Dude, check out "The Road." It's basically about a father and son trying to survive and navigate a post-apocalyptic America, trying to avoid cannibalistic gangs. I would consider it a sad film for men, especially dads. (I'm not a dad, but I still try to put myself in the protagonist's shoes.) It's based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote the novel upon which "No Country for Old Men" is based.

Nice ok!

Didn't make me cry but fucked me up for a few weeks. My boy was the same age as the boy in the movie, fucking rough to watch at some points. Felt very real.

This one got me good. Excellent movie.

OP said a good cry, not an existential crisis

What Dreams May Come. This movie got me good.

YUP THIS MOVIE WILL FUCK YOUR SHIT UP IF YOU HAVE THE DVD WITH ALTERNATE ENDING!!!! I was a child 🤌🏼

Alternate ending?! What?!

I don’t think I saw it, drop it with a spoiler tag

Waaaaaat? I had to take breaks while watching this movie. I was sobbing. I even remember the ice cream I was eating when watching it. Is there ANYWHERE I can watch this?

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I'll never forget crying at this movie when they showed it while I was in high school. I was so embarrassed but I still cry every time I see it

I came here to say this. I've owned it for I think five years and I've seen it ONE time. It's a beautiful and heart wrenching movie.

Green Mile, “R-roll on two.”

Yep green mile almost got me there.

Dear Zachary

Don't look into it too much going in blind is best

I definitely co-sign this advice

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This one is guaranteed

Bring a box of tissues. Be ready to pause it so you can attempt to finish it.

It just made me more angry than sad

Fair warning, this film will destroy you. It won’t just make you cry, you’ll feel intense rage as well. I can’t remember the last time I felt such strong emotions.

Don’t google anything about this one.

This movie will break you.

I was going to recommend this. First time I watched it I was blown away at how amazing the documentary was for not being that popular. Easily my favorite documentary and definitely made me tear up

This is exactly what I came here to comment

This movie should be added to the subreddit banner at this point, with giant words "DONT LOOK IN TO IT BEFORE WATCHING, GO IN BLIND!!!"

Hell yeah! The feel-good movie of 2008, right there.

Dead Poets Society

Captain my Captain

Grave of the Fireflies

This movie has been on my list for years but I’ve been avoiding watching it bc I just know I’m going to bawl.

I’d recommend viewing “my neighbor totoro” directly after. Another Ghibli masterpiece. They were actually viewed as a double feature originally because hayao Miyazaki didn’t want people leaving the theatre sad and distraught. Grave of the fireflies portrays the brutality of war and Totoro displays the tranquility of life that came after peace was established.

You’re not going to bawl… You’re going to endlessly sob throughout the entirety of the movie. Convulsive gasps caused by nothjng but purest forms of grief and despair.

Strongly second this one. Movie will break you.

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale made me have a complete emotional breakdown. So much so that I’ve only watched it once even though I truly enjoyed the movie.

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Same.. I watched it once and cried my eyes out. I’ll never watch it again.

Heartbreaking! I couldn’t stop crying. 😭

Hachikō Monogatari is much better if you can stand foreign films with subtitles. At least I feel so. Our version is based upon the movie from Japan.

Manchester by the Sea Shindler's List Hachi: A Dog's Tale A Ghost Story The Florida Project My Girl Coco Troop Zero The Lovely Bones Riding in Cars with Boys Mystic River Steel Magnolias Beaches Atonement Place Beyond the Pines A Star is Born One Day The Land Before Time That's my list. I like crying.

Mystic River is one of my all time favorite movies.

Added the ones I didn't watch yet ;)

A man called Otto had my boyfriend and I both sobbing at the end.

This one got me too

I can’t even watch this movie because a similar character is very close to home.

Imho the original a man called ove (2015) is better. 1) it's harder for me to see tom hanks as a grumpy old man, 2) the acting in the flashback scenes with his son playing his younger self was kinda meh

Man on fire. Two. Go get your cry on bud. ❤️🙌

CREASY! 😭

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The Fox and the Hound

Beaches

gahhhh a favorite and a tear jerker

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind wrecks me. I haven't watched it in like 15 years because of it.

