What's your go-to tear-inducer?

Posted by Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 824 comments

You know when things are just getting on top of you a bit, and you just need to let it all out? What's your sure-fire way of getting the waterworks going? For me, it's either the 'Sleepytime' episode of Bluey (there's something about the mix of the subject matter, alongside Jupiter that just gets me going) or, if I want to settle in for an evening of full-blown dehydration, Coco seems to do the trick. The final part of 'Jungleland' by Springsteen also seems to do the trick if visuals aren't available. That or 'I'll See You In My Dreams'.

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Big_Tradition8082@reddit

If the kids are watching Coco my partner gives me the nod to excuse myself cos I bawl like a baby. A.I. (Haley Joel osment) film gets me everytime too, he just wants to be a real boy 😭😭😭

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1nkSprite@reddit

For a long time A.I. was my go-to 'I need a cathartic sob-fest' movie. I haven't watched it in ages, though. There are so many things that make me cry these days, that I have so many to pick from! It depends on lots of things like how long I'm willing to wait for the cry pay-off. The book The Time Traveler's Wife is my favourite book that makes me ugly cry, but it's not as quick as a film. Or getting to the end of The Good Place - but, again, that's a lot longer than just a film. For a quick one, I agree with someone up thread who mentioned the Fututrama episode Jurassic Bark.

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Big_Tradition8082@reddit

Jurassic park noooooooo 😭😭 all dogs go to heaven was another film that destroyed me as a kid

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the_esjay@reddit

Oh god. That episode. Argh. 😭

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mariah_a@reddit

When I was a young kid they let me watch AI when it first came on TV and it devastated me. Literally. I went to bed crying. I woke up crying. I went to school crying. I got sent home from school for crying too much. I cried all the next day. I only ever saw it that once when I was like 7 and I can remember it entirely. My mom officially banned me from watching it ever again. I’m 30 and she died over 5 years ago and I still take that seriously, she’d haunt me if I turned it on.

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cookiesandginge@reddit

Omg I watched this film (AI) as a kid and was traumatised

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DonTones@reddit

Coco - Hardest I've ever cried in a cinema

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the_esjay@reddit

Oh, that reminds me that I cried a lot in the cinema watching Pan’s Labyrinth, but at least no one I knew was there (apart from my partner), right? Then I turned around to see if everyone had cleared out yet, and my boss had been sat behind us the whole time.

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powderedtoastman44@reddit

I watched it in the cinema with my daughter and blubbed. Even after telling my wife about me sobbing in the cinema, she decided the best time to watch it was on a transatlantic flight. It absolutely broke her

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hamjamham@reddit

Need to rewatch Coco! I've only watched it once. Stuck on repeat with frozen 1&2 atm with my nearly 3 y/o daughter. When I've actually paid attention frozen has caught me off guard too 🤣

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utadohl@reddit

Coco is so good, even on repeat and even if I cry every time.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Yup. Went to see it at the cinema. The corridor outside the screen afterwards was absolute carnage.

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DrMoneybeard@reddit

I made the mistake of drinking a whole bottle of prosecco in the theatre during Coco and fucking UGLY CRIED full sobbing at the end. It was very cathartic but perhaps not my most elegant moment.

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One-Surprise-1075@reddit

I had a couple of margaritas just before and was bawling in bed watching it.

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kc43ung@reddit

I agree. AI is heartbreaking. The ending always seemed hastily written to make it slightly less depressing though.

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TululaDaydream@reddit

I rewatched this recently and thought the same as you, and it turns out it was a very common complaint at the time of release. It was often blamed on Spielberg, as the first two acts of the film are considerably darker and people thought it was more closely inspired by the original screenplay by Stanley Kubrick. But Spielberg was raging, because he says the ending was the bit that was actually closest to Kubrick's original vision.

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CaptMelonfish@reddit

I'll cry at other films, but Coco is an ugly cry film.

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Tanaerian@reddit

Bluey's Baby Race. Coco's mum staring right down the lens saying "You're doing great" gets me eeeevery time.

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taleasoldastime90@reddit

Me too!! Im glad im not the only one. Then again when bluey takes her first steps to get to mum

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Tanaerian@reddit

😭 😭 😭

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TumbleweedNo2551@reddit

Watership down

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Miss_Type@reddit

This for me too. A quick re-watch of Watership Down, and that moment when "It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch"...

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beppebz@reddit

Just reading that gave me a lump in my throat

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Miss_Type@reddit

It's so sad but also it's ok, and it's Hazel-rah's time to go. Watership Down is such a phenomenal book and film.

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beppebz@reddit

It is - I’m such a nerd for the book/film that my oldest daughter’s name is Hazel

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Miss_Type@reddit

Oh my gosh, that's amazing! I'm such a nerd I went on a walking holiday to Hampshire and walked the route the rabbits take to watership, and went to efrafa and the river test :D

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beppebz@reddit

I love that - definitley on my bucket list is to visit the area one day

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

Bright eyyyyyyessss…. How can they close and fade….

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CSFX@reddit

UK specific answer here. Song called Tea and Toast by Lucy Spraggan. She was an X Factor contestant years ago. If you’ve ever had any family loss, it’s a sure fire way to reduce you to a sniffling wreck by the second chorus.

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LobsterAstronaut@reddit

Disney short called lava

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Parfait-Fickle@reddit

Aah the volcano? With the song narrating the storyline? Never cried so much at a cartoon.

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DragonFeller@reddit

My wife didn't even know there was a second half of that because it made her cry so much

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

Oh I’d forgotten about that! It’s super sad just before the end (worth finding and watching if you haven’t seen it)

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kackers643259@reddit

Nine Inch Nails' Hurt

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CaptMelonfish@reddit

I know a lot of people prefer cash's cover. But the original for me is so raw and dark, it's perfect.

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Parfait-Fickle@reddit

It’s not a patch on 9 inch nails. It very much sounds like an old man with a wobbly voice in comparison to the original. To my ears anyway.

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Incognito-DeVito@reddit

I like to think of them two different songs in a way. I see the NIN version from the perspective of a young man who's hit rock bottom and can't see a way out, while Cash is coming from the perspective of an old man looking back over life of regret.

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kackers643259@reddit

It's even more haunting in the context of the album with the preceding track describing the aftermath of a bullet wound to the head, and throughout the verses of Hurt you get a static hiss in one ear The massive volume and distortion on those last three chords over "i would find a way" right at the end always decimates me

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Skruffbagg@reddit

Not me. Trent Reznor exudes pain in his voice singing that song. Infinitely superior to Cash’s cover.

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Unlucky-Public-2947@reddit

Oh Captain! My Captain!

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Parfait-Fickle@reddit

I love this film, and this year my son also watched it for the first time (managed to talk him into watching it as it had ‘Wilson from house in it’), he was also very moved by it. And not much moves that boy.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Stop it. Just stop it. I'm trying to make dinner and you're going to make it all salty!

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99redballoons66@reddit

The bit from Land Before Time where Littlefoot sees his shadow and thinks it's his mum.

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YunaLessCar@reddit

I remember finding it sad as a child, but then it absolutely emotionally devastated me when I rewatched it as an adult! I must have cried at least three times during it. Another tearjerker for me is Brother Bear. I sob uncontrollably every time I decide that it’s a good idea to rewatch it.

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beneaththegardenwall@reddit

Oh I haven't been able to watch Brother Bear for about 20 years!! Wept as a child and attempted a rewatch as an adult, caught off-guard by the name Nana (grief is a funny thing) and immediately turned it off 😭

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YunaLessCar@reddit

Oh no! 😭 it is an emotionally devastating film. I remember watching Moana at the cinema, having lost both my grandmothers within a year of each other and one passed only a few months before it came out, and I started sobbing 😭

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beneaththegardenwall@reddit

Ohh I posted about Moana in this thread, I physically cannot get through the first 20 minutes or so without sobbing - I lost my great-grandmother at a time when I was fighting my case to move away for uni, and she was always so supportive of me. Moana's situation rang so true, and it released just a few weeks after my nana passed! The timing wounded me permanently, I swear 😭😭

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ComprehensiveKey7241@reddit

Another dinosaur tear jerker: the good dinosaur, when the cave baby communicates that his parents are dead https://youtu.be/JM63WlX3SRE?feature=shared TRY to watch this without crying 😭😭😭

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AnnofAvonlea@reddit

I’m sad now. I’d forgotten about that 😢

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Hallelujah33@reddit

Why did you say this!?

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liltrex94@reddit

Thanks for this. I am gonna cry. Mine was Bambi, when the mum gets shot. But what you described was also heart wrenching. Now I need to go and cry twice.

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Significant-Math6799@reddit

I've seen both, The Land Before Time is one up on the measurement of emotional pain I think because the whole thing is written based on that loss, the finale of the story ends on such a bitter sweet note that I'm not sure Bambi has, but both are along a similar vein- I'd say The Land Before Time was the '80s/'90's version of Bambi. Don't watch without a box of tissues and the pause button to hand if it gets a bit much- which if you have even half a heart, will do!

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

If you want to be super super depressed, look at what happened in real life to the girl actor that played Ducky (disclaimer, it’s pretty sad/don’t look if feeling down)

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Significant-Math6799@reddit

Found out about it on a post a few years ago on Reddit, such a sad story, I hope that things were not as dark as they seem sometimes but then you hear about something like this and it just screws with my head.

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99redballoons66@reddit

Yeah I knew about this :(

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Significant-Math6799@reddit

OMG just came here to comment "The Land Before Time and seen your comment! I don't even know if Bambi came close to a cartoon dinosaur trying to make his way to his grandparents (in the oasis which I think on reflection was the dinosaur version of heaven, questioning if he didn't die to reach them) it's one of the few films I could list which would still break me into tears even now and I remember watching it when it was first released to give you some indication of my age!

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jenko_human@reddit

The video of the song “Dreams see us through” always makes me cry

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Mid-Pri6170@reddit

'lol. dumb dinosaur misses his mum heheh stupid....' '...bro, you crying?' 'im not crying thats just a bit of sand in my eye'

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snaphappylurker@reddit

The song at the end of this film was my grandmothers absolute favourite, she passed away when I was six and I haven’t been able to watch that since I’m nearly 40 now

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notenoughritalin@reddit

This killed me as a kid and I don't think I can watch it again

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DLNN_DanGamer@reddit

I haven't even thought of or heard of that since I was little, yet that scene came back so clearly into my mind while reading this, wow.

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Accomplished_Bake904@reddit

Aww, why have you done this to me?

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CalmdownpleaseII@reddit

Goddamit…. :(

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Bullfinch88@reddit

I'm not surprised this is so high up. Last time I watched this film it just destroyed me. I think it's something about the nostalgia of it being a movie from childhood as well. I just can't watch it now.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Bloody hell, I'd forgotten all about that. Don't think I've watched it since I was about three, thanks to just how much that film broke me!

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99redballoons66@reddit

I used to watch it all the time as a kid. Don't know why my parents were happy with this, it's so traumatic! I then rediscovered it last year when I was 7 months pregnant and cried about it for about a week.

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Throwaway91847817@reddit

Jaguar Shark scene at the end of *The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou*.

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Soggy_Detective_4737@reddit

If I wanted a guaranteed way to cry, I'd watch The Perfect Storm, Deepwater Horizon, or Pay It Forward.

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WrennyJen@reddit

The ending of Six Feet Under

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Regular-Whereas-8053@reddit

Either the song My Immortal by Evanescence, or the scene in Doctor Who episode “The Angels Take Manhattan” where Amy Pond says farewell to the Doctor. Gets me every damn time 🥺

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Affectionate_Meat348@reddit

If you’re a dog love, watch “The art of racing in the rain”

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k_bee@reddit

The movie About Time is a pretty strong guarantee. The scene with his dad for sure, but the ending always gets me going too. Something so beautiful and the routine of life. Brilliant film that does not get its dues

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ThisShouldBeAGif@reddit

This is one of my all time favourite films that I think is severely underrated. I have made every guy I’ve date watch it. Makes me tear up just thinking about it…

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notenoughritalin@reddit

Omg the dad scene. When they go to the beach 😢 and the ending, agreed.

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louSs1993@reddit

One of my favourite films but makes me sob every time. When they’re playing the final table tennis match and their walk on the beach. So beautifully sad

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oktimeforplanz@reddit

I commented this before I saw your comment. Also when his mum opens the door. That sets me off.

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medphysfem@reddit

Oh it's one of my favourites, even if I cry every time. If you have aging parents it continues to hit harder, but is also nice to remind you of the value of living life and appreciating joy with people when you have it.

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amboandy@reddit

I saw this film and HAD to watch it with my mum. She didn't cry at that scene and that was the moment when I realised she was a psychopath.

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Lvivalentine@reddit

Chalk outlines by Ren and chinchilla Also Hi Ren every time

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ComprehensiveKey7241@reddit

https://youtu.be/JM63WlX3SRE?feature=shared 😭

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unusually_named@reddit

"Daddy, My Daddy! ' - Jenny Agutter on the Railway Children. I lost my dad in my early 20's and even now just that clip makes me well up. https://youtu.be/a56UQrKHaiM?si=eWy0ZHlhTu2WMIwy

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Ecstatic_Effective42@reddit

I'm filling up just thinking about that scene now.

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Purple_Committee_216@reddit

Me too

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bouncing_pirhana@reddit

I too am chopping onions.

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Mid-Pri6170@reddit

a family member said they saw this (the 70s railway children movie, not a later remake) onboard a naval ship (rfa) and he said all the sailors were crying. but then laughing about it after

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whyfruitflies@reddit

Just the music at the beginning of this film has me leaking. By the time I get to Daddy i'm a wreck.

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evergreenera@reddit

Omg yes! This has always got me!

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empressemma44@reddit

I can’t watch this since I lost my dad.

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unusually_named@reddit

20 years Tuesday just gone and I had a wobble watching the clip I posted.

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Dazzling-Ad6085@reddit

Now I’m crying

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Linguistin229@reddit

My dad is still with me and this scene still always makes me bawl.

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Monke1000000@reddit

The ending of La La Land always makes me tear up a bit

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Outraged_Chihuahua@reddit

I lost my dog in August and thinking about it too much will have me in a hysterical meltdown for ages. But I'm also pregnant and cried because Asda ran out of Quorn chicken nuggets, and because one of my dogs is very fluffy, so my crying fits are very easy right now lol.

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Responsible_Wasabi91@reddit

I cried over so much random stuff that I scared the crap out of my husband daily, he kept thinking something was seriously wrong and I was like: “no there’s a cat on a tv advert” etc

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Outraged_Chihuahua@reddit

If I'm crying for seemingly no reason, he's just like "you watched a dog video didn't you?" 😅

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arfur_narmful@reddit

I think about my dad, the events leading up to his death, and how much I miss him

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Just_A_some1@reddit

Skeleton man by Coyote Kid. I just always picture this guy growing up, everyone around him dying so he befriends death, then after some sort of accident he barely survives (the high stakes poker bet), so then he starts to fear death until it catches up with him and it’s finally peaceful

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Big_Tradition8082@reddit

Scanned comments and I'm surprised(at myself too for almost forgetting this one!) that All dogs go to heaven hasn't been mentioned 😭😞

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fussyfella@reddit

I loath films and songs that blatantly manipulate emotions, so it is not so much a "go to" as a "get away from" list.

