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Need a good cry. What should I watch?

125 replies

turquoisepagentry · 30/12/2025 10:59

Need to get some emotions out and have a good cry, ideally with a film (or series?) that ends up at least slightly uplifting so that I'm not totally depressed afterwards.
Any suggestions?!
I'll be watching alone so needn't be child-friendly. No other requirements, just needs to let me get a lot of stuck tears out. Thank you!

OP posts:
TheLittleGreenFairy · 30/12/2025 12:00

It's a wonderful life or Marley and me.

BlueWorkDay · 30/12/2025 12:03

Call Me By Your Name.

Or Up... I've never seen DH cry like he cried at Up.

ithinkilikethislittlelife · 30/12/2025 12:06

A dogs purpose. Absolute tearjerker

Bumpinthenight · 30/12/2025 12:06

I Swear

Beaches

DD (18) still thinks the Good Dinosaur is the saddest film you can watch!

Alicorn1707 · 30/12/2025 12:12

Steel Magnolias

almondflake · 30/12/2025 12:12

A children’s/family film had me crying as I didn’t see the end coming , it’s a lovely film about the friendship of 2 children who don’t really fit in with the rest of their peers .

blankcanvas3 · 30/12/2025 12:14

We Live In Time

PuppyMonkey · 30/12/2025 12:17

definitely the Goodbye June one, blubbed like a loon at the end, especially the lovely song over the closing credits.

Topbird29 · 30/12/2025 12:28

Beaches, steel magnolias or the green mile every time for me.
And marley and me!

Carolenarua · 30/12/2025 12:32

Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe. Brilliant!

moggerhanger · 30/12/2025 12:34

TheGrimSqueakersFlea · 30/12/2025 11:54

The wild robot

I was going to suggest that. Saw it in a half-full cinema with my DC and at one point I think everyone in the place was weeping.

Miranda65 · 30/12/2025 12:44

Paddington 2. The ending gets me every time, but it's still feelgood.

IAmKerplunk · 30/12/2025 12:45

Beaches

Flowers op

Whosthetabbynow · 30/12/2025 12:46

Watched Titanic again the other week. Could not stop crying at the end.

JoanChitty · 30/12/2025 12:46

Lots of lovely ideas, I would go with Somewhere in Time , Random Harvest and the film Up. They are the ones that will guarantee tears for me!

Cazzovuoi · 30/12/2025 12:49

Films - Last Christmas. I unexpectedly sobbed at the end. So good.

Series - Firefly Lane

Livpool · 30/12/2025 13:20

brennanbones · 30/12/2025 11:54

Hachi - a dogs tale
had me crying so much the cat hid under the sofa

I was dehydrated after crying at this film

Lansonmaid · 30/12/2025 14:16

Gallipoli
The mission
I left the cinema in floods after the ending of both of these films.
also the bit in the Elephant Man where he cries out that he is a human being. Sublime acting from John Hurt through his voice, as you can’t see his face for the make up.

ResusciAnnie · 30/12/2025 14:18

WingBingo · 30/12/2025 11:05

The new Kate Winslet film on Netflix.

I think it’s called Goodbye June

Yes I watched this the other day!

Mumteedum · 30/12/2025 14:19

Lion

Cried buckets.

MissisBee · 30/12/2025 14:20

The railway children

25mini7 · 30/12/2025 14:21

Any episode of Long Lost Family

FionnulaTheCooler · 30/12/2025 14:22

Mamma Mia. Slipping through my fingers gets me sobbing every time as the mum of a now grown up daughter.

lifehappens12 · 30/12/2025 14:24

Steel magnolias

azafata2 · 30/12/2025 14:25

War Horse.

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