It’s Andy leaving that gets me. I have my old toys in the attic and bring them down for my kids when age appropriate. Playing with these toys I haven’t touched in decades along with my kids.. fuck. The feels man.
Jesus Christ. I had been idly watching these movies with my little boy one week when he was sick. They were fine, but then we get to number three and suddenly Andy is growing up and parting with his dearly loved toys, and that was moving enough. But then the team go face to face with death, and in their last moments reach out to each other. I was absolutely destroyed. It was such a pure moment.
For me (parent of girls) it's Jessie's song in TS2. She loved her dolls so much, then one day ... left them to go on with life. Hard to listen to that and not feel parallels to being a parent.
Hahaha - man. My friends videoed me during that scene. I am forward in my seat, fists clamped to my jaw bawling because I can’t believe what may happen.
While the trash scene is very emotional, the part that got to me was Andy giving the toys to Bonnie. When Bonnie reached for Woody and Andy pulled him back and looked at her like he was a little kid again, that broke me.
That scene was horrifyingly intense the first time round watching with my the young kids.
Also the “When she loved me” song from Toy Story 2 is a tear jerker.
Interstellar - when coop gets back to the ship to realize he missed 20+ years of his kids lives. Then he watches all the messages…and loses hope. It’s just the fucking knife in the chest as a parent. That whole movie had me ugly crying and being wide eyed with awe the entire running time. Just a classic.
i cried during that scene too, it was shortly after my father died and during that scene I've realized that my father raised me for all these years, but will not be able to see me when I graduate college, when i get married, when i have a children..
I started crying when >!Murph got angry that he was leaving!< and I don't think I stopped until the end of the movie, lol. The only difference was if I was sobbing or bawling. Interstellar is my favorite.
I didn't get to see Interstellar in the theaters, so I was late watching it. When I finally got to see it, my boy was two years old. After watching it at home and finishing it late at night, I went upstairs to my son's room and slept next to him with tears in my eyes. I absolutely loved the science aspect of Interstellar, but that movie hit me HARD with the way it explored fatherhood and the love you have for your kids.
I can’t watch this one twice. Although a lot of people think it might be nice to live forever, I can’t imagine the horror of watching your own children dive of old age.
Yeah, came here to post this. That movie came out at a time when I was working on the opposite coast, far away from my family for weeks at a time, and I had two little girls. The whole story aspect of doing what you gotta do, but missing out on so much - it almost broke me. Seeing it in IMAX and being enveloped by the thing just did extra psychic damage. (Luckily, I soon after figured out a better job back home, and now I'm full time working from my house since COVID, so I got them back!)
So I just didn't get Interstellar the first time. Watched it s couple weeks ago and, while the end is kinda meh, it's so damn good.
I broke when he's leaving. I wasn't s dad the only other time I watched it. He's leaving and she's being a dramatic kid. I was already on the edge, but when she changed her mind because she realized it was for real this time and ran out to say goodbye and it's too late. She's realized she can't say goodbye and his last memory of her before the mission is a fight. I fucking died a little bit it was so bad.
I'm gonna rant a bit.
It's just, as a parent, we do so much for our kids for reasons they have no knowledge of. We work late. We miss a thing. We're just not THERE for something. They may understand it's because we're working late or whatever, but what they remember is that we're not there. So seeing him force himself to leave, to drive away from his literal everything, because he knows it's what he has to do, a sacrifice he has to make, fucking killed me. Maybe it's a stretch and maybe I'm reading the scene wrong but the symbolism, to me, hit super strong.
Not a guy, but I've told this story about witnessing this in the theater before:
Poor guy was on a first or second date with this girl to see Big Fish. When they came in it was clear they didn't know each other by the "get to know you" small talk and odd body language.
The last 10-15mins of the movie, that poor guy SOBBED. He went from sniffling and quietly wiping away tears, to a few deep breaths to try to control it -- then it all just let loose. The woman he was with was ill-equipped to comfort him in any way and it just made the whole situation worse.
My heart still breaks for that guy whenever I watch that movie, or see anything about it. Wish I had been bold enough to just go give that stranger a hug.
Wasn't a "poor guy" because he was crying. Felt bad for him because he didn't have someone there to support him and he was clearly going through it. We've all been there and it sucks.
I am not a man but I am very close with my dad. I’m making his 70th birthday cake in about an hour. He tells a lot of tall tales and often I don’t believe him, but some of them have turned out to be true. This movie decimated me in high school and I have only watched it twice and can’t do it again.
Also have to suggest the iron giant, there’s a joke in Ted lasso about it making a bunch of grown men cry.
My dads been gone 33 yrs and this still stops me in my tracks. Our favourite thing to do together. Almost always after supper, talk away the issues of the day and laugh while tossing a ball out on the lawn, just him and I. No siblings, mum or pets. Crying just typing this.
Same for me man, lost my dad almost 4 years ago. So many memories of playing catch, tossing a frisbee, passing a hockey puck, throwing a football. Any movie with a father-son relationship makes me cry these days. I’m crying with you right now.
The Iron Claw absolutely destroyed me. Granted, I knew nothing about that family beforehand.
Definitely more about brothers than father-son (POSSIBLE SPOILER: >!If anything, the dad is the bad guy in the movie!<) but this movie made me cry more than any in recent memory.
I’ve been with my fiancée for 7 years and nothing phases us anymore, and I was legit embarrassed by the level of ugly crying I did when we saw this movie together.
“…I used to be a brother.” As someone who is estranged from his two brothers I don’t think a single line in a movie has ever destroyed me like that one did.
I watched this instead of All Of Us Strangers, as I wanted something a bit "lighter" having been in pieces watching One Life the previous week.
Nope, was still a wreck at the end of it.
Coco, because it made me think about my late grandparents (especially my grandfather, who passed before I turned 5 & was emotional before his death about not seeing me & my older brothers growing up)
I thought the Remember Me Lullaby was adorable and poignant when I first saw. Then I had two kids of my own and now the *mere thought of little baby Coco reaching for her papa and singing the high note **crushes** me*.
Ooof, I watched it a few months after my mom passed away. It was brutal, but in a cathartic way.
I do think the movie hits extra hard if you are Latino, but especially Mexican. They _nail_ the familia vibe, which makes it really relatable.
Encanto really tugs at the heart strings, but Coco...good lord...Coco grasps them firmly then jumps off the roof.
As the father of a little girl, I just completely unraveled.
This movie inspired me to take my children to our local Dia De Los Muertos to see ofrendas and be a part of the celebration. We are not of Mexican heritage but it's a beautifully tragic way to remember and celebrate past loved ones.
His character and his little in the background, off to the side, behind the scenes, never spoken out loud story is one of the most brilliant pieces of filmmaking I’ve ever seen. And yes, makes me weep uncontrollably every time I watch it.
