The One Movie That Makes You Cry, Every Time

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Mine's "Umberto D." Leaves me bawling like nothing else, and for some sick reason I just ordered the Criterion DVd of it because I need to own it.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Toy Story 2. I once worried the flight staff on a trip to Singapore by weeping through Jessie's song.

To Live, also.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Forrest Gump

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Say Anything: Twee, sure. But I defy no one to shed a tear when Ione Skye says to her father (after finding out he stole thousands from the elderly): "You stole from them! I trusted you; I stood up in court years ago, and I picked you!"

[The Philadelphia Story was a close second.]

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Love Story.
The Land Before Time.
Up the Junction.
If...
Doctor Zhivago.
Cinema Paradiso.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Appropriate use of space to create one movie....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I haven't seen Say Anything, so I'm crying now..

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot watch the scene when Dumbo visits his mother.

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos, you big-hearted, lovable madman.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

La Jetée. And, oddly, Independence Day.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

best of the best

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Forced to pick one I'd choose 'Shane'. It seems to hit on so many things - 'good vs. evil', doomed love, an appealing notion of basic human decency, the transience of relationships. On top of all that, and this is the killer, I used to watch it over and over again with my son when he was about four or five so I will always associate it with that. Transience again.

― David (David), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian's Song when I was a kid; now virtually anything that has to do with kids dying or being reunited with their parents/caregivers. (parents = suckas)

Oh, and The Jungle Book, because of COURSE Shere Khan was right, of COURSE Mowgli will end up being a hunter, and of COURSE his best bet was to stay in the jungle with Baloo and Bagheera. I'm still pissed I couldn't grow up in the jungle with talking and singing animals.

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cry, Dan Perry!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i cried when i watched "Unfaithful". it made me think of how i would feel if my wife did that to me.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

""Cry, Dan Perry!"

Or, "A Study of How To Style It Out When You Trip and Fall On Your Face"

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Father Of The Bride II

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The end of [i[Field of Dreams[/i] - if not crying, then tearing up at the least.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't Look Now and The Sound of Music

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god, Brian's Song is the saddest movie ever.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinema Paradiso...actually, i usually start when i hear the opening music...

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

pootie tang. or scarface.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if I have one per se, but the last that made me tear up a bit was Crouching Tiger. The last movie in general that completely left me a wreck was the original TV version of Shadowlands with Joss Ackland.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The Legend of 1900 always garners a few tears, too.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is, I cry at every movie. Cool Runnings had me bawling for fuck's sake. Don't get me started on the Forrest Gump fiasco.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i recently cried after i went to see the hulk and realized i'd wasted 3 hours and $30 (tix, food, etc.) for a crap film.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

How the fuck much food did you buy?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is, I cry at every movie. Cool Runnings had me bawling for fuck's sake. Don't get me started on the Forrest Gump fiasco.

Ally, we really are the same person.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Benji

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes, I cry during the trailers.

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I inexplicably bawled thru my second viewing of The Cruise -- thru the whole thing. it was embarrassing and I couldn't stop.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

...cried during Insomnia but only because I'd given myself a headache by squinting at Robin Williams trying to work out which emotion he was currently trying to convey....

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The Iron Giant

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ditto Iron Giant, holy god DAMN that movie had the saddest-then-happiest ending

― Neudonym, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Iron Giant and the little kid waving at the end of Donnie Darko come closest. Mosquito Coast used to sort of do it (I haven't seen it in ages so don't remember if it still would).

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Must be something to do with jungles, I remember The Mission always nailed me when I was jolly small.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Eh, it's a resonance thing -- Harrison Ford's character was, at the time, the closest movie character I'd seen to my father. (I think I posted somewhere around here on a thread about books that when I read Nick Hornsby's How To Be Good, I kept throwing the book across the room cause of the same resonance. Same basic effect.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrei Rublev, there's this one plan (no narrative role really) where Andrei and another monk are sitting in a tree in the rain, I have no real idea why this particular scene is so sad, but it is.

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, 'member when Hooch was in the hospital and Turner didn't know if he was gonna live or not?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Not really, no.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, me neither
*muffled sobs*

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel your pain.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It's okay, Slim. Tom Hanks makes it out fine!

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, it's funny that this thread came up because just this past Sunday I was randomly flipping channels, and I found Do The Right Thing somewhere, about a third of the way into it. I decided to watch because I hadn't seen the thing in ... heck, maybe a decade. It totally made me weep. I'm not really even sure why. I didn't cry when I first saw it as a 17 year old in 1989, even though I knew it was of the most intense things I'd ever witnessed. I'm not prone to crying at all. I guess I never joined in on those crying threads that were active recently, but honestly I can count the number of times I've cried in my adult life on one hand. And two of those were due to movies. Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers made me weep when I saw it a couple years ago. It just has such and epic, operatic flow and it builds to this totally cathartic climax. Alain Delon's performance is brilliant, and it's one of his earliest roles.

