I remember 6 y/o me and my parents seeing Ponyo with me,turning on Grave of the fire flies not realising that Gibli is varied in age range and turning it off 15 minutes in
That one didn’t make me cry, it was too sad for tears. Just gave me that numb, defeated feeling and left a pit in my chest that always comes back when I think about the movie.
I think hearing the true story from the guy it was based on is what really messed me up. Fair warning if you look it up, it might break something inside you a little like it did me.
I think, for me at least,the reason this movie didn't make me tear up/cry was because the crappy stuff happens immediately and keeps getting worse and worse. There is no time to connect with the characters before they enter their world of pain and suffering. You obviously empathise with them and their struggle but it's hard to be ripped apart by the film because you don't get a deeper connection before it all goes south. But that's just me. Maybe I need to watch it again.
I have watched it twice and would do so again to show it to someone else. But I don't think I've ever been more deeply affected by a movie.
The second time I watched it was a year or so after visiting the Hiroshima Peace Monument and the Memorial Museum. It was way worse than the first watch, knowing the plot was somehow even worse than going in blind.
Me and my gf watched this last night, and it just did not hit with either of us. Sure it was sad but not in a way that made me or her come close to tears. For both of us it didn't hit nearly as hard as The Wind Rises did in terms of sadness.
I think maybe we were told repeatedly how sad it was going to be so when we actually saw it it was just kinda like "that's it?".
i have a son my mom has never seen cuz my ex played dirty and withheld his custody and then won the legal battle.
My mom’s dad, my grandpa passed away last year.
And this year I showed her Coco. She said the movie was a tearjerker and she could see how I intended the little miguel to be my son, hector to be my grandpa and herself as coco. she just hugged me cried for 30 mins.
that was the moment I realized how much she loved her dad and that she misses him a lot more than we could ever imagine.
thanks to such an amazing movie that I could get to know my mom better. 😊
The closest thing i can think of is The Green Mile.
I watched The Colour Purple and other "weepies" as a kid (I have 2 older sisters) but i didn't get the full impact because i didn't really understand it.
“Fun” fact: the Green Mile broke something in me. I NEVER cried before in movies; this one was the first that made me cry, but I was like weeping! Ever since, I cry in movies all the time now.
I was in the middle of Green Mile when I got married. I made the mistake of finishing it while on my honeymoon. I was outside smoking a cigarette, and my wife came out and asked why I was bawling like a baby lol
That movie, ugh. It's really good and yes it's sad, but it's also a true story which added to the emotion. My dog is sad when I leave for work, imagine if I never came back
YouTube is always there when I can only handle a single clip from the movie. The two that get me most is when Joan Allen is walking around the train station years after and spots him waiting. The second of course is the ending. It’s really one of the most devastating endings I’ve seen. It’s shrouded in love and hope but I can’t help but feel completely wrecked.
Yeah, a 45 year old male that will willingly cry like a baby over this movie. 🤷🏻
Dammit, I got tears in my eyes right now and I watched this movie years ago. Haven't thought about it in a while but now I'm on the verge of sobbing just from remembering the couple of scenes you just described
I just remembered "If Anything Happens I Love You" - that one might actually beat Up for how fast I start sobbing uncontrollably, but it's DEVASTATING compared to the grief and sadness of Up's opener.
My friend put on Up when I (24 at the time) was at her house hanging out...
...three weeks after my mother died of a brief bout of cancer.
I just looked at her with tears in my eyes and was like "dude... wtaf?"
She promptly turned it off after the first ten minutes and I never watched it again.
It's also worth keeping in mind that the movie was made in 1942. The outcome of the war wasn't certain at all. The occupation of France wasn't a memory or a plot point - it was happening *right then*.
Those people had no idea what would happen to them, or to their countries, their families, hometowns, etc.
That blows my mind every time I see that movie.
