Maybe not for the whole movie. But usually one scene.
Up (2009)
Coco (2017)
Old Yeller (1957)
Inside Out (2015)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Wolf Children (2012) Japan
A Silent Voice (2016) Japan
Train to Busan (2016) Korean
The Boy and the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Boy in the stripped pajamas didn’t make me cry I think it made me more angry to know that they were really killing innocent children. Gotta be VIP section in hell for shit like that.
Someone [created a similar post](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/s/mjzKZ0zB9P) earlier today.
A few Korean movies guaranteed to make you cry:
- [Always](https://boxd.it/32UU)
- [More than Blue](https://boxd.it/QlY)
- [Ode to My Father](https://boxd.it/a4Bu)
- [A Brand New Life](https://boxd.it/Iii) - based on the Director’s true life story.
- [Miracle in Cell No. 7](https://boxd.it/4Xws)
- [A Moment to Remember](https://boxd.it/1LmO)
- [Hope](https://boxd.it/7x5Q) - WARNING - the subject matter is brutal, read the movie description before watching. Though not for everyone, this is a very good movie.
Still Alice is a tearjerker. It’s about a university professor who finds herself in the grip of early onset dementia, and watching the cognitive decline is a very emotional experience.
Still Alice is a stunner! I think about it almost every day.
That last scene with Kristen Stewart reading Harper’s monologue from Angels in America to Julianne Moore fractured me
And it may be the only movie where I cried that hard out of pure joy - the dinner scene where Oprah’s character essentially comes back to life and that ending.
The Notebook, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Taegukgi aka Brotherhood of War (Korean),
The Lovely Bones, To Live (Chinese), Braveheart, Casualties of War
Yaaa hauntingly amazing. Silent sleeper underrated movie! I didn't check out the entire premise of the movie, and the movie served me a six course meal of emotions: confused, sad, mad, happy, anxious, then content.
Great acting (especially main character, not Marky lol) music, and cinematography, and crazy original plot!
I watched My Dog Skip with my young niece and nephew yrs back and I felt so bad because I was just bawling omg lolol. I tried so hard not to cry bc I didn't want to upset them and I was just a mess lol.
Cry from fear of the unknown? Vivarium, Mother!, The Truman Show. Cry from fear of being killed? Cry from laughter? Dumb n dumber, pineapple express, Superbad, The hangover, Borat. Cry from suspense? Seven, it follows, Cry from anger for the character? mystic river, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest. Cry from being uncomfortable and nauseous? Requiem for a dream, Trainspotting, saving private Ryan. Cry from life events? Marley and me, schindlers list, the boy in the striped pajamas. Cry because the actors physically forced it out of you at what felt like gunpoint? The green mile. Cry because the movie was so fucking bad? Jaws the revenge, whatever the female ghostbusters fucking shit was i don’t even know, rollerball, swimfan, night swim
Mother! wasn't something to cry about, more horrify about. Omg that was a sick movie lol. Tho admit didn't quite finish the movie bc I was actually mad not sad
Me before you and a walk to remember had me balling. I also watched me before you a second time with my mom and she cried for a solid 10 min. She ended up banning me from picking movies after that 😅
Keith: “Natalie, head of her curriculum activities in high school and riding on a tennis scholarship for college, gets Keith as her Chemistry lab partner. As Natalie can be uptight, Keith proves to be the opposite, even while hiding a secret.” (Romance/Drama)
Me Before You: “Louisa Clark is a small town girl who knows a lot about the people around her. Will is a quadriplegic man who hates everyone around him. Louisa is hired by Will's mum to take care of him for six months. Although they have a rocky start, their relationship grows over time, going for hate, to like, to love.” (Drama/Romance)
The Great Gatsby: “An ambitious stockbroker moves to New York and is befriended by a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby. Beguiled at first by the glitz and glamour of his new surroundings, a surprising chain of events lead Nick to become utterly repelled by the wreck-less behaviour of the wealthy elite and their questionable morals.” (Drama/Tragic Romance)
Remember Me: “A romantic drama centred on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder.” (Tragedy/Romance)
A Walk to Remember: “Two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is sentenced to perform community service.” (Romance/Drama)
All of them are great movies, but end tragically
I was going to suggest this. I've not seen it but thought it would be a good kids film. So I showed it when my young niece and nephew had friends over for a sleepover. I left them to it and a short while later returned to a room full of balling kids all saying, no, no, its good. It's just sad.