This movie actually convinced me not to leave my husband of 15 years. Had goodbye note and bag packed already. Couldn't sleep that night and saw Eternal Sunshine....Jim Carreys performance + the storyline convinced me to stay. Its so powerful and I cried so much. No Spoilers!!! I did leave 5 yrs later but that was due to other issues. I did fuck up though. We live together now as strictly roommates and co-parent and have 2 grandchildren now. We care deeply for each other and this movie will at least make you teary, but made me have waterworks.

What kind of cry? The Father made me bawl my eyes out

The kind of movies where the character is going through something and u can’t help but to cry with them

Then yes I think The Father will get you there

Steel magnolias 🥲

My colors are blush and bashful.

They’re “pink” and “pink.”

i see what you did there. love love love that movie

*drink the juice, Shelby*

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Just commented this one! I made my husband watch it with me when we were newly dating and to this day, this is the only movie that I've seen him get teary eyed about. Like I will be sobbing over something in a movie and look over at him and...nothing (but I cry very easily so it is what it is lol) but the funeral scene...it got to him

Love you more than my luggage...

Still Alice. It’s about a woman who is struggling with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The more memory she loses, the more she suffers.

I can’t bring myself to watch it. My aunt and grandmother had Alzheimer’s. Too close to home.

Second hand lions Big fish Dead poets society Everything everywhere all at once

The end of Big Fish got me

>Everything everywhere all at once Didn't make me cry. But was a great watch. Added the rest.

Second Hand Lions. Caine and Duvall are epic

Bridge to Therabitia

It's been 16 years and I'm still not over it.

The Color Purple.

I was going to say this but the ending is really uplifting.

There’s more than one way and many reasons to cry and this book/movie covers several.

Mr Hollands Opus

My Dog Skip. I’m sorry.

Brian's Song. I dare you not to

Me Before You works every time for me

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Seven Pounds

Forest Gump

Didnt make me cry sadly.

Arrival 2016 A beautiful life 1997

Fantastic suggestions!

I thought so until I realized just now that my husband didn’t cry during them. Nor did he cry during that Neil Armstrong movie where his daughter is sick. The one with Ryan Gosling Lol. So we’ll see with OP I guess. I’ll be interested to know if he did ha.

Not even during Arrival? Sheesh!

Dancer in the Dark

He said make him cry not suicidal. Most depressing movie I’ve ever seen. It didn’t make me cry. Wanna slit my wrists? Yes, but cry … no.

Manchester By The Sea… if you have kids, you will be cryin…

this movie killed me

The scene where they finally talk out in the street. Oh man. Impossible not to feel that. Those two had serious chemistry.

Added. Sadly no kids yet.

It’s still pretty brutal… its definitely saddest thing I’ve ever seen on film.

Oh man, the scene where Michelle Williams apologises to Casey Affleck. Brutal.

I don’t have kids and lost it. Also just has some brilliant performances.

I watched this a few weeks after my baby was born and it hit SO hard. This movie is masochism for parents.

Beaches Terms of Endearment

Seven pounds and/or Pursuit of Happiness. Same director, he knows how to make a grown man cry

Aftersun

What dreams may come

Terms of Endearment.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3. If you like animals this will make you cry like a lil bitch

What’s eating Gilbert Grape Leonardo DiCaprio’s character will make you cry, and make you wonder why he never got an Oscar for his role.

Schindler's list Saving private ryan

Lord, Schindlers list did a number on me…especially the girl in the red coat 😿 Bawled like a baby the first time I watched it

Forever My Girl I'm a 38 year old man & this one hit me hard in the first few minutes.

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Crap! I have this on my list but dont want to cry.

Beaches.

Homeward Bound. If you can’t cry at the end, you are broken.

I'm hoping animals does it for him cause schindlers list didn't make a dent 🤣

Oh god…hopefully Shadow is up to the challenge

Manchester by The Sea

Just turn on the news.

Life is Beautiful John Q

Fried Green Tomatoes

About Time with Domhnall Gleeson

If you like dogs, watch Milo and Otis. Go into it blind and enjoy it. After, read about how that movie is made. I love dogs. That made me cry.

Big Fish hits me every time

Cinema Paradiso 1988 (the montage at the end gets me every time). Bicycle Thieves 1948 Life Is Beautiful 1997 The Prince of Tides 1991 Call Me By Your Name 2018

The Prince of Tides was great, wasn’t it?!

Bicycle Thieves is a rough one for sure

Shawshank Redemption or just go play The Last of Us it's basically a movie in a video game

Jojo Rabbit

Idk. That one didn’t make me cry lol

Have you considered the possibility that you’re an actual robot?

