Movies that make you cry

[Reyv]

The question at hand is rather simple. What movies and/or series have you watched that have managed to make you cry?

I don't know if this is something many people care to experience, but I personally enjoy crying as a result of an engaging storyline.

I have only two entries that I care to add:

1. Naruto
2. The Last Samurai

Naruto, the entry that prompted this post, is an anime (Japanese animation) series that I've been watching over the past week. My expectations for it were rather low, but the emotional attachment it's generated is nothing short of amazing. I've found myself crying almost non-stop throughout episodes 16-18. Of course, you'd need to watch all the episodes until that point to get the proper character development. What I particularly like is that I can rewatch those episodes, and they will without fail generate those same emotions all over again. I have a number of other movies in mind that have managed to make me cry through the element of surprise, and had no effect on subsequent viewings.

The Last Samurai, well, I usually cry all throughout the ending.

[joie_de_vivre]

I don't usually cry during movies, but a few have moved me to tears.

The Motorcycle Diaries: I watched it several times, and am still moved when I remember it... a powerful and beautiful film.

The Snow Walker: A little-known but excellent film about a young Inuit woman in the Canadian Arctic. She is an extraordinary heroine.

And I agree with you about the ending of The Last Samurai.

[Dating Specialist]

I don't too. But lately I'm more easily moved ha!

Can't remember the old ones (since I don't tear so easily last time), but the latest one that moved me to tears was "Charlotte's Web".

Touched me so much that I blogged about it, cos it's not just about the tears but about what I learnt from this movie.

Here's the post if you like to read: A Web Of Love: Charlotte’s Web

[Amit]

Pay it forward,

Amazing film, gets me in tears every time I watch it!

[Blueskied]

The end of Titanic won't leave anyone's eyes dry.

[alexb5784]

The Notebook and the recent film The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith and his son. That movie had the whole entire movie theater in tears

[Dating Specialist]

Originally Posted by alexb5784

The Notebook and the recent film The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith and his son. That movie had the whole entire movie theater in tears

Hmm, sounds tempting to go buy one now... thanks for the recommendation Alex!

[Lucas]

Dead Poets Society

What Dreams May Come

Gattaca (just the part where he says hes going home)

The Iron Giant (I...am...superman...)

[moviestar]

I sometimes feel like crying but tears never leave me eyes. How do you do that? Do you feel like crying or do just tears come out?

[aznandyboi]

its hard to explain. but when you watch a really good movie it feels as if you are one of the characters in the storyline and that everything else that happens in the movie directly affects you. surprisingly, this emotional attachment arises from an hour or two of the film while you watch the characters develop. and then when you see the pain they go through, you feel exactly what they are going through and cry.

[VeganMelissa]

It's old but Steel Magnolias gets me EVERY time!

[dor]

Originally Posted by Lucas

The Iron Giant (I...am...superman...)

oh yes....

Titanic: i remember 'crying' now I think its fluff and shallow...but there is other stuff, that's even 'fluffier' that brings a tear to my eye.

[Matthew Shea]

Originally Posted by alexb5784

The Notebook and the recent film The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith and his son. That movie had the whole entire movie theater in tears

I just saw The Pursuit of Happyness and I agree. That was a very moving film.

[vivling]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I didn't cry the first time I saw it, but it touched me deeply. I've watched it several times since and cried everytime, sometimes even troughout the entire film.

It's not really a sad movie, it's a feel-good movie, but you'd have to see it to understand why I find it so emotional.

[Leandro Leme]

Originally Posted by vivling

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I didn't cry the first time I saw it, but it touched me deeply. I've watched it several times since and cried everytime, sometimes even troughout the entire film.

It's not really a sad movie, it's a feel-good movie, but you'd have to see it to understand why I find it so emotional.

Hello vivling,

I friend of mine desperate cried for 2 hours locked in his car after seeing this movie.
It´s a feel-good movie for me, but I found that lots of people get very emotional.

[vivling]

Originally Posted by Leandro Leme

Hello vivling,

I friend of mine desperate cried for 2 hours locked in his car after seeing this movie.

Woah, that's a strong reaction, but I don't blame your friend

[drgrudge]

I'm a sort of emotionla person and I've cried while watching many movies.

Here's some:
- Titanic
- Gattaca
- Bruce Almighty
- Brokeback Mountain
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Léon
- La Vita è bella (Life is beautiful)
- Nuovo cinema Paradiso

and many more.. can't seem to remember all of them now.

[Scientist]

Little Miss Sunshine really affected me.

I strongly identified with Dwayne. Watching him struggle and suffer in the film reminded me of myself and things I've struggled with. I felt his pain. It was very powerful, I don't think I've ever been affected by a movie like that before.

[Angela]

**sniff** The Joy Luck Club. That's a whole kleenex box movie.

[Dan.Linehan]

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - every time on this one.
• Six Feet Under (TV Series)
• American Beauty
• Slingblade
• Garden State

[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)

[Lucas]

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)

Oh man, if you dont cry watching that film, you are a statue. Im getting all sad thinking about it.

[SamBeaven]

Pretty much any Miyazaki film, normally at the end. Most recently Howl's Moving Castle.

Also, Otomo's Steamboy. But that wasn't actually down to the plot so much as the sheer beauty of the imagination, particularly at the very end.

[quin]

The last two movies I cried in were:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. The Doors

[asrai]

I Am Sam. Little Dakota Fanning has got to the best actress I've ever seen. Oh how I cried.

[Abdullah]

There's only one movie I can think of right now.

"City Lights" by Charlie Chaplin (1931)

If you've watched it, you know the scene

[Mayo]

"Life as a House" and with Kevin Kline, wow it impacted on me greatly also K-Pax with Kevin Spacey, and many many other although i'm not a crying boy :)!

[rush23]

Steel Magnolias, Titanic, A Walk to Remember and If Only are among many films that made me teary-eyed, but the movie that makes me cry every time I see it is the Indian movie, Kal Ho Na Ho (Tomorrow May Never Come). Although the movie is in Hindi and I have to read subtitles, the movie moves me every time.

[shant121]

I had tears swelling up over and over again :P. The movie was slow but very good. Excellent script and performances. Stars Hillary Swank.

Its based on a true story of teacher in middle school in Long Beach, CA and how she brings unites a class of teenagers torn apart by racial tensions and gangs.

[searstower]

Ok, I'm known to be a cryer at the end of a good movie. However, these two brought tears to my husband's eyes.

Spiderman 2 (on the train)
Cars (the end of the race)

These are some of my favorite inspirational ones...
The Princess Bride
The Family Stone
Love Actually
Finding Nemo
Fried Green Tomatos

And a few that have previously been mentioned that I agree with...
Garden State
The Last Samurai

Rebecca