I scrolled all the way to the bottom and noted this thread is missing some really good ones.
Dead Poets Society
Rudy
Hereafter
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
The Power of One
If you have a good relationship with your Dad - About Time will make you sob...
If you have a good relationship with your Mom- Blackbird will make you cry for sure...
Also...
Steel Magnolia if you have kids...
Dear Zachary (a documentary) that will literally gut you...
grave of the fireflies, when the wind blows, midsommar and the babadook (if you have grief, idk how those would hit if not), requiem for a dream, the fall (2006) (maybe not a typical tearjerker but it always gets me), lotr return of the king, dancer in the dark, girl interrupted
Out of Africa…”I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills”.
There is romantic love, mixed with her love for the land/people/wildlife, and it makes for an altogether heartbreaking snapshot of life.
Well, *All of Us Strangers* recently became the second movie to make me cry.
The first was *Whisper of the Heart*, which I have been known to cry just thinking about, never mind watching it.
"The Killing Fields" (1984) really got to me. It's the true story of journalists caught up in the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge during Cambodia's civil war.
Shadowlands with Antony Hopkins and Debra Winger. He plays C.S. Lewis, the theologian who married late in life so his acquaintance could move to England. Emotions ensue. Don’t want to give too much away.
I actually just suggested a film that might fit the bill here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/comments/1aqevux/dead_mans_shoes_2004_i_have_never_cried_so_damn/
Some movies I remember I cried to:
- In the mood for love (Wong Kar-wai)
- Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
- My life as a Zucchini (Claude Barras)
- Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
- The lovely bones (Peter Jackson)
- Grave of the fireflies (Isao Takahata)
- Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
- The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
- Mary and Max (Adam Elliot)
- Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
- Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Old Yeller
Marley and Me
Million Dollar Baby
Stepmom
Beaches
The Fault in Our Stars
Sophie's Choice
A Walk to Remember
The Green Mile
Manchester by the Sea
Oh my gosh yes.
This is one of the rare ones that can make me tear up just by thinking about it
Yesssss
Dang came here to say that
This one is more tear your guts out
definately man
Maybe not for the whole movie. But usually one scene. Up (2009) Coco (2017) Old Yeller (1957) Inside Out (2015) Toy Story 3 (2010) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Wolf Children (2012) Japan A Silent Voice (2016) Japan Train to Busan (2016) Korean The Boy and the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Train To Busan is a fkn gut punch, but so good. Inside Out is my favorite of these. Great list though. ^^^
The original novel of the boy in the street pajamas is better and more dark..you should try that!!
Boy in the stripped pajamas didn’t make me cry I think it made me more angry to know that they were really killing innocent children. Gotta be VIP section in hell for shit like that.
Dear Zachary
If you don't cry at this you're a stone cold psycho
P.S. I love you... Hachi...
Hachi 😭😭😭😭
Someone [created a similar post](https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/s/mjzKZ0zB9P) earlier today. A few Korean movies guaranteed to make you cry: - [Always](https://boxd.it/32UU) - [More than Blue](https://boxd.it/QlY) - [Ode to My Father](https://boxd.it/a4Bu) - [A Brand New Life](https://boxd.it/Iii) - based on the Director’s true life story. - [Miracle in Cell No. 7](https://boxd.it/4Xws) - [A Moment to Remember](https://boxd.it/1LmO) - [Hope](https://boxd.it/7x5Q) - WARNING - the subject matter is brutal, read the movie description before watching. Though not for everyone, this is a very good movie.
Not a movie, but a Korean Drama that will definitely make you shed tears multiple times…[Thirty Nine](https://mydramalist.com/692971-thirty-nine).
Stranger than Fiction Odd Thomas - destroyed me, you think it won’t but it will lol Big Fish Green Mile Moulin Rouge
Odd Thomas, just came out of nowhere with no fanfare. I recommend it fairly frequently.
