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Movies that make you ugly cry...

451 replies

Raffles1981 · 11/08/2018 06:26

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?"
Sad

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gaggiagirl · 09/12/2018 00:11

Up.
Coco.

4catsaremylife · 09/12/2018 00:27

@baublegirl I loved that film it's called Wit, I believe, I remember because Eileen Atkins reads from the Veveteen Rabbit which I used to read to my DC

upinastar · 09/12/2018 00:30

The Christmas Chronicles. I was really looking forward to this coming on Netflix and was all ready to watch it with my sons. However the youngest fell asleep and the oldest wasnt interested so I watched it myself.

We lost their dad to cancer last year and I sobbed through the whole film. I'm so glad I never watched it with my sons.

MrsT4 · 09/12/2018 00:32

Wonder - I watched it 8 months pregnant by myself and I just sobbed into my cushion.

RagingWhoreBag · 09/12/2018 00:37

Incendiary with Michelle Williams. I won’t say why as I don’t want to spoil it but it’s double sad. Sad Really good film, but I was properly wrung out after that.

JojoLapin · 09/12/2018 01:06

Lion
3 billboards outside Ebbing
Up
Pan’s labyrinth

Pinkprincess1978 · 09/12/2018 01:31

Armageddon, can't ever watch it without sobbing my heart out.

CollyWombles · 09/12/2018 01:33

What Dreams May Come - Robin Williams, kids die in a car crash, he dies, goes to heaven, his wife kills herself and goes to hell. Cried my eyes out.

12 Years A Slave - went to see this in the cinema with exp. I didn't speak for about an hour afterward. Awful, heartbreaking, I was genuinely shocked at it I think. And completely disgusted with my own race.

Marley and Me - any animal lover will be destroyed by this film.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest - one of my favourite films. Poor Billy and the ending.

Leon - the ending of course.

The Good Dinosaur - much tears but also pregnant whilst watching it.

The English Patient - the cave

Patch Adams - when he reads the rest of the poem.

Lovingbenidorm · 09/12/2018 01:37

I cried SO much in the cinema watching ET. I got dumped due to amount of snot I produced

CatsnRabbits · 09/12/2018 02:10

I've just read the whole thread to see if anyone mentioned Room, but no! I watched it at the cinema with my friend, we had both read the book but had to gather ourselves before leaving the dark auditorium and going into the foyer.

easielouisie · 09/12/2018 02:11

Dumbo! 😭

CJsGoldfish · 09/12/2018 02:18

PS I love You. (yes, I know but I can't help it lol )
Marley and Me
Lion (the most recent to make me cry and ugly cry, it did. Amazing story)

The Champ.
I saw this as a child and it has stuck with me. When I think of it, I can still picture that ending frame by frame. First film that made me sob, and it still makes me cry just thinking about it.

Lovingbenidorm · 09/12/2018 02:36

PS I Love You 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Graphista · 09/12/2018 04:10

"The fault in our stars, I was full on ugly crying the first time I watched that. DH thought I'd lost the plot"

I was completely caught out by this one. Went to see with dd as she'd loved the book. I was firmly of the opinion that no modern teen drama would fuss me, I can be a hard faced cow at times. But no this proper got me, maybe because it's NOT schmaltzy and I overplayed?

Marley & me - but not the same as everyone else, SPOILER ALERT when the dog knows to comfort her after the mc.

Steel magnolias - again not the obvious point SPOILER ALERT 2 but when they're fighting after the funeral, the cantankerous bffs played by Shirley MacLaine (I LOVE her) and Olympia Dukakis

Speaking of Shirley MacLaine - terms of endearment, OMG if that doesn't get to you, you have NO heart!

"But Imitation of life gets me every time, can just watch clips and I ball with tears" I ALWAYS mention on threads about tearjerkers

Imitation of life
Madam X
Who will love my children

Kramer vs Kramer, I have on my Netflix list, haven't been able to bring myself to watch it yet.

I've never seen watership down but remember the song being a hit and just the song makes me cry! A real "tough guy" friend of mine commented on FB recently re the remake saying basically "nope! Not going through that again!"

