Films You Always Get A Dashed Bit Of Grit In Your Manly Eyes When Viewing

Hacksaw Ridge - the slaughter is so brutal at times that I had to slurp down some beer and pretend it had splashed up.

Gladiator, Braveheart and Romeo + Juliet also get me every time!
 
The end of The Notebook, I've only watched it once with the other half but my word the feels.

Gladiator.

Up. The beginning gets me and is amazing at the same time.


There's probably many more but can't think.
 
The film was that consistently unleashed the relentless feels (at least in relation to its target audience) is... Lion King. Even as an adult, the scene in the ravine is brutal... I remember everyone being very upset in the cinema. I was!

Other contenders:

Forrest Gump
A Monster Calls
What Dreams May Come

Edit - oh dear lord, I just remembered Marley and Me!!! That is the winner. My brain blacked it out.
 
Gattaca - the sacrifice for another's dream.

The Orphanage - the discovery at the end and arranging meeting the son.

Moon - existential crisis incoming!

Blade Runner - similar to the above. Damn - what makes us human? Is our legacy a form of immortality?

Grave of the Fireflies - lurches from sad to misterable to 'abandon hope all ye who enter here'. If death is the easy way out, it must be bad. I won't watch this film again.

Logan - many men had grit in their eyes in the cinema. Jackman was outstanding as a person coming to terms with his family.
 
Marley and Me, as above.

That damn film should come with a health warning! It’s certainly not a film for anybody who’s had a dog. :(

I also can’t watch watership down, it’s just too horrific.

Nothing else really.
 
I watched The Big Sick last night and blame the fact my girlfriend had done the dusting earlier that day. Yeesh :(
 
As I've gotten older I've noticed more and more my emotions can be toyed with by films (possibly even more so since my son was born) and there are several that spring to mind.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Fountain
Me, Earl & the Dying Girl
The Butterfly Effect

Pretty much anything that involves a father/son relationship, especially if the father lets down his son in some way (clearly a huge fear of mine!) will set me off.

My little boy is starting young with it too, having already seen it a few times, on one watching of Big Hero Six, near the end (you'll know the bit I mean if you've seen it) he burst into tears and was pretty much inconsolable for about half an hour, seeing him so upset naturally made feel terrible and sad too, it was a right snotty and tearful mess between the two of us!! lol
 
FlakGunna said:
Still Alice

because it happened to us.
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That is a hard film to watch. Sorry it happened to you.
Also someone mentioned Up. That opening sequence was totally unfair and caught me completely off guard. Savage.
Anyone remember Mask? I see The Champ has been mentioned.

Like most have said (and quite reassuringly so) - I tend to quietly blub quite a lot.
 
Jokester said:
Up.

If you’ve seen it, you know the scene. Perhaps one of the best and most heartbreaking scenes for setting the backstory of any film, let alone an animated film.
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So much this.

Also:
Saving Private Ryan (Wade: Momma, I wanna go home :( )
The Green Mile (When Coffey is in the Cinema, so happy and innocent and you know what is coming)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Billy)

I'm not much for crying when watching TV/Films. But once in a while...
 
Requiem for a Dream- the Scene with the Mother in the game show and her Friends outside after seeing her. The cost of addiction even with seeming harmless drugs.
 
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