What film have you cried during? Or because of?

[tjdee]

Now, I know there are a lot of tough guys and ladies on this site, but surely there is *one* film that caused your tear ducts to involuntary start. Or at the very least lump your throat.

I do not cry during films as a rule.

But I have teared up at a few, none of which I remember right now except 50 First Dates (thanks Gothic Sponge!).

If you cry at every film that's remotely emotional, what made you cry the MOST?

[Red State Rebel]

1. Terms of Endearment

The first time I saw it and they showed Debra Winger when she was getting ready to die it just tore me up. Reminded me of how my Mom looked when she was dying of cancer.

[smbolisnch]

17. Love that movie.

It is so sad, though. When she is screaming "give my daughter the pills!!!!!!!!!" So sad. :cry:

[OhioBlue]

36. a lot..... ones I can think of right now....

Pearl Harbor (even tho that scene was a bit predictable)
Simon Birch
Pay It Forward
Gone With the Wind
Terms of Endearment
My Girl

[terrya]

2. Several:

The end of "Torch Song Trilogy" I've seen it several times...I always cry at the end.

I cried at the end of "Ghost" when I saw it the first time. I sort of hated myself for it...just horribly manipulative sentiment.

And I cried at the end of "Star Trek II"...when Spock "died" and Admiral Kirk reconciled with his son. It was nice. :-)

T

[tjdee]

24. Did you see Ghost in the theater?

I didn't, so I'm thinking it would have been more cryriffic if I had.

[smbolisnch]

3. Glory and ET

I was little when I saw ET, and I still cry when it's on. I saw glory when I was about 13 and I remember getting so upset. Also, any movie with animals....I can't hardly watch animal movies. Shawshank Redemption........

[tjdee]

23. Me EITHER!!

I'm so excited to find someone else who can't watch animal movies!

[smbolisnch]

34. Well you found her!

I can't deal with it. You are not alone! :pals:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

101. One more right here!

Glad to see I'm not alone here. :hi:

[Beaverhausen]

49. Did you see Turner and Hooch?

I won't give the ending away but :cry:

How could they????

[smbolisnch]

53. Please, can we not talk about Turner and Hooch?

:cry:
One of the worst animal movies I can think of. So cute an funny up until the end. It comes on TBS alot, and I will watch it until the last 20 minutes or so, then turn it off. It's just not right. You know what I mean.....

[flamingyouth]

I always cry during Fahrenheit 9/11

The Lila Lipscomb part just does me in...

[yardwork]

60. Oh yes. I cried through the entire movie - just worse during Lila's parts

At the end of the movie everybody in the theatre was laughing and cheering and dancing to Neil Young and I was sobbing.

[Pithlet]

79. I do. One of the casualties featured was someone I knew.

He was someone I went to school with in Flint. I didn't know he had been killed in Iraq until I saw F 9/11 for the first time. It was such a shock. I can't watch that movie anymore without losing it, especially at that scene.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. I never cry at movies

But I got caught completely off guard by "Finding Neverland," with Johnny Depp.

The ending absolutely killed me.

Great movie.

[babylonsister]

5. Brian's Song, in my younger days. nt

[fluffernutter]

30. me too-that song at the end and him running

:cry: sob, it gets me every time

[russian33]

6. Steel Magnolias

Now you want hear me admitting it at poker games with the guys...but it's true. Also, Forrest Gump had a few moments.

[Ariana Celeste]

7. Apocolypse Now

I had to get drunk and high just to start watching it. I managed to sit through it all and only cry a little bit.

But then we went to bed... and as I fell asleep I started getting all these images from pictures I've seen on the net of Iraqi children screaming and wounded and dead. And then they started twisting with images from Apocolypse now. According to my SO, I had started sobbing in my sleep. I woke up sobbing and made my way to the bathroom, where I sobbed and puked and then started crying hysterically.

[yardwork]

61. I reacted to AN that way when I first saw it in the theatre

I stayed up all night arguing with somebody about it in the hall of our dorm. A third guy stayed up all night just listening to our argument. I ended up marrying that third guy.

[Ariana Celeste]

72. I finally just watched the whole thing through....

about 4 months ago.

I think it will be awhile before I can stomache it again.

