Movies that make you cry

[purplepower]

Sometimes I get teary over movies that are not intrinsically sad, but which stir up nostalgia. I always cry over "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" because I can remember exactly when and where I saw it ( 16 at the drive in with my first "real" boyfriend) also "Milo and Otis" because animal movies ALWAYS reduce me to tears, God knows why, "Guys and Dolls" because it was the movie my brother took me to on his last leave home before he was killed. So. . . . whether or not I cry at movies is very much dependent upon the whole memory thing rather than the content.

[sourceofmiracles]

1) Grave of the Fireflies (anime about Hiroshima survivors... sadest movie I
have ever seen by far)
2) The Elephant Man
3) Hotel Rowanda
4) The Color Purple
5) Platoon
6) Rabbit Proof Fence (About aboriginy kids that walked 1500 miles through
the Australian Outback... twice)
7) Pay if Foward
8) Mask
9) Man on the Moon (life of Andy Kaufman)
10) Rainman
11) Wonderful Life (almost forgot that one)

*still haven't seen Schindler's List (have to add it to Netflix)

[sourceofmiracles]

Originally Posted by oriental_express

its gotta be grave of the fire flies.
its about worn torn japan in WWII where a little boy has to take care of his little sis, and the hard ship they have to go through.

read the reviews

IMDb user comments for Hotaru no haka (1988)

Yeah, this was the sadest movie I have ever seen. After watching it, just seeing the DVD cover made me emotional.

[Baltar]

Dances with Wolves
A Beautiful Mind
The Twilight Samurai (Japanese movie)

[Liara Covert]

Beaches
Schindler's List
Ghost
Casablanca
Bridges Over Madison County
The Color Purple
Terms of Endearment
A very Long Engagement
Seabiscuit
E.T.

[Henrik]

Good thread. Hmm, I´d say:

Gattaca
The Iron Giant
The Brotherhood of War (awesome south-korean war-film)
The Shawshank Redemption
Planes, Traines and Automobiles (John Candy at the trainstation at the end really got to me).
And probably a whole bunch more I can´t remember right now.

Also, some episodes of the Simpsons (among them the one where Homer saves Ned´s leftorium. Weird, huh?) and a couple of the earlier episodes of Without a Trace.

[annie]

Old Yeller and Where a Red Fern Grows

I sorta liked A Walk to Remember (the best thing that came from that is my addiction to Switchfoot

[ncos]

L.I.E.
Little Miss Sunshine
My Dog Skip
Sling Blade
Oliver Twist

[aabukar]

for me
1. AI (atritificial intellignece) i just feel so emotional when i see the mom leaves the robot baby alone. so sad

2. The patriot (the part where the small girl cries and runs to her father saying please dad i will speak just dont leave)

3. I am Sam

4. a Walk to remember

among others

[Minishark]

As far as I can remember, the only two movies I've ever cried at were Saving Private Ryan and Big Fish.

[Alchemiss]

Ditto on Rabbit Proof Fence and Life As A House.

Also, The Spitfire Grill--it gets me every single time.

[silicon toad2000]

Ditto with pay it forward.

Also the end of the godfather trilogy. I watch all three godfather films in one day once a year, usually around my birthday. I always cry near the end when the daughter gets shot.

[ZHereford]

Originally Posted by Lucas

Dead Poets Society

One of my favorite movies of all time! It not only makes me cry, it stirs me very deeply. I quote from it here.

Beyond that, other than comedies, all movies make me cry! I'm such a sap.

[Carl Carlson IV]

American History X
Enternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

If you haven't seen those two movies, go watch 'em now! They are the best movies I have ever seen.

[Argentum]

The Green Mile
Casablanca

[Nathan]

suprised no one has mentioned this one:

'John Q' with Denzel Washington

Has me in tears every time

[carenkh]

As others have said:
Iron Giant
It's a Wonderful Life (no matter how many times I see it)
Life is Beautiful
Garden State
Million Dollar Baby
Color Purple
My Dog Skip
Old Yeller
Saving Private Ryan
Dead Poets Society

I felt too manipulated by Pay it Forward to cry.


I, too, get emotionally invested in Naruto! It is surprisingly good.

Not yet mentioned:
> Billy Elliott

> LOTR (esp. when the Ents come to the rescue! I wanted to stand and cheer in the theater)

> Breaking the Waves - I've wanted to re-watch this one, but it is SO emotionally wrenching, I've rented it and not watched it several times! I cried for about an hour straight after seeing it in the theater. Very beautiful, very moving...Emily Watson, ahhh.....

> The Bicycle Thief

> Whale Rider - oops, getting teary just thinking about it!

[luvnitdenver]

I'm not one to cry at movies much but there's one that gets me every single time and I can't belive I haven't seen it posted yet....

8 Seconds

[LittleFlame]

I agree with Alex, the Notebook is a very good movie. I love the ending...

[Woohoo]

The only movie that made me cry was a Japanese movie about a dog whose owner died. Unfortunately I can't remember it's name
I've seen it a long time ago back when I was a little kid.

The second movie on my list, that almost made me cry was "La vita é Bella"(Life is beautiful).

Third (didn't make me cry but it was a little bit sadder than the average movies): Titanic.

[JoepBlox]

Many many movies! The obvious ones are American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine, LA Vita è Bellaetc.

And for the not-so-obvious ones:

• Bandits
• The Incredibles
• Shrek 1 and 2
• Pulp Fiction
• X-men 1 and 2
• South Park, Bigger, Longer and Uncut

And I'm not kidding!

[jaamkie]

Earthlings
Babel
The Hours
Hotel Rwanda
Good Will Hunting

ok pretty much any movie...

[breakthestatic00]

Big Fish

[Guardian Angel]

I hope someone has seen this quite old film, "The Killing Fields". It is a story about a Vietnamese who sacrificed a lot just to free an American journalist so that the world will know about what's happening to their country during the war. But what really made me cry was when the ending was near. The song "Imagine" by the great late John Lennon was being played while both characters will meet again after the journalist returned to Vietnam to thank him.

Another touching films I like are:

RAINMAN - Dustin Hofmann and Tom Cruise
THE GREEN MILE - Tom Hanks
SEVEN - Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt

[sheffy4]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

• Six Feet Under (TV Series)
  

The series finale of Six Feet Under was totally heart wrenching, but in a good way. I totally cried...

And also The Notebook never fails.

[sheffy4]

Originally Posted by breakthestatic00

Big Fish

Oh, and Big Fish gets me too!

It's the perfect ending.

[Xin]

+1 for...

Hotaru no Haka
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Pursuit of Happyness

[seeker5]

Apollo 13
The Green Mile
Lords of the Ring: Return of the King (beautiful ending on top of that city)

[Angela]

I just watched The English Patient again, a movie that always makes me cry. But this time I saw some things I hadn't seen before... the English Patient traded his maps to the Nazis for a plane so that he could go fetch his beloved from the cave, and the audience was supposed to forgive him for his treachery because of his great love, and I did the first time I saw the movie. Except: it turns out that he had left this woman in the cave, wounded and helpless for THREE YEARS. There's no way she could have still been alive. (the movie made it seem like maybe a few days had passed.) So his treacherous act was in pursuit of a corpse. Also, when he gets back to the cave, he has sex with her body! In the movie, she looks pretty good, like she's sleeping, and he just cuddles up with her. But after three years, yeeechhhhh!

I am not so enamored of this film anymore.

[{aspiring_to_clarity}]

Dude! I didn't realize it was three years! Wait, WTF? I have to watch it again...