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RuinedMyHoliday@reddit

Nanna's last scene in Royale Family :/ Que sera sera...

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Big_Tradition8082@reddit

I remember my great aunt brought home to pass away ,the dining room was converted into a bedroom for her with the hospital bed in there, watching this episode brings it back.

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Embarrassed-Yak-8269@reddit

I’m getting goosebumps . As it happens , we said goodbye to my mum couple years ago ( dementia but sepsis saw her off ) . I’m proud that my wonderful sister is a nurse and blagged our way out of hospital for mum and back home . She had the best death surrounded by her family, just chatting with her etc . Had a glass of wine ( why not?) Big smiles , then Sleep

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Prestigious_Sky4965@reddit

Christ, that’s broken me.

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Embarrassed-Yak-8269@reddit

In a good way , I hope ? Death isn’t always horrible . I adored my mum . But it was her time . All my good wishes to you Predtigious sky person x

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the_esjay@reddit

You’re right there. Me and my sister were there with our mum the whole time for her last few days. We had a camp bed in the room and took turns at sleeping and watching. We’d had a few times where it had seemed that the end had come, and we had to get people together, so everyone had had a chance to say goodbye when she could still appreciate it. In the end, me and my sister were both there holding her hands and stroking her hair, in the quiet with the lights low, and it was so peaceful and gentle when she eventually went. Both of us had told her it was ok, and we loved her and she could let go. I genuinely treasure the memory of those last days.

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evergreenera@reddit

Yes! This gets me too

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PalmerRabbit78@reddit

Oh my god, haven’t watched this is years but it absolutely destroys me every time I do.

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Ok_Commission5239@reddit

I’ve watched The Royle Family more time that it would be possible to count…but The Queen of Sheba is the one episode I simply cannot watch. I think i’ve only watched it twice maybe three times max

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tsmiv12@reddit

😭

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

Opening scene of Up! is pretty brutal…

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piggycatnugget@reddit

A Man Called Otto is basically the full film version of this. It's really good but will trigger tears like no other!

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Big_Tradition8082@reddit

I read the book it's based on,finished it in a roadside cafe one morning after I'd dropped kids to school,ended up sobbing into my poached eggs 😭

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MrD-88@reddit

I never cry at films but when he's telling the story of his wife and the Kate Bush song is playing, I cracked.

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FCSadsquatch@reddit

This is the one, the piano song can get me too when the tone changes.

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GeorgiePorgiePuddin@reddit

Listening to the song by its self gets me going!

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cookiesandginge@reddit

The only film to make me cry, albeit I was 9 months pregnant

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Embarrassed-Yak-8269@reddit

Sniff !!!! 😢

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Shalashaska23@reddit

I literally cannot rewatch that film because of it. It is however an absolutely beautiful sequence.

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TipsyMagpie@reddit

We skip the first ten minutes, I can’t bear it. I agree though, it is beautiful if you can cope with the heartbreak. 💔

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Wise_Task_6029@reddit

+1, 27 year old male 🫡

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Zutsky@reddit

Watched it on a date. I cried. Still together with the person I was on a date with 15 years later 😊

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riaro70@reddit

I was going through IVF ( it failed) when I watched that in the cinema & bawled my eyes out.

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Yorkshire_Roast@reddit

Oh gosh, yes. That montage of Ellie and Carl hits hard 😢

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BromleyReject@reddit

That was savage

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jack_watson97@reddit

White wine in the sun by Tim Minchin. I cry just thinking about that song

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izziecharlotte@reddit

I've done this song with my choir twice, taught and conducted it the second time, and honestly i was relieved I didn't have to sing it and could just focus on getting the weird timings right so i wouldn't focus on the lyrics

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Hopeful-Vanilla-2169@reddit

Oh yes that one too! Reminds me of how much I miss Aus

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FraggleGoddess@reddit

Thank you for reminding me of this, just went to listen, I love Tim Minchin

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DestinysCalling@reddit

That's the song I want played at my funeral.

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non-diggety@reddit

Tim Minchin's Carry You does the same for me, but that's linked back to grief.

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Hookton@reddit

Aw no don't. That damn song.

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Callis_tow@reddit

War Horse or Watership down.

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Cultural-Ambition211@reddit

I love Sleepytime, but don’t particularly think it’s a tear jerker. It’s “Cricket” that always gets me. When Rusty hits the catch for his sister.

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CactiSerialKiller@reddit

Baby Race gets me every time

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Girl-From-Mars@reddit

Yeah baby race and Onsies for me.

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Lishmi@reddit

Yes Onsie is my teary one also. I maintain that every adult has (at least) one bluey episode that can reduce them to tears.

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Mammoth-Turnip-3058@reddit

Most of them lol! The one where chillis running after her dad, and they flash back to them sat on the lake. (Already tearing up thinking of it) Pen island. When bingo gives Bandit the pen and chilli asks what she gave him and he says "everything" (tears have escaped now)

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redlady1991@reddit

Saw baby race for the first time a few days ago. Have seen it every day since and I just cry - "maybe she saw something she wanted". One of my twins just started walking the last week or so. Welling up thinking about this 🥺

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hamjamham@reddit

Fucking love that ep. It's def coaxed a tear or two out of me

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Tanaerian@reddit

EVERY time

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cookiesandginge@reddit

Sleepy time is my favourite too but agree not a tearjerker. The one with Jean-Luc though…

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ellemeno_@reddit

Curry Swap really upsets my partner, as he often has to work abroad.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

That's definitely a contender. I guess 'Sleepytime' very much depends on context. For someone who has been estranged from his biological mother for a number of years, and had his Ersatz mum (Great Aunt) die back in September, it's definitely strong stuff. Fuck. Here I go. 🤣

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janquadrentvincent@reddit

Flat Pack. "This is heaven"

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Pengetalia@reddit

Sleepytime gets me for the music; my Dad introduced me to The Planet Suite as a kid and he's no longer with us. Jupiter gets me very time

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QueenSashimi@reddit

Yeah my mum died in 2018 and since then I've become a mum myself to two beautiful kids... Sleepytime hits me hard. I get you! (Also I saw Springsteen live in 2024 and he closed with a solo acoustic version of I'll See You in My Dreams... 😭)

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Saw Springsteen for the first time at Villa Park back in 2023, a couple of weeks after my grandad passed away. I'd never heard ISYIMD before... I'm fully prepared for the fact that I'll never be able to listen to it again after my dad goes.

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Cultural-Ambition211@reddit

My colleague / friend lost his 1 year old son and that song always reminds me of him. Beautiful piece of music.

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Blandiblub@reddit

Agree heavily on Sleepytime. To the point that my daughter has told everyone she knows that her dad cries at Bluey. For me, it's the mum being the Sun and the I'll always be here for you line (https://www.reddit.com/r/bluey/s/QpDNXjAnUA). Otherwise, I'll never watch Marley And Me again. When I was a kid, it was Pete's Dragon.

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ginbandit@reddit

For me on Cricket it's the message from his dad about "you'll face tougher things in life then a fast ball so you've got two choices. Either duck or play the pull shot." Just damn right, sometimes you've just got to step up.

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isajaffacakeabiscuit@reddit

I don't know the name of it but the one that chilli takes the girls to see her dad after he's been ill and he's running away from her. When she says 'i still need you' then the scene at the lake. I want to watch bluey more often than my kids haha.

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8rummi3@reddit

It's the one when they go see the grandad, and at the end Chili is saying how she used to play like Bluey and Bingo a long time ago, and he says 'nah, it was just yesterday'. Gets me every time

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Forsaken_Silver_1344@reddit

For me it's Cricket, Sleepytime, and Camping. Like clockwork.

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Lishmi@reddit

Have you watched camping in French? It's cute because the friend is then English, but I can't remember the English name they give him

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Forsaken_Silver_1344@reddit

Just watched it now because of your comment. Johnny! Still made me cry in French too

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Moomoocaboob@reddit

Love those episodes though the line that always gets me is at the end of Grandad, “No, it was yesterday”

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Ireallyamthisshallow@reddit

As someone who had to move alot as a kid, *The Sign* kills me.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Yup, that too. Bought my first house a few years ago at the age of 35. Worked it all out, and it transpired that this was my 23rd permanent residence in 35 years on this planet.

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EeEe88@reddit

Have you guys seen 'The Sign'

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Voodoopulse@reddit

Cricket is brilliant, the letter he gets from his dad.

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ExtremeExtension9@reddit

I always cry at Sleepytime. I have two daughters similar ages to Bluey and Bingo and our nights play out like this basically every single night. And when Bingo says “I have to go, I’m a big girl now” my heart breaks, because I do get frustrated being woken up every night but one day she will stop finding me in the night looking for warm cuddles. But I will still always be there for her.

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Mediocre_Sprinkles@reddit

Cricket, sleepytime, turtle boy, the sign, and the ending of daddy drop off. Blubbering mess every time.

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Unlucky-Public-2947@reddit

Turtleboy gets me.

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Mammoth-Turnip-3058@reddit

I don't need a tear inducer. I'll cry at anything and nothing. Most episodes of Bluey will set me off. Scrolling on any social media. Happy things. Sad things. Doesn't matter. Some TV adverts. If anyone else cries, even If I don't know why they're crying. Just hearing the voice wobble.

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UraniumMermaid@reddit

Old Shep

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zephyrsummer@reddit

The entirely of Jim Croce’s Don’t Mess Around with Jim Album. Or Rory Gallagher’s when I fall apart. That’s WEEPIN’ music.

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drumbro86@reddit

Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb (Pulse Live version) Gilmour's guitar in the solos just hits me in the feels. Beautiful performance 😭

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sarahroselava@reddit

My favourite poem, The Two Headed Calf. It sets me off every single time.

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Bendy_McBendyThumb@reddit

Getting the only pictures out that I have of my daughter, which are on a “Happy Father’s Day card”. She’d be 9 now and I still feel empty inside really. That or thinking about carrying her coffin on my own.

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Literature_Girl@reddit

I'm so sorry for your pain, and wish you nothing but the best.

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Bendy_McBendyThumb@reddit

Thank you also for the kindness. Reddit’s actually helped me open up about it, there are plenty of lovely people on here like yourself and the other people who’ve replied and updooted. I hope anyone else struggling with any form of grief finds their way to open up and help to heal, too. I’m always happy to chat to strangers who feel they need no judgement at difficult times. Have a great weekend as well :)

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greatdane114@reddit

Ah man. I knew I'd see a comment like this. I'm so sorry.

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JT9603@reddit

That is so sad. I'm sorry for your loss

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Miss_Type@reddit

I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Sea_Cue@reddit

The last 7 ish minutes of the telly series Six Feet Under.

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emmastonephoto@reddit

Came here looking for this. I’m not a big crier, and I hate crying in front of people if I do. Me and my partner were watching this together and I gave myself a headache from trying not to cry at this finale. When he left the room, I put it on again and had a big ol’ blub

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Jealous-Shallot-3071@reddit

There have been many TV series that are far better than Six Feet Under. But non, not a single one, has got close to matching the ending of that show. Utter perfection on every single level.

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GuiltyCredit@reddit

There will never be an ending like it again. We knew exactly how they lived and how they died. Was beautiful.

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Sea_Cue@reddit

Welling up just thinking about it! It really is a perfect ending.

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crimp_dad@reddit

Came looking for this answer.

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Rubytitania@reddit

This is mine too! I just need to listen to Breathe Me by Sia and it sets me off 😢

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QueenSashimi@reddit

If I ever need a good cry I just listen to Breathe Me by Sia and it brings back those closing minutes of Six Feet Under

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Grimdotdotdot@reddit

Sorry. https://preview.redd.it/2ulclat9pdcg1.png?width=400&format=png&auto=webp&s=902d3fd8c0367f8bc4ac47f2b9e9515cd1b7c724

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emmastonephoto@reddit

Thanks for making me well up on a bus full of people 😭😭

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

Stop this 😭😭😭

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Grimdotdotdot@reddit

I merely answered the question 😁 Currently have a great Dane with her head on my lap, and I hope the goofy idiot lives forever.

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

I hope she does too 🩷

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ladygabe@reddit

Why you being mean 🥺

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the_esjay@reddit

Well, I didn’t expect that to hit as hard as it did. Sonofabitch 😢

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twirling_daemon@reddit

Saw the first 2 panels Looked at my elderly dog next to me who I’m far too often, too impatient with Now I’m shattered, time to take her to bed for her bedtime treats & snuggles and apologies

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dwhite21787@reddit

aaaand now I've awoken all the cats with belly rubs and chin skritches saying "I love you"

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ellemeno_@reddit

I’m sobbing.

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Significant_Dog_3978@reddit

Omg why did I open this whole thread?? I’m in pieces. 😔😭

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

If it should be that I grow weak, And pain should keep me from my sleep, Then you must do what must be done, For this last battle cannot be won. You will be sad, I understand, Don't let your grief then stay your hand, For this day more than all the rest, Your love for me must stand the test. We've had so many happy years, What is to come can hold no fears, You'd not want me to suffer so, The time has come, please let me go. Take me where my needs they'll tend, And please stay with me till the end, I know in time that you will see The kindness that you did for me. Although my tail its last has waved, From pain and suffering I've been saved. Please do not grieve, it must be you Who has this painful thing to do. We've been so close, we two, these years, Don't let your heart hold back its tears.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. Fifth panel. 😭

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Grimdotdotdot@reddit

Third panel for me. > Those sunny days when it felt like I could run forever

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Lishmi@reddit

That's it. Phone down. Good night.

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TheCallGuy@reddit

Jesus fucking _Christ_

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beneaththegardenwall@reddit

The early scene in Moana when her grandmother passes as she leaves on her raft, then a huge manta ray appears below her. I was in the depths of grieving my beloved great-grandmother at the time, and in my actual life simultenously there were themes of me wanting to move out and forge my own path. The combo of the on-screen death + film themes + IRL experiences make me full-on sob every time. I'm getting teary just writing this 😅

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IntrusiveUK@reddit

The HIMYM episode where Marshall’s Dad dies

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Embarrassed-Yak-8269@reddit

Home alone . Mom arrives back to meet Kevin . I always need a cushion to sideways cry into .

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Beee52@reddit

Omg, every time! It's definitely that in the first one, and then when she has the moment in the second where she realises where he is 😭 Both films are definitely sleepers for bringing out the tears, yet they get me every time!

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kilnandcake@reddit

I listen to slipping through my fingers by ABBA, gets me every time.. usually the first couple notes will do it

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SiriusBlack99999@reddit

The end of Debbie does Dallas when she finally has the money to realise her dream of becoming a professional cheerleader. Gets me everything time.

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Funsizemimi1973@reddit

The first ten minutes of the film Up 😭

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mycarefu@reddit

The opening of Up is a masterclass in emotional devastation. I think we all have that one piece of media that just reliably breaks the dam.

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AutomaticInitiative@reddit

Anything which has an old man crying or on the verge of tears. Sets me off every single time.

