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I need to ugly cry - what programmes or films make you sob?

254 replies

Needtouglycry · 14/05/2023 19:09

I'm going through some shit and need to cry but can't so am resorting to watching whatever it takes to kick it off.

I'm watching 'Its a sin' at the moment, episode 3...

I don't want to be asked what's wrong just ideas of what to watch. Thank you.

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Magnoliainbloom · 15/05/2023 04:45

KateOopNorth · 14/05/2023 21:50

A short one; "If anything happens I love you" on Netflix. Watched it just after another school shooting without knowing what it was about, and was sobbing so hard I couldn't breathe..

One of the most beautiful things I’ve watched and one of the closest depictions of the grief of losing a child.

Magnoliainbloom · 15/05/2023 04:53

End of the Affair
Lost in Translation - deeply melancholic
Melancholia
One Day

ArcticBells · 15/05/2023 05:58

Lassie

User14528564 · 15/05/2023 06:05

Tilllly · 14/05/2023 22:55

No but if you like them, you'll like firefly lane

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Thanks, I will watch it next, looks like it is just 2 series, I'm usually late watching things

crabbyoldappletree · 15/05/2023 09:25

"Good night Mr.Tom" with John Thaw....if that doesn't have you reaching for the tissues, nothing will!

Makingamess4212 · 15/05/2023 09:40

BSB30 · 15/05/2023 00:15

Criminal Minds - the episode where Hayley Hotchner gets killed. Gets me every time.

I could not cope with that episode !

codegeass · 15/05/2023 10:14

Grave of the Fireflies
Warrior (2008) (Nick Nolte's acting is out of this word there)

beguilingeyes · 15/05/2023 10:41

If you're a West Wing Fan...the few episodes at the end of S7 when Leo dies, because John Spencer had just actually died. I made the mistake of watching on a plane and sobbed all the way across the Atlantic.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 15/05/2023 14:47

Another vote for Inside Number 9, S2 Ep2. Made me cry both times I saw it.

ASGIRC · 15/05/2023 16:09

What Dreams May Come

Makes me cry every single time!

ASGIRC · 15/05/2023 16:10

beguilingeyes · 15/05/2023 10:41

If you're a West Wing Fan...the few episodes at the end of S7 when Leo dies, because John Spencer had just actually died. I made the mistake of watching on a plane and sobbed all the way across the Atlantic.

Oh man, I just finished a rewatch of The West Wing and I cried a LOT at those eps... I cried when they first aired as well, cause John Spencer had JUST DIED! And now every time I rewatch it.

TheUglyFish · 15/05/2023 16:10

Cargo, film on Netflix, the ending, gets me every time

Tidsleytiddy · 15/05/2023 16:19

SilentParrot · 14/05/2023 19:18

Lewis kissing Morse goodbye. Sad

😪

Thebigblueballoon · 15/05/2023 16:20

Arrival. The soundtrack is also brilliant.
Marley and Me, for the 50th time.
Atonement

Clawdy · 15/05/2023 17:35

The episode of Upstart Crow about the death of Hamnet. The start is funny as usual, then by the last scene I was sobbing. Brilliant writing.

Lansonmaid · 15/05/2023 17:48

The final scenes of Gallipoli and The Mission. Came out of the cinema in floods of years after both films.

TragicTess · 15/05/2023 17:49

A monster calls - I can’t even describe the story without crying.

I love a good cry…so cathartic. Hope some of these suggestions have helped.

Barleymilk · 15/05/2023 17:50

A dogs purpose (life)
I start welling up at the start of the last scene long before anything happens,it gets to me every time.

mamacorn1 · 26/12/2023 18:52

The way we were - Barbara Streisand . What a film! The ending has me crying everytime !

Mumof118 · 26/12/2023 20:44

Anything! I think I’m slightly over emotional at the moment.

OwlWeiwei · 26/12/2023 20:46

Lion.

Started crying at the start and didn't stop. I literally soaked my way through three packets of tissues, watching that on a plane.

OwlWeiwei · 26/12/2023 20:47

crabbyoldappletree · 15/05/2023 09:25

"Good night Mr.Tom" with John Thaw....if that doesn't have you reaching for the tissues, nothing will!

I actually can;t watch that. It's too upsetting. Brilliant, but too painful.

Gnomegarden32 · 26/12/2023 20:53

Lion

eraofdawn · 26/12/2023 21:27

mamacorn1 · 26/12/2023 18:52

The way we were - Barbara Streisand . What a film! The ending has me crying everytime !

Sorry for derailing but I find it puzzling. All that 'I love your girl, Hubble' after she sees him by chance. Are we to understand he hasn't seen her or his child in the intervening years?

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