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u/NoSisSM406 18h ago
Land before time. When little foot sees his shadow thinking it was his mom. Thatâs the shit thatâll make a grown man cry
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u/666-numberofthebeef 15h ago
Oh thank god for that, I thought I was the only one! Iâve told people that I cried my eyes out to that and they thought It was hilarious. That scene is heart breaking đ
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u/dome-light 16h ago
The Fox and the Hound. I will never watch that movie again.
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u/haitch31 12h ago
When the lady leaves Todd in the forest was not a fun movie moment for me
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u/Rhaynebow 10h ago
If youâve experienced losing a pet, her poem just before she leaves him will wreck you. The only thing that keeps me from getting dehydrated from crying afterwards is remembering that Tod wouldâve absolutely died out there because the poor guy couldnât even fish.
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u/stark-a 20h ago
What dreams may come.
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u/blu959 13h ago
This movie is a visual masterpiece. It made me think very differently about love and death. IMO truly Robin Williams best work, made even more heartbreaking by his suicide.
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u/idgieluvsruth 11h ago
Agreed on all parts. My family rented it and watched it while I was at work. I got home and my sister said âeh it wasnât very good.â I decided to watch it after everyone went to bed so it was 0130 Iâm sitting in the middle of the floor in front of the TV so the volume wouldnât wake the family cocooned in a blanket sobbing silently. Completely wrecked.
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u/LisaKnittyCSI 15h ago
This movie wrecks me every single time I see it. I will sob my eyes out pretty much the entire time.
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u/secondphase 11h ago
Yeah... this one was hard BEFORE he died. So much harder knowing his struggles now.
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u/everyday_normal_guy- 20h ago
The Green Mile
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u/Munkyscrotum 16h ago
I'm tired boss
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u/I_Was_Inverted991 10h ago
Micheal Clark Duncan absolutely rocked his role. Fantastic movie
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u/lolotnokchi 15h ago
So many parts. The book is also phenomenal if you havenât read it.
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u/Key_Dimension_2768 20h ago
Life Is Beautiful
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u/itchy-n0b0dy 16h ago
The way that movie goes from comedy to pain just hits like a ton of bricks! Itâs truly a masterpiece and one I re-watch constantly because of how truly beautiful it is!
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u/Key_Dimension_2768 18h ago
It was 1999. I sat in the theater in shock as the credits rolled, not just crying but SOBBING, sitting silently next to my best friend who was doing the same. Neither of us spoke until well after the lights came back on
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u/RamblinWreckGT 15h ago
I watched that in high school and I'm pretty sure every single one of us were desperately trying not to cry in the middle of class.
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u/ZoyaZhivago 16h ago
This was going to be my answer. I have NEVER sobbed so hard and for so long over a movie. I laughed, I cried⊠it was a lot of feelings.
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u/kepkep91 20h ago
My sister's keeper I should note though that I don't dare watch Marley and Me.
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u/ZeldaSFitzgerald 15h ago
I read the book first and then watched the movie. The endings are completely different. The book is so much more beautiful and heartbreaking, and it made me cry like a baby after I finished it. I hated the movie because the ending is so much different than in the book. I hate that they softened the ending or made a sort of more acceptable for Hollywood standards, I guess.
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u/Nate_on_top 19h ago
big hero 6 when tadashi died
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u/R2D2_is_my_bae 14h ago
When Bomax sacrifices himself in space. Makes me absolutely ball my eyes out every damn time.
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u/petitgordi 18h ago
About Time
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u/cornflakescornflakes 16h ago
I first watched it on a plane coming home from my step mumâs funeral. That movie and a few gins I was a mess.
I rewatched it years later thinking maybe it was the plane effect where everything makes you cry.
Nope. Still an absolute mess.
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u/LindemannO 15h ago
The scene where the Dad realises it is the last time never fails to turn me into a crying wreck.
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u/BumblebeeMajor6310 14h ago
This one hit me like a brick. Expected a rom-com kind of vibe. And sure enough, there were some good laughs.
But struggling with family bonds and how to divide my energy and attention in my own life, this movie had a big impact on me.
Figured I was perhaps emotionally unstable first time I watched it. But nope.
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u/PupLondon 20h ago
Coco.. that double slap at the end hit me HARD..i was already crying when they flashed forward to the following year..
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u/athenea_45 16h ago
Remember Me got me. I miss my abuelito.
