Great but heart-breaking films that leave you in tears with each watch.

It's not something that happens easily to me but Twenty-Four Eyes ‘二十四の瞳’ Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita (1954) gets me everytime.

https://letterboxd.com/film/twenty-four-eyes/

No spoilers but its quite a melancholic film about the lives of a school teacher and her pupils in rural Japan pre-WW2 and takes them through to being adults post-war.

You would need to have a heart of stone to not have a wee greet. It's a cracking film though. It does get you right in the guts though.

If you want to know more but with no spoilers then this review is worth reading
https://letterboxd.com/evilbjork/film/twenty-four-eyes/

So what's your favourites that get you every time?

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THE IRON GIANT (1999)

I dont really cry at movies tbh but the end of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest does get to me every time.

The grief-stricken chemist Dr Gower slapping Young George and then hugging him and crying after it in Its A Wonderful Life gets me too.

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Not tears, exactly, but the end of Day of the Dolphin is always extremely upsetting, a weird sort of reverse-bathos

Charlie giving back the gobstopper always kind of makes the world go quiet for me.

Sorry for being a corny fuxor but Into the Wild.

Land of Silence and Darkness is very moving, though I haven't seen it since learning of Herzog's 'ecstatic truth' thing and how some of it is scripted, which I still haven't made my mind up about.

well mine are Fiddler on the Roof and the Wizard of Oz so nobody needs to worry about being corny after that. also henry s otm, Charlie making the choice in the heat of his uncle's wrath is so beautiful

I Am Love, every time. The penultimate plot development always makes me cry, and the final sequence makes me feel like a cannonball has just hit my stomach

I cry all the time at movies tbh.

Little April Showers scene from Bambi.

Jacob's Ladder, when the guardian angel rescues him from the hospital and mends his back injuries.

A multitude of moments in documentaries, if that counts. One standout is in Wild Combination after Arthur Russell has passed and they play Mimi Goese singing 'Time to go home now' over shots of a cornfield in slow motion, which utterly breaks my heart.

I also am a chronic crier at movies, in the cinema especially it takes very little to get me going. Would like to say commercials have never done it but alas.

I cry all the time at movies tbh.

same, i couldn't even make a list

don't even start on me on video games

Yeah, I cry at everything. Sometimes just seeing a good movie makes me weepy.

Me too, tbh. Not sure what it reveals about a person.

It makes you be like my mum.

Au Hasard Balthazar

The Two of Us

"No man is a failure who has friends"

Turn on the waterworks.

both times I saw Everything Everywhere All at Once, but the first time it caught me by surprise, because I never cry at movies. my SNRIs really dull that part of me.

the part about Ke Huy Quan where he says kindness is how he fights. just hit me that particular day based on something I was going through

not to mention it was nice to see a character that gentle and sensitive, given how many male heroic roles are basically turned into hypermasculine, lip-biting brooders on screen these days.

Honestly can't think of any feature-length live-action films that make my cry; but Chuck Jones' "Feed The Kitty" brings the tears just by my thinking of it, even as I know it ends happily

In terms of recentish films, Coco always leaves me a bit of a wreck.

Serial crier here as well. Last thing that properly broke me, is a look Richard E. Grant's character gives at the end of *Can You Ever Forgive Me*.

oh man, when Paris Texas gets to Harry Dean Stanton's "I knew these people" speech... (which just doesn't have the same impact on its own, I know it's on youtube etc)

Letter to an Unknown Woman

*From

Letter to an unknown woman would get lost in the mail probably, a tragedy of a different kind.

The Seventh Seal
A Canterbury Tale
Only Yesterday

Have only dared watch Grave of the Fireflies the once for this reason.
Twenty-Four Eyes (mentioned in the first post) is indeed a tearjerker du jour, but I felt the emotion was being wrenched from me by force of sentiment and waved around a bit.