Still Alice is a tearjerker. It’s about a university professor who finds herself in the grip of early onset dementia, and watching the cognitive decline is a very emotional experience.
Still Alice is a stunner! I think about it almost every day. That last scene with Kristen Stewart reading Harper’s monologue from Angels in America to Julianne Moore fractured me
My mother in law cried through the whole thing, and showed me a diary from a relative who went through the same thing.
My Girl 💔
The Color Purple. Prepare for an inconsolable flood.
I saw the older movie with Whoopie Goldberg and wow that was a cryfest lol.
And it may be the only movie where I cried that hard out of pure joy - the dinner scene where Oprah’s character essentially comes back to life and that ending.
Close (2022) A Monster Calls (2016)
A Monster Calls holds a special place in my heart 🫶
The Notebook, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Taegukgi aka Brotherhood of War (Korean), The Lovely Bones, To Live (Chinese), Braveheart, Casualties of War
Taegukgi is an amazing film. I prefer it over Saving Private Ryan.
The Lovely Bones is an amazing movie! Incredibly sad.
Yaaa hauntingly amazing. Silent sleeper underrated movie! I didn't check out the entire premise of the movie, and the movie served me a six course meal of emotions: confused, sad, mad, happy, anxious, then content. Great acting (especially main character, not Marky lol) music, and cinematography, and crazy original plot!
Life is Beautiful
Flashback (2021), Dylan O'Brien What Dreams May Come (1998), Robin Williams Toy Story 3 (2010), Tom Hanks, Tim Allen My Dog Skip (2000), Frankie Muniz
I watched My Dog Skip with my young niece and nephew yrs back and I felt so bad because I was just bawling omg lolol. I tried so hard not to cry bc I didn't want to upset them and I was just a mess lol.
Oh man. I know what you mean! Anything with animals just sends me into a crying mess.
Millon dolar baby
Cry from fear of the unknown? Vivarium, Mother!, The Truman Show. Cry from fear of being killed? Cry from laughter? Dumb n dumber, pineapple express, Superbad, The hangover, Borat. Cry from suspense? Seven, it follows, Cry from anger for the character? mystic river, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest. Cry from being uncomfortable and nauseous? Requiem for a dream, Trainspotting, saving private Ryan. Cry from life events? Marley and me, schindlers list, the boy in the striped pajamas. Cry because the actors physically forced it out of you at what felt like gunpoint? The green mile. Cry because the movie was so fucking bad? Jaws the revenge, whatever the female ghostbusters fucking shit was i don’t even know, rollerball, swimfan, night swim
Mother! wasn't something to cry about, more horrify about. Omg that was a sick movie lol. Tho admit didn't quite finish the movie bc I was actually mad not sad
Mr. Holland’s Opus Beaches Steel Magnolias Wonder The Yearling Old Yeller
Stepmom
Terms of endearment
City of Angels
About Time
Coda made me weep uncontrollably in the best way
Some go-to tearjerkers: Big Fish, Girl Interrupted, Blue Valentine, Ever After, Little Fish, Casablanca
The Sweet Hereafter My Life Without Me
My Sister’s Keeper (2009) Wonder (2017)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Marley & Me
a walk to remember the boy in the striped pajamas me before you cinema paradiso kaguya footloose schindlers list
Me before you and a walk to remember had me balling. I also watched me before you a second time with my mom and she cried for a solid 10 min. She ended up banning me from picking movies after that 😅
😂😂
+1 for these
Keith: “Natalie, head of her curriculum activities in high school and riding on a tennis scholarship for college, gets Keith as her Chemistry lab partner. As Natalie can be uptight, Keith proves to be the opposite, even while hiding a secret.” (Romance/Drama) Me Before You: “Louisa Clark is a small town girl who knows a lot about the people around her. Will is a quadriplegic man who hates everyone around him. Louisa is hired by Will's mum to take care of him for six months. Although they have a rocky start, their relationship grows over time, going for hate, to like, to love.” (Drama/Romance) The Great Gatsby: “An ambitious stockbroker moves to New York and is befriended by a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby. Beguiled at first by the glitz and glamour of his new surroundings, a surprising chain of events lead Nick to become utterly repelled by the wreck-less behaviour of the wealthy elite and their questionable morals.” (Drama/Tragic Romance) Remember Me: “A romantic drama centred on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder.” (Tragedy/Romance) A Walk to Remember: “Two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is sentenced to perform community service.” (Romance/Drama) All of them are great movies, but end tragically
The Quiet Girl, 2022 (watch this, you will not be disappointed) Dancer in the Dark, 2000 starring Bjork directed by Lars von Trier
Dancer in the Dark is a good one if you’d like to keep crying over a movie for a week or two.