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Complex-Piano-81@reddit

Ronan by Taylor Swift

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sparkysmonkey@reddit

Inside no 9 - 12 days of Christine

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magentas33@reddit

I’ve seen it 5 times and I end up sobbing more on each watch.

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JamieAlways@reddit

I'm always like 'but I already know the twist now, surely it's not going to make me sob *this* time', but no, it leaves me a howling snotty mess every time.

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magentas33@reddit

I start crying in advance because I know what’s coming. It’s then a vicious circle of seeing it again AND knowing what’s about to happen. Full dehydration in motion!

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mymbley@reddit

Literally watched this yesterday when my antidepressant-addled brain needed a release

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the_esjay@reddit

Ha. It’s not just me that does that, then? Having got out of a bad relationship and generally bad situation where I cried a LOT, it was odd a few days ago to find I was actually crying for pretty much the first time in three years. Stress of moving to a new flat, downsizing, having to organise everything and find money to pay movers, compounded by my landlord being a shit was all it took lol. I rewatched Beaches, every version of A Star Is Born, Manchester by the Sea, and a few others recommended on one of the film subs on here as guaranteed tear jerkers. Nothing. I’ve not tried Grave of the Fireflies yet, tho.

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the_esjay@reddit

Oh damn, yes. Amazingly well done.

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WonderfulTemporary51@reddit

Came here to say this

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Mesonychoteuthis@reddit

That one and Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room. Oof.

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TansehPlatypus@reddit

If you're going to cry, cry tears of laughter

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BigToeLilToe@reddit

sad documentaries - There’s something wrong with aunt dianne, My brother Jordan, Dear Zachary. those 3 will always set me off. also, i watched Goodbye June on Netflix the other day. i was absolutely sobbing. much needed, felt great.

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Muted_Reflection_449@reddit

The end or last episode of "Blackadder Goes Fourth" and most of "Detectorists".

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PastyKing@reddit

Detectorists is a fantastic show. Really hope we get another series. I watched it on a whim because I like Toby Jones and the writing and character development was brilliant.

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grishnackh@reddit

I am not really a crier, especially at media, but when Lance finds his gold, I was absolutely welling up a bit. Brilliant show.

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Muted_Reflection_449@reddit

The more I watch the more about it is brilliant. It's just amazing in every respect.

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OrganizationFun2140@reddit

Surprised I had to scroll this far for last episode of Blackadder.

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Muted_Reflection_449@reddit

I was too!

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bouncing_pirhana@reddit

This is absolutely the one!

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Due_Ear_4674@reddit

A.I. just breaks me every time. That poor boy looking for a mother.

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SensitivePotato44@reddit

A dab of Head and Shoulders does it for me...

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Hookton@reddit

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables.

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Beta_1@reddit

It's when fontine's voice comes in valjeans last confession that always gets me

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ImBonRurgundy@reddit

Totally. Come to me, where chains will never bind you. All your grief, at last at last behind you.

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txakori@reddit

Holy fucking gods. The first time I heard this I was 15 and my older brother had just committed suicide two weeks before. I still can’t listen to it almost 30 years later without breaking down in an undignified pile of tears.

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WoodySoprano@reddit

Oh my friends my FRIENDSSSS don’t ask me….

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Lishmi@reddit

When the recent (ish) film came out, I didn't know much of Les Mis. Everyone was raving about Fantine's song sung by Anne Hathaway. Now I don't know if it's a combination of hearing it on the radio prior to seeing the movie, or the fact that she slobbered her way through it, but it didn't really 'fo it's for me. Then I heard Eddie Redmayne sing Empty Chairs and I was shedding tears in the cinema.

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jasminepriya@reddit

i watched my cousin as marius in a school play and i SOBBED

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amboandy@reddit

I choose this redditors dead Marius

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Agitated_Strain_6260@reddit

I also choose this guys dead Marius.

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10642alh@reddit

I am a Les Mis obsessive. I’ve seen the show in London around 70 times and have lots of Victor Hugo and Les Mis tattoos. I cry from the first bar of the musical until the end but even this one made my husband teary when I took him to see it for the first time.

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Ill-Basil2863@reddit

People do this? Try and make themselves cry?

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Ok_Chipmunk_7066@reddit

Goodnight Mr Tom or Beaches. Both turn me into a wreck.

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MissVurt@reddit

Beaches is mine, tried to find it to stream recently but it's not available on any of my services.

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Ok_Chipmunk_7066@reddit

I keep a dvd copy for this reason.

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MissVurt@reddit

I'm sure i used to have one but can't find it, think I need to check out the local charity shops!

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Majora272@reddit

My mum and stepdad always bring up Goodnight Mr Tom and how it makes me cry like a baby, when they’re taking the piss out of me 😭

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BabyAlibi@reddit

>Beaches. I always swear I am not going to cry this time, then cry

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Ok_Chipmunk_7066@reddit

Its a 2 hour slow motion car crash, can see it coming a mile away and still bawl.

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tinkabellmiggins@reddit

I just commented about Mr Tom! The book makes me cry every time and I still reread it at least once a year at 35 !

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zinasbear@reddit

Ohh I live Mr Tom so much. Gets me every time.

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DanceOnTheLine@reddit

When William calls Mr Tom “Dad” at the end I always bawl

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Ok_Chipmunk_7066@reddit

Exactly!

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Viridis13@reddit

The Virtute songs by The Weakerthans. Plea From a Cat Named Virtute, Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure and Virtute at Rest 😭

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shez_bu@reddit

I was military spouses coming back from war and their family & pets greeting them 😂 works everytime hahaha

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LouTheOM@reddit

Both my parents and my grandmother died in 2024 so…yeah I think about that.

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BornTooSlow@reddit

My mum died suddenly yesterday and my wife's mum died suddenly in November 2024. My condolences

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Off1ceb0ss@reddit

I’m so sorry!!

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MarlaSaysSlide@reddit

I'm so sorry for your loss

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FairyGodmothersUnion@reddit

I am so very sorry.

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Puzzleheaded_Turn887@reddit

What a sad and difficult year! So sorry for all of your losses 😢

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a_sword_and_an_oath@reddit

Youtube. Search "restore faith in humanity"

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Ok-Strain6961@reddit

I wish I needed one.

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dglcomputers@reddit

Watching the video for "When The Lord" by Susanne Sundfør. It's part of the soundtrack she wrote for the documentary film "Self Portrett" following the life of Norwegian photographer Lene Marie Fossen, her photography and her battle with anorexia, which she ended up losing not long after the documentary was finished (she did get to see it luckily). Susanne holding Lene's hand in hospital, Lene being blessed whilst in a wheelchair and the end card with the dates of Lene's birth and passing are particularly poignant moments. I really should watch the whole documentary at some point. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWFCkcdmZI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oWFCkcdmZI)

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Educational_Pipe3633@reddit

Long lost families

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Charliecheese96@reddit

There's a scene in Rugrats The Movie which always makes me cry when Tommy and Dil are lost and the circus monkeys are trying to find them. Dill drinks all of the milk and takes all of the blanket then Tommy drags him out and goes to pour banana baby food on him so the monkeys take him. OMG I'm always sobbing at that bit!

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bnnyrabbit@reddit

think of my dead dog

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RiotSloth@reddit

Watching the end of Silent Running…. even typing this is making me struggle…. That little robot…. 😭

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BoxWonderful5393@reddit

Blackadder Goes Forth, the final scene..."Good luck everyone.."

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TheTjalian@reddit

Toy Story 3 where they're going into the incinerator, and Jessie in a panic turns to Buzz (who, of course, *always* saves the day) and asks "What do we do!?" and Buzz turns around with a defeated look in his eyes, knowing he can't save them. They're all doomed. Also (and I'm outing myself as a massive nerd here) that scene in Dragonball Super, the Tournament of Power Arc, the Master Roshi scene where he collapses on the floor, presumably dead. Krillin screams at Goku to do something. Goku is a warrior with the canonical strength to kill literal gods, yet here he is trying to resuscitate an old man, one of his oldest friends, he's panicked to high heaven, tears in his eyes. Makes me cry like a little bitch, every time.

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snoopbeamish@reddit

The penultimate episode of Derry Girls where the girls are all out for Halloween and Clare finds out her dad has died of a brain aneurysm. The complete contrast between their big night and then standing in the hospital waiting to hear what’s happened gets me every time

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whiskydelta85@reddit

For me it’s the final montage with everyone in the voting booths

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higgoua@reddit

Agrees, its The Cranberries they just get you.

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lemonherring@reddit

The last episode of the first series got me too - the terrible bomb and The Cranberries.

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JeremyRMay@reddit

I watched The Incredible Journey for the first time in over 20 years the other day. It completely ruined me. That's my go to from here on.

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kindaadulting87@reddit

About Time. I've only watched it twice because it ruins me. Sobbed in the cinema with my parents when it came out. Moby's song When It's Cold I'd Like to Die also breaks me. A lot of the cartoons/kids movies I grew up with were heartbreaking too. Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Fox and the Hound, that fuckin horse in Neverending Story II...

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Binners297@reddit

All dogs go to heaven is so much sadder when you realise that the voice actor for the little girl was murdered and the voice actor for the dog was saying good bye irl too

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kindaadulting87@reddit

She was the voice of Ducky in Land Before Time as well :(

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slinky_sludge@reddit

Ooh About Time is a good one. I saw that on a date….fighting for my life during ‘that’ scene.

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sailormikey@reddit

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse animation. When Théoden King says “No parent should have to bury their child”

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MrPatch@reddit

Either van Gogh meeting Bill Nighy in Dr Who or Buffy getting the Class Protector award at prom at the end of the second series

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dottymouse@reddit

Talking of Buffy... Season 5: "Mom.. mom? Mommy..."

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downintheupsidedown@reddit

Oh god, Van Gogh 💔it kills me

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Expensive_Ad_9338@reddit

Marley and me.

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PrincessPlops@reddit

It has to be the funeral scene in Imitation of Life. It never fails to make me cry! Highly recommend if you haven’t seen it (it’s from 1959). They often show it on TV.

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Smenjamin-Bebap@reddit

The last two episodes of Big Boys series 3. Particularly the last episode. I tear up just thinking about it

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GirlMcGirlface@reddit

There's a piece of music called Gabriels oboe. Never fails to have me in floods of tears.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

I know it well - my wife walked down the aisle to it!

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Iwantedalbino@reddit

Before kids New Amsterdam got me every episode. Post kids pretty much anything 40M

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Johny_boii2@reddit

Fox and the hound, i know she's doing it for the good but my god its hard

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cookiesandginge@reddit

I recently started re-reading Noughts & Crosses and began crying.

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dannylills8@reddit

The wild robot, or Jurassic bark from futurama

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Lishmi@reddit

Wild Robot is the best animated movie in years.

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dannylills8@reddit

100%

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dallasp2468@reddit

Inside out, bing bong cart scene, I'm tearing up thinking about.

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gestella@reddit

The scene in The Fox and the Hound, where she let's the fox back into the wild 😭😭😭😭

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Quirky-Bad857@reddit

Stepmom kills me every time

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Odd_Championship7286@reddit

Listen to “fix you” by Coldplay and think about how much I miss my dead grandparents. Let it all out

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Electrical_Active180@reddit

Anyone who's been to a funeral in an English church - Abide With Me is in instant gut kicker as the organs chords warm up at the start

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Glenner10@reddit

The final scene in Goodnight Mr Tom has me sobbing tears of happiness every time.

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Aching1536@reddit

As someone with crippling anxiety I find it crazy that people make themselves sad on purpose 😭

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NoraFrancis901@reddit

Only time I’ve actually tried to make myself cry was when I first started taking antidepressants and felt so numb I didn’t think I could cry. So me and my housemates sat down and watched films they thought would make me cry. I sat through Theory of Everything, Benjamin Button, but the only one that got me even close to crying was Remember Me, just for the surprise twist at the end. The shock was the most emotional I had felt in weeks.

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oxfordGuy2026@reddit

Buddy, I get this. I really do. Sometimes it helps to get me over the line and really decompress. Letting it all out can be really cathartic.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

I appreciate it may sound like the scariest thing in the world to you, but try it. It's an absolute game-changer!

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crankyandhangry@reddit

Okja. But it's not a cathartic cry. It's an unpleasant, snot-covered, hyperventilating, ugly cry.

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CaliforniaAvenue@reddit

The ending of Marley and Me 😢

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thewaifandstray@reddit

The Robin Williams film 'What Dreams may come'. Watched it for the first time just after my eldest was born. Now have four hobbits and my amazing other half, he'd definitely go down to hell for me 😭❤️

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garlic_everything@reddit

The end of “Fly Away Home” when the geese arrive - I literally can’t explain anymore because my eyes are blurry with tears.

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the_esjay@reddit

Yes! Someone else with Fly Away Home. It wrenches a sob out of me whatever I do, every time.

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decentlyfair@reddit

Only saw once at the cinema and I sobbed.

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kitzelbunks@reddit

Do I hypothetically have a high fever? Then anything will work, even commercials.

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samo7230@reddit

The final half an hour or so of Schindlers List. Especially when it changes to colour

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archer8492@reddit

The end of The Iron Giant. Gets me every time.

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the_esjay@reddit

This is what I came here to say. “Superman,” absolutely destroys me. For some reason the end of Fly Away Home does it too. I think they were both films my kids would watch a lot, and I’d have to leave the room at that particular moment.

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Several-Comedian-281@reddit

Big hero 6 is another 🙃

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notenoughritalin@reddit

Omg agreed.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

In a similar (robot) vein - Bicentennial Man.

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Forgetful8nine@reddit

That was the first movie to ever bring me to tears!

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CaptMelonfish@reddit

Superman...

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Englishmuffin1@reddit

I go. You stay. No following. Superman.

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archer8492@reddit

😭😭😭 See? Every. Time.

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Different_Willow556@reddit

We bought a zoo, or brother bear. Special note for any dog films like Marley and me or Hachi which have been watched that one time and are to never be thought about again unless I want to cry for a few hours

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ClaryClarysage@reddit

Watching the video for Cloudbusting by Kate Bush used to work pretty well.

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Nettinonuts@reddit

These rarely fail for me! Kirsty MacColl A New England Sinead O’Connor Nothing Compares 2U

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MadamKitsune@reddit

Need a quick guaranteed cry - the cartoons strips by Jenny Jinya featuring black cats and the grim reaper. Happy Cry - The Truth About Cats And Dogs Complete and total devastation - Watership Down. I swear I'm never watching it again but when it rolls around I can't help myself and sob all the way through.

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Significant-Math6799@reddit

The Land Before Time (yes the dinosaur cartoon film!) I still get sad just by thinking about it, it was the 80's version of Bambi and along with the theme tune made me ball in tears when I was watching it as a kid and still makes me feel sad just remembering it back...if you've not seen it, I think it was a Don Bluth/Picturehouse film (Disney really missed it on this one!) I don't know if I've seen anything cartoon wise since that had the same effect on me.

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CaptMelonfish@reddit

There's a few songs that hit home, but Vincent by Don MacLean is a killer.

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NoProblem8341@reddit

Seasons in the sun- Terry jacks (?)

