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I like a good sob story.

One that really cracked me was about an old man who's wife had died and for some reason came back as a dog. Old people make me sad, I cried at Coccoon as well.

I don't remember crying at The Champ, but I haven't seen it since I was a kid.

Kramer vs Kramer had me bawling though, and Pay it Forward got me right at the end although I wasn't expecting it too.

Are all the best weepies old films or are there modern ones I haven't discovered yet?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Kramer vs Kramer always makes me cry.
I'd try 'Steal Magnolias', that always makes me cry. Oh & 'Jack & Sarah.' 'Top Gun' too, plus you have sexy guys to boot!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Truly Madly Deeply gets me every time.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Terms of Motherfucking Endearment, Bitches.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Harold and Maude always makes me cry.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The last film that made me cry was Freaky Friday. Not sure if it's technically a weepie, however.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark is otm, although in a somewhat rude manner!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i cried when i watched good will hunting, i dunno why. (oh, i was drunk)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Chungking Express, which will make you cry in its own weird way.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Or In the Mood for Love too...

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought Planes, Trains & Automobiles had one of the best weepy endings I've ever seen, although everything else in the film is a comedy.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it's by no means mainstream, but farewell my concubine has me blubbing like a baby. Very embarrassing when you're in the cinema on your own. beaches is an old classic.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the passion of joan of arc.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken as usual OTM, its that "not your fault" bit. Killer.
'The year my voice broke' australian from the late 80s staring noah tylor, totally slayed me when i was a kid.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Wong-Kar Wai knows how to end a film doesn't he?

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

All The Real Girls

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking Åmål ("Show Me Love" in English-speaking countries) by Lukas Moodysson is the most touching and yet realistic teenage romance flick ever. It always makes me cry.

Another weeper is The Iron Giant, if you like animated films.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Fish gave me very wet eyes this weekend. The Tom Cruise death bed scene in Magnolia can do it. Aw, and the bit in The Muppets' Christmas Carol where Tiny Tim dies gets me blubbing EVERY TIME. I dunno, it's just so much more sad to think of a muppet dying than a human. And it's Robin! Poor lovely little Robin! omg.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Why don't I cry at films? I can only recommend lots of old episodes of Eastenders when Ethel is dying and any footage of Olympic medal ceremonies you can get hold of. Soz.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 14 October 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I cry at any old bollocks, but actual GOOD weepies are:
Shadowlands
The Iron Giant
Finding Nemo

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 14 October 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Very embarrassing when you're in the cinema on your own.

How can it be embarrassing if there's nobody else there? Surely embarrassment presupposes the presence of someone else?

Anyway.

Beaches, that's a guarantees Kleenex-fest.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 14 October 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Xiu Xiu, The Sent-Down Girl all-time weeper.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 14 October 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't cry at Nemo, Steel Magnolias - I did cry at that. What Freaky Friday did you cry at Charlie? The old one or the new one?

I love animated films, I think Pink and I were discussing one of the saddest some time ago - Watership Down?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 14 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant when you've gone to the cinema on your own rather than with friends, but there are plenty of other people there to witness you sniffling into your hankie and emerging with red eyes and a red nose at the end.

Shadowlands is a good one. Basically, any decent film with one of the major likeable characters being terminally ill.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 14 October 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone here ever seen the film "Ring of Bright Water"? It's about an otter, and the otter dies in the end. This movie made me cry buckets as a kid.
"whale Rider" made me cry.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I could watch Watership Down again, for fear of losing most of my body fluid through tears. It's also fucking scary.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

To Live.

Is Dying Young shit? I've always assumed it was.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty much any movie with Meryl Streep in it. The King and I always made me bawl as a child.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

is barry still singing Bright Eyes tonight?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 October 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No lie--My Dog Skip. It's as powerful as kryptonite on the making-you-cry-despite-swearing-you-would-never. It's almost evil how tear-jerking it is.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Thursday, 14 October 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Dying Young was on telly not long ago (part of Channel 5's Julia Roberts Season, good grief) and I can therefore confirm: it is shit.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 14 October 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Waking the Dead, one of the most underseen and artful tearjerkers in recent memory. Especially if you're in love.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The most manipulatively tearjerking film I've seen recently was Love Actually. I couldn't even fully appreciate how rubbish it was because I was crying too hard. Maybe it was just my hormones though.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Dancer in the Dark
Gallipoli
Birdy
The Passion of the Christ
The Pianist
Crooklyn

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen it for years but Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence might get me going (if I wasn't a big hairy Scottish hard case, obviously).

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I was a blubbering mess at the end of Dancer in the Dark and I wasn't even that crazy about it.