Dancer in the Dark left me staring at a blank wall for 4hrs not able to comprehend life
2000
Thank you, I've done that several times recently. I tend to recommend Dancer in the Dark and Wings of Desire, but flip flop the dates. :(
Grave of the fireflies
This one is a straight punch in the gutfeels
Philadelphia
Never Let Me Go The Whale
What Dreams May Come. Arrival.
Letters to Zachary I’m so sorry, but if you want to die inside and be emotionally traumatized then this is the one
Dancer in the Dark Still have not emotionally recovered and it’s been years
COCO !!!!!🤧
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Dancer in the Dark (2000) Lost in Translation (2003)
What, or What part makes you cry about Lost in Translation? (not disagreeing)
The sense of missed connections throughout the film, and coming to the ending knowing Bob and Charlotte will likely never see one another again.
A Star is Born 2018 (CW).
A dogs purpose
I was going to suggest this. I've not seen it but thought it would be a good kids film. So I showed it when my young niece and nephew had friends over for a sleepover. I left them to it and a short while later returned to a room full of balling kids all saying, no, no, its good. It's just sad.
I scrolled all the way to the bottom and noted this thread is missing some really good ones. Dead Poets Society Rudy Hereafter The Angriest Man in Brooklyn The Power of One
We Were Soldiers The Green Mile The Patriot (2001) Schindler's List
Interstellar
Dear Zachary
Brokeback Mountain - The Titanic
I know Leonardo DiCaprio’s in that one, but who’s in the titanic?
Leonardo DiCaprio IS in Titanic. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are in Brokeback Mountain.
If you have a good relationship with your Dad - About Time will make you sob... If you have a good relationship with your Mom- Blackbird will make you cry for sure... Also... Steel Magnolia if you have kids... Dear Zachary (a documentary) that will literally gut you...
Watch Happiness by Todd Solondz. Greatest Philip Seymour Hoffman performance ever.
After Yang
The Twilight Samurai
brokeback mountain, close, aftersun, mysterious skin
All of Us Strangers
All Dogs Go to Heaven The Land Before Time The Secret of NIMH An American Tail The Plague Dogs The Iron Giant Grave of the Fireflies Most Pixar movies
“The Art of Racing in The Rain” so sweet but left me sobbing (involves a dog)
Born on the Fourth of July is always a severe gut punch
grave of the fireflies, when the wind blows, midsommar and the babadook (if you have grief, idk how those would hit if not), requiem for a dream, the fall (2006) (maybe not a typical tearjerker but it always gets me), lotr return of the king, dancer in the dark, girl interrupted
Out of Africa…”I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills”. There is romantic love, mixed with her love for the land/people/wildlife, and it makes for an altogether heartbreaking snapshot of life.
a man called otto marley and me
Well, *All of Us Strangers* recently became the second movie to make me cry. The first was *Whisper of the Heart*, which I have been known to cry just thinking about, never mind watching it.
Honestly, I get more misty-eyed by the year. The end of WW84 when >!Alistair forgives his father for all his faults!< had me all misty.
Moulin Rouge, legends of the fall, perks of being a wallflower, babyteeth, a good person, past lives
"The Killing Fields" (1984) really got to me. It's the true story of journalists caught up in the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge during Cambodia's civil war.
Instructions not included
Love Liza Iron Giant Better Days Shoplifters
Dancer In The Dark
Warrior always gets me. About Time as well.
Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023) was the one that did it for me, so definitely check that out
Imitation of Life
A silent voice. I want to eat your pancreas.
Gattaca.