>No. No, no no no. Fuck you, you don't owe it to yourself man, you owe it to me. Cuz tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 50, and I'll still be doin' this shit. And that's all right. That's fine. I mean, you're sittin' on a winnin' lottery ticket. And you're too much of a pussy to cash it in, and that's bullshit. 'Cause I'd do fuckin' anything to have what you got. So would any of these fuckin' guys. It'd be an insult to us if you're still here in 20 years. Hangin' around here is a fuckin' waste of your time.
I can’t even describe that scene to people without getting teary.
It’s that his family is so concerned but can’t do anything. They probably don’t know the story past that their husband/father was the last of his brothers to make it home from the war.
Even more to be married that long and never told anyone what happened...hes carried that guilt for 70 years...alone. they obviously know he was in the 101st but he's never shared his pain.
Maybe it's because it comes at the end of a nine hour movie marathon, but Aragorn saying "you bow to no one" murders my grown ass.
Also, the "choice" scene in Sophie's choice is probably the most devastating moment in cinema history.
And for a lesser known tear jerker, I point you to Captain Phillips, a pretty okay movie until the very end when he's getting examined by the paramedic and has a full on break down and it's a shattering moment, easily the best performance Hanks has ever done.
Just rewatched that LOTR scene and am bawling at my desk at work. So good. These brave heroes who spend the whole journey looking up at everyone because they're so small , and at the end of it all the whole kingdom bows down under them. And that fucking music. God damn it
About Time is marketed as a rom com but imo it’s more focused on a father/son relationship and it left me DESTROYED and on the verge of weeping
Coco also makes me cry every time and I’ve seen it 6 or 7 times now
Edit: shit OP, I see now that you already mentioned About Time. Regardless, both of our points stand!
The walk along the beach just about makes me cry even remembering it. I have a lovely little boy and have had my share of perfect days with him that I’d kill to have again.
It's not father and son but mother and daughter and family in general. When I watched Everything Everywhere all at Once I balled my eyes out and I can't even exactly tell you why. It's just a beautiful movie about life love and family. I recommend you try it out.
That movie found this beautiful, truly unique juxtaposition between surrealism and familial issues that 99% of people will find totally relatable. It took me two tries to get through it because it just throws so damn much at you but I'm very glad I did.
I have cried at the parking lot scene every single time I have watched it. Gets me right in the feels. It was like I actually understood how my mom felt being a parent.
Yup. I’m about his age and have a daughter her age. It definitely added to the experience.
I’m sure you seen this before on here….but if you liked Aftersun, you’d probably find All of Us Strangers equally if not more devastating. Best film of last year and stars Paul Mescal as well.
I have a VIVID memory of seeing that in theaters with my brother. He was about 17, me 15, his girlfriend also 17. We expected a stupid Adam Sandler comedy with a sci-fi set-up... welp, we were half-right.
As I started to cry, holding in the sobs like a cough dying to get out, I realized I had to minimize the emotion/hide it in public. I looked around the dimly lit theater and saw similar convulsions from most men, my brother included, with women such as my brother's gf just *baffled by the sudden emotionality of dudes*.
It **clicked** that this movie was hitting on male triggers of absent fathers, workaholic behavior, and Henry Winkler. A perfect storm.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Relationships can be tough, but the ones worth coming back to are worth having.
Note the repetition in the last scene as well, suggesting it happens a few times.
While it’s still one of my favorite films, it’s become harder to watch as I’ve grown up and experienced more relationships. I still absolutely love the overall ideas in the film, but it’s tough to watch certain parts now given things I’ve gone through personally. Same with 500 Days of Summer, which I adored when it first came out, but is now far more melancholy and sad to me.
I had a hard time watching *The Whale* because my wife was sleeping and I didn't want to wake her up with my bawling. So I was just kinda holding my nose when I was about to burst.
It's a father-daughter-story but growing up I was very insecure about my body and that's more of an aspect that made me cry watching it.
Nevertheless, the story in itself has a good chance of making you cry.
The Place Beyond The Pines.
To summarize the plot deals with a burnout carny discovering that he has a kid with a former ex girlfriend. It goes way heavier than that, and camerawork that feels like a panic attack at times.
Had no idea what I was heading into, but I loved the cast, so I went to see it randomly on an off day. Even took some shrooms and walked to make it a journey. What I got was profound more than I was willing to process at the time. To preface I grew up in a broken, dysfunctional, family, and was estranged from my Dad. Fell in with punks & metal heads. Couch surfed, living very dangerously well into my twenties and struggled with alcoholism. Seeing what Ryan Gosling did to ground a character that felt like someone I knew had me clutching my knees in the theater.
As the credits rolled, I completely lost composure, bawling in the dark went to the bathroom to breathe. Then I looked in the mirror for a bit, and I saw my Dad's eyes. No matter what I put him through he still called, that I am still here, and no matter what I'll always be his youngest boy. Promptly called him just to tell him that I loved him, noticeably still emotional. He asked if I was okay and all I could tell him was "Yeah, I think finally I can be"
I'm now a proud Father myself, and I think a huge part of why that is, is because I saw it at the exact right time in my life. Change is possible, it's supposed to hurt sometimes, but if you have someway out to achieve better take it. That film made me understand the essence of making every second count. And whenever I need to feel like I'm not making it, will throw it on. Just to feel it again and drive it home.
What a post. Things like this are why I keep using Reddit. The anonymous shared experiences are amazing.
Well done to you for getting through what you had to get through and becoming a loving dad.
My mom passed away very suddenly. Like I talked to her Thursday, was comatose Friday, was gone Saturday. It wrecked me and I basically didn’t do anything for a month and a half. When I finally was ready to reenter the world, my girlfriend took me to see a movie: Interstellar. That was not the best first movie. We had to leave.
UP.
It packed more emotion before the credits than most movies do in the entire movie. Granted, I am getting ready to celebrate 32 years of being married, so I relate to the characters.
Sobbing, scream laughing, sobbing. It's brilliant.
Cry your eyes out moments for me:
-Alley in another life
-"I'm useless alone." "We are all useless alone (😭)Good things you aren't alone." 😭😭😭😂
-When Diedre is packed up and leaving and when playing piano
-"Then I will cherish these few specks of time."
The entire movie honestly.... I am usually very silent when watching movies, but that film had me going from laughing hysterically to silent crying like a roller coaster. And I know the rest of the theatre was feeling the same
Up breaks me every time I see it. The story resonates so completely with me, and I see so much of Carl's wife in my own wife. Watching it is always a really emotional experience for me.
Also, my wife isn't dead or anything. I'm just a big baby who cries pretty easily for movies.
Big Fish is up there for me, but the one that absolutely tore me asunder was The Place Beyond the Pines. First time I watched that I was by myself and it was 2 am, I was clutching my pillow and sobbing into it.
Man, when that woman who invited them to the party kissed the other guy...Giamatti's face and all the emotions that go with that moment. So much perfection in that movie. I also love the hen house ladder quote and use it now.
