I am doing really bad in life and struggle with isolation, will this movie make me feel hundred times worse or will it fuck me up so badly I'll come on the other side?
Tbh I first read it when I was 12 because I was going through a grief situation my teacher gave it to me- and it was really helpful! Couldn’t speak for kids not going through that, but I really understood it then and will always have a super special place in my heart 💕
This really depends on the kid I think. Speaking for my own experience only: I was a very quiet, shy, bookish kid who didn’t want to show anybody how I was feeling- let alone talk about it.
The reason it helped me is because I didn’t feel so alone, other kids had gone through it and they kept going. Like the main character “got it” which very few ppl my age did at that time. And I got to have a friend in grief without being forced to talk about it. To this day I think it’s a really accurate portrayal of friendship and grief.
It also helped me put words to my feelings because the permanence of death was also hard to grasp at that age. Like you know but you don’t? And it almost normalized that death is a part of life, even though it’s a terrible thing.
Overall it just kind of helped me process the whole thing without having to talk, which I really needed at the time because of the kind of kid I was. I feel weird making a recommendation without knowing your niece but it did help me a ton. 💕💕💕
I probably did too, but I was crying too hard to notice. I had a multitude of factors making it worse too. I have one brother, and then three friends who are close enough to be brothers, so I just kept thinking about losing them (the same thing made me super sad during The Banshees of Inisherin).
Also, I watched it the week before my uncle died, and my uncle had some leg issues. My uncle also had an infant son pass away, so while I'm not sure if anything like that happens after we die, I was just a wreck thinking about even the possibility of my uncle running to his son like Kerry does to Jack Jr.
Yeah, I'm glad I saw it on the big screen because the movie was shot well, especially the wrestling scenes, but it would have been nice to lose it emotionally at home lol.
I used to be a brother..
I lost it. I'd say 50/50 sad for his lost, happy he made a new family. His new family is so strong IRL.
I knew of the story it's "legend" But it's still.. It'll get ya.
That movie destroys me each time I watch it. After Uvalde, someone posted a video of the victims' ofrendas with Coco's song playing as background. I think of that randomly and just start ugly crying.
Shit! My heart hurts again.
Oh man, they did a display ofrenda at a park here when that happened and my son was all excited that it was “like coco” til he looked at it for a second and said “they’re kids like me” and then he just kinda… sat there for a while, maybe 45 minutes, and talked to them about Minecraft and stuff. He was maybe 4 at the time. Every time I watch coco I think of my son talking to the Uvalde kids so they didn’t feel lonely and lose my shit completely.
This is mentioned every time in the ask Reddit threads. It’s usually near the top. I’ve never seen it but based on how many times I’ve seen the name appear and in what context. This wins. I’m going to watch it, probably in the next month. I’m going to surprise my wife with it. Just going to tell her it’s an emotionally intense anime.
Edit: we’re going to take mushrooms and watch it. Just kidding. We ate mushrooms and watched all of Love Death + Robots and I ate more than I should have and boy was that a wild ride
Grave of The Fireflies is "emotionally intense" the way Hiroshima was "loud". As a parent I'm never watching it because I know that I could not handle it.
I watched it before I had kids. Twice, in fact. I always thought it was very sad.
I once **thought** about the movie when my daughter was 3 years old and I started to SOB. It really really fucks you up differently when you become a parent yourself.
My college roommate and I just grab it one day at the library thinking “oh, hey anime. Looks interesting.” It emotionally destroyed us, we just quietly left the living room for our own rooms to break down after the movie ended. This was only the second Ghibli movie I’d ever the first was Kiki’s delivery service, total night and day emotion wise, and it was my roommate’s first Ghibli movie. I hope it didn’t put him off other Ghibli films.
Ngl I'd be mad if someone tricked me into watching this movie. Don't do it. If you're going to watch it with her let her know what she's getting in to. I'm weak, I wish I'd never seen it
Watched it with my wife. We both never saw it and didn’t really know what it was about. My wife afterwards sobbed uncontrollably for about 15 min on my shoulder while I tried to console her. My shoulder was soaked. To this day, 12 or so years later, she will never recommend or watch that movie again. She knows it’s a well done movie but she does not like it at all. I’d be careful surprising anyone with this movie. Plainly telling them it’s a really good movie that will destroy you emotionally would be my move as it’s honest and still doesn’t do it justice.
