Good films to 'ugly cry' to

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

Any recommendations?

Oh yes Cheerful I even get all emotional when Marilla cooks a roast chicken for Anne after she returns from her trip with Diana from Charlottetown! It's her way of saying 'I love you and missed you so cooked you a lovely meal'.

And don't even start me on Matthew buying her the puffed sleeve dress!

Oh ..Once Were Warriors, I'd forgotten that film, I actually just found that sooo depressing, felt like hanging myself from the nearest lamppost on the way home.

I am a doggy person and also felt manipulated by Marley and Me and unusually unmoved. I cry from the start of Up before it even gets sad.

How about an oldie?

Imitation of Life - My older brother came home to find my mum, my two sisters and me HOWLING! He thought someone had died

Oh Gingerstuff yes Warhorse! Poor horses! I'm welling up now just thinking of the horrors they were put through.

What about 'Never let me go' that is so sad - and disturbing. It still prays on my mind from time to time.

Moulin rouge
Romeo and Juliet
The crow

(all great and vibrant but made me cry tons although may be different now I'm not hormonal teenager! I'm going to watch the last Harry Potter and have a good cry at all the snape bits, made worse by him being gone

I've cried at most of the movies mentioned but the only one that left me crying so hard I gave myself a headache was La Vita e Bella - Life is Beautiful. Utterly heartbreaking.

I think the reason I found that one (Life is Beautiful) so upsetting was that the dad reminded me of my dad.

Life is Beautiful is wonderful and painful to watch. I have this thing now, when a movie has a truly heartbreaking ending, I now block it out, and remember the rest of the movie, not the end. I kind of delete the end in my mind.

The Dad character in that movie was wonderful.

My husband lost it sobbing a boy in the striped pajamas and told me to never watch it because it was so awful. I have never seen him cry like that before or since although he did shed a tear at The Road.

For me ( although I am a huge wuss)
Atonement
Brokeback mountain
Big Fish
My Girl
Wild

Then, not a sad film overall but I always cry in groundhog day when he is with the old man.

Out of Africa. When Meryl Steep hears that his plane has gone down. That musical score...😢 Gets me every time

Philadelphia
Who will love my children?
Rachel's funeral in Cold Feet.

Deep impact 😳

oh yes, I cried buckets at Deep Impact. I'd forgotten it. I like Tea Leoni and Morgan Freeman a lot.

Truly Madly Deeply
About Time
A.I. - the end, dear God, the end...
The Badadook - it's supposed to be a horror film, and it is, but I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. It's heartbreaking.
Marley & Me made me cry the first 6 or 7 times, but now I immune. My son is obsessed with it.

Also cried at How To Train Your Dragon 2. Whoever said that is right.

In fairness I cry at everything though.

Yyyy to How to Train Your Dragon 2. My dad was critically ill when I saw it and I howled.
Whale Rider
Life is Beautiful
The Pianist
Barney's Version
Juno
My Name is Joe (ugly cry/ angry cry)
The Fox and the Hound
Song of the Sea
The Doll Maker

Yes Jings ! "Why...why...why Matthew, is that for me?!"

Love Story!

I read the book as a teenager, finished it, went through to my mum in the sitting room, threw the book on the floor and shouted "why does life have to be so shit" then sobbed my heart out. The film has the same effect.

The puff sleeve dress is something that sticks my memory too. Oh, I love Matthew

I looked it up on YT after posting about Anne of GG - it's there, but no, I can't watch it again. I will just be inconsolable.

Most of the above.
Emma Thompson after she opens the Joni Mitchell CD

Inside I'm Dancing.

The Railway Children, when Bobbi's dad gets off the train "daddy my daddy"
Im actually crying now.

Beaches
Ps I love you
Marley and me

Song of the Sea, even my five year old says it's a very very sad film. I always come on these threads to say Breaking the Waves.

This thread is making me ugly-cry! Just reading and being reminded of all the movies I've sobbed to.

YY to Truly Madly Deeply. And YY to even more so now the lovely Alan has gone.

A bit more obscure but the last mega ugly cry I had was watching 'What We Did On Our Holidays' (available on Netflix). Go gently with this one if you've lost a parent.