What is our guaranteed tear jerker movie or scene?
What is our guaranteed tear jerker movie or scene?
What movie or scene from a movie (or show) makes your eyes misty?
Flow. I found the entire movie sad.
The first minutes of Up.
Man, worst second date ever. Had no idea what I was walking into in that theater
I took the kids to see some fun animation movie. Got totalled in the first few minutes.
"Some dust got in my eye. Here, you can eat my popcorn."
Why is anything else listed here?
Because the question isn’t, “the most.” And even then, that’s subjective.
The scene in Interstellar when he returns from the time dilation to watch like 40 years of updates he missed from his kids.
"where do you think we are?"
The context is what makes this powerful. The buildup, the misdirection, the reveal.
This was Scrubs at its best. McGinley should have won an Emmy right there.
The original Fresh Prince when Will is desperately trying to convince himself he doesn't need his dad. Every time.
It's funny that for having such a full career I still think Fresh Prince was an absolute masterpiece and unequaled by anything else Will Smith did. (Second place was probably the original Men in Black).
Link for the uninitiated.
"How come he don't want me, man?" And the way Phil grabs him for the hug 😭💔
Miguel from Coco singning "Remember me" with Coco.
Omg I held it together so well* during Coco until one of the final scenes when Hector picks up Coco and I absolutely lost it.
*I cry at everything so "well" for me is probably not well for anyone else
The last 15 minutes of "The Return of The King," starting with, "My friends... You bow to no one."
Every. Damn. Time.
Seen this more times than I can count, and tears every time.
Yes. Bawling like a baby!
Grave of the fireflies... Sometimes the trailer is already enough... F*** can't even rewatch the thing...
I watched it once and didn't cry but I must've been dissociated AF or something because I don't remember any of it.
The breaking point for me is when his sister is chewing on the bottons.
I’ve never seen the movie. Reading the summary was enough to mess me up. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch it.
Been a while but probably the opening sequence of Up
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
-Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Opening for “Up” not in the top comments?
What dreams may come, 1998 movie with Robin Williams.
That's a good one, another good Robin Williams is Patch Adams.
Ending of the Sixth Sense.
"Grandma says you asked her a question. She says to tell you the answer is 'every day', what was the question, momma?"
"Did I make you proud?"
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, “The Body”.
Mom? Mom! Mommy?
Most are giving joke answers.
This one hits hard.
The Iron Giant
Buffy the TV show, when she discovers her mother's dead body.
"Mom? MOM! ... Mommy?" Tears
She looked so lost, it hit me like a gut punch
Ugh for sure. I didn’t even realize it until it was called out, but that episode also has no background music. It’s a subtle change but it makes everything so much more real and unnerving. Just thinking about that episode is making me cry now!
Spock: “I have been and always shall be your friend” [dies]
Kirk: “No….”
A lot of seens in Logan with Professor X. His mental decline was a gut punch because I was watching my grandfather go through the same thing at the same time. His portrayal was spot on.
Happy with Stark's daughter on the porch talking about cheeseburgers. Such a small moment, but so genuine feeling.
Birdman (with Michael Keaton) - nothing in the actual movie but the absolute soul crushing sadness when I realized that they weren't making a Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law movie.
You want a tearjerking Michael Keaton movie, watch My Life. Hydrate afterwards, plenty of electrolytes, you're welcome.
Into the wild when he discovers that human existence isn't meant to be lived in isolation and then dies a few days later in total isolation.
The end of Saving Private Ryan always gets me as well.
First season of After Life by Ricky Gervais.
The scene after where Gervais' character realizes fully what he has done, especially to himself long term, is soul crushing. The i did the right thing, but for all of the right and wrong reasons look on his face is haunting. I think it is the 2nd episode.
A lot of the episodes open with him watching his wife telling him to enjoy life. Her sitting on the hospital bed, on her final days because of cancer.
I hated gervais before this, i found his comedy delivery and style very grating but after watching this shoe and getting kicked in the guts every couple episodes i gave him another shot and dont mind him so much now. Show is a 10/10 if you want to sob silently with your partner.
He can be eyerollingly obnoxious. And he is becoming more and more out of touch.
He tends to have a heart and in the right place. His XFM auditions were the greatest proof of this.
The Bob's Burgers episode "The Amazing Rudy" (season 14, episode 2).
Regular-sized Rudy goes out to eat with his divorced parents and their new significant others. It goes horribly wrong and he runs away to the Belchers'. I tear up a little bit even thinking of it because it isn't played for laughs. I really feel for Rudy, just trying his hardest and putting way too much pressure on himself, and the way Louise steps up for her best friend is just so sweet.