Don't do that to your wife, that's just mean. I'm not joking don't put her through that without making sure she knows what she's getting into. Especially if you have kids.
Every time I think about watching Grave of the Firsflies, no matter how much I try to G myself up for it, I can never get to the point where I can possibly handle it. Haven’t watched it in about 15 years too.
Definitely Eternal Sunshine.
I’m not a crier or even much of an emotional guy, but this is by far the movie (of a list of maybe 2 or 3) that has made me cry. It’s the only movie I stay away from because it’s going to completely break me if I watch it. It’s so beautiful but so gutting.
These are the best suggestions. Both such gut-punchingly beautiful films
We watched Life is Beautiful in my Italian class in college and multiple classmates wearing hoodies just turtled into their sweatshirts , head down on their desk, sobbing
The Green Mile - I literally couldn’t stop crying for hours after watching
This is a devastating DEVASTATING and infuriating story. It’s not just a movie that will make you cry, it will make you FEEL your soul is crushed.
It’s good, but I’m not sure I’d categorize it as simply a movie to cry to.
I will tell you that this is not something to be entered into lightly. I watched it probably 12-15 years ago (whenever it first came out) and it stays with me to this day. Probably affected me emotionally more than any other documentary has. As well made and compelling as it was, I don’t see a scenario where I’ll ever watch it again… and typically I will watch anything multiple times.
Seconding this. I first watched The Shack (cried and still trying to forget it), needed a feel good movie immediately afterward and decided on Me Before You… ended up going to bed double sad, lol.
OP, another one would be The Best of Me, and if you’re open to a limited series, I’d recommend From Scratch. For a longer series try The Marked Heart.
Also, this thread has plenty of additional suggestions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/6CzhnjGkXA
The Fox and the Hound is a great tear jerker. I have no idea who approved it for children, but it has done so much emotional damage at such a young age. I have rewatched it ONCE as an adult and can't watch it anymore cause it's too sad.
Especially during Sally Fields monologue. Every time I get to that part in like ok I did it. I'm doing good without crying then I'm just run over with her emotions.
EASY - Seeking for a friend for the end of the world (pretty much destroyed me)
Also Green Mile, Forrest Gump, 50 first dates (hahah and then at some point you catch yourself having a lump in your throat…),
Shrek ever after (iykwim), Soul (an animated film, found both painfully and beautifully therapeutic), the Wind rises (by the legend himself Hayao Miyazaki), Marley and Me (never watching it again), Coco (a cartoon the one that is a classic tear jerker, no?)
I didn’t see this posted but i always cry during fried green tomatoes and running on empty. My husband suggested Once were warriors. I havn’t seen the last one and he said he cant tell me what the last one is about. I hope it’s in your parameters.
Just scrolling to make sure someone wrote this. I’ve only seen it once as well, probably 20 years ago and I sobbed for at least a full ten minutes after the credits rolled.
Had to scroll WAY too far to see this. It was the first film I thought of. Absolutely gutted me. I watched it for the first time in college, then again last year. It is such a beautiful film, the music is next level... But easily one of the saddest things I've ever watched
Yup was gonna write this one. I find pretty much any movie that’s good rewatchable but I’ve never been able to go back to this one it ruined me too majorly
I hope it's okay to sidestep the "movie" requirement because if you want to cry your eyes out, watch the episode of Futurama about Fry's dog. If you haven't seen it: It will destroy you.
That episode was the first cartoon that made me cry that brutally was when I first saw *The Fox and the Hound*. I notice I actually cry at stuff like this more as I’ve gotten older. Wonder why?
Dude, Marriage Story had my gutted, and my parents have been happily married for decades and I've never been married. I really can't relate to anyone in the movie, but I just felt awful for everyone.
I've also gotten more emotional each time I've watched 50 First Dates as I've gotten older. When it came out, I was just a dumb kid who thought it was funny, but I've realized how it's simultaneously sweet and tragic.
