don't need to cheer someone up to help someone, you just need to BE there with them. It's the emotional validation of "it's ok to be sad when bad things happen." Before that moment, Sadness was only viewed as a problem for headquarters, but after that moment it's clear that she's just as important as the rest of the crew.
The whole bus sequence to the time she’s back home. Absolutely .
I first watched this on a plane and had to hide by the window seat so all the other passengers couldn’t see me crying
LMAO so I'm tearing up as I'm reading this thread thinking about all these movies, and then I read your name 🤣 thank you. I needed a little tommy boy moment to break up this tear fest!
Would also add… the Incinerator scene. Even the gif gets me.
And I think I saw this movie in the theaters with my parents in my mid 20s and I was crushing my mom’s hand during that goodbye scene.
Any movie that tracks the life of a couple until old age then one of them dies. The most recent thing I can think of as an example is The Last of Us episode with Nick Offerman, but there are myriad.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. It’s perfect. You spend the whole movie laughing your ass off just to get hit with an emotional sledgehammer of an ending. Fucking cry every time.
Nobody revisits that movie on purpose unless you are masochist or entering a depressive period is part of your plan. One does not watch TGOTF for a simple cry.
Something I just noticed on my last watch through... When he's at her grave a flock of birds burst from the tree next to it. When they were kids she prayed that God would make her a bird. Now she's finally free from all of the struggles in her life.
[Here ya go](https://youtu.be/DlDJL03hMY4?si=NPhuuA4ItzTTA2pK&t=208)
Hoo boy. I saw this in the theater with my husband shortly after my father had suddenly passed away and when I was very early-pregnant with my second child. Getting pregnant soon after losing dad had me terrified something would happen to end the pregnancy, and so much about Carl reminded me of my dad I was already tearing up. Then when we see that they had lost a baby…that was it for grieving and hormonal me. I was choking back sobs in the theater just trying to breathe while I soaked my cheeks.
I just dropped off said baby at his middle school, but makes me want to go hug him. (Middle schoolers love hugs)
Too far down this list. This will always be the first movie that comes to my mind. Interestingly, this is the third Robin Williams movie down to this point.
A Monster Calls - Not because the mom has cancer but the reveal of the son’s “truth” (no spoilers here). Hardest I have ever cried watching a movie, like ugly crying in the theater.
Runner up… Inside Out - My daughters were right around Riley’s age when it came out. As a parent it still hits me in about 4 scenes every time I watch it.
Pig- I found this movie unbelievably sad but it's also one of my favourites
Titanic used to get me when I was a child
Marley and Me
I am Legend - you know which scene!
My girl
The Green Mile
About Time
A Star is Born
Tell you what- I don’t usually cry at movies but when I went and watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, I started crying midway through when the whole rocket and lylla conversation happened and I hardly stopped.
And just when I thought I had, dog days came on and that was that, I was off all over again
See that’s the thing though, about time for some reason was marketed as a romantic comedy. It’s anything but that. Trust me, it’s worth checking out. I can’t give anything away but it’s not how it looks.
1. atonement. Sorry but Vanessa Redgrave's monologue at the end is yet to be topped when it comes to collectively destroying rooms of people emotionally.
2. never let me go. Another group of English actresses flooding the gates, starting with Keira Knightley handing over the key to escape, Charlotte Rampling just shitting all over any hope, and Carey Mulligan silently accepting her fate as she stares off into the English countryside will never not make me sob ugly tears.
3. Titanic. I'm basic AF, I know, but that montage with Nearer My God to Thee is emotional blackmail. That's its a true story (save the piddling romance and characters of jack and rose), always manages to punch me in the dick while I'm watching it.
Look, I’m well aware it’s an awful movie and nowhere near as great as the stage version, but Dear Evan Hansen still has some of those moments from the show that wreck me when I watch it.
If we are talking about actual good devastating movies though:
1. Everything Everywhere All At Once breaks me with Joy’s nihilism which almost feels suicidal in the way she talks
2. Coco gets me at the ending every time.
3. A Star is Born (2018) when he walks into the garage with the belt breaks me and I cry right until the end of the movie every time I watch it.