And then I cried Sunday. ha, I was actually going to try to revive that 'Spike Lee - Classic or Dud' thread to talk about it, but then we had the server problems yesterday, and then today I didn't feel as inspired to talk about how intense the experience was. But yeah, Lee's a genius.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

All about my father... Oh. My. God. I bawwwwwwwwwled. It is so sand and romantic you MUST SEE IT.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

[The Philadelphia Story was a close second.]

I was surprised recently to discover that The Phildelphia Story is almost entirely about the effects of alcohol. It didn't make me cry, it made me drink.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cinemacinema/AFFICHES_CINEMA1/cine_freddy_fingered.jpg

― Dada, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That one made me weep for the future.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm holding back tears at almost every movie too, the more obvious the better. However, the first thing that came to mind was 'In the Mood for Love' when he's whispering his secret to a hole in Angkor Wat and then covers it with earth; this has me ready to cry again right now.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

pootie tang. or scarface.

oddly enough i was watching the 1932 Howard Hawks "Scarface" for the first time yesterday and I actually teared up a bit at the end, when Tony Camonte finally gives up hope after watching his beloved (heh) sister die.

my real, all-time, never-fails, yeah-i'm-a-wuss answer: "Snoopy Come Home."

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

smoke

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

the son's room, also, rather pathetically, romeo+juliet where i caused much laughter by shouting out, "she's alive!" at the telly. crouching tiger, hidden dragon is another weepie i find.

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Les Enfants du Paradis. Every. Fucking. Time.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of my favorite "make-me-cry" films already mentioned = Donny Darko, Crouching Tiger, Iron Giant

Some of my favorite "make-me-cry" films not mentioned = Rules of Attraction, Run Lola Run, Magnolia

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Watership Down always makes me cry.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i cried at the raining toads in Magnolia, but it was more out of fright than anything.

The Children's Hour will always make me cry.

― black plastic (black plastic), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

rocco and his brothers and most of visconti's films now that I think about it

― hebe cat (hebe), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I recently saw the last half of Terms of Endearment on tv, and cried my everlovin' eyes out. Afterwards, I was offended that they could even make a movie with such a drawn-out, heartstring-pulling death sequence. It just seemed cruel.

― Rufus King, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hoary old chestnut that it is, It's a Wonderful Life. And Twelve Monkeys, when Bruce Willis and Madeliene Stowe first appear in their disguises, making the denouement obvious.

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The only movies that make me cry every time are Spirited Away (near the beginning) and Good Will Hunting (near the end).

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

My Life - that Michael Keaton flick. Four guys sitting around crying like babies back in the day.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually call it crying, but there were tears in my eyes when I came to the ends of both "McCabe & Mrs.Miller" and "The Wild Bunch" last week.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

insert a "wouldn't" between " and "Actually". Now, that makes sense.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Last Picture Show (same writer as Terms Of Endearment, Rufus! His books are great!).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

shakespeare in love
the abyss

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It's easier to think of movies that don't make me cry. The Matrix Reloaded made me cry, for heaven's sake!

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Les Enfants du Paradis

isn't that the movie you got your old screenname from, ally? garance something?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The beginning of Spirited Away hella gets me too; something about that movie is so intense, it's like I am Chihiro or something! You'd think after the umpteenth time watching it I'd have grown a shell to it, but noooooooo.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Justyn, yes, that's nice of you to remember the explanation.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/popcorn/lacenaire_3.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! I once went to a screening I thought was Pale Rider and turned out to be Children of Paradise. It ended up being me and my friend Emily in an otherwise-empty theater for three hours. What a great movie!

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I always cry at the bit in ET where he's fallen in the river under the bridge and he turns all white and he's nearly dead and I want my mummy now.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Children of Paradise is the most beautiful, heartbreaking movie I've ever seen.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a moment of really savage violence in that film that still startles me when I think about it.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you know the whole thing was shot without official permission? All those huge crowd scenes were assembled without permits and had to be shot mega-quickly.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The whole movie is extraordinarily dark; it seems to be a nice romantic drama but when it comes down to it, it's virtually suicidal. The ending is just like...fuck. Why did I even watch this?

Yet I've seen it about 47 times.