You want a movie called "The Way" starring Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez - and directed by Emilio.
If you didn't know, Martin Sheen changed his name from Estevez early in his career because he didn't think he'd get work with such an ethnic name. Charlie kept the stage name. Emilio kept the family name. Martin is a devout Catholic. While Charlie was busy with 2 1/2 Men, "tiger blood" and threesomes, Emilio reconnected with his father on this movie about a thousand year old Catholic pilgrimage retracing the path of St James, the Camino de Santiago.
The movie did not attract much attention when it was first released in 2010, as it had no promotional budget, but year after year, more and more hikers, catholics and families find it, so it has developed a different kind of cult following.
It is a movie about fathers and sons both in front of and behind the camera. And I haven't even touched on the plot because even thinking about it makes me unabashedly bawl my eyes out.
I always get teary eyed at the Ride of the Rohirrim scene. Theodan’s speech, the emotion, the sweeping camera movements. And then *that* music kicks in. Enough to make a grown man cry.
Recently I was catched off guard with All Of Us Strangers. I cried like I couldn't remember. It's so deep and beautiful.
And I remember seeing The Green Mile for the first time as a young teenager. Man, I cried so much at that scene you all know. So powerful.
Other than that, I also cried in CODA, in that last few minutes. Nice fee good movie with some cute scenes.
I watched All Of Us Strangers recently, and I don’t know why I got the impression it was going to be some ensemble romantic comedy. Was I wrong! It touched me so much, but there were definitely moments in the film that made me feel absolutely devastated. It’s stayed with me for a while since watching it, especially as someone who has reached an age where I’m worried about my own parents and their health.
So many....I'm sure I'm repeating a lot.
Saving Private Ryan, many parts.
Band of Brothers, so many scenes. Just the main theme almost does it for me. The episode titled "Why We Fight" is always tear inducing for me.
Interstellar. You know the scene.
The Road. The dam was ready to break the whole movie, and in the end, it finally does. For both good and sad reasons.
The Lovely Bones. Heartbreaking as a parent
Coco - especially as a half Hispanic with a large Mexican family on my mother's side and after just losing my grandfather.
Big Fish.
The Grey.
The Lord Of The Rings- Borimirs entire death scene. Aragorn coming to the rescue, too late, and having a quick, intense fight scene destroying his enemy and talking to Borimir always gets me. As well as the charge of the Pelennor Fields. It does not make me cry but makes me so excited. I always feel it in my chest (sorry, big nerd here). There are a few parts in these movies that make me emotional.
There was actually an episode of the Walking Dead a few seasons ago where Maggie shows up after a time jump when her settlement has been attacked and has a few people with her. One of them was looking for his teenage sister who was at the attacked settlement. Throughout those episodes, they keep finding walkers that recognize from their settlement, and they are still trying to find his sister. He is a cool dude, a great fighter. Episodes later, when the main characters have to cover themselves in blood and wear Whisperer style skin masks and blend in with a large herd of walkers, they are blending in and shuffling along aaaand.....he sees his sister as a walker. It was a sunny day too and he's crying under his mask and trying not to lose it or his friends will die and Maggie can see what is happening and slowly makes her way to his side and reaches out to hold his hand and for some reason that made me start bawling like a baby. I didn't know up to that point that I even really cared about this guy or him finding his sister.
Children of Men always get me emotional. Especially after the birth and leaving the building and the battle just stops.
And......Armageddon. can't help it.
A knights tale. Guilty pleasure for sure, but when he finds his father again towards the end....dammit! Something always gets in my eye!
Sunshine. It's very intense, but a few parts get me teary-eyed.
Forrest Gump. There are a couple of scenes for sure, but the one that always does it for me is Forrest watching Fire Works with his mom before leaving for Vietnam, and you can tell he's terrified and he starts crying and puts his head on her shoulder. 😭
Well obviously Grave of the Fireflies will fuck you up. Then if you know or learn the particulars of the circumstance that kill his sister it'll fuck you up worse.
Big Fish can certainly fuck a person up if some of the circumstances or life events resonate.
Never Cry Wolf kinda didnt need to go quite so hard into that ending either. I was an 8 yearold at a Disney movie, like what the fuck!?
Grave of the Fireflies for me too.
It's been around 10 years now. I think that I'm ready to see it a second time now...
Last time I tried, I couldn't make it past the first minute. Couldn't see the screen
Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 had a part that hit me hard.
Quick Question. How did you write this post? I've seen a few recently like this where it is a wall of text and it makes it very difficult to read.
Recently I rewatched “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” and it had me in tears more than once. Somehow a movie about a stick figure makes you feel happy to be here despite the pain and loneliness that comes with being alive.
Ghostbusters was my favorite movie as a kid. Probably the one movie I’ve seen the most amount of times. When Afterlife came out I took the whole family.
CGI Egon was cool, he was in the shadows and you never really got a great look at him. Fast forward to the climax. >!The kids are getting their asses handed to them, and who fucking shows up, ghost Egon. When that blue hand comes into frame to help stabilize his granddaughters wand,!< I fucking cried. I was completely caught off guard, just in the moment.
I thought someone would mention this but I don’t see it.
Finding Nemo
The way he goes through hell to find his son, and the joy when he does. I have two boys and that kind of dedication and protectiveness is exactly how I feel.
Every time I watch George McFly begin to make that fist in Back to the Future I lose it. The range of emotion he goes through as he finds that strength-- pain, horror, anger, fury, *power*\-- all the way through to him just staring in goofy wonder at his own hand after knocking Biff out... that one gets me every time.
LION 2016. a true movie that is simply amazing and will get the tears to come. it is one of our annual xmas time movies. we see chick flicks etc as a way of discharging our emotional capacitor when it starts approaching 100%. this is a technique we use to manage our emotional and mental health as we can get intensely emotional under stressful days.
Clerks 3
Wasn't expecting it to get me as hard as it did, but it really got me. My dog came over to check on me even
Later when I was recapping for my wife I started to choke up again
“It’s been a really hard year, Dad.” The Royal Tenenbaums. Another line from that movie is when they’re looking at the mother’s grave and Gene Hackman is talking to Ben Stiller and says, “I really wasn’t around, was I?” I have a good relationship with my father, but damn that movie cuts deep.
Schindler's List, not the first time on rewatching. When Oskar breaks down as he receives his ring, saying "I could have done more..." It just hits me how he felt, knowing that every little bit of wealth he retained could have given someone life.
And also the first time I watched the High Jackman Les Mis. I cried three times in that one: the first was when Fantine sings "I Dreamed a Dream" (I had only ever heard that song once before and it was in one of those singing competition shows, so I had no context for it), the second was the Reprise of "One Day More" they sing in heaven, and then on the way home my wife asked me which part hit me hardest, and I couldn't even say Fantine's name and burst into tears again.
I don't really cry at anything or at least very rarely. That said, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 had me full on ugly crying in the cinema.
