Films that have impacted you the most

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I’ll go first. 1917. I came out of the cinema shell shocked and so much pent up emotion I had to let out. My husband tried to talk to me to ask how I enjoyed it and I told him I couldn’t talk for fear of bursting into tears in the cinema lobby.

Angels with Dirty Faces. It's even older than me and I saw it as a child, Sunday afternoon films on BBC. It is a James Cagney film, he's sort of hero worshipped by a gang of kids, he is convicted of a murder and his priest visits him on deathrow and says for the sake of the kids don't die like a hero. James Cagney says he can't do that but when the time comes he is dragged from his cell crying and screaming. Is he doing what the priest asked him or is that genuine? You never know. Convinced me that I could never support the death penalty.

Les Miserables.

Always cry with the stage version at the end, same with the film.
Great big, ugly sobs🥺

Refuse to watch Green Mile, Marley and Me etc., seen them once, never
again!

Cathy Come Home I watched it for the first time the other day and was shocked and just so sad afterwards

Film
Calvary (2014) Brendan Gleeson is wonderful

No Country For Old Men (2007) Javier Bardem is so sinister, fabulous
TV
Warriors (1999)
Normal People (2020)
at the end of both I was inconsolable

Haven't seen it for years, well I saw it when it first came out. I knew the back to backs where they filmed some of it, close to where I was born in a similar row of houses.

It left me completely cold, did nothing for me whatsoever,neither did the book but my goodness hard as nails dh and teen ds were in tears! Thought I was going to have to arrange counselling for the pair of them. Proper full on sobbing !

The Killing Fields

I was totally gripped by 1917 as well, I thought it was amazing.
Thelma and Louise really affected me and I've rewatched it several times and it's just as good every time.
Once were Warriors and Last of the Mohicans.

Watership Down as a child .
The Lovely Bones .

Requiem for a dream.... felt depressed for days

In the Name of the Father - never cried so much at a film and the fact it was based on a true story made it worse.

Another film that floored me was 'Brimstone' but only because I found it so incredibly disturbing.

Brokeback Mountain really stuck with me for weeks after watching it.

Lion. Sobbed for hours after that one.

The Strangers with Liv Tyler - about a house invasion of people wearing masks. Absolutely got inside my head and I was twitching for days after. Same with The Ring.

The pianist

Seven was another one that freaked me out, I watched in the cinema when it first came out. Never saw a film like it before.

Saving private Ryan

Also agree with Truman Show. So bizarre it could actually happen. Freaked me out a little.

Me too. I think it should be required viewing for everyone - especially politicians

JFK - found it fascinating (although I have since found out it’s not a hundred per cent accurate)

I agree also with The Truman show and Boy in Striped Pyjamas

Someone mentioned Lion. That's a film. Especially as it's actually based on a true story.

My Octopus Teacher is a weird one that had DD and I sobbing.

The Deer Hunter
Brokeback Mountain

Just googled Lion. I'm definitely going to watch that. I've never heard of it before.

Philomena, Judi Dench plays the mother of a baby taken from her in the mother and baby home in Ireland decades ago. Good film - not too sad.
Miss Potter - Renee Zellwegger plays Beatrix, fiancée Ewan McGregor dies of TB. So many must have lost loved ones in those days.

They Shoot Horses Don’t They - it was on TV when I was a young teen, I was expected a horsey film. Oh my goodness, so bleak but compelling.

Also Black Beauty, what a sob fest at the end.

'The Bicycle Thieves'. Grinding poverty; no happy ending. A father desperately trying to shield his child from their destitution.

Beaches
Who will love my children
Dead poets society

Seven as well-mainly because I thought the murderer really had a point about humans!
Also boy in striped pyjamas. Schindler’s list. Titanic and the scene with the mum clutching her children. And wolf creek.