Yeah, the official permission thing was a huge problem--that's also the reason why there are two "halves" to the film. The first half was released significantly prior to the second and assembled as a full film by Carne later.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm actually getting upset thinking about this movie, wtf?

http://www.avguide.com/film_music/film/editorials/images/june10_cop_stage1.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i recently cried after i went to see the hulk and realized i'd wasted 3 hours and $30 (tix, food, etc.) for a crap film.

Replace "The Hulk" with "Magnolia" and "$30 (tix, food, etc.)" with "$3.50 (rental)" and you're completely OTM.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Dancer in the Dark
Grave of the Fireflies
Donnie Darko (fucking "Mad World"!)

― Simon H., Wednesday, 23 July 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, you're saying Magnolia DOESN'T get ya? What are you, a freakin' robot?

What about Tom Cruise talking to the dying Jason Robards?? Or William H Macy's line "I have love to give. I just don't know where to put it". Or about 15 other scenes...

And, weirdly, Se7en makes me lose it, at precisely the moment Gwyneth dissolves in tears talking to Morgan Freeman.

Heart-rending.

― lee ward (lee ward), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember, Lee, Dan is a heartless robot (in a good way). Those scenes probably made him laugh in the same way Oscar Wilde once said (though I paraphrase here) in re: Victorian literary conventions, "There is nothing so humorous as a crying child."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Speaking of robots, Terminator 2. Anyone? Am I alone here?

― elliott (ebb), Thursday, 24 July 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently I don't cry enough.

When old man Brooks kicked it on Dawson's Creek, though...

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 24 July 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

What about when old man Brooks kicked it in The Shawshank Redemption?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 24 July 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen that in so long I can't remember. But I'd come close.

I'm a sucker for those male-bonding type of crying moments (like the end of FoD).

One I've forgotten, loathe as I am to admit it, the coda to Saving Private Ryan kills me. And the last couple of interviews for Band of Brothers. Those soldiers always remind me of my grandfather.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 24 July 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

What about when old man Brooks kicked it in The Shawshank Redemption?

Every time.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 July 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone seen Greenfingers or Mean Machine? British movies, where convicts are "set free" by gardening and playing football, respectively? This old guy is in both of them. He kicks it. He's pigeonholed as the old guy who kicks it in prison.

I didn't cry during either one. But I did wonder if these were concieved as nothing more than anglophile bait.

― elliott (ebb), Thursday, 24 July 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Any movie that makes me cry I'm probably going to never watch again (I don't see many movies more than once anyway). Too many to mention made me cry that one time, but Grave Of The Fireflies really sticks out.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 24 July 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The endings to Avalon and Godfather III both really get me. I think the latter is really more because of the way they really combine Mascagni's Intermezzo with the silence of Michael screaming, then the flashbacks and then his death. But as for Avalon, I really feel this bittersweet sorrow that everything was just fine, and yet nothing was the same. And I value that one much more.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 24 July 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No one's mentioned The Fox and The Hound yet - that one really knocked me for a loop when I was in 4th grade. Haven't seen it since, so I couldn't say if it still has the same effect.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 24 July 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried in Monsters Inc, when Sully took Boo back home.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 24 July 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

No one's mentioned The Fox and The Hound yet - that one really knocked me for a loop when I was in 4th grade. Haven't seen it since, so I couldn't say if it still has the same effect.

Reminds me of tearing up at E.T., when I was 6. Who couldn't cry when E.T. leaves Eliot?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

What about Tom Cruise talking to the dying Jason Robards?? Or William H Macy's line "I have love to give. I just don't know where to put it". Or about 15 other scenes...

I honestly think that "Magnolia" is one of the dumbest films ever made. The only part that approaches real sentimentality for me is the first scene where they cut between characters singing that Aimee Mann song; everything else is blatant pandering, insipid over-acting (HELLO TOM CRUISE, STOP BLIGHTING THE SILVER SCREEN PLZ) or just plain boring.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

And yes, yet again, Perry rules his own part of space.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom Cruise's samarai movie, wtf?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It's aptly titled The Last Samourai, because I'm certain it will spell the death knell for that particular genre.

― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 24 July 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I will only go to see that movie if special goggles will allow me to step into the movie and kick Tom in the nuts.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Frankenstein. Few things fuck with my emotions as much as the monster's screams of mortal horror when he's trapped in the burning windmill.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Umberto D. made me cry, too! I just have this thing about old men with dogs.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I bawled my eyes out at the end of Gattaca, when Etan finally got to fly and Jude killed himself. The music usually is what kicks it up a notch for me. Heat does the same thing, right at the end with the standoff at the airport, cuz of the gorgeous music. I tear up every time. I cried in Dragonheart too. I am a big fat wuss.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Once Were Warriors, guaranteed to have your entire postcolonial lit class in tears by [certain troubling scene 3/4 through]* or your money back!