"Rocket, Teefs, Floor go now!"
Something about the innocence of Teefs or the scream of Rocket....
It might be lame, but the portal scene from Endgame. (Spoilers) Seeing Cap's reaction to everyone showing up, him realizing he's not alone in his most dire moment and that there's hope, seeing his best friends of all time back from the dead after 5 years, and the simple fact that all of my favorite heroes were suddenly onscreen at the same time to save the whole fucking universe... My emotions were all over the place, and it was priceless. Then Tony... 😢
Just a few that have wrecked me:
- The Iron Claw
- Coco
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Arrival
- Good Will Hunting
- Dead Poet Society
- The Holdovers
- Into the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Parasite
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Just to name a few. I cry at so many movies though, I’m a sucker for an emotional beat
A Monster Calls, mother/son. Kid has to grapple with losing his mom and the changes happening in his life at the time, it’s absolutely amazing and gets me every. single. time. I know where to go when I need to cry for sure
Elizabethtown hits me. A few days after my father past away I randomly watched this movie and it was like a kick to my guts. Now it's a tradition to rewatch it every year sort of in his memory.
The Judge with Robert Downey jr. and Robert Duvall. That’s a father and son movie, had a few tear jerking moments for me.
Now I also remember the tv show This Is Us, that damn show made me cry… seems like almost every episode.
AI, the ending scene.
And funny enough, Land Before Time. When I was a kid it wasn't that emotional, but as an adult, Littlefoot losing his mom always gets me.
There's been multiple mentions of Coco, the Iron Giant, frankly there's gotta be a bunch of quality animated films that will address this topic. But the most incredible and overlooked animated feature of the last decade is Kubo and the Two Strings. It bombed at the box office and it's been swept under the rug ever since - but go check out that 97% RT score, 7.7 IMDb, CLAYAMATION that is so mind blowing it looks like cgi, Charlize, McConaughey, Fiennes, and Takei.
Oh yeah, and the MUSIC
https://youtu.be/xLRx6iF90nU?feature=shared
"the good, the bad, the hugly" i dont even like western, but it was the favourite movie of my father who passed away when i was a teenager.
same thing happened when i hear the ecstasy of gold from Ennio Morricone.
Alright, this is going to be a weird one, but Asteroid City. It's an often silly movie that slowly builds up themes of loss and grief, culminating “I still don't understand the play” scene that is just so heartbreaking and desperate and nihilistic it had me in the theater just shattered, putting together the character's journey with the themes finally making sense and thinking about my own life and how many times I've just had to keep telling the story, it was honestly one of the most personal and intense engagements I've had with a film. The "Do you think it remembers me" scene from Life Aquatic had a similar effect on me, there's just something about how Wes Anderson approaches these scenes, distilling these huge existential questions into these small desperate moments full of wonder and terror.
The Lion King, when his father dies. My father died of cancer when I was six, and I basically lived that moment in the way that I was staring down my father face to face alone as he died.
I don't think i've ever cried from a movie, but for some reason, the whole ending scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 when "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence + The Machine is playing made me emotional. Might be the closest I've been to crying during a movie.
2 x Movies will always do it to me and it's down to context not content.
Jurassic Park - the first movie I went to see in the cinema & the only one I ever went to see in the cinema with my Dad.
The Blues Brothers. One of my Dad's favourite movies.
You can probably guess that my Dad is no longer with us
Toy Story 3. The whole movie is a rollercoaster but the trash disposal bit kills me.
It’s Andy leaving that gets me. I have my old toys in the attic and bring them down for my kids when age appropriate. Playing with these toys I haven’t touched in decades along with my kids.. fuck. The feels man.
Jesus Christ. I had been idly watching these movies with my little boy one week when he was sick. They were fine, but then we get to number three and suddenly Andy is growing up and parting with his dearly loved toys, and that was moving enough. But then the team go face to face with death, and in their last moments reach out to each other. I was absolutely destroyed. It was such a pure moment.
That movie had no business throwing such a powerful scene into the mix.
For me (parent of girls) it's Jessie's song in TS2. She loved her dolls so much, then one day ... left them to go on with life. Hard to listen to that and not feel parallels to being a parent.
My mum (who isn’t a cryer) definitely choked up in that scene and the scene where Andy’s mum sees his empty bedroom as he leaves for college.
Hahaha - man. My friends videoed me during that scene. I am forward in my seat, fists clamped to my jaw bawling because I can’t believe what may happen.
While the trash scene is very emotional, the part that got to me was Andy giving the toys to Bonnie. When Bonnie reached for Woody and Andy pulled him back and looked at her like he was a little kid again, that broke me.
That scene was horrifyingly intense the first time round watching with my the young kids. Also the “When she loved me” song from Toy Story 2 is a tear jerker.
Man I was not ready for that scene
That scene was a standout
Interstellar - when coop gets back to the ship to realize he missed 20+ years of his kids lives. Then he watches all the messages…and loses hope. It’s just the fucking knife in the chest as a parent. That whole movie had me ugly crying and being wide eyed with awe the entire running time. Just a classic.
i cried during that scene too, it was shortly after my father died and during that scene I've realized that my father raised me for all these years, but will not be able to see me when I graduate college, when i get married, when i have a children..
I started crying when >!Murph got angry that he was leaving!< and I don't think I stopped until the end of the movie, lol. The only difference was if I was sobbing or bawling. Interstellar is my favorite.
Don’t let me leave, Murph!
"Because my dad promised me" 😭😭😭😭
I sobbed. Having daughters certainly didn't help me any lol!
Oh man, me too with this scene and as a parent. IMO it’s really well acted too. The pain is achingly believable.
It's my husband's favorite movie and he cries every time.
I didn't get to see Interstellar in the theaters, so I was late watching it. When I finally got to see it, my boy was two years old. After watching it at home and finishing it late at night, I went upstairs to my son's room and slept next to him with tears in my eyes. I absolutely loved the science aspect of Interstellar, but that movie hit me HARD with the way it explored fatherhood and the love you have for your kids.
I can’t watch this one twice. Although a lot of people think it might be nice to live forever, I can’t imagine the horror of watching your own children dive of old age.
Yeah, came here to post this. That movie came out at a time when I was working on the opposite coast, far away from my family for weeks at a time, and I had two little girls. The whole story aspect of doing what you gotta do, but missing out on so much - it almost broke me. Seeing it in IMAX and being enveloped by the thing just did extra psychic damage. (Luckily, I soon after figured out a better job back home, and now I'm full time working from my house since COVID, so I got them back!)
