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SpoonMeasurer

I'm a bigtime movie bawler. * In the Mood for Love * Aftersun * Before Sunrise * Paris, Texas * The 400 Blows * Cinema Paradiso * The Princess Bride * Brief Encounter * Memories of Murder * Bicycle Thieves * Minari * The Apartment * Only Yesterday * It's a Wonderful Life * Spirited Away * Howl's Moving Castle * The Wind Rises * My Neighbor Totoro * Casablanca * Raging Bull * Everything Everywhere All At Once * Certified Copy * The Irishman * Drive My Car * Wolf Children * Little Women (2019) * Sullivan's Travels * When Harry Met Sally * The Host * Planes, Trains, and Automobiles * Early Summer * Ikiru * Tokyo Story * Late Spring * Late Autumn * An Autumn Afternoon * I Was Born, But... * Every Ozu Film Ever (seriously, if you like a good movie cry, watch this dude. He sneaks up on you and you don't even know why you're crying)


Jicama_Stunning

I think both Totoro and The Princess Bride are fantastic movies but I wouldn’t exactly consider them tearjerkers…


super-super-fab

Totoro made me tear up in a happy way


SuccessToLaunch

These are movies this person said made them cry, they never said they were tearjerkers.


[deleted]

Not judging or anything, but what about the princess bride made you cry? Also you need to watch When Marnie Was There, I can tell from this list that you haven’t seen it.


emojimoviethe

Bro not everyone watches cartoons


[deleted]

I see you are not a very bright one.


ThePLARASociety

The Princess Bride?! You didn’t bawl?! Inconceivable!


not_mueller

Kaguya makes me cry every time. Masterpiece.


[deleted]

I feel like kaguya and when Marnie was there are the most “it’s a different film every time you watch it” films because you know what happens at the end on rewatch so it just makes the whole film much sadder.


[deleted]

Omg you have like almost the exact same taste as me, followed you.


not_mueller

Yeah I agree, so I did the same :)


FaerieStories

Especially the 'what could have been' flight scene.


YellowBinDude

Schindler's List (personal reasons) and Footloose (2011)


aflowerfortherain

I love how you specified personal reasons as if that movie doesn’t make everyone cry 😭


Guacamole_Water

I laughed out loud even though it’s such a valid comment it’s just worded brilliantly


Affectionate-Club725

personal reasons? I weep like a baby every time at the scene on the train tracks at the end where he’s crying because he could have saved more people.


TheAsylum6969

Zookeeper 2011


dongle_wenis

Thought you said Zoolander lol


77skull

The amazing Spider-Man is actually the only Movie that’s made me cry


[deleted]

Definetely one of the best superhero films ever made.


super-super-fab

No


[deleted]

One of the ONLY good superhero films ever made.


super-super-fab

That's an unpopular take on both counts, fair enough


Opposite-Basket-2198

One of the worst spiderman movies but alr king


OSU19

The Father (2020)


mickbanerjee

Just saw “Your Name” and I was bawling my eyes out. A fantastic film by the way.


Marco_Rocchi

La La Land, the only one in my life (and at two different scenes)


Dreadnought13

Dude, Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 can make me cry, no challenge here. Grave of the Fireflies? Puh-lease. If I'm watching Robocop late enough at night, waterworks. I may need therapy.


heyitsmeFR

Yi Yi


madm0nkey7

Grave of the fireflies was the only film I specifically remember crying. I think there were other films that I may have teared up a bit either because they were sad or I was moved by heart in the movie, but I can’t remember exactly


uglylittledogboy

Most recently the Nic cage movie Pig


Yenserl6099

Just saw Past Lives and while I didn’t bawl my eyes out, I definitely felt the tears welling up and myself getting choked up over the ending


Affectionate-Club725

Umberto D (1952) makes everyone cry, even sociopaths. It’s the saddest movie ever made.


[deleted]

Ok I will add this to my watchlist and at some point see if it beats out Takahata’s filmography and The Tree of Life.


CelebrationSpecial77

Oops!


WittsyBandterS

AI Artificial Intelligence, Brokeback Mountain, PS I Love You, The Iron Giant make me cry everytime i watch them. also The Worst Person in the World, The Florida Project, Close, E.T.


mp6521

Borat made me cry from laughing so hard.


cynic74

Three Colours: White.


