THE SPIDER DIES?!? Where the hell is the spoiler box? 
It doesn’t matter if you know the spider is going to die. When she sings her “Mother Earth and Father Time” song one last time and trails off, and Wilbur starts calling her name… I’m getting misty eyed thinking about it. You can’t spoil it, you’re going to cry whether you know it’s coming or not.
In fact, that’s the theme of my list and why I hate most of those movies: don’t get too attached to that animal (even the stuffed one!) because someday it will DIE! And guess what! Sometimes it might even be your fault! Live with that!
Try your local library, & get them for free.
One of my overlooked favorites that no one has yet mentioned is A Simple Plan. It’s an earlier Sam Raimi film (after the Evil Dead films, before Spiderman). It’s one of those noirish-type plots where things just keep going more and more wrong. The story keeps cycling down and down to a completely nilihistic ending, like a Coen Brothers movie but without the quirky characters and gag humor.
Lilya 4 Ever is another pretty wrenching one, as are a lot of the films of Ken Loach.
And, though Bond movies are usually regarded as anything but tearjerkers, the end of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service made my normally non-emotive ex-girlfriend cry.
Stranger
Love Story always, always, always makes me cry. And it’s the same with **Out of Africa ** and **Little Women ** (1994).
Almost forgot **Raise the Red Lantern ** (or Da hong deng long gao gao gua)! Not crying, but serious depression.
Just want to point out it wasn’t me.