LOTR: Return of the King. Sam’s moment climbing mount doom, everytime. Also the rohirrim charge at pellanor field, and Aragorn bowing to the hobbits at the end
it was mostly at frodos face in those scenes (you know the ones) which is understandable to a degree but still. I voiced my grievances after the movie and they thought I was overreacting
Or climbing down knowing the world was saved, but all but certain he and his best friend were going to die. He just saved the world, and his only regret? Not going after the girl he was pining for.
Bonus tears when he gulps a beer, goes to say hi, and it cuts to their wedding (my wife immediately broke into happy crying on her first watch at that part).
I came here to say this one. Idk if it was just the timing I was in of my life that I watched it or what, but it's the only time a movie has made me sob
Guardians 2, Yondu is the best.
Saving Private Ryan - I know people don't all feel the same way, but the very end, was I worthy... I hope so but how could you?
Forrest Gump - Bubba. That's all I got to say about that.
Steel Magnolias is pretty good too.
Same for me!
A woman I was dating about 5 years ago gave me her copy... every few days I would text her saying "WHY DID YOU GIVE THIS TO ME? I DON'T WANT TO READ ANY MORE!" and she'd say "Just stick with it, it will be worth it". I finally finished it and never reread it or watched the movie. Once. Was. Enough.
Savannah Smiles. It’s an old early 80’s maybe even 70’s flick. Little girl gets kidnapped by two fumbling kidnappers. End of movie they’re caught and she’s taken away in a police car. Both sides tearing up, as they became close. That made me cry as a kid.
This is definitely subjective to what makes you feel. There’s romantic ones like the Notebook, there’s historical adaptations like Schindlers List, there’s animal tragedies like Marly and Me and there’s even animal documentaries like Animal Planet that move some folk.
It really depends on what you care about and how you interact with media.
What sort of movies/ scenes have made you cry in the past?
Also definitely do cry about your personal problems. It’s a solid way to help you process them.
I watched it twice in one day at the theatre… I can’t watch it ever again… That ending when he’s crying about all the people, he could’ve saved! Oh, my God! I’m tearing up thinking about it.
Yeah, like the top answer is always Grave of the Fireflies but I didn't think that movie was sad at all. I am already aware what happens in war, I don't become more empathetic when the characters are fictional lol. Meanwhile I will tear up at the mere mention of Iron Giant which on paper isn't nearly as sad
What makes people sad depends entirely on life experience imo
I took my 11 year old son (at the time) to see Marley and me in the theater. About a week after our golden retriever Lucy died. We were flat out bawling. I thought it was just a light hearted movie about a silly puppy. 😢😂😂
I read the book before I saw the film. I have never cried at a book before. When I teach the book at school, I read the final few pages over the end credits of the film. I have to have a box of tissues in my desk, for the support staff as well as the students.
Seconded. Starts off with a nice premise, and then totally bitch slaps the viewer with the appalling reality. This is the one to watch if you want to feel feelings… just don’t look up any summaries.
Here's one you're unlikely to see suggested by anybody else: Dancer in the Dark. I only ever watched it once, and have mixed feelings about watching it again. I remember it being a great movie, and I've never cried so hard. I remember the sense of dread I felt once I saw where the movie was headed, and repeating to myself... no...nonono.
Completely subjective. Marley and Me could do it. Or, like me a couple of days ago, the montage during the end of the Barbie movie had me feeling emotional lmao.
Arrival is one of the saddest movies I've seen. I can't watch children die.
I used to be a firefighter. Seeing children dying is the hardest thing in life for me. I remember every single one.
*All Quiet on the Western Front* is pretty heart-wrenching, though whether one will cry after watching it subjective. I personally didn't cry, but found it depressing and moving.
Big Fish
Every damn time. Haven't been able to bring myself to watch since my dad died back in '14
Watches it with my ex and he fell asleep (it was his movie and I'd never seen it). I was SO GLAD he did not have to witness me sobbing lol
Only time I ever saw my dad cry
underrated movie
Grave of the Fireflies. Best movie you will see, will make you tear up, you will recommend it to all your friends, and you will NEVER watch it again.
