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Movies can make us tear up for all sorts of reasons.

These are tragedies, after all.

Ledgers death in the years since only amps up the wistfulness.

After your tears dry, call your mom and say youre sorry.

If only Jacob could use our tears for his crops.

Tolly Wright

Max

Kikis Delivery Service

The waterworks begin almost immediately.

Then she hits a tree on her way up.

Hes out of options and at a loss for what to do, and then!

That fact alone givesFruitvale Stationan immediate, wrenching power.

Harry proposes a toast: To my big brother George: the richest man in town.

But who can say?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME????

In painful slo-mo, we see Hiro become the last surviving member of his nuclear family.

Anusha Praturu

Petes Dragon(2016)

Disneys live-action remakes are not particularly emotional affairs.

Lowerys remake doesnt lose sight of that.

None of Disneys other live-action adaptations has come remotely close to feeling this bone-deep.

Roxana Hadadi

Paramount+

LittleWomen(1994)

Anytime Claire Danes is crying, were crying.

Were also crying then.

All it takes is the most intimate glances between Hepburn and Peck to have you getting watery.

SavannahSalazar

Titanic

Its hard to have a unique experience withTitanic.

SavannahSalazar

Peacock

Glory

I first encounteredGloryin high-school social studies.

There are few environments less conducive to being emotionally vulnerable, but the movie still marched past my defenses.

But the whole film is basically preamble to the end: They lose!

But the heart of the movie is his relationship with his parents, Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin.

Their love is detailed in archival footage of Yelchin as a kid and letters he sent home.

(The title of the documentary comes from his sign-off in those notes.)

Emily Palmer Heller

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