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To ask the last thing you watched that made you cry?

261 replies

ProudThrilledHappy · 30/01/2022 16:45

So normally I’m a bit heartless and not one to cry at programmes at all, but I was flicking through Disney+ today and ended up watching The Rescue. Amazing programme and of course here I am bloody bawling about it at the end.

What did you last watch that made you cry?

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middleager · 31/01/2022 00:24

@NotABeliever

The first episode of season 2 of Modern Love on Netflix. "On a serpentine road with the top down" with Minnie Driver.
That had me in tears too.
WeasilyPleased · 31/01/2022 00:27

Jay Blades learning to read. It was so raw, honest and moving. What a great man he is.

steff13 · 31/01/2022 00:29

The Cincinnati Bengals won the AFC Championship and are headed to the Super Bowl!

SummerWhisper · 31/01/2022 00:32

Every episode of Anne about the justice campaign for the Hillsborough disaster. 💔

beautifullymad · 31/01/2022 00:32

After life on Netflix with Ricky Gervais. I had to stop watching it.

bettytaghetti · 31/01/2022 01:34

@AliTheMinx

Mum's List. I was weeping!!
Me too! I put off watching Afterlife 3 that night, as I knew I'd be a sobbing wreck, and made the fatal mistake of not turning the tv off after Graham Norton. What that family went through was just heartbreaking, but the story was beautifully told. If anyone is looking for it, it also goes by the name Acres and Acres and is a true story.

I haven't been able to watch Afterlife yet as I don't think I can take another sobfest so soon!

Mermaidwaves · 31/01/2022 03:16

The 80s film Splash with Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, silly I know! It's pure 80s cheese but it's the chemistry between them and the feeling of loss that I wont ever find that, plus the fact they met as kids and have that life long bond which resonates from me and exH, who also met as kids and he is now happily ensconced with OW.

Utterly ridiculous but I blub the whole way through everytime! Grin🧜‍♀️

Gooseysgirl · 31/01/2022 03:54

'Anne' on ITV
I was in pieces

daisyjgrey · 31/01/2022 08:56

The bit in Schitts Creek where David mimes Simply the Best to Patrick....

MyCatEatsPrawnCrackers · 31/01/2022 09:02

Crried my eyes out last night watching The Royle Family Queen of Sheba. It's the scene where Barbara is doing Norma's hair and then Norma tells her how much she loves her. I'm tearing up just thinking about it. I cried the first time I watched it but since my own lovely mum died two years ago, it makes me even more emotional.
I have just cried this morning watching a feature on BBC Breakfast where a girl who had lost a leg to bone cancer and now had a blade, got to meet her idol Anton du Beke and they danced together.

MuseumOfIdiots · 31/01/2022 11:51

@PamelaDoov

If you really want your heart broken, watch A Monster Calls.
Oh my goodness, yes! It hits that raw spot so perfectly.
Blossomtoes · 31/01/2022 12:06

I’d forgotten about that episode @MyCatEatsPrawnCrackers. I last watched it before my mum died. I think it would break me now.

cushioncovers · 31/01/2022 12:10

Afterlife

roseberrycherry · 31/01/2022 15:19

Last episode of afterlife season 3

Funkyslippers · 01/02/2022 13:18

Mermaidwaves that was my fave film growing up. I caught it on TV the other day for the first time in a while and it made me quite emotional. The chemistry between them is wonderful and you can tell how in love they are

RichPetunia · 01/02/2022 13:22

Lost in Translation. Always cry when they go their separate ways at the end.

emmaw1405 · 01/02/2022 13:27

Leopoldstadt at the cinema on Holocaust Memorial Day last week. As we were leaving one of the older women there said to me "that's my family's history". Makes me cry now.

Lolabray · 01/02/2022 13:46

Afterlife

MorningStarling · 01/02/2022 13:50

Anything where people are killed in a location I'm familiar with. The Shoreham air show disaster footage always upsets me because I used to travel along that road pretty much daily. But watching disasters overseas has little or no emotional effect on me, because it's so far away. That said, the White Island volcano eruption did upset me, I guess because a lot of the victims didn't die immediately but in an unimaginably horrible way.

Disasters that happened before I was born don't tend to affect me much, eg Hindenburg, holocaust or Pompeii destruction.

peachescariad · 01/02/2022 13:55

The Royal Ballet's Romeo & Juliet at the weekend - Prokofiev's score got me twice.....I was the only one blubbing too once lights went up...Blush

MeanderingGently · 01/02/2022 14:03

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Heart-wrenching.

CCC11 · 01/02/2022 15:05

The Trial of Gabriel Hernandez on Netflix.
Made me cry so much! I had a 3 week old baby at the time and was holding and looking at her crying wondering how on earth some scums can treat an innocent child like that :(

SartresSoul · 01/02/2022 15:09

I cried at the end of Afterlife too. I didn’t dare show DH I was crying a bit because he isn’t a fan of the show, thinks it’s too soppy. I love it personally.

saygeronimo · 01/02/2022 18:27

Another one for After Life. It's such a brilliant beautiful raw series. Ricky Gervais is bit of a genius.

colouringindoors · 01/02/2022 18:29

West Side Story at the cinema. Highly recommend it!

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