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JaBe68@reddit

That line "this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you" makes me cry for my brother. He has schizophrenia and, in any other world, would be seen as a beautiful soul, but in our world, he is seen as broken.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

I remember, one Christmas, having been to visit my grandmother in a care home, dying of MS, on the way to spend the festive season with my dad. I stopped by the viewing point/car park at Felixstowe Docks, and this came on the radio. Absolutely broke me.

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Yani-96@reddit

Fox and the hound I sob just retelling the plot

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Hopeful-Vanilla-2169@reddit

Final episode of six feet under. breathe me by Sia accompanied by the scenes gets me every time.

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lcmfe@reddit

The Penguin Lessons 😭

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charliekeery@reddit

i usually have to stop the tears not provoke them lol. but can't handle this by bo burnham gets me every frickin time (and more recently, hamilton. but there's too many moments to list)

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splair@reddit

The part in the fox and the hound where she leaves Todd in the forest

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LittleRebelbunny@reddit

The Iron Claw just makes me cry so much at various times during the film. It's a Sin >!When Colin dies of AIDS just breaks me!< Honestly I cry to anything vaguely emotional.

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LameFossil@reddit

Seven Pounds, with Will Smith. Yh he's a cunt, but that performance was outstanding.

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MarlaSaysSlide@reddit

Interstellar, just the musical score alone sets me off. My dad had been diagnosed with (what we were told at the time was terminal) cancer around the same time I watched it, so anything where someone loses their dad (or thinks they will) hit home.

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EarNew7622@reddit

So morbid but imagining a loved one’s death / aftermath. I don’t know why but even when I’m not trying to let it all out, if I’m just going about my day and start to think about what I’d do if it happened, it all comes out

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house_autumn@reddit

Here Comes Garfield. I'm 40 and I'm crying thinking about it.

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AdThat328@reddit

Without spoilers I guess... The Princess and the Frog - Raymond going to Evangeline... The Iron Giant - Superman...my Mam took me to see it in the cinema when it came out, I was 5 and cried for the entire rest of the day... Powerpuff Girls - Bunny. Bunny has stayed with me forever and I sometimes replay the ending of her episode to cry.

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ginbandit@reddit

The little ships arriving scene from Dunkirk, I sob like a little boy at that scene. The music, the emotion and the fact that it ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

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IhaveaDoberman@reddit

I mean it sort of happened, certainly not in the manner of the film. Almost all of the small boats had been requisitioned and were piloted by the Royal Navy. The majority of the men they got off the beaches were taken to RN vessels, not back across the channel. And the vast majority of men boarded RN vessels by more conventional means. It's an interesting and very good part of the story, with a great deal of real emotional impact, which would have been no different for the men on the beach seeing them arriving. But the idea, which Dunkirk helps to propogate, that the small boats essentially saved the day, is a hold over of war time propaganda.

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Mid-Pri6170@reddit

i always like the idea of a creepy old man in the 1990s dying and social services find in his shed a load of soldiers from Dunkirk he rescued in his little pleasure craft but basicly kidnapped them and went across the channel, the whole time wearing a little captains hat, silk scarf etc, then up the Thames, up the river lea through several locks and eventually to his house/boat house/shed where he convinced them to keep hiding from the germans... for 50 years

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IhaveaDoberman@reddit

I hope you're not offended by me saying you're quite an odd person. But hey, whatever floats your boat.

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Mid-Pri6170@reddit

its been 2 hours andi got zilcho upvotes. can you believe that? im typing out comment gold here

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ginbandit@reddit

I agree, the majority of small boats were manned by RN crews and used to get guys off the mole and beach to the large vessels but the ability to extract so many guys back to Blighty is crazy.

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SelectNegotiation580@reddit

We went to watch Dunkirk in the cinema as a family whilst my dad was receiving palliative care for aggressive terminal cancer who was a quiet man at the best of times but was even more introspective towards the end of his life. He bawled his eyes out to that scene in the cinema, and the rest of us duly followed, cue a whole row of us crying simultaneously with him ha. It took me 3 years before I could bring myself to watch it again, but it’s a brilliant film, the cinematography is beautiful, and that scene gets me in floods every single time.

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Lishmi@reddit

I remember saying something to my mum about "it actually happened". So it was Atonement, and I was trying to say, I was really sad at the film, not because of the specific story line or characters, but because that did happen to real people (Dunkirk and the blitz).

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TheWyrdSmyth@reddit

I watch Fox and the Hound. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, I will always sob at *that* scene.

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lemonherring@reddit

Haha, I went to see that at the cinema when it came out with a mate. It was his little brother's birthday party and we were much older and sneering about going to see a kid's film...and then...

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WomanUnravelled@reddit

SOBBED at that

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Siriuslymarauding@reddit

I used to leave the room as a child when that bit was coming. It destroyed me everytime. I’m tearing up thinking about it now and I’m almost 40! Now… do I put my children through it?

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TheWyrdSmyth@reddit

Something something teaching emotional resilience something something...

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slinky_sludge@reddit

I haven’t seen it in over 25 years and I still remember the song.

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TheKittenWhisperer@reddit

I had a sobbing breakdown in my bedroom when I was about 7 after reading the children's book of that and I couldn't cope at all when I watched it. I cannot bear how be turns on his beloved childhood friend and it's making me start crying now thinking about it (I am perimenopausal but still...)

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

That's one I've never seen or, at least, never deliberately sat down and watched. I think I know the bit you mean though, funnily enough.

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TheWyrdSmyth@reddit

It's a great movie, definitely worth the watch.

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generic-username9067@reddit

I thought there was something wrong with me when I was 8, and had never cried at a film before. I didn't really even understand why I was upset, but I've never watched it since

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TheWyrdSmyth@reddit

I was about that age too - I'd never cried at a movie before - but the whole set up for that scene is just so well done - I didn't know anyone who *hasn't* cried at it. Also, Mighty Joe Young gets me as well - that's a movie I can't watch again.

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lemonherring@reddit

The Small Miracle (1973) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073721/ Just try and watch without crying at the end.

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itsheadfelloff@reddit

Thai insurance ads

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hutchipoos@reddit

Landslide by Fleetwood Mac.

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burnerman88@reddit

I've seen Rumours of Fleetwood Mac (great tribute band) a few times and twice when they did Songbird I have just sobbed the whole way through the song 😭

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FCSadsquatch@reddit

Shout-out to the movie Jack Frost, landslide and that one song by Lisa Loeb

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Parvanu@reddit

Call the Midwife is usually good for a good cry, sometimes happy tears but often brutally sad

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polynesian_pineapple@reddit

The scene in Dumbo where his mother rocks him through the bars of her prison and sings “Baby Mine”

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SpiderSixer@reddit

Hometree falling in Avatar Every time, without fail, my eyes are streaming and I'm choking up

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yalrightyeh@reddit

Yes! Coco gets me every time! 🥲 Remember me

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Background-Emu-@reddit

Anything by REN

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benyooro@reddit

When Celie and Nettie reunite

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Qyro@reddit

On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter. Just got back from seeing Hamnet, a tearjerker already, but then they whack you with that piece of music at the end and I could barely hold it together.

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CandourDinkumOil@reddit

wtf is this thread? TIL people have “sure-fire” ways of getting themselves to cry and even do it on purpose?

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terahurts@reddit

"Streets of London" by Ralph McTell. That shit fucks me up every time.

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powderedtoastman44@reddit

And then cheer yourself back up with this https://youtu.be/p1YNEtaHbzA?si=8rIvoWeD6c6ObVth

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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

We sang it at school, at 10 years old. No idea why.

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Siriuslymarauding@reddit

Same! I love it x

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terahurts@reddit

We did too! Probably because it was easy for the music teacher to play on an acoustic guitar.

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tinkabellmiggins@reddit

I Love that song ! I learnt to play it on guitar at about 11 cos my dad also loved it ❤️

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terahurts@reddit

I love the song, but it brings me to tears every time I hear it!

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Absolutely beautiful song!

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WonderfulTemporary51@reddit

12 days of Christine ep of Inside No 9

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SmurfBiscuits@reddit

Open my banking app.

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Visible_Pipe4716@reddit

The end of Lone Survivor made me cry for the first time in a long time.

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Morganx27@reddit

The Inside Number 9 episode "Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room". I think it's the best 30 minutes of television there has ever been, and the "Tears of Laughter" song at the end gets me every time. Spoiler for the live show (which you can't see any more, but hey ho) >!They perform that episode more or less in its entirety (with a few changes for the theatre). First time I watched it, I felt short-changed that they didn't do the song, but they closed after the twist at the end of the whole show with a big band rendition of Tears of Laughter. I cried watching it the first time anyway, but then between my first and second time seeing it my grandad died who was a very funny man who loved that sort of comedy, so on the second time I absolutely bawled my eyes out. On the day he died, I put that ep on without thinking because I just wanted to watch something I enjoyed, big mistake.!<

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BrightSignal8032@reddit

The Shawshank Redemption Little Miss Sunshine Harry Potter

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Most-Island-7043@reddit

Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah

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Physical-Peach3123@reddit

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miatheherbi@reddit

tick tick boom & catching fire

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toady89@reddit

Literally just need to think about an uncle who passed and didn't get to go to his daughter's weddings or meet his grand children.

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RianJohnsonIsAFool@reddit

Attenborough is very good at emotional dialogue. I listen to music on YouTube when I'm working and the Blue Planet II score came on a while back. I ended up going to iPlayer to watch the particular sequence about wandering albatrosses and ended up in tears when Attenborough said the following: >But it will also be their last [chick]. Elderly parents never recover from their exertions. They will soon leave this island... never to be seen again.

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Linguistin229@reddit

The Railway Children (Daddy! My daddy!), all of the Sound of Music and It’s a Wonderful Life. George Bailey realising how much better the world is for him in it. Generally films on this theme of good people doing the right thing.

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RianJohnsonIsAFool@reddit

That scene in The Railway Children has always been emotional but the bit that gets me the older I get is Bobbie's last lines: >I think just now we're not wanted there. Not for a few minutes anyway. I think it would best for us to go quickly and quietly. We'll go to the end of the field among the thin gold spikes of grass. We may just take one last look over our shoulders, at the house where neither we nor anyone else is wanted now.

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Standard-Ice-6413@reddit

The Aberfan episode of the Crown, it breaks my heart every time.

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UniqueEnigma121@reddit

My bank balance

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diddlesdiddles@reddit

When I was pregnant I rewatched that scene in rugrats where all the moms are dancing with their kids and Chucky is stood alone on the sidelines just looking so upset. I absolutely sobbed for nearly a week.

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Warriorcatv2@reddit

Depends. One that always gets me usually is a scene from the kids animated show Avatar: The Last Airbender. The episode is titled Tales of Ba Sing Se. Those who have watched the show likely know what part I'm referring to: https://youtu.be/f56Cbjwwv-E?si=LfdukXdJtr2WY4vb I've also found that the game Disco Elysium has quite a few moments that make me tear up or at the very least, deeply contemplative. Specifically the side story of the working class man & women. Some of the dialogue in that is just so real & crushing. Working Class Woman - "Oh," she says again, "But he was just..." She looks at the kitchen table, where two cigarette butts are still in the tray. Empathy - But he was just here. Alive

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WallflowerWhitler@reddit

Appa’s lost days and ‘little soldier boy’ every time. Saw Avatar live in concert last year, so much sobbing in the theatre.

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Blackmore_Vale@reddit

When King Boromir dies in the fellowship of the Ring. Everything about that is shot beautifully. Also I know it’s a game but when Bode murders Master Cordova in Jedi survivor. Everyone else are rebels or soldiers against the empire. Master Cordova was an old man who just wanted to help people. Another Star Wars one the “I can’t swim” scene in Andor

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Grimdotdotdot@reddit

As someone that hadn't read the books before watching LOTR, I assumed Boromir was going to do a heel turn, so I didn't really care when he died ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

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gummibear853@reddit

Either the ending of the film Onward, or the song Daddy’s Gone by Glasvegas. My dad was unaffectionate to me while growing up and abusive to my mum. I haven’t spoken to him in over a decade. In contrast I get on really well with my father in law and have come to realise I wish I had someone like him in my life when I was a kid (in his speech at our wedding he said “I don’t feel like I’m giving away a daughter, I’m gaining another son instead.”) He’s just been diagnosed with cancer and I’m worried about how much longer he’s going to be around.

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WallflowerWhitler@reddit

Onward for me, too. I lost my dad when I was 9, to have just a few moments of when he was well would mean the world. Bawl every single time.

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henryisonfire@reddit

Flowers S01E06

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tyr3lla@reddit

Homeward Bound: when Shadow the old golden retriever is stuck in the muddy pit thing and tells the others to leave him and then at the end when the boy and his family think he didn't make it because he was too old but he did and he comes limping over the hill.

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dwhite21787@reddit

Doctor Who, Vincent, in the museum

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Migeman@reddit

When Rodders finally gets married in OFAH and him and Cassandra have left and it's just Del left and Holding Back the Years is playing. Also when Damien is born and he makes his speech.

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paranoidmessiah@reddit

Tear along the dotted line. Has me crying like a baby.

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Extreme-Kangaroo-842@reddit

Boromir's death.

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Comfortable-Pace3132@reddit

End of Fox and the Hound

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Rams789@reddit

Any video or 999 phone call recording of a kid rescuing a parent. The "mum's asleep on the floor and I can't wake her up" kind. Then the paramedics arrive, mum gets medical treatment, and the kid is presented with some kind of medal on breakfast tele. Gets me every time. Or dogs/cats alerting people to house fires.

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Naaah_youre_alright@reddit

My fallen idol - scrubs episode

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Huge-Promotion-7998@reddit

Gandalf's arrival at Helms Deep hits me very hard everytime, mostly due to everything that has happened before hand. https://youtu.be/Lc9q6nnmrGY?si=3dZQxSRz8XsxejXg

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172116@reddit

The bit that always sends shivers down my spine is theoden's "now for wrath, now for ruin and the red dawn", followed by the shift of the music into the major key as he and the other defenders of helms deep begin their charge

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

I loudly give this same speech as the train doors open on my daily commute. It’s inspirational as hell for me + always gives me space to get out.

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172116@reddit

Oooo, maybe I'll try this next time the doors slide open to a sea of faces IN MY WAY.

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

Peter Jackson was a genius. I’m pretty sure I read somewhere he stipulated the front row of the rohirim riders had to have read all the books to be in the front row of the various charges so they realised how emotional the moments were.

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Intelligent_Put_3606@reddit

Only music does it for me - e.g. America: Horse with No Name

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smutanssmutans@reddit

The Snowman and the Snowdog. Frankly it should be banned.

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

Ohhh I've just commented this 😭 ruins Christmas every single year.

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madformattsmith@reddit

for me it was watching the story line in Waterloo road series 15 where Libby was subjected to coercive control by her so-called "boyfriend". that sent me to tears because it reminded me of a time when I was subject to similar.

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LettusLeafus@reddit

Watching the video of 'Monsters' by James Blunt. Him staring directly into the camera the whole time with tears in his eyes and knowing what was going on with his father at the time.

