Movies that made you cry
 

I know there's a similar thread like this for Forrest Gump, but considering this thread covers such a larger topic range and is naturally about movies, I thought this would be an interesting thread to put up after seeing that Gump one.

What movies (if any) have made you cry? I never associated any shame or embarassment with crying, I don't think it's "wussy" if you do cry be it if your a guy or a girl. So I think we can safely say no one will judge anyone negatively by whatever films we put up here.

Also, what scene in particular in that movie made you cry, like was it anything specific that triggered your water works? I've only cried during 3 movies total, and it takes alot for a movie to make me cry.

#3 Titanic - the ending shot where you see that frozen baby in the water. I wasn't pouring tears but that definitely made my eyes watery.

#2 Independence Day - I don't know why but when I first saw this movie, I cried when Bill Pullman tells his daughter "mommy's sleeping now". I haven't cried during that scene since then but back then, it really got me good.

And the number 1 tear jerker movie for me, the one movie that makes me cry EVERY time I watch it:

#1 United 93 - The scene where the people are calling up their families on the phone on the plane.....I cry every time. I cried when i first saw it in theaters, and i cried again when I watched it at home. It's one of the most heart wrenching scenes I've ever witnessed.

What about the rest of you guys?

The only one that ever really makes me cry is Forrest Gump.
And also in Titanic when the old couple is laying together on a bed with water surrounding them, and they know what's about to happen. It's also the same part where the mother is telling her children a bedtime story, and their bed is surrounded by water.

But besides that, nothing else really.

The Fox and the Hound is one.

But moreso, Mask (the one with Cher). Because one of my best friends since high school also had a disfigured face, and she went through hell. And of course, now that she's passed away...well I'm downright afraid to watch Mask. I don't think I could take it.

^Oh man, that movie too. I totally forgot it, I lovelovelove Mask. Even though it does make me sad.

I don't know the Mask movie your talking about but I have seen Hound and I got to say, I'm surprised to see you mention it.

What part was it that made you feel touched? I'm curious about this.

I really had to think about this for a few minutes.

I must mention Titanic again. Yeah, that scene with the old couple holding eachother on the bed while their room is filling with water, and the man kisses his wife for the last time. Yeah, that got me.

Pearl Harbor, both when that one nurse dies, because she was so sweet and innocent and had so many friends. Also of course when the leading guy dies (his name escapes me at the moment) after his plane crashes, and his friend tells him he's going to be a daddy.

Armogheddon when the astronaughts give their own lives to save the whole earth, and say good-bye for the last time to their spouces/children.

And also the similar Deep Impact when the girl's parents are swept away in the tsunami, and she and her new "husband" now have to raise her baby brother alone.

Return to Me because it was such a sweet story, with a sad beginning, but an awesome ending.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but I can't think of any more right now.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, The Fox and the Hound, and also Bambi

"Goodbye May Seem Forever." I go :'( every time. The song is lovely, but part of it is the fact that the lady abandons this poor domestically-raised animal in the wild to face a probable death. So un-Disneyesque, I know, but that's what I always think when I watch the scene.

The Green Mile--Paul's talk with John in his cell before his execution, and the execution itself
The Sixth Sense--Malcolm finds out the truth
Schindler's List--"I could have saved more!"
The Fountain--"I'm gonna die."
Click--The last meeting between Michael and his dad, and the scene in the rain with his family...:'( :'( :'(
Forrest Gump--Forrest at Jenny's grave
Saving Private Ryan--"Earn this."

I was just thinking about those two, and for pretty much the same reasons. :)

Charlotte's Web really got to me when I was a kid, specifically the part at the end where Charlotte died. The book was just as moving. It's a rare thing to have both the book and the movie be that powerful.

I totally forgot about Click, I was very surprised to find that movie to be so emotional. The scene where Adam Sandler sees his dad in that "replay" sort of scene where he tells him he loves him was especially emotional for me.

Armageddon is one of my favorite movies, I also find it emotional sometimes especially when Bruce Willis gives his final words to his daughter. I just got finished watching Edward Scissorhands and damn that movie makes you sad sometimes.

Very beautiful poetic dark kind of fairytale and you can't help but feel sad for Edward. Especially when his father died and he didn't understand why, unable to touch him without cutting him. Speaking of fathers, Lion King made me sad when Simba was tried to "wake his dad up". Very hard to see a kid go through that.

There has been a large number of movies which have made me cry the first time around - I'm such a sensitive soul - but have somewhat lost that power on repeated viewings when I know what's coming and can be better emotionally prepared, but Jacob's Ladder is one of the few to have made me cry every time I've seen it. There's something about that ending sequence that really gets to me. I just can't help it. The tears come thick and fast. :'(

Seconded. I cry in both versions of the movie, and the book (I haven't read it in ages, but it was always one of my favourites as a kid). I actually find the ending in the animated version to be more powerful, even if the live action version's ending was closer to the book.

I've been known to let loose during the Fox and the Hound myself, though it's a scene toward the end that really gets me going:

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And, please don't laugh, but I cried - long and hard - at the conclusion to Peter Jackson's King Kong.

When I was seven years old (back in '64, guys), I bawled at The Three Lives Of Thomasina. In more recent times, the final scene of Breaker Morant gets me misty-eyed.