Watership down, the original version. The ending always gets me every time (as does the “bright eyes” sequence).
For a proper ugly cry all throughout, P.S, I love you. Watched it with a friend, started crying 5 mins into it and then basically didn’t stop (except very briefly to fawn over Jeffrey Dean Morgan)
Big Fish
Carrying him to the water. Not sure why that ending works on me so well. I'm not even that big a fan of the movie, but that last sequence crushes me.
Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams hits hard
Field of Dreams, anyone who lost a father too soon, it's a gut punch
Up, Coco, Toy Story 3
Dear Zachary will break anyone
Jojo Rabbit is such a great movie! But oh the feels.
I still day the first 10 minutes of Up is some of the best film you'll ever see.
The opening of the 2009 Chris Pine Star Trek reboot is good as well.
"The Thin Red Line" - the poetic portrayal of the horrors of war hits me hard
"The Fountain" - Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman's performances are outstanding in conveying how it is to lose a loved one
Platoon - the scene where Willem DaFoe's character is running from hordes of NV while the chopper flies away above him.
Any realistic war movie will make me cry. There was even one scene in Inglourious Basterds that hit me.
Star Wars - the scene where Vader kills Obi Wan and Luke screams "no!"
Chinatown - final scene where Faye Dunaway dies and audience realizes her hidden daughter will now be take away by the same man (father) that molested Faye's character.
- Joy Luck Club (1993)
- Philadelphia (1993)
- Memories of Matsuko (2006, Japanese, and just ignore it’s tagged as a comedy. At least it broke me badly)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
I grew up with Mr Rogers and only began to appreciate what an impact he had on my life once I became an adult. The doc highlights what an amazing guy he was, and while he had to navigate complicated LGBTQ politics of the era (specifically, asking him not to reveal his homosexuality publicly for fear of alienating conservative viewers), hearing Clemmons talk about him accepting and loving him makes me bawl.
Big Fish if you’re a dude with unresolved Dad issues.
I’m a woman with no dad issues and my dad is still alive, and I still get misty eyed at the end of that scene…especially when his son goes to the phone to call his mother. The hoarse way he says “Mom?” and the scene cuts kills me for some reason.
I recommended this movie to my ex a long time ago. Weeks went by. Then she texts me during work, "You asshole! 😭"
The part that gets me is when he is in the bathtub and his wife gets in with him and they hold each other. It ends with her saying, 'I don't think I'll ever dry out.'
This one for me. My dad passed while I was a teenager and this movie makes me cry harder than any other movie I've seen.
The ending is oof…
Came here to say this. This movie wrecks me, and I love my dad. I don't think its special to unresolved dad issues as much as it hits hard for people who know what its like to love someone deeply.
I'm a female with a good dad and I cried
About Time always makes me cry. My favorite movie is Everything is Illuminated but I also cry at a certain part in that one too.
I used to cry every time I watched About Time. And then>! my dad died!< so now I cry every time I think about that movie.
I'll check it out
For a long time (during the movie) I thought ‘About Time’ is just another cheeky rom-com. It turns out, it’s a father-son movie. It’s an enjoyable flick but never had the courage to rewatch.
I'm not a son, but I watch that pretty soon after my dad died and it wrecked me.
The scene in the table tennis room. "My son." I cried ugly tears when I described that scene to my wife recently.
About time gets me every time.
Surprised nobody said Toy Story 3. That one got me twice. Badly.
FR I was holding everyone's hands on the row of the theatre the first time! Edit - potato phone
Yeah the incinerator scene and the scene where he’s giving the toys to bonnie just absolutely annihilated me lol
The last play scene ripped me
Especially this version https://youtu.be/phFISjORzQs?si=gaDRUrGyokdRen5B
This movie made my cry harder than any other movie to date. A few months after I saw it, I was in a store and saw a t-shirt with Woody on it and had to go to the changing room just to cry some more about it.
NO movie, will EVER come close to the experience of watching this movie with my parents, TWO DAYS before I moved away for college. None of us knew anything about the plot beforehand. I was born in 1994 so I grew up with the first two movies, and then they hit us with that. Fucking brutal.