*true story

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

-Frances
-Harold and Maude
-Ghost World

I guess that's three movies. Oh well.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't cry at movies really at all, but I got pretty close towards the end of The Bird People of China. Damn that's a good movie.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos is so hugely OTM with the "Baby Mine" scene in Dumbo, and you're all a bunch of heartless, pabulum-chewing gormandizers if you disagree.

"My Life as a Dog" rules this thread for me, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 December 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

OTM about Dumbo

Also, Bambie

Also, Gordy - first scene

Also, Scarlet's 'As god is my witness!' bit

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 6 December 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

hiroshima mon amour at the end, devastating, gives me chills just thinking about it

the insider gets me a bunch

all the real girls gets me about half of the time

pieces of april got me last night

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

What was that French film about the little girl whose mother dies prematurely? "Ponette"? That one got me.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CXT8.02.LZZZZZZZ.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

8 Mile. When Rabbit finally triumphs over the Free World and Brittney Murphy gives him the finger. . .chokes me up everytime.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

La vie devant soi..

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a soft spot for worldly street urchins...

Salaam Bombay and Pixote...I have yet to see Children Of God.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, The Good Son also.

Why is Macaulay sooo mean to Elijah?! That rat bastard!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i love how on this thread ally reveals herself to be a secret film dork!

i go to the movies to cry really, it's the highest form of praise i have. there are many movies that dependably make me cry.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wilde film

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Sunday, 7 December 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i cried during "21 grams" when sean penn told the blonde girl that he had her husband's heart and she became hysterical; i don't know why.

crying during movies/books is supposedly due to the events somehow reminding you of something in your own life, no? i think i read that somwhere.

― j c (j c), Sunday, 7 December 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

was the blonde girl naomi watts?

dooooooooooooooooooooood

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 7 December 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno if I posted this already, and I'm too lazy to look, but Best of the Best turns me into a sniveling baby EVERY TIME.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 7 December 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

La Bamba

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 8 December 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

My new pet hate movie is PAYCHECK because it looks like it would be right up my alley BUT BUT BUT it stars the eternally loathsome BEN AFFLECK. DAMN YOU, JOHN WOO.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

John Woo sold out, man.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 8 December 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah he should be back in hong kong making those art movies

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The ending of The Iron Giant always brings me to tears. Shrek too. And Dumbo.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Wilbur (wants to kill himself) - that was a seriously sad story

― Thinky, Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

'How Green Was My Valley'

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"Life and Debt"

― cybele (cybele), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

um some more:
the last picture show- like the whole damn thing
passion of joan of arc
taste of cherry
how green was my valley
the sandlot

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 10 January 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Toy Story 2

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 10 January 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

harold and maude

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 10 January 2004 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't tend to see movies more than once, so I can't really talk about what makes me cry "every time" -- but within the last year, I did see All the Real Girls twice in the theater and cried both times. I think I may have already mentioned somewhere that the movie that has made me cry like a blubbering idiot was Mr. Holland's Opus; I'm still not sure what happened. I teared up at a couple points during the film, but then somehow completely broke down on the entire car ride home.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 10 January 2004 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I cried at Mr Holland's Opus too jaymc - the scenes at the end where they do the "tribute" orchestra thing especially. And both Pay It Forward and Edward Scissorhands had me sobbing miserably at the end. I gotta admit I cry at loads of films but I wasn't alone at Pay it Forward I don't think - I could hear sniffling from all sides at the cinema and when the lights came back on at the end of the film, every single person's face was ashen and there were plenty of tear-stained ones. There are loads of us criers out there...

― Melly E (Melly E), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The singalong scene in Magnolia always gets me.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i cry a lot, but there are some films that reduce me to hysterical sobbing instead of the usual teary-eyed sniffling: it's a wonderful life, miracle on 34th street (santa sings with the dutch war orphan), dumbo, terms of endearment (debra winger tells ungrateful son that he's going to miss her when she dies), edward scissorhands, penny serenade.
agreed that children of paradise is totally brutal. didn't one of the lead actors disappear during filming due to his involvement in the french resistance?

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 11 January 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Grave of the Fireflies is about the most depressing movie I've ever seen; another vote.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 12 January 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Kramer Vs Kramer is fucking knifetwistingly weepable

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 12 January 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The "singing" woman in Mulholland Drive. Like BLUBBERING.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Five Easy Pieces.
A World Apart.

I've never seen "Shadowlands" because I saw it in the theatre and wept my guts out.

