Good films to 'ugly cry' to

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

Any recommendations?

The Dressmaker, brilliant but tugs at the heartstrings
Up
And pretty much all the others listed above

Sense and sensibility when Emma Thompson bawls at the end

Was v surprised when we went to see pride and dh was in tears! He really hated Thatcher though.....

So, so many of these.

Has anyone seen the Cure? 90's film about two young boys who are friends. One has AIDS. :( I sobbed.

Oh yes. The notebook. Sob sob sob. Heartbreaking!!

Everybody is out today so Im going to have an ugly cry to Beaches looked out the Dvd last night

Marley and Me, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brief Encounter, A Star is Born, West Side Story, South Pacific, Gone with the Wind, and all the others above.

One really weepy film which you might find on video is "Ben" - the rat in the Michael Jackson song. I cried for at least half an hour at the end of that - over a rat!

Forgot about Homeward Bound. Big sobs! Also Dumbo where his mum is locked up. It was hard enough thinking of not seeing my own mum but I haven't dared watch it since I had dd. Can't bare to think I could be separated from her.

Ghost, Dear John, and The Killing Fields.

I'd forgotten that Dumbo made me cry. Definitely the same for Marley and Me (literally in floods when I watch that or read the book), the little non-speaking montage in the first bit of Up, I had to fight not to cry at Toy Story 3.

I always used to cry at The Snowman as a child. The Snowman and Snowdog I saw the year after it first was shown and I cried at that too, when they bury the dog... admittedly I was pregnant with DD. I think I need to watch some more grown up films!

Slightly off the topic as the TV/film adaptation doesn't make me cry, but the end of the book "A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner makes me sob.

Philadelphia

Forest Gump

Any Tom hanks really

Cast Away. When Wilson floats away

Philadelphia definitely!
The Robin Williams speech in Good Will Hunting is a biggy, so big that DH had to leave the room as there was something in his eye..
The Book Thief.
Spanish horror (a bit) called Orphanage.
Trains, Planes and Automoblies (oddly) the bit where John Candy describes his wife 'love isn't a big enough word', DH had something in his eye too.

Oh and the first 20 minutes of Up.

Seven Pounds and Dear John. Both had me sobbing like a baby......

Gallipoli with Mel Gibson - great big sobbing mess.
ET - I watched it recently and couldn't remember why it used to make me cry, then I'm a great weepy mess 5 minutes later

WizardofToss good call, I spent many happy teenage hours weeping at Cyrano de Bergerac

La vita e bella

Don't know if anyone has mentioned Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources.

Not a big fan of foreign language films normally but these 2 (double-header) sub-titled are just MAGNIFICENTLY!! Would happily watch another time - my fourth, I think.

MUST watch in order- JDF first, then MDS. Incredible acting, incredible cinematography, just brilliant and absolutely gut-wrenching. A tragedy of epic proportions, not just a "I'm crying cos I'm happy" film.

But - completely different - also agree with others who have mentioned Pride and Prejudice, especially Emma Thompson's performance. She gets me every time - Love Actually is incredibly schmaltzy and formulaic but her scene in the ?bedroom when she learns of DH's unfaithfulness is just wonderful.

MAGNIFICENT - not MAGNIFICENTLY!!!

Yes, the beginning of Up has me sobbing uncontrollably.
And the end of the original film of The Railway Children
About A Boy when they find the mother and at the end when Hugh Grant goes on stage to help the boy out. I always sob at that.

My Sister's Keeper I saw on my own at the cinema and was so embarrassed of my 'catching breath' crying!

One Day I was inconsolable on my own on a flight to Boston. I knew what was going to happen but it didn't stop me gasping out loud. Felt sorry for the bloke next to me.

All mine seem to be books that I've read first - The Fault in Our Stars I wasn't so bad with though - guess I knew the ending wasn't what I was expecting from reading the book.

Think my mental health would benefit from a huge bawl tonight so making a mental list...

Oh, and I forgot a non literary one... For years I couldn't watch the beginning of Finding Nemo. Her baaaaaaaaabies.

Oh, and suspected I was pg when I was near hysterical watching the snowman and the snowdog.

Most of my favourite weepies have been given above but I recommend

84 Charing Cross Road

An Affair to Remember

One day

I blubbed all the way through Love Actually the first time I saw it but I was heavily pregnant.

I used to be a right hard faced cow until I got pregnant with my first DD. Now I cry at everything!

I even get a bit teary at Annie thinking that those little girls don't have parents . It was just a great, feel good film when I was little!

Bawled like a baby to The Fault In Our Stars.

I daren't watch Marley and Me.

Ponyo. I watched it in the cinema with the DC. I thought I was holding it together pretty well, major leaky eyes but not sobbing aloud. Then the mum in the row in front started with proper shoulders shaking catching her breath sobs...