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If you want sometime currently in the theater, you might try The Life of Chuck. Likely to make you cry, but uplifting. Great cast.

Tree of Life

Arrival

What's going to hit will be a bit dependent on where your soft spots are.

Kids: Grave of the Fireflies or Bridge to Teribithea or My Girl or The Cure

Romantic love: The Fountain

Existential trauma: Psycho-Pass (series) or A.I.

Dogs: Marley & Me or Hachi

Loss: Up

Also:

River

This might be an outlier as far as how other people might watch or react to this movie but I rewatched Millennium Actress recently and I could not stop crying the whole movie.

It’s gives me feelings of deep desperation, chasing, longing, almost persevering.

Lots of Ghibli mentioned, Kiki’s Delivery Service is a favorite of mine. :) Not sure how much it fits ‘grandiose’ and ‘profound’, but I’m definitely a sob-fest by the end.

First movie that popped into my head was What Dreams May Come. Robin Williams goes through heaven and hell to try and save his wife's soul. Great flick with some amazing visuals (especially for the time).

For stoic men (and maybe women, who knows?) Captain Phillips... but not till the end. It sneaks up on you.

Last movie that made me cry was The Whale. I saw it in a theatre and rarely I had to refrain myself from crying in public this bad. Once I got home though I just bawled my eyes out.

haven't watched a lot of shows that aren't anime so here are my recs:

1. Your name (movie, its really really good)
2. A silent voice (movie, same as your name)
3. Your lie in april (tv series, apparently really good at making you cry but haven't watched it)
4. Anohana: The flower we saw that day (tv series, same as your lie in april)

your name and a silent voice have really good animation btw

i almost cried during weathering with you which is a movie in the same universe as your name but it isn't as emotional as your name ig

A Monster Calls destroyed me. It doesn't take much to make me tear up, but I was sobbing for the last 15-20 minutes of the movie.

The Wild Robot is well worth a watch. It looks like a kids movie, but I think the themes work just as well if not better for adults.

Not a movie but 18 episodes, Arcane is full of massive, massive feels.

Hits multiple times in different ways. If you want the full gamut of emotional.

Two movies that usually appear on lists like this, but I don't see them: The Fountain, and The Fall.

Not a movie but a tv show: "one day" on Netflix, it may seem shallow in the beginning, but then it will tear you apart.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I cried with The Mitchells Vs. The Machines.

Think I teared up at another film recently, but can't recall what it was. Sorry. That's one I watched I know got me weeping, though. I'll cry over anything intergenerational these days.

Mr Nobody

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

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.

Biutiful by Inarritu

Far and Away

Everything Everywhere All At Once

This has me all the way from to tears of sadness 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.

Also, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It’s a really sad breakup movie. Lots of emotion. Some of Jim Carry’s best acting.

"The Green Mile" made me cry

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.

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

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (2013 version) is beautiful and thoughtful. Completely unlike any other Ben Stiller movie that I know of.

"The Fountain" (2006) might qualify too, though it's a lot heavier.

"Amélie" (2001)

"Hector and the Search for Happiness" (2014) is decent too, though I'm a Simon Pegg fan so it gets extra points for that

Walk in the Clouds

https://youtu.be/CCJLFg1nOao

What Dreams May Come

https://youtu.be/KMvYoDLpTkU

The ending of Sixth Sense

https://youtu.be/zuXcBvloHFY

Big Fish

https://youtu.be/D0kiS4ROWkQ

"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 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.

Atonement

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

Username checks out. Also try Your Name.

Life is Beautiful

Manchester by the Sea

The Green Mile

My recommendations are more sad than uplifting, but still beautiful and emotional.

If you are in a hurry, try Up.