Films that make you cry.

[Geoffrey S]

Dead poets society: ending

Kudos for that. And to those chosing Dark Star and Silent Running. Love the scene at the end of the last one.

[John86]

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

We were on chat a few months ago and you were telling me about The Green Mile. It had a lasting impact of 8+ years?

[KukriKhan]

Oh yeah; It's A Wonderful Life, (thanks, ShadesPanther). When George gets to the brink of desperation in the bar, just before he heads for the bridge.

Yeah, that scene did it for me the first 2-3 times I saw it; now it's shown 20 times over christmas holidays, so has lost its effect.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Depardieu's "Cyrano de Bergerac" brings me to tears too.

Me too. Such character, such living by Cyrano...

Also, the end of The Last Samurai. Every flower is perfect...

Many others make me sad.

CR

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Any Movie with the Marine Corps Hymn in it Always makes me misty.

Oh and my wife always used to tease me about the end of King Kong. I cant help it. It always teared me up since I was kid. Thats 50 years of watching that damn movie. Son of Kong is even sadder.

[John86]

Any Movie with the Marine Corps Hymn in it Always makes me misty.

That reminds me! The Last Castle

[nokhor]

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

i am trying to work my way up to see an uwe boll film. i figure in 3 years or so, i will finally be emotionally prepared to watch one. they have been hyped by people i know for so long, i hope it's not anticlimatic, and i end up feeling that it wasn't that bad.

[naut]

Man on Fire

Depardieu's "Cyrano de Bergerac"

How could I forget!

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Hotel Rwanda is another film that made me cry. Slipped my mind before.

[Marshal Murat]

The Last Samurai-Ending scene where the samurai charge into the machine-guns, then when Cruise presents the sword to the emperor. I wish they had someone other than cruise...

Saving Private Ryan. Great movie.

Big Fish-closing scene

Gods and Generals-Irish Brigade charges the stonewall (literal)

Schindlers List-It was a great movie.

Braveheart-Final battle at Bannockburn

Dead Poet's Society

[IrishArmenian]

Lorenzo's Oil

Very true.
Hotel Rwanda
Schindler's List
Life is Beautiful
There are some more, but I cannot remember them.

[Hepcat]

Well I have always had a soft spot for true war films. Maybe it's all the talking I do with my Dutch grandfather and English grandmother who were in it, or something else.

I haven't watched a lot of the films mentioned above (not even Schindler's List) but I found the film Downfall to be the most depressing film I've ever seen. Especially the scene where Frau Goebbels poisons her children.

Also, though not a movie, I found the World at War series to be very saddening. I watched the entire 36 hour dvd box set my friend's dad lent me in a week. One day I spent 10 hours straight just watching them and just felt so sad for the entire day, then discussed it with my grandfather who added his own stories and views on what had happened during the occupation of Holland.

I nearly cried in Hotel Rwanda too. My friend highly reccommends The Pianist but hasn't lent it to me yet.

[Togakure]

... 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" ...

Somehow that doesn't surprise me.

For me, it's easy to understand LOTR (the very end, when Frodo departs). It's easier to relate to if you have or have had very close friends over many years. It's even easier if you've lost them, particularly to Death. You know what it means to be that close; you know what it means when that's gone forever.

Saving Private Ryan is easy for me to understand too. I think it's about honoring the ultimate sacrifice of good men. In the case of Private Ryan, they sacrificed for him, personally. It doesn't matter that it may not have been their intention or desire to do so. They did. Imagining myself in his place, that unpayable debt would bring me to tears regularly.

Both of these moved me to tears the first time I watched them.

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I'm sure few will understand why such simple, seemingly silly movies would move anyone. But that's fine, think as you like:

• Pretty Woman (latent beauty in a hard luck case blossoms radiantly with a little help, but she doesn't lose her essential self in the process; a great modern fairy tale, light, touching).
• Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (a great and most honorable man makes an ultimate sacrifice, bringing to an end friendships forged over a myriad of trials and tribulations--well, until the next movie, lol).
  
• Joy Luck Club: There are many moving moments in this film. An emotionfest for those with a sense of empathy and context from their own lives from which to relate.

So many--I figured I'd list a couple that might raise an eyebrow or two.

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

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.

You're talking about not believing people can cry at very moving films like LOTR and Saving Private Ryan, yet you cried watching Four Weddings and Love Actually? I think that says pretty much everything.

