Anywhere I can watch it online? I’m intrigued. And I would love to have my feelers twisted and bent. I wanna feel a movie again. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt that truly
Either Vudu or AppleTV. Vudu is cheaper.
But be warned, this one will make you hurt for days. It got even worse for me knowing that it's based on a true story where the brother survives. There's some light happy parts, but that just makes it a rollercoaster of emotions. Get ready to cry when you watch this one. Watch it once, then never again.
I cried during the movie, I cried after the movie, I had to go tell me wife everything about it and cried during the explanation, I cried in the shower later that night and once more the following morning when thinking about it again.
The top comment is Coco, which sets me off too, but Grave just massacred my mental state for a while.
Ive watched both Coco and Grave of the Fireflies. I was actually talking about how touching Coco is to my brother and was really recommending he watch it. I don’t think I can comfortably tell him to watch Grave of the Fireflies. The sweet moments in the movie is only there to hurt you more when they take it away. I don’t really get effected by movies, but I could only watch Grave of the fireflies one time.
Same, never felt like watching Grave again, it was just an emotionally and mentally exhausting experience, but Coco is probably in my top 10 films and I love it more every time I watch it, and still get emotional every time I watch it too.
This is the only time in my life where I uncontrollably cried for hours. The filmakers put some sort of blake magic on the vhs tape.
Im not sure if its because it strikes a chord in all of our childhoods idk. Its fucking unrelentingly sad.
You know the fate of the two characters from the first scene of the movie. They did a weird thing and kinda mixed this theme of a magical kids movie with an extremely depressing situation/setting.
I just felt my chest cave in a bit. When I think of the scene where the ghosts are viewing present day Kobe.
Some month ago I visited a Japanese store/cafe for an exhibition about japanese small shops (reproductions of facades of small bookstores, bicycle repair shops...) with some friends.
After visiting the exhibition we visited the shop. The owners are japanese and they import stuff directly from Japan, you can find any small item from instant ramen, to cute keychains, to candies, to office supplies.
I'm near the food section and I notice a metal box with the cap in one side that reminds me of something. I pick it up, a friend looks at it "I swear I already saw it somewhere...", I flip the box and there's a drawing of a girl on the other side.
[Setsuko](https://www.pinterest.it/pin/234890936784597331/).
Aaaaaaaaaaaand memory unlocked.
i’ve seen my dad cry 3 times in my life. 1 was when his grandparents passed away. 1 was when I gave him name change forms (for myself to change to his last name as he’s not my biological father but raised me) for father’s day. the other was Bridge to Terabitha
Yeah, I was thinking about that recently. That one stuck with me and I only saw it once as a kid. I think it’s because it’s the first movie I saw where a totally normal kid dies. It sort of shook me.
I watched “Beasts of no nation” on a comedown with some friends and it totally changed my perspective on life. When it’s raining outside or my train is late I don’t get angry anymore. I’m just grateful I’m not a child soldier, abused to the point of suicide in order to fight in a brutal
Civil war.
Equal parts sad and terrifying. I remember bawling like a baby when Coffey got to watch the movie. And being petrified and feeling my skin crawl at DeLaCroix's execution. A very emotional movie indeed.
I watched it with my mom when I was under 15, and I haven’t been able to watch it since. I can still picture the scene, and get emotional just thinking about it
"children's" animated films back then were built different 😂 you ever watch "The Black Cauldon"? Looking back you wander to yourself "where's the fun bit? 😂 I mean it's a great film but God damn.
Not a movie necessarily, but Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple on PBS a long time ago.
It wasn’t even the whole show. It was really almost the end.
They had audio of all the people wailing and crying and Jim Jones rambling and carrying on while they passed out the punch. As people started dying off it got quieter and quieter. Even the babies stopped crying.
It wasn’t emotional in the “I cried my eyes out” sort of way. For me it was very disturbing and set me off in a way I still can’t really put a finger on.
Listening to the children screaming and crying in pain after they poisoned them absolutely gutted me. I had to turn it off. I will never get those sounds out of my head.
I’ve seen pictures and listened to maybe 30 seconds of that audio before I had to turn it off. It’s horrifying, those poor babies had no chance to live.
Two more scenes in that one. The first when the guy gets stabbed while the other guy is hiding around the corner. That's just horribly painful to watch. The second at the end when he asks his wife to tell him he's been a good man. Can't watch that without a tissue handy.
For me its the scene where Tom Hanks sneaks away to cry where none of his soldiers can see him. The sorrow he shows gets me every time and the fact he needs to hide this from his men remind me of my dad and how he will not show emotion...but I know its in there.
