Movies that make you cry like a baby

Field of Dreams is the only movie that makes me cry.

The reunion scene at the end of The Color Purple. Every time.

Waterloo Bridge

An Affair to Remember

Imitation of Life

Kate Nelligan being reunited with her son at the end of "Without a Trace"

The brothers being reunited in "The Impossible"

Ben Stiller's breakdown in " The Royal Tenenbaums" and Owen Wilson's death scene in "The Life Aquatic"

Mommie Dearest- The Boardroom scene

There are no films that make cry like a baby all through but there a few where certain scenes make me a little misty eyed:

Django - actually more than just misty eyed. The scene when the Mandingo slaves have to fight to the death, and not just because of the savage brutality. This is why Chicago is a war zone. That one scene defines 400 years of oppression and the sociopolitical aftermath. Then he gives him a fucking beer.

Flight - when he pours all the bottles of liquor out as the Bill Whither song plays.

Way too many to name but off the top of my head

Philadelphia (the ending...I mean duh

Terms of Endearment (we all know the scene)

Braveheart (the epilogue ending)

One Flew over the cuckoo's nest (watching The Chif run iff into the sunset)

The Boys in the band (Michael's breakdown)

And the band played on (the ending montage of course)

Up (the intro, but even more so the scrapbook scene towards the end)

Forrest Gump (hate away but the scene where Forrest is telling Jenny all the beautiful places he went to while she's on her death bed gets to me)

The Shawshank Redemption (happy cry ending)

Oh yea for Philadelphia for me too. When he starts describing how they started icing him out to ultimately fire him.

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.

That fucking Shadow!

Bride of Frankenstein. Frankenstein's monster spends the whole movie seeking friends, and then his new wife burns up in a massive fire. Is that what happens?

Anyway I cried at the end of that one.

ET for sure. Sixth Sense car scene. "It's not your fault" scene from Good Will Hunting. Uptown Girls (Mary!). Kramer vs. Kramer French toast scene. Color Purple (Whoopi version of course).

All of Us Strangers.

I was watching it and started crying uncontrollably. I think it was down to the fact my mother had died recently. A friend whose mother died around the same time had the same reaction.

The Search, starring Montgomery Clift. Not a well remembered film, but one of my favorites.

And in case nobody mentioned it, Brief Encounter.

A Star is Born (1954). “This is Mrs. Norman Maine.” 😭

Pocahontas

Toy Story 2 (When She Loved Me)

Sophie’s Choice

All Dogs Go to Heaven

Wall-E

Jerry Maguire always gets me with final football scene where Todd gets up and does his little dance.

Humoresque

The Snake Pit

Grease

R11, I forgot about E.T. and The Sixth Sense car scene.

ET's "death" made me sob for hours when I was 7 or 8. My mother didn't know what to do to comfort me.

Also Dumbo crying when he has to leave his mother.

To Kill A Mockingbird - when the first notes are played in the opening credits. And then for the next two hours.

The Miracle Worker. All of it.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - when she goes to get her father’s shaving cup.

From Here to Eternity

My eyes welled with tears during Ma Vie En Rose, it was just so touching and that little French boy was so like me at that age. I did not stay transgender in thoughts once puberty hit, I began to tap into some masculinity. But I did go thru a phase ages 5 to 8 or so of privately believing I was supposed to be a girl. Except I never ever told anybody. That movie popped open some strong feelings in me from my childhood.

Brokeback Mountain

Atonement

An Early Frost

All Of Us Strangers

Gallipoli

The English Patient

House of Sand and Fog Terms of Endearment The Bridges of Madison County Dancer in the Dark

Dark Victory - the Elizabeth Montgomery TV remake.

Always Remember I Love You (TV-movie, 1990). Patty Duke was PERFECT in this. The scene at the end, where she reads the letter from her long-lost son (Stephen Dorf) never fails to make me cry. How did she not get nominated for another Emmy?

Beaches, during the montage of Wind Beneath My Wings, and suddenly you see Barbara Hershey’s coffin. And, at the very end, when one of the girls says, “We’ll ALWAYS be friends,” and there’s a quick montage of the photos they took in the photo booth the day they met.