S1E3 of Last of Us - "Long, Long Time." Happy and sad tears galore.
The whole season was great (more than half of the guest actor and actress nominations came from the series), but that may have been the finest hour in television history.
I don't want to spoil the episode for anyone, but I'll point out that my ultra-right parents changed their stance on a major social issue after watching it because it was just so beautiful.
All those crying Pokemon in the first film when Ash is turned into stone.
Pikachu crying gets me every time :')
They're just weeping because he's recently discovered titties are a thing he can potentially enjoy, and Pokemon're no longer very interesting to him, as a result. 🥹
Oh the scene/secquence? From Tim Burton's "Big Fish" when he gets the dad back in the water. That was so wholesome but so sad at the same time.
Came here for this. When he’s walking with his dad past all the people from his life smiling and saying goodbye, I always get serious feels. Had a little tremor just typing that out!
The opening scene of Hackers (1995). Poor kid can't use a touch tone telephone or computer until his 18th birthday.
That's like taking away Mozart's piano.
Oh man, I forgot about the bicentennial man 🤖😢
Star wars; the last Jedi
The Holdo maneuver.
"Superman!"
You stay, I go. No Following.
Murrrrphhh!
Can’t watch it for some reason. Is it the scene where he sees his kids’ videos after losing time on the water planet?
It's the one that happens later on in the movie towards the end, though the first scene you mentioned is definitely one that still gets me teary eyed!
"A toast to my big brother George, the richest man in town."
Alternatively:
"You are who you choose to be."
"Superman."
Ibelin. Saw it in the cinema when it first came out, seemed like everybody in the audience was crying.
(It's about a kid with a degenerative disease who connected with people through an MMO.)
The sequence at the end of the Six Feet Under finale set to Sia's Breathe Me absolutely gutted 2005 me.
Spoiler for a twenty year old show
When Claire is driving away and sees Nate in the rear view 😭
Not a tear jerker for me, but still easily one of the all time best endings for a show. Wonderful montage set to a perfect and beautiful song. After it aired, the next day, people at work were asking me how it ended but not wanting any spoilers. I just told them:
SPOILER
Everyone dies at the end
Maes Hughes' big action moment in Full Metal Alchemist - either version.
Alternatively, the scene this music https://youtu.be/EL7e5XrzanA goes to (Ep 5 of Cowboy Bebop) - far more of a tear jerker for me than the final episode.
ANY time any dog dies.
'Hachi: A Dog's Tale' killed me
Grave of fireflies, of course
One of the best films about war, of all times and genres. Incredibly powerful and, yes, quite a tearful experience.
Star Trek DS9’s “The Visitor”
"Duet" gets me too
This one got me.
The ending of Watership Down. Can't even think about without getting misty.
General Waverly walks out in uniform to find his old unit waiting for him. (“White Christmas”)
The dad doing one last goofy march while his son watches, in Life is beautiful (1997)
The last scene of the last episode of Six Feet Under.
When Homer drives his mom to the middle of nowhere so she could meet up with some friends to escape the police and he just stays there even even after she’s long gone long enough for day to turn into night.
Cinema Paradiso. Wonderful Italian film about a boy’s relationship with an elder in the town as he mentally escapes war torn Sicily. Just wholesome and hits hard. It’s a beautiful story and the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone, ohhhh so good.
animale!
Another one is the movie 'The Fountain' which is played excellently by Hugh Jackman.
The intro to the game stray
The episode "The Sign" of Bluey, the end.
Sleepytime. What a gut-punch
From Bandit getting that phonecall onwards is all tears.
For me, it's "Grandad"
The last part of AI (2001)
I found the entire concept, but especially the "happy ending" of Paulie to be tragic and extremely depressing to me.
My mother loved Beaches and Steel Magnolias but they always ruined my day. Then my mother died of cancer and they crossed into the unwatchable list.
Les Mis
for example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJXiB5i_q0
The ending of that Scrubs episode with Brendan Fraser https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e__1KU7lg-4
The ending of Jurassic Bark https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBbKSFhw9A
Watching the music video for My Heart Will Go On
The ending of this Cold Case episode https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jMc_RyGBjBE
The ending of Pan's Labyrinth
The music video for Hozier's Take Me To Church
The liberation of a concentration camp in Band Of Brothers
My obvious pick: "It's a terrible day for rain."
My niche pick: Patch Adams. The scene where he considers || jumping off the cliff ||
My IDGAF what you think pick: Avengers Endgame. "Hey, Pep" and "You can rest now."