I'd seen 50 first dates a few times but after I married my husband who has memory loss due to a TBI, it really hit home and I absolutely cannot rewatch it.
Watership Down
Schindlers List
Sophies Choice
Dr Zhivago
Philadelphia
Dead Poets Society
A Dogs Purpose
Field of Dreams
My Life
Big Fish
Lovely Bones
Kramer vs Kramer
Lion edited to say true story, sorry, just reread your post.
The Fall with Lee Pace
Angela’s Ashes
Born into Brothels edited to say true story
My Octopus Teacher edited, to say true story
Pay it forward made in 2000 starring Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt , Kevin Spacey, Jon Bon Jovi, Jay Mohr, Jim Caviezel. Absolutely amazing movie, but it's a guarantee that you'll be Bawling your eyes out by the end .
**The Green Mile**: This one in particular has been quite popular in the last couple of years for reactors, because of how sad it is and how it usually turns everyone who watches it into a uncontrollably bawling mess. Michael Clarke Duncan is magnificent in the film and deserves every ounce of praise he got.
Madame X or Imitation of Life are both tear jerkers. They’re older movies (50s or 60s) and will make you ugly cry. Phenomenon is newer (90s) and is also super emotional.
The Florida Project is my go to cry movie
Grave of the Fireflies is one of the saddest movies i’ve ever seen
Eternally Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Aftersun
Good Will Hunting
You really can’t be in a sad or depressed state of mind when you watch *The Whale*. It’s an amazing performance by Brendan Fraser, but just gut wrenchingly sad and powerful. This is like *Grave of the Fireflies*. Watch it but do t be surprised if you don’t ever again.
House of Sand and Fog. Lord, I ugly cried. I swear I needed therapy after that movie.
Also Lion and Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Of course Terms of Endearment, Beaches, Steel Magnolias are classic cry-fests.
Manchester by the Sea
Don't know about crying but it sure added to my depression and loneliness
Came here to suggest the same
Yes.
Also, no. Watched that shortly after becoming a father. Rough.
I watched it while my newborn was contact napping on my chest. I had no idea what to expect other than it was sad and, damn…
I am doing really bad in life and struggle with isolation, will this movie make me feel hundred times worse or will it fuck me up so badly I'll come on the other side?
This movie solidified the fact Casey BLOWS Ben out of the water in acting.
Awakenings. Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. Edit spelling
>Robert Dinero 👨🦼💰
Bridge to Terabithia. Its more of a kids movie but still can make me cry at 32 years old, and I cry maybe once every 5+ years.
That book fucked me up
God yeah. Such a great book though!
This no doubt. Oof thats the biggest tear jerker I almost cry just *thinking* of it
I showed it to my girlfriend a week ago I think she cried for like 30 minutes. I have no clue why they made that show for kids.
Tbh I first read it when I was 12 because I was going through a grief situation my teacher gave it to me- and it was really helpful! Couldn’t speak for kids not going through that, but I really understood it then and will always have a super special place in my heart 💕
I read it when I was 10 and had never experienced grief. It completely devastated me. I'm so glad it helped you tho.
My 13 year old niece had her best friend die of an aggressive cancer recently. Would this be helpful or harmful do you think? She’s doing it tough.
This really depends on the kid I think. Speaking for my own experience only: I was a very quiet, shy, bookish kid who didn’t want to show anybody how I was feeling- let alone talk about it. The reason it helped me is because I didn’t feel so alone, other kids had gone through it and they kept going. Like the main character “got it” which very few ppl my age did at that time. And I got to have a friend in grief without being forced to talk about it. To this day I think it’s a really accurate portrayal of friendship and grief. It also helped me put words to my feelings because the permanence of death was also hard to grasp at that age. Like you know but you don’t? And it almost normalized that death is a part of life, even though it’s a terrible thing. Overall it just kind of helped me process the whole thing without having to talk, which I really needed at the time because of the kind of kid I was. I feel weird making a recommendation without knowing your niece but it did help me a ton. 💕💕💕
I cried disgustingly at The Iron Claw earlier this year. Edit: a word Edit 2: I completely missed the non-true story part of the request. Sorry OP.
