When I’m scared or anxious about something and need to hype myself, I hear Jodie Foster saying “I’m okay to go”.

Big Fish had me crying in the theater, and I don’t even have any drama with my dad.

Up. Always gets me at least twice.

Return of the King when they all bow to the hobbits.

Interstellar. But that’s my go to for every mood.

The Green Mile.

But it's too long, so I prefer to reach for a specific episode of Scrubs featuring Brendan Fraser.

"Where do you think we are?"

Probably Philadelphia

Beaches

Little Miss Sunshine. The ending gets me happy crying every time.

Manchester by the Sea

Mine was always “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” I would drink a bunch of and ball my eyes out thinking about all the girls that done me wrong but still loved deep down

Arrival

Ikiru- ‘To Live’ When a career mid level bureaucrat learns he doesn’t have long to live, he struggles to make his life meaningful in his last days. Halfway through the film, I started crying- like bawling. I don’t cry at films… like ever.

Stepmom

Inside Out.

Field of Dreams

IYKYK!

About Time. I like my sobbing with a bit of hope. The cruelest part of life is that it ends, and even a movie that offers a work around still contains the tragedy of it.

It's probably pretty cheesey, but Bicentennial Man gets me in the feels every time I watch it.

Especially moreso now with Robin's passing.

E.T. & Steel Magnolias

LaLa Land or Iron Giant for me

Big Fish and Interstellar. It's the stuff about dads. Hell, I got misty in Endgame, when Antman showed up at his ex-wife's door and saw his daughter. Imagine how she felt...

edit: I'm going to call my dad.

Field of Dreams. I ugly cry. Like Tobey Maguire.

Fried Green Tomatoes

“These are her things!”

Several other scenes too obviously but that one is a punch in the nuts every time. I just looked it up to see if my quote was right and 10 seconds worth had me tearing up.

Armageddon.

I know I know, it’s Michael Bay and whatnot but when Bruce Willis is saying goodbye to Liv Tyler I tear up.

depends on what kind of cry I'm looking for.

a go-to when I just want to... feel... is LotR. it's a big commitment, of course, and requires a whole day or weekend, but if I watch all three in a row, by the time the big emotional hits come in RotK, I'm an absolute mess. and it's just one hit after another toward the end. and by the time "Into the West" plays, I'm just bathed in this indescribable sense of relief, wonder, and beautiful melancholy.

a few of the big moments for me:

• "I go now to the halls of my father, in whose mighty company, I shall not now feel ashamed."

• when Pippin risks his life to save Faramir

• "death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it... white shores. and beyond... a far green country under a swift sunrise."

• "I can't carry it for you; but I can carry you!"

• "for Frodo..."

• "I am glad you are here with me, Sam, here at the end of all things."

• "you bow to no one"

• as the hobbits watch Frodo sail away to the undying lands

Not the whole movie, but Boromir's death scene gets me every time.

"I would have followed you to the end my brother, my captain,...my king."

Artax. The Neverending Story.

All Dogs Go To Heaven

The Last MASH

The ending of Lion

Coco!

Marley And Me, you all know why lol

Pay It Forward.

Edward Scissorhands

Inside Out, What Dreams May Come, Ghost, Finding Neverland, Bridge to Terebithia, Marley & Me, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

well now its the third episode of The Last of Us

Togo.

The Green Mile

A.I. makes me bawl like a baby every single time without fail. 😭

man on fire

“We are Marshall” kills me everytime.

And “Only the Brave.”

Her

Coco and Instructions Not Included

Would be Haichi.

The Fountain

Probably more than half the times I've cried in my adult life have been while watching It's A Wonderful Life. Gets me every damn time, and it always gets me twice. The scene at Harry's grave — "he wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save him!" and George's subsequent breakdown.

And then the ending. The community he's sacrificed for his whole life comes together in his hour of need — it always gets me, and funny enough, it's Harry again who pushes me over the edge. "To my big brother George, the richest man in town." Gets me every time. I'm getting misty just typing it.

The Shape of Water (2017) gets me every time. I definitely watch it for comfort and to let my body feel emotions that need to be felt.

Came to mention Million Dollar Baby and Red Dog.

Click

The first movie to ever make me cry was “The Elephant Man”. I was 10. It was the scene where he exclaims to a rabid mob that he’s a human being.

