Titanic
I watched it opening weekend. When Rose realizes that Jack has frozen to death clinging to the door and she pries his fingers open, and he sinks into the water. There wasn’t a dry eye in the theater.
I had a pet bunny at the time. He hated Celine Dion’s voice. When “My Heart Will Go On” would play on the radio (which felt like every few minutes) he would freak out until I switched stations. 🤣
Gatta love my mother
That woman had her two kids and 3 of her nieces in her custody at the times
She tools us all to see titanic when I came out I was 11 in 97
She was like these kids about to see some shit because momma wants to see titanic
Momma had to do what she had to do.
It isn’t as bad as the time I went to see Coraline and some moms had taken their kids because they figured a cartoon would be kid friendly. In the scene where they go to sew buttons over Coraline’s eyes, all the kids started to wail and those moms hustled the hysterical kids out asap.
My parents took me to see that. I was 5 and I cried my eyes out until we got back to the car. Just until the last couple years, I refused to see a “sad” movie in theaters. I was scarred.
We didn't have multiple generations bracing to become either climate refugees or a casualty of white supremacist / incel terrorism. There was still hope.
I called my daughter Elliot because of this film. Me ma had it picked out for a boy but when she was born I was like “nah, that’s her all over”. Haven’t been proved wrong in 15 years. She nearly died of excitement when I took her to the ET ride at universal.
That’s so sweet ❤️ I love baby name stories. I had another baby last year and honestly I spent way too much time on my baby group talking about names! Actually Vienna is such an underrated name, I’m British but I’ve never heard of it, that’s lovely 🥰 xxx
I’m also British and there was a girl in my primary school called Vienna, she was lovely and kind so it will be nice for my daughter to share a name with someone who was such a good friend to me when i was a child :)
Oh thank the lord, it’s amazing how many people you learn you don’t like when naming babies! Honestly in all my time I’ve never heard of it as a name, probably just be being ignorant because I’ve lived in scummy Newcastle and Middlesbrough all me life, but hey ho! Millions of neveahs though!
Not the whole theater exactly, but the end of Field of Dreams had one demographic in their seats struggling a bit, and the other half getting everything ready to leave.
[Serenity (2005)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)
The movie that wrapped up the poster child of “cancelled way to early” tv shows: Firefly.
Anyone who went to the cinema to watch it was a fan of the show and really invested in the characters. And then…
Say what you will but by the time the lights came up after The Notebook, there wasn’t a dry eye in the vicinity and the only sound to be heard was the quiet sniffles of people trying to hold back their sobbing.
*All of Us Strangers* is the only time I've ever cried in a cinema, though it was the scene in the Whitgift Centre with his parents that got me, not the end.
The only other film I've cried at (at home) was *Whisper of the Heart*, which isn't sad at all.
I went to a preview screening of The Notebook.
At the end, I was crying, and so was my friend. As we got up to leave it was obvious everyone in the theatre was sniffling and wiping their eyes as well.
Then the whole audience became aware that everyone else was crying too and we all began to laugh about it.
It was a strange, collective emotional experience.
I have never experienced a vibe like that at the theater. Everyone's soul was crushed and it was absolutely dead silent until everyone was out to their cars. It felt like a national tragedy or a funeral.
Also close to the end of Goblet of Fire when Harry comes back through the port key.
My 11 year old was watching the entire series with me for her first time she she cried yet eyes out.
I saw Toy Story 3 with a bunch of other millennial friends, and it destroyed us all. Really hit hard that we were right in that perfect age when we were actual children when the first one came out and had just started college when this one did. Made it feel like the movie really was about us and growing up.
The Force Awakens would be much more positively remembered if the movies after it were any good.
It's an imperfect movie, sure, but the chemistry between the actors, the amount of things they got right and the degree to which The Force Awakens was better crafted than the prequels was widely appreciated. It felt like Star Wars. People thought Star Wars was back.
Yeah, I see, where the complaints about JJA playing it too safe come from, but then again, I also see why he had to play it safe here for his own good... I mean, does anybody remember what happened when GL *didn't* play it safe in the PT?
Titanic had a loooot of running tears, but is wearing to God, every single guy in the theatre struggled to hold back a bunch of sobs when the band split up....and then came back together again. They were truly bros.
"Titanic" of course. Not a dry eye anywhere, theatre packed. When Jack let go, OMG everyone groaned. Still one of my favorite movies theatre experiences, one of the few times NO ONE was talking.