The Best Years of Our Lives.

All of us Strangers unravels me.

There’s a scene in Men Don’t Leave where Chris O’Donnell begs Arliss Howard not to abandon his mother. That one’s always gets me.

Old Yeller

I'll Cry Tomorrow. The big showdown between Helen Lawson and Jo Van Fleet is heartbreaking. Both should have won Oscars for that scene alone.

YENTL

When Barbra belts out 'Papa, watch me fly !' and the orchestral music swells as the boat sails away. Then the Michel Legrand music for the end credits, and the closing frame: "This is dedicated to my father...to all our fathers." I still remember the lights going on in the cinema, and everyone got up from their seats with tears in their eyes and tissues wiping their nose - including me.

R29 I got teary-eyed just reading about that part in Men Don’t Leave! It’s a shame O’Donnell went down the career path he did. He was wonderful in that one.

Call Me By Your Name. I squalled like a little girl at the end as the credits rolled.

Agree about All of Us Strangers, it came out of nowhere as i tend to cry on repeated viewings.

An Affair to Remember, i was looking up scene, as done by Deborah Kerr

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ending - “just us?”

Some like it hot. The last scene makes me bawl because it’s such a beautiful ending for Daphne.

R13 good one, I love "The Search".

And in a similar vein, the end of "Going My Way"

One True Thing

Interstellar

It's My Party. I think I cried more during that than Old Yeller, Beaches, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, and E.T. combined.

It's My Party

The end of Johnny Eager.

A second vote for All Dogs Go to Heaven. I was bawling like an infant at the end in the theater. Mary!

The little boy in Terms of Endearment who brought everyone to tears, my self included, just died at age 50. Now that is sad.

All of Us Strangers, the final scene of Billy Elliot, Imitation of Life.

"Marvin's Room"...I blubbered through almost all of that movie. I had done some caretaking for my mom and it just really hit home for me.

Aftersun

Kate Nelligan being reunited with her son at the end of "Without a Trace"

I remember Kate drops her bag of groceries in the street to run to him.

Living (2022) with Bill Nighy, last scene, with the co-worker and the bobby

Humoresque

Oh yes. Joan walking into the sea.

The ending of Driving Miss Daisy. It reminds me of my grandmother eating her pumpkin pie when she was 90 and how it was the last pleasure she had left.

The ending of Interstellar. Very touching ending between an elderly daughter and her younger father who always promised he would come back.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Precious

Paris, Texas (1984). I am not a cryer and had never been moved to tears by a movie until I saw this film. I was uncontrollably sobbing during the final scene.

[quote]Kate Nelligan being reunited with her son at the end of "Without a Trace"

I thought I was the only one who remembered this. I start crying as the other police cars join the convoy, by the time we see Kate I'm destroyed.

WeekEnd (Andrew Haigh)

Another "Without a Trace" fan. I lose it the moment the dog starts jerking on his leash because he senses what's going on.

Marley and Me

The Joy Luck Club made me boo hoo. And I don't cry much.

I refuse to watch that movie, and when we had a copy of the book in the house I would hide it under newspapers.

Marley and Me, that is

Anne Bancroft's howl and beseeching at the climax of night, Mother.

Another sobber over the "It's not your fault" scene in Goodwill Hunting.

This movie almost killed me.

The Best Years of Our Lives

Bette Davis' peaceful death scene in Dark Victory.

The Railway Children. A gentle, nostalgic story set in Edwardian England, based on a story by E. Nesbit. I’ve seen it so many times, but it always gets me.

Another vote for "Atonement"--I bawled my ass off at the plot reveal at the end of the movie.

Also - yes, "ET" - I was 6 when that movie came out, I sobbed loudly the entire way home from the movie theater, and there was a full moon out that night, which broke my heart all over again. If I can take the liberty of speaking on behalf of my entire generation, this was my first experience having overpowering, strong feelings like that--let alone feelings caused by a film. Formative!

