Films that always make you cry

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Sometimes when you need a good cry, you can always guarantee these films would make you cry.

What are yours?

Marley and me
War horse
(In fact most sad animal films)

And I’ve literally just watched Deep Impact and I cried again!

Love this thread - all of these!!! cry at the theme tune to Black Beauty & used to be terrified of the hulk changing but would cry at Bruce Banner walking off down the street on his own..

Dead poets society saw in the cinema & the lady in front gave me a tissue due to sobbing so much

I can’t describe why people should watch A Monster Calls without crying. Made DH watch it with me just to prove I wasn’t being totally ridiculous - he cried too

I forgot: Lion. I started crying a few minutes in and didn't stop until the film ended. Lion gets the highest Kleenex rating.

i started crying about 10 minutes into Rocketman. by the end i was full on ugly-sobbing and i wasn’t the only one.

Elton John’s music is very connected with my dad, who died about 4 months before the film came out so i knew it was going to be tough. i’m also a recovering alcoholic so it all really resonated.

Schindler’s List was horrendous and i never want to see it again. i think everyone should see it though.

Out of Africa over and over again. That music.

A lot already mentioned.
Steel magnolias every time
Field of dreams

The one film that leaves me a sobbing snotty mess is The Outsiders

It’s A Wonderful Life.

I watch this film every year on Christmas Eve. I love this film but it makes me so sad 😭

Marley and Me
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

@FrenchyQ

Jurassic world fallen Kingdom. The bit where the diplodocus gets engulfed by the volcano. I ugly cry at that everytime

I thought I was the only oddball to get totally unsettled by this!!!

The pursuit of happiness
7 lbs both will Smith films

These threads make me chuckle. It’s like torture isn’t it, but a bit nice?

I don’t rewatch films generally and I have a dislike of films which are intentionally emotionally manipulative. However, I remember gasping for breath watching the opening ten minutes of UP.

The Baby Mine scene in Dumbo will never, ever be on in my house ever again. It is just too sad.

The scene in inside out where Marley’s island crumble and she is left numb is extraordinary. I watched that with my oblivious 3 year old while I cried silently. It is one of the most honest interpretations of adolescent changes and emotions I have ever seen. It’s not patronising or over-egging. But just brutal at the same time.

I don’t watch deliberately sad stuff anymore. And I have to be careful when anything related to children now as I just find it too hard to watch.

Oh of course - I forgot the film I meant to mention. It’s fairly obvious but Hotel Rwanda. I watched that every day for about three weeks while I was winding down teaching before maternity leave. So many classes so me a heaving snotty mess As the children from the orphanage are refused the bus to escape. The music, the singing, the wee faces, the hormones . . .

I can't believe no-one has said the ending of Toy Story 4!!!! I was a mess WHY DIDNT SOMEBODY WARN ME??!!!

My other is the scene in Mr Magoriun where he gives the speech about buying enough pairs of the same shoe to last his lifetime..... "and this is my last pair" WAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

@johnstownflood I find a lot of John candy’s films incredibly poignant even before his passing

Same with Robin Williams

“Comedians” seem to be extremely in touch with the darker parts of their souls and be able to express that so well

All those who’ve seen the “oldies” I have, I’m somewhat ashamed to say when I was first introduced to them (by older female relatives mostly) I was very naive but also a little arrogant in that way young people are (I was in my teens) and I was stupidly surprised that issues like racism, learning disabilities, domestic violence etc - “social issues” - were addressed in mainstream films made in the 40’s/50’s made and funded by fairly conservative (I thought) film makers.

It led to an interesting conversation with my gran where she sort of told me off! She said something to me like (can’t remember exact words)

“What did you think we fought in wwii for?! And not just that we protested and fought against bigotry and unfair treatment of people in many ways and at different stages of our lives. Just because it was ‘the old days’ doesn’t mean we didn’t know right from wrong! We’re still people! With the experience of having been discriminated against ourselves and knowing how that feels too!”

My family are Scots of Irish descent, 3 of my grandparents were the 1st generation born in the Uk, catholics, so of course had met a lot of prejudice on that score especially living in glasgow!

As I say this was me as a stupid kid who thought her generation invented “fighting for equality”!

But I see that outlook still in dd and her generation at times, although she’s older now and more aware that isn’t the case but certainly when she and her friends were younger when they were doing stuff at school relating to various civil rights movements etc it was interesting to introduce her to films, books and music that were produced “way back” that included stuff that surprised her relating to the various movements. Eg she was surprised to learn just how far back the feminism movement went, she knew about sufragettes but didn’t know it went back hundreds of years before even that time.

@plus3 I’ve got highway to heaven on my Netflix queue...haven’t been able to bring myself to watch a single episode yet! Can remember how moving they were first time around

@MostIneptThatEverStepped

The Railway Children 😭

Me too and shoeing our age no doubt.

I cry at everything. Even sometimes quiz shows when someone deserving wins.

I haven’t watched Who Will Love my Children since I was a child and I watched it with my mum. It traumatised me and I won’t ever watch it again.

Likewise, I will not ever watch the first 10 minutes of UP ever again. It came out shortly after my mum died, leaving my poor dad bewildered and bereft - too close to home.

I love crying unashamedly though and Pixar is very good at it! When Bing Bong’s memory fades!!

Randomly ... the bit in Mary Poppins when they view London from the rooftop at sunset. It comes right after my favourite song Step In Time too.

A Knight’s Tale. The bit where they write the love letter. Ugly crying 😭

And Brassed Off. The bit where Phil loses it at the harvest festival and then tries to hang himself still in his clown costume. Crying and laughing at the same time!

Titanic when Jack floats away
Sex in the city film when Big says he's not coming

Get me every time

Oh my goodness definitely Brassed Off! Underrated film for sure.
Sound of Music
ET
“ Feed the Birds” & “ Let’s Go Fly A Kite” in Mary Poppins
Love Actually
So many more! I cry easily, especially since adopting DD. But I’m glad to be so in touch with my emotions 😢

I don’t stand a chance watching Lassie films!

I don’t really cry at anything but if anyone else has seen that slightly obscure one set off Australia at a lighthouse with a small child and Rachel Weisz ...😭😭😭

Coco- watched for the first time recently and sobbed
Dumbo and his mother and baby mine
Ghost
Toy story 4 when the gabby doll got rejected and then got another chance- not loads but I did tear up
Forrest Gump
12 years a slave
Hook

I cry like a giant baby at plenty more I’m sure.

How could I forget, Homeward Bound

AI

Beaches
Phantom of the Opera
Mamma Mia
Sunshine on Leith
Rocketman (only because it was the last film DH and i saw together before he died)

Any film that has a death from cancer, or someone losing their partner. It's cathartic though. I like a good cry.