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For some reason, I love a good weepy movie. If a movie can make me feel happy, break my heart, and then make me happy again, I consider it a masterpiece. Disney seem to be particularly good for this.

The fox and the hound gets me really bad every time.

Some others off the top of my head

lion king
the lake house
charlottes web
the pursuit of happiness
titanic
saving private ryan
forest gump
moonlight jellyfish

What movies make you guys cry? Or at least well up  :P

A.I. makes me cry like a baby. I watched it the other day and I couldn't stop for two hours.

I get emotional in most movies, and whether I'm laughing or cooing or crying, there tends to be tears. I'll make a list and get back to you. ;)

~Simone.

ooh AI I forgot about that. Most people I know hate that movie!   ???

Quote from: Jeatyn on December 15, 2008, 11:21:14 PM
ooh AI I forgot about that. Most people I know hate that movie!   ???

I think it's beautiful and very tragic. The human beings in the movie are vastly less humane and "good" than the A.I's. I love how even a character like Gigolo Joe is a complete innocent.

~Simone.

Re: Movies that make you cry

all the ones with happy endings.

I think you messed up the title...it should say "Movies that don't make you cry." The only movies I don't cry at are comedy movies, unless you count tearing up from too much laughter. Seriously though, I will cry at happy endings, sad endings, and everything in between. I'm a big baby when it comes to movies  :'( I think I put myself in their shoes too much, lol

Quote from: SarahR on December 15, 2008, 11:57:53 PM
I think you messed up the title...it should say "Movies that don't make you cry." The only movies I don't cry at are comedy movies, unless you count tearing up from too much laughter. Seriously though, I will cry at happy endings, sad endings, and everything in between. I'm a big baby when it comes to movies  :'( I think I put myself in their shoes too much, lol

I'm exactly the same. I relate to the characters majorly. I love it though  ;D movie addict for sure

Any movie where the hero/heroine dies.
Titanic
8 Below
Old Yeller

Janet

When I was young I would get very upset and cry at the end of Easy Rider.  As I grew older, the ending got happier and happier.  Now, I don't think the end is sad at all.

But I will always cry at It's A Wonderful Life.

Schindler's List
Million Dollar Baby
What Dreams May Come

just to name a few...

It would appear that anything that ends with tinkly music and a long crane shot away from the location, or very slow fade out seems to work.

I didn't cry as such.. but Face Off defiently got my lip jerkin!

Casino Royale

Why couldn't I be the girl in the red dress- even if I didn't get F'd. The dress was worth it! :D
Cindy James

Bridge to Terabithia had me bawling the other day.  I remember reading the book when I was a kid and feeling utterly betrayed by the author.  It still made depressed and maudlin 20 years after I read it.  I don't know why they keep insisting on trying to market it as a fantasy, when it clearly isn't anything of the sort.  Very well written book, though.  Pretty good movie, as well, though I don't think they did a great job at casting Leslie.

I'm a soft touch, so I try to avoid movies that will make me cry. I mean my mom caught me crying at a cartoon show once.  But anyways, one movie that always stuck in my head was 'Best of the Best'. 
It was the seen near the end, the awards ceremony. The Korean team had just won.  The main fighter on the korean side looks totally thrashed and nervous. He finally starts hobbling over to the american team, over to the guy who he fought.  He takes his metal and puts it over the guys' head and offers to take the place of his brother.   :'(

the only movie that ever got me was Radio

I cry about everything literally, but let's see:

Grave of the Fireflies
The passion of the Christ
I am Sam
Lorenzo's oil
Losing Isaiah
Not without my daughter
Steel Magnolias
All dogs go to heaven
Philadelphia
United 93
Awakenings
Field of dreams
Stepmom
Ghost
Patch Adams
Boys don't cry
A girl like me

...........and many, many, many others

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Quote from: Tink on December 17, 2008, 08:38:53 PM
I am Sam

OMG...I cry sooooo much every time I see this movie! Such a good movie!

