Best if the old movie is made before 1990
Shawshank Redemption
Grave of the Fireflies is a good one and has been mentioned a few times already.
Fox and the Hound has several tear jerker moments, though most memorable for me is when Todd is returned to the forest.
Land Before Time was my first parent death in a film that I can remember. And unlike Bambi, this movie shows more of the consequences of losing a mother at that young of an age.
Not exactly “cry”, but Terminator 2 was very emotional for me. And it wasn’t just the ending, it was the theme song in conjunction with it. Even right before the movie, the whole opening sequence (before the events of the stories start) with the
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People just enjoying life and the nuke just going off, it was so… emotional… like very high stakes… such tragedy…
The depictions of the fires just slowly burning through everything…
All of this destruction is a version of the future that already happened, and the last hope for humanity is some kid that hasn’t even grown up yet…
Whenever the theme plays, the I feel like I’ve accended beyond the linear 3D plane and went into the 5D world and I can visualize the entire Terminator timeline. Its just this concept of time travel is so fascinting.
It’s tragedy, its genocide, and the small glimmer of hope, all contained in a single soundtrack. The spirit of the entire series (especially T2) is all described by this one single magnificient soundtrack.
Grave Of The Fireflies. Two children trying to survive in Japan during World War 2
- Don’t mind me turning to dust in my chair.
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
1989
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Powerful ending, just excellent.
No idea if it holds up in the current era.
Great film. I hate to call it old. Even though I realize it is now.
I think it holds up. But I’m biased because it’s on my top 5 movies of all time.
Not before 1990 but when I watched Terminator 2 as a kid I cried when they lowered the t-850 it into the molten slag.
1990? Old? Get off my lawn!
Oh, don’t be coy. We can already smell the soil on you.
Bicentennial Man
Old Yeller
If that movie doesn’t get you to shed a tear, you’re not human.
I’m a pretty hard-boiled tough guy by most standards, and I’m getting a little misty just thinking about it.
Batteries Not Included
E. T.
Honorable mention: The Neverending Story. Cried during one scene in the movie, not the end.
Artax :_(
Of the relatively recent movies, Interstellar. You know the scene. Or scenes.
“Paths of Glory” is one of Kubrick’s most underated films (or at least lesser known) and the ending is pure emotional power.
The fact that you just spent almost 90 minutes hating humanity and the shitty situations in which we put ourselves as a species, only to be able to come away from the film thinking “we’re not all bad” because of what happens in the final 10 minutes blows my mind.
If you haven’t seen it, I can’t recommend it enough.
