23 Movies That Took People’s ‘Crying at the Movies’ Virginity

Art is supposed to make you feel, but crying at the movies is a complicated identity issue. Some brag that not even the most devastating dog death can make them shed a tear, while others are unabashed movie bawlers. For all that posturing, though, it’s largely a matter of destiny: Get exposed to an excessively touching cartoon at an early age, and you’re a movie crier for life. For others, it happens later, but the grim tearjerker comes for us all.

For Redditor Fit-Worker9135, it was My Girl. “I am not the emotional type and have never cried during a movie,” they told r/Movies. “Maybe I haven’t watched a film that could evoke such an emotional response from me, (but) I’m still heartbroken thinking about Vada breaking down at Thomas J’s funeral. That was beautiful … I am literally trying to stop myself from crying right now.”

They “want(ed) more” because “this was an amazing experience for me,” so they asked for the “first time you cried during a movie?” and Reddit sobbed right back at them.