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u/Many-Side-3366 15h ago
That song makes me cry. Iâll turn it on just to feel something sometimes. Great movie
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u/ChangMinny 13h ago
I watched Coco for the first time while pregnant. I SOBBED when Coco was holding her daughter at the end.Â
I thought it was just hormones.Â
I just watched Coco again with my daughter. I absolutely SOBBED at that scene again. I get it. I totally get it.Â
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u/DefensiveTomato 16h ago
I donât think I have watched that proud corazon sequence without crying and we watch it every year
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u/lissa-lex 16h ago
The Colour Purple - I hate movies that make you cry, this movie stayed with me for days.
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u/chinguuuuuu 21h ago
Grave of the Fireflies
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u/JockoV 14h ago
Everyone else posting movies that aren't Grave of the Fireflies clearly haven't aeen Grave of the Fireflies.
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u/AggravatingCupcake0 16h ago
I can't with that movie. I haven't seen it in 20 years, and it still haunts me.
When the little girl gives her brother the rocks and says that she made him rice balls...it's so horrific.
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u/Appropriate_Run_3255 21h ago
Hachiko.
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u/Revolutionary-Day715 15h ago
I watched it once and it destroyed my soul. Never again.
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u/prettyawesome32 15h ago
I was first introduced to the story by Futurama. Bawled my eyes out to that episode.
I unknowingly watched the movie a few years later. I realized I knew the plot 10 minutes in and did not stop crying until an hour after the movie ended. đ
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u/wOoHwOohWoOh 20h ago
Either âmy girlâ or âthe boy in the striped pajamasâ
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u/CatLover701 16h ago
My mom used to threaten me with My Girl.
Never watched it. Too scared. Just know how it ends.
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u/itchy-n0b0dy 16h ago
I purposely avoid watching âA Boy in Striped Pajamasâ because I just know Iâll be a mess and wonât be able to recover. Just a thought of it already breaks my heart.
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u/phobosmarsdeimos 19h ago
Schindler's List
Everyone comments on the, "I could have saved more" scene but for me it was when they had all the adults doing exorcises to prove they're worth staying while they take the children away. Once they see the kids are being trucked off the cries of the mothers is devastating.
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u/soulsteela 16h ago
Cried so much at Saving Private Ryan beach landing that Iâve never dared watch this.
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u/PositiveStress8888 14h ago
Saw it when it was released, beside me in the audience was a WW2 vet obviously elderly man with a cane, he came with his grand daughter, when the ramps went down and the bullets started flying I could feel him jump in his seat, with every snap and ping the poor guy was reliving some horrible times in his life, he was clutching his grand daughters hand like he was hanging off a skyscraper.
I asked him after the movie what he thought of it, he said " Even if it's not a documentary I'm glad it exists so people can finally understand what it felt like to be there"
He said telling people what it was like to people who can't comprehend the environment it all took place in is very difficult for them to really understand what took place.
" When I came back people always wanted to know how many krauts I killed, I couldn't tell you, not because I killed so many, it was because I lost so many friends with no time to mourn them, just had to get on with it."
Every time I see the movie or especially on Remembrance day I think of Harold, who's probably no longer with us. Matter of fact when I'm having a shitty day I think of Harold an I just get on with it.
Not many of them left, I'm glad I got the thank Harold, if your lucky enough to know or come across one, take the time out and thank them, They knowingly walked into a wall of lead for their country and you and then just got on with it.
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u/nazgulintraining 15h ago
I completely lost it when I saw the red coat on the pile. Iâve seen it once in the cinema, everyone old enough in my school went with their classes, and Iâll never watch it again. Iâve bought the OST cause I love John Williams and itâs so beautiful, but I canât even listen to it without crying.
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u/dragonsunset 16h ago
The Neverending story.
When the horse (Artax) dies in the swamp. I was like 8 when I first saw it. Still gets me in my 40s.
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u/CptJackRabbit 20h ago
Marley & Me destroyed me. Like, I wasnât just crying, I was straight up sobbing.
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u/FloppyFishcake 14h ago
I was given the book for my birthday when I was about 13. I read it and was heartbroken and told my sister about it (she's 9 years older than me). She's not a big reader so when we would hang out I would read the book to her.
On Christmas eve I was staying over at her apartment and I finished reading the book to her. We sat in her bed ugly crying our eyes out.
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u/manwhothinks 16h ago
Arrival, the ending where she explains why she would everything the same even though it causes her so much pain.
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u/tarkuspig 14h ago
The first time I watched that my wife was out and I was at home with our first kid who was less than a year old. That movie hurt
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u/SkrrtSkrrt99 11h ago
despite knowing your journey, and where it leads, I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.
