Movies that really make you cry
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Koyaanisqatsi makes me cry like a baby. It's overwhelming in a good way.
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Dudes made me and my friends cry for our 5 dollars back.
Yes, we really went to the theater to see Dudes.
Dancer in the Dark
Malcolm X - In His Own Words
It's all a blur after he gets shot.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Possibly the bleakest, most gut wrenching portrait of humanity that I can remember watching, cried throughout and was left feeling depressed for about 3 days.
I've got the book but not sure I have the stomach for it
The book didn't affect me like that, though it is very bleak. I read it first and enjoyed the writing so much that the depressing quality of the subject matter didn't get to me.
Yeah, Breaking the Wavvves too.
I'm an easy crier at movies, for some reason.
Elephant Man.
The first 10 minutes of Up.
Night of the Hunter?
The Fountain?
War movies generally make me cry at some point b/w humanity can be awful
The art museum was showing an old movie that back in 1980 was all but forgotten.
It's A Wonderful Life.
I had never heard of it.
Cried uncontrollably at the end.
I've cried at almost every movie I've seen since then.
Up is our anniversary movie. Watch it every year.
I swell up more during triumphant scenes vs death and sadness.
My new tear up involves certain images in the modern comic films that ive waited decades to see on screen. Like when Steve Rogers is in Times Square like WTF. Its like a buzzer beater or hail mary.
I think some saline welled up when they dumped the kid in "A.I."
Having kids can do that to a mug, beware.
That being said...there are of course many movies that have affected me deeply. Hotel Rwanada was a tough one. Schindler's List obvi.
The full version is on youtube. Do yourself a favour and watch it with headphones or over a decent sound system.
Ended up weeping at the end and had to do some properly controlled breathing to regain my composure before meeting friends after the screening.
I'd also add Grave Of The Fireflies. I watched it once, about a year after a family bereavement, and it totally broke me for about 3 hours. Have never revisited.
And yeah, those first ten minutes of Up are brutal. I still can't recall anything about the rest of the film that followed despite watching it twice.
Talking dogs I will accept with a stationary eyelid. But then, that heebil zeppelin dude must have been like 150 years old, easy.
No I don't mean Jimmy Page.
GTFOOHWTBS. Kind of took the edge off it for me.
just WOW. I had to pause it a couple times because it was so intense.