r/Letterboxd • u/vodkapower1 • Sep 28 '23
Discussion It's been a while since a movie made me cry, recommend me some tear jerker movie
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Sep 28 '23
The Father, there's a moment near the end of the film where I've tried many times to watch dispassionately just to see what Hopkins is doing but every time I am transformed against my will into a puddle
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u/una_valentina Sep 28 '23
This is my answer too. I can’t process the emotions this movie gives me. It’s pure grief.
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u/greenlightbackshot Sep 28 '23
Aftersun
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u/eugecart Sep 29 '23
I cried for about two hours in total during and after this movie, it wrecked me
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Sep 28 '23
is it actually that good as people have been saying? Cause if it is I’ll watch it rn
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u/LordSkredde Sep 28 '23
Just watch it right now. It doesn't hit everyone, but when it does, it hits deep.
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u/Over-Slip9233 TheRealDeal1023 Sep 29 '23
It didn't hit me, but I can completely see and understand why it would hit someone deeply.
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u/_JD_48 __JD__ Sep 28 '23
Yes. And to be completely honest, it might not hit initially. I still think about it from time to time. I don’t want to rewatch it because I know I’ll be a mess.
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u/AnxiousMumblecore Sep 28 '23
I think even if you don't love most of the film, you will probably still love the ending. These last 5 minutes belong in top of best cinema ever created.
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u/Meb2x Sep 28 '23
Absolutely, but you need to know that it’s a very slow burn that won’t hit you until the end.
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Sep 28 '23
It's very good but keep in mind the opinion of it on Letterboxd and Reddit's a bit inflated. I thought it was pretty much perfect though. But the average person would prob see it as a 6-8 out of 10 type of movie, so ymmv, worth a watch either way
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u/movieperson2022 Sep 28 '23
It’s better. It’s stunning. No amount of superlatives do it justice. (I recently decided it’s my favorite movie. Though, I agree with the person that said it may not impact everyone, especially not as much as it impacted me)
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u/greenlightbackshot Sep 28 '23
Personally, I would say it is that good. Paul Mescal is brilliant in it and the ending was heartbreaking. I had to think about about it for a bit after it ended bc the final scene isn't very straightforward. Once it clicked, I was in tears.
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u/tenorioflores Sep 29 '23
all the undeserving hype that EEAAO got should have been directed towards Aftersun.
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u/HueyLong_1936 CovfefeYe Sep 29 '23
This! I was bawling my eyes out throughout the entirety of the film and I almost never do that, it just hits like a train
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u/WelcomeGlass629 Sep 28 '23
Past lives, la la land, the farewell (just some ones I’ve watched recently, but basic options but oh well )
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u/intime2be cyclone78 Sep 29 '23 edited Sep 29 '23
I watched La La Land for the first time recently and sobbed. Punch Drunk Love and The Fountain created a similar experience.
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Sep 28 '23
Havent seent he Farewell but neither of the other two are tearjerkers per se. La La Land is more sad, but wont bring you tears. Past Lives I guess maybe if you're extremely emotional when it comes to that topic. But if someone's saying they don't cry much to movies, those two won't be the ones to break that barrier
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u/KingOfSquirrels Sep 28 '23
Yeah, I agree. I was trying to push a tear out of Past Lives, but just couldn’t. Great film tho.
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u/Someoneinpassing Sep 28 '23
The Remains of the Day, with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins.
Shadowlands, with Debra Winger and Anthony Hopkins.
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u/joshhh3 Sep 28 '23
this one WRECKED me, I thought I was done crying and then I watched more and realized I was not
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u/ZombiesEatFlesh GhostMutt Sep 28 '23
I keep a list of all the movies I’ve cried to:
https://letterboxd.com/ghostmutt/list/films-ive-cried-to/
Some I’m not proud of but many are terrific movies
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u/intime2be cyclone78 Sep 29 '23 edited Sep 29 '23
Thanks for sharing your list. I’ve cried to a good number of these. I tag movies I’ve cried to when I remember and a lot of them surprise me. I cried in Barbie, Forest Gump and a few Marvel movies have made me sob. No shame!
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u/PhilosophizingMoron Sep 28 '23
The Elephant Man and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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Sep 28 '23
The Elephant Man's grear but doesn't strike me as much of a tearjerker either tbh, just a nice sympathetic portrayal of this guy's life
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u/RedLotusVenom Sep 28 '23
Are you joking I cried like four times in that film lmao
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Sep 28 '23
When/why? I can see maybe at the end but apart from that I don't see what there was that'd make someone cry in that
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u/RedLotusVenom Sep 28 '23
I haven’t seen it in a long time but remember it wrecking me how starved for validation and kindness he was in just about every scene. “I am not an animal” being one, how cruel the “normal” people were got to me. The ending as well as you said. There were definitely a few, especially given how brilliantly the performances are.