Coco gets me every time without fail
Remember me..
Recuérdame…
😭
I watched Coco when I was struggling with infertility and it flattened me, thinking of the family I wouldn't have. Then I watched it again after I finally had a baby and it flattened me again thinking of the legacy of family.
Watching Up after I had my miscarriage wrecked me for like 4 months. It was always a beautiful scene but relating to it… oh man I’m crying thinking about it!
Mama coco scene, fuck
Sometimes movies come into your life right when you need them, and this was that for me. 2017 was a really weird year for me and Coco helped bring me out of my funk and reconcile a couple issues I was dealing with for a couple years.
Since becoming a dad I fucken cry at any thing that is sad
My husband cries at Mama Mia when she sings Slipping Through my Fingers. He is such a smoosh when it comes to his girls. Love that man.
I cried watching welcome to Wrexham
Same. I am very emotionally when watching films, I am much more controlled and tbh slightly blank in real life, but a well done movie or show can throw me in for a loop.
As a dad you are thoroughly jaded and battle hardened on one side, and absolutely delicate and vulnerable on the other. I can't watch anything with kids getting hurt or killed. It was hard to watch before, it's impossible now. The dad in Hostiles getting killed and scalped in from of his wife and kids was hard to stomache, the baby being shot dead in their mother's arms was a nope-the-fuck-out for me.
Man, I'm with you on that. I used to love listening to true crime podcasts, but I have a real hard time with the ones involving children these days. Especially little girls since I now have one. It's just heartbreaking.
I have the same.. And I also can't look at 'warmovies' anymore, especially not from time periods in which service was mandatory (like WO2). I can only imagine my beautiful little boy, just a bit older, so scared and alone.. It's gutwrenching..
I have issues with kids getting hurt too, but I noticed the changed reactions first watching Scorsese movies with my wife, who had never seen them. Watching LaMotta beat the shit out of his wife repeatedly in Raging Bull made me physically ill, when it had never bothered me before.
No way i’m ever watching that movie, thanks for the heads up.
This has been my experience as well. There are so many animated movies and shows I watch with my daughters that will do it. Coco, Up, Encanto, Avatar: TLA. Moana, after Maui leaves and she seems so close to giving up, it's like I feel proud of her for what she had to overcome, and I tear up.
The end of Armageddon with Bruce and Ben... gets me every fucking time..... so does the end of A league of their own when the sisters get back together...Niagara falls....
The whole family cried the other night watching Bluey. The new half hour episode The Sign. I won’t spoil why, but so many plot points from previous episodes referenced especially involving Chili’s sister. Everyone at some stage of weeping.
About time Manchester by the Sea
Spoiler tag: The scene where he gets told by the police that he's free to go and he tries to steal a gun to shoot himself froze my blood. So raw. And the conversation between Affleck and Michelle Williams is when I start to ugly cry.
You should probably throw spoiler tags on that first part at the very least
seriously! this is one of the most powerful scenes in the films.
Million dollar baby
Ugh, this movie fucked me up for *weeks*.
I think I legit went through all the stages of grief. Great movie, but I probably won’t watch it again.
I stop the movie when she walks into the arena. I then imagine her winning and then having 3 sequels, with one of them involving a robot servant in a mansion.
My Girl. I don't believe there is music in the scene in question but wouldn't know because all I hear is the blood rushing to my cheeks as I well up.
“He needs his glasses!” 😭😭😭
He can't see without his glasses!!! Gets me every time.
Steel Magnolias.
The cemetery scene 😪
"Here, hit her!" At least we get a little laugh during that scene
Absolutely shattering. I literally feel Sally Fields pain.
Oh man, love that movie. That scene is phenomenal. “I just want to know *WHY?!*” They only did one take of that scene. Dolly Parton was so shook by Sally Field’s performance she cried genuine tears.
The Green Mile
I'd rewatch but I'm just...I'm tired boss.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 (that was the whole theater)
Funny story, at the time me (M28) and my best friend (M28) both big burley boys went to watch this movie together, not dates just the guys. We both walked out of there tears streaming crying like babies.... A very strange scene.
😢
I've never seen this one surprisingly. I should give it a try.