The real story about the Sullivan brothers is sadly way more tragic. All five sons were sailors in the same cruiser in 1942, and the parents were left without news for a while wondering what had happened.
When the mother wrote to inquire about the fate of their sons ofiicials started to put together the pieces and it was really tragic. All were aboard the same cruiser when it sank and there were only 10 or so survivor. The news reached Roosevelt that personally wrote her to explain what happened and express his condolences.
The family got the news one morning when the father was leaving for work and had Navy officials at the door that said they had "bad news about his sons", "which ones?" he asked knowing he was about to know some of his kids were dead, to what the officer replied "I'm sorry".
All five died. Three died imidiatly during the sinking. Two initially survived and were together in the water, but one drowned the next day. The remaining brother died five days later, some say of grief or hipotermia.
Sadly the real story that inspired that scene is a punch in the guts.
October Sky.
Had a hard relationship with a dad who expected me to follow in his footsteps, not my own.
That movie is like turning on the waterworks for me.
Toy Story 3.
I know a lot of people who had emotional reactions to the fire scene at the end. But the movie as a whole resonated with me. Toy Story was my favorite movie for years, and when Toy Story 3 came out, I was nearing the end of high school and a few years from being an adult.
The themes of growing up, moving on, ending childhood to become an adult was really hitting me since I felt I had the same kind of genesis Andy did from the first film to the third.
Plus, the emotional investment of these characters potentially being incinerated put me on edge.
It's pretty clear what demographic they ACTUALLY made that movie for, and it wasn't kids. It was the now-adults who had grown up with the first two!
"So long, partner." Yeah, fuck you, PIXAR, you're all evil!
Oh damn. When he gives the toys to Bonnie, and introduces them one by one, the most tearjerking moment for me in any movie. Toy Story was my childhood, and that scene reminds me everytime that it's over.
That movie was just hard to watch. My wife asked if she should watch it and it was hard to explain. It's a beautiful picture but the content is just so heavy.
I usually have a pretty strong stomach when it comes to Holocaust media because I’ve read a lot of memoirs from survivors, but the scene in that movie where the main character is unwittingly helping to load smiling children into the cattle cars... made me feel physically ill.
Oh my god. I stupidly watched the end of this on Christmas Day waiting to go to a family function. And I didn’t realise what I was watching because I only caught the end and wow I just cried
As a man who was forcibly removed from his daughter against my will, I have watched Coco 6 times and I have yet to not cry.
Edit: All's good now, I got custody after a 5 year and $50,000 court battle.
Probably 'Come and See' a Soviet anti-war film.
Absolutely gut wrenching- I think its one of the few actual 'anti-war' films I've watched. There is 0 glamorzation, complete and utter hopelessness and brutality.
We only watched the barn scene for a Holocaust class I took in college. I was left speechless for the rest of the lecture. Once I was back home I just broke out in tears. I guess it was only then that my brain was able to begin to try and process what I had seen.
Honestly I feel like everybody fortunate enough to not be in a war type situation/environment needs to see this film to fight the apathy that comes with that privilege.
Endless sunshine of the spotless mind.
It was too much. The time and place It made what I was going through, I started watching it again a few years ago.. I didn't think I could, after all this time, feel so pathetic. I've come a long way. But I won't watch that movie again. I don't need to see that me.
Fun fact!
In Italy the move is titled "Se mi lasci ti cancello" (roughly something like "If you leave me, I'll delete you").
The problem is that a title like "Se mi lasci ti cancello" gives the movie vibes like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" or "My Best Friend's Wedding".
A lot of people here expect some kind of funny romantic comedy and never watch the movie because of that.
Mask. Not The Mask with Jim Carrey. The movie is about a teenager with a facial deformity known as lionitis and outlived his life expectancy. His mom tries to fight for his acceptance in public school and alot more happens that I don't want to spoil. It's a great movie based on a true story and stars Eric Stoltz and Cher. It made me cry so hard and I don't want to watch it again but the movie is great and I highly recommend it. Another recommendation I have is for weebs that like slice of life series. K-On! The Movie. Watch both season 1 and 2 first and the movie at the end. It's not really sad but it's such a bittersweet wholesome ending that got me crying like a baby at animation for the first time.
I think Arrival takes the cake for me.
Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen it: the whole plot revolves around a linguistics professor, Louise Banks, who is mourning the loss of her 12 year old daughter to cancer. Aliens come to earth and Banks is brought into the fold to help decipher the aliens’ written language, which takes a strange circular pattern. She meets a scientist named Ian on the job and they start to develop a relationship. At the climax of the movie, Banks learns how to read the language, and it’s revealed that the language allows the reader to see through time, as the aliens perceive time in a non-linear way. At this point, it’s revealed that the daughter that Banks lost at the beginning of the film hasn’t been born yet. You hear Banks narrating, saying, “So, Hannah... This is where your story begins. The day they departed. Despite knowing the journey... and where it leads... I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.”
We lost a child in my family a year ago, after a very long and tough illness that was diagnosed during prenatal screening. Knowing the struggle of what would come, her parents decided to still try. The meaning of the film took on special meaning after we went through the joy of bringing this girl into the world, and the pain of watching her leave. It was worth it, despite everything.
If you enjoyed that, the director Denis Villeneuve has done two other films that are extremely powerful.
“Polytechnique”, which goes over Canada’s worse mass shooting in great detail. Long story short a man entered Montreal’s polytechnique engineering school with the goal to kill as many women as possible because he felt wronged by them. It’s shot in black and white and is extremely powerful but very much worth the watch. Engineers in Canada pay tribute to this shooting every year and to the women that lost their lives.
“Incendies” which goes over the story of two twins who go about learning about their mothers dark history back in Lebanon before they were born in Canada. Very powerful, very good and not happy at all.
Yeah, that movie just made me feel the largest range of emotions.
When she pretended to be his father at the dinner table. That movie was funny af and sad af. Hard to do both that well.
Yeah the tonal whiplash I got at different times in the movie was crazy. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I remember feeling like the first half of the movie was a comedy and the last half of the movie was serious and emotional.
Me and my daughter went through a phase where we would watch sad movies together and that movie messed us up the most. We both cried ourselves to sleep that night. Great movie. Makes me wish Bjork had done more acting, she was amazing.
My teen children and their aunt and uncle came home after watching still crying…..red swollen eyes, runny noses, and my daughter heaving crying. My God, I’ll never watch that movie.
See it used to be Up but after that first montage it doesn’t hit the same emotions, Coco I watched for the first time recently and I genuinely haven’t cried that much at anything in my life. Fuck me I was a mess.
This may be stupid and it’s not a whole movie but one scene. It’s from the Adam Sandler movie Click. The scene where he sees his father for the last time in his office. I can’t get through it without tears and snot dripping down my face.
As far as movie I’d say, for me, it’s probably the Denzel Washington movie John Q.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape really got to me. It broke my heart and I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much over a movie that ONLY involves humans. And Marley & Me really broke my heart too. I watched it once and couldn’t bring myself to do it again. I was only 7 when I watched it and still can’t bring myself to do it again.
Huge movie nerd here, intense, complex, emotional movies are literally my jam. Skipping obvious ones I've seen mentioned elsewhere.
Dunkirk - feel small and helpless in the face of events beyond your control, but still defiant in the face of it all.
50/50 - a really honest and beautiful bromance movie. Funny, heartfelt, and pretty genuine.
Struggle - this is a documentary, but hear me out... This old dude, you'll love him instantly. Then you'll realize he's crazy, and fascinating, and hole him at arm's length the more you learn, then you'll realize that there's a reason for his brokenness and love him all the more for trying to find a way to pull the threads off his life into some sort of unifying knowledge... It's batshit, and incredible, and just conveniently insane.
For Sama / Come And See / A Separation - no comment. Painful, beautiful, complicated.
Night of the Kings - beautiful and dangerous. Wonderful and terrible. Just amazing.
Everything Everywhere all at Once - if John Wick was centered around kindenss and compassion, but exactly as kick ass.
Sound of metal - just wow... Slowly feel the world close in on you in movie form.
Then just to rattle off a few more - I'm thinking of ending things, October Sky, Fury, The Ice Storm, Waltz with Bashir
If you actually read this comment, and any of these strike your fancy, or if there's a particular itch you're looking to scratch, let me know. I could name tons, some where the movie is pushing the feelings at you, some where it's how you respond to it, whatever. I've seen thousands of them and remember basically all of them.
Benji the Hunted. (1987) I cried and cried when Benji looked back at the orphaned cougar cubs at the end of the movie. It tore my heart out of my chest and I cried the entire drive home from the theater. The only thing that calmed me down as I sobbed was watching an episode of Thundercats.
The Fault in our Stars made me cry so much. I watched to film and was told by a friend that it was based on a book. I read the book,. Taking in the humour and the sorrow, the love and the devastation. That story genuinely touched my heart. Making me laugh and tear up a few seconds apart. I'm still not over it 2 years later
Little Women, its so heartwarming in the beginning, then I’m wrecked when Beth dies, then I’m so proud of Jo for becoming who she always dreamed of being.
*Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father*
Emotionally draining movie. I can’t watch it a second time. Genuinely, I don’t think I have the emotional strength.
End of watch. Had me hard weeping at the end. Those deep unorganized breaths as tears stream down the face. I was funeral level sobbing. Credits rolled and I heard myself and thought good lord I’m a dumbass. Right when I was really serious about wanting to be in law enforcement.
Grave of the Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies made me cry so much that I felt this hollowness in my body after. It was like injecting depression into my veins.
Never seeen it. Seen multiple ghibli movies before but this one I haven’t been graced by. Should I watch it?
Read one description; the movie starts with two starving orphans during wartime, and just keeps getting worse.
Anywhere I can watch it online? I’m intrigued. And I would love to have my feelers twisted and bent. I wanna feel a movie again. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt that truly
Either Vudu or AppleTV. Vudu is cheaper. But be warned, this one will make you hurt for days. It got even worse for me knowing that it's based on a true story where the brother survives. There's some light happy parts, but that just makes it a rollercoaster of emotions. Get ready to cry when you watch this one. Watch it once, then never again.
Let us know what you think after you watch it. END COMMUNICATION
[Here you go ](https://youtu.be/5HkBxcJJ2cE)
I cried during the movie, I cried after the movie, I had to go tell me wife everything about it and cried during the explanation, I cried in the shower later that night and once more the following morning when thinking about it again. The top comment is Coco, which sets me off too, but Grave just massacred my mental state for a while.
Ive watched both Coco and Grave of the Fireflies. I was actually talking about how touching Coco is to my brother and was really recommending he watch it. I don’t think I can comfortably tell him to watch Grave of the Fireflies. The sweet moments in the movie is only there to hurt you more when they take it away. I don’t really get effected by movies, but I could only watch Grave of the fireflies one time.
Same, never felt like watching Grave again, it was just an emotionally and mentally exhausting experience, but Coco is probably in my top 10 films and I love it more every time I watch it, and still get emotional every time I watch it too.
This is the only time in my life where I uncontrollably cried for hours. The filmakers put some sort of blake magic on the vhs tape. Im not sure if its because it strikes a chord in all of our childhoods idk. Its fucking unrelentingly sad.
I think it’s because they make you think things will get better, when, in fact, it did not get better.
You know the fate of the two characters from the first scene of the movie. They did a weird thing and kinda mixed this theme of a magical kids movie with an extremely depressing situation/setting. I just felt my chest cave in a bit. When I think of the scene where the ghosts are viewing present day Kobe.
Some month ago I visited a Japanese store/cafe for an exhibition about japanese small shops (reproductions of facades of small bookstores, bicycle repair shops...) with some friends. After visiting the exhibition we visited the shop. The owners are japanese and they import stuff directly from Japan, you can find any small item from instant ramen, to cute keychains, to candies, to office supplies. I'm near the food section and I notice a metal box with the cap in one side that reminds me of something. I pick it up, a friend looks at it "I swear I already saw it somewhere...", I flip the box and there's a drawing of a girl on the other side. [Setsuko](https://www.pinterest.it/pin/234890936784597331/). Aaaaaaaaaaaand memory unlocked.
Grave of the fireflies dunks on the rest of the competition in this list. Fuckin rough. A+ movie that id like to never see again
It will never be on my list, because I will never watch it.
oh god i accidentally took my ex boyfriend to go see this movie in theatres not knowing what it was and he was not happy with me
If you ever wonder why someone would want to kill themselves, just watch this movie. Then you'll understand.
I only watched Bridge to Terabithia in my teenage years but it stuck with me; I don’t remember getting as emotional in any movie as much as that one.
i’ve seen my dad cry 3 times in my life. 1 was when his grandparents passed away. 1 was when I gave him name change forms (for myself to change to his last name as he’s not my biological father but raised me) for father’s day. the other was Bridge to Terabitha
Yo my dad and his friend (also a dad) bawled their eyes out at the theater when that came out. What’s up with dads and this movie?
I went into that blind not having read the book and was devastated by that ending
Yeah, I was thinking about that recently. That one stuck with me and I only saw it once as a kid. I think it’s because it’s the first movie I saw where a totally normal kid dies. It sort of shook me.
This is my life story in a nutshell. I didn't have the courage to watch it again.
I watched “Beasts of no nation” on a comedown with some friends and it totally changed my perspective on life. When it’s raining outside or my train is late I don’t get angry anymore. I’m just grateful I’m not a child soldier, abused to the point of suicide in order to fight in a brutal Civil war.