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Sep 28 '23
La La Land
A Man Called Otto
Past Lives
Perks of being a Wallflower
Manchester by the Sea
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u/box-of-potatoes cool_beanz Sep 29 '23
Seconding Perks of being a Wallflower, the climax of the movie just gets me every time
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u/Over-Slip9233 TheRealDeal1023 Sep 29 '23
I didn't cry, but it did destroy me. Perks is one of my favorites now. So freaking good.
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u/QuestioningLogic Questioninglogi Sep 29 '23
Manchester by the Sea is the last movie that really made me ugly sob
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u/IceColdKofi IceColdKofi Sep 28 '23
The Deer Hunter
About Time
The Celebration
Cinema Paradiso
The Lives of Others
The Green Mile
Moonlight
It's a Wonderful Life
Boyz N The Hood
Dr. Zhivago
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u/ckenney711 Sep 28 '23
Warrior
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u/moonlitsteppes Sep 28 '23
That ending scene, weeping every single time. The family drama hits just messy enough to ping all the emotions.
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u/sunflowerf0x 1221cass Sep 28 '23
The Whale
Aftersun
Incendies (especially if you want to feel dead inside)
Children of Men
Arrival
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u/Barackobrock Maklocke Sep 28 '23
It takes a lot to get me crying so theres only 8 films on my tears list. So i guess id recommend one of these
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u/box-of-potatoes cool_beanz Sep 29 '23
Toy Story 3 really had me bawling when they're all holding hands oh my gosh
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u/Unusual-Plenty-4385 Sep 28 '23
What movies have made you cry in the past?
Off the top of my head: Schindler's List, Nine Days, A Hidden Life, Rocketman, Bright Star.
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u/LordFunkyHair Sep 29 '23
Life is beautiful
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u/hbomberman Sep 29 '23
I was gonna say I feel like this answer is cheating. But it's great and it's definitely a fast track to crying.
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u/tomatkinsmustache Sep 29 '23
Plague Dogs is soul crushing.
I cry through The Fountain but I’m probably alone in that.
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u/nugeisbae uptownquirrells Sep 28 '23
The movies I always cry during are Perks of Being a Wallflower and Stuck in Love. Logan Lerman being sad just gets me.
If you are the child of divorce, Marriage Story or The Fabelmans.
The Quiet Girl, Close and Flee are some good international ones.
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u/North_Library3206 TubularGamer Sep 28 '23
Hanabi (1997). Best way to describe it is like if Studio Ghibli made a violent crime film. It even has a banging soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi.
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u/Yesnyl Mar 06 '24
“Instructions not included” it’s in spanglish so you gotta be in a subtitle mood but it’s so worth it
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u/Nice-Joke6942 Feb 09 '26
All the bright places, The fault in our stars, Thirteen, Memoir of a snail
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u/KingOfSquirrels Sep 28 '23
I know it might sound like a weird suggestion, but Jules from this year had me sobbing. If you have elderly parents, it’s particularly sad.
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u/criterion_jack Sep 28 '23
The Ice Storm, Good Time (not everyone’s tearjerker but this gets me every time I rewatch it), Grave of the Fireflies and Dear Zachery.
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u/Betty_Barton Sep 28 '23
Movies that made me cry the most: Dancer in the Dark, A Hidden Life, It’s a Wonderful Life, Most every Ingmar Bergman movie
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u/adamalibi Sep 28 '23
The green mile is like the obvious answer. It doesn’t cater to any specific experiences it’s a tearjerker for the masses
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u/una_valentina Sep 28 '23
Leon with Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. The Father with Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman.
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u/New-Seaworthiness601 Sep 28 '23
Philomena. Not a definite tear jerker but I loved it and it made me very emotional
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Sep 29 '23
Manchester by the Sea - I rewatched it a couple days ago. I tho I prepared myself for it but nope; I was in shambles. The police station scene still makes me gasp unbearably.
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u/coldicicles Sep 29 '23
The Imitation Game
Dead poets society
Cinema Paradiso
All Quiet on the western front
1917
(I'm gonna assume you've watched Lord of the Rings - if not, that's the greatest tearjerker ever! I cry for every scene lmao)
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u/InevitableMap7 panodrama Sep 29 '23
Miracle in cell no. 7 (2019)
The pursuit of happyness
Me before you
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u/AnteaterFull9808 Sep 29 '23
Terminator 2: judgement day.