I cried during A Serious Man because it was so Jewish

Like, the first (and probably last) film I've ever seen with a Jewish experience that vaguely resembles my own

Winter Light

Some previous threads in the archives:

Boo-Hoo: Film Scenes That Make You Well Up
Draining Movies
recommend me some tearjerkers/melancholic films

Microhabitat

oh man, when Paris Texas gets to Harry Dean Stanton's "I knew these people" speech... (which just doesn't have the same impact on its own, I know it's on youtube etc)

― StanM, Monday, June 5, 2023 3:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, that's a heart wrenching scene

A multitude of moments in documentaries

There's a scene in the documentary 'Moog' (2004) where Bob Moog plays 'Old Man River' on a theremin while standing next to a river. It must have seemed hilarious when they filmed it - old man plays 'Old Man River' by a river! - but Moog passed away the following year.

the obvious scene in manchester by the sea

i also cry all the time during movies

Kinda proud of the men of ilx itt being open about feelings

I cried when Superman came back to life during Justice League.

because i wanted that fucker dead

ian otm

oh, fuck...the death scene in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. forgot about that one. actually a reason I didn't do a rewatch recently because Yeoh's dialogue woulda been too much for me

I have a peculiarly lachrymose relationship with the ageing Sylvester Stallone. He only has to appear on screen in the Creed films and I want to bawl.

Even bits of Last Blood made me tear up. Although that might have been how awful it was.

im beginning to think we might need a thread about how honest and natural an actor stallone has been in great roles throughout his career tbh because his being great is not a one-off nor a new thing

Would absolutely contribute to that. He's always carried extraordinary pathos; watching him age is shattering for me.

everybody in this thread is my people, man. when my older son was small I'd take him to these rot-your-brain kids' movies because he enjoyed going to the theater and I enjoyed taking him and I'd just cry at the most maudlin stuff. Smurfs 2 made me crying. fuckin Smurfs 2.

may actually need a poll at where you are *most likely* to cry during its a wonderful life, tbh

I cry basically anytime the director or editor wants me to cry unless I can see it coming from a mile away. Then I proudly don't cry and say "try again, motherfucker."

may actually need a poll at where you are *most likely* to cry during its a wonderful life, tbh

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, June 5, 2023 2:31 PM

I break at the end like most people, but also halfway through when Mary says "this is what I wished for."

i seem to cry the most during "smurfs 2" type situations. i'm tricked into thinking i can safely check out, and then wham a sudden pure emotional pitch combined with a memory or something.

that famous opening sequence in Up got to me when i first saw it, of course, but i think i actually lost it worse when Dug said "I was hiding under your porch because I love you"

One that did a complete 180 for me after I became a parent was at the end of The Little Mermaid when Triton bids farewell to Ariel and she says “I love you, daddy.”

I'm a cold mofo in recent years when it comes to weeping over movies. But the scene where Anju slowly descends into the water in Sansho the Bailiff hit me hard. I think I might have also been getting emotional about how technically brilliant it is as well, lol

i was thinking about Sansho, there's a lot in there, the ending especially

that famous opening sequence in Up got to me when i first saw it, of course, but i think i actually lost it worse when Dug said "I was hiding under your porch because I love you"

― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague)

i actually cried at that film when i saw it _pre-transition_

i _never_ cried pre-transition, that was the #1 reason i started hrt. because i wanted to cry and couldn't.

nowadays i cry all the time. a little bit estrogen, a little bit severe depression. i don't really watch movies these days, they get me too emotional.

everybody in this thread is my people, man...Smurfs 2 made me crying. fuckin Smurfs 2.

yeah like a lot of ppl itt i cry at every single movie. rot your brain kids' movies = it's guaranteed, action blockbusters with lots of shit blowing up = i surprise myself but yeah

doesn't matter if i know i'm being manipulated, bring on the endorphin rush

this started in my early 30's, previously i was the coldest mofo alive

Last time I welled up a bit was the mantis/peter scene at the end of the guardians of the galaxy holiday special.

I cannot watch the opening part of Up, I have to leave the room.

