What movie(s) made you cry the most?

Up (damn you Pixar) and Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl

Big Fish. My Dad passed away unexpectedly over 2 years ago and he loved that movie, anytime I even think of watching it I start tearing up. Haven't seen it since he passed.

Manchester by the Sea absolutely wrecked me, same with Coco and Hachi: A Dog’s Tale. If you’re in the mood to emotionally self-sabotage, watch Hachi alone with headphones.

About Time Coco

The Fox and The Hound for sure. Then here’s some lesser discussed ones for me: Lion Train to Busan got me & my husband at the end lol. Lean on Pete Jojo Rabbit Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl

What Dreams May Come.. hell, Project Hail Mary had me sobbing .. I think I cry a lot

There's some recency bias but that I recall: 1917 The Imitation Game Gattaca The Pianist Schindler's List

The Green mile with Michael Clarke and Tom Hanks. A very slow, heavy kind of cry. It builds and builds until it becomes unbearable. By the end, it is not just sadness, it is exhaustion, injustice, and empathy all at once.

Life Is Beautiful and Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Interstellar - “Messages span 23 years” scene. Hits me so hard every time I watch it.

Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind

Dumbo The Good Dinosaur Pinocchio

Schindler's List turned me into a goddamn faucet

Dragonheart when I was a kid. Damn dragon's sacrifice. Now, the opening scene of Star Trek 2009 with Chris Hemsworth always gets me. Also, pretty much any emotional scene with Robin Williams. "Its not your fault."

Dancer in the dark with Bjork. Watched it in my teens and the injustice of it put me in a funk for days. The last 10 minutes i started sobbing because i was so emotionally tired. And i still can't listen to "These are a few of my favorite thing" without getting emotional. Bjork won Best Actress at Cannes for the role and she 100% deserved it.

At one point I thought the biggest movie watching mistake I ever made was watching Marley & Me about 6 months after we had to put my childhood dog down.  Then I went to see Coco with my mom less than 2 years after my grandmother (her mother) died of Alzheimer's. Especially because shortly before she died, she had s brief period of memory just like Coco did with the song.  Yeahhhhh I'm still not okay from that one 

Clerks 3. That ending got me as I can totally relate to what's was going on..

Portrait of a Lady on Fire had me practically bawling at the end.

Coco

The Iron Claw threw so many emotional gut punches, and it even saved the biggest one for last.

The Notebook Marley and Me Hachi: A Dog’s Tale More recently, Train Dreams, and Hamnet.

Steel magnolias

Savannah Smiles

Beaches

*Grumpier Old Men*. >!There's a scene where Burgess Meredith's character, Grandpa Gustafson, passes away on a bench by a lake. His son finds him, and the movie cuts to the family spreading his ashes over the lake. I'd recently lost my father, and we'd spread his ashes over a river a few weeks before I saw the movie. Completely lost it, like ugly bawling in a public bathroom for what seemed like an hour.!<

The Perfect Storm when the boat is sinking and the water is up to John C Reilly’s neck and he turns to one of the shipmates and says “this is going to be real hard on my little boy” and then the water goes over their heads.

Dear Zachary

As someone who cries during any remotely sad or uplifting movie (the list is very long) my ultimate without fail is A Little Princess. I’ve cried the last 20 minutes every single time I’ve seen it since 1995.

The Last Unicorn Scarecrow, with Pacino & Hackman. I’ve never experienced more devastation in a movie …the trauma Al’s character undergoes, physical and mental, is utterly harrowing 

Grave of the Fireflies, and Old Yeller. Both of which made me absolutely ugly cry.

A bit of a weird entry but ***8-Bit Christmas*** Goes through that entire loop of the kid being annoyed with his dad about all the chores he has to do only for it to be revealed the dad busted his ass to build an amazing treehouse. Won't spoil the end but if you love your dad...it'll make you bawl your eyes out.

A Monster Calls and Schindler’s List. Both very different types of crying.

Untamed Heart

Green mile

The Joy Luck Club makes me ugly cry at least 4 separate times every time I watch it. It's devastatingly beautiful and horrifying at the same time. Such a masterpiece. If you're a woman and you haven't seen it, you should definitely watch it.

Wanna get wrecked really bad? Like sobbing? I've got just the things for you Hear me out: Dear zachary Capernaum The broken circle breakdown (alabama monroe) I, daniel blake My life as a zuchinni Manchester by the sea Bridges of Madison County Blue valentine The father Be prepared, they ain't gonna take easy on you

Arrival ruins me every time I watch it.

Arrival. Every single time.

Hamnet. 😭😭😭

Used to not cry at all. Find myself very emotional these days being a father. And any war movie after My dad’s passing gets me.

Once you've been through actual loss, any movie can make you cry.