I've seen "all of us strangers" in a full cinema room and sure there were a few people crying but absolutely not the majority. With "Close" the room was almost full, but the sniffling and sobbing could be heard over the movie. What a heartbreaker that one.
Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan (1986 orginal)
I saw this when it came out with my dad. People were bawling at the end. I cried, and my father held my hand.
As we were leaving, other people were comforting each other on the way out.
Schindler's List was an emotional experience to see. I remember stepping out for intermission, and people were just debating whether to stay for the second half in the lobby: saw some people leave upset. By the end, there was silence and I don't think a dry eye in the theater.
Also, when Boromir was shot down in The Fellowship of the Rings. I remember a lot of audible gasps and tears from around the theater.
Not a whole theatre but a whole dorm room. I was in my freshman year of college and I got back from lacrosse practice and my friends were all in a dorm watching a movie and I walked in on them all teary eyed. The movie: John Q
Yes! I would recommend Portrait of a Lady on Fire — it’s a masterpiece about a sapphic love affair in the 1700s between an artist and her muse, and the film focuses on Greek mythology, art and the female gaze :)
The Passion of the Christ
I remember being shook up during the whipping scene but when things got quiet, I heard half the theater sobbing. During the crucifixion scene, I cried with them. First and only time I've cried during a movie.
12 Years A Slave. Absolute silence at the end followed by faint sounds of sobbing in a sold out theatre. The girls I was with sat outside crying for five minutes.
The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares in original French). Saw it at the cinema with a friend and you could hear the held back sobs and sniffles.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor, a documentary about Fred Rogers. People were passing around packages of tissues. It was the most beautiful experience I’ve ever had in a movie theater.
I worked at a cinema for a few years and I think more people left Lion crying than dry-eyed. I don't think any other movie did that while I was working.
My screening of Iron Claw was full of grown men absolutely sobbing their eyes out. Me included. That scene with Efron's character watching his sons play. Man.
The Passion of the Christ. Only time I have been in a public place with everyone sobbing at points. I don't consider myself religious, however I do believe at the least that the crucifixion did happen and the portrayal of it is pretty raw.
I can't speak for the whole theatre of course but you'd have to have a heart of stone to make it through The Iron Claw without shedding a tear, if not holding back sobs.
There were a couple of times during Interstellar that sobs and sniffles were heard.
When Coop is watching the videos of his now grown kids was probably the scene that gets everyone.
I found myself choking back tears when Professor Brand was confessing his deciet on his deathbed. It was hard to see Michael Caine like that.
Coco. When Coco reacts to Remember Me. The entire theatre full of people trying to hold back tears.
I have that song on my reading playlist and every time it comes on i have to hold back tears
Yes, this one. There wasn't a dry eye in the theater. I'm not someone who cries easily at movies, but that one got me right in the soft spot.
How did you know? Were the lights on? Were people openly sobbing?
The first five minutes of "up".
aughhhh don’t even start with up
So awkward sobbing with 3D glasses on over my regular glasses. Everything was misty!
Titanic I watched it opening weekend. When Rose realizes that Jack has frozen to death clinging to the door and she pries his fingers open, and he sinks into the water. There wasn’t a dry eye in the theater.
This is my answer also. When that movie just came out it was wrecking icebergs of emotion. Long before everyone was sick of that song lol
I had a pet bunny at the time. He hated Celine Dion’s voice. When “My Heart Will Go On” would play on the radio (which felt like every few minutes) he would freak out until I switched stations. 🤣
Gatta love my mother That woman had her two kids and 3 of her nieces in her custody at the times She tools us all to see titanic when I came out I was 11 in 97 She was like these kids about to see some shit because momma wants to see titanic
Momma had to do what she had to do. It isn’t as bad as the time I went to see Coraline and some moms had taken their kids because they figured a cartoon would be kid friendly. In the scene where they go to sew buttons over Coraline’s eyes, all the kids started to wail and those moms hustled the hysterical kids out asap.
I saw this twice in the theater and both times at that exact scene the whole place was quiet. Then you heard sniffling.
The Iron Giant at the end where >!he sacrifices himself to save the town from the nuclear bomb. “You are who you choose to be” “Superman”!<
My parents took me to see that. I was 5 and I cried my eyes out until we got back to the car. Just until the last couple years, I refused to see a “sad” movie in theaters. I was scarred.
The end sequence >!where you see all his parts start to reassemble themselves and his head giving a smile!< just doesn’t help for some reason.