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Familiar-Respond-113@reddit

Off the top of my head... Films: Notebook Dumbo Lion King Songs: Lianne la Havas - Lost and found Jhene Aiko - New Balance

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Annual-Individual-9@reddit

Watership Down. Awful, I was allowed to watch this at a very young age and not to be dramatic but it scarred me 😥 and I know the song is beautiful but if I hear the opening notes I have to switch off unless I'm somewhere where it's safe to cry for 25 minutes 'There's a fog along the horizon.....a strange glow in the sky...and nobody seems to know where you go...and what does it mean....ohhhh is it a dream?' I cannot even talk about the line before this because it mentions the 'river of death ' and it MAKES ME SO SAD!!! More recently - the Snowman and the Snow Dog. Absolutely ruins my Christmas every single year. Who makes a film where the kids dog dies in the first 2 minutes?!! I've watched this so many times and cannot desensitise myself to it, and no amount of snowball related fun and brand new dogs can make up for the devastation of this beginning.

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No_Battle_6402@reddit

Where Mooncake gets Chookity-popped at the end of Final Space.. 😭

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techbear72@reddit

Watching the video to “Monsters” by James Blunt. Then watching YouTube people reacting to it and crying again and again and again.

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grangefarmishaunted@reddit

Other one is watership down ...

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skyfishrain@reddit

TikTok videos of dogs being rescued from awful situations

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grangefarmishaunted@reddit

Futurama where he leaves his dog outside and doesn't come back out. The dogs waits there patiently for the rest of his life x

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Subject_Eye5177@reddit

Dr Who - Doomsday https://preview.redd.it/lnciy0cfmecg1.jpeg?width=639&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53c53f24c5a4094d18b0b65e858165242c625b05

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Fireynay@reddit

There's an animation by the same guy that made The Snowman called Grandpa. I watched it for the first time at nursery and my mum told me I sobbed when I told her about it then. I've watched it several times over the years and cried every single time at the ending. Haven't been able to watch it for a few years now, I had it on VHS and not been able to find it anywhere else. It's a beautiful animation as well! But also, My Girl, A Little Princess and Bridge to Terabithia are my standard go tos.

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Florence_Nightgerbil@reddit

Lots of things that have already been mentioned like certain scenes from Bluey have had me on occasion bawling. But the one I found the hardest recently was watching the movie Inside Out. I’ve always found a certain scene sad but have managed to watch it with my young son without him noticing that I’m sad. He viewed it without emotion each year then got to 5 years old and when Bing Bong ‘does that thing’ (no spoilers) he told me it made him sad. “Me too bub, me too”. Then a year passed and another rewatch and we get to that scene and he said “why does it hurt? Why is it so sad?” At this point I’m struggling to talk and struggling to explain why Bing Bong’s scene is so sad and hurts. So we just hug and carry on watching the movie. Jesus, just talking about it tears me up 😭Love you Bing Bong!

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Subject_Eye5177@reddit

Armageddon - Harry sacrifices himself

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SWTransGirl@reddit

Boy with the Striped Pyjamas. Pitch Perfect 2 at the ending catches me. Can’t think of anything else right now due to a migraine. But Blue October’s Hate Me, Linkin Park’s Numb Halestorm’s Dear Daughter get me crying too.

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legallybrunette1992@reddit

I cry easily at a lot of things, but every single episode of This is Us (which is also one of my favourite TV shows). Recently cried when they showed the late great Maggie Smith in the latest Downton Abbey film. As a teen, I remember absolutely sobbing at the episode of 8 Simple Rules after John Ritter’s death in real life. I recently rewatched and sobbed again. I also recently rewatched Boy Meets World and sobbed at the last episode of that too. I probably cry at something on TV at least on a weekly basis. I started Ripple on Netflix today and cried at that too.

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brandysnacker@reddit

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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WinoBagLady@reddit

Watership Down

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w1ddersh1ns@reddit

Phoning my Dad. As soon as I hear his voice, it'll all come out. BTW, I'm 47.

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oxfordGuy2026@reddit

If only I could. I lost mine 2 years ago. I sometimes watch old videos to hear him again

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Skruffbagg@reddit

() by Sigur Ros

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

I don’t know if it’s only particularly poignant for gay people, but ever since I was a closeted teenager I’ve been absolutely cut to the soul by the music and video for Viðrar vel til loftárása 🥲 https://youtu.be/akYuy2FMQk4

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Additional-Ask-5512@reddit

Jimmy eat world - hear you me Gets me every time. Can't fail to think of lost loved ones listening to that. I don't know who the song was written about but it strikes deep. https://youtu.be/5KPu7QhYY_0?si=ctj2CgHlCWTOdSKQ "There's no one in town I know You gave us some place to go I never said thank you for that I thought I might get one more chance What would you think of me now? So lucky, so strong, so proud? I never said thank you for that Now I'll never have a chance May angels lead you in Hear you me, my friends On sleepless roads, the sleepless go May angels lead you in So what would you think of me now? So lucky, so strong, so proud I never said thank you for that Now I'll never have a chance May angels lead you in Hear you me, my friends On sleepless roads, the sleepless go May angels lead you in May angels lead you in May angels lead you in May angels lead you in May angels lead you in And if you were with me tonight I'd sing to you just one more time A song for a heart so big God wouldn't let it live..."

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rosesarepeonies@reddit

AI where David gets to spend one more day with his mum.

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ellemeno_@reddit

The lyrics of The Scientist by Coldplay as it really reminds me of when my best friend died. “You don’t know how lovely you are…Nobody said it was easy, It’s such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy, No one ever said it would be this hard. Oh take me back to the start”

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whyfruitflies@reddit

Waterside Down - absolutely guaranteed. The book as well. Brutal. Edward Scissorhands - I watched it over Christmas and it still does make me sob. Bambi, obvs. The Lion King - is took my daughter to see it she was about 5. She got up and moved a few seats away i was sobbing so hard. Weirdly, Let it Go from Frozen makes me cry. No clue why unless it's a form of PTSD from having to watch it soooo many times.

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NoelFromBandOsmosis@reddit

Two scenes, oddly from The Muppet Christmas Carol. When they talk about Tiny Tim's grave overlooking the ducks, and when Scrooge sees his grave. The latter is just such fantastic acting from Michael Caine. What a great film

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Sorryitsvintage@reddit

I never want to see Dancer in the Dark ever again

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waitedforg0d0t@reddit

every space shuttle launched, in order https://youtu.be/II7QBLt36xo I'm not even a big space guy, but I weep every time

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

That's an amazing video - thank you so much for sharing. Notwithstanding the obvious heartbreak of the two disasters, it's such a bittersweet watch. The joyous nostalgia of a wonderful project - exploration and learning for the sake of it - and the sad realisation that we'll probably never see the like of it again.

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prisongovernor@reddit

Ian Wright and Mr Pigden

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Lemonhead_27@reddit

Yep this one for me too. The way Ian's demeanour changes immediately always gets me. And the followup clip where he talks about it in Desert Island Discs and breaks down. [Link for anyone who hasn't seen](https://youtu.be/omPdemwaNzQ?si=FpLJerM5wErl4UII)

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Some of the comments on the YouTube clip are just as bad as the video itself.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

"Hello, Ian. Long time no see!" *Removes hat* "Mister Pigden. You're alive." 😭

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Livingunderthesky@reddit

Atonement

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snaphappylurker@reddit

The scene in the Barbie movie at the end when she’s talking to Mrs Mattel “we mothers stand still so our daughters can see how far they’ve come”. Saw it in the cinema and bawled my eyes out next to two teenagers who laughed at me. One day they’ll understand!

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Creative_Cat7177@reddit

Slipping through my fingers in Mamma Mia. I’ve tried singing that song for years since watching the movie and I just cannot get through it without crying.

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

I don’t even have kids and I find that song devastating!

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Raffioso@reddit

For me its My Love My Life in Mamma Mia 2. My mom was in a psychiatric hospital trying to heal when I watched the movie. Had me bawling in a piblic cinema full of people.

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Englishmuffin1@reddit

I can't listen to "See you again" by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth without getting sad about Paul Walker. It's one of the few celebrity deaths that made me genuinely upset. I was 12 when the first F&F film came out and grew up playing hours of NFS and had a love of cars.

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imalreadycoolest@reddit

If you looked into Paul Walker a bit more, you may not be so upset. Sure, he was a beautiful man. But he was a beautiful man that liked very, very young girls.

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SnooGrapes2914@reddit

Listening to Nessun Dorma, but only if it's being performed by Pavarotti for some reason. One of my dad's favourite songs, even after 10 years, it still gets me

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Tricurio@reddit

A Pavarotti recording of Una Furtiva Lagrima, one particular note makes me crumple like someone wrung out my heart.

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Mid-Pri6170@reddit

edward scissorhands

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notenoughritalin@reddit

2 tracks. 1) (No one knows me) like the piano - Sampha 2) Same Boat - Albin Lee Meldau Sweet jesus its instant for both.

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sumdazes@reddit

Listening to Mazzy Star and Elliot Smith…

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LizardBottom@reddit

The wild robot

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No-Inflation-2418@reddit

Me before you. And it’s just come on Netflix uk this week🥲

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adamsingsthegreys@reddit

Quite niche, but James Graham of The Twilight Sad singing 'Keep Yourself Warm' in Porto. It was a song that he and Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit often sang together on stage, and Scott had recently taken his own life. The pain in his eyes and his voice is so devastating, but you can also see the joy at having known him. [YouTube link](https://youtu.be/Qgm-CcA69aA?si=sspVv5Ii7JjqmThX)

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calum_steiger@reddit

Halloween, a song by Novo Amor. Happened to be playing when I was phoned and told my mum had died.

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Mysterious_Soft7916@reddit

If I was ever inclined to do such a thing, I suppose the go to would be Grave of the Fireflies. Possibly the chimera episode of Full Metal Alchemist too.

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amymeaniemineymo@reddit

I love a good cry and I love Studio Ghibli but I am unable to watch Grave of the Fireflies for a second time. Gut wrenching and beautiful in the most bleak way, I don't think I have ever cried like that, it felt like real grief.

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Mysterious_Soft7916@reddit

There really is something about that film. No one wants to watch it a second time.

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Violent-Moth@reddit

Grave of the Fireflies haunted me

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Mysterious_Soft7916@reddit

It is an incredible film, I have no desire to watch it again though. My wife watched it a while ago, I was in and out so didn't see it all, but what I did see. Definitely hit harder after kids than it did before. And it definitely hit hard before.

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SoggyWotsits@reddit

Black Beauty. It’s just so horribly sad. I remember watching it with a group of friends in the 90s and we all sobbed our hearts out!

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notmenotyoutoo@reddit

The Visitor episode of Deep Space 9. Anyone who’s lost a father will cry like a baby, in a good way.

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WeMoveInTheShadows@reddit

Far Beyond The Stars is another. Also the finale when they're all in Vic's and about to go their separate ways after the war - that usually makes me well up.

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delpigeon@reddit

The track Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. That guitar is so raw.

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urghasif@reddit

Shuggie Bain made my heart hurt

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Reallxmf@reddit

An old film called Random Harvest, seen it a hundred times and never fails. Beautiful film. Pretty sure rights have expired for it now so likely available on YouTube.

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12point75@reddit

I just put This Woman's Work on by Kate Bush.

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PopPoppet@reddit

Film - Castaway - specifically the scene where he and Kelly have to say goodbye to each other in the rain, or Sarah’s Key Music - Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight” (and actually, his music is also used in Sarah’s Key)

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magentas33@reddit

And at the end of Arrival. I blub every time.

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JS-182@reddit

Start isn’t it? I know the film is about time but I’m sure it’s the beginning ! Also I agree. I ugly cry at the start and the end.

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magentas33@reddit

No, the end. The last 15 minutes is a tug on the heartstrings.

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max1boy96@reddit

The Smiths - Asleep

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DogDrools@reddit

The Green Mile. Mr Bojangles at the end.

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MilitantSheep@reddit

I sobbed- loudly- several times in the cinema watching the latest Bridget Jones film. I lost my dad at 25 and it broke me, seeing her poor son having to go through that so young was really upsetting. Every flashback to Mark with the kids set me off, then you find out that her dad has died too, AND THEN Mark's back at the end watching their son singing their song and looking so proud and fuck, I'm crying right now just thinking about it. I've not been able to watch it since.

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jlo1989@reddit

The song Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World. I had it played at my dad's funeral 5 years ago. After about 6 months I never listened to the song in full again because I knew what would happen. My dog was put to sleep recently due to kidney failure. Having inherited the dog from my dad, it feels like the last piece of him gone as well as the pain of losing the most unflinchingly loyal dog I've ever known. So I've been listening to the song again and it's gone exactly the way I thought.

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Psychological_Elk609@reddit

Marley and me gets me every time.

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BrightonBaby@reddit

The green mile

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PuppyGirlRya@reddit

The ending to Star Trek Wrath of Khan... He was the most... human...

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ToxicBloke@reddit

onion every damn time

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Agitated_Camera_6198@reddit

When I remember my cats aren't immortal

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clovengoof@reddit

Thai Life Insurance Adverts. The one with the deaf Dad really turns on the waterworks.

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Constant_Kitchen5957@reddit

Brother bear. Proper ugly cry at that

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ruby-lost@reddit

https://youtu.be/8YMJcIvpUlc?si=kpdM6n6c3Hl6Tb2k This poem, 'if tomorrow starts without me', especially this reading of it by Tom O'Bedlam.

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SciFiEmma@reddit

the montage sequence in "Up." I 100% never cry except for this.

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laputaama83@reddit

The Bye Bye Box episode of Bing Bunny

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Last_Movie8910@reddit

I always cry at the opening sequence of Up. I had infertility and that scene in the drs surgery hits hard.

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Cricklewoodchick81@reddit

Me too 💔 xx

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ChemicalLou@reddit

The Snowman, Muppets Christmas Carol, Bouncer dying in Neighbours, Toy Story 3: The Shoah

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Lishmi@reddit

The snowman I am fine with. The Snow DOG however... Right at the start, when the old dog is helped out of the car 😭

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ChemicalLou@reddit

True, very true. But that’s at the beginning, and at the end, at least the boy has a new dog as a friend. In The Snowman, there’s only grief when The Snowman melts [Grandad dies because let’s face it, it’s prep for when Grandad goes].

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No_Priority_1839@reddit

Mr Hollands opus

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ThoseTwo203@reddit

What Dreams May Come. Robin Williams in a serious role just amazing

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TheTiniestSiren@reddit

Thinking about how I can never recover the magic of Bridge To Terabithia

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Carnationlilyrose@reddit

The closing credit music for Starman.

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Smooth_Leadership895@reddit

Ethel & Ernest or When the Wind Blows.

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AddieBaddie@reddit

The short scene in Moana, where she faces raging charging Te-Fiti and sings the very short song. Makes me emotional for some reason.

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jrtso@reddit

I only have to imagine the score of ET and that’s it. Don’t even need to hear it these days.

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Sapling13@reddit

James Blunt - Monsters 😭

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evergreenera@reddit

My girl. Gets me every single time.

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Kistelek@reddit

Marley and Me. I have a 14yr old Puli called Marley and she's getting old now.