[Roman_Man#3]

I choked up at the end of LOTR:ROTK when Frodo leaves, that music gets me everytime.

The end of Last Samurai choked me up as well.

Second hand Lion was a very good movie, and the ending choked me up as well. If you have never seen Second Hand Lion, I would suggest seeing it.

[professorspatula]

Benji the Hunted. The moment where brave Benji reunites the orphaned Cougar cubs with another Cougar mother is the most moving moment in cinema history. Honestly, at one stage I had half a mind never to watch another movie ever again after that, as nothing could ever live up to the incredible acting talent, script, camera work and pure emotion that went into the movie. Fortunately I was about 8 at the time, and immediately saw sense when I discovered Star Wars was being shown on TV at Christmas again. Hurrah!


I actually think it should be law that all children must watch one Benji movie everyday so they can aspire to be as noble and selfless as he. Although they should probably wash more often than that mutt so they don't bring as many fleas into the house.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

no, no the credits (music) in the Return of the King imo is much more saddening than Frodo's departion.

[Don Corleone]

I've seen a few that have gotten me misty over the years. Two that I would like to add:

"Return to Me".... The scene where David Duchovny pulls his dog away from the door and tries to explain to the dog that his wife won't ever be coming home again (damn, I'm getting choked up stitting here typing it...)

"Pay it Forward" I can't say too much about this one as it will ruin the movie.

[Marshal Murat]

Second Hand Lions was a very touching movie.

October Sky was also very amazing.

[Geoffrey S]

Oh, one I really shouldn't forget is Gideon's Daughter. Beautiful, particularly the scenes leading up to the theatre.

And though it didn't draw tears, the end of Kagemusha is brilliant. The final scene is chilling.

[InsaneApache]

I haven't watched a lot of the films mentioned above (not even Schindler's List) but I found the film Downfall to be the most depressing film I've ever seen. Especially the scene where Frau Goebbels poisons her children.

Now that, my friend, is a winner in my book. I got a huge lump in my throat watching that scene. Might be summat to do with having grandkids about their age. It also illustrated perfectly what an amoral and evil mindset the nazis adopted.

[Fragony]

Big Fish-closing scene

Oh gawd yes, fantastic movie from beginning to end, an ode to fantasy.

The sexscene in Munich also did it for, now that is how to implement functional nudity. Before the fun starts it is a loving couple making love, after the fun it is more of a violent rape, very well done Mr Spielberg.

Simon, dutch movie. It's about the frienship of a gay dentist and a dutch cofeeshopholder with cancer, the most politically incorrect politically correct movie. At the end of the movie the characters feel as if they are your real friends. From extreme laughter to hopeless sobbing in 1,5 hour.

Fanny&Alexander, the scene where their father dies, they better raise the dykes a bit, water levels critical.

Amelie. I nearly broke down when she says goodbye to her fish. Yes. Also the scene with the guy finding that little box with stuff from his childhood quite possibly the greatest moviescene ever.

[Don Corleone]

Oh, how could I have forgotten... Sophie's Choice. Schindler's List, of course, plunges me into a depression and sadness everytime I watch it. But if you watch the movie long enough to understand that title, i.e. what actually was the titular choice poor Sophie had to make, you'll be scarred for life. I saw that movie 20 years ago, and I'm getting misty thinking about it now. I don't think I could watch it now, as a father...

[Don Corleone]

Nowhere near as morose and sad as the pick I listed above, but My Life as a Dog is quite touching and painful at times as well.

[Orb]

In line with others' statements, I agree that Kagemusha is tragic and chilling. I was stunned at the end of that film.

[master of the puppets]

CRYING OVER A MOVIE!?! AND YOU CALL YOURSELF MEN!

...oh wait, there was that one book 'They Cage the Animals at Night' that made me cry a little, but never a movie, i'm too manly for that

[Slyspy]

I've never actually cried at a movie, but there are plenty which have left me sorrowful, regretful, thoughtful. Many, such as The Green Mile, have already been mentioned.

I like a film which can play on my emotions.

[Pannonian]

Has anyone seen Au Hasard Balhazar? I remember being quite affected by it as a kid, although that may have been because it was a donkey.

[Don Corleone]

I don't want to give anything away, but all I have to say is that if you watch Sophie's Choice and don't find yourself crying, you're a sociopath competely incapable of empathy and should seek professional help.

[edyzmedieval]

Titanic did it all for me. But when I was 6 years old... But, it didn't matter, I sobbed for an hour.