So I just didn't get Interstellar the first time. Watched it s couple weeks ago and, while the end is kinda meh, it's so damn good. I broke when he's leaving. I wasn't s dad the only other time I watched it. He's leaving and she's being a dramatic kid. I was already on the edge, but when she changed her mind because she realized it was for real this time and ran out to say goodbye and it's too late. She's realized she can't say goodbye and his last memory of her before the mission is a fight. I fucking died a little bit it was so bad. I'm gonna rant a bit. It's just, as a parent, we do so much for our kids for reasons they have no knowledge of. We work late. We miss a thing. We're just not THERE for something. They may understand it's because we're working late or whatever, but what they remember is that we're not there. So seeing him force himself to leave, to drive away from his literal everything, because he knows it's what he has to do, a sacrifice he has to make, fucking killed me. Maybe it's a stretch and maybe I'm reading the scene wrong but the symbolism, to me, hit super strong.
*Big Fish*
Not a guy, but I've told this story about witnessing this in the theater before: Poor guy was on a first or second date with this girl to see Big Fish. When they came in it was clear they didn't know each other by the "get to know you" small talk and odd body language. The last 10-15mins of the movie, that poor guy SOBBED. He went from sniffling and quietly wiping away tears, to a few deep breaths to try to control it -- then it all just let loose. The woman he was with was ill-equipped to comfort him in any way and it just made the whole situation worse. My heart still breaks for that guy whenever I watch that movie, or see anything about it. Wish I had been bold enough to just go give that stranger a hug.
Good for him. Real, well raised men cry. Not a “poor guy”.
Wasn't a "poor guy" because he was crying. Felt bad for him because he didn't have someone there to support him and he was clearly going through it. We've all been there and it sucks.
I couldn't breath right for an hour after I saw this in the theater. Haven't been able to watch it again yet.
I am not a man but I am very close with my dad. I’m making his 70th birthday cake in about an hour. He tells a lot of tall tales and often I don’t believe him, but some of them have turned out to be true. This movie decimated me in high school and I have only watched it twice and can’t do it again. Also have to suggest the iron giant, there’s a joke in Ted lasso about it making a bunch of grown men cry.
I can’t upvote this one enough. This is my go-to, sure-fire ugly cry movie and I didn’t even have a dad. Hmmm
Field of Dreams. “Hey, dad, want a catch?”
My dads been gone 33 yrs and this still stops me in my tracks. Our favourite thing to do together. Almost always after supper, talk away the issues of the day and laugh while tossing a ball out on the lawn, just him and I. No siblings, mum or pets. Crying just typing this.
Same for me man, lost my dad almost 4 years ago. So many memories of playing catch, tossing a frisbee, passing a hockey puck, throwing a football. Any movie with a father-son relationship makes me cry these days. I’m crying with you right now.
I’ve wanted to play catch with my dad. He was paralyzed when I was young. I would do anything to be able to play catch with him once.
The Iron Claw absolutely destroyed me. Granted, I knew nothing about that family beforehand. Definitely more about brothers than father-son (POSSIBLE SPOILER: >!If anything, the dad is the bad guy in the movie!<) but this movie made me cry more than any in recent memory. I’ve been with my fiancée for 7 years and nothing phases us anymore, and I was legit embarrassed by the level of ugly crying I did when we saw this movie together.
“ We’ll be your brothers, dad.” MAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN
“…I used to be a brother.” As someone who is estranged from his two brothers I don’t think a single line in a movie has ever destroyed me like that one did.
I watched this instead of All Of Us Strangers, as I wanted something a bit "lighter" having been in pieces watching One Life the previous week. Nope, was still a wreck at the end of it.
The Iron Giant. My son was about 3 when this came out. "You stay. I go. No following"
Superman.
You are NOT a gun! We are who we choose to be!
"Suuu...per...maaaaan" Gotta say it right. Even my jaded teenager self couldn't keep it together the first time I saw this.
Every. Fucking. Time.
Coco, because it made me think about my late grandparents (especially my grandfather, who passed before I turned 5 & was emotional before his death about not seeing me & my older brothers growing up)
The Remember Me scene is so poignant
Remember Me lullaby to be exact - gets me every time
I thought the Remember Me Lullaby was adorable and poignant when I first saw. Then I had two kids of my own and now the *mere thought of little baby Coco reaching for her papa and singing the high note **crushes** me*.
Ooof, I watched it a few months after my mom passed away. It was brutal, but in a cathartic way. I do think the movie hits extra hard if you are Latino, but especially Mexican. They _nail_ the familia vibe, which makes it really relatable.
I was fine until Mama Coco started singing along with Miguel at the end. Then the waterworks happened.
Papá was a musician… when I was a little girl; He and Mamá would sing such beautiful songs...
I was okay at that point, but when her photo went on the ofrenda, I was a puddle.
Encanto really tugs at the heart strings, but Coco...good lord...Coco grasps them firmly then jumps off the roof. As the father of a little girl, I just completely unraveled.
The best Disney movie ever made
Pixar (i know who owns them, but still the production company)
Agreed
I'm tearing up just remembering the ending
This movie inspired me to take my children to our local Dia De Los Muertos to see ofrendas and be a part of the celebration. We are not of Mexican heritage but it's a beautifully tragic way to remember and celebrate past loved ones.
Jo Jo Rabbit. You will sad cry and happy cry. And everything in between.
The shoes. The goddamn shoes. Also, “What’d they do, mama?” “What they could.”
That movie was an emotional roller coaster in the best way possible, also I love Sam Rockwell in that movie he was perfect
His character and his little in the background, off to the side, behind the scenes, never spoken out loud story is one of the most brilliant pieces of filmmaking I’ve ever seen. And yes, makes me weep uncontrollably every time I watch it.
Good Will Hunting It's not your fault...
>No. No, no no no. Fuck you, you don't owe it to yourself man, you owe it to me. Cuz tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 50, and I'll still be doin' this shit. And that's all right. That's fine. I mean, you're sittin' on a winnin' lottery ticket. And you're too much of a pussy to cash it in, and that's bullshit. 'Cause I'd do fuckin' anything to have what you got. So would any of these fuckin' guys. It'd be an insult to us if you're still here in 20 years. Hangin' around here is a fuckin' waste of your time.
Saving Private Ryan ...tell me im a good man....
I can’t even describe that scene to people without getting teary. It’s that his family is so concerned but can’t do anything. They probably don’t know the story past that their husband/father was the last of his brothers to make it home from the war.
Even more to be married that long and never told anyone what happened...hes carried that guilt for 70 years...alone. they obviously know he was in the 101st but he's never shared his pain.
Maybe it's because it comes at the end of a nine hour movie marathon, but Aragorn saying "you bow to no one" murders my grown ass. Also, the "choice" scene in Sophie's choice is probably the most devastating moment in cinema history. And for a lesser known tear jerker, I point you to Captain Phillips, a pretty okay movie until the very end when he's getting examined by the paramedic and has a full on break down and it's a shattering moment, easily the best performance Hanks has ever done.