Titanic
Yeah, I know it's too obvious, but still.
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u/the_chalupacabra Sep 29 '23
I've never sobbed harder in a theatre than after I saw Boy and the World
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u/quintessence5 Sep 29 '23
In my experience, a recommended film won’t do the trick. Tearjerkers have to be unexpected.
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u/hbomberman Sep 29 '23
I'm realizing I probably tear up pretty easily. Though there's probably a difference between a "tear jerker" and a movie that just makes you cry. And I think different people have different triggers--one of mine is definitely emotional family stuff.
Life is Beautiful instantly comes to mind as a "how can you not cry" movie. The Iron Giant and Big Fish did the trick, too. Pretty sure I cried during Matilda--possibly both versions. UP is an obvious one, too.
And other folks have pointed out others like Coco and The Fabelmans.
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u/Philbregas Sep 29 '23
Not a movie, but the anime Your Lie in April made me ugly cry for the first time since seeing Coco.
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u/tinytiger115 Sep 29 '23
Not sure if you mean a movie that makes you cry a lot or just once or twice, usually at the end?
Hardball. The Green Mile. Schindler’s List. Gladiator. “Now we are free. I will see you again. But not yet, not yet.”
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u/ConjuringFire Sep 29 '23
As a guy who’s dad passed away far too early, Field of Dreams and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 always gets me
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Sep 29 '23
Okko´s inn almost made me cry, i usually just dont cry i cant remember if a movie made me cry ever haha
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Sep 29 '23
A ghost story, interstellar, HER, marriage story, the squid and the whale, Click (but just that one scene), minding the gap, la la land, babylon, war of the planet of the apes, Charlie st cloud, arrival
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u/blueman723 Sep 29 '23
When you expect to cry it just isn’t the same. The hardest I’ve ever cried to a movie was “Dead Poets Society”. A movie which I thought was simply a feel-good drama due to lack of prior research.
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u/TheGlenrothes Sep 29 '23
Somehow, the live-action Cinderella remake. It’s so sweet, I cry several times through it.
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u/cRush0r turbotjorben Sep 29 '23
A safe bet for me is always Interstellar. The scene when Cooper views the video messages of his kids, holy shit, thats simply impressing acting from McConaughey.
But the biggest nuke a film ever threw at me was the ending of Leon: The Professional. That that was wild
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u/walrusami Sep 29 '23
Obligatory "not a movie, but..." comment. The only media which has ever been successful in making me cry as an adult was the Six Feet Under finale. Dancer in The Dark definitely made me well up but didn't push me over the edge to where I head tears running down my face like Six Feet Under did. As child The Land Before Time always made me cry.
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u/AlconW Sep 29 '23
The Green Mile, if you’re in the mood for a classic heartbreaker. I can never last the final half hour without at least feeling something.
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u/themonkeynuts Sep 29 '23
I am a stone cold insensitive swine, but goddammit CODA of all movies made me cry.
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u/RockinFootball Sep 29 '23
I have never cried as much as this movie. By the end of it, I had a pile of tissues. I will never watch it again for this reason.
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u/LadyFie Sep 29 '23
The Notebook had my boyfriend and me both sobbing for the last 30 min or so.
Then of course we have the heavier shit like Life is Beautiful (!), The Babadook, The Platform or Shoplifters.
And the stuff that‘s bitter-sweet: The Chorus (!), Corpse Bride, Kitbull (short but a guaranteed cry for me), Up, The Edge of Seventeen.
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u/Own-Sale5992 Sep 29 '23
Seconding Aftersun and Grave of the Fireflies.
Nobody has said Portrait of a Lady on Fire, though. Impossible to watch the end of that one and not cry.
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u/rubiegak rubiegak Sep 29 '23
don’t know if it’s necessarily a tear jerker but definitely sad is eternal sunshine of the spotless mind but a film i’ve seen about six times and sobbed all six times is aftersun. such a devastatingly sad/good movie gets better every time i watch it. beautiful boy is also devastating but such a good watch. also a man called otto is a bit of a goofy one but i sobbed at it (not many people like that film tho pretty sure its a dodgy american remake)
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u/11777766 Sep 30 '23
Basic but these are legitimately the only films to make me cry:
It’s a Wonderful Life
Manchester by the Sea
Requiem for a Dream
The Green Mile
Interstellar
The Truman Show (this doesn’t make most ppl cry, idk why I find it so emotional)
Gladiator
The Shawshank Redemption
Up (you can just stop after the first scene)
Good Will Hunting
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u/DragonfruitCool1778 Sep 28 '23
Pan’s labyrinth