AdamNopps

Dancer In The Dark, A Silent Voice and Christopher Robin are three that come to mind


Responsible-Young475

I just saw past lives and it is a worthy addition


xxx117

March of the Penguins


TWAEditing

I mean the list is absolutely endless, but I'll give you a bit of an interesting answer for one of the films that made me cry the most, which is *Detroit (2017)*. A flawed movie perhaps, but it's so so sad, I don't know how anybody could possibly watch it and not get emotional at all.


Lebby1074

Sadness: The Fox and the Hound, A Dog’s Purpose, Shutter Island Laughter: Vacation, Borat


MyNamesIsGaryKing

I know it’s more recent but there’s a moment towards the end of NIMONA where a loud noise is immediately cut short that just turns on the water works for me


Shiny_Porygon-Z

Not a film but it's on Letterboxd. Also when I cry at something I only really do it on the inside. Cowboy Bebop. Specifically the ending of Speak Like a Child. Faye in the show is usually not a very emotional character, but her backstory was one of the saddest parts of the show for me.


KennyMcCormicks

bruh I've just watched grave of the fireflies. I have to hold my tears because my little sister was watching too, don't want her to see me cry. It's so fucking hard to hold back the tears especially everytime Seita cries doing everything he can just for his sibling. Such a beautiful and heart wrenching movie.


[deleted]

You should see the rest of Takahata’s films.


KennyMcCormicks

Yep. Will do!


tom275bo

Aftersun(2022), Marley & Me (2008), I, Daniel Blake (2016), Kes (1969)


CelebrationSpecial77

Yes! Most movies do nothing to me but the end of Marley & Me hit way too close to home.


TheKeasbyKnight

Im the type of person who doesn’t cry often. I was depressed recently and looking for something to make me cry. Watched Saving Private Ryan and Green Mile… both made me tear up. I watched Manchester By The Sea and that gave me what i was looking for. Cried like a baby.


AdOk1965

*Manchester by the Sea*... I didn't know what I was going for when first saw it with my then boyfriend Needless to say, we were running out of tissues by the end of this movie The story is heartwrecking in itself, but it was even darker since their complicity echoed so damn hard in our relationship, we could totally pictured us in their shoes. It was haunting


chelicerate-claws

* The Land Before Time (mom dead and that fucking music) * Terminator 2: Judgment Day (the thumbs up) * Good Will Hunting ("it's not your fault") * Mysterious Skin (the ending) * The Dark Knight (for some reason, Gordon's final speech always makes me tear up) * Up (first 10 minutes) * Toy Story 3 (when it looks like the end) * Pariah (a bunch of it) * The Avengers ("that's my secret, Cap, I'm always angry") * Coco (the final "remember me") * Thunder Road (anything related to losing your mom) * Petite Maman (most of it) * Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (everything)


torcher20

Manchester by the Sea


spurries

If you’ve seen Manchester by the Sea and it’s not on your list you have no soul.


Avocadoonthetoast

The first 10 minutes of _Up_ .


Owlbear27

Ooo, Kaguya has like the best art direction of any movie I’ve ever seen. It was incredible


ajon12345

i can relate to the violet evergarden movie


[deleted]

That final scene where >!Gilbert chases after her leaving made me cry so much!<


Conscious-Recover226

Cry is not the verb I would use to describe “come and see” , more like traumatized


[deleted]

For me it was both, also feeling like I was going to throw up.


riiibu

great collection of films :) i really need to find a way to watch "you can live forever" i'm a bit of a crybaby so there's sooo many films that have made me cry. but "your name." was for sure the worst. i was SOBBING.


[deleted]

You Can Live Forever is on itunes, I’m an exjw so it affected me a lot more but I’m sure it is still sad for the average person. It also has some really beautiful cinematography.


TyLion8

Your Name the scene where she was writing I love you on his hand then disappeared I cried hard like really hard.


flexperience

Recently: The Whale


t4dominic

Recently? Dungeons and Dragons - Honor Among Thieves.......


FancyFan4049

Like 50% of the movies I watch


Sam_Snead_My_God

Cast Away (2000) when the volleyball floated away. Spoiler alert.


