What movie makes you cry?

[ForeverAutumn]

Alright men, let's be honest. You're among friends here. What movie brings a tear to your eye?

Is it Field of Dreams when Ray Kinsella meets his Dad?
Is it Rudy when he's carried off the field by his teammates?
Is it something a little more cliche like Brian's Song?
Or maybe it's more of a chick flick like Fried Green Tomatoes?

C'mon, I know you've all got big hearts and there must be some movie that pulls at those big ol' heartstrings. Let's hear your secrets.

[kexodusc]

The Last Unicorn - Dunno if it's the music or what, but the eyes get a bit watery...

[GMichael]

Serenity when River tells her brother that he's always taken care of her. Now it's her turn.

[L.J.]

Can't remember the last sad movie I watched. I think it was Pursuit of Happyness. The subway bathroom scene was pretty sad.

[Luvin Da Blues]

"What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams. Definitely has it's tear jerking moments.

[jim goulding]

The English Patient- The cynical count found love he never thought he would find and couldn't save her life.

Babel- The young deaf mute who was so desperate to be mainstream and enjoy love and the fruits of life that seemed to her to be out of reach and what a performance!

Sophie's Choice discussed elsewhere.

[PeruvianSkies]

Movies that filled you with tears of joy.

[Groundbeef]

I'm a sucker for the "Inspirational" film.

We are Marshall

Men of Honor (When Brashier gets re-instated)

Miracle (On Ice)

Seabiscuit

There are others, but these would be on the top of my list.

[Groundbeef]

The Last Unicorn - Dunno if it's the music or what, but the eyes get a bit watery...

I've not seen this one. Is it a documentary? That would be sad to see a species wiped out.

[JohnMichael]

Brokeback Mountain had me crying so hard that when my sister and mother saw me walk out of the theater they walked several paces ahead of me. They went to see a different movie so they had no idea why I was so upset. Of course many parts hit home for me.

Fried Green Tomatoes was another that anytime I watch it the water works start.

What Dreams May Come almost caused me to need antidepressants.

Philidelphia was another film that a friend was sorry he went to the theater with me. His coat did dry out. Of course since he was straight he was not pleased to have a man about twice his size sobbing on his shoulder. Small towns you get a rep.

I love a good tearjerker.

[Groundbeef]

Brokeback Mountain had me crying so hard that when my sister and mother saw me walk out of the theater they walked several paces ahead of me. They went to see a different movie so they had no idea why I was so upset. Of course many parts hit home for me.

Fried Green Tomatoes was another that anytime I watch it the water works start.

What Dreams May Come almost caused me to need antidepressants.

Philidelphia was another film that a friend was sorry he went to the theater with me. His coat did dry out. Of course since he was straight he was not pleased to have a man about twice his size sobbing on his shoulder. Small towns you get a rep.

I love a good tearjerker.

I don't think you have to be gay to cry about Phiidelphia. Just the discrimination, and indginities suffered are enough to make most decent people choke up.

Similar to Men Of Honor. I'm not black, but the silent suffering of Carl Brashier was enough to make me weep. How other people can lead such bigoted lives is beyond me.

[JohnMichael]

I don't think you have to be gay to cry about Phiidelphia. Just the discrimination, and indginities suffered are enough to make most decent people choke up.

He felt the same way I did he just wished for a less public showing of my emotions.

[PeruvianSkies]

I don't think you have to be gay to cry about Phiidelphia. Just the discrimination, and indginities suffered are enough to make most decent people choke up.

Similar to Men Of Honor. I'm not black, but the silent suffering of Carl Brashier was enough to make me weep. How other people can lead such bigoted lives is beyond me.

True, in fact the saddest part of the film is when the Neil Young song is playing at the end and the old home movies are playing and it's a reflection on ones life as people watch and remember what that life stood for, regardless of what that was exactly.

[PeruvianSkies]

MY DOG SKIP - anyone who has ever owned a pet can relate to this one.
SOPHIE'S CHOICE - no one expected the ending to be THAT tragic.
SICKO - speechlessly sad.
SCHINDLER'S LIST - unforgettable.
THE WORLD AT WAR - intense documentary that will leave you crushed.
CINEMA PARADISO - a beautiful scene that demonstrates the power of the film medium.
GALLIPOLI - underseen Mel Gibson film from Awww-stralllia.
AWAKENINGS - forgotten film with Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro
THE PERFECT STORM - drowning sucks.
THE ELEPHANT MAN - Barber's Adagio for Strings is sad by itself.
AMERICAN HISTORY X - racism also sucks.

[bobsticks]

The laundromat scene in American Psycho where the little Chinese lady tries to wash the Cerruti sheets gets me every time...'No bleachy, no bleachy!!"

O.K. maybe not.

As recently as a few years ago I was involved in alot of Community Outreach and Youth programs but eventually that became overwhelming. Frankly, I don't think it's much of a reach to say that my movie purchasing habits are affected to this day from those times. A scan over my collection shows that I tend to gravitate away from many seriously maudlin affairs although I have a few classics. Schindler's List is, of course, too much for words and the first time I watched Casablanca that got me pretty good as well. Movies about racism and oppression just piss me off more than making me sad.

I tend to be more moved by solid literature-- the Russians Chekov and Dostoyevsky, maybe Jane Austen, and who can forget this old chestnut...

Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning -

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.



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[RoyY51]

... is Armageddon. I've posted this before, but it still remains true...this (basically "B") movie tugs at my heartstrings like no other. It's probably due to the disfunctional relationship that I have with my own daughter, but it never fails fails to bring out my inner Sally. I guess it's a kind of therapy for me.

