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Movies that emotionally affected you long

after watching?
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1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Past Lives
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Aftersun
5. Arrival
6. Midsommar
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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CinnamonApricot • 5h ago

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omgzunicorns OP • 5h ago
Cillian Murphy will win an Oscar

Ugh now my heart is breaking all over again

(Atonement for anyone who doesn’t know. Be

prepared if you decide to watch.)

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CinnamonApricot • 5h ago

... Or just end the movie before the last 30

minutes or so are done

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momofwon • 4h ago

The ending of this film is my Roman Empire. I

will never be over it.

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Lalafala21 • 4h ago

My exact thoughts.. I couldn’t stop

thinking about it for weeks after watching.
Now anytime anyone needs a movie to
watch- “Have you seen Atonement?
Underrated. But be prepared..”

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SnapChap92 • 5h ago

Contagion stuck with me. The scene with

in particular.

Never Let Me Go was an emotional wringer too,

just one of those movies I came away from
thinking "well that was bleak".

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m_zayd • 5h ago

omg are you me? that exact scene from

contagion lives in my head rent free. the image
is burned into my memory

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Mathinista314 • 5h ago

For me it’s the sen with her on a cot trying

to cover another sick person with her coat
(blanket?). Never Let Me Go broke me
when I read it & then again while watching
the movie. Just shook me

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LusciousofBorg • 4h ago

It's been 31 years since Schindler's List came out

and I still can't watch the part where all the
children get taken from their families without the
feeling of vomiting and crying at the same time.

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Highlingual • 3h ago

Schindler’s List made my mother cry so hard

her water broke and I was born 2 weeks early.

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WinStark • 4h ago

I've only seen this once, in the theatre. On a

date, no less. Still recall every moment. And
the red coat. Haunting.

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LusciousofBorg • 4h ago

I saw Schindler's List in the theater with

my parents when I was an adolescent. It
didn't hit me how horrible the Holocaust
was. It all seemed very theoretical and
academic at the time. Then when I
watched the movie as an adult I couldn't
stomach it. I love the movie dearly, but so
much of it is absolutely painful to watch.

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WENUS_envy • 5h ago

Dear Zachary. I watched it in the months after my

daughter died (grief is weird) and was absolutely
shocked halfway through. I thought the big thing
had already happened.

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Slow_Like_Sloth • 5h ago

Oh god the reveal is a gut punch through your

twat

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WENUS_envy • 5h ago

And when the grandpa is so mad he yell-

curses out of nowhere

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Slow_Like_Sloth • 4h ago

I FELT THAT. It was so raw

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Rose1982 • 4h ago

I’m so sorry for your loss.

This movie wrecked me. Like howling sobs.

I watched it before I had kids… I’m not sure I

could watch it now. Maybe someday.

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keypoard • 3h ago
baby I am tied to a tree in a jungle of mystery

One of the most devastating docs I've ever

watched. Will never ever forget it.

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kayterluv • 4h ago

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Bridge To Terabithia (2007). More so when I was a

kid, but it still hurts.

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Goodgoditsgrowing • 3h ago

That book destroyed me

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vfry15 • 2h ago

My 4th grade teacher read this to us and

there was def a lot of crying. Other texts
included: Where the Red Fern Grows (dogs
die), Freak the Mighty (disabled kid dies),
the book about the Japanese girl who was
trying to make 1000 paper cranes but
fucking died before she could, and On My
Honor (a kid also DROWNS). Was my
teacher trying to kill us? How did I still love
reading after this year?

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fidgetbardot • 5h ago

Room

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momofwon • 4h ago

I saw that when my daughter was a newborn

(maybe not the best choice in retrospect) and
was SO ANXIOUS during the scene with the
. Sweet Jesus.

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fidgetbardot • 5h ago

We Need To Talk About Kevin

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demonsrunwhen • 4h ago

this was an incredible film, ezra

(unfortunately) had a few banger roles like this
and the perks of being a wallflower

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Magatron5000 • 4h ago

Good one. I still think of this often. Tilda killed

this role

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LakeBlithely • 4h ago
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Arrival gave me an existential crisis lol

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onetwotree-leaf • 4h ago

I get sucked into crisis just remembering the

movie exists

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LakeBlithely • 4h ago
superficial space cadet

I’m glad it wasn’t just me. The friends I

watched it with were just like “huh,
interesting!” as I was trying to keep it
together.

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Bubbly-End-6156 • 5h ago
Did everybody die?

You must have not seen Precious, because no one

can forget that movie.

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goodbye_wig • 5h ago

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Dancer in the Dark

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h4tb20s • 5h ago

I saw the pic of Barry Keoghan and immediately

thought of The Banshees of Inisherin. Such a
moving film and his performance is wonderful.

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fuschiafawn • 4h ago

I related so much to Colin Farrell in that movie,

and the reveal that he is just as selfish as
anyone else devastated me.

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Foxylocksy19 • 5h ago

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I cried through probably a third of EEAAO when I

saw it in theaters for the first time because I was
so moved! The characters' relationships, arcs, and
the core message that it's literally life-changing to
treat each other and ourselves with kindness even
and ESPECIALLY when things are hard and don't
make sense really really hit for me

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Slow_Like_Sloth • 5h ago

My mommy issues hit hard

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og_kitten_mittens • 4h ago

Yeah my mom is Asian and treats me kinda

similarly (but loves me so much) and I
sobbed at the line “of all the places I could
be, I just want to be here with you” and I
am openly crying again just typing that out
bc of how it moved me.

