Good films to 'ugly cry' to

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

Any recommendations?

Most of the ones I know have already been mentioned, but haven't seen these two mentioned
Turner and Hooch - where Hooch dies waaaaaaaah!
Four Weddings & A Funeral - the funeral bit, obviously.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest at the end, can't watch it since
The Blindside, very emotional watching that

Is it bad that I cried at the end of the last Fast and Furious movie? The end with the montage of Paul Walker really tugged at the heart strings.

The Lovely Bones gets me every time. I cried from the very beginning then all the way through. Someone else mentioned earlier but Life is Beautiful is so good as well, I've watched it a few times, so sad!

A.I. with Haley Joel Osment.

I got really upset this morning after catching the last 45 mins on Sky, had forgotten the exact synopsis after not seeing it for years, and have now sworn never to watch it again.

In my defence, our youngest DS is significantly disabled, and will always have the mentality of a little boy, so I conflated the film with my fears of me dying eventually and DS being as bewildered as the little boy in the film, waiting years and years to see his Mommy again.

I sobbed on DH's shoulder and I'm tearing up again now

Eight Below Zero

Team of huskies get left at antarctic station and have to survive.

Mind you, I cried in Inside Out so there you go.

An oldie but goodie is Random Harvest, black and white with Ronald Colman and Greer Garson - amnesia, found love, lost love, unrequited love and found love again. Ooh get the tissue box out.

Truly madly deeply.

Even more of a sobfest now Alan Rickman is dead...

Has anyone mentioned the film that used to be on all the time??

Jack and Sarah???

The Help.

I was not prepared for the level of ugly cry/snot enducing misery. Powerful and superbly acted. Its got injustice and tragedy and children.

Brief Encounter. Gets me every time.

The time travellers wife. My sister's keeper actual big sobs! Most recently the good dinosaur again great big sobs. Charlottes web and titanic. All very sad films.

Agree with so many of these but esp Truly Madly Deeply. Also the Emma Thompson scene in Love Actually.
Balled at the cinema for last quarter of The House of Mirth with Gillian Anderson.
The scene in Anne of Green Gables when Matthew collapses and dies...a film I saw years ago about a Maori community called Once Were Warriors. Goodnight Mr Tom
Dead Poets' Society
The Browning Version
The Pianist
The Stop all the Clocks scene in Four Weddings....

Older films get me. Waterloo Bridge with Vivien Leigh as the ballerina who turns into a prostitute to pay for her best friends treatment, Penny Serenade with Cary Grant who adopts a young orphan who then tragically dies.....

Just remembered Au Revoir les Enfants... so sad. Don't think I could watch Sophie's Choice. Read the book pre-kids and it haunted me

Life is beautiful. Beautiful movie but so heartbreaking at the end!

Another one for Truly, Madly, Deeply. In fact I used it to break the shock I was in when my ex-fiancé left me. Had me in bits in very few minutes. Very cathartic.

Also yes to The Green Mile. Even more now that the actor who plays John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) has since died, far too young. :(

I must have watched a different Marley & Me... I found it predictable and it didn't move me one bit. And I'm usually an ugly sobber!

Not a film, but to give you an idea of my sobbing credentials, not only makes me cry every time I watch it, but I cry when describing it to people

Precious was a hard watch for me, I cried a lot. Actually had to pause Still Alice as I couldn't hear over my own hysterics. Similarly to Glistens, I wasn't just crying about the film, but also about a family situation. Although not Alzheimer's, it was just too near the bone. DP would rather I didn't watch it again, as he had to cope with the fallout.

Angelina Jolie's scream/howl in Maleficent didn't make me cry, but I found it an incredibly powerful moment. Don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it (and definitely watch it, it's great), but it's such a raw scene, with a huge emotional impact. Just wow.

Oh, and Mamma Mia, the wedding dress and Slipping Through My Fingers had me howling. I watched it with a couple of bottles of wine and found it so cathartic that I was on my second viewing - and howling for the second time - when DP came home the shame!

YY to the PP who said Terms of Endearment - there is no box of tissues if enough for my snottiness and tears when watching that movie.
I also once made the mistake of watching Marley and Me 2 days after a miscarriage. Should have read the synopsis....
ET just ENDS me every time. "I'll be right here"

And of course all those bastard Disney Pixar movies: Up, Wall-E, Toy Story 3, Inside Out
My husband and kids think it's hilarious as I well up way before the sad bits because I know they're coming!

Can't believe we're 7 pages in and no one's mentioned War Horse?? I went to see it in the cinema with my mum and we both properly sobbed our way through it. I was almost blind by the time we left the theatre, my eyes were so swollen.
Marley and Me - oh god. Watched it as a family with our 12-year-old golden retriever who we knew was in his last weeks with us. You can just imagine. My dd (who I've seen cry maybe half a dozen times in her 16 years, she's hard as nails), was sobbing her heart out along with me, my DS and DH (again...I've seen him cry maybe 3 times in 21 years). I caught the last ten minutes of it on the tv a while back and was crying for days afterwards
Homeward Bound. Born Free. Lassie. Black Beauty oh god oh god. Haachi. Watership Down. The Lion King ffs.
And I know it's not cinema but I sob every damned time they cut down a direwolf on Game of Thrones.
You can see a theme here can't you

Wit

Emma Thompson going through chemotherapy, alone. There's a scene where a nurse helps her moisturise her hands that absolutely broke my heart.

Angels in America

Screen adaptation of the award winning play, all star cast. Mesmerizing and beautiful, you can feel the all the pain and fear and loneliness of each character. Worth watching all 6 hours in one go.

Boilingkettle - have you seen Bolt? (Disney, not Pixar) There's a bit in there that has me in tears every single fucking time as well, EVEN THOUGH I know how it ends! EVERY TIME.

Didn't mention the War Horse because I'm not ever going to watch it. I just can't.

Let's put it like this: I was on the train the other day, reading Georgette Heyer's An Infamous Army, and happened to be reading the description of the Battle of Waterloo at that point - couldn't stop crying. Not noisy, not ugly sobbing, but the tears just kept pouring out of my eyes as I read all the horrors (Her description of the battle has been said to be one of the best available, and a friend from the Army told me that they were made to read it at Sandhurst!).

So no. No War Horse. Not reading the book either. Just no.

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I also sobbed at the cinema watching Inside Out, the big where Bing Bong vanishes. I was holding it together until the little boy behind me asked his mum where he went and she said "to a better place"