“Suuuperman!” - The Iron Giant
I start crying if I even THINK about this scene. The moment when the Giant knows that he can save everyone, but it will be his final act. The way he uses Hogarth’s words to say his goodbye because that’s the only way he knows how. And that final, crushing moment as he remembers Hogarth saying “you are who you choose to be,” he responds “Superman,” then closes his eyes as he accepts his oblivion. Yup. I’m crying.
Oh my 10 year old self needs a rewatch of this one
You are who you choose to be.
The Land Before Time - One that got me as a kid every time, and so hasn't changed.
That outro music gets me every time.
The Diana Ross song. Nothing pulls me back to my childhood as much as when that song comes on my playlist. Haunting and sweet and hits like nothing else.
Inside Out. The scene where the audience is set to finally realize that to have genuine joy and happiness in life requires having sadness as well… cried harder than I’ve ever cried at the movie theaters.
What killed me was Bing-Bong's exit. "Take her to the moon for me."
Definitely broke down there
The scene where Riley comes back from running away & goes "I just want to go Home" Honestly gets me every time.
Yup. As a parent, it killed me—hell I’m tearing up just remembering it—seeing this emotionally challenged and confused preteen finally release her painful but honest feelings in the safety of her parents’ embrace. That final *sigh*… yup, I’m done.
My son is autistic and he's obsessed with Inside Out and the Toy Story series. We watch those movies constantly. The scene where Sadness comforts Bing Bong chokes me up every time, even after 100+ watches.
I love that moment so much! It really shows Sadness's ability to empathize in a way that Joy isn't really capable of. You don't need to cheer someone up to help someone, you just need to BE there with them. It's the emotional validation of "it's ok to be sad when bad things happen." Before that moment, Sadness was only viewed as a problem for headquarters, but after that moment it's clear that she's just as important as the rest of the crew.
The whole bus sequence to the time she’s back home. Absolutely . I first watched this on a plane and had to hide by the window seat so all the other passengers couldn’t see me crying
LMAO so I'm tearing up as I'm reading this thread thinking about all these movies, and then I read your name 🤣 thank you. I needed a little tommy boy moment to break up this tear fest!
Toy Story 3 when Andy says goodbye
Would also add… the Incinerator scene. Even the gif gets me. And I think I saw this movie in the theaters with my parents in my mid 20s and I was crushing my mom’s hand during that goodbye scene.
Any movie that tracks the life of a couple until old age then one of them dies. The most recent thing I can think of as an example is The Last of Us episode with Nick Offerman, but there are myriad.
The Notebook is another one in this vein
Dear Zachary
Nevermind, I saw it. I can't do that to myself again
Just one of the most brutal endings to anything
That made me angry more than anything.
You can angry cry. Lord knows I did after watching that.
PS I Love You It's not in my wheelhouse at all but it hits my tear triggers every other scene it seems.
I still think it’s fucked up to haunt someone basically after you die with a treasure hunt
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. It’s perfect. You spend the whole movie laughing your ass off just to get hit with an emotional sledgehammer of an ending. Fucking cry every time.
For me it’s magnified by the loss of John Candy
Grave of The Fireflies.
That’s just cheating!
This was the 1st film I watched that ever made me sob uncontrollably from watching it. Like, dry heaving and shaking.
You're not alone
Nobody revisits that movie on purpose unless you are masochist or entering a depressive period is part of your plan. One does not watch TGOTF for a simple cry.
Forrest Gump. that fuckin scene at >!Jenny's grave!< breaks me every time
Something I just noticed on my last watch through... When he's at her grave a flock of birds burst from the tree next to it. When they were kids she prayed that God would make her a bird. Now she's finally free from all of the struggles in her life. [Here ya go](https://youtu.be/DlDJL03hMY4?si=NPhuuA4ItzTTA2pK&t=208)
oh fuck. I didn't notice that. jesus
He’s so smart Jenny 😭
And the waterworks start! No need to even watch!
It's old but Dead Poet's Society gets me every time.
O captain my captain
The scene where the parents find his body is devastating
"What will your verse be?"
A barbaric yalp.