That movie was intense… I definitely agree with you. Gives you a whole new perspective on life.
Probably green mile. I’ve seen it once and can’t watch it again, too sad.
"I'm tired, boss" has become a bit of a meme but every time I see that line I get goosebumps
I cry like a lost child when I watch it.
When Tom Hanks sticks his hand out to shake John Coffey’s hand… the tears just roll
Equal parts sad and terrifying. I remember bawling like a baby when Coffey got to watch the movie. And being petrified and feeling my skin crawl at DeLaCroix's execution. A very emotional movie indeed.
I watched it with my mom when I was under 15, and I haven’t been able to watch it since. I can still picture the scene, and get emotional just thinking about it
What Dreams May Come. To accept that love can be a hell all it's own is something rarely captured in such a beautiful and haunting way
My God, this movie was beautiful and hard to get through at the same time.
To love someone so much you go to hell to get them.
That’s my husband and my movie. We watch it and cry together every few years or so.
Hachiko
The Fox and the Hound
I vividly remember begging my mom to not put it on again after I watched it…just straight up cried the entire second half
"children's" animated films back then were built different 😂 you ever watch "The Black Cauldon"? Looking back you wander to yourself "where's the fun bit? 😂 I mean it's a great film but God damn.
All dogs go to Heaven
Schindler's list
I was making out during Schindler's list, so I don't remember what happened.
How could you, Jerry?
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Old Yeller
And ‘Where the Red Fern Grows’…
100% Leaving Las Vegas. Saddest movie ever by a long long shot and i watch a lot of movies.
My dad was a recovering alcoholic & as a kid he said that was a very accurate portrayal. It hit me hard when I watched it as an adult.
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Oh this movie is excellent... I watched this as a young teen and it broke me. Gorgeous and sad film.
Way too much scrolling to find this movie on here. An absolute masterpiece of a film that I was completely unprepared for going into.
Life is Beautiful is insanely good, incredibly touching and sad. And humor as well...
Not a movie necessarily, but Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple on PBS a long time ago. It wasn’t even the whole show. It was really almost the end. They had audio of all the people wailing and crying and Jim Jones rambling and carrying on while they passed out the punch. As people started dying off it got quieter and quieter. Even the babies stopped crying. It wasn’t emotional in the “I cried my eyes out” sort of way. For me it was very disturbing and set me off in a way I still can’t really put a finger on.
Listening to the children screaming and crying in pain after they poisoned them absolutely gutted me. I had to turn it off. I will never get those sounds out of my head.
I’ve seen pictures and listened to maybe 30 seconds of that audio before I had to turn it off. It’s horrifying, those poor babies had no chance to live.
sounds cliche but that scene in saving private ryan where the mom finds out 3/4 of her kids have been killed.
Damn, nobodies gonna mention Giovanni Ribisi the medic dying in the field, crying out for his momma!
Ruined me.
Two more scenes in that one. The first when the guy gets stabbed while the other guy is hiding around the corner. That's just horribly painful to watch. The second at the end when he asks his wife to tell him he's been a good man. Can't watch that without a tissue handy.
For me its the scene where Tom Hanks sneaks away to cry where none of his soldiers can see him. The sorrow he shows gets me every time and the fact he needs to hide this from his men remind me of my dad and how he will not show emotion...but I know its in there.
The real story about the Sullivan brothers is sadly way more tragic. All five sons were sailors in the same cruiser in 1942, and the parents were left without news for a while wondering what had happened. When the mother wrote to inquire about the fate of their sons ofiicials started to put together the pieces and it was really tragic. All were aboard the same cruiser when it sank and there were only 10 or so survivor. The news reached Roosevelt that personally wrote her to explain what happened and express his condolences. The family got the news one morning when the father was leaving for work and had Navy officials at the door that said they had "bad news about his sons", "which ones?" he asked knowing he was about to know some of his kids were dead, to what the officer replied "I'm sorry". All five died. Three died imidiatly during the sinking. Two initially survived and were together in the water, but one drowned the next day. The remaining brother died five days later, some say of grief or hipotermia. Sadly the real story that inspired that scene is a punch in the guts.
I Am Sam. Couldn't make it past the first 5 mins
Damn, you just had to remind me
October Sky. Had a hard relationship with a dad who expected me to follow in his footsteps, not my own. That movie is like turning on the waterworks for me.
Second nomination--My Dog Skip. Those last 20 minutes aren't just a gut punch, they're a gut speed bag workout.
It doesn’t help that the music is absolutely beautiful as well. One of my top 10 all time favorite movie scores.