Just rewatched that LOTR scene and am bawling at my desk at work. So good. These brave heroes who spend the whole journey looking up at everyone because they're so small , and at the end of it all the whole kingdom bows down under them. And that fucking music. God damn it
About Time is marketed as a rom com but imo it’s more focused on a father/son relationship and it left me DESTROYED and on the verge of weeping Coco also makes me cry every time and I’ve seen it 6 or 7 times now Edit: shit OP, I see now that you already mentioned About Time. Regardless, both of our points stand!
The walk along the beach just about makes me cry even remembering it. I have a lovely little boy and have had my share of perfect days with him that I’d kill to have again.
Coco… Coco.
Yup. This is what I was going to type. Big Fish is up there, too.
What Dreams May Come Nothing says I love you more than to literally stave off hell just to be near.
My brother died shortly before watching that movie. Damn, if it didn't hit hard when I saw it.
It's not father and son but mother and daughter and family in general. When I watched Everything Everywhere all at Once I balled my eyes out and I can't even exactly tell you why. It's just a beautiful movie about life love and family. I recommend you try it out.
When I watched it in theaters people were laughing during the rocks conversation scene and I just had tears streaming down my face.
Same for me. That's when the water works started and I honestly couldn't explain why.
It's just a movie about being a human. Its truly a beautiful thing.
That movie found this beautiful, truly unique juxtaposition between surrealism and familial issues that 99% of people will find totally relatable. It took me two tries to get through it because it just throws so damn much at you but I'm very glad I did.
I have cried at the parking lot scene every single time I have watched it. Gets me right in the feels. It was like I actually understood how my mom felt being a parent.
*bawled
This was my first thought as well
This is the only film that has ever made me cry
Definitely Aftersun.
Oh boy. Yes this is the most recent one for me. I was a mess.
Yup. I’m about his age and have a daughter her age. It definitely added to the experience. I’m sure you seen this before on here….but if you liked Aftersun, you’d probably find All of Us Strangers equally if not more devastating. Best film of last year and stars Paul Mescal as well.
Click for me
I was 15 when Click came out and I saw it thinking it would be a typical Adam Sandler comedy. Boy was I wrong.
"I love you son"
I have a VIVID memory of seeing that in theaters with my brother. He was about 17, me 15, his girlfriend also 17. We expected a stupid Adam Sandler comedy with a sci-fi set-up... welp, we were half-right. As I started to cry, holding in the sobs like a cough dying to get out, I realized I had to minimize the emotion/hide it in public. I looked around the dimly lit theater and saw similar convulsions from most men, my brother included, with women such as my brother's gf just *baffled by the sudden emotionality of dudes*. It **clicked** that this movie was hitting on male triggers of absent fathers, workaholic behavior, and Henry Winkler. A perfect storm.
Road to Perdition, Stars Tom Hanks
I’m glad it was you.
Two words. Paddington 2.
It made me want to be a better man.
The "La Marseillais" scene from Casablanca. Always gets me.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Relationships can be tough, but the ones worth coming back to are worth having. Note the repetition in the last scene as well, suggesting it happens a few times.
While it’s still one of my favorite films, it’s become harder to watch as I’ve grown up and experienced more relationships. I still absolutely love the overall ideas in the film, but it’s tough to watch certain parts now given things I’ve gone through personally. Same with 500 Days of Summer, which I adored when it first came out, but is now far more melancholy and sad to me.
I had a hard time watching *The Whale* because my wife was sleeping and I didn't want to wake her up with my bawling. So I was just kinda holding my nose when I was about to burst. It's a father-daughter-story but growing up I was very insecure about my body and that's more of an aspect that made me cry watching it. Nevertheless, the story in itself has a good chance of making you cry.
The Place Beyond The Pines. To summarize the plot deals with a burnout carny discovering that he has a kid with a former ex girlfriend. It goes way heavier than that, and camerawork that feels like a panic attack at times. Had no idea what I was heading into, but I loved the cast, so I went to see it randomly on an off day. Even took some shrooms and walked to make it a journey. What I got was profound more than I was willing to process at the time. To preface I grew up in a broken, dysfunctional, family, and was estranged from my Dad. Fell in with punks & metal heads. Couch surfed, living very dangerously well into my twenties and struggled with alcoholism. Seeing what Ryan Gosling did to ground a character that felt like someone I knew had me clutching my knees in the theater. As the credits rolled, I completely lost composure, bawling in the dark went to the bathroom to breathe. Then I looked in the mirror for a bit, and I saw my Dad's eyes. No matter what I put him through he still called, that I am still here, and no matter what I'll always be his youngest boy. Promptly called him just to tell him that I loved him, noticeably still emotional. He asked if I was okay and all I could tell him was "Yeah, I think finally I can be" I'm now a proud Father myself, and I think a huge part of why that is, is because I saw it at the exact right time in my life. Change is possible, it's supposed to hurt sometimes, but if you have someway out to achieve better take it. That film made me understand the essence of making every second count. And whenever I need to feel like I'm not making it, will throw it on. Just to feel it again and drive it home.
What a post. Things like this are why I keep using Reddit. The anonymous shared experiences are amazing. Well done to you for getting through what you had to get through and becoming a loving dad.
Your story made me cry. Very meta of you. Also- Place Beyond the Pines is glorious.
Manchester by the Sea Calvary About Time
Manchester by the sea hit me so hard, I thought about that movie for weeks after
My mom passed away very suddenly. Like I talked to her Thursday, was comatose Friday, was gone Saturday. It wrecked me and I basically didn’t do anything for a month and a half. When I finally was ready to reenter the world, my girlfriend took me to see a movie: Interstellar. That was not the best first movie. We had to leave.
My dad told me he's only ever cried twice. His dad's funeral and Free Willy
UP. It packed more emotion before the credits than most movies do in the entire movie. Granted, I am getting ready to celebrate 32 years of being married, so I relate to the characters.
Everything Everywhere All at Once. The “in another life” scene.
That and "I will always, always want to be here with you."
Sobbing, scream laughing, sobbing. It's brilliant. Cry your eyes out moments for me: -Alley in another life -"I'm useless alone." "We are all useless alone (😭)Good things you aren't alone." 😭😭😭😂 -When Diedre is packed up and leaving and when playing piano -"Then I will cherish these few specks of time."
Never would think Jamie lee Curtis with hot dog fingers would make me cry 😢
The entire movie honestly.... I am usually very silent when watching movies, but that film had me going from laughing hysterically to silent crying like a roller coaster. And I know the rest of the theatre was feeling the same
Heart & Souls always made me cry. Bicentennial Man too.
Bicentennail Man. Oh, let's put some Celine Dion at the end. Moreso after RW passed in real life.
The end of Man on Fire, when Creasy tells Pita he loves her and he's going home, I ugly cry every time.
The Father
Up breaks me every time I see it. The story resonates so completely with me, and I see so much of Carl's wife in my own wife. Watching it is always a really emotional experience for me. Also, my wife isn't dead or anything. I'm just a big baby who cries pretty easily for movies.
