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…)
Everything Everywhere All At Once
This has me all the way from to treats of laughter 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.
In the original script, they would continue to meet up, fall in love, spend time together and then one or the other of them would erase the other person after which the other person would follow and then they would meet and fall in love again and this repeated until they were old and gray
“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.
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.
Pretty sure this is not the crying OP is looking for
Let OP decide. Maybe they put the real life that feels tragic in perspective, and it could help with depression.
“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.
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.
“The Green Mile” made me cry
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.
So underrated, always loved that movie. Lots of dark but honest.
I haven’t been able to re-watch it since… you know. :(
Grave of fireflies - film that you watch only once as it’s too sad to watch the second time.
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.
(not trying to sound like a hipster but) I read the manga a fair while before the movie came out and the relationship with the girl’s mom is explored more deeply. God. It hits so hard.
- 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)
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.
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 😭
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
You really want to destroy that poor guy, do you?
I have not seen this film in decades, but I remember it being quite lovely, it is a Serbian film called “Black Cat, White Cat”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat,_White_Cat
This next film will not make you cry, but it is an amazingly brilliant romantic adventure comedy, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_Their_Flying_Machines
I don’t remember much about Black Cat White Cat but I remember enjoying it.
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.