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deliciousanon90@reddit

If I stay absolutely ruins me everytime

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StGuthlac2025@reddit

[I Vow To Thee My Country. Gets me every time ](https://youtu.be/bvouc8Qs_MI?si=vmSfggwoUtHBsqwj)

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Same here. I've no idea why, but somehow Jupiter/Thaxted/IVTTMC has a massive effect on me. Definitely what I'm being brought in to at my funeral.

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StGuthlac2025@reddit

I got a kid that's likes bluey. It's on an amazing episode. Fucking thing brings tears to my eyes every time he puts it on and I don't know why.

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Bad_Combination@reddit

I have to leave the room, it always sets me off. The episode when Chilli’s sister visits is a hard one, too.

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StGuthlac2025@reddit

Mental isn't it for a kids show?

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Lishmi@reddit

Ditto. Super excited - going to see the Planets being performed at the Royal Albert Hall next year. I am bringing tissues for Jupiter

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StGuthlac2025@reddit

Followed by [Jerusalem ](https://youtu.be/iCpzEtlM4ZM?si=6dP_h8Rsc5z5J1A6)

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Mia18AJ@reddit

Yes - had this at my dad’s funeral

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

First hymn at our wedding. Absolute f*cking belter.

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StGuthlac2025@reddit

I like your style

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Jacxy11@reddit

Surprised no one mention Hachi: A dog’s tale! I watched it about 10 times with different people. Bawled every single time. And, the song ‘You’ by A Great Big World

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kse64@reddit

Theme tune from In The Night Garden.

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Mia18AJ@reddit

Oh wow not thought of it for ages! But yes I am with you on this

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slinky_sludge@reddit

Yes!!! Takes me back to a specific time with my daughter that I’d kill to have again.

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DLNN_DanGamer@reddit

The end of the Doctor Who episode "Twice Upon a Time", where 12 says that his life is "a battlefield... and it's empty. Because everyone else has fallen." Capaldi was my favourite doctor and as an incarnation he was dealt a really bad hand in terms of the events that happened, and he was the one who came off lightest in the end. Just gets me everytime, so while I don't get emotional very often, it has to be that line.

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pandamine@reddit

The last two episodes of Lost always does it for me.

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IOnlyUpvoteBadPuns@reddit

Thunderchild from Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds

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BedGirl5444@reddit

Senior dog videos

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HyacinthBouqet@reddit

Lala Land. The scene when she ends up in his jazz bar. I was sobbing my eyes out in the cinema at that

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martyn_with_a_y@reddit

The movie About Time always brings me to tears, no matter what state I'm in in my noggin. Something about the father son bond is just too much

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PedanticRedhead@reddit

I can't watch the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth without welling up and blubbing.

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griffaliff@reddit

Watching One Day or listening to the middle 8 section of Easier to Run by Linkin Park.

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ohnobobbins@reddit

[Watership Down.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down) Specifically the theme song ‘Bright Eyes’. I just have to hear the opening bars and I’m bloody devastated. I just teared up thinking about it. The film had a huge effect on me as a little kid. I think the unfairness, violence and stark loneliness of death was a bit much for a 5 year old, but I guess you’ve got to learn some time.

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Forgetful8nine@reddit

Pretty much any episode of Supervet. I think Noel does fantastic work, but the show leaves me an emotional wreck.

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ruobrah@reddit

Bing Bong. That fucked me up.

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SightlessFive@reddit

The Lion King. As someone who lost their dad when he was young it crushes me, I can’t even hear some of the music as it just rocks me. Kings of the past just starts and I’m done. Still 10/10 film, I did my film dissertation on it.

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One-Alternative5905@reddit

All dogs go to heaven. You can't not cry at it, especially with what happened to the little girl in real life.

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redneon@reddit

Probably the MTV Unplugged version of Alice in Chains - Nutshell (https://youtu.be/9EKi2E9dVY8), given Layne Staley's struggles.

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Tigerbaton@reddit

Dumbo, where the mother gets locked in the cage and rocks dumbo to sleep. Still gets me at nearly fifty!

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kevgrealish@reddit

The JURASSIC BARK episode of FUTURAMA, or the scene in KNIVES OUT when >!Marta thinks she’s mixed up the meds!<. The Ozdust scene in WICKED also broke my heart. 😿😿😿😿

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Huditut@reddit

I've only watched it once, and 20+ years later, still can't bring myself to watch it again. Can't even talk about it.

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Eevee_Addict8@reddit

Luck of the Fryrish always gets to me, right at the end. The last time I cried at a film was a couple of weeks ago. We went to see Jurassic Park with a live orchestra and the "big reveal" moment just really set me off!

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

I'd forgotten all about Jurassic Bark. Thanks. OP's crying now.

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

Jurassic Bark is the only Futurama episode I’ve only watched once 😢

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Neefew@reddit

The Vincent Van Gogh episode of Doctor Who

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poppyedwardsPE@reddit

The grandpa scene in If I Stay, kills me every time

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SkeletorOnLSD@reddit

The Green Mile. "I'm tired boss" works every damn time.

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Glass_Narwhal25@reddit

The end of the Bluey episode ‘Rug Island’ where Chilli asks Bandit what the kids gave him and he says “everything”. Makes me and my husband sob every damn time. Welling up now in fact!

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tinkabellmiggins@reddit

Just need to reread 'Goodnight Mr Tom'. Gets me every time !!

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Lishmi@reddit

I think that may have been the first book that ever made me cry. Wait, no- actually that award would have to go to "the Butterfly Lion"

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joe3453@reddit

I cried almost start to finish watched Philomena Judi Dench’s portrayal of old, hidden pain is absolutely excellent, and the almost casual nature of the horror displayed really got me.

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Lishmi@reddit

I used to watch Forrest Gump for a good cry. However, I refuse to re-watch "the Snowman and the Snow dog". The first scene with that little old dog being helped out of the car... I was gone. I'm sure it had a happy ending but I cried the whole time.

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Houdini-3000@reddit

The end of GATTACA.

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Ok_Bumblebee_2196@reddit

The film adaptation of Atonement and the revelation that >!Cecilia and Robbie died without ever seeing each other again!<. The Elegy for Dunkirk scene also makes me cry.

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Lishmi@reddit

My mum was asking why I was getting upset watching that film (apparently she has no heart). My response was "it's not about the characters, it's the fact that those things did happen to real people." That's what got me about that film. It showed some horrific things from a personal perspective and how so much of it was just luck if you made it or not.

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AdviceHuge8114@reddit

Armageddon

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brokenfatcat@reddit

Boy in the striped pyjamas Marley and me Schindlers list But for music? Anything from citizen soldier

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No-Daikon3645@reddit

The beginning of UP

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WomanUnravelled@reddit

The film Beethoven (yep the dog one) for some reason. The (almost) end scene of Moana when she’s singing the song to the mountain goddess. When they hold up Simba as a baby and all the animals bow in the Lion King. Dumbos mum’s swinging him in her trunk. Basically Disney WRECKS me.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Honourable mention for the Sherlock Holmes sketch from 'That Mitchell and Webb Look'. Absolutely crushingly perfect.

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Lishmi@reddit

Oh good God. I just looked that one up on YouTube. (Presumably the one of them as older gentlemen).

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

"I know, John. I do know." 😭

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1nkSprite@reddit

I'd forgotten about that sketch, but your comment made me seek it out again. 'I know, John. I do know.' Ooft.

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KingKhram@reddit

I don't have any

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Melbatoastt77@reddit

Boromir.....they took the little ones🥺💀

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GroobShloob@reddit

To build a home by the cinematic orchestra

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bigberry@reddit

have you seen the Video for it ? the songs already a tear jerker by itself but the videos so sad and has 2 great actors :(

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mindset2020dnb@reddit

My sisters keeper, partner fell asleep I was in tears on the sofa! Bloody got to me

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magentas33@reddit

The scene in Toy Story 3 when Andy takes the toys to their new home, and they all get played with one final time. It’s all they ever wanted.

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whiskydelta85@reddit

When things get a bit heavy I listen to ‘Stand up and fight’ by Turisas, I usually do it when I know no one will bother me! ‘You bow to no one’ at the end of Return of the King. The ending of Tae Guk Gi.

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ValenciaHadley@reddit

Deliver us from the Prince of Eygpt and Coco do it for me.

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k_bee@reddit

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ValenciaHadley@reddit

The beginning of Hunchback of Notre Dame makes me weepy too.

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Lishmi@reddit

The music in that film is so underrated

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ValenciaHadley@reddit

I love the music, in that film.

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Nervous-Bid6277@reddit

The reprisal at the end of the movie is just * chefs kiss **

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SnowflakeBaube22@reddit

The ending of Titanic. Or just the soundtrack to Titanic really.

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

For me it’s the scene with the old couple hugging in bed with the water rushing in just beneath the mattress 😢

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Euphoric-Piglet-8140@reddit

I watched The Last Samurai last night, and was ugly crying sooooooo much. I am affected by emotive music, and damn that music hits you right in the feels.

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

A… perfect… blossom… 🌸

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magentas33@reddit

I cry throughout. The cherry blossom scene, and the final battle especially.

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marmighty@reddit

It's A Sin. The series, not the song. Absolutely ruins me every time.

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emmakescoffee@reddit

The kids book ‘Paper Dolls’ by Julia Donaldson. The dolls singing ‘we’re not gone oh no no no, we’re holding hands and we won’t let go’ makes me well up when I try and read it to my kids!

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rybnickifull@reddit

"Goodbye Mog". Fuckin floods of tears before I even open the thing.

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dobbynobson@reddit

Steel Magnolias. A cheesy, corny film but jam packed with amazing one-liners and brilliant comic performances, as well as a tragic plot. And Dolly Parton. Gets me every time.

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itsnotmyreddit@reddit

Came here to say this. Sally Field after the funeral when she says she was there when this beautiful creature entered this world and there when she left it is heartbreaking. Such a good performance.

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sweetlambly@reddit

Someone You Loved, by Lewis Capaldi. Chuck the video in and I'll be a withered husk in minutes.

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JaBe68@reddit

Stan by Eminem

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AirconGuyUK@reddit

Dear Zachary. It's a documentary. Watch it without googling what its about or anything about the case and I guarantee you will cry bit time.

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medic1971@reddit

Every time I listen to "Hi Ren' by Ren I am guaranteed to be in tears by the end.

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JaBe68@reddit

And Violet

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wherethedragonsleeps@reddit

Absolute masterpiece!

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IrascibleOnion@reddit

Rose and the Tenth Doctor goodbye on the beach

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notebookcollector28@reddit

Marley & me, just thinking about it makes me well up. I recently saw ‘I Swear’, my eyes leaked in a few middle scenes and I was totally gone at the end. As for songs, Stand By Me - Ben E King as it was one of my grans favourites. Snuff by Slipknot makes me cry every time too.

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MisterIndecisive@reddit

A good wank

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JaBe68@reddit

Artax!!!

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Active-Strawberry-37@reddit

The Nearer My God to Thee scene in Titantic when they show the Strauses in bed as the water rushes into their cabin.

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damned-n-doomed@reddit

For me it’s when you see a family being split up to get on the lifeboats, and the dad is reassuring his children, telling them not to worry because there’s another boat for the daddies.

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Lishmi@reddit

I have just been watching the new documentary on iPlayer about the Titanic. It is infuriating to hear that so many seats could have been given to those men - loads of the first life belts were lowered half full because the officer took "women and children" literally, and therefore would rather the seats went empty than put the husbands in them.

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Siriuslymarauding@reddit

It was always the old man and woman in bed for me.

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Lishmi@reddit

There's an interesting documentary about the Titanic on iPlayer at the moment. They voice up real stories from survivors, and piece together what happened. It's quite horrific, but very interesting and worth a watch.

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downintheupsidedown@reddit

Most of Fleabag, and the Good Place scene with Chidi and Eleanor where he makes his decision about moving on 😭

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Lishmi@reddit

Oh man I forgot about the good place. I started re watching it through a while ago. You're both making me want to finish it again (because it's great) but also I don't want to watch the end again 😭

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downintheupsidedown@reddit

One of my favourite ever series, but my god the heartbreak is unreal

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atomic_mermaid@reddit

I've literally copied Chidi's quotes from the last 2 episodes into my notes because they're so beautiful. " I think that's what the Good Place really is. It's... It's not even a place, really, it's just having enough time with the people you love." "Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave. And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be."

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downintheupsidedown@reddit

Not the wave💔 beautiful and heartbreaking

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insertitherenow@reddit

Tom Waits Take it with me.

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Educational-Yard-181@reddit

PS. I Love You

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PiliPala17@reddit

White Wine in the Sun by Tim Minchin; Lullabye, Tomorrow is Today, and So It Goes by Billy Joel; Underneath The Stars by Kate Rusby; The entire musical Come From Away; The last 2 episodes of Derry Girls; and videos of people reuniting with their families (Dublin Airport’s socials for the whole of December!)

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oktimeforplanz@reddit

About Time. >!When he goes to visit his dad for the last time and his dad realises this is it.!<

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LARRYVOND13@reddit

Weird one, the film "heartbreak ridge" with Clint Eastwood. Last film I watched with my grandad, he loved that film.

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Competitive-Fact-820@reddit

Pixar always get me. When Buzz realises he is a toy and can't fly - yup, sneaky tear or two. In Up it is when Kevin gets his leg injured - waterworks. Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper gets me if I think about the words. A really beautiful Viennese Waltz will choke me up.

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theotherquantumjim@reddit

Inside Out is the one that gets me. All the stuff about the importance of sadness and the poignancy of her losing her imaginary friend forever…

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Kamoebas@reddit

Dumbo being rocked by his mum through the bars of her cage.

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having_an_accident@reddit

That story about the man who took his old arthritic dog into the lake every evening so it could sleep

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

If dogs get you, definitely don't look up Ruswarp...

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Vamperstein-Bex@reddit

The film My Girl

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bouncing_pirhana@reddit

I sobbed at this in the cinema. That whole ‘where are his glasses’ scene was devastating!

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ChelseaGem@reddit

Yes, especially when her dad has to tell her her friend has died. 😭

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Kamoebas@reddit

Dumbo being rocked by his mum through the bars of her cage.

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bsensikimori@reddit

Nine inch Nails "Something I can never have" and "Hurt" songs Instant tears

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LengthinessAgitated9@reddit

Fickle flame - John Grant

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Shalashaska23@reddit

The end of Planes, Trains and Automobiles......

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qweezweez@reddit

Long Lost Families

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Kaurblimey@reddit

Friends season finale (I’m a basic bitch)

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Jonut1990@reddit

House, when Amber says to Wilson "I'm tired". Just sob every time.

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Lishmi@reddit

For a moment I thought this post was written by my partner. Sleepy time is his favourite, however, Coco is banned from our house now. After the first (and only) time we watched it together in an extremely dusty living room.....

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LengthinessAgitated9@reddit

Fireworks - Embrace

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spicyzsurviving@reddit

The ending of the snowman.

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Ill-Situation73@reddit

Goodnight Mr Tom, gets me everytime especially when he's cradling his baby sister. Brown eyed girl by Van Morrison as my mum used to sing it to me growing up, she passed away when I was a teenager over 20yrs ago and I can still hear her singing it to me when I hear the song.

