Best if the old movie is made before 1990
Grave of the Fireflies is a good one and has been mentioned a few times already.
Fox and the Hound has several tear jerker moments, though most memorable for me is when Todd is returned to the forest.
Land Before Time was my first parent death in a film that I can remember. And unlike Bambi, this movie shows more of the consequences of losing a mother at that young of an age.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan always makes me cry. The death of Spock, the exchange between him and Kirk, it always kills me.
Old Yeller
If that movie doesn’t get you to shed a tear, you’re not human.
I’m a pretty hard-boiled tough guy by most standards, and I’m getting a little misty just thinking about it.
Not before 1990 but when I watched Terminator 2 as a kid I cried when they lowered the t-850 it into the molten slag.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Powerful ending, just excellent.
No idea if it holds up in the current era.
I think it holds up. But I’m biased because it’s on my top 5 movies of all time.
Batteries Not Included
Shawshank Redemption
E. T.
Honorable mention: The Neverending Story. Cried during one scene in the movie, not the end.
Artax :_(
- Don’t mind me turning to dust in my chair.
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
1989
The Lion King (1994)
Oh, that’s been a bad one on REwatch after the most recent passing of one of its stars. It’s so much more sad, now.
1990? Old? Get off my lawn!
Oh, don’t be coy. We can already smell the soil on you.
An Affair to Remember (1957) Yes I did watch it because it is referenced in Sleepless in Seattle and yes I did blubber cry just like the SiS characters suggested.
Bicentennial Man
Oldboy. no, not because it’s sad