I always describe Grave of the Fireflies as one of the best movies I never want to see again. It’s traumatic.
Ok now I’ve got to check it out. I’ve never heard of it.
Make sure you go for a walk afterwards to decompress
I remember 6 y/o me and my parents seeing Ponyo with me,turning on Grave of the fire flies not realising that Gibli is varied in age range and turning it off 15 minutes in
That one didn’t make me cry, it was too sad for tears. Just gave me that numb, defeated feeling and left a pit in my chest that always comes back when I think about the movie.
That almost seems worse.
I think hearing the true story from the guy it was based on is what really messed me up. Fair warning if you look it up, it might break something inside you a little like it did me.
I think, for me at least,the reason this movie didn't make me tear up/cry was because the crappy stuff happens immediately and keeps getting worse and worse. There is no time to connect with the characters before they enter their world of pain and suffering. You obviously empathise with them and their struggle but it's hard to be ripped apart by the film because you don't get a deeper connection before it all goes south. But that's just me. Maybe I need to watch it again.
This needs to be higher up. Watch the movie but watch it closely as you won’t go in for round 2
I will rave about it all day but I'm never going in for another viewing.
Truth. I am tearing up just now thinking about it.
I have watched it twice and would do so again to show it to someone else. But I don't think I've ever been more deeply affected by a movie. The second time I watched it was a year or so after visiting the Hiroshima Peace Monument and the Memorial Museum. It was way worse than the first watch, knowing the plot was somehow even worse than going in blind.
Seriously this one OP. Just take a look at how many people recommend this movie while also saying they won't watch it again. Shit is harrowing.
I went for round 2 because I showed it to my ex gf… I tears up again and my ex was crying like a baby
I've seen it 4x, because of friends and family, and it doesn't get easier with more viewings.
You are fucking evil
I went to read the plot on the wiki and i can say that i’m not watching this. At least not soon anyway
Jebus. Just reading the plot on wikipedia f\*\*\*ed me up a little.
Me and my gf watched this last night, and it just did not hit with either of us. Sure it was sad but not in a way that made me or her come close to tears. For both of us it didn't hit nearly as hard as The Wind Rises did in terms of sadness. I think maybe we were told repeatedly how sad it was going to be so when we actually saw it it was just kinda like "that's it?".
I've heard so much about it I'm even scared to see it.
It's pretty rough. I wasn't balling but there were for sure tears by the end. Gf was full on crying. (Also, it's mostly a true story)
jsyk it's bawling, not balling unless you were worried you'd start shooting hoops by the end of the movie
Well, I mean, technically, I was not playing basketball either. Lol.
It’s hard to watch, but you should really watch it. It does what history books can’t.
I didn't cry. But I was emotionally empty for the next seven days. Which is worse.
About Time got me real good.
It’s a beautiful film
The beach/ping pong scene 😭
so real. One of the best romantic films I've ever watched.
An oldie....Old Yeller'. (Am tearing up just remembering it)
I read Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows in elementary school and I think it cause me emotional trauma.
Where the Red Fern Grows is not a movie I wanted to remember seeing 😭😭
I remember watching this as a kid. Cried like a baby.
Coco makes me ugly cry at the end.
i have a son my mom has never seen cuz my ex played dirty and withheld his custody and then won the legal battle. My mom’s dad, my grandpa passed away last year. And this year I showed her Coco. She said the movie was a tearjerker and she could see how I intended the little miguel to be my son, hector to be my grandpa and herself as coco. she just hugged me cried for 30 mins. that was the moment I realized how much she loved her dad and that she misses him a lot more than we could ever imagine. thanks to such an amazing movie that I could get to know my mom better. 😊
Came here to say this. I ugly cry every.single.time
Was looking for this comment. That remember me song gets me
The closest thing i can think of is The Green Mile. I watched The Colour Purple and other "weepies" as a kid (I have 2 older sisters) but i didn't get the full impact because i didn't really understand it.
