to ask film makes you bawl like a baby?

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I’ve just re-watched A Star is Born and sobbed like there’s no tomorrow. Made me think about other films that have hit me hard.
Green Mile is another real sob fest.

Any others? I’d like to build a ‘I need a good cry’ collection

Juno - not even sad crying, just for a really good cry

Cars - when Lightning pushes the other car over the line, every single time. Yep, Disney’s Cars. Can’t help it.

So many but here's a few belters

Beaches
Terms of Endearment
Steel Magnolias
Stand By Me

This is why I don't tend to watch certain types of movies.

I don't set out to be emotionally manipulated.

I have a heart of stone but Life is Beautiful and Pans Labyrinth make me cry every time I watch them.

Also, the opening scene of Up.

@CourageCamille

A Monster Calls. Then I got the book and read it and sobbed again in the back garden much to the concern of my neighbour.

I saw this at the cinema with my then 10 year old son - I had to stay at the end to sort myself out before we left. We lost my mum to ovarian cancer and although her last weeks were as good as they could possibly have been, I never recognised that feeling of guilt for wanting the stress to be over for what it was, til I saw this film. It absolutely broke me. What an amazing movie. Patrick Ness is brilliant and the artists that put this together are, too.

Lion broke me as well. Cried so much. The bit at the end with his brother.

Beaches upsets me when they argue - would hate to lose my best friend for any amount of time like that.

My contribution is - the Time Traveller's Wife. The characters and their privileged lives are so alien to me, but the feelings in the book and the film are quite real.

Beaches
Steel magnolias

Where the Red Fern Grows...

Dogs... It makes me sad just thinking about it...

Just thought of another one from a while back but if it came on tv again I would cry

Tim - Early Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie

Up.

Up, as recommended by DD.
Watched it at home with DH. The old man looks exactly like FIL (DH didn't agree). I had to leave the room very quickly at the end! I told DD, who agreed re the old man. She might have told me it was a weepy!

Girl's Night starring Julie Walters and Brenda Blethyn.
Little known, about sisters in law and one dying of cancer. They take a last holiday to Las Vegas and meet Kris Kristoffersen.
Two of the best British actors ever.

PS I love you.

Eight below
Hachi (that was full on howling)
Million dollar baby

@WorraLiberty

I've seen a few films that have brought tears to my eyes.

But I honestly can't imagine actually sobbing or bawling.

Serious question to those who say they react that way. Do you actually 'sob' and 'bawl' or just shed a few tears?

A few films have made me shed a few tears or well up Hachi was full on "can't stop crying" with the cat giving me side eye and hiding under the sofa. I couldn't ever watch it again Same with books, a few have made me well up but the horse dancer is the only book I've ever full on cried while reading

Life is beautiful

A Little Princess

Lilya-4-ever

Les Choristes

@Seventimesaday

Most of the ones mentioned so far, plus Million Dollar Baby and more recently Bohemian Rhapsody. Couldn’t actually leave the cinema for a while the first time I watched it.

Bohemian rhapsody was fantastic. I wanted to watch it again straight away! My dad is a huge Queen fan and anything that might "ruin it" he won't watch but I persuaded him to watch it He rang me after and was "I don't know how to describe it. Incredible"

12 years a slave

[quote IndigoHexagon]@Florabella I came on to say About Time. I’d gone to the cinema with a friend to ‘escape’ for a couple of hours. Chose to watch this as it seemed that a rom-com was just what I needed.

It really wasn’t - my mum had just been told she had very aggressively terminal cancer so I literally sobbed like my heart out at the bit you describe.
I was sat at the back so leaving would have drawn more attention to myself so I tried to hold myself together but it was hard. At the end, as everyone was leaving, a lady in front of me turned around, reached over the seat and drew me into the biggest bear hug. She didn’t say a word, just held me as I cried. I still think about her.[/quote]
@IndigoHexagon Tears rolling down my cheeks just reading your comment. I’ve lost a parent to cancer too. What a lovely, lovely lady.

Dumbo
Bambi
My Girl
Beaches

Lots that have already been mentioned, but Mamma Mia 2 in particular - the final scenes at the christening, when Meryl is singing "my love, my life". My mum also died before my children were born, and she loved the first Mamma Mia film, so this scene leaves me in floods of tears every time. It's a shame, as I absolutely love the film but can't watch it without getting upset!

Titanic -Every . Single . Time

@Roussette, Ghost has me sobbing more than any other film.