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Best if the old movie is made before 1990

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Bicentennial Man

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Return to Paradise. Yet to talk with anyone that's seen it but I cried so much I've never been able to watch it again

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When I was a kid, every year or so I would see kiki's delivery service on tv.

It wasn't sad or anything like that, but I always swelled up with emotions that I didn't understand and would quietly cry

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The crying game

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Shawshank Redemption

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Is Captain Phillips (2013) old yet? I'm sobbing at the end.

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The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)

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All Dogs Go To Heaven.

1989

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
  1. Don't mind me turning to dust in my chair.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Goodbye Mr Chips (1939)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

"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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Powerful ending, just excellent.

No idea if it holds up in the current era.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think it holds up. But I'm biased because it's on my top 5 movies of all time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Great film. I hate to call it old. Even though I realize it is now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Schindler's List

It is a cinematic triumph and a film that everyone should see. With that said, I am unable to ever view it again. The scene where Schindler is breaking down realizing that if he didn't have expensive items he could have saved more people just absolutely killed me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That plus the descendants of those he saved placing stones on his grave

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Harry and the Hendersons when they make him leave. Lithgow telling him he wasn't wanted 😢

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Almost every Charlie Chaplin’s movie.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, and that speech is even now important. Chaplin was a great man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's really incredible how timely it is 100 fucking years later.

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Wuthering Heights (1939)

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Is 16 years old? If so Summer Wars for some reason

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Batteries Not Included

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

E. T.

Honorable mention: The Neverending Story. Cried during one scene in the movie, not the end.

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The Wizard of Oz. Such a good movie!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

An Affair to Remember (1957) Yes I did watch it because it is referenced in Sleepless in Seattle and yes I did blubber cry just like the SiS characters suggested.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, that's been a bad one on REwatch after the most recent passing of one of its stars. It's so much more sad, now.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Of the relatively recent movies, Interstellar. You know the scene. Or scenes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oldboy. no, not because it's sad

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Came here to add this.

Definitely better to watch with subtitles.

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