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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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FurryDice · 11/08/2018 11:58

How could I forget The Elephant Man? Full on hard sobbing from start to finish.

FurryDice · 11/08/2018 11:59

(So not just animal films but ones with an animal in the title too!)

scarlettoftheseas · 11/08/2018 12:32

Bridge To Terabithia. I watched it with my stepson a few years ago, not knowing what it was about. He was sad. Then he turned to me who was full on sobbing. It's a kids movie (apparently) but now one of my absolute faves and I look forward to emotionally torturing my kids with it when they're older!

TomHardyswife · 11/08/2018 12:45

Marley and Me
Haichi
The Green Mile
Beaches
PS I love you

Birdsgottafly · 11/08/2018 12:53

SandyY2K, interesting that you use "man on man" and yet it is the Women that always seem to suffer the most.

MalibuDreaming · 11/08/2018 12:59

I'm in agreement with everyone, but can't forget Click.
Proper full on ugly crying

Loonoon · 11/08/2018 13:00

Toy Story 3 when Andy gives his toys away.

Frozen - we saw it at the cinema when it first came out and all 4 of us, me and DH and two adult DDs were sobbing from from Do you want to build a Snowman.

And last but not least, Mama Mia, when Meryl Streep sings Slipping through my Fingers. DD2 just has to hum the first line and DH wells up.

Gingernaut · 11/08/2018 13:05

I went to an afternoon showing of Les Misérables and had to book a cab in order to get to work on time.

I howled throughout the film. From Hugh Jackman's solo in the church, through Ann Hathaway getting her head shaved and Eddie Redmayne's grieving for his lost comrades, Russell Crowe's suicide right through the death scenes at the end.

The cab driver almost refused to take me as he thought I was drunk.

xTinkerhellx · 11/08/2018 13:11

Hacksaw Ridge.

Sobbed uncontrollably through out the whole film. Then the end credits showed it was a true story and I ugly sobbed for the following three hours.

I still cry whenever I think/talk about it.

nicslackey · 11/08/2018 13:22

The Way We Were
Bridges of Madison County. That part when she is sitting in the car at the lights before he turns his car and she has her hand on the door handle. My stomach hurts just thinking about it.
Schindler's List at the end with all the laying of the stones

CasperGutman · 11/08/2018 13:26

Coco. I don't think I'd even heard of it until I saw the cheapy children's screening listed for this morning. How did I miss this at the cinema last year?

It's the best Disney film ever. The bit where the old woman starts to sing at the end is beautiful! The tears were rolling down my face.

MrStarkIDontFeelSoGood · 11/08/2018 13:28

Recently?

Lion

Absolutely fucking sobbed

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 11/08/2018 13:35

The Champ
Marley and Me
Stepmom

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 11/08/2018 13:35

Dumbo

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 11/08/2018 13:36

The boy in the striped pyjamas

Atthebottomofthesea · 11/08/2018 13:37

I pretty much cry at everything but as a pp mentioned Brassed off and one called Batteries Not Included make my heart hurt.

Atthebottomofthesea · 11/08/2018 13:39

And Sing makes me cry buckets too.

user764329056 · 11/08/2018 13:43

Philadelphia

Puzzledandpissedoff · 11/08/2018 13:46

Goodbye Mr Chips (the Robert Donat one)
Schindler's List (especially the "why didn't I sell the lapel pin - one more life!!" scene)
On The Beach (1959)

And yes, The Green Mile - though I can hardly bear to watch some of it; Delacroix's execution just seems too real

MaddieElla · 11/08/2018 13:48

"There's an Adam Sandler film where he's playing straight for a change called Reign Over Me. It's about a guy who lost his wife and three kids in 9/11. It destroyed me."

This film is so powerful. The scene in the court room is utterly fantastic and you'll never see Adam Sandler in the same light again.

Marley and Me was horrendous before, but we lost our family dog and now I cant watch it at all.

Sophie's Choice horrified me.

Philomena. Cry even thinking about the injustice

bert3400 · 11/08/2018 13:48

Kramer v Kramer ... heartbreaking 😪😪

Yerp · 11/08/2018 13:49

The time traveller’s wife. Sobbed and sobbed when I watched it recently. I am pregnant though but I was heartbroken 😭

onanothertrain · 11/08/2018 13:50

ET
Marley and me
Kramer v kramer

underhiseye · 11/08/2018 13:51

Dumbo
Schindler's list

bert3400 · 11/08/2018 13:53

Also Sophie's choice...another wrenching film