“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is beautiful and thoughtful. Completely unlike any other Ben Stiller movie that I know of.

“The Fountain” might qualify too, though it’s a lot heavier.

Everything Everywhere All At Once

This has me all the way from to treats of laughter to tears of joy and really made me feel for the main character. It seems too whimsical to take seriously at first, but if you let it wash over you it rewards you. it can be an incredibly powerful movie and I loved the message.

Life is Beautiful

Manchester by the Sea

The Green Mile

Martian

Armageddon

I saw “What Dreams May Come” in high school and wept the entire way from the theater to the car.

Even met some friends on the way and had to explain I was crying because it was so beautiful.

Not so much a movie but you should watch The Last of Us up to the first 3 episodes. I got through Episode 3 and it had me in tears the whole day 😭

Tout le bleu du ciel - 2025 Netflix french movie. The whole roadtrip thing made me watch it and I enjoyed it. Might be what you’re looking for as well.

Your Name, anime film about a high school age boy and girl that swap bodies in their sleep, they don’t know anything about eachother and have to figure out how to not ruin eachothers lives and relationships, it’s very bueatiful, and you’ll cry for sure.

I sob like a baby when I watch Practical Magic (Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.) Same with Disney’s Moana. Neither movie is really advertised as bring particularly deep or philosophical, but both of them have more profundity than appears on the surface. PM is about love, death, and family. Moana is about determination, joy, and redemption. Big emotions.

Chariots of fire.

I have not seen this film in decades, but I remember it being quite lovely, it is a Serbian film called “Black Cat, White Cat”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat,_White_Cat

This next film will not make you cry, but it is an amazingly brilliant romantic adventure comedy, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines:

en.wikipedia.org/…/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_Their…

• Big Fish
• Up!
• Toy Story 3
• Onward
• Last of the Mohicans
• When Marnie was There (Ghibli)
• About Time

Not knowing what usually makes you cry and what kind of movies you may enjoy, here are the first movies I know make me cry. Me being a a 50+ years old dude:

• Somewhere in Time
• The bicentennial man
• Love Story.

And those are from Ghibli:

• When Marnie was There
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
• From Up on Poppy Hill
• Only Yesterday
• The Red Turtle
• Porco Rosso

Interstellar Suzume A Silent Voice - guaranteed to fuck you up Grave of the Fireflies

Idk, all these movies make me cry but for different reasons. The last two will sincerely fuck you up if you are any sort of empath.

I get you man, sometimes I need a good cry as well. I’m telling you though…A Silent Voice is a doozy.

Columbus and After Yang by Kogonada. These are such beautiful, contemplative films.

"The Green Mile" made me cry

One Liter of Tears fits the bill.

It portrays the life of a real girl named Aya Kitou who develops a neuromuscular disease as a teen. It’s an old film but great for making you think about the value and beauty of life.

There is a JDrama with the same name but I couldn’t find the full show online. Maybe you’ll have better luck. The show takes some artistic liberties with the real story but since it has a longer run time it goes more in depth about the family dynamics and explores other plot lines.

Adam’s Apples

Cloud Atlas

Walk in the Clouds

youtu.be/CCJLFg1nOao

What Dreams May Come

youtu.be/KMvYoDLpTkU

The ending of Sixth Sense

youtu.be/zuXcBvloHFY

Big Fish

youtu.be/D0kiS4ROWkQ

Never cried in a movie. Then I watched “Marley” (my friend Marley in German)

Troop Zero pulled my heart strings. About a little girl scout obsessed with space that is coping with the death of her mother. It’s done in a very uplifting manner, and you’re more likely to cry from the beauty of how the character handles it.

A Silent Voice. I watched it while I was going through a rough time, and the visual metaphor used to portray the main character's isolation hit me so hard.

Atonement

And agree on Big Fish, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Grave of fireflies - film that you watch only once as it’s too sad to watch the second time.

If you are in a hurry, try Up.

Another Earth

50/50

Grave of the fireflies

5 centimetres per second

Apollo 11 was quite nicely made.

It’s basically a documentaty made using remastered original footage along with beautiful soundscape.

If you have time for a game try Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Not a movie but rather a season, Your Lie in April. It’s around a 7 hour series so sorta super deluxe extended edition movie adjacent if you’re up for that. Fireflies and Silent Voice have already been mentioned, this is the honorary third place in my opinion.

Saving Mr. Banks.