Films that genuinely made you cry/emotional?

[Frickinfrik]

What are films that made you actually cry? Here’s my list:

Deep Impact
Revenge of the Sith
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Jumanji (1995)
The Iron Giant
Up
Toy Story 3
Infinity War
Endgame
Red Dawn (1984)

 

[4C374552A1CA2638]

I didn't keep a list, but I can name two that I remember:

Marley & Me (easy answer)
No Time to Die's ending got me pretty good, too.

 

[TruthandConsequence]

My mom showed me The Grudge as a joke when I was like 6, shit had me bawlin G.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

My mom showed me The Grudge as a joke when I was like 6, shit had me bawlin G.

Not only is that amusing in isolation, but my primary memory of that movie involved doing some NSFW stuff in the back-corner of the theater with my GF at the time..

 

[Frickinfrik]

Not only is that amusing in isolation, but my primary memory of that movie involved doing some NSFW stuff in the back-corner of the theater with my GF at the time..

wat

 

[TruthandConsequence]

Not only is that amusing in isolation, but my primary memory of that movie involved doing some NSFW stuff in the back-corner of the theater with my GF at the time..

 

[Bakuma1997]

Digimon the Last Evolution Kizuna, goddamnt it Toei, it was neccesary to pull the strings with that Grand Finale to the OG Digichosen's journey? that last "Butter-fly" was where i loudly sobbed and i don't cry that often

 

[TruthandConsequence]

I will give a good answer though.

Honestly? I shouldn't even really mention it because it's a bit embarrassing, but I've never really gotten emotional over movies, video games a few times, but never movies.

Recently though, I decided to sit through all the Madea movies, because I have some nostalgia from watching them with my family when I was young, and I never realized how deep some of the earlier ones got.

I guess it's also because I decided to watch it at a time where I was really thinking about some personal issues I had in the past, so I was more vulnerable to certain topics, but the movie that finally made me cry was I Can do Bad All By Myself.

I won't get into specifics, but there's a certain plot point that comes up later in the movie that affected me a bit and made me start thinking about some negative things that happened to me, and I won't say that the movie handles it in an amazing way, but it was definitely enough to get to me. Either way I liked the movie lol.

 

[lestagio]

There's not all too many, but The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King does it every time. Every year I pick a month in the latter half of the year to read all 3 books and watch all 3 movies. The end of the book makes my tear up, and so does the movie. I don't know if I'll watch all 3 this year because I just watched them in January since they were in the theaters... I saw them with my wife and when "The End" finally came up on screen, we both turned to each other and teared up a bit. Holy shit, LOTR is so good.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

What are films that made you actually cry?

Pixels. Not in a "this shit MEANS something to me" way
in a "this shit is trash" way

 

[Abecero]

The one movie I clearly remember making me cry at the end was Mary and Max

I'd go over about what I liked about it and all that, but I'm currently too depressed over real life looking much less appealing to live in right now, so I'll just copy-paste a synopsis from tv tropes.

Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian clay-animated Black tragicomedy written and directed by Adam Elliot, the Oscar winning director of the short film Harvie Krumpet.

Set in the 1970-90s, Mary and Max tells the story of a friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore as young Mary, Toni Collette as older Mary), a lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, and Max Jerry Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a 44-year old Jewish man with Asperger Syndrome living in New York City. The movie follows the story of their life and friendship over the course of Mary's childhood and adulthood. What appears to start out as a solely blackly humourous story soon turns into something quite dark and often very depressing, dealing with many bleak topics: parental neglect, insecurity, bullying, and even suicide.

 

[Vexicrypt]

A Ghost Story made me ugly cry when I watched it last year. Yeah, its that movie where Rooney Mara eats a whole pie for 5 minutes straight and most people would be bored out of their skulls by it, but as someone who thinks about death all the time, I loved it.

 

[usergaycoolguy]

There's not all too many, but The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King does it every time. Every year I pick a month in the latter half of the year to read all 3 books and watch all 3 movies. The end of the book makes my tear up, and so does the movie. I don't know if I'll watch all 3 this year because I just watched them in January since they were in the theaters... I saw them with my wife and when "The End" finally came up on screen, we both turned to each other and teared up a bit. Holy shit, LOTR is so good.

Oh god yeah I watch the trilogy every year with friends and I cry every time at the Grey Havens scene. Also in Fellowship, "I would have followed you. My brother. My captain. My King." AHHHHHHHH!! I'm rereading the books now and can't believe that was Jackson, Walsh and Boynes and not Tolkien.

I cry at basically every movie but movies that I feel earn their tears off the dome: A Monster Calls, The Babadook, The Straight Story, I Saw The TV Glow. I watched Schindler's List while making quesadillas once and man there were a lot of tears that went into that mix.

Also huge shout-outs to The Virgin Suicides which I finally watched this year, which is incredibly sad but also deliberately refuses the catharsis of tears. The narrative is told with this clinical distance which makes it much much harder to respond to emotionally in a way that's extremely challenging and upsetting and makes it way more memorable than if it played itself as a weepie. Good shit.