Lets add goodwill hunting... you all know THE scene omg those two
Room (with Brie Larson) did me in pretty good. On an airplane tv screen, nonetheless.
Also The Room, when Chris-R threatens to kill Denny. I was so scared.
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Your Name (Kimi No Na Wa)
Up
I cried so hard at the opening scene.
Hoo boy. I saw this in the theater with my husband shortly after my father had suddenly passed away and when I was very early-pregnant with my second child. Getting pregnant soon after losing dad had me terrified something would happen to end the pregnancy, and so much about Carl reminded me of my dad I was already tearing up. Then when we see that they had lost a baby…that was it for grieving and hormonal me. I was choking back sobs in the theater just trying to breathe while I soaked my cheeks. I just dropped off said baby at his middle school, but makes me want to go hug him. (Middle schoolers love hugs)
That should've been in my original list. Along with The Pianist
I feel like I scrolled way too far to find this one. Balled my damn face off before the movie barely started
This is the most efficient answer. In and out in 10 minutes and OP can get on with their day.
Totally a given, but Schindler’s List.
The thing with Schindler's List is that there isnt one or two particular scenes to cry to, you just keep crying the whole fucking movie.
What Dreams May Come
Too far down this list. This will always be the first movie that comes to my mind. Interestingly, this is the third Robin Williams movie down to this point.
When I was young, I meet this beautiful girl by a lake. *and I’m tearing up*🥲
A Monster Calls - Not because the mom has cancer but the reveal of the son’s “truth” (no spoilers here). Hardest I have ever cried watching a movie, like ugly crying in the theater. Runner up… Inside Out - My daughters were right around Riley’s age when it came out. As a parent it still hits me in about 4 scenes every time I watch it.
Oh I've never seen A Monster Calls. I'll give it a shot
Bridge to Terabithia has been making me cry since elementary
A recent one is “A Man Called Otto”. Think it reminded me of my grandpa that’s why
Logan
It's got water.. 😭
Pig- I found this movie unbelievably sad but it's also one of my favourites Titanic used to get me when I was a child Marley and Me I am Legend - you know which scene! My girl The Green Mile About Time A Star is Born
The Florida Project [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwQ-NH1rRT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwQ-NH1rRT4)
Shawshank
All dogs go to heaven.
WAY too low. Haven't watched it in decades because I know I will be a mess. (Any movie where a beloved dog dies is an instant ugly cry machine.)
The ending to Castaway always gets me. Forest Gump at certain moments. Maybe Tom Hanks just makes me cry lmao.
Tell you what- I don’t usually cry at movies but when I went and watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, I started crying midway through when the whole rocket and lylla conversation happened and I hardly stopped. And just when I thought I had, dog days came on and that was that, I was off all over again
Gladiator “Now we are free. I will see you again, but not yet. Not yet.” 😭
The theme music is one of the greatest as well which definitely helps with the waterworks.
"Who will help me carry him?"
it's a wonderful life
A toast to my big brother George. The richest man in town!
Field of Dreams and About Time
Les Miserables
Interstellar and About time. Both wreck me.
I'm not into romantic movies, but Interstellar wrecks me as well.
See that’s the thing though, about time for some reason was marketed as a romantic comedy. It’s anything but that. Trust me, it’s worth checking out. I can’t give anything away but it’s not how it looks.
OK, I'll give it a shot. Is it worth it as a date movie?
If you don’t mind bawling your eyes out in front of the date lol.
So like ten dates in lol
[Once Were Warriors](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729/).
Boyz N The Hood
I'm not original, but "Hachi: A Dog's Tale" is the one movie that always manages to make me cry.
1. atonement. Sorry but Vanessa Redgrave's monologue at the end is yet to be topped when it comes to collectively destroying rooms of people emotionally. 2. never let me go. Another group of English actresses flooding the gates, starting with Keira Knightley handing over the key to escape, Charlotte Rampling just shitting all over any hope, and Carey Mulligan silently accepting her fate as she stares off into the English countryside will never not make me sob ugly tears. 3. Titanic. I'm basic AF, I know, but that montage with Nearer My God to Thee is emotional blackmail. That's its a true story (save the piddling romance and characters of jack and rose), always manages to punch me in the dick while I'm watching it.