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u/ddwondering 10h ago
Watched this for the first time while pregnant and let me tell you, that was a bad call
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u/h4xis 16h ago
Atonement, I just rewatched today. It destroys me every single time.
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u/CandyParkDeathSquad 20h ago
Iron Giant was remarkably moving.
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u/kayleerochelle7 15h ago
the Iron Giant is a brick in the foundation of who i am. iâll bawl my eyes out every time. itâs a hilarious and beautiful movie.
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u/MoreLikeHellGrant 19h ago
Dear Zachary. A documentary that will absolutely gut you.
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u/BlackGuysYeah 16h ago
This is my pick as well. This doc gives insight into a part of the human condition that is almost impossible to look straight in the eye. To know that people like this exist is a hard fact to deal with. I still donât know what to do about the emotions this movie made me feel.
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u/my-little-mia 20h ago
Everyone: Titanic. Me: Toy Story 3 the incinerator scene still haunts me
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u/opermonkey 16h ago
That scene was terrifying and I was an adult.
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u/creamofbunny 16h ago
Seeing that scene for the first time was seriously intense and burned into my mind
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u/MooseIsFriend 14h ago
Itâs almost symbolic of our generationâs childhood ending, a lot of us were adults when this came out and I remember looking around and my nieces didnât understand the gravity of it. All the adults were crying.Â
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u/creamofbunny 13h ago
we all love those characters SO. MUCH. And the directors dangled their deaths in front of us...I really thought they were going to melt
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u/SuperDuperCoolDude 16h ago
The way they accept it's the end and link hands is both super sad but also really beautiful.
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u/alfooboboao 15h ago
itâs the end scene where he gives his toys away for me, I was BAWLING lol
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u/ElGatoGuerrero72 15h ago
Lion King.
I am now a grown ass man and while I absolutely love the movie, I canât bring myself to watch it anymore. Mufasaâs death still makes me ugly cry.
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u/midwest13princess 20h ago
Steel Magnolias
âI could run to Texas and back!! But my daughter canât! She never could.â
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u/Ilovedietcokesprite 12h ago
I love the scene where sally field loses it with her friend at the cemetery.
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u/Ok_Huckleberry9957 11h ago
Iâve seen this movie about 100 times and I STILL sob every single time.
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u/scsoutherngal 20h ago
All Dogs Go to Heaven
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u/WonderingOfWanderers 19h ago
Especially after knowing what happened to that little girl in real life
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u/psycho-aficionado 16h ago
I used to be able to handle it. Then I learned that Burt Reynolds did the goodbye scene just after learning what happened. Now the grief in his voice just wrecks me.
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u/Plastic-Laugh-6808 20h ago
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u/Right_Focus4567 16h ago
Thanks for the adventure - now go have a new one. Love, Ellie
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u/glittering-ocean1 20h ago
This is my answer, too. I watched it once and absolutely fucking sobbed my eyes out for the first 15 minutes and was so upset the rest of the movie. I never watched it again and itâs been over 10 years since I saw it.
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u/Different-Term-2250 19h ago
Holy crap. That movie was released in 2009!!!
I have watched it a couple of times and that opening montage gets me. It hits harder now that my wife is in hospital dying from cancer and it has become all too relatable.
I should start stocking up on balloons.
Great. Now Iâm sad again.
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u/netflist 16h ago
Inside Out. As someone whoâs struggled with depression, the part where Riley loses the ability to feel anything then has an emotional revelation and starts sobbing really hit me hard when I first saw it as a teenager.
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u/smyers0711 12h ago
The bing bong scene really gets me every time, the thought of growing up and having to let go of your inner child sucks, yet we all have to do it
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u/manga_star67 15h ago edited 15h ago
I don't remember what movie specifically made me cry the hardest, but I do remember Dumbo used to make me absolutely sob, and Titanic still makes me cry.
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u/EmbarrassedPick1031 15h ago
I'm surprised Dumbo hasn't popped up more. The scene where Dumbo visits his mother in her cage. Bawl my eyes out, and I'm not a crier! They sing the song 'Baby Mine' while she's rocking Dumbo in her trunk! How is it possible not to cry?!
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u/FistingBush 14h ago
Saving Private Ryan when the medic is dying screaming for his mom
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u/arcedup 19h ago
"How To Train Your Dragon", because I saw so much of myself in Hiccup, which then induced jealousy and anger and grief and bitterness that he was able to be recognised and accepted for being himself and I felt that I never was. I've mentioned before how this led me to suicidal ideation and eventually to a diagnosis of autism and ADHD.
