Kids movies that still give you feels

[Degusaurusrex]

What kid's movies can you still not watching without getting the feels? Near tears, tears, whatever.

Watching Toy Story 3 and that scene in the dump near the end gets me every time.

Fox and the Hound

Iron giant. Every. Damn. Time.

[Inkidu]

Spirited Away

[Love And Submission]

What kid's movies can you still not watching without getting the feels? Near tears, tears, whatever.

Watching Toy Story 3 and that scene in the dump near the end gets me every time.

Fox and the Hound

Iron giant. Every. Damn. Time.

I was like fifteen when I  first saw I on Giant and it still made me cry. That is a depressing kids movie.

[Hrairoo]

American Tail (1986) that cathartic ending. From the moment when the bully kids find Feivel and throw straw on him, convincing him he's trash and his family doesn't want him, to the ending, it always gets me.
The Land Before Time (1988) omg....when Little Foot chases his "mother" down the canyon and...it's just his own shadow. That hurts me right here. *points to my chest with a pained look*

[Oniya]

The Last Unicorn.  Can't even narrow it down to one scene.

[Cold Heritage]

The Transformers: The Movie from 1986.

The first Bayformers movie had some moments of feels too, but I mostly chalk that up to the OST having some laser-guided tactical feels tunes. Arrival To Earth is some weapons-grade feels material.

[CassieBear]

Neverending Story. I still cry out to Artax when Atreyu is trying to pull him from the Swamp of Sadness.

[Armphid]

Spirited Away

This, absolutely.  Yes.  Possibly by favorite animated film.  It always makes me feel clean after watching it.  It's one of the things my SO will put on if I really get down into my depression because they know it will lift me up.

The Dark Crystal is another one.  Still engaging and fresh, fun characters, one of the most memorable movie monsters for me (the Garthim still freak me out; such a great design!), and I like Jen and Kira as individuals and together.  Plus I like that the solution isn't violence, it's not about killing the bad guys, they need healing as much as anyone else in it does.

[Egoiste]

The Plague Dogs. Insta-depression.

[Deamonbane]

Neverending Story. I still cry out to Artax when Atreyu is trying to pull him from the Swamp of Sadness.

Yup. Tugs at the feels every damn time.

[CassieBear]

And another one. The Land Before Time. Like... the entire fluffing movie. From his mother's death to the tree star getting ripped to his mother's shadow to reuniting with his grandparents at the end, it leaves me one big ball of tears mixed in with Kleenex.

[Vulnicura]

Watership goddamn Down. Once upon a time, long ago when every strip mall still housed a Blockbuster Video, my mom took me to rent some movies, as was our weekly ritual. I chose Watership Down because 1) Cartoon! Yay! and 2) Bunnies! Cute!

Innocence was lost. I'm fairly sure that movie and that movie alone was the birthplace of depression. I watched it again for the first time a few years back... It still holds up. And I'll never watch it again.

[Egoiste]

Watership goddamn Down

The same people did The Plague Dogs, and they used every lesson they'd learned doing Watership Down about how to traumatise children en masse by inflicting pain and misery on cartoon animals when they made it.

[Rinzler]

Watership goddamn Down. Once upon a time, long ago when every strip mall still housed a Blockbuster Video, my mom took me to rent some movies, as was our weekly ritual. I chose Watership Down because 1) Cartoon! Yay! and 2) Bunnies! Cute!

Innocence was lost. I'm fairly sure that movie and that movie alone was the birthplace of depression. I watched it again for the first time a few years back... It still holds up. And I'll never watch it again.

Likewise. I caught it near enough when it first came out and...well. Bleeding bunnies. Twitching in agony as they die. And then along came the aforementioned Plague Dogs, which upped the ante considerably in its intent to traumatise kids with graphic cartoons of animal suffering.

As a British film which came out in the late 70s, I find it emblematic of an odd time in the country. This was when highly disturbing public safety films were being put out, with perhaps the sole aim of making the kids too terrified to do anything at all. For a good example of the kind of televisual traumas I was subject to as a wee nipper, search Youtube for 'I am the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water.'