[Menshevik]

8. Fahrenheit 9/11

The scenes of the Iraqi woman screaming after her house was destroyed...

Lila Lipscomb...

etc.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. me too

[tjdee]

28. Wow that's four of you so far.

That was horrible.

Made me more angry than sad...

[Beaverhausen]

48. I started crying when they were sewing up that Iraqi baby

and pretty much didn't stop for the rest of the film.

[mtnester]

9. Anna and the King

every time

[RevolutionaryActs]

10. I had never really cried during a movie before, until I saw

Fahrenheit 9/11. I cried twice. Moulin Rouge can make me cry, but not like F 9/11.

I've gotten misty watching movies before, but I can usually pull myself together.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

37. both those movies made me cry

[cindyw]

11. I'm a girlie girl, I cry at everything.

nt

[Bronco69]

13. Beaches, makes me cry every time.

:cry:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. The Killing Fields

'nuff said.

[arcane1]

15. too many to count

[errorbells]

16. Color Purple...

when the kids come home and Celie's son (Adam) says ..."Mama"..

[tjdee]

26. Ooh, that's one.

I didn't cry at the end of it until I had a kid of my own though.

[Beaverhausen]

29. CELIE!!!! NETTIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

oh forget it!!! :cry:

[errorbells]

80. stooooop...waaaahhhhh..sniff

:grouphug:

[cruadin]

18. "Old Yeller" --------------it was a long time ago.

[StClone]

19. "Big Fish," "Raising Arizona" "It's a Wonderful Life"

Each offers a little different reason.

Reaching forgiveness and understanding before it's too late in "Big Fish".

"We can be good too" ...coming to terms with life, and live a dream, if only between you and your love.

"It's a Wonderful Life" is just a little story about the power in each of our lives.

[Nikia]

50. I cry during It's a Wonderful Life too

I cry because of the desperatness of his emotion that drove him to wanting to kill himself. I cry because of each meaningful deed and life he touched. I cry because his friends save him too (even though by then he has decided not kill himself). I cry because I have actually had that experience as well as been with friends having that experience too (well, except for the the angel part). It is so emotionally moving, both the movie and the actual experience.

[Beaverhausen]

20. Every one listed above, plus a new one- Finding Neverland

Also, since I saw one of the actresses from it today at lunch, I was thinking about the movie "Secrets and Lies" and that amazing climactic scene in the living room. :cry:

[Skittles]

21. the end of Hilary and Jackie

if that doesn't make you tear up, nothing will

[tjdee]

33. oh my word, I don't remember the end of that!

Something is wrong with me....oh dear...I do remember it ended on a sad note--maybe I blocked it out?

[Skittles]

62. Jackie died at 43

at the very end of the movie, Hilary and Jackie are little girls again, on the beach

[Allenberg]

22. I'm a big softie.

Quite a few movies have jerked on my tear ducts, but Schindler's List always gets me.

[tjdee]

45. The ending, or throughout?

[Allenberg]

51. Twice.

The scenes with the little girl in the red coat, and the end.

[4_Legs_Good]

25. Dead Man Walking

One of the greatest films of all time...

david

[La Lioness Priyanka]

35. that too

[smbolisnch]

38. Yes, forgot about that one!

eom

[Tweed]

27. In America

Probably because I'm Irish.

[Beaverhausen]

32. I really want to see that but is it just sad or is it depressing?

I keep picking it up at the rental place but then I worry that I will be depressed.

[Tweed]

44. The tears are almost of joy

It's not depressing at all. I highly recommend it. I've seen it three times and each time I've ended the movie with a grin on my face.

On edit: I've cried every time too.

[Beaverhausen]

47. Ok great. thanks!

:hi:

[LanternWaste]

66. What an incredibly GREAT movie....! eom

What an incredibly GREAT movie that was!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

31. Chaplin's "The Kid"

If you saw the movie, you know what scene I'm talking about. :cry:

[tjdee]

39. Aww....that was indeed heartbreaking.

Was kind of like Dumbo. I was upset by it, but my eyes stayed dry. No rhyme or reason to it, I don't think.

