For stoic men (and maybe women, who knows?) Captain Phillips... but not till the end. It sneaks up on you.
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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.
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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.
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.
"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.
A Silent Voice. I watched it while I was going through a rough time, and the visual metaphor used to portray the main character's isolation hit me so hard.
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Life is Beautiful
Manchester by the Sea
The Green Mile
My recommendations are more sad than uplifting, but still beautiful and emotional.
Mistakenly watched life is beautiful at a drunken party in high school. Still remember everything.
Great movie that I will never watch again.
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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.
Not a movie but rather a season, Your Lie in April. It's around a 7 hour series so sorta super deluxe extended edition movie adjacent if you're up for that. Fireflies and Silent Voice have already been mentioned, this is the honorary third place in my opinion.
- Big Fish
- Up!
- Toy Story 3
- Onward
- Last of the Mohicans
- When Marnie was There (Ghibli)
- About Time
Second About Time. One of my favorite movies.
If you like Big Fish you should watch Five People You Meet in Heaven (not a religious movie)
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 😭
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If you want sometime currently in the theater, you might try The Life of Chuck. Likely to make you cry, but uplifting. Great cast.
Walk in the Clouds
What Dreams May Come
The ending of Sixth Sense
Big Fish
Came here to say what dreams may come, Beautiful but unbelievably sad movie that you will not want to rewatch.
Especially since... well, you know... :(
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I cried with The Mitchells Vs. The Machines.
Think I teared up at another film recently, but can't recall what it was. Sorry. That's one I watched I know got me weeping, though. I'll cry over anything intergenerational these days.
Saving Mr. Banks.
+1 for Rachel Griffiths
This might be an outlier as far as how other people might watch or react to this movie but I rewatched Millennium Actress recently and I could not stop crying the whole movie.
It’s gives me feelings of deep desperation, chasing, longing, almost persevering.
Lots of Ghibli mentioned, Kiki’s Delivery Service is a favorite of mine. :) Not sure how much it fits ‘grandiose’ and ‘profound’, but I’m definitely a sob-fest by the end.
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.
If you are in a hurry, try Up.
Far and Away
Underrated, but terrific epic.
Not a movie but a tv show: "one day" on Netflix, it may seem shallow in the beginning, but then it will tear you apart.
Another Earth
50/50
Grave of the fireflies
5 centimetres per second
Cloud Atlas
If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it. It may be my favorite novel.
Happy to see someone mentioned this!
Biutiful by Inarritu
Atonement
And agree on Big Fish, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Username checks out. Also try Your Name.
Never cried in a movie. Then I watched "Marley" (my friend Marley in German)
Not a movie but 18 episodes, Arcane is full of massive, massive feels.
Hits multiple times in different ways. If you want the full gamut of emotional.
Interstellar Suzume A Silent Voice - guaranteed to fuck you up Grave of the Fireflies
Idk, all these movies make me cry but for different reasons. The last two will sincerely fuck you up if you are any sort of empath.
I get you man, sometimes I need a good cry as well. I'm telling you though...A Silent Voice is a doozy.
If you have time for a game try Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.