I want to watch a movie that will make me cry.
(Because I need those endorphins to help me with depression. I feel better after a good session of crying. Sorry if this is weird…)
Two movies that usually appear on lists like this, but I don’t see them: The Fountain, and The Fall.
Biutiful by Inarritu
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
You really want to destroy that poor guy, do you?
Far and Away
Not a movie but rather a season, Your Lie in April. It’s around a 7 hour series so sorta super deluxe extended edition movie adjacent if you’re up for that. Fireflies and Silent Voice have already been mentioned, this is the honorary third place in my opinion.
Grave of fireflies - film that you watch only once as it’s too sad to watch the second time.
Saving Mr. Banks.
If you have time for a game try Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Apollo 11 was quite nicely made.
It’s basically a documentary made using remastered original footage along with beautiful soundscape.
A Silent Voice. I watched it while I was going through a rough time, and the visual metaphor used to portray the main character’s isolation hit me so hard.
(not trying to sound like a hipster but) I read the manga a fair while before the movie came out and the relationship with the girl’s mom is explored more deeply. God. It hits so hard.
Another Earth
50/50
Grave of the fireflies
5 centimetres per second
“The Green Mile” made me cry
Atonement
And agree on Big Fish, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Not knowing what usually makes you cry and what kind of movies you may enjoy, here are the first movies I know make me cry. Me being a a 50+ years old dude:
- Somewhere in Time
- The bicentennial man
- Love Story.
And those are from Ghibli:
- When Marnie was There
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
- From Up on Poppy Hill
- Only Yesterday
- The Red Turtle
- Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso is so Full of melancholy. love the movie.
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