So I don't get to the cinema much, but I got to see The Muppets when it came out (over a decade ago, good grief), and Kermit singing Pictures In My Head totally broke me.
Dunno whether it will work for anyone else, but like many of a certain age, I grew up with the original Muppet Show on TV and it hit too damn hard.
Inside Out
Feeling brave, tried rewatching it and got to the scene with Bingbong and I had to turn that shit right off because I couldn't stop crying. I cry at a lot of things but few movies have ever made me cry as hard as this one.
The movie 'About Time'. The ending tore me up.
I've been watching Shrinking and it has a lot of those moments
Yeah, I don't know which is more effective at catching me off-guard with shit I've not thought about in decades: Shrinking or The Bear. 😅
Toy Story 4. The scene where Woody says goodbye to the rest of the toys and goes off on his new adventure with Bo Peep. Gets me every time.
The original Toy Story was the first movie I remember seeing in a theatre so maybe there's some nostalgia contributing to that.
The scene at the end of About Time between the father and son. I won't describe it, since I don't want to ruin it for anyone.
John Q
Up
Contact, when she enters the machine.
For me, it’s at the end when she looks out of the limo at Joss as he’s saying he believes her. That scene so perfectly captures their relationship to me.
They should have sent a poet
I remember Click (2006) being very sad, but I haven't watched it in a long time.
Man that scene when he is screaming at himself while in auto pilot was brutal and gut wrenching
The dad scene killed me
I have become this dad. I think about these scenes often. It helps me remember and realign my priorities. I guess it's corny, but the message is valid and important.
"It's not your fault" - Good Will Hunting
The sinking of the Going Merry. Oda made me cry for a boat, and I'm not even joking.
One that comes to mind is Mike from Better Call Saul: "I broke my boy. I broke my boy."
"A dog's purpose" movie's main purpose was to be tear jerker.
The ending to that depressing as fuck Speilberg film A.I. Don't ever watch it unless you want to ruin your day.
Man I had forgotten about A.i.
Poor dude waited until the end of time to have his wish granted
Marley dying at the end of Marley and Me
THIS scence from "Platoon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEv3zzKyiFQ
The music is adagio for strings which has to be the saddest most emotional score ever
Ernest Goes to Camp, when the kids pick on him and reject him. He sings the song “All I Needed Was a Friend”. No joke, shit hits hard
Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson. The whole movie is pretty emotional but the scene where Tom Cruise's character confronts his absentee father on his death bed absolutely destroys me.
One of my all time favorite movies, but I gotta be ready to full on cry if I want to watch it.
When Rudy's dad tears up seeing his son on the field
"Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it."
It's not a movie, it's an old avertisement, and I guarantee you if it doesn't stir something in you, you're not human:
That crash was so cartoonish, I couldn't help but laugh at that.
Not a movie, but has anybody here seen the anime Anohana. If you can watch that and not cry in every episode, you're a bonafide sociopath.
the street performance scene in bocchi the rock, no matter what ill always start crying when i watch it
“You could never just do the expected, I was just an idea in a bog, But you sewed up your dream and we made quite a team, Jim and Kermit, a boy and his frog.”
- Tom Smith - A Boy and His Frog
My Life with Michael Keaton and Nicole what’s her name
This is the top of the list. Nothing else comes close when you need a really good and sincere cry.
The fault in our stars was so sad I wish I hadn't ever watched it. I hate that movie.
"I love you Daddy" -Clannad
Every time and even when I just think about it
Silver Linings Playbook. A real tear jurker. The scene at the end.
The Christmas Dinner at the end of "Seven Fishes" Season 2 of The Bear. Cuts a little too much on the dotted line for me.
The Wild Robot if you're a parent.
When Pepper tells Tony he can rest.
The end of Onward
Tossing some anime in here:
Anohana Violet Evergarden Fullmetal Alchemist (watch Brotherhood, but the scenes I'm thinking of but even harder in the original)
You want some ugly crying anime time? Grave of the fireflies. The saddest movie studio Ghibli ever produced. If you don't cry you might want to see a therapist. It's what I show everyone who has ever told me "I don't cry at movies."
I haven't seen it yet and I'm scared to 😅
When Mufasa dies.
That part of airbud where he tries to push the dog away and abandon him. Sorry in advance.
definately honey, I blew everyone. Oh man especially that scener where.......oh wait. tear. tear jerker. my bad.
So my sister bought me the wind rises... I went it watching it thinking it was another fun film... I called her after I finished and told her I was not mentally prepared for that.
Such a beautiful film though...
A dogs purpose
Wolf children
Paddington 2
Martyrs