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?"

wiseupjanet agree about that scene - it’s hilarious and sad in equal measure. Fantastic acting.

Stepmom

Thelma and Louise
Million Dollar Baby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

Don't Google or read anything about it before you watch it, just watch it - one of the most powerful documentaries I have ever seen.

Toy Story 3
Marley & Me
The Little Mermaid

Cried my eyes out at a strange Jodie Foster vehicle about a girl who couldn't speak. I think it was called Nell.

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Casablanca, when they are singing in the cafe to drown out the Germans, and when she gets on that blasted plane in the end.

Most of the films mentioned already but also Mr Magorium (when he sits down to die). I just cannot help myself.

Lady Sings the Blues

The Champion

The one where Farah Fawcett plays an abusive mum who tortures her young son

I'm going to confess to sobbing from the outset of Sleepless in Seattle - my mother died of cancer at a relatively young age and my father had died unexpectedly and very quickly when young. The opening lines:

Mommy got sick and it happened just like that and there was nothing anybody could do.

Hanks' portrayal of grief was so convincing .

YABU to use the term ‘ugly cry’ - it’s along the same lines as ‘poorly sick’ when someone is unwell.

But, that aside, the films that have made me fugly cry are Titanic , Spartacus, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, and Moulin Rouge.

I also once cried for two whole days after reading ‘The Girl At The Lion D’Or’.

Steel Magnolias is my go to film that I can watch over and over again. Lots of people write it off as a light-weight film but the writing is incredible and it has a stellar cast. I am always on a mission to persuade people to give it a go and most people love it. A perfect Sunday afternoon film or when you just need to laugh and cry. Also fabulous 80s fashions!

Pans Labyrinth
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Sophies Choice
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Black Beauty (I scared my son because I was sobbing so hard when Ginger died when it was on over Christmas!)

Gladiator- the end scene sets me off every single time.

The boy in the striped pyjamas... I've only seen it once but I went into full scale emotional breakdown and took at least an hour to calm down properly after watching it. The synopsis for that film is bloody deceptive!

Watership Down and Charlottes Web

Proper big sobbing heaving ugly crying

Also
Wings of Desire
Toy Story 3
Bowling for Columbine
The Passion of the Christ

I don't think this has been mentioned yet... The Elephant Man.

Good Lord. Watched it with my parents when I was approx 10 years old. It really really traumatised me and I still have crying fits whenever I watch it now.

The scene where he's trapped in the railway station shouting pitifully "I am not an animal! I am a human being!"

Proper crying for days.

In Shawshank Redemption when that poor man can't cope outside of prison and kills himself. I fast forward through it now, I simply can't watch it!

the mist- I know it's a horror but the ending OMG. THE FEELS ARE REAL

Still Alice and Meet Joe Black. 50 first dates makes me cry too.

This is a huge hangover from the teenage years but I actually cannot watch Titanic! And not for the obvious bits either, it's the whole of it plus the scene where the woman is floating dead covered in ice and she has a baby in her arms, that just finished me off and now I can't even hear the bloody theme tune!

I'd say The Green Mile but I couldn't actually get to the end.

I also howled when we had to watch 'Of Mice and Men' as part of our GCSE English course.

As for Braveheart - cannot watch.

It's safe to say I steer clear of many films!

Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, 3 Billboards, ET, Bambi, Notebook, Titanic...so many!

I was embarrassing in Arrival. Just couldn't stop sobbing.

I've stopped lurking and decided to post just to say I can't believe nobody has said The Persuit of Happiness (I thought I would never stop crying)

Also An American Tail if anyone remembers Fieval the mouse 😭

Another howler but an absolutely beautiful film is 'What Dreams May Come'. My favourite Robin Williams film.