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smushs88@reddit

“Please don't put me in the dark, don't make me go into the dark, I's afraid of the dark.” 😭 The Green Mile

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Nervous-Bid6277@reddit

Moulin Rouge - something about Ewan McGregor sobbing just cuts right through me.

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heidivodka@reddit

I have a few. Original Dumbo when he goes to him mum locked up and she’s rocking him with her trunk. Cocoon when rose dies and he takes her to the pods to see if they can revive her. Batteries not included when the robots need fixing. When Spock dies trying to save the enterprise and he tells Kirk I will always be your friend. Grave of the fireflies

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beppebz@reddit

The Judith Kerr children’s book Goodbye Mog - can’t read it to my children. Even typing it was dodgy The end scene of the 1994 film of Black Beauty, when he is old and thinks back to being with his friends Ginger & Merrylegs & it cuts to the three horses galloping around. The piece of music from the film Champions, which they use for the Grand National parade.

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Bashmore83@reddit

Endgame once Tony dies. I’ve watched it multiple times and blub every time. And it’s only become worse since having a kid

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Far-Hospital-9961@reddit

Marley & Me. It’s Marley & Me.

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chroniccomplexcase@reddit

The deaths of people like George, Lexi and McDreamy (mainly feeling bad for Mer) in Greys Anatomy. Watching or thinking about watching Marley and Me (and probably about 100 more anima death films) and watching the weekly video from the channel “the dogs have been good again this week”. Thinking about close family members who have died. I cry so easily I’m crying writing this thinking of the above things. I played a main character in a show at school who cried a few times in the show and I was congratulated on how easily and convincingly i cried and it was the easiest acting I’d ever done but wow my eyes hurt!

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Nice-Goose-7599@reddit

The last 20 minutes of Arrival, always gets me feeling the water welling at the corners.

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michaelscottdundmiff@reddit

Is he smart or? Gets me everytime

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Moomoocaboob@reddit

A reading of a poem written by Jimmy Stewart about his dog named Blue. (Not Bluey related)! [it’s a hard but compelling watch](https://youtu.be/mwGnCIdHQH0?si=4b4tAgjcsGn5Q5wH)

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applecrumble89@reddit

Interstellar, 23 years scene, everytime

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vertigo90@reddit

The episode "The Visitor" from Star Trek Deep Space 9

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MooMoo2319@reddit

Certain music always gets me going. King of Pride Rock by Hans Zimmer (The Lion King) never fails to make me cry. That swell at the end just tips me over...

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The_V8_Road_Warrior@reddit

The song The Time Has Come from the Pokemon episode Pikachu's Goodbye. Has made me cry right from the first time I saw it as a boy.

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englishteapot@reddit

The scene in titanic where the old couple just hold each other in bed and accept their fate, it’s literally a few seconds and gets me going every time

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IhaveaDoberman@reddit

I very rarely have the need, fortunately. But I don't think anyone who has seen it needs, me to elaborate more than Futurama.

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IhaveaDoberman@reddit

I very rarely have the need, fortunately. But I don't think anyone who has seen it needs, me to elaborate more than Futurama.

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manic_panda@reddit

Something about edge of seventeen really gets me crying. Hardest ive cried is reading the book thief and flowers for algernon. Encanto gets me too.

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larrydavid1987@reddit

If I stay(2014). Made me ugly cry on a red eye from Boston to London. It’s my go to tearjerker. Makes me sob even more now I have kids.

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The-Sassy-Pickle@reddit

When Somebody Loved Me from one of the Toy Story movies. It was what I played at my mum's funeral - it beautifully sums up how I lost her because of dementia. An Affair to Remember - when Cary Grant goes to Deborah Kerr's apartment and realises what happened to her.

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TangerineOnly8209@reddit

This is us. Every single episode makes me cry.

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whatsthehzkenny@reddit

Timex from The Fly 2

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Sustain_the_higher@reddit

The Destruction of Hometree :(

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ssjwoott@reddit

There’s only one film that makes me cry and it gets me every single time. Jerry Maguire when he points at Jerry at the end of

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snapper1971@reddit

I haven't been able to cry since I lost my daughter in 2002.

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InternationalRich150@reddit

The Emma Thompson scene where she cries in the bedroom. Her pain was so so evident and then having to smile and act normal, well ive been there. The end of the Green mile. It breaks me. Well most of the book breaks me. As well as the film. Tom Hanks played that beautifully. And its so sad. I forget the Giant guys name but he also did a massive justice. Some episodes of supernatural (tv show). I sobbed at the last episode. And i cant watch it again. Its a violent,brutal show but there's some touching moments of humanity that catch at me and I just cry. Music, fix you by Coldplay. My brother was carried into his funeral to that. Id hope its because it was his favourite song(ex sister in law organised his funeral) and not because his adult life was hard with mental health issues. Lights will guide you home breaks me. Amazing Grace, any version. Grans funeral. Crazy by patsy cline. My dad's favourite and my favourite memory of him,also played at his funeral.

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pikantnasuka@reddit

Not sure this fits too well with the theme of the other responses you're getting, but [this article by John Niven](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/18/a-brother-in-trouble) from the Guardian in 2013 about the loss of his brother to suicide I have never managed to read without crying. Not once.

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CalmdownpleaseII@reddit

That was a beautiful, thoughtful and heart wrenching thing to read. Thank you for sharing it.

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172116@reddit

Christ, that's beautiful and heartbreaking. Not sure I should expect anything less of Niven, of course, who I think might actually be one of the greatest writers of the 21st century. Thanks son much for sharing that. This quote really got me: >Actually better to say [suicide] is a nuclear bomb – for it entrains a chain reaction with an incredibly powerful half-life. A chain reaction of questions that go on forever I lost someone to suicide nearly 20 years ago now, when I was a teenager, and her death still haunts me.

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Silver_Recording_280@reddit

Thank you for posting that. Just read it. Beautiful and absolutely heart breaking.

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dunneetiger@reddit

A movie with Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman called Lion. I just can go through the first half the movie without waterfalls

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AverageMug@reddit

The final scenes of Interstellar when Coop sees murph

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Adanar01@reddit

I listen to Roy Harpers when an old cricketer leaves the crease. It was played at my grandads funeral. I wasn't able to see him before he died because I had my 2nd year uni exams and I thought he would be ok until I was done and I would see him then. I got a phone call from my dad maybe an hour before one of my exams. I didn't do very well unsurprisingly.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Amazing track. Discovered it for the first time the day Shane Warne died.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

One I forgot... 'Heroes' by Bowie being played over certain endings. 'Ashes to Ashes' was always one (well, most of that final episode, tbh), as well as (slightly more obscure) the end of 'Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo'. Now I can add Stranger Things to that list.

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Educational_Bowl_447@reddit

The incinerator scene on Toy Story 3. I tend to ignore the fact that there was a Toy Story 4.

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notyourcupofteamate@reddit

Armageddon 😹

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hnveale@reddit

Armageddon

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SimonTS@reddit

Watership Down. I watched it as a kid in the early 80s, and can still remember the feelings it gave me as a youngster.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Just hearing Bright Eyes is enough for me!

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Low-Tangerine4492@reddit

Mummers Dance by Loreena McKennitt or pretty much anything by Enya but especially Carribbean Blue 😭

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Frosty_Leg4438@reddit

I love that tune too. Have you discovered David Arkenstone yet? A similar vibe.

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Low-Tangerine4492@reddit

No, but I will check it out 😉

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SharklessFinn@reddit

I either listen to Eternity by Alex Warren, Call Your Mom by Noah Kahan, or think about that one scene from The Neverending Story where Artax drowns in the Swamp of Sadness. Instant tears for all 3.

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jiggler69@reddit

Clone Wars. Commander Thorn's last stand against the Separatists

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Lush_Fusion@reddit

Beaches 😢

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MissKatbow@reddit

Depends what kind of cry I want. If I want to feel devastated then If Anything Happens I Love You. If I want a real sob but happy ending it's Coco. If I want some happy tears then Baby Race (Bluey).

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em_press@reddit

The last verse of Puff the Magic Dragon.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Yes. Absolutely this. We popped on Junior Choice on Radio 2, driving over to my dad's on Christmas Day, and PtMD is an annual ritual on there. It came on just after we'd left the cemetery, having visited my grandparents. I had to pull over.

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tinkabellmiggins@reddit

My dad got me a puff the magic dragon teddy when I was about 3, it was a Woolworths window display and was bigger than me ! Its stuffed with straw and I still have him ! ❤️

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PeroniNinja84@reddit

“September 21, 1945…That was the night I died”😢

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BromleyReject@reddit

The first 25 minutes of Up. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. That was brutal

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

Picked up the most recent book on a whim, whilst I was queuing at Waterstones a few months back. Instantly regretted it.

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Crochet-panther@reddit

Marley and Me is a go to, also the end scene of Eight Below where they go back for the dogs.

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

I refuse to watch that film, and A Dog's Purpose, for (in the context of this thread) obvious reasons.

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lokiandminniesmum@reddit

Marley and Me, and A Dog's Purpose are both guaranteed to set me off

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EscapeTheSecondAttac@reddit

Marley and me sets me off every time

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Stewstar73cyclism@reddit

If you fancy sad then joyful then Fainloeg by The Gloaming if you fancy the other way around the ending of the The Elephant Man

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Silver-Doughnut-9217@reddit

I could have done more-schindlers list

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mmdanmm@reddit

The part where Marley is put down in Marley and Me. When he says he was the best dog... I tear up like a little girl and that was the first time my wife saw me like that.

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Strong_Roll5639@reddit

After life

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NJellybean@reddit

There is no way I could watch “Stepmom” now since losing my Mam to cancer. The way Susan Sarandon processes it in the movie. I used to cry for hours as a teenager, when hearing Ain’t No Mountain I’d just cry. I used to watch and look at the daughter who I was of a similar age to at the times and think, “I hope this won’t to me in real life one day” well it didn’t happen exactly that way and grateful to have been 30 when not a child- but yes, the Mum’s disease progression and her pain and her staunch way of handling it…that happened. For tears see also: - Beast becoming the Prince in “Beauty and the Beast” - I was crushed to see the Beast die. - The opera scene in “Philadelphia” - “Marley and Me”

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Gob1inDaddy@reddit

I have a playlist of songs that make me cry lmao

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MelodicAd2213@reddit

Good to have when you just need to let it all go.

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spacetimebear@reddit

I look at my electric bill.

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Oldfart_karateka@reddit

Hilda in Corrie when she gets home from the hospital with Stan's effects, opens his glasses case...

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MelodicAd2213@reddit

So sad 😢

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Vanblue1@reddit

The last song at Steve Irwin’s funeral. Song is called True blue. Very poignant.

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Pedantichrist@reddit

This is really weird, but I cannot watch Cool Runnings without crying. It makes my children laugh, but when the crowd pats and they appear carrying the sled . . . I am genuinely welling up, just typing it.

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burgermachine74@reddit

I listen to Inbetweener, it's honestly just a sweet story describing a perfectly average relationship. I'm already crying just typing this..

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codeduck@reddit

Big Fish, Coco or the last couple of minutes of Shawshank Redemption

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Hotbitch2019@reddit

500 days of summer reality vs expectations scene Or the final of Gavin & Stacey xD

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OrdinaryQuestions@reddit

Pictures of my cat He died in November

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Miss_Type@reddit

I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Stamagar@reddit

White Wine in the Sun, the song by Tim Minchin. As someone who has moved across a continent and lives far away from their parents... :')

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medphysfem@reddit

The scene from the Lion King after the stampede when Simba goes to find his dad dead. Even just the music is enough to make me cry. Benedictus from The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins is one of the most spine tingling and sad pieces of music. [https://youtu.be/eGbHnJCDMyE?si=k7E1AaoeTncxaFyJ] The end of Blackadder Goes Forth. Films about dementia (eg. Elizabeth is Missing, Still Alice) having watched grandparents lost to this - and thus knowing it may be in my parents and my own future too.

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SnooPeppers7701@reddit

I'm terrible, anything remotely sad sets me off. I absolutely hate it

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ashensfan123@reddit

I cried watching Shawshank Redemption recently so definitely that to get the tears flowing.

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ForwardImagination71@reddit

I cried when I saw this story on 24 Hours In A&E and it's got me again when I watched it just now. https://youtu.be/OsgpIdNfizU?si=iix2PqAvnBD922Ds

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No_Bit7786@reddit

Counterparts - "Whispers of Your Death"

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Stewstar73cyclism@reddit

Wow my first Bluey

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Silent_Yesterday_671@reddit

Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun (and no not talkin' about any revised football chant version). Used to bawl as a child when this came on the radio.

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depressedblondeguy@reddit

A few months a go i would have said a couple of episodes of Scrubs. Now, I'll put forward Superman and Lois after the final season was put on Amazon. I can't remember the last time I cried so hard at the end of a show or film

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atomic_mermaid@reddit

The one with Brendan Fraser 😢. "Where do you think we are?"

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silverunicorn121@reddit

Marley and me

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signalstonoise88@reddit

Listening to the songs “Nothing But Heart” by Low, or “Cygnus” by Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas.

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AlternativeAd1984@reddit

The Royle Family episode where Nana dies. Or Titanic, specifically when “Nearer my God to Thee” is played.

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jooniejoon3@reddit

For my south Asians, Khabe Khushe Khabe Gham!!

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SofeeLo@reddit

I watched Me before you once and I sobbed so hard I could never bring myself to watch it again

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Sternschnuppepuppe@reddit

Dancer in the dark

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Violent-Moth@reddit

Queer Eye makes me sob every single time

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AndromedaFire@reddit

Pikachu trying to shock ash back to life and crying in the arena in the first Pokemon movie mewtwo strikes back

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Icy_Example_5536@reddit

Philomena gets me every damn time.

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BeanOnAJourney@reddit

Mufasa dying in The Lion King, and it's even worse now because that was the first video I ever got, a birthday present from my dad who is now no longer here. It just makes me think of all the little things he did for me throughout my life that I probably didn't fully appreciate at the time and now he's gone forever. Instant crying. Happy Feet because it was my dear late Nan's favourite film. "Wait" by M83 because, well, it just catches me somehow, Albatross by Fleetwood Mac because it was Nan's favourite song and we played it at the end of her funeral, and Chopin's Raindrop Prelude because it was dad's favourite piece of classical music and I can remember being upstairs in my room and hearing him listening to it downstairs, sometimes over and over again. I pretended to hate it but secretly loved it.

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ScottishIcequeen@reddit

Soldiers coming home and surprising their kids at school. Gets me every time!

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slinky_sludge@reddit

I even cried at the ones where they meet their dogs again.

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Cyanopicacooki@reddit

The last verse of ["Incidents in the life of my Uncle Arly"](https://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/pw/arly.html) by Edward Lear. Folk mostly think of Edward Lear as gentle nonsense, but his work is lyrical and deeply emotional. If you really want to leak gently, look [at this](https://interestingliterature.com/2016/03/the-children-of-the-owl-and-the-pussy-cat/).