‘Cocoon’ always had me blubbing, now I can see that future over the horizon for me don’t think I’d be able to handle it now.

Last one I cried at was ‘A Man Called Otto’, think the one before that was ‘A Good Day in the Neighborhood’. I hope Hanks never does a remake of ‘Its a Wonderful Life’.

Incidentally this thread reminded of an Arab Strap song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdkBYGqX9TQ

I always cry at musicals
When loving dreams arе sung
I've stained many books, their stories false and true
I cry at rom-coms, dramedies
The news and children's films
The Muppet Movie, Frozen, Frozen 2

Good to know Aidan Moffat is a big softy too.

No one's mentioned "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2? Welling up just thinking about it now.

Don't put that out in the universe. Some studio will see it as a challenge to make Potter a sympathetic character. xps

None of the scenes people are mentioning are bringing up any strong feelings, I think I must watch movies to understand emotions rather than engage them.
It reminds me of something one of Mizoguchi's assistants said: "when we were on the set, filming a tragic scene, everyone would be in tears; then when you saw it on the screen, he had made it distant somehow, and you couldn't cry".

that famous opening sequence in Up got to me when i first saw it, of course, but i think i actually lost it worse when Dug said "I was hiding under your porch because I love you"

― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 June 2023 18:45 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes, wrecked

two scenes in parasite- the family trapped under the table listening, and the flood, but song kang-ho is a cheat code anyway for this ofc

Thricefold yes to being unsuspectingly ambushed when watching ostensibly crappy films with kids. I think it's a rite of passage for them to see the auld folk quietly weeping to Smurfs 2/Gnomio and Juliet/Shitehawk's Revenge.

(Kids busting into a room to find a grown man sobbing to, eg, The Koln Concert and sensing something sacred but not knowing what is an adjacent genre.)

And I can't think of a particular scene now, but there always comes a moment in Miyazaki films when the essential goodness of a character's motives or actions overwhelms me. My poor old heart, I think, it's OK to break now.

I wept through a good part of A Dog's Journey.

I'll never see Up or even Wall-E, they just seem like certain scenes will be way too sad and it sticks to me that kind of thing.

And that reminds me of another, the ending of Silent Running, well most of the second half but yeah, that Joan Baez song, damn.

I dont think a movie deals with divorce with such devastation as Sing Street. The musical set piece/fantasy of Drive It Like You Stole It where the kid is looking out to the crowd at the school concert and sees his parents together and they are smiling up at him just crushes me

The needle drop at the end of Jojo Rabbit

have never been able to watch ET without crying

I cried at Terms of Endearment once, maybe I should watch it again to see if lightning will strike twice

in the Martin Eden movie amongst some of the real archive footage and made up stuff is a scene where a Tiny Tim style disabled kid is hobbling painfully on a crude excuse for a walking stick back to his slum hovel, while ostentatious laissez faire capitalism is represented by a firework display outside his dismal home as rain falls through his wrecked ceiling. It got me at first, even though corny af!

The "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" sequence in School of Rock; Max Fischer looking out through his window at Margaret Yang in Rushmore as "I Am Waiting" plays; when Darnellia sinks the tournament-winning foul shot in Heart of the Game. At least a dozen other moments.

I've only seen it a couple times, but the Swedish film Together ("Tillsammans" - 2000) made me weep both times

Also Stanley Kramer's On the Beach is a wonderfully maudlin tearjercker

the obvious scene in manchester by the sea

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, June 5, 2023

that chance meeting between Randi and Lee on the street just slayed me

I broke down during the first section of Up and try not to think about it anymore, but what's even more vivid is the memory of looking behind my cinema seat during the montage, and seeing rows of rows of brokn people behind me. It was almost a relief when the rest of the movie was total nothingburger.