I can remember the local NBC affiliate broadcasting Schindler's List--uncut, with no commercials--for the first time one Sunday night. The missus and I watched, and got suitably teary, but when they cut to the live 11 o'clock news, the poor newscaster was sitting their with little pile of papers, totally wrecked, with little tear tracks in her TV makeup. It was something to see.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Thursday, 14 October 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

". . . sitting there with her little pile of papers" that is.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Thursday, 14 October 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Schindler's List = total bawlfest
Love Actually = pile of poo
Awakenings = so gob-smackingly manipulative that you refuse to cry even though EVERYTHING in the film is urging you to
Anything by Raymond Briggs = guaranteed to make me sob like a baby. The year my grandfather died, me and all my cousins and aunts and uncles sat around watching Raymond Briggs' film, I think it's Grandad or Grandpa or something like that? We were all in floods.
Monsters Inc = I have to leave the room when Bloke's nieces are watching it for fear of disgracing myself. The first time I saw it I was on a plane, for god's sake. People pointed at me.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Iron Giant.
Lost in Translation.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It's funny, I never cried at anything until I was in my twenties, but recently I've become such a softie. Neighbours has been known to make me well up.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Yeller owns!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this one is highly embarassing but...........Hope FLoats. the part when the little girl's dad is leaving and she packs her bag to go with him and is screaming don't you want me" causes me to sob. not tear up in a ladylike fashion, but sob snottily, heaving like a winded elephant.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

when i was pretty depressed about 5 years ago, i was staying in a hotel watching "the stepmom" (objectively, an AWFUL movie) and couldnt believe that i was crying about it, but totally couldnt handle it. so maybe "the stepmom".

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

And hey, he's just died so it's even more poignant, but what's that one with Christopher Reeve where he goes back in time and it's a complete sobfest and they have conventions for sad people at the hotel where it was shot (which is also the Outlook hotel in The Shining, sources tell me)?

Somewhere in Time. That's the one. God, I worked with a woman who owned two copies of that film on video. One to keep forever and ever, and one to loan out to people like me who had never seen it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Once Were Warriors

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Awakenings = so gob-smackingly manipulative that you refuse to cry even though EVERYTHING in the film is urging you to

That's exactly how I felt about Dancer In The Dark.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The last half hour of Return of the King. I know it's monumentally cheesy, but, hey, the little Hobbits are all safe and sound. And they love each other. Sob.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

sophie's choice

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 14 October 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched Germany Pale Mother recently and that is a fucking sad ass movie that will make you cry but OTOH I don't think that's the type of weepie people really enjoy much.

I cried like an imbecile the first time I saw Cool Runnings. I think I was having a really bad week.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Dancer in the Dark is a sob-jerker, but not in a cathartic way, the way other movies that make you cry can be. I've only seen it once and won't see it again - too much like the crying you do after a fight (same with Breaking the Waves.)
But, good cries can be found via:
Together (same director as Show Me Love)
for some reason, About a Boy
I remember watching Terms of Endearment with my mom and brother and we were a Mess.
I'm totally renting Shadowlands tonight.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The Iron Giant is a classic tearjerker in the C0l3m4n household. Lukas will still every once in awhile get this solemn look on his face and look me in the eye and say "I am not a gun".

There were quite a few scenes in City of God that treaded that boundary between weepy and too painful to watch.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The parts of Return of the King that really kill me are A) the Merry/Pippin "I will see you again, right?" "I don't know" exchange, B) the part where Pippin is singing to Denethor as Faromir et al ride off to their DOOM.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

C) "My friends! You bow to no one!"

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I forgot:
FAR FROM HEAVEN

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

philadelphia

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Emotional manipulation at it's finest!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Yeller owns!

Yes! Dead and dying dogs = supreme sadness. (See My Dog Skip above.) I remember sitting through Unbearable Lightness of Being with the wall-to-wall angst and separation and thwarted love and Communist represssion, and the only thing that opened up the ducts was the damn dog expiring.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Run Lola Run got the ol' oculars aleakin'.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 October 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the last picture show has made me cry more than any other film

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 14 October 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

'who's afraid of virginia woolf' ravaged me

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 14 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Jacob's Ladder" worked me over pretty good. We were on our way home from the theater and I was okay as long as I didn't have to talk, but then my wife asked me something and I just lost it. Had to pull over on the side of the highway and fall apart for a while; meantime my wife was wondering if I was having a nervous breakdown.

― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 14 October 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ever since my first son was born I've felt that anything with sick/dying/suffering children in it should come with a 'bad for parents' warning - even Lorenzo's Oil almost had me going, it was only cringing at Nick Nolte's ridiculous accent that held me together.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 14 October 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It's hard to say which film I've cried most at. Maybe Breaking The Waves.

