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You need a good cry. What film are you putting on that guarantees it?

211 replies

Soubriquet · 05/07/2024 16:26

Titanic
War Horse
Marley and Me
Dumbo (when Mrs Jumbo rocks her baby)
Fox and the Hound

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TheTripThatWasnt · 05/07/2024 17:05

Not many on a second viewing.

But the minute Sue Barker walked out onto centre court to interview Andy Murray I was in bits. And all the way through the interview/ovations.
I saw a clip of it again today and it had the same effect.

For some reason, sporting achievements have a much greater affect on me than films. I cry at the London Marathon every year, and will undoubtedly be a mess during the Olympics. I think maybe it's the genuine, raw emotion that gets to me.

Cadela · 05/07/2024 17:06

Armageddon every time

Gulbekian · 05/07/2024 17:07

Shadowlands

Ohnooooooooo · 05/07/2024 17:08

A little princess

EternalSunshine19 · 05/07/2024 17:09

Adrift
The fault in our stars
Beaches

FamouslyFrothy · 05/07/2024 17:09

ZaraSpellman · 05/07/2024 16:29

Stepmom and When a man loves a woman

I love When a man loves a woman, such a good film! Never see it on anywhere though. And yes, always guarantees a good blub.

Drttc · 05/07/2024 17:10

Love Story (1970)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Stepmom (1998)

Absolutely impossible not to cry during any of these!!

Mystic Pizza (1988) is a nice emotional rollercoaster too 😂

YouJustDoYou · 05/07/2024 17:10

Grave of the Fireflies.

DCINightingale · 05/07/2024 17:10

Agree with PP, Sleepytime episode of Bluey is guaranteed bawler for me and it's only a few minutes long, if you want/need a quick cry!

AnyFucker · 05/07/2024 17:11

Gladiator. Every time.

Pastimperfection · 05/07/2024 17:13

The light between the Oceans
but my classic scene is when Rhett Butler refuses to allow his daughter o be buried in Gone with the Wind

iPreferBooks · 05/07/2024 17:13

Wonder
Room
Inside Out

Latenightreader · 05/07/2024 17:13

For me it's more books - certain chapters of Anne of Green Gables and Rilla of Ingleside, and the bit where Anna and Max go to an exhibition about their father in A Small Person Far Away.

namechangerthreebillion · 05/07/2024 17:13

My Girl
Somewhere in Time

StrongandNorthern · 05/07/2024 17:16

I've only ever cried at one film - Kes.

Topbird29 · 05/07/2024 17:17

beaches & steel magnolias. Every single single time!

onwardandupwards · 05/07/2024 17:18

Who will love my children
Stepmom
My girl
Drop dead Fred (when she says goodbye to him at the end)
Ghost

MimitteAndElsaGoToSwitzerland · 05/07/2024 17:19

I've seen Titanic too many times for it to get me anymore.

Requiem for a Dream still crashes my emotions though. It's a bleakfest too, so has the added bonus of making me feel better about my own life.

MimitteAndElsaGoToSwitzerland · 05/07/2024 17:20

onwardandupwards · 05/07/2024 17:18

Who will love my children
Stepmom
My girl
Drop dead Fred (when she says goodbye to him at the end)
Ghost

Oh god that scene in Drop Dead Fred makes me bawl!!

SkippysEar · 05/07/2024 17:21

Heat (the ending scene)

Plastoslax · 05/07/2024 17:24

Up close and personal

Yiayoula · 05/07/2024 17:24

Latenightreader · 05/07/2024 17:13

For me it's more books - certain chapters of Anne of Green Gables and Rilla of Ingleside, and the bit where Anna and Max go to an exhibition about their father in A Small Person Far Away.

If we’re including books, I cannot read the section of Northern Lights with the deaths of Lee Scoresby and Hester.

More Hester than Lee, to be honest.

Hobbes8 · 05/07/2024 17:25

TheTripThatWasnt · 05/07/2024 17:05

Not many on a second viewing.

But the minute Sue Barker walked out onto centre court to interview Andy Murray I was in bits. And all the way through the interview/ovations.
I saw a clip of it again today and it had the same effect.

For some reason, sporting achievements have a much greater affect on me than films. I cry at the London Marathon every year, and will undoubtedly be a mess during the Olympics. I think maybe it's the genuine, raw emotion that gets to me.

Same! And any video clip where marathon runners are broken at the end of a race and get helped over the line by someone who could have beaten them.

To link that to the film theme…I’m in pieces at the end of Cool Runnings.

RobinHumphries · 05/07/2024 17:26

Up
about time