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…)
Dances With Wolves Last of the Mohicans
Everything Everywhere All At Once
This has me all the way from to tears of sadness 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.
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!
Upvoting for Eternal Sunshine, such I think fits OP’s request better than EEAAO.
Last movie that made me cry was The Whale. I saw it in a theatre and rarely I had to refrain myself from crying in public this bad. Once I got home though I just bawled my eyes out.
“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.
“Amélie” (2001)
“Hector and the Search for Happiness” (2014) is decent too, though I’m a Simon Pegg fan so it gets extra points for that
The Fountain hits me hard. Especially with that beautiful Clint Mansell soundtrack.
haven’t watched a lot of shows that aren’t anime so here are my recs:
- Your name (movie, its really really good)
- A silent voice (movie, same as your name)
- Your lie in april (tv series, apparently really good at making you cry but haven’t watched it)
- Anohana: The flower we saw that day (tv series, same as your lie in april)
your name and a silent voice have really good animation btw
i almost cried during weathering with you which is a movie in the same universe as your name but it isn’t as emotional as your name ig
Can confirm Your Lie In April made me cry like a baby. But I would say anime wise Violet Evergarden was even more cathartic. I ugly cried more than once watching it.
Violet Evergarden is an incredible show about grief. But wow, is the movie sketchy as all hell.
How so
spoiler
Violet starts a romantic relationship with, and is implied to eventually marry, Gilbert, her former commanding officer in the military who was also her father figure, Violet having been a war orphan that Gilbert took in when she was 10. Violet was a child soldier from the ages of 10 to 14, at which time the war ended. Gilbert had faked his death at the end of the war because he had developed romantic feelings for Violet. Gilbert is 11 years older than her. By the time of the movie, Violet is 18 and Gilbert is 29, but he was in love with her when he was 25 and she was 14, and probably before that. This is portrayed as a romantic and happy ending.
It also goes against the show’s themes and messages about grief and moving on, but the above thing tends to overshadow that.
Dear Ann.
Sorry about that
its on my watchlist too can’t wait for my life to get less fucked up SO i can watch anime again TT
Thank you for introducing me to Your Name. I just finished watching it. Absolutely wonderful film.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Wild Robot is well worth a watch. It looks like a kids movie, but I think the themes work just as well if not better for adults.
Yeah I legit choked up at the scene where the little bird leave with the rest and the robot is watching, and I don’t even have kids
There are some moments in that which are pretty brutal and I was like, “Oh wow… Not sure if my kid should be watching this yet…” but it was an incredible film.
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.
I did not expect the amount of crying from a movie starring Robin Williams
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.
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.
Looks like you’ve got a long list already, but the last movie that made me lump in my throat cry was Awakenings with Robin Williams and Robert deNiro
Came here to say the same thing.
Also, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was better than it had a right to be.
- 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)
Second About Time. One of my favorite movies.
Two movies that usually appear on lists like this, but I don’t see them: The Fountain, and The Fall.
The Fall was fantastic. Too bad it’s not available anywhere, even to buy.
I saw something recently about a 4k restoration, but possibly not all regions.
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 😭
No matter how many times I watch Flow, it never fails to make me cry by the end.
Who Will love My Children? 1983
Mask 1985
I defy anyone to get to the end of either movie without being a total mess.
