recommend me some tearjerkers/melancholic films

Hi, guys

Sorry if the topic is uninteresting or already discused but i’m in a sad mood since one of my best friends left me and i’m desperate for a tearjerker. Obvious ones are okay just in case I missed them. Thanks!

fyi, films that jerked the tears out of me: umberto d, it’s a wonderful life, citizen kane.

kieslowski's blue
washington square
paris, texas

Graveyard of the Fireflies

Silverlake Life: A View From Here
it's a documentary that absolutely wrecked me emotionally on both viewings.

previous threads:
The One Movie That Makes You Cry, Every Time
Boo-Hoo: Film Scenes That Make You Well Up

Oh man, I've been meaning to watch that ever since we talked about it a couple months ago.

Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959)
Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
It's My Party (Kleiser, 1996) - along similar lines to Silverlake Life: A View From Here

And I always bawl at the end of Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)

Haven't seen it in eons but Terms of Endearment (Brooks, 1983) works well to tearjerking ends.

Sorry to hear about your friend. :(

Ikiru, I could have used a shamwow to mop up my face (is an excellent film as well)

After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)

the one i asked about here!!

film which is monologue of woman on phone?

"The Human Voice", by Jean Cocteau starring Ingrid Bergman

Breaking the Waves is a good one.

and that's: (Von Trier, 1996)

if umberto d worked for you tearjerkwise then Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves by the same director will probably work (i don't cry but i have gotten pretty misty-eyed at the end of Bicycle Thieves before).