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What film last made you cry?

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Soubriquet · 29/01/2025 11:06

I watched for the first time last night The Green Mile (I know. I know. It’s an oldie and it’s a shame I had never seen it before)

I sort of knew the storyline, not the whole lot, but enough to know that I would cry. I did not expect to be a sobbing mess though. I still have a headache this morning from crying last night.

I don’t think I can watch it again. Amazing film. Amazingly well done but what a tear jerker

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SleepDeprivedElf · 01/02/2025 08:01

All of us strangers. A great movie!

daisychain01 · 01/02/2025 08:02

DeepestDarkestRiver · 31/01/2025 22:31

Bridges of Madison County. Watched it with two friends. We're in our 50s. I cried when I watched it in the early 90s, but I CRIED this time. Snivelling, heaving crying. We were all emotionally exhausted. Wonderful movie.

Loved Bridges, and the book was good too 👍

The Dig starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes.

DH and I had a little weep over that one, it had a strong storyline and filmed in a beautiful setting.

NormallyAwkward · 01/02/2025 08:06

I'm glad it wasn't only me crying in the cinema at The Wild Robot! I was trying really hard for no one to notice!

LizzieSiddal · 01/02/2025 08:10

I too sobbed during Betterman. Poor Robbie

And I loved that little monkey by the end of the film 😂

Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies · 01/02/2025 08:20

I cry easily at films. But the last time I cried in the cinema was in the final Hunger Games when Katniss shouts at the cat. Which is a little embarrassing.

My DH who never cries, cried at the final scene of Slow Horses when River is walking away from his grandfather. A horribly realistic portrayal of dementia.

onwardandupwards · 01/02/2025 08:22

The wild robot, sleepers and stepmom. Steel magnolias and my girl make me cry every time I watch them.

Sunblocker · 01/02/2025 08:24

Justsaywhatyoumean123 · 31/01/2025 20:13

The Robbie Williams movie embarrassingly

I didn’t even expect to like it but I think it’s one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Made me laugh and cry! I thought ’We Live in Time’ would be a teary one but it just annoyed me! My daughters sobbed though!

Kaminari · 01/02/2025 08:27

I rewatched Ghost with DD the other night and I cried because she cried at the end and it set me off, so that's the most recent.

But the films I cried the most at are a toss up between Awakenings (Robin Williams) and Miracle in Cell no7, the Turkish version, if anyone's looking to break their own heart this weekend.

Solow12 · 01/02/2025 08:39

Wicked. Watched for the second time this week and cried more than the first time round! Cynthia Erivo in the Ozdust dance scene breaks my heart.

Bodybutterblusher · 01/02/2025 08:39

It ends with us

Bodybutterblusher · 01/02/2025 08:40

No, it was We live in time.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 01/02/2025 08:42

JoJo Rabbit - the shoes

Clawdy · 01/02/2025 09:06

I sobbed at the end of Bohemian Rhapsody, just so sad.
And the end of Nowhere Boy, when he's walking up the street into his future, and we know how his life will end.

Parky04 · 01/02/2025 09:11

Schlindlers list. Watched it again a couple of days ago.

sandgreen · 01/02/2025 09:24

BigAnne · 31/01/2025 23:11

The boy in the striped pyjamas

I've probably said this before on here under one username or another but this one destroyed me, largely because I watched it by accident. It was on in the background, I saw someone in it and thought 'is that the fella that plays Bishop Brennan in Father Ted?'

Let me tell you that is not why you should watch that film. I wasn't right for days 😂.

When David Lynch died I went straight to the ending of The Straight Story. I don't know how that film does what it does but at the end, when Alvin gets to where he's going, it is just so incredibly moving.

happinessischocolate · 01/02/2025 09:40

marmiteloversunite · 31/01/2025 21:22

I cried at the end of Better man, the Robbie Williams film, too!

I was crying way before the end 😭

PamelaDoov · 01/02/2025 09:44

The Iron Claw. I was not expecting to be crying over that.

Hedgerow2 · 01/02/2025 10:52

@Izzabellasasperella - yes indeed. At the end with the real Elvis and the footage of the young boy. Such a sad story. Such terrible exploitation.

poemsandwine · 01/02/2025 13:19

SprinkleOfSunak · 01/02/2025 07:30

Lion with Dev Patel.

Yes!

2catsandhappy · 01/02/2025 16:09

Eight Below starring the late Paul Walker.
I cried like a baby.

It's the one about huskies abandoned to fend for themselves. Inspired by real events.

Bideshi · 01/02/2025 16:15

'A Complete Unknown'.
Cried for my lost youth but mainly because there was so much hope then and belief in the possibility of a better, more just world, and now there isn't.
Agree about the shoes in JoJo Rabbit.

Longwaysouth · 01/02/2025 16:19

One Life.
I came out the cinema with panda eyes

echt · 01/02/2025 17:04

I saw Memoir of a Snail with DD - we both cried.

Also After Life.

glasshouse · 01/02/2025 17:33

I'm not generally a crier at films, the exception being A Monster Calls. I had to wait until the credits were over before I stopped crying.

worrisomeasset · 01/02/2025 17:42

The scene in The Full Monty where Lesley Sharp’s character finds her husband’s stripper stuff. It reduces me to a blubbering wreck every time I see it.

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