Films that make you cry.

[Lemur]

Being an old eco-hippie, "Silent Running" really gets to me too, with Huey sailing away into the darkness.

Wow, I had convinced myself that I was the only person alive who had seen that movie. It is strangely moving.

Also the ending of Dark Star, after the philosophy-challenged bomb has detonated itself, and you see the various fates of the crew. It'll choke you up. Or maybe it's just me.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Also the ending of Dark Star, after the philosophy-challenged bomb has detonated itself, and you see the various fates of the crew. It'll choke you up. Or maybe it's just me.

No, not just you. I'll second that.

[Dutch_guy]

Sleepers was quite an intense movie, more so if you have your own children I imagine.

[pevergreen]

I was surprised to find myself holding back my tears watching 'Click' when the main character is lying on the road dying and tells his son "Family First."

Same.

I cried during 'Saw'

It was too scary!

[InsaneApache]

Ok I'll play.

Kudos to Dark Star and Silent Running, great 'proper' sci-fi movies.

No, the most recent film that got me crying was the remake of the Poseidon Adventure. Dire stuff.

[Gregoshi]

Dark Star and Silent Running - I forgot about those excellent movies. Dark Star didn't bring any tears (maybe in laughter?), but Silent Running did.

[Beirut]

At the very beginning of Ken Burns' Civil War documentary, the narrator reads a letter from a Union soldier to his wife. It's about his love for her and what should happen if he dies.

T'is a cold man who would not react with a tear in his eye to that note.

[Soulforged]

Ok this thread is for wussies, but not having other choice , I seriously say that the "Green Mile" was the most moving film I've ever seen, the injustice commited two times in film was just too tragic to endure...

[Puzz3D]

Ok this thread is for wussies, but not having other choice

Well, I didn't get sucked in by the ending of King Kong (2005) despite Peter Jackson's best effort to make you feel bad. In fact, I felt relief for Kong that it was finally over for him, and I thought Ann Darrow should have run up to Jack when he got to the top of the Empire State Building and kicked him in the nuts for being such a jerk. There was more pathos in the original King Kong (1933).

[The Spartan (Returns)]

Schindlers List is the only one I've ever cried during. The scene where Liam convinces himself he could of saved more.

that just makes me feel for him.
Braveheart and John Q make me "feel" too.

[Jubilation T Cornpone]

I'll go with the end of Schindlers list too. It destroys me every time.

[Orb]

Hm... quite a few

The ending of Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Last of the Mohicans, The Green Mile (the execution of Koffee), The English Patient, The Killing Fields, Forrest Gump.

[Whacker]

All of Uwe Boll's movies make me sob uncontrollably like a child.

Seriously though, many of the war movies make me choke up. I know it's not a movie but I've been to both the Pearl Harbor memorial and The Wall in DC, both were incredibly moving.

The ending of LOTR choked me up big time too, esp. the scene with the white ship.

Also, I absolutely can't stand it when dogs die in movies, my whole family have been dog owners since before I was spawned.

[Fragony]

Gawd so many, it doesn't take that much. Even when it's obvious that I am being gutted with a chainsaw it works brilliantly.

[Pannonian]

I haven't seen the film, but watching Jackass on telly often brings a tear to my eye (and makes me cross my legs).

Many of the films that get to me are already listed.

I'd add for the romantics: "Somewhere in Time"

Wow. I'd never seen anyone before who shared my positive view of that film.

If books are included, add the scene in "Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Sabre" on Guangming peak where Zhang Wuji reveals to Yin Liting that the kid they'd been fighting was their brother's son, long thought to be dead. That, and the scene 10 years earlier when he bawls that he doesn't want revenge on those who forced his parents to commit suicide, or to be cured of his injuries, but only for his parents to come back. I find these scenes to be strangely affecting, and I can't wait for the rest of the novel to be translated into English and I can have my wuxia fix.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Wow. I'd never seen anyone before who shared my positive view of that film.

One of my great favourites - very sentimental, but wonderful story by Richard Matheson.

I have the same trouble with "Joe versus the Volcano". Daft title, wonderful warm movie. The "thank you for my life" scene gets me all weepy too.

[Pannonian]

One of my great favourites - very sentimental, but wonderful story by Richard Matheson.

I have the same trouble with "Joe versus the Volcano". Daft title, wonderful warm movie. The "thank you for my life" scene gets me all weepy too.

Have you seen "Ted versus the Volcano"?