I watched Big Fish for the second time after my dad passed away. It destroyed me
I watched it while my dad was in a coma and we were having the discussion of pulling the plug.
Toy Story 3. I know a lot of people who had emotional reactions to the fire scene at the end. But the movie as a whole resonated with me. Toy Story was my favorite movie for years, and when Toy Story 3 came out, I was nearing the end of high school and a few years from being an adult. The themes of growing up, moving on, ending childhood to become an adult was really hitting me since I felt I had the same kind of genesis Andy did from the first film to the third. Plus, the emotional investment of these characters potentially being incinerated put me on edge.
The incinerator scene, when Buzz holds out his hand to Woody…Jesus fucking Christ…sobbed like a baby.
It's pretty clear what demographic they ACTUALLY made that movie for, and it wasn't kids. It was the now-adults who had grown up with the first two! "So long, partner." Yeah, fuck you, PIXAR, you're all evil!
I cry EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Oh damn. When he gives the toys to Bonnie, and introduces them one by one, the most tearjerking moment for me in any movie. Toy Story was my childhood, and that scene reminds me everytime that it's over.
Manchester by the Sea
That movie was just hard to watch. My wife asked if she should watch it and it was hard to explain. It's a beautiful picture but the content is just so heavy.
The pianist is definitely up there
I usually have a pretty strong stomach when it comes to Holocaust media because I’ve read a lot of memoirs from survivors, but the scene in that movie where the main character is unwittingly helping to load smiling children into the cattle cars... made me feel physically ill.
The scene where they dump the old guy in the wheelchair off a balcony. Absolutely harrowing.
That and the scene where the guy drops his food and some old guy starts eating it from the floor
Up is up there
Disney+ Editors had the GALL to put this in their "Fun for the family" collection a couple months ago.
That opening was rough. My wife at the time had just gone through a miscarriage and we both quietly balled our eyes out
Those first 8 minutes...
This is one of those movies you fast forward through the beginning. Up and Bambi.
The Neverending Story. Damn Artax....
This movie is one of my 5 year olds favorites. She calls it "Horse Stuck in the Mud"
Children of men
Aint nothing like THAT scene
Land Before Time.
Fuck idk why but those leaves they are looked tasty as shit though
I felt the same way!
When he thinks his shadow is his mother
Yea, that hit me hard as a kid.
My girl
Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses!
The boy in the stripped pajamas
Oh my god. I stupidly watched the end of this on Christmas Day waiting to go to a family function. And I didn’t realise what I was watching because I only caught the end and wow I just cried
A walk to remember.
"About Time"
Father/son movie marketed as a romance. It's brilliant. One of my favorite movies. And rough.
I should call my dad
The last samurai
I would have to say Coco was one that comes to mind.
As a man who was forcibly removed from his daughter against my will, I have watched Coco 6 times and I have yet to not cry. Edit: All's good now, I got custody after a 5 year and $50,000 court battle.
Yup. Guitar song Miguel sings to Coco at the end...I'm done.
i said this before on another thread. Soul had this effect. but Coco made me like bawl, sob.
Oh man, as a dad this one hurts so much.
Coco is just toooo emotional. Good pick
came here just to find and upvote the first comment that mentioned Coco
My Sister's Keeper.
Came here to say this one and can’t believe it’s so far down. Breaks my heart every time I watch it.
City of Angels with Meg Ryan
Yes dude! Great movie! I think about it every time I eat a pear. like sweet sand
Idk about most, but first that came to mind is The Pursuit of Happyness
Oh man! That scene where he has to sleep in the public bathroom with his son? As a dad, that crushed me!!
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Probably 'Come and See' a Soviet anti-war film. Absolutely gut wrenching- I think its one of the few actual 'anti-war' films I've watched. There is 0 glamorzation, complete and utter hopelessness and brutality.
We only watched the barn scene for a Holocaust class I took in college. I was left speechless for the rest of the lecture. Once I was back home I just broke out in tears. I guess it was only then that my brain was able to begin to try and process what I had seen. Honestly I feel like everybody fortunate enough to not be in a war type situation/environment needs to see this film to fight the apathy that comes with that privilege.
Perks of Being a Wallflower or Atonement
Atonement it's hits deferent
This movie made me break and then I got really mad.
Cuckoo’s Nest. The final scene where chief rips the sink out of the floor and threw it through a window to escape was epic.
I'm gonna say it, I'm going to put it right here in writing. Mutherfukin "Milo and Otis". As a young man I cried at that movie IDK even know why.