One scene that always makes my eyes start to mist up is in Return of the Jedi when that ewok dies and his friend is trying to get him up. Forrest Gump also made me choke up at the end.
The original Land Before Time always makes me feel like I'm on the verge of bursting into tears. Poor Littlefoot's struggles just strike a chord in me every time. Truly a wonderful movie.
But the one movie that really made me cry for the first time was Paulie. I remember watching it when it first came to video and I just couldn't stop crying when the old lady who befriended Polly passed away. It was a fantastic movie, but I'll never watch it again.8D

Saving Private Ryan
Forrest Gump
Click
Armageddon
Titanic
E.T. (I was watching it the other day, started crieing)
Band of Brothers (Not a movie, but a mini-series about a real group of WWII troops)
Probably more that I forgot.....I'll update.

Oh you mean "Paulie"? I went to that on opening day; its not often that they make a movie about a parrot, let alone a conure. :) I have it on tape, need to get it on DVD. Yes, that is a very sad scene.

Another war flick which tears me up is John Wayne's The Green Berets

AWESOME movie. Absolutely required watching. The end scene with Hamchuck looking for "Peter-san" always brings up the tears.

I've never seen any movie that got me an teary (although I did see Forrest Gump when I was young. I don't remember what it was that made me cry). I got close during the climax of Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, mainly due to the destruction images and the Ray Charles song playing in the background.

That was a BEAUTIFUL scene, if it hadn't been so damn well made and artfully constructed I probably would have felt weepy watching it. One movie that made me sad was "The Butterfly Effect"....one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen and I'm usually a very positive person.

That movie just brings you down, seeing how miserable Amy Smart was in one reality and how dark and miserable everyone was. One movie from my childhood that always made me sad was in "Short Circuit 2". There was a couple scenes that made a few tears come.

The first is when Johnny 5 leaves the police station and reveals the two books he chose: Frankenstein and Pinocchio. The second is hard for me to watch sometimes, it's after the villains beat the crap out of him and he's left broken, falling apart and unable to speak or even move that well.

I may be over analyzing the scene a bit much but when the character Fred Redder came to see him and said "My god, what have they done to you?", I really could feel how awful he felt once he saw what happened to Johnny 5.

I loved Fred. I was just thinking of that movie the other day; I'd like to see it again. It was awesome when Fred gave Johnny his silk shirt. But of course the best part was when they were in the sewer and we just hear Fred say "Do you know what I'm standing in??" 8D

That was actually a REALLY good sequel, totally different from the original in many ways but still a great movie. I loved when Johnny went robo-punk and ended up speaking butt backwards "I'm okay just a bit b-bububububbu buggs bunny perfectly functionality FUNctional)".

Not to mention, has one of the best ending music themes I've seen. "I need a hero" by Bonnie Tyler.

The Elephant Man

No explanation needed, for those that have not seen it, it is a classic.

Monty :-/

Indeed, very powerful stuff. I've only seen it once, but I do remember having a real lump in my throat at the end.

I was pretty saddened by that movie too, although not quite to the point of tears. Out of interest, which version did you see? I didn't really know much about the film when I'd rented the DVD, and was surprised when I later discovered that the theatrical release had contained a slightly happier conclusion (or less bleak, at any rate) than what I'd seen. I can't imagine it being quite as effective, though.

Another film I'm amazed I forgot is the Truman Show. I haven't seen it for a few years now, but I used to watch it all the time back in my late teens, and I remember always having a tear in my eye at the final outcome.

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I saw it both in theaters and the DVD, so in fact I saw both endings and I actually prefer the original movie ending. Which if you didn't see that ending and don't intend on renting/buying the movie anytime soon, I'll explain what it is and why it is "happier":

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That's basically the whole ending, and I do feel this was the better of the two. Even though it is a bit happier, like you said, you can still taste that bleak/depressing feeling.

I saw The Truman Show when I was fairly young when it was in theaters. I remember it, even now, as a movie that really touched me just because of what it was about.

The movie Metropolis was something that also got me near tears because of the end. I don't mean the 1920s Metropolis by Fritz Lang, but the anime that's somewhat based off both that version and Osamu Tezuka's manga. I found the ending fairly heartrending and, while there's still hope at the end of it, it's still this really bittersweet feeling when all is said and done.

I totally agree! I seriously can't imagine seeing that climax without that song in there. It made the whole thing very heartwrenching.

ohhhhhh, i always thought y'all were talking about the 1920's Metropolis.

soooo confused.

Thanks, Mr. M. I thought that the DVD version worked pretty well myself, but if I had any complaints it would be that it was perhaps a tad too reminiscent of the ending to Donnie Darko (or at least one interpretation of it, anyway). There's another very sad movie, though oddly enough I didn't find it quite as bleak as I did the Butterfly Effect, I suppose because with Donnie Darko there was a stronger element of humour and character throughout, so it made the conclusion a little easier to swallow.

oh, dude,
the movie may ALWAYS make me cry!

Here's another one:
A.I.: Artifical Intelligence

Sweet, heart-warming ending.

Yeah that's on right now. Neat movie, but I'm afraid I wasn't moved by it.

I cry at absolutely EVERYTHING I see on TV. I cried at 'Go Goo Go' and at the Spongebob Episode 'Welcome to The Chum Bucket' for Pete's sake! Out of Movies though, i'd have to say the three movies that made me cry the most were;

Titantic, Armageddon and lastly Green Mile. All three of them mess with me bad ways, but Green Mile... blummin' 'eck, I've never cried so hard at a movie as I did that one.

OMG!
someone else who can cry at the drop of a hat!
sweet-o!