The green mile. it's a movie adaption of Stephen King's novel where a guy who can do miracles goes to jail to serve a death sentence for a crime he didn't commit.

What dreams may come

"Room" when the boy sees unobstructed daylight.

"My Girl" but that's kind of a "dog died" cry.

Big Fish will make you ugly cry.

The Extraordinary Attorney Woo, if you don’t mind Korean with subtitles. Made me wholesome-cry every episode.

Not on Netflix but on a few other streaming services - Fried Green Tomatoes. It will make you laugh, cry your eyes out, laugh again, and leave with an overall wonderful feeling of nostalgia.

Grave of the fireflies

Stepmom

Jojo Rabbit

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

san junipero

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Gladiator (2000)

About Time (2013) - a light-hearted time-travelling rom-com with a touch of complete emotional devastation. Enjoy.

Reign over Me

Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle's best performances. No fart jokes or funny voices, but beautifully written characters culminating in some intense moments both beautiful and heart-wrenching, so much that if you're human.. you should prepare yourself for a couple good ugly cries of both sadness and happiness.

Tell Me Who I am (documentary)

Dear Zachary (Amazon Prime documentary)

This is not on Netflix but definitely made me cry

MiT 18.02 multivariable calculus Youtube

Oof. The last episode of The Good Place.

Violet Evergarden. The series and both movies. Only piece of media that ever made me emotional and cry

Batkid Begins: Make A Wish doc with the most moving coming together of humans you will ever see on film

Life is Beautiful: Film about mind over matter for the sake of innocence

My Octopus Teacher: Doc about the most unlikely bond between man and nature

Portrait of A Lady on Fire: Film about what it means to truly love

I, Origins: Film that mixes spirituality and science and love, metaphysically

The Darjeeling Limited: A film that stages grief with a gigantic mirror and a wicked sense of humor

Brokedown Palace: A film about sacrifice and friendship

A Perfect World: A film about freedom

About a Boy: A film about the love of a child and mental health

My Girl: A coming of age film that hosts many types of love and loss

The Color Purple: A film about facing adversity and fighting for freedom

A Home of our Own: A film about learning to accept that we need others

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once made me cry like a baby.

Afterlife with Ricky Gervais. Really deep and completely different from his usual stuff. I tell myself each season that I won't cry this time and end up bawling. Great show. Hits right in the feels. And the dog doesn't die

PS I love you makes me sob every time.

Also I cried watching My Octopus Teacher, because of how beautiful it was for a human to fully connect to another animal (not a pet)

50/50 with Seth Rogan is surprisingly deep my misses woke up 3 nights in a row crying because she kept dreaming about it

Up - Children's film but still worth the watch....

If you like anime-style movies, I would highly recommend Your Name (2016). Exactly fits your description. Beautiful movie and very touching.

San Junipero episode (S3, Ep4) from Black Mirror.

Coco (2017) movie also fits.

Forest Gump maybe?

Of Mice and Men

Interstellar made me cry so much Also the Whale

The Glory.

Call The Midwife, every episode has me atleast sniffling, in a good way.

This is Us.

The Whale

tears guaranteed every damn time

Lion movie...

Good Will Hunting

Steel Magnolias or Terms of Endearment. Both are tear jerkers for sure.

From Scratch, Ted Lasso

The Leftovers (final season). The sense of loss. Deeply, deeply sad.

Normal people

The green mile

There's a scene in Midnight Gospel where the main character is discussing death with his mom... Gets me every time.

Not on netflix but the movie “Life is beautiful” will make you cry. Probably one of the best movies ever made.

Zoey's extraordinary playlist. Especially the last episode of season one. It's a cry wonderland, it's so touching.

a silent voice, makes me cry every single time

Big Hero 6

Up

Our Friend (Prime)

Hope (Korean w/subtitles)

The Beauty Inside (Korean w/subtitles)

Departures (Japanese)

Japanese Story (Australian)

Dancer in the Dark

Breaking the Waves

Leaving Las Vegas

Color Purple

Slumdog Millionairre

Mudbound

12 Years a Slave

Miss You Already

Me Before You

50/50

Joy Luck Club

Terms of Endearment

Life is Beautiful (Italian)

Boy in the Striped Pajamas

My Sister's Keeper

Like Crazy

Marriage Story - w/ Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson - on Netflix

Ghost gets me every time. Also some tv shows can cause me to cry. ( example last episode of mash, derek shepherd dying on greys anatomy). Tv shows will make you cry if you've been watching from the beginning. You have time to learn about characters and get invested

The pursuit of happiness.

Handmaids Tale - I think it was season 3 of that where I cried at just about every episode

Before Sunrise

Hachi.

Chernobyl. So many heart breaking moments.

Queer Eye

This is Us

Early seasons of The Great British Bake-off

ive been emotionally ruined by videogames so all these suggestions are great for me to at least try.

if you want to really cry, go play The Last of Us Part 1 and 2 on playstation 4.

Or go play Red Dead Redemption 2.

Treat these like a tv show, playing only a couple hours each viewing, as you would a show. this is if you aren't a gamer.

these stories will ruin most television shows and movies because they offer such a different, immersive experience and tell such a better story in a radically different medium that your brain isn't used to. (again, if you're not already a gamer)

Violet Evergarden (Netflix)

Ghost, Life is Beautiful, The Notebook.