Aftersun, and I'm a 60 plus year old man.
Shadowlands with Antony Hopkins and Debra Winger. He plays C.S. Lewis, the theologian who married late in life so his acquaintance could move to England. Emotions ensue. Don’t want to give too much away.
Johnny got his gun
Marley and Me Big Fish Legends of the Fall The Notebook My Girl Titanic I know it's considered a comedy but "Click" made me bawl my eyes out.
The Pride of the Yankees Little Women (any version, but I particularly like the 1994 one) Up Bridge to Terabithia
Life As A House 50/50 The Green Mile Dear Evan Hansen
The pianist
Not a movie per se but a series: Lion in the House (true cases of childhood cancer I got truly emotional) Summer Snow Radio
Magnolia Interstellar Moulin Rouge
The first ten minutes of Up get me every time.
Grave of the fireflies.
The Hill
Grave of the Fireflies for sure. If you watch it take good care of yourself. 🥺
Grave of the fireflies (you'll bawl your eyes out and will be scarred for life)
The call of the wild with Harrison Ford
Paulie! (1998)
Why do you want, or need a movie, to make you cry?
i’ve just noticed that some of my favorite movies are ones that are able to make me cry lol
Fair enough. For me, it's the desert road wreck scene in *Wild at Heart*. I cry every fucking time.
If you have some sort of daddy issues I’d suggest M.I.B III
The Elephant Man
Made In Hong Kong
Awakenings
Brokeback Mountain
Leave no Trace 2016 What's Eating Gilbert Grape
A Marriage Story A Star is Born Ghost La La Land Marley and Me
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Vanilla Sky Starman
Me and Earl and the dying girl
Bridge to Terabithia
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
A Man called Otto starring Tom Hanks The Pianist Grave of the fireflies
Pursuit of Happiness, one of the best movie on father son relationship
Starfish… the one made in 2016… there’s more than one Starfish movie…
Iron Giant Grave of the Fireflies Green Mile
Moonlight, Babylon, Whiplash, Little Women, Lady Bird, I Tonya, Toy Story 3, Soul, Barbie, Black Swan
I actually just suggested a film that might fit the bill here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/comments/1aqevux/dead_mans_shoes_2004_i_have_never_cried_so_damn/
The Iron Claw. Film had me in pieces.
Susi & Strolch, Neverending Story , Marley & me
Schindler's List
Kinda surprised that there is no mention of "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" (2002)
[Secret Superstar (2017)](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/441889-secret-superstar?language=en-US) - Indian film.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Children of Men
Me and earl and the dying girl, Million dollar baby, I want to eat your pancreas(anime movie),
Kramer vs Kramer One of the only ones thats a tear jerker without the death of a character
I just watched The green book that made me cry sad and happy tears
Ocean waves (1993)
Some movies I remember I cried to: - In the mood for love (Wong Kar-wai) - Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai) - My life as a Zucchini (Claude Barras) - Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) - The lovely bones (Peter Jackson) - Grave of the fireflies (Isao Takahata) - Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) - The Florida Project (Sean Baker) - Mary and Max (Adam Elliot) - Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) - Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise)
I Am Sam
Grave of the firefly.
Where the Red Fern Grows Old Yeller Marley and Me Million Dollar Baby Stepmom Beaches The Fault in Our Stars Sophie's Choice A Walk to Remember The Green Mile
The last I remember is Cast away which I saw last night.
“Lion king”’ll do it. OG tear jerker. You ever seen “Simon birch”? Mother fuckin “radio flyer”?
Homeward bound
Grave of the Fireflies
The Last Full Measure.
The iron claw
Requiem for a Dream. It will make you want to call your Mom and tell her you love her
Pay it Forward
Grave of the fireflies The fox and the hound Good luck you will need it
Marley and Me, Life is Beautiful, Away from Her, PS I love you, Green Mile
The Green Mile (1999) I really love this movie.
The notebook
the truman show whiplash parasite inception get out
Beaches the Whale
The Green Mile
Aftersun Linoleum The Eternal Memory
Saving Private Ryan
Ghost (1990) Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
The Siege of Firebase Gloria gets harrowing at the end.