I also cry at the end of "Wings of the Dove" and during Martin Donovan's deathbed scene in "Portrait of a Lady." Some of that is due to the skillful emotional manipulation of the directors, some of it due to shit that was going on in my life at the time.

[quote]Kate Nelligan being reunited with her son at the end of "Without a Trace"

Spoiler Alert!!

When Harold is at the hospital after Maude takes the pills and Cat Steven's "Trouble" kicks in, I am a goner. Just sobbing. Every time.

The Sheltering Sky with Debra Winger and John Malkovitch. A marriage disintegrating during travels in the Sahara, which reminds me of The English Patient, which I adore.

Future edition: Wicked, after the first frame that features both those uggo leading ladies catterwauling their way through those awful songs.

Another one for Aftersun, R45. Gorgeous film. Also another for ET, R65. I was 9 and I cried my eyes out. Then I took some friend's kids to see it one summer as an outdoor summer movie and I started crying again as the children also got teary. It was really cute. No one wanted ET to die!

Banshees of Inisherin.

And I was totally fucked up during the first Joker movie. I was choked up for at least a half hour after the movie ended.

I wanted to watch Without A Trace because it was mentioned a couple of times. Only found the ending on YouTube. Sappy. The music. And the spaniel should have been going nuts seeing the boy if he knew him. But I didn’t see the rest of the movie so I don’t know if he did.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned "Brian's Song" yet. One of the all time tear-jerkers.

My Dog Skip.

Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me. The most harrowing depiction of sexual abuse ever filmed. Brilliant acting and score. Lee deserved an Oscar. And an actual career.

Less Than Zero. RDJ, so young and still at his most tragic. The score is also excellent.

The final scenes of Return to Oz can do it. It's a sad ending disguised as a happy one.

King Kong

It doesn't matter if it's 1933, 1976, or 2005. I always feel so crushed when Kong is killed. So many needless deaths (including Kong himself) and all in the name of greed. They should've just left him on that island to live out the rest of his life in peace.

R75, he was terrorizing the local people and killing their maidens, though.

R76 Oh well. I still feel sorry for him. He was an animal and didn't know any better.

Another vote for "My Dog Skip". I watched it with my husband, his sister and her husband at their house one evening. At the end, I almost suffocated myself trying to hold in the sobs.

Pixar's "Coco" also does it for me. I watched a Coco reaction video on YouTube a few days ago. I was crying just watching the two guys watching the movie.

In a similar vein, I cried just reading the plot summary for “Hachiko”.

Fucking dogs, man…*sniff*

R71 Yeah....just watching the last five minutes of a movie is really going to give you the same emotional impact as watching the ENTIRE story and getting to know the characters and experience what they are going through.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The final scene in Gangs of New York. Scorcese shows the Manhattan skyline from then in the 1800's over time to the then present day when the movie was shot and you see the Twin Towers. Gets to me.

R76 They worshiped Kong as a god and gave their maidens to him as a sacrifice. Kong didn't take them, but they were given to him. He probably protected the natives from the dinosaurs and all sorts of other nasty creatures on Skull Island, so they deified him for that.

I'm embarrassed to say, but: Million Dollar Baby.

The ending of "About Schmidt," just as he's despairing that his life has added up to nothing but then gets a letter from Save the Children about the child he decided to sponsor almost impulsively or out of boredom at the beginning of his retirement. Nicholson's tears--which I read as both grief and a realization that he has actually done something meaningful, in his almost careless act of generosity--represent some brilliant acting. (It's gotten worse recently, knowing that Nicholson himself, as much of a shit as he was to women, is nearing the end of his life and suffering from dementia.)

The death scene in Camille.

R83 Everybody cries for Kong.

I cried at the end of Elephant Man and David Lynch made sure you did by having Adagio for Strings playing.

Marley & Me

Old Yeller

The Bear

The Good Dinosaur

Up!

Why is it mostly kids movies? :(

My dog skip

Can't remember the name but it was a dog movie with Dennis Quaid.

r92 A Dog's Purpose

Shawshank redemption

Philadelphia

The end of DEFENDING YOUR LIFE, where the Albert Brooks character finally takes a risk:

The reunion scene near the end of God's Own Country.