Steel Magnolias (always everytime)
Stealing Home
Terms of Endearment
Torch Song Trilogy

All I can come up with at the moment, sure there are plenty more!
Myles

"Brian's Song"

~Kate~

Movies almost never make me cry. That's probably because I tried so hard not to because I thought I had to be manly - at the age of six :D. I think I am starting to come out of my shell though. Oddly enough, the first movie to make me cry since then was the Saikano live action movie, which wasn't even that memorable.

Latest: The Hours

Someone already mentioned it, but Schindlers List at a few different parts.

Quote from: tekla on December 16, 2008, 12:47:41 AM
When I was young I would get very upset and cry at the end of Easy Rider.  As I grew older, the ending got happier and happier.  Now, I don't think the end is sad at all.

:o

I mean, you could argue that King Lear ends with a light, uplifting, cheery twist ... but Easy Rider?

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I can't even answer the question, because I don't really register it if I cry at a movie most of the time. I remember that it was sad, but whether or not I cried, I just don't relly remember most of the time. The exception is Schindler's List: I specifically recall not crying at all for the whole three hours -- it was just too tense somehow -- until the last scene at the memorial to Schindler, with all the survivers and their descendents. The same exact thing happened the second time I saw the film.

One movie that always makes me cry is Danny Boyle's Millions. That movie is so awesome.

The new Will Smith movie Seven Pounds had me crying the whole way through. I just love a sad movie and this one is bringing tears to my eyes just thinking about it.

Off the top of my head...

reality bites
homeroom (everytime)
the other sister
wild tigers I have known (just a little glassy eyed at the end)

My all time Fav is "My First Mister" with Leelee Sobieski.

I cry every time i see it.

Steph

Pan's Labyrinth

it is so sad and so happy at the same time.

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Steel Magnolias
Spitfire Grill
Rocky (Adrian!!!!!!!!)
A Simple Twist Of Fate
The Bridges of Madison County
Ordinary People
The Kid

Moulin Rouge is the only one I can think of from the top of my head.

lots for me but Armageddon does very much

Quote from: Ms Delgado on March 19, 2009, 08:14:00 AM
lots for me but Armageddon does very much

Same here, every time I watch it.

I just can't believe that I didn't mention my favorite movie of all times..What Dreams May Come.  You will definitely need five or six boxes of kleenex to watch that one!  :P


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the champ.

Okay, it's not really a movie, but I watched "Beautiful Daughters" a while ago when I guess you could say I was at a tipping point in my transition. I went through literally half a box of tissues. I never saw it before because, well, I'm like that. I mean to watch things for years and never do. Kind of dumb, I know.  ::)  It's the most positive and real media portrayal of transsexual women I've ever seen, and I was amazed how much hope it gave me.

~Alyssa

Oh, I'm a big crier.  I cry in anime, movies, books...it doesn't take much.

Dead Poets Society
Milk
The Thin Red Line
Steel Magnolias.  Every single time.
Moulin Rouge
Ghost
The Crow (I can't help it...)
What Dreams May Come (I'd totally forgotten that one!  So beautiful)
The Way Home (a Korean film...oh...you should see it)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Nobody Knows (Japanese film...SO SAD!!!)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Cillian Murphy...again, so sad)
The Devil's Own

Quote from: Jaimey on March 27, 2009, 10:47:24 PMThe Thin Red Line

That's such a beautiful movie. I think of it, in an odd way, as American Beauty, the Guadalcanal version. (Or perhaps it's the other way around.) It got trampled by Private Ryan, which is sad, because it's such a different movie. Thin Red Line and American Beauty are, to me, about the beauty of life despite or even because of the ugliness. There's something of Milan Kundera in them both. (Either that or I was just rereading Unbearable Lightness again....)

Anyway, I just loved Thin Red Line. I wasn't so much moved to tears as moved beyond tears.

Loads, but the most shameful of all was "Ayat Ayat Cinta" (Verses of Love). My wife and her family were killing themselves laughing  and taking the p*ss out of the film but it made me cry! :embarrassed:

I like the '64 version of TRL, shot in B&W it's a lot starker than the remake.