After that and Toy Story 3, my partner won't see Pixar movies anymore. If anything, I think TS3 prodded them in the direction of going to far - I still think that final scene, on the conveyor belt, is way too much for a childrens' movie - it's like heading to Life is Beautiful territory

Aftersun killed me, it touched so many nerves about my separation and my relationship to my kids. And each time I've seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind it drags tears from me. The Elephant Man likewise. I don't know how Lynch made a film with that depth of feeling at that age.

The famous final shot of The 400 Blows has gotten to the older me.

that chance meeting between Randi and Lee on the street just slayed me

"He's handsome." ;_;

The radio call of Ingemar Johansson winning the title in My Life as a Dog and the whole village going crazy.

xp pls no or i fp

On the Waterfront:

Edie: "I remembered you the first moment I saw you."

Terry: "By the nose, huh? Some people just got faces that stick in your mind."

everyone taking a moment to watch if mitch and mickey will kiss in a mighty wind

A certain kind of utter joy is, I think, much more likely to make me tear up at the movies than sadness.

"Wyatt Earp is my friend."
"Hell, I've got lots of friends."
"I don't."

Tombstone is so good

My eyes spring a leak at all kinds of stuff. There have been many recent televisual instances but I'll have to think hard to recall what they were (pretty sure Station Eleven did it a couple of times).

Two 1930s films I've seen somewhat recently that got me to almost that hitching breath state of weeping were Make Way for Tomorrow and The Young in Heart. Tender depictions of senescence would seem to be a trigger.

I'm sure I mentioned it elsewhere 'round these parts but I was pretty much just full-on bawling through basically the entirety of Tree of Life when I first saw it. Glad I was sitting in the front of the theater.

The Burmese Harp, though I've only seen it once

oh yes tree of life hit me several times

have never been able to watch ET without crying

If I was ever replaced by a replicant my parents’ Voight-Kampff test would be playing the end of ET for me. One of the first times my mother met my now-husband it was over Christmas and ET was probably on as it is, and she mentioned that when I was a baby my parents would put the video on just because I cried at the end!

heart light or home or all of it

watched it again recently the kids are across the board incredible

Have only seen it twice, blubbed both times.

a week or two before my first child was born I watched Never Let Me Go with my wife and it just fucking destroyed us, not stuff you want to be thinking about when you're about to bring a life into the world.

The scene in 20th Century Women where Annette Bening goes to a punk club for the first time at 60 (it's 1979) and tries to find the words to describe what she's seeing; when Bill Paterson talks to the woman in the hospital in Comfort and Joy ("You make an old lady smile every morning"); Alan Ginsberg describing the first time he heard Dylan in No Direction Home.

heart light or home or all of it

a week or two before my first child was born I watched _Never Let Me Go_ with my wife and it just fucking destroyed us, not stuff you want to be thinking about when you're about to bring a life into the world.

The campfire scene in My Own Private Idaho.

Lew Ayres' sad probably queer alcoholic brother in Holiday whenever he and Katherine Hepburn commiserate.

The father-son game of catch in Field of Dreams is a famous tearjerker moment, but the one that always got me is when Burt Lancaster's character as a young man gives up his youth and opportunity to play baseball in order to save the choking girl. Many a time over the years I have tried to psychoanalyze my emotional self, pondering why the latter and not the former brings the waterworks

The Graduate, when Mrs Robinson tells Benjamin she studied art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk-LuM7CsNI

The end of ET does it for me as well. As does the end of AI.

have never been able to watch ET without crying

― or something, Monday, June 5, 2023 5:00 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I cried at Terms of Endearment once, maybe I should watch it again to see if lightning will strike twice

― just the sound of four guys smelting in a room (Matt #2), Monday, June 5, 2023 5:41 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

ET is one of my fave movies of all time and I start crying about a third in and it's tears for the rest.

Terms of Endearment is another for me. It is completely gut-wrenching omg.

What movies don't I cry at would be a better question but the one that really stands out for me in recent-ish years (ok it's like 12 years old but still) was The Wrestler. I cried for hours after I left the movie theatre! It just completely tore me apart.

The scene in ToE where Winger says goodbye to her kids? I don't understand how anyone could watch that and not cry tbh.

