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Which films really made you cry?

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ijustcouldntthinkofausername · 09/08/2022 17:56

For me...
Pursuit of Happiness
Elephant Man

There's definitely more but I can't think and I've had 2 gins so I'll be better thinking tomorrow.
But I just saw a clip on LinkedIn from pursuit of happiness and it made me cry just from the clip!

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BigMacAttack · 04/06/2023 05:14

Lion. I ugly cried.

cassiatwenty · 21/06/2023 03:41

Horsedoglover59 · 03/02/2023 12:09

One Day - Anne Hathaway and Jim? (can't remember surname)
A Star Is Born - Lady Gaga and thr gorgeous Bradley Cooper - how Lady G can sing that last song without crying, I do not know!!
Man on Fire - I howl at the ending!!
😢😢😢😭😭😭🤧🤧

Jim Sturgess? I just saw it like 3 days ago

Horsedoglover59 · 21/06/2023 03:58

cassiatwenty · 21/06/2023 03:41

Jim Sturgess? I just saw it like 3 days ago

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Yes, thank you. Jim Sturgess.
A lovely film if you're in the mood for a weepie.

DollyTheFluffyOne · 02/07/2023 01:13

BigMacAttack · 04/06/2023 05:14

Lion. I ugly cried.

Oh God me too - it is just heartbreaking.

Recently watched A Man Called Otto and that killed me too.

AngeloMysterioso · 13/07/2023 21:45

About Time. I watched it a few days after my Dad died, thinking a gentle Richard Curtis rom com might cheer me up a tiny bit. I knew nothing about the plot.

Big huge mistake.

greyhairnomore · 13/07/2023 21:53

Schindler's List
Bridges of Madison County
Truly Madly Deeply

emmetgirl · 13/07/2023 22:05

Philadelphia
Brooklyn

moggo · 14/07/2023 19:18

Bridges of Madison County
Titanic - cried in cinema and for days after. Worst bit was Jack slipping under the water.
Gallipoli - watched it at a Uni open weekend and just sobbed.
Hachi
Terms of Endearment

DollyTheFluffyOne · 14/07/2023 20:21

The Bridges of Madison - OMG! I just scream "open the truck door" every time.

user9630721458 · 22/07/2023 14:55

RockingMyFiftiesNot · 19/02/2023 23:22

All from when I was a lot younger :

Kramer vs Kramer
The Last Snows of Spring
The Way We Were
Love Story

Every Lassie movie and of course Bambi

They seem to have hardened me as I rarely cry at films now

44 years later and I'm still not over Bambi losing his mum! Children of men always gets me, when everyone goes quiet when they see the baby.

Shitfather · 26/07/2023 08:02

Past Lives. It has been on preview for the London Film Festival. Stunning. The man next to me she’s tears too.

Nousername94 · 31/07/2023 16:54

The Green Mile

Runaround50 · 05/08/2023 22:21

Kramer vs Kramer
Shindlers List
Shawshank Redemption

LadyEloise1 · 06/08/2023 10:44

Nowhere Special with James Norton. He was brilliant in it.

overdalexx · 07/08/2023 21:17

braggingaboutbrasize · 14/08/2022 12:51

Life is beautiful

oh the horror - sorry - i walked out of that film angry.
Benigni could have learned from Spielberg.
On the topic, i usually manage to just restrain myself with films but Remains of the Day did get to me.
Though not as much as someone two or three rows behind me in a guildford cinema - sounded as if she was heaving her guts up. Well beyond the power of hankies.

RyanGoslingsTan · 07/08/2023 21:22

Big Fish

Oppenheimer

The Green Mile

overdalexx · 07/08/2023 21:26

American Beauty, for personal reasons.
Should have taken note of what my subconscious, tapped into by the film, was telling me.

overdalexx · 07/08/2023 21:36

>>On the topic, i usually manage to just restrain myself with films but Remains of the Day did get to me.
Though not as much as someone two or three rows behind me in a guildford cinema - sounded as if she was heaving her guts up. Well beyond the power of hankies.

correction - I meant Shadowlands - thanks to the person above who reminded me as I scrolled down. My mental block/brainwarp is possibly because I have never dared see it again since that wet guildford sunday

16HamstersCalledThemAllDave · 16/08/2023 20:44

Lion
CODA

CuriousMama · 16/08/2023 21:05

16HamstersCalledThemAllDave · 16/08/2023 20:44

Lion
CODA

Dh and I cried at CODA but in a good way.

BitOutOfPractice · 16/08/2023 21:10

TheVanguardSix · 09/08/2022 18:17

Elephant Man was the very first film to make me cry. My mum took me to see it in the cinema when I was 8.

More recently, Nomadland... for me, it was a life-changing film. I watched it last summer- just after my brother died and just before I found out my husband had been abusing our daughter for 5 years. It's such a beautiful film about being alive, about grief, among other things. It really has stayed with me, that film. The 'Fern and Bob Wells' scene kills me especially because it's real. Bob Wells is not an actor. None of the nomads are, apart from 'Fern'/Frances McDormand. I choke up if I even think about that scene. The 'Swankie' scene too... because it's real. It's from the heart.

There are so many films... Land of Mine is another one. Devastating. Such a tough watch. The Pianist... beautiful.

Hey @TheVanguardSix im so so sorry for your loss and troubles. No wonder you’ve cried. I wish you all the very best

fridaynight1 · 16/08/2023 21:15

Out of Africa 😭 Robert Redford 😭😭

And - Daddy my Daddy 😭😭😭 we all know where that line is from.

I watched the new Railway Children film on a long haul flight last year and they have put a 😭moment in that. I admit to a silent sob, I think I would have proper sobbed if I was watching it on my own at home but on a full flight I managed to hold it back.

SighthoundSusie · 06/01/2024 23:19

Lion

Nanalisa60 · 07/01/2024 09:54

The Bridges of Madison county

Q2C4 · 07/01/2024 16:46

Cooroo · 09/08/2022 18:08

Gallipoli. I went on crying in the pub after! Just devastated. I was early 20s and it was the first time I'd really thought about what a war was for real people.

Same here!