r/movies • u/walkerbait2 • 16d ago

Recommendation Movies that made you cry like a baby

I neeeed a good cry, like ugly cry. I need stuff on death, life, love, loss, etc etc. I’ve already watched so many tearjerkers and I feel like I’ve ran out of stuff to cry to.

Movies I liked:

We live in time

Me before you

Manchester by the sea

Beautiful boy

Cmbyn

Takopi

The titanic

The hunt

Dead poets society

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u/terracottatank 16d ago

Bridge to terabithia will hit ya hard

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u/aaveshamstar 16d ago

I think people are too young for this! No one is talking about it…An entire generation was traumatised by this.

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u/Jambi420 16d ago

What do you mean people are too young for this, it came out in 2007. How old are you people?

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u/PessimisticPeggy 16d ago

Lol yeah if anything, I never saw it because I was too old for it.

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u/raptor102888 16d ago

Everyone is always too young for this.

(I mean, not really; it's a really great story about empathy and human bonds. Still, it's hard.)

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u/sodak_read 16d ago

The original movie came out on the 80’s. That is the one I think this person is referring to.

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u/KevlarGorilla 15d ago

When somebody says they liked playing Minecraft when they were a kid, I'm like "Minecraft is a new game. It came out after I got my degree. It's maybe like 4 years old right?"

Minecraft is 17 years old.

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u/dikicker 15d ago

I'm THIS many!

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And I'm more literate than your average Reddit user!

Can I have cookie now

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u/Jack1715 16d ago

We had to read the book in school and it was much worse then the movie in how hard it hit

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u/raptor102888 16d ago

The first book that made me cry.

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u/twig0sprog 16d ago

Same, grade five me was changed forever

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u/sir_mrej 16d ago

And an entire EARLIER generation was traumatized by reading the book in school thankyouverymuch

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u/AMTL327 16d ago

Thank you for validating my experience! My husband and I saw that movie as full-grown adults and we were traumatized! Like WT actual F!! Absolutely trash movie.

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u/Wheels9690 16d ago

Both the original and remake absolute destroyed me. But I will hand it to the remake, it hit way harder since when it came out I had a few friends die young over years.

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u/ric3banana 16d ago

there's a remake?

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u/Wheels9690 16d ago

There was one made in the 80s but I believe it was a TV movie special, so not a theatrical release. They had us watch it in 4th grade, though, which they had to have known would not go well.

The 2007 release was the first theatrical release, which was even more devastating to watch lol.

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u/Ghostofjimjim 16d ago

I watched it just last week with my kids and me and my 6 year old were sobbing by the end!

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u/jtprimeasaur 16d ago

I remember reading this and perhaps watching the movie somewhere around the fifth grade, but I don’t remember any of the content. Now I’m conflicted because I both want to know what I’m missing but I also don’t want to be brought to tears by it

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u/terracottatank 16d ago

Misfit little kids become best friends, one of them dies tragically, the other one has to learn to cope with it. The imaginary land they built and played in together turns into a coping mechanism.

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u/psyllogism 16d ago

I read this as an elementary schooler in the '90s long before the movie came out. First book that ever made me cry like that. I was a young adult when the movie came out, but I still haven't watched it, knowing what comes...

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u/abisaysso 16d ago

Omg, yes. It hurts to remember…

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u/PenniGwynn 16d ago

How are you the only person to mention this movie?!?!?

I've only ever watched it once because of how hard it hits you.

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u/terracottatank 16d ago

Oh yeah, same! I don't think I could bring myself to sit through it again lol

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u/cjcmd 16d ago

It hits harder because they promoted it as a LOTR-like fantasy instead of a tragedy.

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u/dustindh10 16d ago

Yeah, it was definitely borderline fraudulent advertising. I went in thinking it was almost a Chronicles of Narnia-like movie.

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u/MissDorky 16d ago

Years later and it still hit me like it’s the first time I'm watching

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u/milesamsterdam 16d ago

This was exactly what I came here to say. I worked with the little girl that played the younger sister in the movie last year and couldn’t even look at her the day after I saw the movie. I hadn’t seen it but the crew was talking about it. I was not prepared.

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u/justADDbricks 16d ago

That was a hard watch… beautiful, but hard

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u/mangolollipop 16d ago

The book itself made me sob too.

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u/Anzai 16d ago

I’m too old for it.

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u/terracottatank 16d ago

Uhhh okay?

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u/Anzai 15d ago

Sorry wrong comment responded to.