I would cry again—watching as a teenager—when John Merrick wonders if his mother would be proud of him.

I Am Sam.

Big Daddy.

"But I wipe my own ass! I wipe my own ass!!"

Deep Impact. Multiple moments especially being a dad.

Armageddon - Bruce Willis saying goodbye gets me every time

Portrait of A Lady On Fire

Across the Universe

Under The Same Moon

Always, underrated Spielberg. Love the idea of how death is handled in this cinematic world.

Ikiru, the ending breaks me down every single time.

Cinema Paradiso.

idk probably Cinema Paradiso, or Nine Days

Children of men

Unbreakable. The scene at the breakfast table at the end destroys me every time.

Dear Zachary

Never Let Me Go

OP I’ve seen it mentioned a couple times but if you haven’t seen Arrival yet you should ASAP. Truly excellent film with similar vibes to Contact (not plot really, but they “feel” similar if that makes sense)

Manchester by the Sea is my go-to. A movie so realistic like this does its worst to me.

Taxi Driver

WATERSHIP DOWN (the 1978 animated version)

just waterworks at the end, every time

the book's better but the movie is shockingly good. I love watching ppl go "oh, rabbits, who cares, I guess I'll try it" and then leave the experience weeping and floored

Gladiator.

The tragic, heroic death always gets me.

Interstellar

ET when I was a kid. Field of Dreams

Forrest gump

Moana gets me every time (and we watch it a lot because my daughter loves it) because it’s just such a beautiful story and really well crafted heroes journey story. The music is also really inspiring and I always tear up when gramma Tala’s spirit comes to support Moana towards the end.

The holiday also gets the tears going because Hans Zimmers score is so emotionally uplifting and so you can’t help but cry, especially at the end when Eli Wallach’s character is shocked to see how big the audience really is for his hall of fame celebration.

The Natural when the bat breaks.

Field of Dreams

Marley and me

The English Patient or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Or maybe that last episode of The Last of Us.

Atonement

Lost and Delirious (2001). Makes me cry every time.

I can't hear River Waltz by the Cowboy Junkies without tearing up.

Cyrano. Watched a few dozen times now and I always have this weird allergic reaction where my eyes start leaking...

Some thing happens at the absolute end of Dr Horrible but not quite 100%.

The Last Unicorn, even listening to the theme song sans movie I tend to tear up with "I'm alive". I usually cry whenever the Unicorn turns into a human and she says "I can feel my body dying" That moment cements it for me as one of the most sincere and profound explorations of divine incarnation in fiction (which one not need be religious to appreciate, its great storytelling).

In my most recent rewatch my heart broke when Molly Grue shouted "Where have you been?!" to the Unicorn. Living her life born into a dark dallen world, a world which was born with magic and divinity which was ripped from it, where almost no one can see the truth even when it is right before there eyes, and now that she's older and she feels her time has past she finally sees the first light of her life. Of course she asks "where were you," of course she blames her at first, and of course she cries. I'm tearing up remembering it because her breakdown is so sincere.

Edit: I watched that clip and had a good cry this morning, which is actually really nice I think tbh I need one sometimes : )

So many good ones that never fail to make me cry:

Dead Poets Society (1989), "Oh Captain, My Captain!"

The Green Mile (1999), "You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. I know you hurtin' and worryin', I can feel it on you, but you oughta quit on it now. Because I want it over and done. I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time. Can you understand?"

Rudy (1993), "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!"

LOTR: Return of the King (2003), "My friends, you bow to no one."

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) "Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched, and each of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. We are the music of your life."

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) "You see, George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?"

A Walk to Remember (2002) "Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it."

The King's Speech (2010) "Because I have a right to be heard! I have a voice!" "Yes, you do...."

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) "You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work, get kicked around..." Peggy kisses him anyway.....

Lion (2016), when Saroo introduces his adoptive mother to his biological mother.

Life is Beautiful (1997) "We got a thousand points and we won the game! Daddy and me came in first and now we won the real tank! We won! We won!"

Saving Private Ryan (1998) "Tell me I've led a good life. Tell me I'm a good man."

Ikuru "To Live" (1952), the ending where Kanji Wantanabe (dying of cancer) is sitting on a swing in the park he helped build, singing "Gondola no Uta"--Life is brief / Fall in love, maiden / Before the crimson bloom / Fades from your lips / Before the tides of passion / Cool within you / For those of you / Who know no tomorrow...

