Books/Movies/Shows you read or watch when you are just looking for a good cry? ?
Books/Movies/Shows you read or watch when you are just looking for a good cry? ?
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Books/Movies/Shows you read or watch when you are just looking for a good cry? ?
Movie “I can only imagine” story of Mercy Me.
Cyrano De Bergerac
That’s my 19 year old daughter’s favorite book! She even has a tattoo that she designed, of Cyrano and a rose. ❤️
‘Light between the Oceans’ is one of my most recent reads.. It’s the sort that made me think and cry .. I haven’t seen the movie though so I can’t tell if it’s equally good .
Me before You was another one that makes you laugh, cry, and think as well .
Color Purple
P.S. I Love You
This is one of mine
Love Actually
The Glass Castle….Saw the movie yesterday
Was holding back tears
I don’t know about the book but I bet it’s way more emotional
Book is excellent, I haven’t seen the movie!
@Leah Yeah Planning to read the book after my October horror reads and u should watch the movie…I loved it
Movie: I Am Sam
That one gets me every darn time.
@Kali me too, without fail!
The bridges of Madison county.
P.S. I love you, or Beaches(oldie but a goodie).
Book: The Nightingale…not until half way or so but then…yeah, it got me. First time I’ve cried over a book.
Fault in our Stars
The episode of the Office where Michael proposes
For movies (which when I want a cry, they are quicker than a book LOL): Steel Magnolias. I also cried at Megan Leavy, Rudy, Remember the Titans, Gods and Generals & Gettysburg (I cried at the books they are based on too), Glory, just for some.
Not into books that make me cry….but the ones that did
Bridges of Madison County
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
Most dog books or movies…last I read…Marley and Me..I avoid animal books.
Movies..
Bridges
Always
Steel Magnolias
Steel magnolias
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers.
My Sister’s Keeper
Hope Floats
Books – tiny beautiful things by Cheryl Strayed
Movies – Beaches
The Notebook movie, havent read the book . I dont think ive ever read a book that’s really made me cry.
The Mirror has two faces
Show: A Million Little Things.. I just ugly cried through the entire pilot episode
even my boyfriend cried!
Me before you
My Girl
Steel Magnolias and Terms of Endearment
An Affair to Remember gets me every time as does The Way We Were. The last Parenthood episode. An episode of The Pitch where we realize the young pitcher’s father was killed in an accident taking her to practice.
Out of Africa
This is us
The Notebook
Tv show- call the midwife
Movie: My Girl or Remember the Titans. Book: All the Bright Places (it’s YA, so it’s a quick read!) or The Nightengale.
Oh my goodness.. All the Bright Places had me sobbing at 3 in the morning.
That scene in fresh prince where Will’s father leaves again ???
“How come he don’t want me, man?” *SOB*
Jim and Pam’s wedding scene in the Office when Michael and the Dunder Mifflin staff does the dance down the aisle, Gaga: Five Foot Two on Netflix, the first book in Jojo Moyes’ “Me ___” trilogy.
Gaga? A documentary? Gotta see it!
Maybe I’ll sound childish, fly away home – movie
I get it! A beautiful movie, beautiful filming, beautiful story, and extra beautiful music!
Book – the boy in the striped pyjamas
The Notebook- book or movie.
The Color Purple-movie.
The Diary of Anne Frank-book.
A Man Called Ove-book
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
That book wrecks me ?
I need to get to this. I have it in my TBR stacks.
I saw the movie first…was ruined. Then read the book and was ruined again.
@Jo I’m glad I read the book first or the movie may have literally destroyed me.
The book ” the art of Racing in the Rain”.
The Nightingale was a tearjerker. Old school, watch movie, Where The Heart Is.
Book: The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Movie: Steel Magnolias (Sally Field gets me every time!.. ugly cry)
@Cosette I’m tearing up thinking about that scene!
Movie: When Hachiko, the beloved dog (based on real life event) faithfully waits for his late master at the train station one last time and dreams of their reunion before dying. On a cold, lonely snowy night. Never ever it failed to make me cry ????????????????
Only movie I’ve ever seen that made my husband cry
@Judi One of the saddest and most heartbreaking scenes ever ???
The scene in Ordinary People when Calvin (Donald Sutherland) tells Beth (Mary Tyler Moore) that he doesn’t know if he loves her anymore. I love that entire movie – best thing that Redford ever directed.
Me Before You
I am never looking to cry but The Green Mile always makes me bawl z???
Me before you. Both the movie and the book.
I avoid books & movies like this.
Same!
STEEL MAGNOLIAS!!!
“I got off the plane” Friends. I waterfall.
The Colour Purple.
Ditto!!
Me before you, the book and the movie.!
This Is Us
@Nancy same!
A Thousand Splendid Suns
This is not a movie but watching Hanna Gadsbys stand up special Nanette on Netflix makes me cry every time.
