"I Actually Had To Pause It Because I Couldn't Even Hear The Movie Over My Own Sobbing" – 32 Devastating Films To Get The Tears Flowing (2024)

"I cry every time I watch it."

—suzettedunlap2804

"It's the movie that sucker punches me every time I see it! It's such a beautiful movie, but so incredibly tragic at the same time. I literally cried so hard I couldn't breathe the first time I saw it. I actually had to pause it because I couldn't even hear the movie over my own sobbing. One of Robin Williams' best performances of his career."

—faulknerdeanna

"This film broke my heart."

—dalmalki1

"I cried through a lot of it and for hours afterwards. It's an experience, not a movie. One that should only be watched if you feel you should. Watch it out of curiosity and you only see the negative."

—rebekahj6

"The end was freaking sad."

—m_ropiak

"It's the saddest movie I've watched. My teenage son sobbed at the end. Very poignant."

—kaykayesmith

"It made me cry so much, I had a headache. I wept and screamed over how unfair it was."

—honeyspice4ever

"That last scene after the storm and Theresa goes back to his house and reads that letter. I was totally in puddles."

—teresenelson

"Oskar Schindler was lamenting over how he could have saved more Jews, Issak Stern and the other workers hugging him, assuring him he did his best. Then the final scene... The real-life survivors placing stones on Schindler's grave, including his widow. I couldn't stop crying."

—honeyspice4ever

"It breaks me every time I watch it. I was full-on ugly crying in the theatre the first time I saw it, and left with big wet patches on my shirt. Nobody seems to remember it, but it's an excellent film. Just need a full box of Kleenex to get through it."

—michelles42ac595b5

"Once upon a time my husband and I went to Mexico and one evening we decided to go to the movies to watch it. I’d already read the book (in a single day) and I woke my husband up sobbing so hard at the end. I thought I was prepared. I was not. I completely lost my shit. I was a fucking wreck."

—francesjoys

"One of my high school English teachers thought it would be a good idea to show us this movie in class. It’s a good thing it was my last class of the day because I was losing it."

—francesjoys

"I will never watch it again."

—eldirito

"I had read the book and watched the movie in theatres. As soon as the beginning credits started, I remembered what happened and started crying. Sobbed throughout the movie. Tearing up now thinking about it."

—atlas123

"It had me crying from the voiceover introduction, till well after the movie was over. Mother-daughter relationships are complicated."

—mrskreed

"I was sobbing within the first 15 minutes. Just thinking about makes me tear up. It's a terrific movie."

—missrayne

"When they're all at Shelby's funeral and Mynn loses it is such a powerful moment and always makes me cry."

—ssmith7

"Honestly, when he cries, I cry right along with him."

–casualgem30

"Maybe nobody else remembers. Just about anything sad makes me cry, but that movie tops them all."

—wantoblieve

"I had read Judy Garland's biography so I knew it was going to be a sad movie, but the end killed me. When she was too pilled up to remember the words to a song and the audience helped her by singing along, I was sobbing my face off."

—dellarock

"I started full-on wheezing and sobbing crying and didn't stop until after the credits. I still can't talk about it without starting to tear up."

—inthewintermoonlight

"When he watches his kids' messages."

—mariep452f709e5

"Bawled my eyes out on my first date."

—kiddo9950

"It's absolutely tragic. The intro even tells you how it ends, but it still gets you. My sister and I don't often cry at movies but this one made us both uncontrollably sob for at least 10 minutes after it was over."

—delaneypeterson9601

"It RIPPED my heart out! We couldn’t even finish the movie! We were all bawling when we found out he was sick. My mom, my dad, my brother, all of us. It was HORRIBLE!!"

—lalalace1640

"It DESTROYED me, I still wince when I see the title."

—ldogalicious

"It’s such a great movie but so, so sad."

—jakyboo1

"I don't think I've ever cried so hard during the movie. Sobbed for half an hour after it finished."

—s4c5713a63

"I'm not a crier but that movie destroyed my soul."

—taylormae927

"This movie fucking gutted me. It still haunts me years after watching it."

—j45b2f6094

"Studio Ghibli drew me in with their beautiful movies, only to rip out my heart when I watched this one."

–bendzialdowski

"If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s set during the American Revolution so there’s some heavy content like in all war movies. But there are at LEAST three moments in the movie that make me cry every time, without fail."

—2dabdeb

"It is consistently the worst I cry at any movie though. Child Freddie Highmore breaking down and crying at the end just wrecks me."

—anonymous093

"WTF was the start of this film? I know Disney always do something like that, but loooord was that a gut punch."

–casualgem30