I bawled my eyes out at the end of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", but I've never seen it since, because I can't go through that wringer again. I avoid films about illness, death, and the holocaust, if I can help it.

― R the V (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 12 January 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Parts in the Lord of the Rings movies that fuck me up (off the top of my head): [often out of inspiration or something else and not sadness necessarily]

Pippin singing for Denethor as Faromir rides off to his doom.
Merry & Pippin being separated and Merry all "I don't know what's going to happen!".
Eowyn singing at Theodred's funeral.
Gandalf & Co. charging down the hill with the sun behind them at Helm's Deep.
The Ents' march.
The strawberries and cream thing at the foot of Mordor.
Boramir trying to protect the hobbitses after he turned on Frodo while getting shot the fuck down.

I'm sure there are more.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't believe i forgot to list au revoir, les enfants. holy shit. waterworks.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 January 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fly (1986) was on last night and I cried like a madman.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 January 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Many of the Frodo/Sam scenes in "Return Of The King" that almost made me cry, largely because my wife was making kissy faces at the screen throughout most of them.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

Toy Story 2. I once worried the flight staff on a trip to Singapore by weeping through Jessie's song.

I wept to Jessie's Song, too. How about that, I've been way too embarrased to tell anyone before now!

Also:
'Arizona Junior', the final scene where they are old.
'E.T.', the final scene when he has to go home.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, that scene from Toy Story 2 is the scene that's come closest to making me cry from any movie in the past 10 years, SO SAD!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

embarrasSed

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

whoops, wrong thread.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

That one about robots dying, the one I always forget the title of. I've only seen it once, but if I saw it again I'd be a wreck.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Silent Running, that's the one, I mentioned it before on another thread.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

iron giant always kills me

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. It's embarassing.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

embarrasSed

you funny guy, you! :-)

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Iron Giant die?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

SPOILERS:

Yes, but don't worry, he comes back to life in the end.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

IRON GIANT!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't see what's embarassing about The Iron Giant making you cry. It's one of my favourite movies of the nineties.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Though now the one part that always makes me cry (when he comes back to life) has been spoiled for others because of curious Jel.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, when he says 'Superman' I always lose it. Ditto on most of Old Yeller.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Soul... don't... die."

I didn't know The Iron Giant had so many fans besides me. The funniest thing about it is that the Iron Giant himself has been voiced by Vin Diesel.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Robin Williams in the Iron Giant?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"I am NOT a gun."

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Bambi
Brian's Song
Iron Giant
It's a Wonderful Life
Roughly half of the 29 hours of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which I've watched multiple times
Philadelphia
A Tale of Two Cities (1939 version with Ronald Colman - total blubber-fest)
Anything with a horse or horses as main characters
On the other hand, Terms of Endearment just made me want to strangle somebody. I loathed that movie. Same with Hannah and her Sisters, another major manipulation fest.

― Hey Jude, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I welled up when they finally found Nemo. Quite a lot of the films that make me cry are cartoons, actually.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

also:
http://www.maximument.com/graphics/Posters/Dredd.jpg

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha!

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I never cried when Prime died. I felt a bit guilty about that.

To my horror and disdain, Silent Running doesn't seem to be available on DVD.

Return of the Jedi, when one of the Ewoks dies neraly makes me cry, and so did the bit where old Anakin, Ben and Yoda appear in spirit at the end (tears of joy, almost)...but they had to go and mess about with that poignant scene!!!!!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

That Ewok bit is well sad. It's the way his mate shakes him, obviously expecting him to get up.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude good robots dying always chokes my ass up in the worst way.

If they made a TV advert where a robot vacuum was shown giving up the ghost after 15 years of faithful service (shown by a series of vignettes as it agelessly cleans up after a growing family) I would become the kind of person who tears up at commercials.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Silent Running is on DVD! The IMDB says so!

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

the color purple

er.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"Edward Scissorhands" (the snow scene)

and to a more dramatic extent

"Dancer in the Dark" (3/4 of it)

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Dancer in the Dark makes me cry with laughter every time.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, tears of rage in my case.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

a documentary called "Silverlake Life". I've only seen it twice. The first time the entire theater stayed in their seats whimpering for about 10 minutes afterward. The second time I had to see it again at home on video and it had the exact same effect.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the futurama episode about the dog almost made me cry.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dvdaficionado.com/price.html?dvd=19461
Silent Running is available for less than $10.

I tear up at the end of Paths of Glory, when the German girl is singing to the French soldiers for no apparent reason.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Cartoon films are the most likely to make me cry too. I cried in Lilo & Stitch (when Stitch was cast out) and Shrek (when Shrek thought the princess doesn't love her) as well.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

A League of Their Own. I am not sure why, but last time I saw it, it came on HBO at 11 am and I cried through the entire thing.