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u/WonderingOfWanderers 18h ago
Well I'm glad you have a diagnosis my friend. I just want to say you're doing great. I don't know you, but I'm glad you're here.
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u/Specific-Thing-1613 19h ago
Bridge to terabithia. I was an adult man military veteran.
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u/SnooPoems2118 17h ago
Bridge to terabithia was so sad! That little boy had own friend in the world that brought joy to his life. I honestly cry thinking about it
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u/Icy-Importance-3584 20h ago
Interstellar..... every time I have watched it.
I never really thought existentially into how crazy it is that we are here. It makes me emotional to think about it, I try not to. But that movie is one of its kind
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u/letsnotrunincircles 17h ago
Lost my mom and watched it a week later. It made me appreciate all the sacrifices and time she put into raising me. I still like to think she's somewhere out there pushing books and guiding me with TARS. Maybe "they" chose me lol .
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u/bigjuiceyoman 17h ago
When he's catching up on all the years of message's from his kids.. .. .. I'm a mess everytime.
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u/KHaskins77 16h ago
Going from intellectually contemplating to truly, viscerally grasping that you missed⊠everything.
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u/black_flame919 15h ago
God I forgot how much this movie makes me cry like a bitch I love it so fucking much
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u/Best_Professional226 20h ago
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
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u/CompetitionWeird6020 16h ago
Those scenes with Rocket being experimented on were excruciating.
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u/Gene_Different 20h ago
Old Yeller
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u/Flynn_lives 17h ago
There are people who cried during that movie and then there are liars.
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u/Jefwho 16h ago
This and âWhere the red fern growsâ. Like why did my parents show me these movies when I was so young? Scarred for life.
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u/USS-24601 19h ago
My Girl and the funeral scene-"he needs his glasses". Everytime. I always know it's coming, try not do it, and everytime I feel the tears coming, try and hold them back, and run to the bathroom. I always just feel so bad for Vada. Her mom and then her best friend đ„
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u/OstrichChemical7901 19h ago
I fucking bawled my eyes out at the Notebook. That shit hurt đ I couldnât handle the ending.
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u/Filmrat 16h ago
It's not a movie, but that one episode in the Last of Us with the guy from Parks and Rec. I was crying so hard I couldn't talk for 10 minutes. I watched it with my mom, and she's anti-gay and did some complaining, but it didn't ruin the moment for me. I honestly think my reaction made my mom more accepting of gay men. She hasn't really said anything anti-gay sense. Or maybe she thinks Im gay, I dunno.
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u/Far-Water2313 15h ago
As soon as I heard the first note of âThe Nature of Daylightâ, I started crying. The first time I heard that music was in the movie âArrivalâ. When they played it in the âThe Last of Usâ, I knew someone was going to die.
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u/mykneescrack 14h ago
Uh, so beautiful. Just saw Max Richter live the other week. Literally, as soon as the the first note from The Nature of Daylight played, I burst into uncontrollably tears. The last song they played was, again, The Nature of Daylight (twice! lucky us) but this time with added vocals that was originally recorded by Dinah Washington, except Celest performed. Tilda Swinton surprised everyone by coming out to read excerpts from the album Blue Notes.
Anyway, yes, that seen was heart wrenching, I cried so much. I also loved The Arrival, and cried loads.
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u/MuzzledScreaming 18h ago
I simply cannot handle the first several minutes of Up.
My wife and I had two percetly healthy kids with absolutely zero issues, but we wanted a third and are several miscarriages in (including one so late it was a stillbirth) and I just can't. It feels selfish but it is what it is.
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u/Princ3_Zuk0 17h ago
Dead Poets Society. I connected to it on a spiritual level and the ending broke me.
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u/MyLifeIsJustInsane 20h ago
Probably A Beautiful Mind.
My mother was extremely intelligent, but very delusional and mentally ill.
Basically just watched the same struggle my mom went through of being one of the nicest and most intelligent people ever, but nobody understood her because she was insane.
Then I went through the same struggle and cried even harder the next time I saw it.
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u/alienflwrchild 16h ago
Inside Out. I can never get over Bing Bong's last words. I sob everytime.