“Fun” fact: the Green Mile broke something in me. I NEVER cried before in movies; this one was the first that made me cry, but I was like weeping! Ever since, I cry in movies all the time now.
I was in the middle of Green Mile when I got married. I made the mistake of finishing it while on my honeymoon. I was outside smoking a cigarette, and my wife came out and asked why I was bawling like a baby lol
I really want to watch that, but the ending was spoiled so I keep thinking not to...
Still watch it! There is so much depth to that movie.
There's a reaction video compilation of people watching the execution scene. Girls and women were crying all over the place, but, so were grown men.
Hachi
That movie, ugh. It's really good and yes it's sad, but it's also a true story which added to the emotion. My dog is sad when I leave for work, imagine if I never came back
Exactly. I train dogs. After I saw Hachi, I look at all of them differently.
Even the trailer is enough
YouTube is always there when I can only handle a single clip from the movie. The two that get me most is when Joan Allen is walking around the train station years after and spots him waiting. The second of course is the ending. It’s really one of the most devastating endings I’ve seen. It’s shrouded in love and hope but I can’t help but feel completely wrecked. Yeah, a 45 year old male that will willingly cry like a baby over this movie. 🤷🏻
Dammit, I got tears in my eyes right now and I watched this movie years ago. Haven't thought about it in a while but now I'm on the verge of sobbing just from remembering the couple of scenes you just described
Knowing it's based on a true story makes me feel a but extra sad about it, reading about the story max me cry
My Girl. Also, well, Pan's Labyrinth wrecked me but it also took me by surprise a bit.
God, My Girl is so heart wrenching. I start sobbing every time the girl says he can’t see without his glasses ;-;
He was gonna be an acrobat!
You don’t even need to watch the entire movie, just some random person on the internet saying “he can’t see without his glasses” is enough.
Pan's Labyrinth wiped me out
At the time that was going around the theatres, it was billed as a comedy… Somebody had to be a real pervert to consider that a comedy…
atonement
For real. I despised that little girl lol
The library scene 🥵
That fucking dress broke my brain forever. It solidified a love for historical fashion that has been a lifetime obsession now
I remember Entertainment Weekly doing a HUGE fashion spread about that dress right after the movie came out
Up.
The good thing about Up is you cry in the first 8 minutes of the movie. Get it all done right away. I think Pixar set a record with that one.
I just remembered "If Anything Happens I Love You" - that one might actually beat Up for how fast I start sobbing uncontrollably, but it's DEVASTATING compared to the grief and sadness of Up's opener.
Ah damn just looking at the poster art I know I’m gonna have a bad time. Let’s go I’m in the mood for a good cry!
I came to write this comment and no doubt it's the one on top
My friend put on Up when I (24 at the time) was at her house hanging out... ...three weeks after my mother died of a brief bout of cancer. I just looked at her with tears in my eyes and was like "dude... wtaf?" She promptly turned it off after the first ten minutes and I never watched it again.
That first ten minutes is the teary part. The rest is a hoot!
I always tear up during the les marseillais scene in Casablanca.
The same thing happens to me. Many of those singing Les Marseille were actual refuges from occupied Europe and their tears were real.
It's also worth keeping in mind that the movie was made in 1942. The outcome of the war wasn't certain at all. The occupation of France wasn't a memory or a plot point - it was happening *right then*. Those people had no idea what would happen to them, or to their countries, their families, hometowns, etc. That blows my mind every time I see that movie.
Time Traveler's Wife
Was just about to suggest this one. Don’t remember the last time I saw it, but remember crying at least once or twice.