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh dude the futurama episode with the dog almost got me too. Oh my god. Now I have "I'm Walking On Sunshine" stuck in my head and I'm depressed!
Fuck you.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh dude the futurama episode with the dog almost got me too.

I've refused to watch that episode ever again. It's too sad.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Harold and Maude always makes me cry.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the way we were

― minerva, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

'my girl', when macauley culkin dies.
'my dog skip' when malcolm in the middle beats the dog then the dog gets old and dies. so sad.

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

cinema paradiso

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Its not a movie, but the end of the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark", where Fry is trying to accept he cant bring back his fossilised dog by saying "oh well he would have lived and had a happy life without me anyway" and then they cut to the past and theres the damn dog waiting summer and winter, rain and shine, outside the pizza shop, til it rests its head on its paws sadly, and closes its eyes... oh god I cant watch it anymore I cry so much! :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sweet Hereafter
And, OMG, the Futurama about the dog is just killer. I didn't just cry, I wept noisily.

― Hey Jude, Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I just cried a little bit at the end of the game!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Since there was a Bond movie on TV last night, I was reminded of the most gut-wrenching ending to a thoroughly populist, frivolous movie EVAH: when Diana Rigg is killed at the end of On her Majesty's Secret Service, when they've just got married and are talking about how many freaking babies they're going to have. I snivelled like a child the last time I saw it.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 28 October 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a wonderful life reduces me to sobbing hysterics by the end, and the scene with kris kringle and the dutch war orphan in miracle on 34th street elicits a similar reaction even though i feel manipulated (calculated use of orphans is unfair).

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 28 October 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

'miracle on 34th street', yeah. here's to lawyers.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 October 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Beaches
The Sixth Sense

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 28 October 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

(yes, i know that's two movies)

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 28 October 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Land of Silence and Darkness" (Werner Herzog) - if you've never seen this, go out and do so, pronto

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That scene in 'Paths of Glory' has the same effect on me, Milo.

I cry at lots of films, but mostly because I'm an emotional wreck - Some days quiz shows make me cry.

But films that always do it, well, I think most of them have been mentioned. 'Grave of the Fireflies' is one 'Threads' made me shake and cry the first time I saw it, these days I just cry - the middle part, anyway; it gets a bit detached towards the end. 'The Elephant Man' is another. There's probably loads...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, man, "Silverlak Life" absolutely destroyed me -- and that one's a killer because there's no manipulation involved at all, just the real unglamourous death of a deeply beloved person.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

City of God. Especially that one part. If you've seen it, you know which part I'm talking about.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and also MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO.

"MAY!?!?! MAAAAAAAY!?!??!?!?!?!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a sucker for the sound of little kids screaming in fear, I think.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I saw that Futurama episode once a year or two ago, and reading that little description just now made my heart literally ache. I don't even want to think about it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Father who art in heaven, hollowed be thy name, why did you have to take Futurama away from us you chode?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think God was punishing Futurama for putting out the MOST DEPRESSING EPISODE EVER. I've seen more lighthearted episodes of Six Feet Under.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG "chode"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

when Diana Rigg is killed at the end of On her Majesty's Secret Service, when they've just got married and are talking about how many freaking babies they're going to have. I snivelled like a child the last time I saw it.
Oh god me too! Also...
Jack & Sarah
That futurama episode
steel magnolias
anything involving animals dying makes me cry
ET
Philadelphia
Gladiator (OMG)
My Girl
The 3rd LOTR made me cry on 3 separate parts of the film
Babe (the bit where they are all talking about pig paradise)
Actually, I tend to cry at almost everything these days!! *sigh*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

ET
The Elephant Man

Almost anything to be frank

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't watch the elephant man because it is far too sad.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bleeding Gums Murphy DIES episode of the Simpsons both A) made me cry, and B) pissed me off, as he was one of my favorite characters on the show.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ditto on Elephant Man, and, similarly MASK (not the 80s toy/cartoon franchise, the Eric Stoltz/Cher movie).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service really is amazing. My theory is that even though George Lazenby could have been a great Bond, after they did that they realized that character development was actually a HORRIBLE idea for the franchise and decided to sweep the whole thing under the rug, pretend it never happened, and call up Roger Moore.

http://www.sign4me.de/film/film2/georgelazenby.jpg

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

You know they didn't use Lazenby's voice?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The 3rd LOTR made me cry on 3 separate parts of the film

When you realised it wasn't finished?