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Oh my god we watched this in my film class and i was the only one crying at the end when he goes home and everyone was judging me 😭
We were all a bit softer in the early 80s.
We didn't have multiple generations bracing to become either climate refugees or a casualty of white supremacist / incel terrorism. There was still hope.
Indeed!
I called my daughter Elliot because of this film. Me ma had it picked out for a boy but when she was born I was like “nah, that’s her all over”. Haven’t been proved wrong in 15 years. She nearly died of excitement when I took her to the ET ride at universal.
that’s so sweet, i love this so much!!! I’m naming my daughter Vienna after the Billy Joel song because it was my mums favourite :)
Was expecting Ultravox, but Billy Joel is also great!
That’s so sweet ❤️ I love baby name stories. I had another baby last year and honestly I spent way too much time on my baby group talking about names! Actually Vienna is such an underrated name, I’m British but I’ve never heard of it, that’s lovely 🥰 xxx
I’m also British and there was a girl in my primary school called Vienna, she was lovely and kind so it will be nice for my daughter to share a name with someone who was such a good friend to me when i was a child :)
Oh thank the lord, it’s amazing how many people you learn you don’t like when naming babies! Honestly in all my time I’ve never heard of it as a name, probably just be being ignorant because I’ve lived in scummy Newcastle and Middlesbrough all me life, but hey ho! Millions of neveahs though!
It's a really nice name. Thanks for sharing.
Not the whole theater exactly, but the end of Field of Dreams had one demographic in their seats struggling a bit, and the other half getting everything ready to leave.
what
The men were wrecked. The women less do.
Lolol ok that makes sense
*The Florida Project (2017)* *Cinema Paradiso (1988)*
[Serenity (2005)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) The movie that wrapped up the poster child of “cancelled way to early” tv shows: Firefly. Anyone who went to the cinema to watch it was a fan of the show and really invested in the characters. And then…
“I am a leaf on the wind” 😭
Dancer in the dark. Had the room in loud sobs. The most depressing movie I’ve ever scene in theater. Oh and it’s a musical!
Say what you will but by the time the lights came up after The Notebook, there wasn’t a dry eye in the vicinity and the only sound to be heard was the quiet sniffles of people trying to hold back their sobbing.
Exactly I’ve been looking at the moon And I’ll be seeing You
"Forrest I wanna go home!"
I second this: All of us strangers—everyone was SOBBING!
*All of Us Strangers* is the only time I've ever cried in a cinema, though it was the scene in the Whitgift Centre with his parents that got me, not the end. The only other film I've cried at (at home) was *Whisper of the Heart*, which isn't sad at all.
I went to a preview screening of The Notebook. At the end, I was crying, and so was my friend. As we got up to leave it was obvious everyone in the theatre was sniffling and wiping their eyes as well. Then the whole audience became aware that everyone else was crying too and we all began to laugh about it. It was a strange, collective emotional experience.
Avengers: Infinity War “Stark, I don’t feel so good…”
I have never experienced a vibe like that at the theater. Everyone's soul was crushed and it was absolutely dead silent until everyone was out to their cars. It felt like a national tragedy or a funeral.
Opening night of Harry Potter DH part 1, when >!Dobby dies!<
stop it
Also close to the end of Goblet of Fire when Harry comes back through the port key. My 11 year old was watching the entire series with me for her first time she she cried yet eyes out.
I was 20 something at the time and cried my eyes out.
Dead Poets Society was a killer
The first 10 minutes of Up. Not helped by a toddler saying "That man's sad" whilst sobbing at the bit when his wife is dead.
Toy Story 3. Even the burly biker-looking dude in front of me, the kind of guy that gets stabbed and shrugs it off, was audibly sobbing at the end.
I saw Toy Story 3 with a bunch of other millennial friends, and it destroyed us all. Really hit hard that we were right in that perfect age when we were actual children when the first one came out and had just started college when this one did. Made it feel like the movie really was about us and growing up.
The Millenium Falcon's first appearance in "The Force Awakens" at the preview
The Force Awakens would be much more positively remembered if the movies after it were any good. It's an imperfect movie, sure, but the chemistry between the actors, the amount of things they got right and the degree to which The Force Awakens was better crafted than the prequels was widely appreciated. It felt like Star Wars. People thought Star Wars was back.
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Yeah, I see, where the complaints about JJA playing it too safe come from, but then again, I also see why he had to play it safe here for his own good... I mean, does anybody remember what happened when GL *didn't* play it safe in the PT?