Also lol tried to watch with my mom and

within 10mins she found it boring and
switched it to Armageddon, her favorite
movie of all time

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Easy_Initial1026 • 5h ago

Came here to say this. Ruins me in a million

ways as a daughter whose mom is in cancer
treatment and a mom whose daughter is in
really hard toddler years. So so so many
feelings.

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theimmortalfawn • 4h ago

This movie (and this montage) in particular

made me feel something no other movie has
made me feel before. I remember being kinda
frozen and overwhelmed with emotion. And
then you get the rock scene, and I laughed,
and then I teared up. It was like I was mourning
myself, my mother, her mother, her mother…..

A wild movie to watch when you have family

trauma

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waybeforeyourtime • 5h ago • Edited 5h ago

The OG movie that will haunt you for the rest of

your life. That will make you relive the pain every
time you think about it.

Sophie's Choice

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crackerfactorywheel • 5h ago
This would never happen at an Olive Garden

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I went into Train to Busan expecting a scary

zombie movie and got that, plus a giant emotional
gut punch that took me a day to recover from.

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6mcdonoughs • 5h ago

Moonlight

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Waystar_BluthCo • 4h ago
Cillian Murphy will win an Oscar

Still cannot believe they didn’t win the Oscar

for cinematography - the color of this film is so
unbelievably stunning.

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m_zayd • 5h ago • Edited 5h ago

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moonlight is a gorgeous film that i can't watch

often because i find it so emotionally haunting. it's
the kind of haunting that just sits with you for
ages. it's been a few years since my last watch
and when i tell you i can still feel the devastation
when i think of it...

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angie1907 • 4h ago
Cillian Murphy will win an Oscar

I watched this movie six years ago. Once. And

I still remember so clearly how it made me
feel. Few movies have left such a lasting
impression. Very well deserved Oscar win for
that

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Waystar_BluthCo • 5h ago
Cillian Murphy will win an Oscar

God this movie shattered me. I walked home

after watching it in the theater, sobbing the
whole time. Loved it so much and still do.

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Immediate-Ebb-4438 • 4h ago

When Bradley Cooper’s character peed himself

while Lady Gaga’s character was accepting her
Oscar in A Star is Born. It has stuck with me more
than most scenes, and even typing this makes my
insides curl.

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u1tr4me0w • 3h ago

I watched that movie purely as a Gaga fan, I

knew nothing about the movie and didn’t
bother to familiarize myself beforehand. I went
into it thinking it would be some feel good rags
to riches, “love fixes us” type of movie. Holy…
shit… I was not prepared. I was genuinely
disturbed by how dark it was, it was like
mentally having the rug pulled out from under
me. It ended and I just sat there mouth agape
in shock

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40stepstothemoon • 4h ago

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Beaches. I have a lot of memories watching it with

my mom. But the scene where they are looking for
photos gives me chills.

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aerdnadw • 5h ago

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Actual footage of me in a state that lasted a full

week after seeing Brokeback Mountain for the first
time. Also the other three times I’ve put myself
through that absolute heartbreak.

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omgzunicorns OP • 5h ago
Cillian Murphy will win an Oscar

SAAAME!! Now when I rewatch it, it’s a ritual.

It’s an incredible film. I know I will sob. I know I
will be devastated days after watching. It’s the
same way I feel about Aftersun but I haven’t
had the strength to watch that again yet.

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planetearthisblu • 5h ago

I watched this movie for the first time this year

and holy shit. I'm so mad that it was only
known as a "gay cowboy" movie and a
punchline to terrible jokes when I was growing
up.

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Lunaswitchytake • 4h ago

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Sally Fields ruined me, to this day I watch this

movie when I want a real good sob

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MathMagic2 • 3h ago

I sob at this scene EVERY TIME. It doesn’t

even matter that I know it is coming. It still is
gut wrenching.

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320Ches • 3h ago

Ditto. This and Stepmom are my crying

movies. Steel Magnolias is and always be
my answer to favorite movie.

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effingcharming • 5h ago

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I think about the beginning of Up and the ending

of Coco much more often than I thought I would
when I first pressed play.

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caprimum • 4h ago

I had to stay in the cinema for a good 20 mins

after watching coco because I was ugly crying.
My kids (aged 7&8) were like

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Rita_Metermaid • 5h ago

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Her

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brokenstar64 • 4h ago
To err is human, but it feels divine

I get this.

Once I had a relationship that was largely

maintained online due to distance, working
away, life, et cetera. He often compared us to
this movie and I even referenced it in our
amicable parting of ways. Bittersweet.

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SadDancer • 4h ago

Whether you’ve had a relationship that was

similar, the whole movie did such a great job at
portraying loneliness in general. I was also
affected for days after watching this one.

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annoyinghuman03 • 5h ago

i saw Brokeback Mountain for the first time last

week and I had a stye on my eye. the crying was
PAINFUL

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Ohboyohboyohboyahhhh • 5h ago