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

NB: I did not cry.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

When you realised it wasn't finished?
Heh! It did go on a bit, but no!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Cinema Paradiso, dammit. Glug.

― Will McKenzie, Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i refuse to watch the umbrellas of cherbourg in anyone else's presence anymore because that movie DESTROYS ME LIKE NOTHING ELSE and i don't want anyone to see me blubbering like an infant during that final shot.

others:
ratcatcher (when he smiles at the camera at the end, i totally lose my shit, it's almost embarrassing)
children of paradise (the last ten minutes are seriously some of the most heartwrenching moments in film ever made, i think)
finding nemo (the first FIVE MINUTES)
pretty much all the lars von trier movies i've seen, save dogville, after which i was just speechless instead of emotional
a few parts of magnolia, specifically when the kid on the quiz show goes into his rambling monologue attacking adults who think precocious kids are "cute" (this kind of hit home for me)
lotr: return of the king
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

last film to make me a bit teary-eyed was umberto d, when he's trying to give his dog away to the little girl. everything that follows that scene is actually pretty emotional, too.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

when the little dog comes running back!

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

sniffle :*(

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Finding Nemo. When the dad finds Nemo and they have a big old fishy hug. Bucketloads of tears, I couldn't even watch the end of the film the first time I saw it, and was still snivelling away when I went to my bed half an hour later.

Also, the bit in Titanic when the old couple snuggle up on their bed ready to die as the ship sinks, and a mother is tucking her kids up trying to not to let on what is happening. The rest of the film, meh, that little montage...shit, I'm welling up just thinking about it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Little Women, "Now I am the one going ahead" buckets of tears every time.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Lately my pick would be "The Straight Story," thanks to Richard Fansworth's character and the beautiful soundtrack.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

a lot of the things that make joseph well up are the things that make me want annihilate earth for the sake of decency, I wonder if we're just coming from completely different perspectives

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, Return of the King for me too.

Has no one mentioned Lost in Translation yet?

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Lost in Translation made me get very quiet, mostly because I watched it at the behest of my husband, who'd found it wonderfully moving, while I just found it ... well ... kinda tedious and pathetic. It's hard to know what to say to someone you care about when your opinion about something that obviously means a lot to them is soooo different.

― Hey Jude, Friday, 29 October 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Little Princess

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I sympathize with those that chose "Umberto D.", but for me it's "Strozek".

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I'll second Cinema Paradiso and the Elephant Man, too.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 October 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the thin red line
ordet
meet me in st. louis

― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

thin red line definetly. i must admit 8 1/2 always gets to me for some mysterious reason.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 29 October 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The de-licing part of Ratcatcher, so fucken grim.

The part in higher learning when Kristy Swanson (post-getting raped) is eating a sandwich alone on campus and trying to get the mustard out of the packet but it's too fucking complicated and she just starts bawling - i ain't been raped but that mustard thing is totally the kind of thing that can set you off when you're lost and everyone around you is vivid and in their prime, fucking mustard packet so hard to open

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 29 October 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

die hard

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 October 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I think I cried when watching Amelie because she looks so much like my Mamabear did when she was young, exact same hair and everything. God, I put that woman through so much shit I probably aged her doubletime. I love mamabear.

Yeah DIE HARD too!

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 29 October 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I remembered Finding Nemo this morning too.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

any dreyer film gets me, he knows how to make a film.

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

C.H.U.D. II gets me every time.

― cdwill, Friday, 29 October 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Started bubbling up twice watching the 1951 Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol, then nearly lost it watching Toy Story 2 a bit later. Wife's a little bit concerned about my emotional state but it's a combination of sweating off a hangover and impending cold rather than any crises.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

cinema paradiso

― "the steen of my life" and selected BIG HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

Highlander

― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

So glad Iron Giant was up there pretty early on this list.

― Gukbe, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

Harry and the Hendersons

― circa1916, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

the father stuff at the beginning of fanny and alexander

― circa1916, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

Highlander

I have this very experience

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

Iron Giant and Wall-E. My brother always cries at "My Giant," starring Billy Crystal and Gheorghe Mureşan. Fox and the Hound always makes me cry. There are others, but I forget them.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

The Futurama episode about the dog made me cry, but "The Sting" episode made me cry even harder and it made my brain melt.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Wednesday, 24 December 2008 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

I am a huge cryer, it's terrible. Anyone else cry at people singing in movies? My boyfriend thinks I'm insane. I tear up during the happy parts of musicals. Fucking La Marseillaise scene in Cascablanca kills me. True story: I recently cried watching that episode of The Cosby Show where they lipsync to Ray Charles on the stairs. What the hell.

