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Emotional films you can barely get through

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Hyvsvaar · 20/10/2022 21:31

Life is beautiful…can’t discuss without getting teary
and watching hacksaw ridge is a proper sob fest from about 3 mins in until the end
WHATS a really good film to hit you in the emotional feels please as
i need to expand
I also flipping love Amelie and a very long engagement

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Shunter350 · 20/10/2022 22:46

BangaloreLulu · 20/10/2022 22:03

The Railway Children

50 years on, I cannot watch the bit where Roberta recognises her father on the station platform, as it makes me sob. It's connected to a shadowy childhood memory of my father leaving us and never coming back, and me dreaming that one day he did return, with saying exactly that when I saw him coming into our garden and ran to him.

FlowersFlowersFlowers

Mamoun · 20/10/2022 22:47

BuryingAcorns · 20/10/2022 22:42

Lion. I don't remember ever crying so much at a filme from start to finish. I drenched an entire packet of hankerchiefs.

The beginning of Up.

Agreed

BuryingAcorns · 20/10/2022 22:48

Molehillfromamountain · 20/10/2022 22:42

Manchester by the sea 😭

Oh yes. That film is heartbreaking. When he admits he can't get over it. Some people can and he can't. That just shattered me.

Tezza1 · 20/10/2022 22:49

'Shenandoah' with the fabulous James Stewart. set in the American Civil War.

This is an old 1960s movie, and I saw it on TV when I was a teenager. I have seen it once since then, but I've never been able to rewatch it. Just thinking about it makes me want to sob. I think it was the saddest movie I've ever seen. I actually ask my brother if he wanted me to get the DVD of it, as he is a big James Stewart fan, and he said no, he couldn't bear to watch it again, not because it's not a good movie but it's just so so sad.

ShirleyHolmes · 20/10/2022 22:49

Agree the Incredible Journey but the original 60s one

Rabbit Proof Fence

Priest (Linus Roach and Robert Carlyle)

Butteredtoast55 · 20/10/2022 22:50

I can never get through the last half hour of About Time without sobbing.

redbigbananafeet · 20/10/2022 22:52

Goodnight, Mr Tom and Pursuit of Happyness

Mamoun · 20/10/2022 22:53

Hyvsvaar · 20/10/2022 22:19

What about never let me go? The book was very upsetting
not that I want to be upset it’s the emotion that I find cathartic!

The film is so disappointing- it conveys 10% of the intensity of the book. So that's a no for me!

bombemma · 20/10/2022 22:56

Pianist,

Then more recently "A Star is Born" I watched at a significantly traumatic time in my life and cried for about a week after. I don't think o could ever watch it again

Mamoun · 20/10/2022 22:58

A french film which I recommend:

Don't worry I am fine

A tear jerker

ASkarsMissus · 20/10/2022 22:59

Mamma Mia, here we go again in the church where she sees her mum again. Properly heaving sobbing in the cinema to the extent I thought I would have to leave. Still can’t hear the song that plays over it or I tear up. In my defence my dad had died about a month before I saw it 😭

Beaches 😭

Clawdy · 20/10/2022 23:03

Great that someone said Shenandoah! "I brought some flowers to your grave, Martha...."

banhmi · 20/10/2022 23:03

Stepmom!

lollipoprainbow · 20/10/2022 23:07

Beaches
Stepmom

crossstitchingnana · 20/10/2022 23:22

The Father. Just thinking about those closing scenes makes me choke.

ouch321 · 20/10/2022 23:23

The Pianist
Marley and Me
Billion Dollar Baby

birchtree23 · 20/10/2022 23:24

Black beauty
War Horse
8 below
Marley and me
There's a theme 😂

Bipbopbee · 20/10/2022 23:27

What Dreams May Come

The Notebook

The Father

About Time

sandgrown · 20/10/2022 23:29

Dumbo . Baby of mine sets me and my daughter off!

VeryQuaintIrene · 20/10/2022 23:31

Ridiculous, I know, but both "Paddington" and "Babe" do it for me.

dropthevipers · 20/10/2022 23:32

Ring of bright water. Won't be watching that again.

Pieceofpurplesky · 20/10/2022 23:32

Hyvsvaar · 20/10/2022 22:07

Great choices
thanks for suggestions so far,
children of men anyone?

One of the best films ever made. Introduced DS to it in the summer and it blew him away. I sob at the end.

Shawshank Redemption - I start crying about half an hour before it ends as I know how it ends

resipsa · 20/10/2022 23:32

Oh yes to Eight Below. Watched it on a long haul flight with DH after too much wine. Not sure the cabin crew knew what to make of us. So many tears.

Yika · 20/10/2022 23:36

Shadowlands, about the life of CS Lewis.

Flamingle18 · 20/10/2022 23:37

My Girl was the first film I remember crying at as a child. Still can't watch it without bawling 😭

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