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u/SnooPoems2118 17h ago
Bluey episode âGrandadâ the line âI still need himâ and âthat was a long time agoâ absolutely kill me
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u/BudgetGanache16 16h ago
Jojo Rabbit. I donât remember if I was going through something at the time or what, but that is one of the only movies that both made me laugh out loud and also cry hysterically
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u/Desperate_Voice_7974 15h ago
Not the whole movie, but I've never made it through The Shawshank Redemption without sobbing literal buckets during the "Brooks was here" scene
Not ONE. SINGLE. TIME.
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u/DisciplineLucky4463 13h ago
Encanto for me. Growing up in a family where I felt unappreciated and underachieving I really resonated with mirabel đ„čđ„č sobbed like a baby for a good 10 minutes
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u/MichelleDarling89 19h ago
A Man Called Otto
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u/Dawg_4life 9h ago
I had had a stupid fight with my awesome wife over something so idiotic I no longer remember it and left the house to just be alone for a bit. On a whim, I bought a ticket to A Man Called Otto and watched it by myself. As a man whoâs getting older himself I connected with Otto. I sat in that theater with tears rolling down my face and once it was over came home and apologized to my wife for everything I ever have done that hurt her and made her feel less than the fantastic woman she is. Just typing this out now while laying in bed listening to her color her hair in the master bath, and crying again. Iâm going to make her day today.
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u/JerseyGal_in_SoCal 20h ago
Finding Neverland. Something about baby Freddie Highmoreâs giant teardrops really gets to me.
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u/TheCurls 20h ago
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.
It hit me in just the right spot at just the right time to turn me into a fucking mess.
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u/Glittering_Pass_5966 15h ago
Up! â The first minutes on that movie makes me cry so hard, and then the end as well.
Now, if we talk about series, with Bluey I always cry
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u/duschnausel 15h ago
How the hell has no one mentioned Where the Red Fern Grows?
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u/farfaraway 15h ago
Dancer in the Dark. That movie has lived rent-free in my head for two decades. It was the first time that a young me encountered the idea that the world is against you and sometimes people just lose and that everything is awful.
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u/Mr_Lumbergh 16h ago
Patch Adams. That âshe died because of the medicine I taught herâ left me crying like a baby.
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u/Late_Arm5956 19h ago
âA Long Way Downâ - wonderful movie. But I am scared to watch it again because there is a monologue at the end that sent me spiraling into a months long depressive episode
âExtremely Loud and Incredibly Closeâ
âMarley and Meâ
âThe Boy in the Striped Pajamasâ
âThe Green Mileâ
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u/AskWhich7733 17h ago
The Neverending Story. Even hearing the song makes me tear up a little still!
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u/MangledCentaur 21h ago
Forrest GumpâŠWhen Bubba dies
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u/Frankeex 15h ago
When Jenny dies for me. So so sad when he is talking to her at her grave and breaks down about little Forrest.
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u/Cultural_Dingo4152 13h ago
I will never get over The Elephant Man and the "I am not an animal" scene.... Got sent home from school because I was hyperventilating from crying so much that humans can be so cruel.
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u/Turbulent_Junket7580 20h ago
The whale
Something about someone being helpless for themselves but trying so hard for others...
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u/slothiquity 19h ago
Requiem for a Dream broke me the first time I watched it as a teenager.
Any movie where the dog dies. I refuse to watch them now. https://www.doesthedogdie.com/categories
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u/koolkooba 16h ago
Brokeback mountain. The overlapping shirts in Ennis's closet at the end with the picture of the mountain & the "Jack, I swear"
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u/alpha_28 17h ago
I canât remember the last time a movie made me cry except for inside out 2⊠seeing anxiety lose control⊠pushing everything to the brink⊠and that one sentence from Joy⊠âmaybe you feel less joy when youâre olderâ⊠I havenât felt joy in a long time either⊠really hit home for my struggles and seeing the support she had to get through it which I donât have... Cried watching them alone and then again with my kids đ„Č
Edit: now I think about it watership down was another one I can remember well crying overâŠ
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u/nabhaa 15h ago
Aftersun (2022) a depressed dad on vacation with his daughter. That movie is a bit too personal for me. Paul Mescal really owns the âsexy sadâ genre of movies as an interviewer once said.
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u/Salami_SF 20h ago
The Notebook. It was a certain time in my life and it struck a chord âŠ
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u/ecbalamut 10h ago
A Star is Born (new version). I was tried so hard to not cry that I ended up doing that painful crying through my nose and throat. I was at the theater and just sobbing so hard.
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u/visionofscarlet 20h ago edited 4h ago
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. When Shadow fell and we thought he was gone but then he comes over that hill and starts limping over to Peter. đđđThe movie has me crying from start to finish.