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Need a good cry. What should I watch?

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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:
powershowerforanhour · 30/12/2025 21:52

Pan's Labyrinth?

NortyTorty · 30/12/2025 21:52

Sheggsie · 30/12/2025 11:19

Topgun, the original one, gets me every time.

This was ruined for me when Paddy and Keith did their spoof (with a Chuckle Brother as Jester) I can’t watch the sad scenes now without seeing that.

TheWeekOnTheDalymountSeat · 30/12/2025 21:53

SirChenjins · 30/12/2025 11:02

All Of You - a good weepy

The Hunt for the Wilderpeople - you'll cry and laugh with this. Absolutely brilliant. Don't be put off by thinking it's just another family film.

Edited

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is one of our favourites, happy to see you appreciate it as much as we do x

RedRiverShore6 · 30/12/2025 21:55

Life Itself, written by same person as This is Us

Kittylicker · 30/12/2025 21:56

Another one for Goodnight mr Tom.

NortyTorty · 30/12/2025 21:57

Read it all back now and I’m delighted to see Gallipoli but it doesn’t meat the uplifting brief. A brilliant film but it is so very very sad.

EmeraldDreams73 · 30/12/2025 21:58

We watched Goodbye June this evening. That'll do the job. Hope you're OK, OP. 💐

Whatsinanames · 30/12/2025 21:59

blankcanvas3 · 30/12/2025 12:14

We Live In Time

THIS!

most of the others people have suggested (marley and me?!) are naff films.

This is genuinely a brilliant film

impostacosta · 30/12/2025 22:02

Film called Pay It Forward, heartbreaking film
but uplifting at the same time

powershowerforanhour · 30/12/2025 22:15

"Read it all back now and I’m delighted to see Gallipoli but it doesn’t meat the uplifting brief. A brilliant film but it is so very very sad"

Yes, absolutely guaranteed to have you bawling your lamps out

"As fast as a leopard" "Then let's see you do it"
But not uplifting.

uhtredofbattenberg · 30/12/2025 22:20

The Bridge to Terebithia
The Father - with Anthony Hopkins

uhtredofbattenberg · 30/12/2025 22:20

The Bridge to Terebithia
The Father - with Anthony Hopkins

Wincarnis · 30/12/2025 22:32

Love Actually - the scene with Emma Thompson & the CD should start off a good cry

Bryonyberries · 31/12/2025 21:09

i watched Goodbye, June due to this thread. I was a mess by the end. I lost my mum this time 3 years ago and it hit the mark!

chunkyBoo · 31/12/2025 21:51

EmeraldDreams73 · 30/12/2025 21:58

We watched Goodbye June this evening. That'll do the job. Hope you're OK, OP. 💐

I’ve already thought to myself … no, I can’t watch this, it’ll break me!
I thought that about a load of modern war films, recently watched a load of them, like zero dark thirty, black hawk down, vowed never to watch them … they were amazing and I loved them, but think there’s a time in life when you can handle this type of film .. for me, that film is not now

moggerhanger · 02/01/2026 14:23

One that has me happy-sobbing every time at the ending is Pride. "When you find out you've got a friend, that you didn't know you had..." https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/

Pride (2014) ⭐ 7.8 | Biography, Comedy, Drama

1h 59m | 15

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/

Triflingjelly · 02/01/2026 14:31

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Beaches
The Apartment

Munchyseeds2 · 02/01/2026 14:35

Me before you

Topsy44 · 02/01/2026 14:44

War Horse.

PineConeOrDogPoo · 02/01/2026 15:31

Pans Labyrinth

Darklane · 02/01/2026 16:58

Four Weddings & a Funeral. A fun film but the funeral scene always has me sobbing, especially when Matthew gives his speech.

Brassed Off. great music, great characters & such a moving speech by Danny at the end of the Albert Hall competition

WinterFrogs · 02/01/2026 17:03

I cried watching the second mama mia film yesterday

NeedWineNow · 02/01/2026 19:24

These get me every time:

ET
The Green Mile
West Side Story (the original)
Sleepless in Seattle
An Affair to Remember
Frankenstein (the one with Robert de Niro)

The Sound of Music when the Reverend Mother sings Climb Every Mountain. It was my late dad’s favourite.

chunkyBoo · 03/01/2026 09:02

I watched Temple Grandin the other day, that had me in tears too … but I have ASD AuDHD children

Rocknrollstar · 03/01/2026 09:27

Terms of Endearment
Bridges of Maddison county
Spartacus
Prince of Tides
The Way We Were
Steel Magnolias
King and I
Step Mom

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