Good films to 'ugly cry' to

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There is something really cathartic about a good, sad film.

Any recommendations?

Damn you, fireandbrimstone - I'm just going to have to watch What we did on our holidays now, because I looked it up, and it has David Tennant in it. I'm a sucker for punishment it seems...

I agree re. Green Mile. Also recommend the Bridges of Madison County for a real sob-fest 😭

Earthlings. It doesn't have a happy ending though. I watched it tonight and sobbed my way through - and I hardly ever cry.

Life is Beautiful
Meet Joe Black

Never seen Sophie's Choice but just watched that clip and definitely didn't sob cry - more cold hand of fear gripping my heart - horrendous.

Bridges of Madison
Stepmom
Philadelphia (the home video footage at the end nearly finished me off)
Shadowlands...my eyes were swollen all the next day after a sob fest of epic proportion
Beaches
Terms of Endearment...blubbed from start to finish

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence...25 years since I saw it and I still remember the hours of crying that followed

Schindlers List. Its the only film I cry to.

Little women and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop cafe.

Titanic. I cry like an absolute baby when the Dads all get left behind and have to wave their families off onto the lifeboats.
The end of Armageddon.

Cauliflower - oh me too for HTTYD2 - definitely!

And I cry endlessly while reading books. Yes to Anne of Green Gables (and many of the others in the series).

The only film my DH has truly cried at is Dances With Wolves. I've never seen it myself, but he really identifies with it because of losing his Dad in his teens.

Lilya 4 Ever.
Had me sobbing. It's very bleak but a must see.

My weepy films are linked to the music. If I hear the music then the tears start to fall.
Up (first bit)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The King and I
Love story (even my husband cried)
Love Actually (Emma Thompson bedroom scene)

Oh and City of Angels

Terms of Endearment
The boy in the striped pyjamas
Also Forrest Gump when Jenny dies and he talks to her grave :(

I don't always cry at the same things as others. But cry at things others perhaps wouldn't.

Eg
Officer and a gentleman - I got nowhere else to go
Marley and me - the mc scene caught me out too, perhaps more likely to affect those of us who've experienced it.
Stepmom - I'll hate her if you want me to

I personally don't like it's a wonderful life or love story.

Though I agree with many of these.

Yyy to imitation of life, who will love my children, madame x, in a lonely place (lesser known humphrey bogart film), Milk, flowers for Algernon, surprised no mention of Kramer vs Kramer yet, three colours blue, ma vie en rose, terms of endearment.

About time and what we did on our holiday completely caught me out! (Buggers )

The only films I've ever sobbed to were The Notebook and AI. The bit where she's trying to lose him in the woods

I've only seen that one clip of Sophie's Choice (while pregnant like a real genius) and I could not stop crying for almost a literal 24 hours. DH was getting seriously concerned he was going to have to take me to the dr. I'd think of it and be off again. She's such a good actress and it's so terrifying and unfair. How could anyone think they'd have the right?!

Besides the baby I was pregnant with i had two children, an older boy and a younger girl, and it just resonated too deeply with me. I'll never forget it and I'll never watch the whole thing.

has anyone mentioned Room?

Interstellar also make me cry

The Rabbit Hole. Heartrending portrayal of child bereavement from the mother's perspective.

AI doesn't make me cry, but it does leave me with a gloomy feeling.
I DO cry at:
The first 10 minutes of Up.
The funeral scene in My Girl.
When Elliot thinks ET is dead.
My sister's keeper, the 'seat on the bus, so I can wave to you' part.
The red coat in Schindler's list.
The home video montage with the song 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young playing at the end of Philadelphia has destroyed me since I first watched it at 15.
Above all though, Hachi: A dog's tale rendered me a sobbing wreck, couldn't compose myself.

Daren't watch Marley & me.

Agree with Stepmom, My Sister;s Keeper and Life is Beautiful

Also, embarrassingly - The Little mermaid. The grief on her father's face as he transforms her to a human so she can be with her prince, and knows he has lost her

oh yes, Up is terrible for crying... even worse since my miscarriages

The green mile.
The color purple.
The English patient.

The opening sequence of UP! and The Book Thief. Prepare for swollen eyes.

Who Will Love My Children.

It's my go to film for a sob fest.