Bridget Jones
Call the midwife (show) i cry almost every episode. I love the show so much. I will be sad when I run out of seasons.
This is us
Movie—Return to Me
Wearing the Cape by Marion G Harmon.
Rupi Kaur “The Sun & Her Flowers” is a recent one I’ve read.
Tom Schulman script & film of “Dead Poets Society”
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty or The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Les Miserable musical version
Me Before You the book and Movie, PS I love ❤️You book and movie, Beaches movie Gone With the Wind ❤️
Life is beautiful.
I call it “gratuitous sadness” when a book is sad without delivering some real insight or making you feel compelled to be a better person. I’ve never seen anyone else use the term, but I think it’s perfect. fight depression and as stupid as it sounds I limit external things that make me sad. I do workout daily and eat a very strict diet, but to spite people telling me the two are unrelated, I feel like the fight is harder when I read sad novels and “gratuitous sadness” leaves me feeling so empty
When I was a kid unless I was in the hospital, I couldn’t cry without getting yelled at by my mom *unless* I was crying over a movie, book or song. Even though I no longer get yelled at for crying, I still feel most comfortable crying in response to a movie, song or book. I have a list of books, songs, and movies that I turn to when I “need a good cry.”
Homeward Bound gets me good every time ?
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Handmaid’s Tale( both book and series), She’s Come Undone
She’s come undone? please see Wally Lamb’s I Know This Much is True as well Sandy it’s a great read?
@Abegail thank you
But has everyone heard of Where the Red Fern Grows???
My granddaughter read lt last year in 5th grade….she loved it, but, oh, how she cried!!
The Little Princess, one of my favourite childhood movies.
The book is great but not as tear-jerking
Movie is The Miracle Worker, SONG is Philadelphia by Neil Young (I know your didn’t ask, but there it is! ).
Books: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Sarah’s key by Tatiana De Rosnay, Films: Ghost and Moulin Rouge.
Oh, yes, I completely forgot about Sarah’s Key! Fabulous, touching, and so sad.
Both the book and the movie versions of “A Monster Calls” make me cry like a baby. Watching the movie version right now, actually.
@Sami The movie makes me bawl my eyes out too…Why do we do it to ourselves?
@Sarah I’ve always loved movies and books that make me cry. It can be very cathartic for those of us who find it difficult to show emotion otherwise 🙂
@Sami I’ve always loved tear jerkers too and I think you’re so right… they act as a release.
Tuesday’s with Morrie and Marley and Me – book or movie makes me cry. Also most Disney movies. Especially Toy Story 3, Up, and Inside Out.
PS I Love You.
Any Nicholas sparks book, steel magnolias, pay it forward… the outsiders…
Hope Floats
Show: This is Us
Movie: A Dog’s Purpose or any war movie.
Book: I don’t really cry often when it comes to books but I definitely shed some tears with Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley.
Anything with dogs get me.
I JUST read “Where the Crawdids Sing” by Delia Owens. CRIED !!!
Sophie’s Choice
Oh, no, WAY too sad. Same with Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
I know, it wipes me out everytime I see it!
Books: my absolute darling, a Little Life.
Tv: This is Us
Steel magnolias
The scene in Lilo & Stitch when Nani sings “Aloha Oi” to Lilo makes me sob every time!
Beaches. Or Marley & Me…but can’t watch that since my own yellow lab passed away-it’s just too painful.
Love Story by Eric Segal
Steel Magnolias also.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Ah, yes. Good one.
Ps I love you
Lovely Bones ??
Beaches with Bette Midler always gets me
The episode of ER where Dr. MarkGreene dies. Oh, man, I can’t hear the Over the Rainbow medley by Israel K,which is featured in that episode, without getting very teary!
https://youtu.be/Z26BvHOD_sg
Pollyanna -the movie. In particular, when she breaks her leg.
My Dog Skip, movie
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Where the Red Fern Grows
A Walk to Remember
“Where the Red Fern Grows” book or movie
Steel @Magnolias
Sweet November, The Fault in our Stars, Stepmom, the end of Fast and Furious 7 lol, all of those every damn time get me!
A really old movie. Imitation of Life.
Steel Magnolias, Without A Trace (movie about missing boy), Bastard out of Carolina (book and movie… cried so hard)
Steel Magnolias would have been my offering too however I don’t go out of my way to cry. And if the animal dies, NO WAY am I reading or watching it.
Jane Austen Book Club (book or movie), Julie and Julia (movie), Midnight in Paris (movie), Ghost (movie), Arrival (movie), Little Women (Movie), Whale Rider (movie) — for a few that make me cry but sometimes it just one scene rather than throughout the entire movie.
I rewatch the ghost whisperer series!
The time travellers wife!
Steel Magnolias and Beaches.
The English Patient
Call the Midwife
The Painted Veil, Finding Neverland, A Man Called Ove, and Wonder.