Haibane Renmei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haibane_Renmei)

Think of it as a 7-1/2 - hour animated movie.

=K

Quote from: Alyssa M. on March 28, 2009, 02:02:10 AM
That's such a beautiful movie. I think of it, in an odd way, as American Beauty, the Guadalcanal version. (Or perhaps it's the other way around.) It got trampled by Private Ryan, which is sad, because it's such a different movie. Thin Red Line and American Beauty are, to me, about the beauty of life despite or even because of the ugliness. There's something of Milan Kundera in them both. (Either that or I was just rereading Unbearable Lightness again....)

Anyway, I just loved Thin Red Line. I wasn't so much moved to tears as moved beyond tears.

I'm glad it's not just me.  I went to the theater to see it by myself when I was in high school.  It was SO BEAUTIFUL.  I hate that it was so overshadowed by Private Ryan.  A lot of people missed out on a great movie, I think.

To begin with, I usually do not cry because of a touching movie. Usually. But there are some movies that almost made me cry.
Today I watched Soldier's girl and at the end, when she is performing while Barry is murdered I sat in front of my notebook and had to swallow very hard...

Oh god. I have to constantly fight myself from crying during sad movies! I try to avoid them, but sometimes they slip past my radar... one of my favorites was kitchen stories.. found it on netflix and boy was it good. I'm still avoiding when the wind blows, the description of that one gets me all teary eyed. I know this is about movies, but I wanted to throw in some sad tv episodes, too. Hope it's no biggie. The ds9 episode, the visitor.... omg.  :icon_cry2:... t'pol and tripps relationship in enterprise always gets me too. aghh. And the last episode of ds9, with Odo and Kira... so freakin' sad.

Ikiru, Mrs Doubtfire, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Brokeback Mountain, Dodeskaden, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, and The Neverending Story. There are probably others.

I Am Legend. The scene with the dog. I can't watch that movie anymore because of that scene. It made me cry uncontrollably for half an hour at least.

Anything with an animal dying, getting lost, or being rescued. I'm a sucker for that kinda stuff.  :'(

I'm going to go with the most recent film I seen that made me cry and that was "The Odd Life of Timothy Green". I didn't blubber or anything but I shed a few tears.

Quote from: Simon on December 03, 2012, 12:32:43 AM
Anything with an animal dying, getting lost, or being rescued. I'm a sucker for that kinda stuff.  :'(

Artax... :'(

Quote from: DeeperThanSwords on December 03, 2012, 12:42:20 PM
Artax... :'(

That poor, poor horse.  :'(

Requiem for a Dream. Ellen Burstyn talking to Jared Leto about "being alone" breaks me down every time because she reminds me so much of my grandmother.

Quote from: Simon on December 03, 2012, 12:47:41 PM
That poor, poor horse.  :'(

I know. Bawling my heart out every time.

Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella).
Normal (TV movie about TS).
American beauty.

Oh gods yes, La Vita e Bella is so achingly beautiful!

Getting ready to watch one of my favorite films from childhood that makes me shed a few "happy tears". What is it? Free Willy  :D

Ahem* Toy story 3...yep

Quote from: hazel on January 06, 2013, 06:37:05 PM
Ahem* Toy story 3...yep

That's one that a lot of people won't admit to!

All of them. Yes I'm serious. I either start crying cause it's sad or I start crying cause it's happy or I start crying because music gets me going. Hope E doesn't make me worse.

The movie I cry at every time I fricken watch it is Armageddon, every time I cry, I have even tried not to but I do every time without fail  :( its such an old movie but great at the same time :)

I'm trying to remember the last movie that didn't make me cry at least once.  I am a baby.  Yep. :)

Oh my.... The entire Christian Bale Batman series. Why must his voice be so hideous?  :'(

I cried when Lois Lane died in Superman

I cried when E.T. went home

I cried when Maverick Lost Goose

Finding Neverland - at many points throughout the movie, but especially when the little boy figures out how to fly the kite.