― franny glass, Thursday, 25 December 2008 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

The movies I cry during are rarely sophisticated in any reasonable sense.

― Eric H., Thursday, 25 December 2008 05:52 (seventeen years ago)

I guess maybe Passion of Joan of Arc might be one tho. Meet Me in St. Louis, obviously.

― Eric H., Thursday, 25 December 2008 05:52 (seventeen years ago)

dreyer's dependable for a good sob (cf. ordet)

― lyndonna larouge (donna rouge), Thursday, 25 December 2008 06:05 (seventeen years ago)

Almost every movie on a long flight

― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, 25 December 2008 07:39 (seventeen years ago)

PURPLE RAIN

― warmsherry, Thursday, 25 December 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

Dreyer? :o

too Scandinavian.

E.T.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 December 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

Shadowlands
and, as I discovered today, the final ten minutes of Scrooged

― caek, Friday, 26 December 2008 01:13 (seventeen years ago)

I forgot about Martin Rosen's ability to make the world's saddest movies: 'Watership' Down and 'The Plague Dogs.'

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 26 December 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

Jacob's Ladder
(small sample size -- 1 viewing, but it was a pretty memorable breakdown)

― WmC, Friday, 26 December 2008 19:25 (seventeen years ago)

Donnie Darko has already been mentioned multiple times...two others come to mind:
W;t (2001 Mike Nichols/HBO adaptation of the play)
Alpha Dog

― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 26 December 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

and, as I discovered today, the final ten minutes of Scrooged

same here. i cry extremely easily at movies, though, even ones i dislike. it doesn't matter. i still don't know how i restrained myself during wall-e, considering that one of the previews (triumphant story of a mexican little league team) managed to bring me to (hidden) tears.

― lauren, Friday, 26 December 2008 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

am i the only one to cry at the end of citizen kane?

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 6 May 2010 00:17 (fifteen years ago)

The part in "The Accidental Tourist" where William Hurt is id'ing his son's body in the morgue, the way he says "Yes that is my son," and the look on his face after, gets me every time.

― thirdalternative, Thursday, 6 May 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

Also: Babe. Yeah, the pig movie.

― thirdalternative, Thursday, 6 May 2010 03:11 (fifteen years ago)

Already mentioned, still unsurpassed in movie history imho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oSdgIDyl6Q&feature=related

― Now, Thursday, 6 May 2010 03:22 (fifteen years ago)

early summer
tokyo story
late spring

pretty much any ozu melodrama

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2010 05:39 (fifteen years ago)

waterloo bridge
the heiress

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2010 05:39 (fifteen years ago)

lassie come home (hey, YOU try watching this movie without crying)

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2010 05:39 (fifteen years ago)

how green was my valley

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2010 05:40 (fifteen years ago)

sunrise

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2010 05:40 (fifteen years ago)

matter of life and death, most of the time

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2010 05:40 (fifteen years ago)

Up (opening montage)

― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Thursday, 6 May 2010 05:45 (fifteen years ago)

early summer
...
late spring

conceivably these two could take place during the same time period, yeah?

― vike me down (dyao), Thursday, 6 May 2010 05:56 (fifteen years ago)

The ending of The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Last night we watched Hotel for Dogs which was a pretty bad movie, but it's about two orphaned siblings fighting to stay together while taking care of all the stray dogs in New York and see? Just typing that sentence made my tear ducts well up.

― kkvgz, Thursday, 6 May 2010 10:27 (fifteen years ago)

Babe, Forrest Gump and The Lion King.

Movies that are meant to make grownups cry generally do nothing for me!

Agree wholeheartedly with DP on Magnolia, for instance.

― Get fourth and multiply (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 May 2010 11:12 (fifteen years ago)

mrs. doubtfire

― peacocks, Thursday, 6 May 2010 12:52 (fifteen years ago)

Iron Giant, Lukas Moodysson's Together, Yi Yi (oh god, the little boy reading at his grandmother's funeral...), Princess and the Frog, Babe. I'm much more likely to be moved by gentility and kindness than harsh emotional realities or w/e.

― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 6 May 2010 12:53 (fifteen years ago)

la lengua de las mariposas. only seen it twice and cried both times. don't think my heart can handle a third viewing

― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Thursday, 6 May 2010 14:59 (fifteen years ago)

ppl who get emotional for like "quality" movies are wi-erd. little women for all time.

― plax (ico), Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)

little women is classic! Which part makes you cry?

― peacocks, Thursday, 6 May 2010 18:07 (fifteen years ago)

which one? the 1994 version? i prefer that one.

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 6 May 2010 20:49 (fifteen years ago)

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