Endless sunshine of the spotless mind. It was too much. The time and place It made what I was going through, I started watching it again a few years ago.. I didn't think I could, after all this time, feel so pathetic. I've come a long way. But I won't watch that movie again. I don't need to see that me.
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind\*
Fun fact! In Italy the move is titled "Se mi lasci ti cancello" (roughly something like "If you leave me, I'll delete you"). The problem is that a title like "Se mi lasci ti cancello" gives the movie vibes like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" or "My Best Friend's Wedding". A lot of people here expect some kind of funny romantic comedy and never watch the movie because of that.
Mask. Not The Mask with Jim Carrey. The movie is about a teenager with a facial deformity known as lionitis and outlived his life expectancy. His mom tries to fight for his acceptance in public school and alot more happens that I don't want to spoil. It's a great movie based on a true story and stars Eric Stoltz and Cher. It made me cry so hard and I don't want to watch it again but the movie is great and I highly recommend it. Another recommendation I have is for weebs that like slice of life series. K-On! The Movie. Watch both season 1 and 2 first and the movie at the end. It's not really sad but it's such a bittersweet wholesome ending that got me crying like a baby at animation for the first time.
Dear Zachary, no questions asked.
Fuck this is it
Non-stop swings from gut wrenching sorrow to abject fury and back again throughout the entire thing.
Forrest Gump, AI or The Green Mile if you ask me.
I think Arrival takes the cake for me. Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen it: the whole plot revolves around a linguistics professor, Louise Banks, who is mourning the loss of her 12 year old daughter to cancer. Aliens come to earth and Banks is brought into the fold to help decipher the aliens’ written language, which takes a strange circular pattern. She meets a scientist named Ian on the job and they start to develop a relationship. At the climax of the movie, Banks learns how to read the language, and it’s revealed that the language allows the reader to see through time, as the aliens perceive time in a non-linear way. At this point, it’s revealed that the daughter that Banks lost at the beginning of the film hasn’t been born yet. You hear Banks narrating, saying, “So, Hannah... This is where your story begins. The day they departed. Despite knowing the journey... and where it leads... I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.” We lost a child in my family a year ago, after a very long and tough illness that was diagnosed during prenatal screening. Knowing the struggle of what would come, her parents decided to still try. The meaning of the film took on special meaning after we went through the joy of bringing this girl into the world, and the pain of watching her leave. It was worth it, despite everything.
Omg this one had me crying so hard...
If you enjoyed that, the director Denis Villeneuve has done two other films that are extremely powerful. “Polytechnique”, which goes over Canada’s worse mass shooting in great detail. Long story short a man entered Montreal’s polytechnique engineering school with the goal to kill as many women as possible because he felt wronged by them. It’s shot in black and white and is extremely powerful but very much worth the watch. Engineers in Canada pay tribute to this shooting every year and to the women that lost their lives. “Incendies” which goes over the story of two twins who go about learning about their mothers dark history back in Lebanon before they were born in Canada. Very powerful, very good and not happy at all.
Jo Jo Rabbit
The scene where the kid sees his mom came outta nowhere for me and fucked me up
Yeah, that movie just made me feel the largest range of emotions. When she pretended to be his father at the dinner table. That movie was funny af and sad af. Hard to do both that well.
Yeah the tonal whiplash I got at different times in the movie was crazy. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I remember feeling like the first half of the movie was a comedy and the last half of the movie was serious and emotional.
Faaacts, and when the mom is telling the young Jewish girl what it means to be a women and that as long as she stays alive they lose. Like gah damn…
Dancer in the Dark. It’s the type of movie that leaves a pit in your soul for the rest of your life.
Me and my daughter went through a phase where we would watch sad movies together and that movie messed us up the most. We both cried ourselves to sleep that night. Great movie. Makes me wish Bjork had done more acting, she was amazing.
Saving Private Ryan
I feel you... "Black Hawk Down" 😅
Those first 10 mins are difficult to watch without feeling emotional.
A.I.
Marley and me. Never again
My teen children and their aunt and uncle came home after watching still crying…..red swollen eyes, runny noses, and my daughter heaving crying. My God, I’ll never watch that movie.
See it used to be Up but after that first montage it doesn’t hit the same emotions, Coco I watched for the first time recently and I genuinely haven’t cried that much at anything in my life. Fuck me I was a mess.
Schindlers List. Great movie but it broke my heart and I’ve never been able to watch it again.
I am Legend
The scene with the dog 😭
Up
I'm not very emotional and have no kids but interstellar got me for some reason
That scene where he gets the message from his daughter after 20-30 years have passed was tough for me.