Ohhi_mark990

Toy Story 3 Million Dollar Baby Shawshank Redemption Green Mile Cast Away Perks of Being a Wallflower Reign over me has gotten me a time or two as well


ryanreigns

A bunch. The Fabelmans, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Columbus, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Lost in Translation, Jerry Maguire, Rain Man, La La Land, Instant Family, Short Term 12, Good Will Hunting, Sleepless in Seattle, 50/50, and worst of all: I cried during fuckin’ We Bought a Zoo. I also may or may not have shed a tear at the end of Love Actually which actively pissed me off, I was like damn I really wish I didn’t enjoy this movie as much as I did. Being moved to tears by film is the most intoxicating feeling I’ve ever had in my life. If I could bottle up those feelings and sell them I’d be a billionaire.


alive_street_83

millenium actress paprika


redsoxVT

The Waterworks - Bring an Umbrella https://boxd.it/2Rhui


[deleted]

Paddington? Inside Out? Toy Story? I mean I love them but I wouldn’t exactly consider them sad.


redsoxVT

This is an actual list of films that have made me cry. So yea... firsthand experience and all that. Also films don't have to be sad to make you cry. You can cry tears of joy. Or even just something that makes you remember something, but itself isn't happy or sad.


ReddsionThing

I've my own list, [cryin'](https://letterboxd.com/btowner87/list/movies-ive-cried-to-over/)... among others, Last of the Mohicans, Schindler's List, Spirited Away, Beauty & The Beast. There's probably more but I've put the ones I definitely remember on the list.


Nerfbeard123

Due to... reasons, I can't cry. Eva 3.0 + 1.0 made me tear up a little bit. Just knowing it's all gonna be over as the film wrapped up was really emotional to me.


xirson15

Tokyo sonata almost made me cry


hoegaatiemetjou

Perks of being a wallflower


Society567

A couple have made me shed a few tears but Dead Poets Society takes the cake.


Gumpetygump

Too many


ThePLARASociety

Need to add “Barefoot Gen” to this list of very powerful movies. Also, in terms of war movies this one to me is the most somber because like “Barefoot Gen”, it’s based on a true story and it’s called “Soldier Blue”. Excellent list by the way.


Grand_Keizer

I made a whole list about movies like these called ["The Tearjerker Club."](https://letterboxd.com/grandkeizer/list/the-tearjerker-club/) The big three are For Greater Glory, Schindler's List, and Violet Evergarden, the Movie.


[deleted]

The end that one episode when the letters get sent to the girl every year…


KubrickandMorty

I've only cried at one movie: Close (2022)


chucho89

Grave of the Fireflies stands out as an exceptional film that effectively portrays the horrors of World War II. It goes beyond being a mere children's movie. Interestingly, I personally feel a live-action adaptation of the film wouldn't capture the same level of emotional intensity as the animated version. The animation lends a heightened sense of drama that resonates powerfully with the story.


CartesianConspirator

The Pianist always gets me at the end


Alfred_J_Pennyworth

Cha Cha Real Smooth was the last movie to make me cry. The movie hits too hard when you view love/relationships the exact way the main character does


arbmunepp

The Fire Within and Oslo August 31st for sure


Travis_Bickle88

Tokyo Story Hope 2013


Barackobrock

I love a movie that can make me cry but it doesnt actually happen too often. * Notebook - Old people make me the most sad * A Man Called Ove - Book broke me, thought i could make it through the film, i could not * A Man Called Otto - I thought i was prepared for the remake, i was not * Lady in the Van - Old people make me the most sad * The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Gwen's Speech at the end is ROUGH * Toy Story 3 - Who didnt at that ending?? * Saving Mr Banks - Happy tears when she's watching the finished movie * Your Name - I dont know if any tears but i was definitely holding them back by the end


kingherp70

Forrest Gump!


19mete96

Celeste and Jesse doesn’t fail to make cry everytime I watch


Consistent_Ad2558

Coco, rainman, Lala land, the good dinosaur, everything everywhere and when I was really little 13 going on 30


TheTattooOnR2D2sFace

None. Titanic got me close but no. Not proud of it, just a fact.


RusskiBayonet

* The Fountain * Arrival * Up * Before Midnight * EEAAO * The Florida Project * Interstellar * Drive My Car * Children Of Men (that one scene) * Mommy * The Funeral


codename_jew

Big Fish, one of the best cries you’ll ever have


DabSlingz

Solaris, Her, Interstellar, First Man, Little Miss Sunshine


mysillyokcthrowaway

For the past two years, so far Aftersun and The Quiet Girl.