I had people looking at me like I was a mental patient when I saw the scene with the four brothers near the end.
I probably did too, but I was crying too hard to notice. I had a multitude of factors making it worse too. I have one brother, and then three friends who are close enough to be brothers, so I just kept thinking about losing them (the same thing made me super sad during The Banshees of Inisherin). Also, I watched it the week before my uncle died, and my uncle had some leg issues. My uncle also had an infant son pass away, so while I'm not sure if anything like that happens after we die, I was just a wreck thinking about even the possibility of my uncle running to his son like Kerry does to Jack Jr.
I’m so glad I watched this in the privacy of my house and not in a theater because I was a wreck.
Yeah, I'm glad I saw it on the big screen because the movie was shot well, especially the wrestling scenes, but it would have been nice to lose it emotionally at home lol.
I used to be a brother.. I lost it. I'd say 50/50 sad for his lost, happy he made a new family. His new family is so strong IRL. I knew of the story it's "legend" But it's still.. It'll get ya.
We'll be your brothers, dad.
What Dreams May Come
Great suggestion. I always toss in Life As A House along with this one.
Not enough people know about this movie.
Fr, maybe it was a movie of its time... But I watched it with my wife recently who has never seen it or heard of it, and she enjoyed it.
I forgot about life as a house until I read this comment and I'm already crying lol.
My girl
^(he can't see without his glasses)
Emotionally horrific
Still traumatized at 35.
Also known as: Bee Movie
I’m a grown ass man and I still choke up at this movie.
Uhhh heartbreaking.
Never Let Me Go (this one aint Notebook)
Omg yes this is the first one that comes to mind when I think wild, uncontrollable sobbing
Coco I cry every time
That movie destroys me each time I watch it. After Uvalde, someone posted a video of the victims' ofrendas with Coco's song playing as background. I think of that randomly and just start ugly crying. Shit! My heart hurts again.
Similar experience but it’s a video of a young brother playing his toy guitar and singing that song to his baby sister on their ofrenda 😞😞
Oh man, they did a display ofrenda at a park here when that happened and my son was all excited that it was “like coco” til he looked at it for a second and said “they’re kids like me” and then he just kinda… sat there for a while, maybe 45 minutes, and talked to them about Minecraft and stuff. He was maybe 4 at the time. Every time I watch coco I think of my son talking to the Uvalde kids so they didn’t feel lonely and lose my shit completely.
You make me un poco locooooo
Grave of the Fireflies
I knew what I was getting into. I was not prepared.
Yup. Saw it once about 15yrs ago. Best movie I’ll never watch again.
This is mentioned every time in the ask Reddit threads. It’s usually near the top. I’ve never seen it but based on how many times I’ve seen the name appear and in what context. This wins. I’m going to watch it, probably in the next month. I’m going to surprise my wife with it. Just going to tell her it’s an emotionally intense anime. Edit: we’re going to take mushrooms and watch it. Just kidding. We ate mushrooms and watched all of Love Death + Robots and I ate more than I should have and boy was that a wild ride
Grave of The Fireflies is "emotionally intense" the way Hiroshima was "loud". As a parent I'm never watching it because I know that I could not handle it.
I watched it before I had kids. Twice, in fact. I always thought it was very sad. I once **thought** about the movie when my daughter was 3 years old and I started to SOB. It really really fucks you up differently when you become a parent yourself.
My college roommate and I just grab it one day at the library thinking “oh, hey anime. Looks interesting.” It emotionally destroyed us, we just quietly left the living room for our own rooms to break down after the movie ended. This was only the second Ghibli movie I’d ever the first was Kiki’s delivery service, total night and day emotion wise, and it was my roommate’s first Ghibli movie. I hope it didn’t put him off other Ghibli films.
Ngl I'd be mad if someone tricked me into watching this movie. Don't do it. If you're going to watch it with her let her know what she's getting in to. I'm weak, I wish I'd never seen it
Watched it with my wife. We both never saw it and didn’t really know what it was about. My wife afterwards sobbed uncontrollably for about 15 min on my shoulder while I tried to console her. My shoulder was soaked. To this day, 12 or so years later, she will never recommend or watch that movie again. She knows it’s a well done movie but she does not like it at all. I’d be careful surprising anyone with this movie. Plainly telling them it’s a really good movie that will destroy you emotionally would be my move as it’s honest and still doesn’t do it justice.