"Officer and a gentleman" yes! I think people forget how moving that was, not just the obvious, but Richard gere "I got nowhere else to go!" Zack knows, if he crashes out of military training he'll be on a path to complete self destruction, Lou gosset jrs character knows that, he's not being cruel he's getting Zack to break down that last barrier, also when he then sacrifices his assault course record to help casey just complete the damn thing! Apparently Lou gossett Jr. undertook genuine military training with a real life drill sgt and was surprised to learn that the drill sgt was very aware that many recruits come from tough even abusive backgrounds and he actually saw his role as parental, breaking through - not down - to get them to deal with their issues, then building them up. To any who liked this film I HIGHLY recommend men of honor which is based on a true story.

"Stepmom" omg yes! As a single mum with a dd this really got to me. "And my fear is that she'll be thinking 'I wish my mom was here'... And my fear is that she won't" my health isn't the best (not life limiting though) either, dd won't even watch it now. She's banned me from dying!

"The absolute worst, though, was The Color Purple. That broke me" if you think the films bad DEFINITELY don't read the book!

"About Time" blood love this film

Pay It Forward - omg yes!

An eye for an eye - I'm glad I've seen it, but I couldn't watch it again. Same with a time to kill. Just too distressing to watch more than once.

Been unable to watch either dead poets society or what dreams may come since Robin Williams died. Just too close to the bone.

"The film the always makes me cry is the ending in cool running’s! I’m dead inside and can sit through most things but this gets me every time" I think sometimes it's if it's unexpectedly moving, I'm the same with planes, trains & automobiles. The audience is clearly not meant to expect that revelation.

"The blind side also got me" that one caught dd and I out!

"It's nice I never had one before"

"What a room to yourself?"

"A bed" 😭😭😭

"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" did you completely miss the mc & lack of children?

One that is absolutely NOT "for those of a nervous disposition" as they used to say AND it's a true story - Butterbox babies.

"I know it isn't a film but the last episode of Blackadder goes forth , I am starting now" it's the only episode of blackadder I've ever seen as its not my humour, ex made me watch it. Utterly heartbreaking!

"Highlander when his wife dies and the music begins to swell for the intro of Who Wants to Live Forever." Omg yes!

Charmed - when pipers a fury and raging at prue for dying and leaving her!

mrsjg · 09/12/2018 04:17

Nanny McPhee - the first one. I was going through a tough time with ds (he couldn't cope with his nursery Christmas party due to his now known Aspergers) and this came on the telly. The scene at the end when it snows along with the music had me breaking down. I still get upset if I happen to catch it on telly some 10ish years later.

Rockmysocks · 09/12/2018 05:19

Old old film that I wish I could remember the title of and who was in it.... basically a black lady had a daughter who was light coloured and passed for being white. Daughter wouldn't acknowledge her mother in public and didn't want anyone to know she was black. She became a stripper and broke her mum's heart. Her mum would quietly try to see her and talk to her about giving up stripping and doing the bad stuff she'd got into.

It ends when her mother dies and her daughter finds out on the day of the funeral and runs to follow the funeral cortege crying her eyes out - God... tearing up thinking about it... - too late to tell her mum she was sorry and loved her...

Rockmysocks · 09/12/2018 05:22

Mrsjg

Blackadder THAT episode.... omg yes.
Loved blackadder and remember the sudden jolt when the joking stopped and that final scene that finished in silence. Bawled

OutOntheTilez · 09/12/2018 06:10

Schindler's List
The Shawshank Redemption
A River Runs Through It
The Green Mile
Sad

fieryginger · 09/12/2018 06:15

I must be the only person not to find Marley and Me sad.

ohlittlepea · 09/12/2018 06:17

Annie

Graphista · 09/12/2018 13:34

Rockmysocks - pretty sure the film you're describing is "imitation of life" but the dd becomes a chorus girl not a stripper (though in the 50's that was probably considered almost as bad)

bellinisurge · 09/12/2018 13:35

Senna.
Can't watch it again. Loved watching it. Ugly cried quite a lot.

Rockmysocks · 17/12/2018 06:03

Graphista- I think you're right. I had a look on IMDB and the synopsis sounds about right. Yes, she may well have been a chorus girl and not a stripper... only saw it once, think it was on one Sunday afternoon many years ago and never heard of it since. Cried my eyes out...

Rockmysocks · 17/12/2018 06:03

Graphista - and Thankyou going to see if its available anywhere!

saganorenscarandcoat · 17/12/2018 06:09

Bridges of Madison County, watched this on a plane and bawled my eyes out so much that I nearly woke the whole plane up