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Tear jerking movies

  • 26-05-2020 11:05am
    #1
    AlphabetCards
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    Right AH, the missus has fecked off, and the isolation of quarantine is getting to me; I'm repulsed by alcohol and I can't seem to feel any emotions. Give me a solid tear jerker movie so that I can feel something.

    Something along the lines of Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator or what not. I'm not good at movies so there might be some obvious titles that will fit the bill.


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  • #2
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Feisar


    My Sister's Keeper
    Marley and Me

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #3
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,545 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Onward.
    Though it's a kid's movie


  • #4
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    The Omen.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Not necessarily sad. Figured emotional response was the aim.

    Braveheart (end scene always gets me going)
    Michael Collins (similar feeling)
    road to perdition
    Fury
    We were soldiers

    The Godfather (Part 2)

    Band of brothers (has a variety of scenes/episodes which can be emotional as you become more attached to characters)

    Stand by me.
    Breakfast club

    The Theory of everything.

    Unforgiven
    The good, the bad, and the ugly. (music is incredible)
    Open range
    Once upon a time in the West.

    Wall-E :D


  • #6
    RocketRaccoon
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    The green Mile


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  • #7
    JohnnyFlash
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    The opening 15 minutes of UP.

    Stop Pixar.


  • #8
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,134 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    The Mist?

    The ending is upsetting.


  • #9
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,464 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    End of avengers Endgame hit me like a ton of bricks. I think it's a parental thing though. But a lot of sniffing and throat clearing in the cinema when watching that.


  • #10
    Mac-Chops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭Mac-Chops


    War type movies: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    Bio/Drama: Lion


  • #11
    Duckjob
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    Ending scene of Gladiator was designed to make grown men cry:

    "Go to them...."


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  • #12
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    Duckjob wrote: »
    Ending scene of Gladiator was designed to make grown men cry:

    "Go to them...."

    Don't, you'll have me welling up.


  • #13
    dots03
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭dots03


    2 films that made me 'have something in my eye'

    House of Sand and Fog - Drama with Ben Kingsley

    The Impossible (about the the 2004 Tsunami...didn't help that one of my kids has the same name as one of the kids in the movie)


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    Earthhorse
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    Shadowlands


  • #15
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,468 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    My Girl


  • #16
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The opening 15 minutes of UP.

    Stop Pixar.

    Watched that before, didn't do it for me. Maybe I'm a bit cynical but it was too over the top for me to buy into it.


  • #17
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    AlphabetCards wrote: »
    Watched that before, didn't do it for me. Maybe I'm a bit cynical but it was too over the top for me to buy into it.


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    I cried when Godzilla died in the disastrous 1998 movie. In my defence, I was only 8.


  • #18
    TheIrishGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    The Iron Giant. Animated

    But if you don't at least sniff then you are dead inside :)


  • #19
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Brian’s Song and The Champ.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #20
    afro man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭afro man


    Old Yeller (1957)


  • #21
    Undertow
    Registered Users Posts: 316 ✭✭Undertow


    Miracle in cell no.7. On Netflix. Incredible film!


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  • #22
    sbs2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭sbs2010


    Kong - Skull Island

    Last scene brings a few tears


  • #23
    Gooey Looey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Gooey Looey


    The champ
    A monster calls


  • #24
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Mod Note:

    Moving this to the film forum folks. As is usual make sure to read the charter before posting.


  • #25
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,905 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    AlphabetCards wrote: »
    Right AH, the missus has fecked off, and the isolation of quarantine is getting to me; I'm repulsed by alcohol and I can't seem to feel any emotions. Give me a solid tear jerker movie so that I can feel something.

    Something along the lines of Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator or what not. I'm not good at movies so there might be some obvious titles that will fit the bill.

    Babe_pig_in_the_city.jpg

    Not before a fry though.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #26
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭Duff


    Terminator 2, when Arnie gives the thumbs up as he's dipped into the molten metal.


  • #27
    The Raging Bile Duct
    Registered Users Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    Marriage Story
    I Kill Giants
    Big Hero 6
    American History X
    Toy Story 3


  • #28
    skibum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭skibum


    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803061/
    Red Dog

    Did it for me :o


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
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    skibum wrote: »
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803061/
    Red Dog

    Did it for me :o

    Lol red dog is traumatizing tears.