Under the Tuscan Sun - when the carpenters finish renovating Frances' house and say goodbye - the quite, gentle carpenter cries on Frances' shoulder (gets me everytime).

Quote from: DianaP on January 07, 2013, 10:31:47 PM
Oh my.... The entire Christian Bale Batman series. Why must his voice be so hideous?  :'(

;D I watched predators the other night and it was like Adrian Brody was trying to do a Bale batman impression the whole time...so bad.

If a movie doesn't leave my teary it's probably not one I wanted to see. Cried through most of the last half (and much of the first) of Les Miz. Knew I would, so I made sure my pockets were filled with Kleenex. But I cried a lot during Contact, Top Gun, We Are Marshall (even though I hate football)... the list is practically endless.

Quote from: hazel on January 08, 2013, 08:15:39 AM
;D I watched predators the other night and it was like Adrian Brody was trying to do a Bale batman impression the whole time...so bad.

Whhhhuuuuuttt? Predators was awesome! *spoiler coming up* The whole story of criminals being dropped onto a planet that is a training ground for the Preds is at least original (originality is rare these days). You girls have no taste...NO TASTE in films, lol.

The scene in Better Than Chocolate, roughly an hour in, when Judy (pre-op transwoman) is attacked in the bathroom by a butch woman who is what I think of whenever I read Cathy Brennan's blogs.

I tend to cry pretty easily at movies. "Up" was particularly bad for me. I remember being in tears every ten minutes or so.

Quote from: JosetteRoux on January 27, 2013, 12:32:20 AM
I tend to cry pretty easily at movies. "Up" was particularly bad for me. I remember being in tears every ten minutes or so.

The first and last 10 minutes of that film are beautiful and heart-breaking.

The new Les Mis is now on my list of blub material. I cried almost constantly through it.

When Serenity ended and there was no more firefly :<

Cried at Wilde yesterday. Poor old Oscar.

just bawled my eyes out three times during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part Two

What i can remember off the top off my head, Lion King, Iron Giant, Adaption and Finding Nemo.

QuoteOh my.... The entire Christian Bale Batman series. Why must his voice be so hideous?

I know right? it was like (imo) Heath was so great in Dark Knight Returns and then Christian Bale opens his mouth and kinda kills the mood lol.

I cant believe no one mentioned this movie but --  pay it forward, OMG the tears came, and a couple anime's Spirited away,(when she found her parents turned to pigs) and welcome to the NHK - major melt down when it showed the kitty dead.. and several others most have been mentioned, oh and also a beutiful mind.

and yes I know the thread is old but still good to find a great movie

One movie which gets the waterworks going is 'Monster' with Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci.

The scene which gets me is the one where Selby (Christina Ricci) is leaving on the bus and you see that Lee is left on her own and that from that point forward there's not going to be a way out and her life is over.

Another isn't actually a movie but it's a screenplay which was a spin off from the Alan Bleasdale movie 'From The Black Stuff' which is about a gang of Liverpool unemployed men working as a gang to lay tarmac in the early days of Thatcherism.

The tearjerker is 'George's Last Ride' and is about the final days of George, the oldest member of the gang. played by Peter Kerrigan. George was previously a well known Liverpool union leader and shop steward for the dockers before he was blackballed, became unemployed, and started working on the gang. It was written and directed by Alan Bleasdale.

The scene which gets the waterworks going is when another member of the gang Chrissy takes George, who is dying and in poor health, out for a walk from his home in Dingle to the docks where, alone with Chrissy he dies.

Then just as you're wiping away the tears there's the funeral scenes and you see all the people coming out onto the streets to pay their last respects.

The series established a whole host of Liverpool actors such as Jean Boht, Julie Walters, Bernard Hill, Ricky Tomlinson, Gilly Coman and Paul Barber and if you have a spare couple of hours is well worth watching.

I cry as almost all movies but last night I watched "My Sister's Keeper" - cried sooo much!

For those who haven't seen it, it's about a girl with leukemia.  Her parents have another girl specifically to be a cell doner to her sister.