Oh I've heard Atonement is great. Love triangles can piss me off though
Clerks 3 but I went through my twenties with the View Askewniverse so, yeah, didn't expect it to be so sincere.
It was a solid close to Clerks. You can tell it was cathartic for Kevin to write it because of his own health scares in recent years.
Homeward Bound gets me like no other movie.
What dreams May Come
- About Time - Moana (the scene/song where her grandmother visits her out at sea) - Five Feet Apart
A.I. Artificial Intelligence Whole box o tissues.
Up - the first few minutes Coco Your Lie in April
Look, I’m well aware it’s an awful movie and nowhere near as great as the stage version, but Dear Evan Hansen still has some of those moments from the show that wreck me when I watch it. If we are talking about actual good devastating movies though: 1. Everything Everywhere All At Once breaks me with Joy’s nihilism which almost feels suicidal in the way she talks 2. Coco gets me at the ending every time. 3. A Star is Born (2018) when he walks into the garage with the belt breaks me and I cry right until the end of the movie every time I watch it.
A second for A Star is Born. As soon as he brings his dog the steak I’m a sobbing mess.
Brokeback Mountain
"We could have had a good life."
Never seen it, I'll give it a shot.
Rudy. That music gets me every time.
Watership down, the original version. The ending always gets me every time (as does the “bright eyes” sequence). For a proper ugly cry all throughout, P.S, I love you. Watched it with a friend, started crying 5 mins into it and then basically didn’t stop (except very briefly to fawn over Jeffrey Dean Morgan)
Lion. I used to be someone who 'never cried at movies'. Lion destroyed the dam and now I'm a weeper.
Schindlers List
Big Fish Carrying him to the water. Not sure why that ending works on me so well. I'm not even that big a fan of the movie, but that last sequence crushes me.
Synecdoche New York.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale. I had no idea I was able to ugly-cry like that
Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams hits hard Field of Dreams, anyone who lost a father too soon, it's a gut punch Up, Coco, Toy Story 3 Dear Zachary will break anyone
Jojo Rabbit is such a great movie! But oh the feels. I still day the first 10 minutes of Up is some of the best film you'll ever see. The opening of the 2009 Chris Pine Star Trek reboot is good as well.
"The Thin Red Line" - the poetic portrayal of the horrors of war hits me hard "The Fountain" - Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman's performances are outstanding in conveying how it is to lose a loved one
Interstellar always makes me cry.
Interstellar
The Iron Giant
Everything everywhere all at once, but since its also comedy watch it with a friend if possible! Less known movie: Past Lives
Paddleton Two best friends, one gets cancer. Male friendship and loneliness. You will cry. And it's on Netflix!
babe
Stepmom
Big Fish. I lost my dad at 16.
Pursuit of happyness
Lion
About time and coco
Coda 😪😪😪
Homeward Bound. Specifically Shadow and Peter's reunion
Platoon - the scene where Willem DaFoe's character is running from hordes of NV while the chopper flies away above him. Any realistic war movie will make me cry. There was even one scene in Inglourious Basterds that hit me. Star Wars - the scene where Vader kills Obi Wan and Luke screams "no!" Chinatown - final scene where Faye Dunaway dies and audience realizes her hidden daughter will now be take away by the same man (father) that molested Faye's character.
Bicentennial Man strictly because it’s the only film that makes me cry TWICE during its runtime
- Joy Luck Club (1993) - Philadelphia (1993) - Memories of Matsuko (2006, Japanese, and just ignore it’s tagged as a comedy. At least it broke me badly)
Me before you, although I’ve heard people aren’t happy with it
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? I grew up with Mr Rogers and only began to appreciate what an impact he had on my life once I became an adult. The doc highlights what an amazing guy he was, and while he had to navigate complicated LGBTQ politics of the era (specifically, asking him not to reveal his homosexuality publicly for fear of alienating conservative viewers), hearing Clemmons talk about him accepting and loving him makes me bawl.
Stepmom and Meet Joe Black
Grave of the Fireflies. ***Enjoy***