Have never seen Up because I don't think my heart could take it. Not even kidding.

Conversely, this was me when I unwisely went to see American Beauty in the cinema

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ISf9UtYcMg/TwhNs07drHI/AAAAAAAACEI/VOzBjAJbyK4/s1600/Addams+sad+movie.jpg

The scene in ToE where Winger says goodbye to her kids? I don't understand how anyone could watch that and not cry tbh.

There's a VMIC Donald Fagen anecdote in an ILM thread, where he was scoffing at Lou Reed, who he'd spotted crying during a showing of ToE.

ffs Don, let Lou cry

The only source anywhere for that anecdote was a comment on Alex in NYC's blog. I recently emailed the poster to ask him about it. He said he didn't actually remember it but was said if he posted it it must be true.

Good enough for me!

Yeah, near the end of Holiday when Ned can’t bring himself to escape…

I’ve never seen Make Way For Tomorrow because I don’t know if I could deal with it.

Its a brilliant film.

omg I thought of another

And the Band Played On

I saw Stand By Me probably a dozen times on VHS as a teenager and always cried at the end. Both because River Phoenix had, like, actually died, and also because of that final line about how "you never have friends as close as you do when you're 12" and even as a teenager I felt that

I don’t know about “great” but

Philadelphia
The Wrestler

And now, I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I'm alone. And deserve to be all alone. I just don't want you to hate me.

^^^^^

i watched E.T. for the first time ever at a matinee screening about five or six years ago, in my early thirties (i just wasn’t interested in it as a kid unlike lots of ppl my age and a little older, i was more into comedies and didn’t care for sci-fi/horror stuff). i went into the screening cold, no nostalgic/sentimental attachment to ET or anything…and i still spent the last 20 minutes of the movie ugly sobbing lol

I saw Stand By Me probably a dozen times on VHS as a teenager and always cried at the end. Both because River Phoenix had, like, actually died, and also because of that final line about how "you never have friends as close as you do when you're 12" and even as a teenager I felt that

― professional window (flamboyant goon tie included),

The way Phoenix says "Not if I see you first" in that last scene of his showed what a good actor we lsot.

Stand By Me is such a beautiful film. I've had a peculiar relationship with that last line. It used to make me sob uncontrollably but in later years I thought it was wrong. Now, I'm back to thinking King was right.

As for E.T... My old nan died close to Christmas one year and I thought I'd give everyone - including my young kids - a bit of a break by watching something gentle. I'd forgotten how unrelenting the second half is, particularly the section when E.T. is ill in the house. Jesus. One of my kids, about 6 at the time, physically tried to leave the house he was so traumatised. Good work, Dad.

i watched E.T. for the first time ever at a matinee screening about five or six years ago, in my early thirties (i just wasn’t interested in it as a kid unlike lots of ppl my age and a little older, i was more into comedies and didn’t care for sci-fi/horror stuff). i went into the screening cold, no nostalgic/sentimental attachment to ET or anything…and i still spent the last 20 minutes of the movie ugly sobbing lol

― donna rouge, Thursday, June 8, 2023 7:43 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol i love this. i saw it when i was very young but never rewatched it. i'll have to watch it some time this summer since i'm kind of feeling "remember when you were a kid" type stuff lately.

i adore this thread title by the way.

I remember E.T. being a big deal when I was 8 because that's when the home video came out (1988), years after the film's theatrical run, so the movie went through another renaissance with youngsters like me who were too young to see it when it originally came out.

mom also got me a plush E.T.

One weird one that always gets me is the look of hurt on Annie Wilkes face after Paul finally kills her. For a brief moment, a much better movie about mental illness peeks through Rob Reiner's dreck

whole opening sequence of A Matter of Life and Death. Telegram to my mother + (above all) 'you're life and I'm leaving you', oh and then 'I always hoped there would be dogs'. Fuck I just looked at the script and I've basically cracked.