"Quetzlcoatl the Volcano God is angry. We must appease his wrath!"
"Volcano God! What kind of nonsense is that? I'll ask you one more time, will you not give Catholicism a try?"
(Irish accent) "It wouldn't catch on. We don't agree with the Pope's line on contraception. It's the '90s for God's sake!"
(Pushes Ted screaming into the volcano).

[John86]

Jack...
The ending gets me everytime.

[Strike For The South]

I saw the green mile when I was like 8. It ruined me for about a month

[naut]

Return of the King: during Aragorn's coronation, when he comes upon the hobbits and they start to bow, he stops them and says "No my friends. You bow to no one." followed by him and the crowd bowing to the hobbits. Gets me choked up everytime. The voice over right after this about the breaking up of the Fellowship doesn't help matters. The other part is during the second to last ending , when Frodo and Gandalf are stepping on to the White Ship. There is the departing forver aspect but also Frodo's smile, reminiscent of his no-worries smiles at the beginning of Fellowship. But what makes this scene even more wrenching is the beautiful music of the soundtrack.

Same, but only when I saw it a second time.

[Decker]

I cried tears of laughter in Blades of Glory. Other than that I can't remember the last time I shed a tear while watching a movie. I've gotten choked up during a movie, (during Flags of Our Fathers when you watch the pictures of the battle, especially the dead got me all choked up pretty good) but I never really cried.

[Bijo]

Cry? Cry?!?! Peh! You bunch o', eh... eh, I mean.... Okay, even if I am a logical / rational person and I don't feel much, there's only a couple of movies that can make me feel something, but they don't make me cry - just make me feel.... "something".

Saving Private Ryan: the end is damned dramatic where Ryan stands at Cpt. Miller's grave.

Platoon: that music is just dramatic but even more dramatic is the scene where a certain person dies, that scene where this person is on the knees holding his arms up and screaming.

Braveheart: damned dramatic.

Gladiatior: how a good man is betrayed and dies; dramatic.

Being John Malkovich: dark and dramatic IMO. Lots of pain and suffering.


I can't think of any more, but there're probably more that come into play. But it's all and of course from a logical standpoint, not from an emotional one, keep that in mind.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Boromir's death from LOTR

Doc Holiday dying at the end of Tombstone

The end of Trains, Planes and Automobiles. John Candy was just great and the bit at the train station just broke me. Very sad indeed

The Green Mile and the death of John Coffey

The end of Man on Fire as well

[RoadKill]

King Kong, i didn't really burst out in tears, but it made me teary, when the giant killing machine monkey died.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Four Weddings and a Funeral: During the funeral.

Love actually: Funeral again.

October Sky: During that father/son climax.

Dead poets society: ending


I don't believe people cried for lotr or saving private ryan. Just seems completely at odds with the genre, like crying during "die hard". Although I guess they were trying for that in spr, with the sappy music and tom hanks. I hate tom hanks though, so his death pleased me.

[InsaneApache]

To be brutal, Tom Hanks didn't actually die. He was just portraying a charater that did.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

To be brutal, Tom Hanks didn't actually die. He was just portraying a charater that did.

Knowing that, perhaps I will cry next time

[Kagemusha]

There are quite few.Im big crybaby when it comes to some movies. Few first that come to mind are Leon´s endscene when the little girl plants Leon´s plant and says that now it has roots.
The last chase of the Last of the Mohicans,where Magua kills Uncas and then the blond girl kills herself before staying as Maguas prisoner.
Ending scene from the Kurosawa´s Kagemusha,where the Takeda generals say farewell to eachother before charging into certain death and after that the Kagemusha charges alone the Oda line and dies after walking for a little time wounded and bleeding after he has seen Takeda Shingens famous flag in the river colored red of the blood of Takeda Samurai.
Death of Maximus in Gladiator.
The endscene of Saving Private Ryan where the rescuers die,while Ryan stayes alive.
Coppola´s Dracula.I think Gary Oldman turns the old blood sucker into a passionate man that is cursed becouse of the strength of his love.
Also Green mile,Braveheart and many more....

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The ending of Gladiator was one of the only films that made me cry. I was composed all through the death of Maximus, and when he gave the order to free his men.

However, when he opened the door, and ran his hand over the wheat...while his little son ran to him through the fields...

[ShadesPanther]

Channel 4 did a 100 greatest tearjerkers film selection
http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfea...ts/100-91.html

5. Ghost
4. It's A Wonderful Life
3. Titanic
2. The Green mile
1. ET

Also Bambi got 6th