In fairness, it worked. Albeit with the proviso it made you too shit scared to even take a bath.

They even used the sinister tones of Donald Pleasance for it. Honestly, they weren't messing around back then.

[Egoiste]

And then along came the aforementioned Plague Dogs

Watership Down was the gateway drug.

search Youtube for 'I am the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water.'

I am quite fond of scary public service films. I think the interest was fired up by Powerful Stuff which was among one of about two dozen films my dad (who worked for an electrical company) made me watch as a wee 'un. I'd never seen the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water before and it was very creepy. The real kicker for me is stuff like Apaches and The Finishing Line with that surrealist slice-of-life vibe combined with such cold matter-of-factliness about their awful contents that - in my experience - pervades a lot of famously ghastly British films. Like Threads. I don't mind saying that one took a high seat among the nightmares of my childhood and I still have trouble watching it today.

I remember being shown Threads in primary school, but I didn't think to mention it in this thread because even to me it seems deranged that anyone would think it was appropriate for kids. I can't imagine a teacher airing something like that these days without getting fired.

[Rinzler]

Watership Down was the gateway drug.

I am quite fond of scary public service films. I think the interest was fired up by Powerful Stuff which was among one of about two dozen films my dad (who worked for an electrical company) made me watch as a wee 'un. I'd never seen the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water before and it was very creepy. The real kicker for me is stuff like Apaches and The Finishing Line with that surrealist slice-of-life vibe combined with such cold matter-of-factliness about their awful contents that - in my experience - pervades a lot of famously ghastly British films. Like Threads. I don't mind saying that one took a high seat among the nightmares of my childhood and I still have trouble watching it today.

I remember being shown Threads in primary school, but I didn't think to mention it in this thread because even to me it seems deranged that anyone would think it was appropriate for kids. I can't imagine a teacher airing something like that these days without getting fired.

Apaches. Dear God. Remember that bit where the kid drowned in the farm slurry? It gave me a childhood phobia of anything to do with sinking mud or quicksand. Going bait digging with my dad, down the creek when the tide was out, was a fearsome experience. Curiously, I've since learned that this phobia wasn't uncommon to kids of that era. Probably because we'd all seen Apaches.

[Egoiste]

Apaches. Dear God. Remember that bit where the kid drowned in the farm slurry? It gave me a childhood phobia of anything to do with sinking mud or quicksand. Going bait digging with my dad, down the creek when the tide was out, was a fearsome experience. Curiously, I've since learned that this phobia wasn't uncommon to kids of that era. Probably because we'd all seen Apaches.

I've seen a lot of people say the girl drinking chemicals is the most chilling bit, but for me the slurry scene is easily the worst.

[RedPhoenix]

Iron giant. Every. Damn. Time.

"You are who you choose to be."

"Superman."

Then I cry like a baby.

And another one. The Land Before Time. Like... the entire fluffing movie. From his mother's death to the tree star getting ripped to his mother's shadow to reuniting with his grandparents at the end, it leaves me one big ball of tears mixed in with Kleenex.

It's very sad.

What happened to the young child that voiced Ducky is sadder.

[CassieBear]

It's very sad.

What happened to the young child that voiced Ducky is sadder.

My heart breaks all over again for Judy Barsi and her mother every time I think about it.

[Oniya]

On a different note...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDI-INklKk

[Jag]

The Secret of NIMH. That movie messed me up.

Charlotte's Web.

My Girl. "He needs his glasses!" Oh lord...gets me every time.

[RedPhoenix]

My Girl. "He needs his glasses!" Oh lord...gets me every time.

I haven't seen that movie in 15 years and I'm tearing up just reading that line.

[RedRose]

Oh American tail touches some very, very sensitive topics. It's "for kids" but not for all kids.

[Tyrus]

Up (2009). I'm a stoic mofo at the best of times, but damn, does that movie gets me every-time. Pixar really are masters of the craft, but for me, they haven't beaten the heights of Up since (with the exception of Toy Story 3).

[Mirath]

Another one for Toy Story 3.

Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a glitch - I remember having me in tears at the end. It probably still would to this day

Also, I recently watched Inside Out - it had me in tears on multiple occasions.