Good enough for me!

https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2013/10/this-was-lous-town.html

One weird one that always gets me is the look of hurt on Annie Wilkes face after Paul finally kills her. For a brief moment, a much better movie about mental illness peeks through Rob Reiner's dreck

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 June 2023 19:48 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes!

goes without saying that she elevates both reiner and (especially) king's efforts

caan ofc is possibly easy to underrate in the role too, not least because of bates being a force of nature in hers

Agnieszka Holland's 1993 version of The Secret Garden: went with one of my closest friends, and we both teared up at the end, having recently lost our fathers, and I'd pointed out to my friend that she'd probably looked like the lead (Kate Maberly) as a child. We even shared a Kleenex, then a larf when eyed by child in audience who def resembled 8-year-old KM: she was like, wtf old people?

fashion show at the end of gentlemen broncos

The scene in Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence when the men are about to be executed and Bowie's character storms up to the general and plants kisses on his face. I dont know if its the music, or the gravity, or what but it did for me.

I don't think I cried the first time I saw Parasite (too busy rapturously soaking it all in) but the second time, after reading about how the whole set for the house was designed around Bong's vision for that final scene, I was a wreck

Grave Of the Fireflies
Parts of 400 Blows.
Kes

I don't think I cried, but the last movie to make me really emotional was Passion of Joan of Arc - the scene where she recants her confession

a tree grows in brooklyn

The Passion of Joan of Arc was one of those things that 100% lived up to its reputation. It didn't hurt that the first time I saw it was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music opera house with Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light oratorio score performed live.

"Kes" definitely.

Ikiru, on a recent re-watch.

(embarrassingly - Mr Holland's Opus)

Yeah., Opus usually did me in too the few times I watched it

opus always struck me as trying too hard but missing the mark, the fact the the opus is rubbish doesnt help at the critical moment

and its not like im commenting from immmunity to the easy-target because i caught the end of a dogs tale a few weeks back and had to lie down ffs

Many xp but yes to A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. I’m also a sucker for Margaret Sullavan’s role in Three Comrades.

Yes, I saw A Tree Grows in Brooklyn on TCM late one Christmas Eve---also, speaking of Margaret, this one hasn't quite made me cry yet, but could happen:

Arguably her most memorable role was in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), opposite Judy Garland. As Tootie Smith, the feisty but fragile little sister of Judy Garland, she was a bright point, especially in her musical numbers with Garland and during a Halloween sequence in which she confronts a grouchy neighbor. For her performance, she was awarded a special juvenile Oscar in 1944.

Margaret and June Allyson were known as "The Town Criers" of MGM. "We were always in competition: I wanted to cry better than June, and June wanted to cry better than me. The way my mother got me to cry was if I was having trouble with a scene, she'd say, 'why don't we have the make-up man come over and give you false tears?' Then I'd think to myself, 'they'll say I'm not as good as June,' and I'd start to cry."[4]

Her other successes included The Canterville Ghost (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), Bad Bascomb (1946) with Wallace Beery, and the first sound version of The Secret Garden (1949).

The bit in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul when Emmi visits Ali at work and he totally ices her out...and also the bit where her colleagues do the same to her on the staircase when they eat lunch.

The bit that gets me is when they're sitting outside at a restaurant with everyone stating at them and Emmi breaks down and Ali comforts her.

Was flipping around last night and came across Smoke, which I once put on a list of my favourite films ever. (Should rewatch it soon.) I landed right on the scene that most fits this thread: where Augie (Harvey Keitel) shares his photo album (and life's work) with William Hurt, which ends on a surprise--devastating--that I won't describe here. Incredible scene.

I don’t know about “great” but

Philadelphia
The Wrestler

― brimstead, Thursday, June 8, 2023 1:52 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

And now, I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I'm alone. And deserve to be all alone. I just don't want you to hate me.

― Alba, Thursday, June 8, 2023 2:17 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^^^

― brimstead, Thursday, June 8, 2023 2:33 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I said this upthread!

