Best if the old movie is made before 1990
Shawshank Redemption
Bicentennial Man
It’s a Wonderful Life, every time
Several plot points in that film are absolutely horrifying like the shopkeeper deafening him as a child
He was deafened by an ear infection after diving into a frozen pond to save his brother from drowning. Later he prevented Mr. Gower from accidentally poisoning a child when Gower was distracted by grief. I do believe Gower hit him during that sequence though, if that’s what you’re referring to. And yeah that last part is rough but sometimes life and history are unpleasant.
Ah yeah that was it. Has been a while!
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.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan always makes me cry. The death of Spock, the exchange between him and Kirk, it always kills me.
For me it is Shatner’s performance during the funeral. Any time Shatner’s acting gets made fun of I bring it up.
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
1989
Grave Of The Fireflies. Two children trying to survive in Japan during World War 2
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Powerful ending, just excellent.
No idea if it holds up in the current era.
I think it holds up. But I’m biased because it’s on my top 5 movies of all time.
- Don’t mind me turning to dust in my chair.
1990? Old? Get off my lawn!
Oh, don’t be coy. We can already smell the soil on you.
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.
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
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
E. T.
Honorable mention: The Neverending Story. Cried during one scene in the movie, not the end.
Artax :_(