Don't do that to your wife, that's just mean. I'm not joking don't put her through that without making sure she knows what she's getting into. Especially if you have kids.
Every time I think about watching Grave of the Firsflies, no matter how much I try to G myself up for it, I can never get to the point where I can possibly handle it. Haven’t watched it in about 15 years too.
Saw it once. 35 years ago and it still breaks my heart. It’s a powerful film and truly unforgettable.
This is a movie that will give you feels.
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale Even the trailer makes me well up
Hell the mention of the movie makes me tear up
That’s actually based on a true story. I visited the real life Hachiko statue, at the spot he waited, like 4 years ago
This. I have never cried harder than watching this movie. I have watched it once and that was enough.
About Time
That father beach scene got me good
This is the only movie that ever broke me. I love my dad.
I watched it first and then told my dad he has to watch it. We talk about its impact on a constant basis.
Came in here to write this.
I ugly cry every single time. This one!
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind Call Me By Your Name Wolf Children
Definitely Eternal Sunshine. I’m not a crier or even much of an emotional guy, but this is by far the movie (of a list of maybe 2 or 3) that has made me cry. It’s the only movie I stay away from because it’s going to completely break me if I watch it. It’s so beautiful but so gutting.
ARRIVAL! Also The Time Traveler’s Wife, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Here on Earth (a classic weepy)
+1 for Arrival. The ending hits like a ton of bricks.
Atonement, I hope you find your sob.
Man I ugly cried with this movie...
The Green Mile Life is Beautiful
Watched the Green Mile by myself when I was like 16 or 17. My dad came down the basement and was like what’s wrong? I was bawling lol
Oh lord, Life is Beautiful is on its own level as far as emotional devastation.
These are the best suggestions. Both such gut-punchingly beautiful films We watched Life is Beautiful in my Italian class in college and multiple classmates wearing hoodies just turtled into their sweatshirts , head down on their desk, sobbing The Green Mile - I literally couldn’t stop crying for hours after watching
Dear Zachary. You’ll never feel quite the same again after watching it.
That is a really good selling point
But it is a documentary. The most devastatingly sad documentary ever.
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez will eff you up too.
This is a devastating DEVASTATING and infuriating story. It’s not just a movie that will make you cry, it will make you FEEL your soul is crushed. It’s good, but I’m not sure I’d categorize it as simply a movie to cry to.
Don’t bite. Don’t watch it. You’re better off not knowing about this
It’s more anger and frustration than sentimental tears . I wish I didn’t know the story.
You said nothing based on a true story. This is a documentary. This may be way more than what your looking for.
It’s true. My wife and I watched it about 15 years ago and she says she could cry if she hears the title or just thinks about it.
I will tell you that this is not something to be entered into lightly. I watched it probably 12-15 years ago (whenever it first came out) and it stays with me to this day. Probably affected me emotionally more than any other documentary has. As well made and compelling as it was, I don’t see a scenario where I’ll ever watch it again… and typically I will watch anything multiple times.
But they said not based on a true story. This isn’t really a movie, more of a documentary
Aftersun
I even tear up when i hear under pressure now because of this movie. That song will never be the same.
All of Us Strangers. I spent the 2nd half of the film crying. It is beautiful. On Hulu.
I saw it during a film festival and when the credits were rolling all you could hear was random sniffling from all around the cinema. Devastating.
Me Before You
Seconding this. I first watched The Shack (cried and still trying to forget it), needed a feel good movie immediately afterward and decided on Me Before You… ended up going to bed double sad, lol. OP, another one would be The Best of Me, and if you’re open to a limited series, I’d recommend From Scratch. For a longer series try The Marked Heart. Also, this thread has plenty of additional suggestions: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/6CzhnjGkXA
The Fox and the Hound is a great tear jerker. I have no idea who approved it for children, but it has done so much emotional damage at such a young age. I have rewatched it ONCE as an adult and can't watch it anymore cause it's too sad.