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MrCowabs@reddit

The “Duet” episode of The Flash

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Easterncrane@reddit

Most of the film ‘About Time’, but specifically the night before his second child is born when he has to come to terms with seeing his dad for the last last and final time and never being able to travel back beyond that moment without changing his future.

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PalmerRabbit78@reddit

Castaway always gets me going

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you_wanker@reddit

Arrival, and Interstellar. Both hit me a lot harder since becoming a Dad.

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LostGeordieGirl@reddit

The film Beaches

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eat-real-chips@reddit

Also, fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe 😭

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secret_ninja2@reddit

Watching Marley and me, or Haitchi Both films about pets and how loyal they are. Haitchi in particular makes me get weepy

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greenglossygalaxy@reddit

PS. I love you just gets me every time. It’s not the type of movie I usually watch either!?

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tinkabellmiggins@reddit

Oh gosh ive not seen the film but the book made me cry buckets !

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greenglossygalaxy@reddit

Oh no, don’t say that. Now I’ve got read the book and it will be non-stop 😭😭😭

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ForwardImagination71@reddit

The film Love Story.

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slinky_sludge@reddit

That is a great Bluey episode, my daughter was hooked! The Green Mile, Interstellar or Act of Valor. I refuse to watch Marley and Me again.

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lavender_cookie_@reddit

Listen to sol seppy, enter one 😭

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discofudge@reddit

The song Beggar by Richard Dawson. I weep.

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wherethedragonsleeps@reddit

Graveyard of the Fireflies. Will guarantee tears, but honestly it's so sad I could only watch it once.

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REidson89@reddit

I've managed it twice,bbut that is it now forever, never again.

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ek8400@reddit

[So Big / So Small](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9vD2JBq0ns8&list=RD9vD2JBq0ns8&start_radio=1) from Dear Evan Hansen

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DogtasticLife@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/ol16gc5omdcg1.jpeg?width=2816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=010d9b0433fed0426f916327084c7df0a1ec8c28 Just have to think about the rainbow bridge

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BARRETT1079@reddit

Paddington 2. It’s the ending every time

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filbert94@reddit

It's when he realises what day it is. You know but you still say "don't you fucking dare"

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Turbulent_Tea_1943@reddit (OP)

I bawled through most of 'Christopher Robin' when I saw it at the cinema. No idea why - probably a decent sign that some therapy would help! 🤣

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Buffetwarrenn@reddit

Turner & Hooch with Tom hanks The bit where Hooch protects turner at the end from a bullet That film ends me Also Marley & Me Wrecks me completely Cant watch it

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HotMuffin12@reddit

Give me a gin and tonic and I’m gone, or put Marley and me. The latter is faster acting

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DopamineTrain@reddit

I drank alone for the first time a couple of weeks ago (or more the whole family went to bed after a drink and I was left to my own devices for a couple of hours). BOY was that a bad idea. Everything started pouring out. Shit from years ago that I thought I had pretty much fully dealt with. Recent stuff that normally just makes me a little upset, not full on water works! So yeah, lesson learned. No being left alone after having a drink.

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HotMuffin12@reddit

I totally get you amigo!! But treat crying like going for a poo; better out than in!! It probably did you the world of good by letting it all out. How did you feel the next day? (Hopefully no hangover)

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atomic_mermaid@reddit

The end of the episode 'Hero' of Angel. Literally the last 2 minutes. "Is that it? Am I done?"

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Afraid-Priority-9700@reddit

He Lives in You from The Lion King. My dad died when I was 2, and whenever I feel like I need something to relate to about it, and have a good cry, I put that on. Also, the song Mercy, by Chris Renzema. It's based on the Bible verse Lamentations 3:22-23 "the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies are new every morning." The song goes: "For His mercy's new in the morning, Even when you can't sleep at night." As an anxious person who's spent too many nights awake and worrying, I find it very moving.

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Sophyska@reddit

The movie United 93, absolutely bawl uncontrollably watching that every time. Tearing up just thinking about it

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Silent___CrayonZ@reddit

The video for Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt, if I need to let it out, I’ll put that on.

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rmeechan@reddit

Mace

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MarilynManson2003@reddit

**Films** - Aftersun - All of Us Strangers - Close (2022) - My Life As a Courgette - The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Amy (2015) **Songs** - NIИ - *Leaving Hope* - Mogwai - *Ghost Nets* - NIИ - *Your Touch* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *Procedural* - Ditch - *One Way Trip to the Sun - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *8 Billion* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *Torn Polaroid* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *Solitary People* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *Vaster Than Empires* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *Clouds Appear* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *And When the Sky Was Opened* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *Complication with Optimistic Outcome* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *To Be Able to Fly* - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - *Pure Love* - Frankie Goes to Hollywood - *The Power of Love* - Sophie Hunger - *Le vent nous portera* - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - *End Credits (from the Netflix Series “DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)* - Alice Cooper - *Pass the Gun Around* - Avenged Sevenfold - *Victim* - Avenged Sevenfold - *Higher* - Avenged Sevenfold *So Far Away* - Billie Eilish - *What Was I Made For?* - Chaos Chaos - *Do You Feel It?* - David Bowie - *Subterraneans* - Fleetwood Mac - *Landslide* - HEALTH, NIИ - *ISN’T EVERYONE* - James Horner - *Remembrance, Remembrance* - Kanye West - *Hold My Liquor* - Marilyn Manson - *Minute of Decay* - Marilyn Manson - *Disassociative* - Marilyn Manson - *EAT ME, DRINK ME* - Marilyn Manson - *Devour* - Marilyn Manson - *Running to the Edge of the World* - Marilyn Manson - *Into the Fire* - Moby - *When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die* - NIИ - *The Lovers* - NIИ - *And All That Could Have Been* - NIИ, Judeline - *Who Wants to Live Forever?* - NIИ - *Every Day Is Exactly the Same* - A Perfect Circle - *When the Levee Breaks* - A Perfect Circle - *Gravity* - Puscifer - *Bread and Circus* - Rammstein - *Nebel* - Steve Jablonsky - *Ender’s War* - Twenty One Pilots - *Twenty One Pilots* - Twenty One Pilots - *Car Radio* - Twenty One Pilots - *Kitchen Sink* - Twenty One Pilots - *Fairly Local* - Twenty One Pilots - *Backslide* - Twenty One Pilots - *City Walls* - Twenty One Pilots - *Centre Mass* - Twenty One Pilots - *Tally* - Twenty One Pilots - *I Need Something to Kill Me*

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lottierosecreations@reddit

Grave of the Fireflies, Studio Ghibli

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BuggerFace@reddit

Listening to "Take It To The Limit" by The Eagles. Played at my Dad's funeral. Was the dance me and my Mum did at my wedding. Never. Ever. Fails.

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Natski212@reddit

Seven pounds, ruined a whole week for me. Also benidorm with Donalds funeral/memorial 😭

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BeeAnalyst@reddit

Without a doubt Monsters by James Blunt. Can't even think about that song without getting emotional.

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SnooLobsters8265@reddit

The cricket Bluey episode. I don’t even like cricket. Why is Rusty’s dad at war? What geopolitical tensions are simmering in the dog world?

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4materasu92@reddit

Hurt by Johnny Cash Water Under Bridges by Gregory Porter (don't know if this song is supposed to be sad, but it gets the tears going). One More Light by Linkin Park. The Up movie, where the couple grow old together and the wife dies.

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tinkabellmiggins@reddit

Goodness I forgot about one more light ! It was the last album chester released and you can hear his pain in the lyrics 💔

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Puzzleheaded_Turn887@reddit

Wow all of these suggestions are exactly mine. I blart at all of these!! Did you ever see the concert where LP performed that song as a tribute to Chris Cornell? If you haven’t, it’s a must.

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BromleyReject@reddit

That bit of Up was brutal.

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Jimmy_Pigg@reddit

Radar announcing Henry's death in Mash.

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Yorkshire_Roast@reddit

Looking at the deductions column on my payslip and thinking about all the ways the English government are squandering my tax money on stupid shit.

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Rhyskrispies@reddit

Either the dog episode or the clover episode of futurama get me every single time.

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destria@reddit

Grave of the Fireflies. But I save that for full on cathartic sobbing.

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JemimaHippo@reddit

Watch "Beaches" with Bette Midler - sobsssss

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totalAnarki@reddit

Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick Just thinking about Goose 😭

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katemp1990@reddit

This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush, just hits me where it hurts, I guess !

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walkthelands@reddit

Graveyard of the fireflies would do it for me. I've only watched it once... But i know it'd get to me

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PeteSampras12345@reddit

Plucking my nostril hairs

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ben_jamin_h@reddit

The song 'Elegy' by Leif Vollebekk Guaranteed weeper. Beautiful

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mrs_peep@reddit

As a parent, the Bluey episode "Baby race".

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Connect-Bug9988@reddit

The song Beauty In Tragedy by August Burns Red, I played it over and over when my mum died, the closing verse perfectly described her spirit, and it brings me to tears every time without fail, and I have both a happiness and regret that I was by her side when she passed, firstly that I gave her the goodbye she deserved and needed, and secondly, I wish I hadn't been there as it haunts me, drove me to addiction and self-destruction and it should have never happened in the first place.

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LadyMirkwood@reddit

Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead. I've ugly cried to it many times over the years

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ScottishIcequeen@reddit

Also, the last scene in the last episode of Still Game - “They’ll know where we went…” absolutely ball my eyes out at it!

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KoorbB@reddit

Interstellar.

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Mysterious_Week8357@reddit

Watch [Dear Zachary](https://youtu.be/mezQYoJGIDk?si=0yZ8h0wYSap9g52G)

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starwarsalex_@reddit

If you're a parent, season 2 episode 26 - it's called sleepytime. I ball every time.

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piskyfi@reddit

Recently watched Goodbye June on Netflix. Both me and the husband were ugly crying and then laughing and then crying. I was exhausted by the end. The day we watched it I’d been keeping a stiff upper lip all day after waving my youngest off from his Christmas visit. He left home in the summer of last year and it was his first trip back. Think I needed something to set me off and it reminded me so much of my own mum’s final weeks.

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Snout_Fever@reddit

I'm a middle aged bloke and Sleepytime left me an absolute emotional wreck. It's just beautiful. Animated movies in general do it quite regularly, I can watch all manner of live action things and feel barely a twitch of emotion but show me a stupid cartoon dog doing something vaguely sad and I'm a puddle. The big one for me is probably the end scene of All Dogs Go To Heaven where Charlie is saying goodbye to the girl. If you know, you know. Music wise, Winter by Tori Amos - instant snifflefest.

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DownrightDrewski@reddit

So many songs for so many different reasons. Just a day by feeder has to be the one that's been in my life for the longest, but life is beautiful by sixx am (nicky sixx) hits hard for similar reasons. On a very different level, hero of war by rise against. It's a song I'm in awe of, but fuck me, it's brutal.

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psyper76@reddit

Lately, I seem to be treating up to random adverts and most TV programs.

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

Cats Protection League adverts

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djalexander91@reddit

‘My father house,’ the version from Springsteen on Broadway gets me every time

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frostymornings@reddit

Beaches (the film, not visiting a beach)

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NegativeAd6437@reddit

Books by Tillie Coleman, absolute devestating

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LongjumpingStep5813@reddit

Open 10 minutes of up… or just playing it on piano

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hamjamham@reddit

Watching people try the colour blind glasses for the first time. Dunno why but it gets me every time 🤣

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Hannahoverthere@reddit

Stepmom. That film makes me sob. My girl. We all know about My Girl. The 2 storms episode of The Haunting of Hill House. Nell crying “I was hear the whole time and you didn’t see me” has something that breaks me 💔

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beeb4rf@reddit

I listen to emotive music, weirdly some of the main ones at the moment are One Day by Hanz Zimmer and Test Drive by John Powell - both from soundtracks but make me well.

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After-Competition-59@reddit

Land before time beginning scene where he loses his mum.

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PrestigiousLaugh9267@reddit

Not normally a cryer but I was driving back from seeing family at Christmas last week with my wife and two kids in the back of the car. My two girls are 8 and 10 and although they fight like cat and dog, they're also inseparable and love each other uncomfortable. This song comes on by an Irish singer called something Carty? Singing a song about two sisters growing up etc etc and for some reason it turned me into a blubbering wreck on the M5! My wife noticed but luckily the kids didn't 😂

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DivineDecadence85@reddit

Songs from the musical Rent. Without You ruins me, especially when you know what's happening in the show while it's being sung.

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CactiSerialKiller@reddit

I'll Cover You the reprise, instant tears

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DivineDecadence85@reddit

Ooft. Don't even.

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To_a_Mouse@reddit

[Great Expectationsby Elbow](https://youtu.be/uM95IKmEh6I?si=L0PtCFdmHkfo3Kig)

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United-Cucumber9942@reddit

Aartaaaxx

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Magic_phil@reddit

Cold, driving wind

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Winter_Parsley8706@reddit

I normally just check my bank balance. Or, for some reason, the bit when Mrs Doubtfire gets found out she is actually Daniel.

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H1ghlyVolatile@reddit

Thinking about the fact I’ve got another 30 odd years of living on this miserable planet.

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oli_ramsay@reddit

https://youtu.be/IgPRI6-8Efw?si=-DoETTVuZPtvPjsC

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monstera-attack@reddit

Any video where a dog saves someone’s life or is a medical alert dog, I don’t know why but I’m in absolute bits every time one of these stories is on and the human explains just how much their dog means to them.

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terahurts@reddit

Any film where the dog dies. Or the 'The Littlest Hobo' I'm 53 years old, haven't seen it since I was like 10 or something and that shit *still* upsets me!

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2cbterry@reddit

Marley and Me

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Double_Jab_Jabroni@reddit

‘It Makes No Difference’ by The Band. Or the Christmas film Jack Frost, either when his son is making a snowman and ‘Landslide’ by Fleetwood Mac is playing, or when the kid is shovelling snow off the driveway and breaks down in tears. Gets me every time. Hope you’re good!

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FroHawk98@reddit

Moon

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JedAndWhite@reddit

Pete Postlethwaites speech as Danny at the end of Brassed Off. Every. Single. Time.

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CactiSerialKiller@reddit

There is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine called The Visitor. If I ever need a really good cry, that's what I put on.

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StGuthlac2025@reddit

Not a tear inducer by my god does this getting the mind and feelings going. I don't even know what they are but it's [emotional ](https://youtu.be/Q3R1I4CTr5o?si=7mN5Y82PBnG20bDt)

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VolcanicBear@reddit

Airfield by Enter Shikari

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ding-wizzy@reddit

The deep blue okay by self esteem. Travelled from West Yorkshire to Dublin to see her. Got chatting to a security guard who gave me basically front row access. Ugly cried. Several times. Been through some right shit the last 2 years and the songs on that album got me in the feels. Certain she saw me 🤦‍♀️

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tinydncr@reddit

Terms of endearment

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allthingskerri@reddit

The film I am sa. Every time I do that kind of whole body crying. Feel like shit and then feel better. Every fucking time it never fails

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Pulmonologia@reddit

A different Bluey: Cricket!

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Forsaken_Silver_1344@reddit

Cricket, Sleepytime, and Camping!

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SiggyMa2266@reddit

Cutting onions and then just going with the flow of emotions…

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