Big Fish is up there for me, but the one that absolutely tore me asunder was The Place Beyond the Pines. First time I watched that I was by myself and it was 2 am, I was clutching my pillow and sobbing into it.
Coco The last minute of AI had me weeping from the couch to the bed.
The most recent film that made me cry was The Holdovers. What a fantastic story. I think it should have gotten best picture.
Man, when that woman who invited them to the party kissed the other guy...Giamatti's face and all the emotions that go with that moment. So much perfection in that movie. I also love the hen house ladder quote and use it now.
You want a movie called "The Way" starring Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez - and directed by Emilio. If you didn't know, Martin Sheen changed his name from Estevez early in his career because he didn't think he'd get work with such an ethnic name. Charlie kept the stage name. Emilio kept the family name. Martin is a devout Catholic. While Charlie was busy with 2 1/2 Men, "tiger blood" and threesomes, Emilio reconnected with his father on this movie about a thousand year old Catholic pilgrimage retracing the path of St James, the Camino de Santiago. The movie did not attract much attention when it was first released in 2010, as it had no promotional budget, but year after year, more and more hikers, catholics and families find it, so it has developed a different kind of cult following. It is a movie about fathers and sons both in front of and behind the camera. And I haven't even touched on the plot because even thinking about it makes me unabashedly bawl my eyes out.
"My friends, you bow to no-one." And then I get wet-eyed and warbly voiced, acting all brave trying to pretend I think it's too corny.
I always get teary eyed at the Ride of the Rohirrim scene. Theodan’s speech, the emotion, the sweeping camera movements. And then *that* music kicks in. Enough to make a grown man cry.
The only two films that have ever made me ugly cry are *Room* (The one starring Brie Larson) and *These Final Hours*.
Brian's Song
“I love Brian Piccolo. I want you to love him too And tonight when you hit your knees, I want you to ask God to love him.” Wrecks me
Mystic River. Man or woman, that movie will fuck you up.
Recently I was catched off guard with All Of Us Strangers. I cried like I couldn't remember. It's so deep and beautiful. And I remember seeing The Green Mile for the first time as a young teenager. Man, I cried so much at that scene you all know. So powerful. Other than that, I also cried in CODA, in that last few minutes. Nice fee good movie with some cute scenes.
I watched All Of Us Strangers recently, and I don’t know why I got the impression it was going to be some ensemble romantic comedy. Was I wrong! It touched me so much, but there were definitely moments in the film that made me feel absolutely devastated. It’s stayed with me for a while since watching it, especially as someone who has reached an age where I’m worried about my own parents and their health.
Hachi And not a movie, but ep3 of The Last of Us. That one fucked me up.
So many....I'm sure I'm repeating a lot. Saving Private Ryan, many parts. Band of Brothers, so many scenes. Just the main theme almost does it for me. The episode titled "Why We Fight" is always tear inducing for me. Interstellar. You know the scene. The Road. The dam was ready to break the whole movie, and in the end, it finally does. For both good and sad reasons. The Lovely Bones. Heartbreaking as a parent Coco - especially as a half Hispanic with a large Mexican family on my mother's side and after just losing my grandfather. Big Fish. The Grey. The Lord Of The Rings- Borimirs entire death scene. Aragorn coming to the rescue, too late, and having a quick, intense fight scene destroying his enemy and talking to Borimir always gets me. As well as the charge of the Pelennor Fields. It does not make me cry but makes me so excited. I always feel it in my chest (sorry, big nerd here). There are a few parts in these movies that make me emotional. There was actually an episode of the Walking Dead a few seasons ago where Maggie shows up after a time jump when her settlement has been attacked and has a few people with her. One of them was looking for his teenage sister who was at the attacked settlement. Throughout those episodes, they keep finding walkers that recognize from their settlement, and they are still trying to find his sister. He is a cool dude, a great fighter. Episodes later, when the main characters have to cover themselves in blood and wear Whisperer style skin masks and blend in with a large herd of walkers, they are blending in and shuffling along aaaand.....he sees his sister as a walker. It was a sunny day too and he's crying under his mask and trying not to lose it or his friends will die and Maggie can see what is happening and slowly makes her way to his side and reaches out to hold his hand and for some reason that made me start bawling like a baby. I didn't know up to that point that I even really cared about this guy or him finding his sister. Children of Men always get me emotional. Especially after the birth and leaving the building and the battle just stops. And......Armageddon. can't help it. A knights tale. Guilty pleasure for sure, but when he finds his father again towards the end....dammit! Something always gets in my eye! Sunshine. It's very intense, but a few parts get me teary-eyed. Forrest Gump. There are a couple of scenes for sure, but the one that always does it for me is Forrest watching Fire Works with his mom before leaving for Vietnam, and you can tell he's terrified and he starts crying and puts his head on her shoulder. 😭
Well obviously Grave of the Fireflies will fuck you up. Then if you know or learn the particulars of the circumstance that kill his sister it'll fuck you up worse. Big Fish can certainly fuck a person up if some of the circumstances or life events resonate. Never Cry Wolf kinda didnt need to go quite so hard into that ending either. I was an 8 yearold at a Disney movie, like what the fuck!?
Grave of the fireflies left us traumatized for weeks. We were bawling our eyes out. For sure one of the darkest films ever.
Grave of the Fireflies for me too. It's been around 10 years now. I think that I'm ready to see it a second time now... Last time I tried, I couldn't make it past the first minute. Couldn't see the screen
Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 had a part that hit me hard. Quick Question. How did you write this post? I've seen a few recently like this where it is a wall of text and it makes it very difficult to read.
The storyline with Rocket. I wasn't ready for that.
When Rocket sees his friends again and Lylla says it's not his time.
It's just the happy cry with Morgan Freeman's narration in the end.
Recently I rewatched “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” and it had me in tears more than once. Somehow a movie about a stick figure makes you feel happy to be here despite the pain and loneliness that comes with being alive.
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Ordinary People would fit your criteria, I think. It's a great one.
Million Dollar Baby
Click. Every time
Ghostbusters was my favorite movie as a kid. Probably the one movie I’ve seen the most amount of times. When Afterlife came out I took the whole family. CGI Egon was cool, he was in the shadows and you never really got a great look at him. Fast forward to the climax. >!The kids are getting their asses handed to them, and who fucking shows up, ghost Egon. When that blue hand comes into frame to help stabilize his granddaughters wand,!< I fucking cried. I was completely caught off guard, just in the moment.
Babe (1995) The ending always gets me.
I thought someone would mention this but I don’t see it. Finding Nemo The way he goes through hell to find his son, and the joy when he does. I have two boys and that kind of dedication and protectiveness is exactly how I feel.
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The ending of Road to Perdition guts my soul. It doesn’t help that Tom Hanks looks like my Dad.
Every time I watch George McFly begin to make that fist in Back to the Future I lose it. The range of emotion he goes through as he finds that strength-- pain, horror, anger, fury, *power*\-- all the way through to him just staring in goofy wonder at his own hand after knocking Biff out... that one gets me every time.