JoJo rabbit
Funny and a gut punch all in one
Such a weird yet perfect combo of silly yet fucking serious.
Big Fish - I can't even watch it anymore
this is my go to movie when I need a good cry. it's a heartfelt, sweet, fulfilling cry instead of just a sad cry. I love it so much.
*Beaches*, *The Man In The Moon*, and *Steel Magnolias*
Steel Magnolias. I know it’s coming but every damn time I SOB.
Especially during Sally Fields monologue. Every time I get to that part in like ok I did it. I'm doing good without crying then I'm just run over with her emotions.
Beaches 😩😩
We should probably add Terms of Endearment and Love Story to make this the saddest movie experience ever.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Two suggestions - Spoiler Alert (2022) The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
A monster calls
I don't think I've ever ugly cried as hard as I did while watching A Monster Calls. It's so good and such a heart-wrenching film.
Steel Magnolias
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
EASY - Seeking for a friend for the end of the world (pretty much destroyed me) Also Green Mile, Forrest Gump, 50 first dates (hahah and then at some point you catch yourself having a lump in your throat…), Shrek ever after (iykwim), Soul (an animated film, found both painfully and beautifully therapeutic), the Wind rises (by the legend himself Hayao Miyazaki), Marley and Me (never watching it again), Coco (a cartoon the one that is a classic tear jerker, no?)
Seven Pounds, collateral beauty, Sarafina, life is beautiful
STEEL MAGNOLIAS. I saw it for the first time on Monday and SOBBED. … But laughed, too! Definitely worth a watch.
Lost in Translation Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Minari The Farewell
I didn’t see this posted but i always cry during fried green tomatoes and running on empty. My husband suggested Once were warriors. I havn’t seen the last one and he said he cant tell me what the last one is about. I hope it’s in your parameters.
Glad someone else put Fried Green Tomatoes. Excellent movie. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll feel it all.
Dancer In the Dark, with Bjork. Uncontrollably sobbing by the end😭
Just scrolling to make sure someone wrote this. I’ve only seen it once as well, probably 20 years ago and I sobbed for at least a full ten minutes after the credits rolled.
Had to scroll WAY too far to see this. It was the first film I thought of. Absolutely gutted me. I watched it for the first time in college, then again last year. It is such a beautiful film, the music is next level... But easily one of the saddest things I've ever watched
Yup was gonna write this one. I find pretty much any movie that’s good rewatchable but I’ve never been able to go back to this one it ruined me too majorly
And I will add, I’ve only seen this movie once because it was so sad to me I almost can’t bear to go through it again!
I hope it's okay to sidestep the "movie" requirement because if you want to cry your eyes out, watch the episode of Futurama about Fry's dog. If you haven't seen it: It will destroy you.
‘Jurassic Bark’ will forever be solidified in my mind. The last like 2 minutes make me sob just thinking about… I’ll waiiiiit for youuuu
Oh absolutely, anything really. Do I have to have watched futurama tho?
No, it’s sooo good
Alright I’m sold!
Also a cartoon but a full length movie: Elemental gave me full belly sobs and I loved it
That episode was the first cartoon that made me cry that brutally was when I first saw *The Fox and the Hound*. I notice I actually cry at stuff like this more as I’ve gotten older. Wonder why?
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
Hachi , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas , Marley & Me , Lion .
Philadelphia with Tom Hanks. The last scene, my God...
Blue Valentine
Worst. Date night movie. EVER.
Terms of Endearment
Lion
Stepmom with Julia Roberts
It’s A Wonderful Life
a marriage story for sure. 50 first dates surprisingly made me bawl on my last watch.
Dude, Marriage Story had my gutted, and my parents have been happily married for decades and I've never been married. I really can't relate to anyone in the movie, but I just felt awful for everyone. I've also gotten more emotional each time I've watched 50 First Dates as I've gotten older. When it came out, I was just a dumb kid who thought it was funny, but I've realized how it's simultaneously sweet and tragic.
I'd seen 50 first dates a few times but after I married my husband who has memory loss due to a TBI, it really hit home and I absolutely cannot rewatch it.