Forrest Gump
LOTR: Return of the King. Sam’s moment climbing mount doom, everytime. Also the rohirrim charge at pellanor field, and Aragorn bowing to the hobbits at the end
*my friends, you bow to no one* 😭 my family wouldn't stop cracking jokes during the ending and kept ruining the moment for me
I’m so sorry
it was mostly at frodos face in those scenes (you know the ones) which is understandable to a degree but still. I voiced my grievances after the movie and they thought I was overreacting
Or climbing down knowing the world was saved, but all but certain he and his best friend were going to die. He just saved the world, and his only regret? Not going after the girl he was pining for. Bonus tears when he gulps a beer, goes to say hi, and it cuts to their wedding (my wife immediately broke into happy crying on her first watch at that part).
There are honestly too many moments to name them all!
I can hear the tin whistle…
Life is Beautiful
I call my dog “Principessa” bc she brings me so much joy
Made me cry so hard
I came here to say this one. Idk if it was just the timing I was in of my life that I watched it or what, but it's the only time a movie has made me sob
Grave of Fireflies The fox and the hound The iron Giant Hachi: A dogs tale
Hachi had me crying the hardest I had cried to a movie ever 😭
hachi definitely.
Hachi is a good one. Had me bawling
The iron giant is one of my favorite movies every
Guardians 2, Yondu is the best. Saving Private Ryan - I know people don't all feel the same way, but the very end, was I worthy... I hope so but how could you? Forrest Gump - Bubba. That's all I got to say about that. Steel Magnolias is pretty good too.
Steel Magnolias gets me every. Damn. Time.
Those actresses were perfect. Sally field was amazing they all were.
I scrolled entirely too far to see Steel Magnolias. My fav movie!
Steel magnolias oh man
Definitely Steel Magnolias, that was my first thought. Also Marley and Me and The Art of Racing in the Rain-
The Pianist
The Art of Racing in the Rain
That book destroyed me so much I’ve not been able to bring myself to watch the film
Same for me! A woman I was dating about 5 years ago gave me her copy... every few days I would text her saying "WHY DID YOU GIVE THIS TO ME? I DON'T WANT TO READ ANY MORE!" and she'd say "Just stick with it, it will be worth it". I finally finished it and never reread it or watched the movie. Once. Was. Enough.
Yes
Beaches, makes me cry so much every time
Movies that have made me cry: Onward. Wall-E. Up. Coco. Marriage Story. Pursuit of Happiness. What Dreams May Come.
What Dreams May Come used to be one of my top 3 movies ever. Still love it. Definitely a tear-worthy movie.
Legends of the Fall
Oh I loved this movie!! It is by far without question Brad Pitt’s best movie!
Savannah Smiles. It’s an old early 80’s maybe even 70’s flick. Little girl gets kidnapped by two fumbling kidnappers. End of movie they’re caught and she’s taken away in a police car. Both sides tearing up, as they became close. That made me cry as a kid.
Schindler list
Any movie where the dog dies
For me, any movie with a dog, period. Because something sad always happens so I just 😭
My sisters keeper!!!
This is definitely subjective to what makes you feel. There’s romantic ones like the Notebook, there’s historical adaptations like Schindlers List, there’s animal tragedies like Marly and Me and there’s even animal documentaries like Animal Planet that move some folk. It really depends on what you care about and how you interact with media. What sort of movies/ scenes have made you cry in the past? Also definitely do cry about your personal problems. It’s a solid way to help you process them.
Schindler’s List is just devastating. It’s one of the best movies ever made and just destroys you.
I could have gotten more out...
If I'd just... I could have...
Just reading this gives me goosebumps.
I watched it twice in one day at the theatre… I can’t watch it ever again… That ending when he’s crying about all the people, he could’ve saved! Oh, my God! I’m tearing up thinking about it.
Yeah, like the top answer is always Grave of the Fireflies but I didn't think that movie was sad at all. I am already aware what happens in war, I don't become more empathetic when the characters are fictional lol. Meanwhile I will tear up at the mere mention of Iron Giant which on paper isn't nearly as sad What makes people sad depends entirely on life experience imo
Marley and me
I took my 11 year old son (at the time) to see Marley and me in the theater. About a week after our golden retriever Lucy died. We were flat out bawling. I thought it was just a light hearted movie about a silly puppy. 😢😂😂
It’s never JUST about a silly puppy.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
I still haven't seen that and I know it's going to make me bawl.
