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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?"
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ijustneedagoodnightssleep · 11/08/2018 10:25

I cry at bloody anything so there are a whole list of films that I refuse to watch Just the trailer for A Dogs Purpose has me bawling!
Films I have seen though;
Schindler's List
Coco
Lion (jeez the first half and the end are hard!)
The Impossible
The Pianist
The end of Toy Story 3
Goodnight Mister Tom. That is DEVASTATING.
Inside Out
Terms of Endearment
Beaches

Willow2017 · 11/08/2018 10:26

Most of the films mentioned so far (but havent watched marley and me)
Dead Poets Society "Oh captain my captain" waaaaah😭
I am hopeless when it comes to sad bits in films.
I could hardly listen to 'slipping through my fingers' without welling up its so poignant before mamma mia came out i was a wreck during the film!

4 weddings at Gareths funeral.
'Philadelphia' when they are cross examining him and make him show his skin lesions. Bastards.
Big Fish was a wonderful film but cried buckets again.
P.S. I love you for most of tbe damm film!
Brief Encounter when he leaves forever and that woman.keeps wittering on 😀

Basically i cry at anything. Ds1 and i used to watch winnie the pooh short videos or films and cry together. 😀 I always knew when the end of one came if i was out of the room when he started to cry😀 Both of my sons sometimes still cry at sad films i think its great that they are able to do so without embarassment.

Nothing beats a good cry at a good film if life is sticking it to you.

IamtheDevilsAvocado · 11/08/2018 10:27

Another vote for Truly Madly Deeply... Fab film written by late, brilliant Ant minghella and starring the much missed Alan Rickman.

Remains of the day

Shadow lands

CherryPavlova · 11/08/2018 10:27

The pianist
Schindler’s list
Boy in striped pyjamas

Pinkvoid · 11/08/2018 10:28

I haven’t seen Beaches since I was about 16 but that always got me bad.
The Notebook
P.S I love you
Forrest Gump made me sob when I was pregnant with DC1 Blush

SusanneLinder · 11/08/2018 10:33

But Imitation of life gets me every time, can just watch clips and I ball with tears
Madame X used to be on with this as a double bill, that was worse!

Kr250710 · 11/08/2018 10:52

@idontknowwhatimdoing do you mean Lion? Sounds like the same film... absolute tear jerker x

BlooBagoo · 11/08/2018 11:08

The Green Mile
Stand By Me
Lala Land (PMS may have partly been to blame)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Les Miserables

Also once sobbed my heart out during The South Park Movie but I was heavily pregnant at the time. Grin

And books which did it but the movies didn't hit me quite as hard:
The Book Thief
The Fault in Our Stars
My Sister's Keeper

Fifthtimelucky · 11/08/2018 11:11

Lots of things people have already mentioned, so I won't repeat.

I love a good cry, but one film I don't think I could ever watch again is Sophie's Choice. Far too harrowing.

BlooBagoo · 11/08/2018 11:12

Reading back, agree with these too:

Up
Dead Poet's Society (it's Neil's parents' reaction which sets me off)
My Girl

nellierose · 11/08/2018 11:14

The little sequence in UP with Ellie and Carl!

haverhill · 11/08/2018 11:17

Wit. Cried like a baby at her loneliness.
Shadowlands. The bit where CSLewis and his stepson are crying after the death of his wife and Lewis says something like ‘the happiness before and the pain now are all part of the same thing’ SadSad

Yohoahoy · 11/08/2018 11:18

Gladiator - he just wanted to go home.
Field of Dreams - his dad came.

Ugly, ugly crying indeed.

downinthejunglee · 11/08/2018 11:20

Marley and Me
Goodnight Mr Tom
Schindler's List
The Green Mile

downinthejunglee · 11/08/2018 11:20

ET

HesterShaw1 · 11/08/2018 11:20

Shadowlands

I watched it with my mum and dad. We were very much a stiff upper lip family but we all cried :(

HesterShaw1 · 11/08/2018 11:24

And Out Of Africa of course. Part of that is the music - it's so perfect.

bimbobaggins · 11/08/2018 11:26

The champ is the first film I remember crying at as a child.
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

Khaleesi78 · 11/08/2018 11:30

I made the mistake of watching Moulin Rouge after my fiancé died... I sobbed for about an hour afterwards.

Also
PS I Love You
The Notebook

I will never watch Marley & Me

AshOutside · 11/08/2018 11:30

My Girl- every time!

DontCallMeCharlotte · 11/08/2018 11:38

Muriel 's Wedding.
Red Dog.

Husband disappeared to "make tea" the second time we watched Marley and Me as we'd acquired a yellow lab since we'd first seen it...

Leesa65 · 11/08/2018 11:42

Schindler's List
The Lovely Bones
The Book Thief
And a very old one many of you may not know of
Audrey Rose (had a very young Anthony Hopkins in)

GoodHeavensNoImAChicken · 11/08/2018 11:45

I’m so glad someone else mentioned 50 first dates because I bawled my eyes out at that and my friend was baffled!

Marley and me and The blind side also got me. To be honest I cry at so many things I refuse to watch any animal films I’ve heard to be sad so I’ve never seen dumbo, the lion king or black beauty - all after I cried so much at bambi as a three year old mum didn’t want to put me through anything else 😂

lindyhopy · 11/08/2018 11:49

Sophie's Choice is heartbreaking

SandyY2K · 11/08/2018 11:55

12 years a slave

Makes me cry and makes me angry.

The inhumane treatment of man by man based on skin colour Is soul destroying, especially when you have the same skin colour as the oppressed as I do.

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