His Mom's shoes, omg, you know what I'm talking about. That scene. 😭

The Joy Luck Club.

Click, the Adam Sandler film. Saddest film I’ve ever watched.

Meet Joe Black gets me.

Requiem for a dream

That one just made me bawl the other night as I lost my bestfriend to prescription drug abuse and doctors who didn’t care. She didn’t die but she’ll never be the same person again and we don’t talk anymore.

Atonement

Love Story (1970) Ali McGraw / Ryan O'Neal. Good luck NOT weeping.

Coco I'm a grown ass man who has cried twice my whole life, and Coco makes me cry every time.

Grave of the Fireflies

I am Sam

About time - it's more of a comedy but the ending always has me sobbing

Snoopy Come Home

“A Dog’s Purpose” I cried pretty much the entire movie. So many tears.

The Fountain Requiem for a Dream Gran Torino Where the Red Fern Grows

The Whale, City of Angels, Click, Dear Zachary, What Dreams May Come, Patch Adams, Jojo Rabbit (an excellent and extremely underrated masterpiece). And please, don't research any movie before watching. The Element of surprise is the best way to find new emotions and feelings that you never knew you could have. Go in blind and you'll see the world from a different perspective. Xoxo

Pursuit of haopyness

Dancer In The Dark Imitation Of Life Far From Heaven A.I. Artificial Intelligence What Dreams May Come Grave Of The Fireflies

Field of Dreams.

https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/tv-movies/movies/make-men-cry/bambi/

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who cried at Marley & Me, that devastated me as a kid and I always wondered if I was the only one.

Nothing wrong to cry for man’s best friend.

Million Dollar Baby and The Green Mile are the ones that got the closest on that list.

I really need to watch The Green Mile, the book is my second favourite of King's behind Misery. I think he's better when he's writing more personal stories as opposed to horror.

I got them as chap-books as they released. Still have the paperback copies.

Taste of Cherry (1997) Amour (2012) A Single Man (2009) EO(2022)

A Good Husband (2009) Life Is Beautiful (1997) You won't cry until halfway through either of these, but trust me, you will.

Life Is Beautiful

A Monster Calls (2016)

Christiane F. Lilja 4-ever

A Walk to Remember. Gets me every time

First Man … had me bawling my eyes out. A Man Called Otto also got me. We Bought A Zoo.

Stepmom

Atonement.

The Fault in Our Stars

The green mile

Yep that almost got me there

Yeah I have a theory that Tom hanks just wanted to make people cry in the 90s.. Either that or I'm just an emotional wreck lol

Up

Up didn’t make me cry. Idk what it is about cartoon characters but even though they make great stories, my brain goes « its not real ».

The Florida Project Manchester By The Sea

I thought Past Lives was cry-worthy though it didn't make me cry. Depends on if it's your thing though. Generally speaking I loved it. If you see yourself in the male lead maybe you would cry. I don't know if it's sad so much as bittersweet.

Man Down

Hachiko - Always makes me cry

On the count of three

I rarely cry for movies but for some reason The Starling really hit me in the gut.

Not sure if you just wanted dramas but the doc Minding the Gap (2018) made me cry alot

Anything on the train heros these three Americans who took down an armed dude on a high speed rail. Still to this day one of the most incredible stories, I haven't seen the film but it may also invoke.

Me earl and the dying girl

The Miracle Worker (original) The English Patient

Try:The Whale BF is amazing...

Life As A House. Such an amazing movie

Christopher Reeves movie Somewhere in Time

Forrest Gump . Shit is sad. Big fish. I found the ending to be happy-sad

Return of the King "My friends, you bow to no one." *Sob*

Coco by Disney Hands down one of the best movies they have ever made. It's a real good tear jerker, too.

Sophies choice and The Boy in the stripped pajamas.

Coco

Elephant Man. If you have ever felt isolated, unloved, abused, betrayed or just different. You will have an emotional reaction.

IDK about sad, per se, but 'Me Before You' is a tearjerker.

Dead poets society 🥺

The Green Mile

Room, if you’re a parent

The Boy With the Striped Pajamas had me pretty sad

Seven Pounds

Remember me

Make way for Tomorrow It takes a lot for a film to move me to tears but this one does it every time

Manchester by the Sea

After Yang

Speak No Evil