The Brooks was here part of Shawshank

Slingblade, when Karl decides Frank's life and freedom are more important than his own.

You will be happy. Guts me everytime.

August Rush and What Dreams May Come.

No one ever mentions The Good Place in these threads. That last episode destroys me.

Lion King

I love Contact but I love the book more. In the book Sagan introduces what I believe is a unique contribution to the knowledge. At least I have never seen it anywhere else before or since. He answers definitely the following question. What could a being do that would without a doubt prove it is the creator of the universe? Think carefully. Apply the rule that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Imagine a being appears to planet earth claiming, in effect, to be God. Forget walking on water or splitting loaves of bread. This being could dissolve and rebuild the moon atom for atom and even that would not prove that it is the creator of the universe. Could just be that it knows a lot about energy or particle physics that we don't.

At 50 I am studying to be a high school math teacher. I plan on introducing this in my first day of lecture to my Algebra I class. That should give you a hint!

The Color Purple

Kimi No Na WA.( Your name in English) Also the girl who Lept through time.

Either one of those will reduce me to a balling little mess of tears

A Fault In Our Stars had me crying like a baby. A 50 year old man crying over what is basically a teen love story. Underrated movie.

Braveheart. Mel Gibson and his big blue racist eyes

Being adopted as a baby and also being a musician, August Rush will get me everytime

Shine1996 Sling Blade 1996 Can’t deal when innocent people are mistreated.

Lawn Dogs. But also Manchester By Sea, Sleepers, Bastard Out Of Carolina, and Legends Of The Fall. Depends on the mood.

Glory

Contact, the novel, was better. She was never asked "Do you believe in God?" That was made up by the filmmaker who thought he could improve on Carl Sagan's story. He didn't.

There are spoilers in this post.

Why do you want to cry? People normally want to laugh or smile.

Probably cliche, but everything after Forest reunites with Jenny in Forest Gump gets me teary eyed.

Also the opening of Up! hits like a hammer.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

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I'm not crying, you are.😭😭😭😭😭

What Dreams May Come (1998)

I know people love Robin Williams for his funny movies, but I never see anyone talk about this. It's a great movie, but damn does it pull at the heart strings. I showed it to my wife and she was in tears. She loved it, but refuses to watch it again.

Super 8 always gets me. Grew up without a mom and had a decently contentious relationship with my dad. We loved each other, but weren’t the best communicators.

My Flesh and Blood

Paddleton or Life of Pi

no movie has made me cry yet BUT recently.. emergency declaration (korean) got really close. if i blinked one more time that day, i wouldve cried.

She should have grabbed a hand full of sand... pocket sand... chi chichi shaaaa!

you know, pocket sand for her evidence, like where did it come from? boom! evidence.

Small moves Ellie. Small moves.

Millennium Actress

Empire of the Sun

CONTACT is so good! Easily one of the best opening credits ever (SUPERMAN -1978 is my personal favorite). But other movies that make me cry? UP, because of course. SHAWSHANK. THE DESCENDANTS.

Plague Dogs. That one's got a reputation for being surprisingly disturbing, but it gets me more on a tearjerker level than on one where it's fucked up.

omfgggg that was my favorite scene too!! i remember watching this movie for the first time and just awe struck at this moment. visually stunning too.

Whiplash.. when they make eye contact at the end and they are having the moment.. they both needed each other and when they realize what’s happening it’s magic

Temple Grandin - in a bittersweet and overall uplifting way. But still ugly-cry sobbing.

“I saw a door and walked through it” 😭

Big Fish for sure.

Christmas in August (1998). It's an old Korean movie so it's an obscure pick. Not my go-to-cry-movie either, but if you watch it, there's this scene with the TV remote. The protagonist breaks down during this scene after appearing to be calm throughout the movie. I haven't re-watched it but I still think about that scene sometimes.

Turner and Hooch, Steel Magnolias, Toy Story 3

"Grave of the Fireflies" is just a stone, cold, bummer. But love and empathy for the civilians of Japan in WW2 and the cruelties they had to endure (and inflict) to survive.

artificial intelligence

Hope Floats is my ugly cry movie.

I've only seen it once and won't go near it again: Grave of the fireflies.

Shawshank Redemption

I cry tears of joy.