I want to watch a movie that will make me cry.
(Because I need those endorphins to help me with depression. I feel better after a good session of crying. Sorry if this is weird…)
A Monster Calls destroyed me. It doesn’t take much to make me tear up, but I was sobbing for the last 15-20 minutes of the movie.
For stoic men (and maybe women, who knows?) Captain Phillips… but not till the end. It sneaks up on you.
I cry my eyes out every damned time. Don’t know of anything in the world that will do that to me, no matter how many times I watch it.
Tom Hanks is amazing in it.
Life is Beautiful
Manchester by the Sea
The Green Mile
Pretty sure this is not the crying OP is looking for
Let OP decide. Maybe they put the real life that feels tragic in perspective, and it could help with depression.
Mistakenly watched life is beautiful at a drunken party in high school. Still remember everything.
Great movie that I will never watch again.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
This has me all the way from to treats of laughter to tears of joy and really made me feel for the main character. It seems too whimsical to take seriously at first, but if you let it wash over you it rewards you. it can be an incredibly powerful movie and I loved the message.
Also, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It’s a really sad breakup movie. Lots of emotion. Some of Jim Carry’s best acting.
In the original script, they would continue to meet up, fall in love, spend time together and then one or the other of them would erase the other person after which the other person would follow and then they would meet and fall in love again and this repeated until they were old and gray
Upcoming for Eternal Sunshine, such I think fits OP’s request better than EEAAO.
EEAAO is truly a masterpiece and I do not say that shit lightly. For all it’s multiverse goofiness there really is a solid layer depicting the struggle of women, mother, and girls becoming women. There’s also cultural bits obviously as well, and marriage. My god the dad breaks my heart every time. Just good from beginning to end.
The dad is just such a good person.
The googly eyes, the silliness, he just wanted to make his family smile.
It’s how he fights!
Martian
Armageddon
I saw “What Dreams May Come” in high school and wept the entire way from the theater to the car.
Even met some friends on the way and had to explain I was crying because it was so beautiful.
What Dreams May Come is incredible in so many ways. It’s incredibly beautiful, incredibly sad, and just hits everything so perfectly. It just hits on so many emotional points and uses in such artistry to convey it. I love it so much.
I did not expect the amount of crying from a movie starring Robin Williams
So underrated, always loved that movie. Lots of dark but honest.
I haven’t been able to re-watch it since… you know. :(
“Your Name”, anime film about a high school age boy and girl that swap bodies in their sleep, they don’t know anything about eachother and have to figure out how to not ruin eachothers lives and relationships, it’s very bueatiful, and you’ll cry for sure.
I have not seen this film in decades, but I remember it being quite lovely, it is a Serbian film called “Black Cat, White Cat”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat,_White_Cat
This next film will not make you cry, but it is an amazingly brilliant romantic adventure comedy, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_Their_Flying_Machines
I don’t remember much about Black Cat White Cat but I remember enjoying it.
Chariots of fire.
I sob like a baby when I watch Practical Magic (Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.) Same with Disney’s Moana. Neither movie is really advertised as bring particularly deep or philosophical, but both of them have more profundity than appears on the surface. PM is about love, death, and family. Moana is about determination, joy, and redemption. Big emotions.
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (2013 version) is beautiful and thoughtful. Completely unlike any other Ben Stiller movie that I know of.
“The Fountain” (2006) might qualify too, though it’s a lot heavier.
The Fountain hits me hard. Especially with that beautiful Clint Mansell soundtrack.
Not so much a movie but you should watch The Last of Us up to the first 3 episodes. I got through Episode 3 and it had me in tears the whole day 😭
You don’t need to watch the first two episodes to enjoy episode 3. I played it for a friend of mine recently. I just skipped the beginning with the main characters. She loved it.
The story stands on its own no doubt. But I think there’s a greater greater impact if the viewer has a bit of background on the setting and other characters established by the first two episodes :o
I could definitely agree with that, but if the other person is not inclined to watch three episodes of the show, they can still enjoy the third one on its own.
- Big Fish
- Up!
- Toy Story 3
- Onward
- Last of the Mohicans
- When Marnie was There (Ghibli)
- About Time
If you like Big Fish you should watch Five People You Meet in Heaven (not a religious movie)
“The Green Mile” made me cry
Kidney stones are no joke
I knew a guy who said “I’ve had kidney stones, and I’ve been shot, and the kidney stones hurt worse.”
Not knowing what usually makes you cry and what kind of movies you may enjoy, here are the first movies I know make me cry. Me being a a 50+ years old dude:
- Somewhere in Time
- The bicentennial man
- Love Story.
And those are from Ghibli:
- When Marnie was There
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
- From Up on Poppy Hill
- Only Yesterday
- The Red Turtle
- Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso is so Full of melancholy. love the movie.