John Q

When I saw Terms of Endearment in the movie theater, people were openly and loudly sobbing. It still makes me cry. The first 10 minutes of Up makes me cry, but in a good way. It’s just so beautiful.

Aftersun, Hotel Rwanda, Mask, Schindler’s List, Ordinary People, Four Weddings and a Funeral. A few I can think of quickly. Some of these were clearly just in one part of the movie.

To Kill a Mockingbird

My Girl, 12 Years a Slave, Lion King,

Room had me bawling so bad on the bus ride home that the person I was with said, “snap out of it! It’s just a movie!” Brie Larson killed that role. 

This is a different one but Tony's death scene in Avengers Endgame made me bawl (unexpectedly). About 20+ years prior, my grandfather (larger than life personality) was injured when he fell through a a ceiling and landed on an open door. It broke his back and they of course gave him drugs in the ER. He had never had any kind of p********** or drugs or alcohol at that point in his life (70yo) which was also odd because he'd been injured a lot. He spent about 3 months in the ICU and was on a vent and could only blink. He seemed to be with it and we would talk to him and he would blink. It was rough, he never came out of it and they think it was something to do with his body not recovering from the drugs. Anyway, after months of waiting for answers and for him to get better, they made the decision to take him off of the vent and let him pass (it is what he would have wanted). When they were moving him down to a room after they took him off of the vent, my grandmother was walking with him. They were bringing him onto the elevator so she had to take the next one. Through tears she squeezed his hand and said "I'm ok now, you can rest." We thought he was hanging on for her, he winked at her and the doors closed. The nurses said that right after they closed, he closed his eyes and passed. So in the Endgame scene, that is what Tony's wife says to him before he passes and it f****** wrecked me. I was bawling, like when I was a teenager and he passed. Absolutely destroyed me and I am sure that people in the theater thought I was a little too attached to Iron Man.

Field of Dreams. That end. "No Ray, it was you." Breaks me every time.

How has no one posted Hachi yet.

Toy Story 3

A silent voice. A gorgeous but also tragically sad film that got overshadowed because it came out at the same time as Your Name - it would have been the best film out of Japan any other year. It's the only animated film that everyone I know has cried while watching it. The thing I find unique about it is it's about the effects of childhood bullying but mainly from the bully's perspective. How does one cope with having made a big mistake in ones past? How does being bullied effect someone? How much do you judge someone as innately cruel? Can these people reconcile and forgive themselves and each other? Lots of commentary on being ostracised and the impact it has on young people and adults. Some creative choices like the crosses in front of people's faces as the protagonist chooses not to look people in the face due to his depression and self loathing, which disappear when he connects.  Just a beautiful and tragic movie - trigger warning for themes of depression and suicide.

As a kid it was Old Yeller. As an adult, The Help.

Hachi

I went into Only the Brave completely blind one day, not even knowing it was a true story.

A few movies have left me depressed ("Hotel Rwanda," "Grave of the Fireflies," etc.), but one of the very few that gets me close to being teary is a certain pivotal scene in "The Sixth Sense." Even though I've seen it many times, seeing >!Lynn tear up and emotionally melt at Cole's admission about his ability to see the dead and his revelations about his grandmother gets me every time.!< Outstanding performances and Collette should have won the Oscar.

Steel magnolias

Fox and the Hound. To be fair I was just a little kid when I saw it, and I definitely did not cry like an idiot when I watched it as an adult.

**Cinema Paradiso** \- theatrical cut only. I've seen the Director's Cut, and it was one of the very few instances where I found that version to be a significant step down.

Most recently, Train Dreams. I was not expecting that at all.

Legends of the fall.

Life is Beautiful

voice of hind rajab absolutely destroyed me

Seven Pounds

Toy Story 3 and Aftersun

About Schmidt. I've seen it three times and the final scene gets me without fail.

Watching Coco and Lion back to back fucked me up for a little bit!

The Normal Heart

La Vita È Bella

The Lives of Others

Train Dreams. What a beautiful, magnificent movie. Cinema in the truest sense of the word. Just breathtaking. And yeah I was a mess at the end. Give this one a chance if you haven't seen it yet, if you like good and mature movies, you won't regret it. Trust me!

Recently, Rental Family with Brendan Fraser had me struggling to hold back some tears at a few points

Pete’s Dragon remake. Mighty is hands down a blub fest A.I. Artificial Intelligence ( ending)

The Joy Luck Club, Sophie's Choice, What Dreams May Come.

Star Trek II - Spock’s death and funeral. 40+ year later I still break.  Sometimes Star Trek IV - the revelation of the Enterprise A. At the time I cheered, now tears.  Clerks III - I first saw it shortly after my brother died. I went into it not knowing the ending. Kinda fucked me up.  Return of the King - from ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you’ to ‘I’m home’ it’s some ugly crying. 