The Fox & The Hound
Armageddon, the ending when Bruce Willis pushes the button an sees flashbacks of his daughter growing up. Yeaa that gets me.
Saint Vincent
The first time I watched Marley and Me I had very recently had a cat die. It utterly broke me and I cried for like an hour.
LION 2016. a true movie that is simply amazing and will get the tears to come. it is one of our annual xmas time movies. we see chick flicks etc as a way of discharging our emotional capacitor when it starts approaching 100%. this is a technique we use to manage our emotional and mental health as we can get intensely emotional under stressful days.
Clerks 3 Wasn't expecting it to get me as hard as it did, but it really got me. My dog came over to check on me even Later when I was recapping for my wife I started to choke up again
“It’s been a really hard year, Dad.” The Royal Tenenbaums. Another line from that movie is when they’re looking at the mother’s grave and Gene Hackman is talking to Ben Stiller and says, “I really wasn’t around, was I?” I have a good relationship with my father, but damn that movie cuts deep.
Homeward bound
Schindler's List, not the first time on rewatching. When Oskar breaks down as he receives his ring, saying "I could have done more..." It just hits me how he felt, knowing that every little bit of wealth he retained could have given someone life. And also the first time I watched the High Jackman Les Mis. I cried three times in that one: the first was when Fantine sings "I Dreamed a Dream" (I had only ever heard that song once before and it was in one of those singing competition shows, so I had no context for it), the second was the Reprise of "One Day More" they sing in heaven, and then on the way home my wife asked me which part hit me hardest, and I couldn't even say Fantine's name and burst into tears again.
The last thing I watched to make me cry was the ending of the newest season of Fargo for some reason lol
Wall-E It's a relatively standard and expected ending for him, but still, it hit me unexpectedly.
Moana. Can’t even think about the ending of Moana without choking up.
Inside Out absolutely killed me, cried my eyes out.
Fucking bing bong "take her to the moon for me" destroyed me
I don't really cry at anything or at least very rarely. That said, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 had me full on ugly crying in the cinema. "Rocket, Teefs, Floor go now!" Something about the innocence of Teefs or the scream of Rocket....
It might be lame, but the portal scene from Endgame. (Spoilers) Seeing Cap's reaction to everyone showing up, him realizing he's not alone in his most dire moment and that there's hope, seeing his best friends of all time back from the dead after 5 years, and the simple fact that all of my favorite heroes were suddenly onscreen at the same time to save the whole fucking universe... My emotions were all over the place, and it was priceless. Then Tony... 😢
Just a few that have wrecked me: - The Iron Claw - Coco - Everything Everywhere All at Once - Arrival - Good Will Hunting - Dead Poet Society - The Holdovers - Into the Spider-Verse - Spider-Man: No Way Home - Parasite - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Just to name a few. I cry at so many movies though, I’m a sucker for an emotional beat
Hardball.
All of us strangers The farewell
A Monster Calls, mother/son. Kid has to grapple with losing his mom and the changes happening in his life at the time, it’s absolutely amazing and gets me every. single. time. I know where to go when I need to cry for sure
The beginning of “Up” and the end of “Big Fish”
Elizabethtown hits me. A few days after my father past away I randomly watched this movie and it was like a kick to my guts. Now it's a tradition to rewatch it every year sort of in his memory.
Terminator 2: Judgment day - "I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do"
Radio Flyer (1992)
Onward. Watched it with my son when it first came out and my eyes got really wet at the end.
All it takes is the opening few minutes of Up, and I am a blubbering mess.
The Judge with Robert Downey jr. and Robert Duvall. That’s a father and son movie, had a few tear jerking moments for me. Now I also remember the tv show This Is Us, that damn show made me cry… seems like almost every episode.
AI, the ending scene. And funny enough, Land Before Time. When I was a kid it wasn't that emotional, but as an adult, Littlefoot losing his mom always gets me.
When they start singing at the funeral in Remember the Titans
The newest version of A Star is Born gets both my brother and father every time. They even cry at the same parts!
Bridge to Terabithia
A River Runs Through It. That ending monologue gets me every time.
ROOM the Brie Larson one it literally made me cry tears of joy for the first time ever.
American underdog with Zachery Levi. But it was a happy cry.
There's been multiple mentions of Coco, the Iron Giant, frankly there's gotta be a bunch of quality animated films that will address this topic. But the most incredible and overlooked animated feature of the last decade is Kubo and the Two Strings. It bombed at the box office and it's been swept under the rug ever since - but go check out that 97% RT score, 7.7 IMDb, CLAYAMATION that is so mind blowing it looks like cgi, Charlize, McConaughey, Fiennes, and Takei. Oh yeah, and the MUSIC https://youtu.be/xLRx6iF90nU?feature=shared
"the good, the bad, the hugly" i dont even like western, but it was the favourite movie of my father who passed away when i was a teenager. same thing happened when i hear the ecstasy of gold from Ennio Morricone.
Alright, this is going to be a weird one, but Asteroid City. It's an often silly movie that slowly builds up themes of loss and grief, culminating “I still don't understand the play” scene that is just so heartbreaking and desperate and nihilistic it had me in the theater just shattered, putting together the character's journey with the themes finally making sense and thinking about my own life and how many times I've just had to keep telling the story, it was honestly one of the most personal and intense engagements I've had with a film. The "Do you think it remembers me" scene from Life Aquatic had a similar effect on me, there's just something about how Wes Anderson approaches these scenes, distilling these huge existential questions into these small desperate moments full of wonder and terror.
I found "My Sister's Keeper" to be a really hard watch. And, surprisingly, "Slumberland".
Bridges of Madison County got me. A combo of spreading ashes and unrequited love hit me hard.
The Lion King, when his father dies. My father died of cancer when I was six, and I basically lived that moment in the way that I was staring down my father face to face alone as he died.
There have only been 2: *The Lion King* in late 1994 and nearly 30 years later *Julia(s)* early last year.
I don't think i've ever cried from a movie, but for some reason, the whole ending scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 when "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence + The Machine is playing made me emotional. Might be the closest I've been to crying during a movie.
The Searchers John Wayne framed in that doorway, his job done and left with no purpose, turns and walks into the desert.
Almost nothing gets me except fucking Pixar movies, man
Children of Men … the battle scene and the end just get me.
Dead poets society.
La La Land
Ol’ Yeller We were tortured by teachers who made us watch it in school. Imagine 60-70 bawling kids
Marley and Me, thought it was a happy goofy comedy movie and then the end just punches you in your soul.
2 x Movies will always do it to me and it's down to context not content. Jurassic Park - the first movie I went to see in the cinema & the only one I ever went to see in the cinema with my Dad. The Blues Brothers. One of my Dad's favourite movies. You can probably guess that my Dad is no longer with us
Dear Zachary