    Rudy, is good tears!


  • #30
    two wheels good
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    Dr Zhivago
    Before Sunrise
    The Piano
    Cold War (subtitled)

    ..but especially Dr Zhivago


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  • #31
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,795 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    Not a movie, but just give in to the craziness of The Leftovers.
    The acting, and soundtrack will have you an absolute mess.

    Arrival is also a gut-punch of a movie.


  • #32
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    you guys are good. Lots of stuff to get through this evening!


  • #33
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Haitchi. Leaves Marley and Me in it's dust.

    If I'd have been making Marley and Me, it'd been 15 minutes long, he'd have been sent to the "farm in the country".


  • #34
    hermano
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭hermano


    Warrior. Should be on Netflix


  • #35
    emo72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭emo72


    "Grave Of The Fireflies". That destroyed many a childhood. Can still hear my daughter " but Da it's a cartoon..... It's meant to be happy.....


  • #36
    Prefect_1998
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭Prefect_1998


    The fly 2......


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  • #37
    neddynasty
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭neddynasty


    Not a movie but After Life on Netflix. It's Ricky Gervais series. You'll be laughing and 30 seconds later welling up.


  • #38
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Field of Dreams


  • #39
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    Probably odd choices but...

    Raising Arizona (Hi's dream at the end)

    Steve Jobs (The scene on the rooftop with Lisa)


  • #40
    The Raging Bile Duct
    Registered Users Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    The king of them all is Dear Zachary. A documentary that needs to be seen without knowing anything about it just to get the full punch in the guts.


  • #41
    ziedth
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    The only Film I remember actually bawling at was Terminator 2. I was certainly less than 10 years old granted but I don't think any film has upset as such me since. Of all things an episode of Scrubs probably came closest a number of years ago (Anyone who has seen the show probably remembers the "Brendan Fraiser" episode) and I had a lump in my throat in a scene during the first season of After life.

    My wife cries at anything remotely sad so she thinks i'm a heartless monster


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  • #42
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    The Green Mile (already mentioned) and Shawshank both bring out the emotions in me.


  • #43
    BailMeOut
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    Finding Neverland.


  • #44
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭bigroad


    RoboCop the first one.


  • #45
    TheIrishGrover
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    emo72 wrote: »
    "Grave Of The Fireflies". That destroyed many a childhood. Can still hear my daughter " but Da it's a cartoon..... It's meant to be happy.....

    Oh f*ck you........

    It's the only film I cannot rewatch. Imagine: In Japan it was originally released as a double bill with Totoro!!!!


  • #46
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    I've just realised, there is a fantastic movie that moved me about 10 years ago (to this month, perhaps)

    Kikujiro.

    220px-Kikujiro_summer_-_album_cover.jpg

    Not the most realistic of situations, but enjoyable nonetheless.


  • #47
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    AlphabetCards wrote: »
    Something along the lines of Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator or what not. I'm not good at movies so there might be some obvious titles that will fit the bill.
    If you liked Gladiator, try Master and Commander. Russel Crowe as a manly leader in another piece of historical fiction. Not quite as tear-jerking, but several scenes are very sad.


  • #48
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    mikhail wrote: »
    If you liked Gladiator, try Master and Commander. Russel Crowe as a manly leader in another piece of historical fiction. Not quite as tear-jerking, but several scenes are very sad.

    ahaha, you've tapped into my machismo. That the movie that used Vaughn-Williams 'fantasia on a theme by thomas tallis' on the soundtrack if I recall, I'm actually excited to see if whatever scene it is used in is as moving as that piece itself...


  • #49
    Flagrantfolly
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭Flagrantfolly


    Gremlins (the first one)
    Project X (the 1987 one with Matthew Broderick)
    Armageddon


  • #50
    The Raging Bile Duct
    Registered Users Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭The Raging Bile Duct


    Try A Simple Plan. A great little thriller from about twenty years ago with a brilliant turn from Billy Bob Thornton. It's all about men so that might appeal to your machismo.

    Manchester in the Sea is about a man struggling to get by in the aftermath of a tragedy. Casey Affleck is outstanding in the lead role. This film stayed with me for days afterwards - as did A Simple Plan


  • #51
    spurious
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    Loads of old ones.
    Madame X
    Stella Dallas
    Mildred Pierce


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