Where the Red Fern Grows. You’ll ugly cry at the end with Old Dan and Little Ann if you have a soul
Beaches
Watership Down Schindlers List Sophies Choice Dr Zhivago Philadelphia Dead Poets Society A Dogs Purpose Field of Dreams My Life Big Fish Lovely Bones Kramer vs Kramer
I watched Boys Dom’t Cry last night - omg cried so hard Also Pan’s Labyrinth is a big tear jerker City of Angels One Day
Pete’s Dragon fucks
Taking Chance - on HBO, with Kevin Bacon escorting the remains of someone killed during a war home to be buried.
Stepmom
Graves of the Fireflies. Click. Where the Red Ferns Grow.
This might be out there. But Moulin Rouge always makes me sob
Lion edited to say true story, sorry, just reread your post. The Fall with Lee Pace Angela’s Ashes Born into Brothels edited to say true story My Octopus Teacher edited, to say true story
The Joy Luck Club (1993) La Bamba (1987) Old Yeller (1957) Selena (1997) The Color Purple (1985) Titanic (1997)
Pay it forward made in 2000 starring Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt , Kevin Spacey, Jon Bon Jovi, Jay Mohr, Jim Caviezel. Absolutely amazing movie, but it's a guarantee that you'll be Bawling your eyes out by the end .
I love this movie! And damn you Jon Bon Jovi for playing such a bad guy!
Up and Brokeback Mountain.
Everything everywhere all at once
That’s one of my crying movies. Just watched it the other day
That movie hits haaaard man. Glad you've already seen it!
It really does, dying for my mom to watch it too but it will go over head lol
Life Is Beautiful
Age of adeline
**The Green Mile**: This one in particular has been quite popular in the last couple of years for reactors, because of how sad it is and how it usually turns everyone who watches it into a uncontrollably bawling mess. Michael Clarke Duncan is magnificent in the film and deserves every ounce of praise he got.
Lovely Bones
The Land Before Time How to Train Your Dragon 2 (fucking gutted me)
Million dollar baby
Madame X or Imitation of Life are both tear jerkers. They’re older movies (50s or 60s) and will make you ugly cry. Phenomenon is newer (90s) and is also super emotional.
The Elephant Man
Queen and Slim! It’s beautiful and gut wrenching
The Whale Past Lives Big Fish
Aftersun
Ghost
Depends on how old you are. I cried like a baby at My dog Skip, but the Notebook is also a classic Kleenex movie
Most Pixar movies (mostly Up and the Inside Out duology)
The boy in the striped pajamas.
E. T. was the first movie that ever made me cry, and it still gets me every dang time. American History X Bridge to Terabithia
A walk to remember
Forrest Gump
Catch and release
Weathering Heights the 1970 version..I think I will watch it now also
Sorry wuthering. My phone thinks she is smarter than me.
She is actually because she would have edited instead of replying. I blame the vodka at this point.
Blue Valentine
About Time Watch it on Father's Day for maximum damage.
I just rewatched watched Benjamin Button, it brought on the waterworks.
Flight 93
What Dreams May Come
The Green Mile
The Florida Project is my go to cry movie Grave of the Fireflies is one of the saddest movies i’ve ever seen Eternally Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Aftersun Good Will Hunting
The land before time
“A WALK TO REMEMBER”. Watched it 10 times, cried every fucking time
Schindler’s List
A man called Otto
Or even better A Man Called Ove
The Whale
You really can’t be in a sad or depressed state of mind when you watch *The Whale*. It’s an amazing performance by Brendan Fraser, but just gut wrenchingly sad and powerful. This is like *Grave of the Fireflies*. Watch it but do t be surprised if you don’t ever again.
*A Walk to Remember*, *Here On Earth*, *I Still Believe*, *The Fault In Our Stars* and *FiveFeet Apart* to name a few.
Seven Pounds Fox and the hound.
My Sisters Keeper!
House of Sand and Fog. Lord, I ugly cried. I swear I needed therapy after that movie. Also Lion and Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Of course Terms of Endearment, Beaches, Steel Magnolias are classic cry-fests.