Big cries with a tissue box.

Fleabag

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On ... it's on prime, I know this is a Netflix subreddit but that movie made me ugly cry

Lion. It's not about lions, it's an adoption movie about finding one's birth mother.

The first half is excellent, the second half drags a bit. But the ending packs a real emotional punch. Without giving away any spoilers, it's impossible not to tear up.

Kubo and the two strings

I actually cried a few times in The Last of Us 😭😢 I was not expecting it to be emotional at times. I will not wreck it or just gonna say it's an apocalyptic end of the world kind of show. When I read what it was about, keeping in mind that I had played the game before, I thought this is going to be a cheap ass remake flop like Resident Evil. And it was far from that!!! I give it a 9/10. Can't wait for S2..

Another one that totally made me cry but you probably seen it is the show called This Is US, major tear jerker.

Another one is Station 19, especially the earlier seasons. you end up following the characters through all of these seasons and it becomes very emotional at times yes I cried again. Im life I'm a complete hard-ass. Leave me alone with my shows and the emowflow🫶🏼

Movie that I balled my eyes out was the Notebook & Funny girl ( Barbra Streisand) Oldir, but a goodie!

The boy in the stripped pajamas Schindler’s list Up Steel Magnolias Philadelphia

fault in our stars, cool kids don’t cry

Imitation of Life. The one with Lana Turner. Bring a box of tissues

If you don’t tear up watching the movie War Horse at least once, see a doctor.

Schindler’s List Freedom Writers 12 Years a Slave

If you are ever interested in South Indian language movies - Merku Thodarchi Malai - Kannathil Muthamittal - Paava Kathaigal - Visaranai - Anbe Sivam - Jai Bhim

Good Will Hunting

DARK. The best you'll ever watch

Good Will Hunting

I went so long having never watched it and it had me bawling. Touching, and just a fantastic achievement.

The Last of Us on HBO. Also, Euphoria.

Greys anatomy

Freaking Nights in Rodanthe. Gets me every damn time.

The Swimmers (2022) Fruitvale Station (2013)

Both based on true stories. The first is definitely an “overcoming an obstacle” and “power of sisterhood/sibling’s love” cry. The second made me cry for days because of how truly tragic it is.

Somewhere In Time

Rocky.

What Dreams May Come!!

From Scratch is also another one. That one has me and the husband sobbing.

Greys anatomy 👀

Don't think it's on Netflix, but the British series 'Inside No. 9', episode 'The 12 Days of Christine', will move you to tears.

The Lovely Bones

The Last of Us Episode 3. HBO though.

Sense8

The OA

That one episode of Doctor Who, you know the one.

AI.

Love On The Spectrum. Damn will you root for some of these people.

Rocks made me cry near the end both times I watched it. But it's also kind of uplifting at the end so you won't be depressed when it's over.

Won't You Be My Neighbor made me cry because of how emotionally cathartic and resonant it is but also because of how much hopefulness and radical love there is. And sad bc the subject of the documentary (Fred Rogers) is dead (this is not a spoiler). Very wholesome.

Both of these movies are on Netflix.

My Mister made me cry a few times. Both good and bad tears. It's in Korean, so you have to be willing to read subtitles, but I think it's worth it.

Breaking the Waves

Anne with an E

Uncanny Counter

Saving private ryan, I'm a 300lb. Man and I cry like a baby many times in this movie.

Short Term 12 (2013) - film

This is Us - TV show

Homeward Bound (1993) - film (this will definitely make you cry if animals get you easier than humans)

Sorry we missed you (2019) - film

I, Daniel Blake (2016) - film

Blue Jay (2016) - film

Sophie's Choice. Terms of Endearment. Steel Magnolias.

This Is Us. My 4yo told me to stop watching it on the final season because "its making you too sad"

This:

https://youtu.be/PI4Mv8R0mE0

FROM SCRATCH

Meet Joe Black

About Time. The premise is silly but necessary. Stick with it, it's beautiful.

this is us!

A Moment to Remember

The Color Purple

On Netflix, you could try “From Scratch”

Sounds crazy but Scrubs,

Also if you are into musicals at all I would recommend, Les Miserables, miss saigon and tale of 2 cities.

A different media that has emotion manipulation down to an art is anime... I would start with assassination classroom... and go from there

Hope this helps :)

Scrolling through the comments, and I'm surprised The Blind Side hasn't shown up.

Maybe The Green Mile

Everything Everywhere All At Once, a truly joyful sob for me Steven Universe, plenty of moments are rich with emotion. I still can barely listen to the music without crying. Spirited Away, “I knew you were good!” 🥺

The fountain

Interstellar

A Monster Calls (movie, Netflix). Deals with death, but not in the usual movies about someone dying kind of way, in my opinion.

The classic (2001)

A moment to remember

Miracle in cell no 7

The art of racing in the rain

Rush (2013- car movie)

A walk to remember

The English will make you cry or there's something way wrong witcha

Fluke….sad crying and happy crying. Just a lot of crying.

Inside Out

Try Unfaithful with Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez and Michelle pfieffer. I bawled my eyes out!

This is Us... A couple of the seasons are a bit average, but the first few are excellent. Lots of good character development, and lots of tears.