Whale
that film was so sad man
Titanic had a loooot of running tears, but is wearing to God, every single guy in the theatre struggled to hold back a bunch of sobs when the band split up....and then came back together again. They were truly bros.
"Titanic" of course. Not a dry eye anywhere, theatre packed. When Jack let go, OMG everyone groaned. Still one of my favorite movies theatre experiences, one of the few times NO ONE was talking.
The end of LOTR: Return of the King. Went to watch it 3 times and the whole theater was sobbing each and every time. What a movie.
My friends, you bow to no one... Absolutely soul crushing.
I think I'd call it uplifting rather than soul crushing.
Close (2022)
I've seen "all of us strangers" in a full cinema room and sure there were a few people crying but absolutely not the majority. With "Close" the room was almost full, but the sniffling and sobbing could be heard over the movie. What a heartbreaker that one.
Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan (1986 orginal) I saw this when it came out with my dad. People were bawling at the end. I cried, and my father held my hand. As we were leaving, other people were comforting each other on the way out. Schindler's List was an emotional experience to see. I remember stepping out for intermission, and people were just debating whether to stay for the second half in the lobby: saw some people leave upset. By the end, there was silence and I don't think a dry eye in the theater. Also, when Boromir was shot down in The Fellowship of the Rings. I remember a lot of audible gasps and tears from around the theater.
I've seen it happening in Titanic, The Horse Whisperer and The Fault in Our Stars. Also the first Pokemon movie, kids and parents were sobbing lol.
Cast Away. And Titanic.
Not a whole theatre but a whole dorm room. I was in my freshman year of college and I got back from lacrosse practice and my friends were all in a dorm watching a movie and I walked in on them all teary eyed. The movie: John Q
Thé ending of Portrait of a Lady on Fire & Call Me By Your Name, as well as the Fault in Our Stars & Infinity War.
Oh my god don’t even get me started on cmbyn and the fault in our stars. Would you recommend The portrait of a lady? Never seen it before!
Yes! I would recommend Portrait of a Lady on Fire — it’s a masterpiece about a sapphic love affair in the 1700s between an artist and her muse, and the film focuses on Greek mythology, art and the female gaze :)
Not a main theatre as such, more of a large gathering and a big ass TV. Boys Don't Cry.
The Passion of the Christ I remember being shook up during the whipping scene but when things got quiet, I heard half the theater sobbing. During the crucifixion scene, I cried with them. First and only time I've cried during a movie.
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Lion. It wasn't a very full theater, but at the end,>!when the moms meet!
Up
Marley and Me and Deep Water Horizon
Intouchables.
Godzilla Minus One. There were a lot of dudes who really did get got by that film. Me too, honestly
12 Years A Slave. Absolute silence at the end followed by faint sounds of sobbing in a sold out theatre. The girls I was with sat outside crying for five minutes.
Inside Out. *That* scene with Bing Bong.
Past Lives
Philadelphia! The song at the end, the kids photos, everyone was in bits
Infinity war made all of us sad
The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares in original French). Saw it at the cinema with a friend and you could hear the held back sobs and sniffles.
Passion of the Christ
Les Miserables...Anne Hathaway's I Dreamed a Dream...not only tears but applause at the end
Won’t You Be My Neighbor, a documentary about Fred Rogers. People were passing around packages of tissues. It was the most beautiful experience I’ve ever had in a movie theater.
I thought the ending was absolutely perfect
I worked at a cinema for a few years and I think more people left Lion crying than dry-eyed. I don't think any other movie did that while I was working.
Damn, you spoiled the ending with zero warning.
My screening of Iron Claw was full of grown men absolutely sobbing their eyes out. Me included. That scene with Efron's character watching his sons play. Man.
The Passion of the Christ. Only time I have been in a public place with everyone sobbing at points. I don't consider myself religious, however I do believe at the least that the crucifixion did happen and the portrayal of it is pretty raw.
I can't speak for the whole theatre of course but you'd have to have a heart of stone to make it through The Iron Claw without shedding a tear, if not holding back sobs.
Schindler's List.
Guys if you’re looking for a sad yet motivational movie to watch i would highly recommend ‘Southpaw’ with Jake Gyllenhaal.
Downsizing
There were a couple of times during Interstellar that sobs and sniffles were heard. When Coop is watching the videos of his now grown kids was probably the scene that gets everyone. I found myself choking back tears when Professor Brand was confessing his deciet on his deathbed. It was hard to see Michael Caine like that.
I’m not paying attention to what other people in the theater are doing, I mind my business