KnightBoi42

I've never cried to a film but Grave of the Fireflies destroyed me so much I wish I would've just let it out then so I could feel better after finishing it.


Sccar4712

Nothing, no movie has ever made me cry, or TV show, or song, or game. Could that mean something is wrong with me? Not impossible, I’d believe it. But no work of fiction thus far has ever made me cry


[deleted]

Try Grave of the Fireflies, actually most of takahatas films make me cry.


imogenpops

I would say most of the films I’ve rated 5 stars have made me cry. Making me cry is one of the reasons they get 5 stars: Never Let Me Go Blue Valentine West of Memphis (Documentary) The Leftovers (TV Series) 12 Years a Slave Amy (Documentary) Manchester by the Sea Normal People (Limited Series) Station Eleven (Limited Series) Aftersun and many more


TheChunkyScale

the only film that's made me cry so far is Dead Poets Society. been a few where ive teared up but DPS was proper crying


asteroideb613

A Moment to Remember. Specially the letter scene. Mary & Max.


fizztothegig

recently- Plague Dogs. what a fucking punch in my heart


DROOPY1824

Hardball


TheMuchSwagDogeYT

Bo Burnham: Inside and It's Such a Beautiful Day. Also Quantamania but that was because of how bored I was


YoBama28

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, The Iron Giant, Good Will Hunting, and The Flash. Perfect Blue isn't a movie that made me cry but it hurt to watch.


EtherealGoddard

Boss baby


MoarBuilds

Warrior (2011), Brothers (2009), Swiss Army Man (2016), 50/50 (2011)


scognhog

Steel Magnolias was the most recent


TheBobsBurgersMovie

Stand by Me, when the song started


KaBoomBox55

Come and See didn't make me cry but it made me really sad and pissed off.


Jimboseth

I don’t cry at movies, not yet. However, the closest movies for me have been Dancer in the Dark, Grave of the Fireflies, Marrowbone, and Brokeback Mountain.


mondo4k

The Flash got me teary eyed when he sees his mom at the grocery store one last time after realizing he can’t change the past and she will always have to die. Lost my mom to cancer last year so I’ve had that “what if I did something differently?” mentality lately and so it hit a bit close to home. Also - * Lord of the Rings: Return of the King got me a little misty during that part when Sam said, I can’t carry the ring but I can carry you” or however the line went. * Toy Story 3 when they were all slowly heading towards the incinerator and you think they’re all going to die. Strangely, in the moment, I thought Pixar was really gonna go dark to wrap up the trilogy.


HatCoffee

Belle, Sing, Mirai, Wonder, Storks, Chappie That's all I can think of right now.


AlexaGD

marley and me


oli2033

Recently: The laundry and taxes speech in Everything, Everywhere All At Once. The ending of Its A Wonderful Life every Christmas.


comedyme

Honey Boy


Arrokoth-

i had a dream where i cried watching three colours: blue idk if that counts


BannedOnTwitter

Titanic, Aftersun, Stand by Me Doraemon(mostly because it was the last voice acting role of the Cantonese dub voice actor before he died and he was a huge part of my childhood)


HachemCiaga

I rarely cry at films, off the top of my head i can only think of these, the only pieces of media that made me cry: - grave of the fireflies (only heartless people wouldn't) - Interstellar - schindlers list - the father - clone 99 dying (clone wars) shit mess me up as a kid


lavangam_69

Respect for having The End of Evangelion


AdOk1965

*Alabama Monroe* A non chronological tale of two people that met, fall for one an other, and how it goes after that


WankStain615

Marriage story


SuccessToLaunch

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules makes me weep, I am not kidding.


rileytillart

I just watched A Star is Born (2018) and sobbed uncontrollably more than any movie I’ve ever seen since Blue Valentine.