[fluffernutter]

40. City of Angels, Spitfire Grill, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[kodi]

41. the ending of "The Ice Storm" hit me like a ton of bricks.

I was totally unprepared for it and sat there stunned as I cried my eyes out.

One watches it for 100 minutes enjoying the story, then bam! those last few minutes bring it all home. the look kevin kline gives his son. oh my god; the love and pain and sorrow.

I have loaned out the dvd to several friends and asked them to watch it with their teenage children and each has returned the movie with tears in their eyes as they described what happened in their living room as the film ended.

[Xipe Totec]

42. The Mission

Devastating at so many levels.

I cried for Rodrigo Mendoza when he murdered his brother, during his self imposed penance for his crime, and at his death defending the village.

[WindRavenX]

43. Garden State

The scene with Sam and Andrew in the tub where he says "with you I feel so, safe; so safe"- yeah. I bawled like nothing else :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Magrittes Pipe]

46. Pete's Dragon.

[Solly Mack]

52. The Color Purple ,without fail, every time I view it

When it first came out my sister and I went together. From the opening moments when Celie and Nettie were coming through the fields, we both started crying and didn't stop throughout the movie. I always cry when I watch it.

Several more movies I can't watch without crying as well.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

54. I'm a total crybaby.

I took my niece and my older boy to see Paulie; and my sister was a little concerned that there might be parts that would upset her daughter. When we returned, my sister asked her if she cried.

She said, "No, but Aunt Brenda did."

Busted.

[smbolisnch]

55. Just thought of another one: Life Is Beautiful.

OMG, talk about sad. That was one of those balling so hard by the end you can't really see the screen anymore. :cry:

[Beaverhausen]

56. Ooh- you reminded me. Au Revoir Les Enfants

oh my god!!!

[2bfree]

95. Me too!

In Life is Beautiful..........when you saw the tank coming I started crying....loudly! I have never in my life done that before during a movie (silent tears maybe)and then kept crying for about 30 minutes after we got home. Amazing movie.

[cubschicago]

98. Life is Beautiful also makes me cry

I am a big fan of Roberto Begnini. And it generally his style to be really light-heartedly funny. It made me really attached to his character and to the little boy. And the scene when the tank came in had me balling too. I think I cried continuously throughout the last half hour the first time I watched it...almost to the point of sobbing.

[koneko]

57. I get misty a lot

but the five I can think of now that have made me sob are, in no particular order,

Simon Birch - several scenes.

Steel Magnolias - when Sally Field breaks down at the cemetary.

Titanic - when Jack sinks.

Fahrenheit 9/11 - a girl in the theater BOLTED, and she was sobbing uncontrollably when Lila read her son's letter. It was so obvious that the girl had lost someone in Iraq. Made me cry all the more.

The Passion of the Christ - Go ahead, flame me, I know it's a fundie flick, but I got free tickets toward the end of the run. I went tissueless - big mistake during one scene, when his mother can't help him. That just fucking broke my heart to bits.

[bigwillq]

58. Too many to name. I'm a big baby. I cry at a lot of movies!

I cried during Hotel Rwanda and Million Dollar Baby, those are my most recent movie cries!:cry:

[yardwork]

59. I cry during just about every movie - the worse the movie the more I cry

I cried at the end of Lost in Translation, if that gives you an indication.

Edited to say: Lost in Translation is a great movie. I also cry at the end of really stupid movies. And everything in between.

[Taverner]

63. Field of Dreams

I have daddy issues, whatcanisay?

[Nikia]

64. I cried about the doctor

I did cry more when his dad showed up, but the thing with the doctor really got me going. The doctor did get to play, but gave it up when he saved the girl's life. I found that rather emotional.

[Taverner]

67. Symbolism

It basically validated his decision that he made the right choice in life - to play baseball or to be a doctor. He spent all of his life wondering whether he made the right choice, and at that moment, he knew.

[steely]

68. the catch, right?

same here

[Taverner]

70. Yep

that scene does it every time.

And every guy I've spoke to about that movie who suffered a similar disconnect with their father feels the same way about that scene.

[steely]

75. no shit? how effed up is that.

