Good films to 'ugly cry' to

[apple1992]

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

Any recommendations?

[Ankleswingers]

I cried at Beaches and Stepmom too.

Also my sisters keeper ( although the book was better IMO) and I found Philadelphia really moving.

[Baconyum]

www.imdb.com/title/tt0210044/

Matthew modine as Charlie

[Baconyum]

See back to I view things differently, Philadelphia made me angry not sad.

[JingsAndCrivens]

Philadelphia makes me angry but the part at the end where the gorgeous Neil Young song is playing and they're watching the old family footage..............makes me blub.

[RebeccaCloud9]

Oh gosh yes, the Book Thief. A beautiful book and a beautiful film. I sobbed for ages watching the film before the saddest part even happened because I knew it was coming.

And inside Out at the start where she is making memories as I was thinking about how my own baby daughter's memories & personality are being made now!

[JingsAndCrivens]

Oh thought the Book Thief was pants! Didn't know they'd made a film of it.

[Ankleswingers]

Yeah Philadelphia made me angry too but there were parts that were just so sad that I cried. A lot.

[JingsAndCrivens]

I tell a lie, I've never read the Book Thief! For some reason I'd mixed it up with The Shadow of the Wind. Apologies person who wrote The Book Thief.

[Starfish28]

The film I cried the most at by a royal mile was My life without me. Its about young mother who gets cancer. Sarah Polley plays the lead and is incredible in this role. I watched before I had children and couldn't not keep it together so god know what I would be like now.

[Janeymoo50]

Oranges and Sunshine (about the now adult child migrants shipped off to Australia), it's incredibly moving.

[APotterWithAHappyAtmosphere]

I also cry at everything. Most unexpected one recently was Steve Jobs.

Philomena made me properly weep.

Up is still the only film I've had to stop watching until I've stopped sobbing.

There's a film coming out in the summer with Penelope Cruz called Ma Ma and the trailer made me cry -in a meeting.

[susurration]

About Time. I proper ugly cried, sobbed my heart out, couldn't breathe crying at the end of that film. Mum and Husband thought I had absolutely lost it.

[susurration]

Other films husband has banned from the house for sobbing too much include:

Marley and Me
Up
The boy in striped pyjamas
Billy Elliot

[CremeBrulee]

The original film of Little Women - when Beth comes back from the Hummels after the baby dies of Scarlet Fever....

[footphobic]

I just couldn't get Up, the dcs love it. But Lost and Found on the other hand..

Schindler's List. I rewatched it about a month ago. I couldn't fully stop for about an hour.

12 Years A Slave.
Good Will Hunting, the "it's not your fault" sets me off, and CastAway, "you're the love of my life"

With some I've read the book first and found it to be much more moving, e.g., The Help, Still Alice, Time Traveller's Wife, Atonement, had a bit of a weep when watching but not sobbed as I did when reading the book.

Worst was War Horse at the cinema. I found the book really moving, proper sobbed the several times I've read it. DH, dcs and I went to see it at the cinema. Got to the scene where Albert puts the bridle on Joey and I just went, trying to keep quiet whilst heaving and snivelling literally all the rest of the way through. Nothing had even happened then really, afterwards I didn't think the film had the same depth of emotion as the book, the book being told from Joey's pov, but I guess I just knew what was coming. Family thought it was hilarious.

[newtscamander]

Philomena. I cried like a baby.

[TheLambShankRedemption]

Hatchi

Crash

Up

Ghost

Bambi

[Thegirlthatwanted2begod]

Ooh watch me before you, saw it tonight and cried buckets

[Parmaviolets13]

It's not a sad film at all, and it's mainly happy tears but We Bought A Zoo gets me crying the whole way through?! Plus the uplifting music at the end just tips me over the edge 😄

[Unicorntrainer]

Can't beast Gone with the wind, I cry in half a dozen places through that. Watched empire of the sun many years ago with my (then) teenage daughter. She sat there gobsmacked while I properly heaved and sobbed and gulped at the end.

[TheCunkOfPhilomena]

Life Is Beautiful and Terms Of Endearment, both are superb films and both are guaranteed to have me sobbing and I never cry at films.

[SandyMumsnet]

Hi everyone,
Just sweeping this great thread into films. OP please shout if this is a problem for you.

[Fulltimemummy85]

Philladelphia
Beaches
Gladiator
Ghost

[Fulltimemummy85]

Oh and it's a wonderful life 💖