Movies that make you ugly cry...

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So there is a thread about TV characters and it got me thinking. So AIBU to ask what movie really makes you cry?
The Green Mile. The moment when Tom Hanks says "We love you. Can you feel that?"

the rescue of jessica mclaure
last snows of spring

Stella Dalla...an old black & white Barbara Stanwyck film
Ghost
Dumbo
Bambi

A Little Princess

Bridge to Terebithia (awful spelling, sorry). After his friend dies, the teacher pulls him to the side and says something along the lines of "I was broken beyond thinkable when I lost my husband. I had the pleasure of his company for years. But you, you had her for a matter of moments. And I'm so so sorry" 😭

I don't get the beginning of Up. What's so sad about it? I know she died at the end but that's about it

When daisy the dog is killed in john wick by those horrible mean men.

When Bing-Bong sacrifices himself to save Joy in Inside Out. Lots of deep breaths taken to avoid howling in the Odeon.

Controversial but.... “me before you” Had me ugly crying at six months pregnant. Watched it on recommendation of a younger colleague and thought “nah I won’t cry”, but how wrong I was!

Just saw someone mentioned “the boy in the striped pyjamas”- oh my
God I want to bawl my eyes out now!!!

"Ugly cry?" is that a real expression? I'm hearing some odd things lately. "My bad" being one

When Johnny Five gets the shit kicked out of him in Short Circuit 2. First watched it as a child and I was absolutely inconsolable. Similarly, there's a scene in the Misfits involving chasing down and roping wild horses that I will never be able to watch again.

'My bad' is real american. I've got some american friends and a few years ago when we were emailing I said something gently pointing out to one of them that they'd muddled something up.. She replied with 'my bad'... I was

Yes to the end of Schindlers List... sob sob

Others:

A Night To Remember (the original Titanic story, not Cameron's glitz fest) ... "We'll find her sonny, we'll find your mummy"

And of course It's a Wonderful Life ... "Here's to my big brother George, the richest man in town"

WAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

My Sister's Keeper
The Orphanage
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Meet Joe Black
Legends of the Fall

I'm a crier anyway, but these two stand apart for making me full-on ugly cry on every viewing. I still remember my sister, who never cries at films, coming out the cinema a sobbing wreck the first time we saw them both! 😂

Other mentions:
The Land Before Time
Blood Diamond

Oh and A Walk to Remember. Sobbed like mad the first time but not so much on subsequent viewings.

It is easier to list the films that don’t leave me sobbing....!

I have spent my whole life cheerfully crying my way through the slightest bit of sentimentality in films, with various of members of the family peering at me to see if ‘I’ve gone yet’

Books do it to

@phlebasconsidered Untamed Heart is my favourite ever film, I start crying long before the saddest bit as I know what's coming. I even have a signed copy of it as met Christian Slater a few times and I am such a saddo I took the DVD with me to be signed

I forgot about I am Sam, I just couldn't stop full on sobbing, just something about it really got to me.

Me before You also, it was so much sadder than I was expecting, I found the whole thing devastating.

@daughterofanarchy - why is it controversial? Is that a MN issue like Love Actually that in RL everyone actually likes

Zany, it's not just mn...
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/06/03/me-before-you-debate-why-are-disabled-rights-groups-angry-about/

basically anything sad involving a dog

I didn't realise I did this until my DH pointed it out, but if we were watching a film with a dog in, I always used to say " I hope nothing bad happens to the dog."

Ghost
West Side Story

Thanks for the article, much appreciated (my comment was a bit tongue in cheek really, apologies for being flippant)

I don't agree with that article at all. The film just shows one person's feelings on being disabled to the extent they are and never suggests he would be better off dead, in fact only he feels like that, no one else in the film does. I think they portray it sensitively and brilliantly. But sorry, don't want to derail so will comment no further on that one

Loads!! I’m not a massive crier but some films just get to me. Most have already been mentioned but particular bad ones are

The Green Mile
Forest Gump
Pay it Forward( really ugly cry!)
Dumbo
Marley and Me
Cool Runnings
Impossible

There’s quite a lot really!!

On a different note Me Before You didn’t make me cry as a film but the book absolutely floored me! I was commenting to work on the train reading it and was desperately trying not to sob in public! I think it was because I wasn’t expecting it, the film just didn’t get me in the same way, maybe because I knew what was coming or I just don’t think it was as sad as the book

donetodeath - I found the same with PS I Love You, I was expecting to be a sobbing wreck watching the film but something about it just didn't click for me, I read the book thinking it would be an easy holiday read and I was in bits.