[Mr Peabody]

The first time I saw My Girl when the girl runs down the stairs and into the funeral, up to her dead friend laying there and breaks down, about had me in more tears than my shirt sleeve could hide. This is one of the saddest movie scenes ever for me.

Recently, Bridge To Tarabifia.

It's been a long time but I bet Steal Magnolia. Another one I'm not sure about but could be a possibility is that James Garner movie where he stays in the nursing home to be with his wife and he reads to her each day and at the end they die together.

[Worf101]

I asked this very same question about 7 years ago when I first joined. Lot's of changes and new faces since then, but all in all a great question. My list hasn't really changed much.

1. "It's a Wonderful Life" - Gawd I ball like baby child at the end of it every single year.

2. "Glory" - The campfire/church meeting scene is so powerfull. How men (and women) can so bravely face 'certain death" with a prayer and a song on their lips. My god.

3. "My Life" - Little seen and under-appreciated film in which Michael Keaton plays a new dad who finds out he's terminal with cancer. He deftly weaves his way through all the stages, denial, anger etc... It was a killer.

4. "Carrie" - As an "outsider" in High School, the scene at the prom kills me before she starts killing them.

5. "They Were Expendable" - Again men facing capture and certain death, who are then forced to leave comrades behind. The scene of the last transport flying over doomed men walking into the sunset on the beach... mercy.

6. "Judgement at Nuremburg" - The screaming injustice of it all. The mind bending callousness of man towards his fellow man. Deals done with the Devil himself just to spite Stalin.

7. "In Which We Serve" - His ship gone, more than half his crew dead, Noel Coward shakes the hand of every enlisted man left alive. He then turns to his remaining officers and is too overcome to say a word, he merely walks away.

8. "When Trupets Fade" - Forget "Saving Private Ryan", THIS film will have you tearing your hair out by the root and the unfairness and stupidity of it all. Unlike the Battle of the Bulge, the Battle for the Hurtgen Forest was NOT our finest hour.

9. "A NIght to Remember" - Forget "Titanic", this version of that famous sinking is superior in every respect. In glorious black and white.

10 "Edward Scissorhands" - I know where the real monsters are, they live in the suburbs and the malls and where small minded people seek to impose their wills on others.

Da Worfster

[GMichael]

OK, I'll play for real.

The Notebook
Legands of the Fall
The Green Mile
West Side Story

[Olivertmc]

The scene in Titantic when the ship is going down and the family is just laying in bed - waiting - gets me every time. I know many people consider Titanic to be melodramatic crap, but I just can't get through that scene without welling up.

Also, ET - first movie that made me cry.

[SlumpBuster]

Playing for real, one of the saddest movies in history, is also a recent movie:



If you haven't seen this movie, either because it slipped under your radar or because it is in Spanish, you need to do yourelf a favor and rent it. It will not disappoint.

It will wreck you. Also, I give you fair warning: It is very adult and very intense and very deserving of it "R" rating. I warn because many reviewers have used the word "fairytale" in conjunction with this film. It is only a fairytale in the way Dwight Schrute tells fairytales about tailors cutting off children's thumbs.

It comes out on Blu-Ray the day after Christmas (not too smart IMO), and would be worth waiting to see in HD. So add it to your netflix queues.

[PeruvianSkies]

The scene in Titantic when the ship is going down and the family is just laying in bed - waiting - gets me every time. I know many people consider Titanic to be melodramatic crap, but I just can't get through that scene without welling up.

Also, ET - first movie that made me cry.

There is nothing wrong with crying during a film, that's how effective films work, they play on the human emotions and in the case of TITANIC, the scene you are referring to is sweet as this old couple realize the inevitable and rather than rush around with their failing bodies and try and survive they choose to go a more peaceful route and it's evident in their love for one another that they would rather die together in that way rather than in a way that they are not certain of, at least this way they go out together, hand in hand. I found the scene with the musicians not wanting to stop playing to be quite moving as well, it relates well to anyone who is a musician or loves music because we understand the passion that we have and we would rather go down with the ship with the beauty of music than with the sounds of screaming.

[Olivertmc]

Wow PS - talk about insight! At least now I know why it brings on the waterworks.

I think Worf brought up "My Life." I've never seen it, but not for lack of trying. My wife saw it while in college and keeps telling me that it is the saddest movie she's ever seen and that I MUST see it. However, everytime I rent it and put it on, she starts bawling before the opening credits and makes me shut it off. It must be a doozy!

- Olivertmc

[JohnMichael]

4. "Carrie" - As an "outsider" in High School, the scene at the prom kills me before she starts killing them.

Da Worfster

I can relate. Just when she begins to feel like she is part of the crowd they do something so hurtful. As an outsider I rooted for Carrie.

[PeruvianSkies]

Wow PS - talk about insight! At least now I know why it brings on the waterworks.

I think Worf brought up "My Life." I've never seen it, but not for lack of trying. My wife saw it while in college and keeps telling me that it is the saddest movie she's ever seen and that I MUST see it. However, everytime I rent it and put it on, she starts bawling before the opening credits and makes me shut it off. It must be a doozy!

- Olivertmc

Why thank you, maybe I am good for something now and again on this site.

The premise of MY LIFE is a good one, a sad one, but quite frankly ahead of it's time to some degree, although when it came out it was right around the time that consumer camcorders became more popular and affordable and documenting things became popular because of it, even if it was taping silly things like rain falling down etc etc. So here Michael Keaton's character takes advantage of the technology by being able to speak to his unborn son via video so that his son will at least have this form of his father, in some respects in reminds me of SUPERMAN, when Jor-el gets to see his father in the Fortress of Solitude, what a great moment indeed.