I never asked anyone. well, maybe in another life.

peace

[LanternWaste]

65. Schindler's List, Band of Brothers, Penny Serenade, Dances W/ Wolves

Schindler's List

Band of Brothers

Penny Serenade

Dances With Wolves


Yeah, I know, pretty conventional list... but there it is.

[sbj405]

69. Born on the Fourth of July nt

[6th Borough]

71. When I was little, I remember crying to "The Bear".

For some reason, that memory stands out.

[Left Is Write]

73. Fried Green Tomatoes. (nt)

[msgadget]

74. "Glory" here too.

I try to avoid those likely to manipulate me to weepiness but Glory was the exception. And, believe it or not, The Shawshank Redemption was also quite powerful and I only watched it once, won't again.

[smbolisnch]

76. Really? I will sit through "Shawshank" whenever it's on.

Probably one of my all time favorites. Very sad though.

[msgadget]

78. It's kinda real in a way,

isn't it? That's what gets me, real people in bad situations and what they have to endure. Terms of Endearment didn't get me, none of the sappy ones do, but if it looks like it could happen - has happened or does happen - and it's futile or a torment, it gets to me. I don't watch war movies for that reason. The sight of all those guys far from home with no way to get back (it's not like they can run around the corner or catch a bus, they're STUCK!)... That's just me, though...

[smbolisnch]

81. Yes, it really is.

You can relate to most of the major characters, and that's what gets me, I think. Still, great movie. :)

[msgadget]

83. Stephen King

He has such a murky reputation and writes like it's an obsessive compulsion but he can sometimes draw great, full characters.

[smbolisnch]

87. Absolutely nt

[harper]

77. My Life as a Dog

The little boy is that movie really got to me. What a tear jerker...but I loved it. One of my favorite flicks.

[solinvictus]

82. "Congo"

Because at the time, I wasted $5 that could've gone toward groceries for that POS movie.

[theboss]

84. Just three

"Schindler's List"
"Brian's Song"
"Old Yeller"

[Pithlet]

85. Too many to mention them all.

E.T., The Color Purple (when Celie sees her children again), Sling Blade (when Carl talks to Frank for what he knows will be the last time), Dumbo (animal movies get me too, especially that one, when Dumbo's mom is rocking him in her trunk and singing to him :cry:).

[Biased Liberal Media]

94. Oh.my.god

When Dumbo's mom is rocking him and they were playing that song "Baby Mine"...i freaking lost it. I was bawling. I have to skip over the chapter in Lion King where Mufasa dies because I end up crying bigtime over that one too. I cried during Monsters Inc where Sully says goodbye to Boo, also...ugh....

[housewolf]

86. Dozens of movies....

I always cry during movies, but the top ones for tears are

Terms of Endearment
The Notebook
Bridges of Madison County

[BiggJawn]

88. Das Boot

Schindler's List
Titanic
Finding Neverland

[Biased Liberal Media]

89. I have cried to pretty much anything and everything. Even Dawn of the Dead

the remake where (SPOILER ALERT)

the father knows he's going to turn into a zombie and has to tell his daughter, who has lost her brothers and mother, goodbye. I was BAWLING in the theater- to a HORROR movie!!!!

Gahhhh.....

[loudestchick]

90. "Philadelphia" Hell, even Springsteen's song is enough to set me weepin'.

[driver8]

91. Brian's Song, Something for Joey...

"Something for Joey" has got to be one of the saddest movies ever. I am not sure if it was a made for tv movie or not. It was the story about John Capaletti who played football at Penn State and for the LA Rams and his brother, Joey, who had cancer (I think). Anyhow, the Penn State team adopted Joey as their "little brother" and everyone loved him. When Joey died, John Capaletti gave a speech to the guys on the team that would have anyone in tears.

"Brian's Song"...(the original; not the remake).

[blue neen]

92. "Cold Mountain"

I just plain sobbed.

[NGU]

93. Beaches

[nutsnberries]

96. The Bridges of Madison County...

get out of the truck, Francesca! :cry:

[BamaGirl]

97. I loved Hope Floats

I bawl every time I see it. You can't go wrong with Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr lol.

[clovis29]

99. green mile

[crispini]

100. House of Mirth

Jeez, the ending? Tore my heart out and stomped that sucker flat... Gillian Anderson was sooooo good.