Lion King

Into the Wild. Alexander Supertramp

Les Mis Coco Marley & Me Inside Out 1 and 2 Toy Story 1-4

I cry at a lot of movies but off the top of my head the last ones to make me cry were Coco Schindler’s list had me crying throughout the movie Up, Green Mile, Pans labyrinth, most Pixar movies (Toy Story, the good dinosaur, WALL·E ). Interstellar, the arrival.

Fox and the Hound

Lars and the Real Girl

Armageddon. In the theatre, crying like a baby.

The Fox and the Hound All Dogs Go to Heaven Old Yeller The land before Time Marley and Me Big Fish

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Didn’t know anything about it going in, came out absolutely SOBBING

Charly (Flowers for Algernon)

The Penguin Lessons on Netflix.

Documentary called “Dear Zachary” had me ugly crying in the middle of the afternoon.

Dear Zachary. I almost threw up I was crying so hard.

I'll be the nerd and say Avengers Endgame

Five Feet Apart.

The Last Picture Show

Before Midnight. Went with a friend and we didnt talk to each other for weeks after.

Jo Jo Rabbit hit hard.

Grave of the Fireflies

toy story 3 & 4 shaun the sheep movie

Flowers of War

All Of Us Strangers - I was doing a Lego build during it, as I like to fiddle when watching things, and stopped about a third of the way in. When it ended I cried so hard I went to find my husband for a hug and he thought someone had died.  More recently: Tarzan Finding Nemo  Finding Dory - all whilst I was pregnant last year. Not a good idea. Hopefully when she's old enough to watch them I may have gotten a grip on myself, or maybe I'll do the parent thing of "I'm just fixing a snack, anyone want something?" and leave the room. 

I recently cried watching How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

Obvious Pixar picks have done it for me (Coco, Up, Toy Story 3), but also oddly enough The First Slam Dunk movie? I think I had a reaction to it because I have lots of proud men in my extended family, so to see a movie of a proud young man actually using his toxic masculinity as a means of self improvement in a sport really got to me.

Wendy and Lucy (2008)

Hacksaw Ridge, Creed trilogy and A Silent Voice are the only movies in recent times that i can think of that have made me cry the most. "Please lord help me get one more..." "You know why? Cuz youre a Creed and I love you kid..." "I love you too..." \*The entire ending of Silent Voice\*

For me it will always be "escape from Sobibor" followed by boy in striped pajamas

Only movie I've ever cried at was A Little Princess (1995). When she's screaming at her dad to remember her. Yes, I have daddy issues.

Grave of the fireflies made me ugly sob

I will say 9 Below. It's about a bunch of sled dogs left chained at a research outpost when the scientists evacuate because of a big storm. The dogs have to fight the elements and predators to survive. My wife was a crying,heaving mess and I wasn't much better. Only made it about an hour in. Who chains up dogs with an incoming snow storm? .

If Only

Manchester By The Sea

Oh, and Train to Busan

Twenty-Four Eyes, (1954) Japanese film, directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.

AI: Artificial Intelligence, The Green Mile, and The Lovely Bones.

https://www.listnook.com/r/movies/s/9UkUURozJe

Meet the Robinsons

Haven't ever cried to a movie since i was a kid, but these got close: Paris, Texas Shawshank Redemption Cold Mountain Manchester By The Sea Grave of the Fireflies

Hach: A Dog's Tale.

for me, it's more video games telltales the walking dead that dragon cancer ori and the will of the wisps to the moon +sequels outer wilds

A beautiful mind. Braveheart.

While not a movie, the series Turn. I started watching it when it was originally streaming, usually while holding my infant son while he was having fitful sleep. It was totally fine until the very end. I was not prepared for that.

Up & Pans Labyrinth

Miss you already for sure and A Little Princess 😢 but tbh most things make me cry even if it's a happy ending lol

The Sound of Music.

It's still Brian's song for me and I don't remember that movie. I saw a clip of the death scene in The lion King and that did it for me. What made it worth was it was a clip of a dog watching the movie and the dog started crying

The champ

Unironically the Lego Batman Movie

About Time My Life Ghostbusters Afterlife Titanic Alive Inside

The Life of Chuck. I was so embarrassed by my ugly crying I had to wait until the end of the credits to sneak out of the theater.

The Mighty, Interstellar now that my kids are a bit older, My Dog Skip,

Bread and Roses

Now is Good.

I (24M at the time) saw Interstellar opening weekend and left the theater sobbing violently for an hour afterward. First and only time that's happened.

The Road

The Green Mile, Deep Impact

Interstellar, Green mile & grave of the fireflies

I was bawling like a baby after watching Lion in theaters. Dev Patel's journey in that movie was moving. I still hold it in very high regard.

Zuzu’s petals!

Elementals, the Pixar movie, at the very end. When the dad bows to the daughter... I cry like a baby

Dil Bechara

Once. Such a sad love story