I thought that Brian's Song defined this thread. Doesn't it holdup? Too hetero?

Shawshank Redemption

This scene at the end of Latter Days where the two lovers reunite when one thought the other was dead gets me teary every time, its is so beautiful and powerful

R42 oh man....that's depressing....that sweet little child. RIP

Ordinary People : "I'm not dissapointed....I love you" **sobs** "I love you too"

Mary!

Lana's Imitation of Life which is almost like watching two very different movies. A sudsy soap opera with Lana and Dee and a heart wrenching drama with Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner. That scene in the seedy motel room when Annie finally relents and promises not to bother Sarah Jane again gets me every time.

[quote]r65 I also cry at the end of "Wings of the Dove"

OMG - this scene, when she says “We’re beyond that now, you and I…”

And the way he just cries, saying “I’m sorry.”

Oh, dear, r102. I am disappointed.

Julia

Resurrection with Ellen Burstyn

Terms of Endearment (always)

Testament

Not talked about enough, but Darren Arofnosky's The Wrestler.....I had watched it when it first came out and loved it and rewatched it recently and loved it more. That ending...

The scene in Its A Wonderful Life - Jimmy Stewart on the bridge asking God to let him live again because he’s considering jumping into the river.

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

I am Sam

I cry like a baby when I watch Boys Don’t Cry

R111 The only legitimate answer

R110 the part that ALWAYS gets to me

I said Resurrection up thread but meant Testament.

R116 - I'm pretty sure that seeing your Resurrection post is what jogged my memory about Testament. I'm pretty sure I've made the same mistake.

SPOILER ALERT: I don't know why we both thought of Resurrection when everyone fucking dies.

Whale Rider.

I defy anyone not to shed a tear or two during the hospital scene.

[quote]R116 I said Resurrection up thread but meant Testament.

Well, fuck you very much!

[quote]R117 your Resurrection post is what jogged my memory about Testament. I'm pretty sure I've made the same mistake.

And that goes double for you! I am goddamn GREAT in that movie!

Stella Dallas (1937).

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Dead Poets' Society

I'm a grown up. I don't cry at the movies except for the end of The Iron Giant.

For me, it’s Secrets And Lies.

First time I saw the original WSS.

Twice in Tree Grows in Brooklyn-when she finds the flowers on her desk and when Dorothy is giving birth and spills out all her feelings to Peggy telling her why she was she was so seemingly unfeelingly cruel towards her.

Meet John Doe when Babs is begging Gary to live. Kills me every time.

Two films that made me cry- like HEAVE- were both many years ago-

The end of Central Station as well as Into The Wild---

Wit (Emma Thompson in a hospital bed as Eileen Atkins reads The Runaway Bunny to her)

Barry Lyndon (the deathbed and funeral procession, with Handel playing on the soundtrack)

God's Own Country (Josh O'Connor goes to see Alec Secareanu, but doesn't know if he'll take him back or reject him)

The Fall (a 2006 film I never heard of until I saw it in NY a few weeks ago - the last part of it profoundly moved me)

R109 Yeah, I cried at the end of "The Wrestler"

"When The Wind Blows" definitely got a tear out of me.

R130 I loved WTWB but I couldn't even cry after it, though I wish I could have, I just became incredibly anxious and depressed for the rest of the nightand for a good part of that week. For me it was more disturbing than tearjerky.

I'm 70, widowed and alone.

At this point, even a sentimental episode of Bob's Burgers can make me cry.

R131 Dude, I'm on a "nuclear war comes to Britain" trip. I just watched "Threads." Talk about depressing. No wonder that was in the vault for 40 years. I was too young to understand what was happening at the time. I do remember that movie with the missiles flying over homes while some suburban mom was getting the paper.

The ending of Pan’s Labyrinth.

Spoiler Alert.

[quote]Wit (Emma Thompson in a hospital bed as Eileen Atkins reads The Runaway Bunny to her)

Yes.

