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What film makes you cry snotty tears

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Freeasabird76 · 13/04/2024 22:48

I've just watched Legends of the fall again and yet again in a complete sobbing mess,another was the champwhich I've refused to watch in about 20 years as it gets me in such a state.
What films make you bawl like a baby?

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GoodAfternoonGoodEveningAndGoodnight · 14/04/2024 20:01

Muriel's Wedding.
Her poor mum 😭😭😭
They're all such shits to her.
The middle part of the film has me in pieces 💔

Hartley99 · 14/04/2024 20:23

The ending of Withnail and I, where he says goodbye and leaves Withnail in the rain. I think it’s partly the music. It also gets to me because it reminds me of home - of the U.K.

Mary Poppins kills me. You know, when the father suddenly changes. And any adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Sittingsewing · 14/04/2024 20:49

ET
Me before you
Mary Poppins
Born Free
Toy Story 3
Railway Children
Forrest Gump (especially where he meets his son for the first time and asks if he's bright or is he "like me" (Gump))
The Sound of Music (also saw this as a stage musical in London where the middle-aged man next to me sobbed from start to finish! His family didn't seem to notice)

YouwouldthinkIhavemoresense · 14/04/2024 20:54

Freeasabird76 · 13/04/2024 23:14

Gosh,yes that is a tearjerker.
My mother always despaired whenever Lassie or the littlest hobo started because that's all it would take to set me off as a child haha.

Lassi was banned in our house because I used to get in such a state I was almost sick.

ttcnumero1 · 14/04/2024 20:55

A Walk to Remember...every time

Bananadramallamas · 14/04/2024 21:01

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 13/04/2024 23:04

Truly Madly Deeply

Oh, yes. The only film I've ever actually sobbed properly at. Juliet Stephenson is amazing.

wizzbitt · 14/04/2024 21:06

Brooklyn - I cry for a good 40mins during the film
Imitations of Life

I love both these films and quite enjoy the crying snotfest they produce

wizzbitt · 14/04/2024 21:16

JoleneTookHerMan · 14/04/2024 17:52

Coco (the animation)

Oh yes! So sad at the end. Despite the joy. My kids are always 🙄 when I request we watch it (again) 🤣

olivebranch31 · 14/04/2024 21:20

Marley and Me
The Sea Inside
The Theory of Everything
Lion
PS I Love You
The Bucket List

jimbort · 14/04/2024 21:23

Up

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 14/04/2024 21:25

@GoodAfternoonGoodEveningAndGoodnight you're tirrible

Jennywren2000 · 14/04/2024 21:25

Forest gump

bakewellbride · 14/04/2024 21:27

Land of hope and glory.

Absolutely shocking what really goes on in almost all uk animal farms. Anyone who consumes meat, eggs or dairy should watch it. I physically couldn't get past 11 mins 30 secs.

geminiflanagan · 14/04/2024 21:34

About Time
Hachi
Odd bits of Moana give me a lump in my throat as well!

olivebranch31 · 14/04/2024 21:36

Also Mississippi Burning

elf1985 · 14/04/2024 21:58

The last episode with Elsa in 1883 Yellowstone

BabCNesbitt · 14/04/2024 22:05

I’ve seen Truly Madly Deeply so often that I can start crying at the opening credits 😳

And yes to Coco. And recently, All Of Us Strangers. Everyone was leaving the cinema very quietly and sniffling slightly.

Tumbleweed101 · 14/04/2024 22:06

I agree with many of the ones mentioned.

Just watched About Time because of being mentioned on this thread. Hadn't seen it before. Yep, made me cry too!

Milliemoo1908 · 14/04/2024 22:14

Hachi- a dog’s tale with Richard Gere

ronconcoke · 14/04/2024 22:25

For me:
Little Women (any version, I think I've seen them all and they have all had me sobbing)
Up
And there's a film about the life of Jaqueline du Pré, I think it's called Hilary and Jackie, that also had me sobbing.

AriannasGuitarCase · 14/04/2024 22:26

Bridge to Terabithia

Beautiful Creatures

ronconcoke · 14/04/2024 22:31

Oh - forgot to mention Beaches. So, so sad!

HateMyNewJobSoMuch · 14/04/2024 22:35

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Empire of the Sun!

That song! It heralds the opening of the film - when Jim is a spoilt brat then plays again at the end when his entire life, and personality, have dramatically changed as a result of WW2....

The song combined with his dad walking past him and his mum holding his face in her hands.........tips me over the edge every single time!

Pinkdressinggownbelt · 14/04/2024 22:53

Lion

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 14/04/2024 23:00

Terms of Endearment, when Debra Winger says goodbye to her children from her hospital bed.