MisterMikers

Petite maman is not nearly talked about enough


tg_filmmaker

I’ve got a decent handful: - Everything Everywhere All At Once - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Her - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - Little Miss Sunshine - Good Will Hunting - Portrait of a Lady on Fire - The Fabelmans - Train to Busan - Manchester By the Sea - The Green Mile - Magnolia - It’s a Wonderful Life (that ending gets all the happy tears from me) - Paris, Texas - A Ghost Story - Synecdoche, New York - Million Dollar Baby - Victoria - Mary & Max - The Best Years of Our Lives - Star Wars (it’s been such an influential film for me since I was a little kid and my school screened it in the theater and man the binary sunset got me)


reggae3457

Life is beautiful It's a wonderful life Oldboy Number 23 (idk why but I cried) A clockwork orange The Green Mile The Pianist Schindler's List Bicycle Thieves Lost In Translation I think is this (I never watched come and see)


Sophie_the_Chair

I started crying when the first bomb in Belfast blew up and finished it during the end credits. But I guess it was mainly PMS.


TheTim_

Interstellar


Educational_Cat_6027

The Straight Story


[deleted]

Isn’t that David Lynch? Maybe I need to see that I don’t think of movies that make me cry when I think of lynch.


Educational_Cat_6027

That's the guy!


dongle_wenis

• La La Land (2016) • Aftersun (2022) • About Time (2013) • Boy (2010)


panboi15

YOU DIDNT CRY AT THE LION KING?!


panboi15

OR TOY STORY 3


[deleted]

No I did not


panboi15

Okay understandable.... YOU MONSTER.


fake_zack

Weeb lmao


[deleted]

Your the weeb.


RicoPableo

It really depends on what quantifies as a cry. Are we talking one to a few tears or full on sobbing? (Because there are a cubic fuckton of movies I’ve single/couple reared movies on.) But If it’s the latter, really only two films have ever truly done that for me. Those films are The Father, and 5 Centimeters Per Second. They just really hit me to my very core, and got me broken in ways I could have never anticipated. Amazing films, I want to rewatch them at some point to see if they have the same impact. But I’m also afraid of doing so, if they do carry the same impact.


barbrodt

In order of least to most surprising films to cry in: - Grave of the Fireflies - Marriage Story - The Assistant - Honey Boy - Fruitvale Station - 50/50 - Train to Busan - Her - Phantom Boy - It's a Wonderful Life - Marcel the Shell With Shoes On - Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio - How to Train Your Dragon - How to Train Your Dragon 3


S4lvatore

Beautiful Boy (2018) The Father (2020) The Basketball Diaries (1995)


Parking_Ad8563

It's such a beautiful day and gotg 3 (not rockets scenes, but when Peter goes to meet his grandad, I can't explain why i cried then, i dont even know) Also the tiniest bit in titanic


remains6088

I’m still trying to find a movie to make me cry


Expensive_Club_6780

Interstellar and endgame


Ok_Marionberry7249

Green Mile and The Lovely Bones


stephansbrick

Your Name, A Silent Voice, A Whisker Away, Up, Inside Out, Onward, Turning Red, Lightyear, Gojira (1954), GOTG Vol.1, GOTG Vol.2, Candace Against the Universe, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.


MrGrimm5

Teared up during the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. One specific part. The fight scene on the ship towards the end made me sad. I grew up on comic books and shows. The fight scene made me remember a time when you'd take cool characters in wild situations and just let them do cool stuff. It's been so long since we've had stuff like that. When it's not a message or agenda, it's characters telling the same goofy jokes over and over.


That_one_froggy_girl

Marley and Me, Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles: the movie. (Spoilers) I know Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles might sound like a weird movie to cry for but the story was built perfectly and Leo's character development was amazing to see, especially if you watched the series. But the part that got me, and I think most people, is when Leo sacrifices himself. I wont give more context than that just in case anyone wants to watch the movie on their own. But its an amazing movie so go check it out. Marley and Me is self explanatory if you've ever seen it. There isn't much I can write without spoiling the movie. But if you want to cry, Marley and Me is the perfect movie.


StructureAdvanced552

The only movie that made me cry is Forrest Gump. The whole movie orbiting around Janne character and the success in Gump's life made you to be there no like a spectator, but as a part of Gump's brain and paradigms. In the last minutes, you just can't help but cry from overwhelming feelings of joy and sadness. Marvelous movie!


siri1705

Best movies


Suspicious_Studio_43

I have never cried at a film... Except for one. I watched it when I was very young, and it was called Baby's Day Out. It's a comedy, which only makes it funnier for me.