Movies That Actually Make You Cry, As Opposed To Movies That Just Carry Emotional Weight Possibly

[2HF]

Are there any? Any that don't necessarily make you cry but maybe did at some point? Whether because of the actual movie or the memories it is associated with?

The Lion King still gets to me. I still get a bit misty when Mufasa dies.
Homeward Bound, it's been many years but I know I'd still be weeping like a baby at the end.
A League Of Their Own, or more specifically the scene where the lady can't read her own name on the roster, had me crying my eyes out. Reading being such a huge part of my life, the thought of someone not being able to read so much as their own name really affected me.

My father actually had a heart attack immediately after watching A Knight's Tale. I guess leaving his home and family to come to the US and make something of himself mirrored to some degree William's own quest and it got to him. The reunion with his father hit him particularly hard.

 

[JoJo]

Not many, I'm a hard nut to crack, only Grave of the Fireflies and Les Miserables have that honour. Both likely because I was able to strongly identity with the protagonists and, well, spoilers:

Spoiler

Both end involving death of that main protagonist, and/or a loved one

Still get teary even at hearing the music associated with either, years later. Nineteen Eighty Four got close but not quite, still good though.

 

[Queen Michael]

The Land Before Time. You know the scene.

Also, the "Wherever You Are" song from Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. The "Forever and Ever" song too. Do not turn that movie on when I'm near unless you want to see a grown man crying like a baby.

 

[kissthebottle]

Miracle In Cell No. 7 gets me. Every. Damn. Time. Also What Dreams May Come.

And while it's not a movie, Thai Life Insurance commercials are filmed like mini movies and a good number of them had me full on ugly sobbing...but you can't stop watching them. I kill an evening watching them when I need a good, solid cry/emotional enema.

Spoiler: This one in particular about deaf father and his love for his daughter is my favorite/makes me cry the hardest. My partner walked in when I was watching this one and ask me if someone died.

EDIT: For some reason it won't embed so this is the link to the Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZMX6H6YY1M]

 

[Queen Michael]

or some reason it won't embed...

Fixed that for ya. No need to thank me; I'm awesome like that.

 

[kissthebottle]

Fixed that for ya. No need to thank me; I'm awesome like that.

I will thank you anyways because anyone who watches that is going to have their day ruined and will need hugs and fluffy animals. I had to make myself not watch it because my eye makeup is perfect right now and I'd like to keep it that way.

 

[the December King]

When I was 14, I was pretty much loving sci-fi and horror movies and also pretty proud that most of what I watched couldn't get an emotional response out of me- the occasional jump scare startled me, but that's about it.

Then I watched Silent Running (1972).

I was so upset by the end, I had to leave the room and calm down. It was such a sad and gripping story (at least it was when I was 14).

 

[Worgen]

Paranorman, damn that movie can be a punch in the gut when it wants too.

Spoiler

Like finding out what the motivation of the witch is and who she is.

 

[Redworld13]

This is some pretty sad stuff. I hope you guys get some original content soon.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The Land Before Time. You know the scene.

No I don't. That movie has loads of scenes that make me sob like an infant.

- Little Foot's birth.
- Little Foot's mom's you-know-what.
- Little Foot's conversation with Rooter.
- Little Foot and the little Pterodactyl that offers him the cherry.

Even just the music on its own gets me. That movie was designed to dehydrate you.

 

[Xeros]

Just about anything that deals with the loss of a friend hits me like a train, especially when it comes to animated movies. Fox and the Hound, Up, hell, even the first Pokemon movie still gets me.

 

[happyninja42]

If you are asking for only examples of movies that make me cry in sadness, I can't really think of many. I tend to get emotional and cry at movies for other emotional triggers besides sadness. Most movies I watch don't pull it off well enough to choke me up.

The only one I can think of that made me cry with sadness was the end of Moulin Rouge, when he's holding her body and crying. The way he howls out his grief got to me when I saw it. Nothing else about that turd of a movie made me like it, but that scene definitely hit a nerve.

If you want to talk about movies that made me cry for different emotions, I could provide a much longer list.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Hachiko, or the American remake Hachi: A dog's tale. It doesn't help that I have an Akita, or that it is based on a true story, but Christ even describing the movie's plot to people makes me sad.

"We Were Soldiers". I'm ex-Military, and I won't deny that I cried at that part at the end where Mel Gibson says "I'll never forgive myself that my Soldiers died, and I didn't". That REALLY struck a nerve with me.

 

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[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

I remember actually crying in the theater when I saw Creator (great Peter O'Toole film)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088960/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Near the end of the movie, there is a scene where he says goodbye to the memory of his wife. It was so damn moving that the tears just rolled down my cheeks.

Capthca: Are you in the market for life insurance?
WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?!

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I don't believe I've ever actually cried while watching a movie. I'm including the Disney staples too, like Bambi and stuff. Disney just loves to destroy children, I swear.

A couple anime (you can probably guess which ones) here and there have maybe, perhaps, kind of, sort of made me a little teary-eyed, but just movies...?

Well, when I was 11, I watched Dragonheart. Which is not a great or emotional movie really.

But, still, 11-year-old me cried a bit when Draco died. D:

Emotional stuff in films tends to make me get sad inside, but tears, nah.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

"Movies that carry emotional weight possibly"... doesn't that description include basically every movie ever made? Even the shittiest amateur productions can "possibly" carry emotional weight.

OT: I got to see Spirited Away on the big screen yesterday (it's had a re-release here, which is extremely rare for any movies these days), and damn does that movie ever hit home. 3 minutes in the image was already blurred from my eyes welling up, and it happened two times more in the movie. From the moment when Haku arrives as a dragon at Zeniba's cottage on I just can never hold it in, it's so overwhelming. Same goes for My Neighbor Totoro, though it's for different reasons in that film. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time also had a few of those moments. More recently The Tale of Princess Kaguya also got me to tears at the end, it's truly heart wrenching.

Somehow nearly all movies that have made me well up have been animated movies, and surprise, most of those have been Studio Ghibli productions. The only live action film I can think of that has done the same would be Source Code, when everything freezes into place. Gran Torino came pretty close though.

 

[Arshaq13]

This. Pretty much because tensions between Indian's and Pakistani's had divided my family during my grandma's time and because we're still racist bastards towards one another.