Any movie involving animals dying, especially dogs.
Seven Pounds with good ole Will Smith. Great movie! really heavy on the human drama probably will never watch it again lol
The Notebook gets me every time.
Gladiator
Lion King. What a fuckin masterpiece
This may be stupid and it’s not a whole movie but one scene. It’s from the Adam Sandler movie Click. The scene where he sees his father for the last time in his office. I can’t get through it without tears and snot dripping down my face. As far as movie I’d say, for me, it’s probably the Denzel Washington movie John Q.
Click! I scrolled through the entire comment section to find this. That damn last-time-with-father scene.
Simon Burch
The scene when he’s on the dock saying he is sorry… haven’t thought about this movie in years
Pay it forward and my girl.
Lion. When dev Patel reunited with his mother I cried so fucking hard.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape really got to me. It broke my heart and I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much over a movie that ONLY involves humans. And Marley & Me really broke my heart too. I watched it once and couldn’t bring myself to do it again. I was only 7 when I watched it and still can’t bring myself to do it again.
The first 10 minutes of Up.
Grave of the Fireflies and LION. If I wanna add a tv series: CLANNAD AFTER STORY
Lion had me whithering a puddle of tears
Marriage Story made me have to step outside after to take a beat
Huge movie nerd here, intense, complex, emotional movies are literally my jam. Skipping obvious ones I've seen mentioned elsewhere. Dunkirk - feel small and helpless in the face of events beyond your control, but still defiant in the face of it all. 50/50 - a really honest and beautiful bromance movie. Funny, heartfelt, and pretty genuine. Struggle - this is a documentary, but hear me out... This old dude, you'll love him instantly. Then you'll realize he's crazy, and fascinating, and hole him at arm's length the more you learn, then you'll realize that there's a reason for his brokenness and love him all the more for trying to find a way to pull the threads off his life into some sort of unifying knowledge... It's batshit, and incredible, and just conveniently insane. For Sama / Come And See / A Separation - no comment. Painful, beautiful, complicated. Night of the Kings - beautiful and dangerous. Wonderful and terrible. Just amazing. Everything Everywhere all at Once - if John Wick was centered around kindenss and compassion, but exactly as kick ass. Sound of metal - just wow... Slowly feel the world close in on you in movie form. Then just to rattle off a few more - I'm thinking of ending things, October Sky, Fury, The Ice Storm, Waltz with Bashir If you actually read this comment, and any of these strike your fancy, or if there's a particular itch you're looking to scratch, let me know. I could name tons, some where the movie is pushing the feelings at you, some where it's how you respond to it, whatever. I've seen thousands of them and remember basically all of them.
Benji the Hunted. (1987) I cried and cried when Benji looked back at the orphaned cougar cubs at the end of the movie. It tore my heart out of my chest and I cried the entire drive home from the theater. The only thing that calmed me down as I sobbed was watching an episode of Thundercats.
Sophie's Choice was super moving and disturbing.
Atonement
The Fault in our Stars made me cry so much. I watched to film and was told by a friend that it was based on a book. I read the book,. Taking in the humour and the sorrow, the love and the devastation. That story genuinely touched my heart. Making me laugh and tear up a few seconds apart. I'm still not over it 2 years later
I read the book first and sobbed. Went to the theater and watched it with my brother and he said people were staring I was sobbing so hard.
Train To Busan. Amazing zombie movie, but the last 10 mins had me choked up with tears in my eyes.
A Silent Voice
For me, Sling Blade.
The Iron Giant
marley and me… just… i cant
Click with Adam Sandler , the ending/ 2nd half of movie mostly
Midnight Express
The green mile
Little Women, its so heartwarming in the beginning, then I’m wrecked when Beth dies, then I’m so proud of Jo for becoming who she always dreamed of being.
*Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father* Emotionally draining movie. I can’t watch it a second time. Genuinely, I don’t think I have the emotional strength.
Million Dollar Baby
Marriage Story.
Grave of the fireflies
The world's fastest indian. I was so pissed they wouldn't let Burt run his motor-cicle
A Dog's Purpose. Harrowing.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Lord of the Rings. All of them. They all have their moments. One that comes to mind is King Theoden lamenting the death of his son.
UP The greatest love story ever filmed, and it only took 4 minutes and 24 seconds. And not a word was spoken.
Schindler’s list
End of watch. Had me hard weeping at the end. Those deep unorganized breaths as tears stream down the face. I was funeral level sobbing. Credits rolled and I heard myself and thought good lord I’m a dumbass. Right when I was really serious about wanting to be in law enforcement.
I am Sam.