IIRC Atkins perches next to Thompson on the hospital bed as she reads.

Very affecting.

Manchester-By-The-Sea

The final scene from Atonement.

Julianne Moore's monologue at the end of The Hours.

The scene in "Wings" when the pilot realizes he's accidentally shot down his best friend and comforts him as he lay dying.

Yes, it's a silent film, and yes, silents usually feature overly theatrical performances, but this death scene is so tender and moving and ultimately heartbreaking.

[quote] St.Elmo's Fire (nostalgia, David Foster's Love Theme)

Were you wearing a dress when you typed this?

Whenever Lucy sings in MAIM. Or whenever she’s in a close-up. They must’ve used an entire jar of Vaseline on the camera lens.

Pixar and Frank Oz push every crybaby button for me.

When Ellen Greene throws it to the back during “Suddenly Seymour” it starts flooding.

Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street. Brilliant performances all round. Julianne Moore's sudden breakdown at the piano is stunning.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Gets me every fucking time. It reminds me of a past relationship I thought would last lifelong.

The final scene of Billy Elliot gets me every time.

Seconding Joy Luck Club

Has OP died of age-related infirmities yet?

My shame can not be borne by a mortal man.

Central Station

The Trip to Bountiful

All We Imagine as Light (saw it today and I sobbed)

Gosford Park.

I don't know why.

OMG, r149! You are not alone! Kennie J.D. starts bawling describing that very scene in her recap - soooo funny and touching at the same time.

See [bold]25:18 [/bold]mark :

I'm glad a couple of people mentioned Pixar's 'Up'.

'Lassie Come Home' and Chaplin's 'City Lights' are two more that get me misty-eyed.

The first ten minutes of Up are incredible and possibly the greatest animated film sequence.

The final shot of the house next to the waterfall is brilliant.

The final scene in "Gallipoli" always makes me tear up.

The final scene of The Notebook.

I bawled.

I cry a couple of times during Chariots of Fire, especially when we hear "He Is an Englishman" as Ben Cross runs through Cambridge, and when the camera lands on Ian Charleson at the end, now that I know he died of AIDS in 1990. The music brings the tears. "Jerusalem" is another one.

Kind off unexpected from a Cohen bro's film, but the last monologue from Nicolas Cage that closes out "Raising Arizona", never fails to make me tear up.

We Are Marshall. I'm not typically a fan of football films, but all of these people trying to carry on with their lives while working through their own private trauma & grief makes me bawl ever time. Includes an exceptional performance by Anthony Mackie & even the annoying Matthew McConaughey is good

The Killing Fields. Also the movie Prancer, only at the end, though. I'll probably catch hell for that, but I love Sam Elliot at the end when he reads to his daughter. He reminds me of my dad in that movie.

The end card of Lion when you learn the fate of the brother gutted the absolute shit out of me.

The end of GHOST.

I use to think the ending was very touching, but since losing several family members, it now has a whole new tearful meaning to me.

Cooley High.

Cochise's funeral with "It's so hard to say goodbye" playing in the background gets me every time. Then it goes into "Reach out (I'll be there)" for the epilogue.

The ending of Hair - Let The Sunshine In

Benji

Glory

Longtime Companion

God, that movie was devastating.

Yes, Phil Collins songs always make me cry too, OP.

This has me sobbing into my handkerchief.

R167 Well, it's no "Call Me" by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr.

Now *that* will make you cry 'til the cows come home.

My favorite part is the approaching camera down the aisle and onto the stage, which I hoped would be Debbie Harry's point of view.

Vera Drake.

Master and Commander (2003): when the mast breaks in the storm, taking the rigging and William Someone overboard, and the only way they can save the ship is to cut the rigging and give up trying to save William. The crew belowdecks cheers when the ship rights itself, but they don't yet know that poor ol' Will had to be sacrificed for that to happen.

Same movie: when one-armed Lord Blakeney (sp?) is trying to stitch his dead friend into a death shroud, and he has to ask for help.

stuart little

Testament.

It's pretty much devastating from beginning to end, but the ending is especially sad and hopeless.