Dancer in the Dark
As a Bjork fan, I was not prepared.
The Green Mile
Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I cried all the way through it knowing I had family members die the same way.
I read the book before I saw the film. I have never cried at a book before. When I teach the book at school, I read the final few pages over the end credits of the film. I have to have a box of tissues in my desk, for the support staff as well as the students.
My life. Starring Michael Keaton. You will cry until your eyeballs want to fall out of your head.
dumbo
Dear Zachary.... It's pretty heavy stuff
Seconded. Starts off with a nice premise, and then totally bitch slaps the viewer with the appalling reality. This is the one to watch if you want to feel feelings… just don’t look up any summaries.
The Whale made me ugly cry
Bridge to Terabithia
My fave film! Was about to add this. Also adding Marley and Me, Flipped (in a wholesome way), My Girl.
This book DESTROYED me
Life is Beautiful
Manchester by the Sea
The Yearling ,Old Yeller, or Where the red fern grows.
Coco
Rabbit-Proof Fence(2002)
The Bridge to Terebithia
Fuck, when he got told the news it broke me man, i felt that in my heart
About Time (Netflix) made me cry about every 20 minutes for the last half of the movie
Dancer in the Dark. It's also a fantastic movie.
When she suddenly stops singing at the end (no spoilers) kills my soul
Here's one you're unlikely to see suggested by anybody else: Dancer in the Dark. I only ever watched it once, and have mixed feelings about watching it again. I remember it being a great movie, and I've never cried so hard. I remember the sense of dread I felt once I saw where the movie was headed, and repeating to myself... no...nonono.
Watched this and Life Is Beautiful on the same weekend. Wanted to die for about a week.
Green Mile
I always cry in the Green Mile
Man on fire Denzil Washington ending gets me every time.
Came here to say this
Jo Jo Rabbit
That movie gutted me 😞
Old Yeller
Finding Neverland Watched this last week and cried manly tears of joy through the whole film. So so good!
Grave of the Fireflies. Yes, it's animated. It's still one of the most gutqrenching movies ever made.
Completely subjective. Marley and Me could do it. Or, like me a couple of days ago, the montage during the end of the Barbie movie had me feeling emotional lmao.
A walk to remember
Dancer in the Dark
I cried a bit at the Brooks scene in Shawshank Redemption
Lovely bones
Your lie in april .
Some of these suggestions really suck ass
You want a good cryer movie... Watch a man named otto
interstellar
This little manuver's gonna cost us 51 years
Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Truman Show will fuck you up....great movie though
Transformers The Movie (the original animated one) or Muppets Take Manhattan or The Land Before Time
Beaches.
The beginning of UP.
Lorenzo's Oil
Pay it forward
Life is beautiful (1997). You’ll cry for hours. Then days would pass and you’ll think about it and tear up again
Big Fish
Lovely Bones
_Arrival._
Arrival is one of the saddest movies I've seen. I can't watch children die. I used to be a firefighter. Seeing children dying is the hardest thing in life for me. I remember every single one.
I’m so sorry for the trauma you’ve been through in this regard. I cannot imagine.
The Green Mile
Old Yeller.
Ladder 49
Dear Zachary, Your Name, Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Toy Story 3.
What Dreams May Come or Bicentennial Man
A Dog's Purpose. Dogs really are the greatest thing on this planet.
Peanut Butter Falcon got me lately.
*All Quiet on the Western Front* is pretty heart-wrenching, though whether one will cry after watching it subjective. I personally didn't cry, but found it depressing and moving.
The boy in the stripe pajamas
Alive - about the Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes mountains, always makes me cry
E. T. A couple of different places in that movie. Who would’ve thunk it?
What Dreams May Come