I have never cried harder in a theater - full on sobs. I was crying at home hours later! I haven't dared watch it again but I will eventually. I don't even really remember much about it except that it absolutely destroyed me.

The Florida Project and its Magic Kingdom ending.

^ yes

I specifically haven't watched that yet because I know it's going to be a tear jerker. It's on my list though.

a lot of people criticized the 'illogical ending' but I read it as the kids' imaginations and not that they literally snuck into Disney

The Florida Project and its Magic Kingdom ending.

Yes, cried over it in the cinema, then cried even more when describing it to someone afterwards.

There's a kitchen table scene in Moonlight that caught me completely unawares and I started just properly crying (so that other people heard and looked round) and basically had to deploy the sleeve throughout the rest of the film.

Still can't watch ET in a room with other people. I was 12 when it came out over here, absolutely smack bang in the middle of the target age group, and the build-up, the hype, the endless queuing, the fact that we didn't get in the first time we tried, the enormous, packed cinema, it all packed on the tension to the point where I was probably a nervous wreck before it even started. I had never wanted anything as badly in my life to that date as I had wanted to see ET.

Awwww! <3

I still have my original doll from 1982.

I saw The Flash last night and briefly broke down when Barry broke down and said goodbye to his mother for the last time, saying "I love you mom". really hit me when it wouldn't usually since dad has been so zoned out lately that he doesn't react to us when we visit, and we don't know why.

wish I still had my ET plush. that thing was badass.

my husband brought his ET doll to that screening we went to :)

not in sob category but I still like to respond "It was nothing like that, PENIS BREATH" to people.

the house party I watched it at as a kid erupted at that part (the kids, the adults were annoyed)

I thought I'd mentioned the short Bao already, but I guess not! Anyway, that one turns on the waterworks for me.

https://letterboxd.com/film/celia/

Two scenes in The Return of the King

"You already did... Eowyn. My body is broken. You have to let me go. I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed."

"My friends, you bow to no one."

I get choked up typing those lines out.

Once Upon a Time In Hollywood: the ending w Sharon talking to Rick through the intercom & then the slow pan up to overlook the garage & driveway the aerial shot as Sharon & Jay & Abigail & Frykowski come outside & the Maurice Jarre music is playing

seen this movie like 10 times & i’m a mess everytime

it makes me cry so much

xpost -- both solid. On our podcast we just did the film ROTK the other month and my cohost Oriana noted that the Theoden/Eowyn relationship as acted through the films is really remarkable. The film version of their parting isn't the books, but it absolutely works in its own right.

the ending w Sharon talking to Rick through the intercom & then the slow pan up to overlook the garage & driveway the aerial shot as Sharon & Jay & Abigail & Frykowski come outside & the Maurice Jarre music is playing

Yeah. It's such a nice quiet 'what could have been.'

VegemiteGrrl, have you seen Celia I assume you have as its an Aussie film? I don't want to create a spoiler for those who haven't seen it, but if you have, you will know exactly what I mean.

Can't believe Make Way for Tomorrow isn't in this thread! Messed me up but good.

cracking film.

So Long, My Son

deleted post re lotr ppl can react how they like to peter jackson

sam and theoden prob the two /performances/ that can wrench a tear through gritted teeth tho

i know the thread title says great films and i am opening myself up to all manner of ridicule here

but when the little girl breaks and runs calling for her daddy in the patriot i got got

the fuckin patriot lads

there’s a couple of scenes in BROKER (2022) that just ended me

I've been trying to think of any movie that has made me cry and I finally remembered.

The Plague Dogs

I am pretty sure that I cried during my second viewing of Audrie and Daisy too.

Which I think qualifies as a great documentary because it does not hold back and tells the grim stories of these two young women unflinchingly. And they have both died from suicide.
;_; to infinity

One that particularly struck me recently was Okja. Just describing the final scenes to people got me emotional !

River Phoenix's campfire scene in My Own Private Idaho ("I really wanna kiss you, man").