Other good, recentish, weepies:

The Others
Wonderland
Far From Heavem

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Movies I clearly remember crying during (keeping in mind that I'm not necessarily recommending them or calling them great movies, because some are and some aren't, but I can't really vouch that what makes me cry will make anyone else):

Parenthood... this may be the king of weepie movies for me, it's one scene after another after another.
All That Heaven Allows (Far From Heaven was many things to me, but it jerked no tears from me like its influence did)
Ordinary People
Dogfight
The Nutty Professor (Lewis version... oh, alright I misted a few times during Murphy's as well)
Longtime Companion
It's a Wonderful Life
Make Way for Tomorrow and Tokyo Story
The 400 Blows... all I can say is "paddywagon nightride" and I'm already getting shakey.
Misery... now this one sort of blindsided me (especially since I pretty much dislike the movie), but there was something about Kathy Bates' face after being cold cocked in the face with that pig iron that really seemed distressingly tragic... here's a woman who is utterly and hopelessly alone who lucked (alright, "stalked") her way into fulfilling her wildest dreams and those dreams turn on her and destroy her. Bates might have deserved that Oscar after all, considering how much she managed to do with such undiluted hokum.

You know, it's weird but I remember the hot feeling between my eyes and my glasses and my back spasming against the theatre seat more so than specific films/scenes that triggered said reactions. I daresay that crying almost triggers a reaction that takes me clear out of the movie, which is why I think I notice it more often when it happens during movies I don't really respond to aesthetically.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh! Testament!!!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a winner.

― William Crump (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

IMITATION OF MOTHERUCKING LIFE!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Madame X" says jamie.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Breaking the waves is shite, alba.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Zhivago -- it's also my favorite movie.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I know people say that, jed. Emotionally manipulative. Whatever. All these things that I agree are true of Dancer In The Dark, but Breaking The Waves just drenches me in a way I'm happy to offer no resistance against.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

well most weepies are manipulative to a quite large extent. I hate BTWaves because it's misanthropic and overly schematic and doesn't make any sense - even on it's own terms.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(that applies to all of his films i suppose)

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Upthread somebody suggested Iron Giant. I definately second that.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 October 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

mufasa dying, forrest gump meeting his son and all of i am sam.

god, i cry at the drop of a hat it seems

― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Friday, 15 October 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

in real life or just at movies?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 15 October 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

*sniff...

― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Friday, 15 October 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The musical numbers "Climb Every Mountain" using Margery McKay's, singing voice in 1965's The Sound Of Music and Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" from The Wizard Of Oz never fail to get me all choked up. Truly musical majesty.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 15 October 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

I've got lots of free Blockbuster rentals so I'm looking for another good weepie.

The last film I cried at was the one with Ben Kingsley in it - can't remember the name of it - he buys a house at auction and the previous owner and her twisted cop boyfriend start harrassing him.

― Rumpie, Friday, 9 September 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

The House of Sand and Fog. That was it.

― Rumpie, Friday, 9 September 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

The first time I saw "About Schmidt" I wept like a baby at the end.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

The English Patient...The part where Almasy's carrying Katherine to the cave sees the saffron thimble thing he gave her that she's still wearing and she tell him she still loves him and always has. Gets me every time.

At that exact point you know it's all going to go horribly, horribly wrong - even if you haven't seen it before or read the book. I almost embarrassed myself in a cinema when I first saw it but saved myself by making a heroic effort not to be reduced to a blubbering mess.

I'll second In The Mood For Love. That film makes my tearducts ache.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 9 September 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Not a movie but the "Jurrassic Bark" episode of Futurama makes me burst into tears EVERY TIME, even though I know whats coming. Argh! Sad dogs waiting for their master who never comes back! WARGH!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

Have you ever seen Greyfriars Bobby, Trayce?

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

Can't says I have, is it bound to reduce me to a blubbery mess then?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

It will slay you. The original Disney version, about 1961. Apparently there's a new version coming out soon. Anyhoo, "Jurassic Bark" basically nicks its closing scene from that movie.

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

Ah!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah - the new Greyfriars Bobby has a West Highland Terrier playing Bobby - SO WRONG! HE'S A SKYE TERRIER PUNKS!

The original Disney version of the Incredible Journey. Bearable until the very very end when the little boy thinks his bull terrier was too old to make it..... but then he comes limping over the hill! That always gets me.

― Rumpie, Friday, 9 September 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

The westie in question belongs to the film's producer, who used to be a member of the Boomtown Rats.

I saw him on Crufts.

Anything to do with dogs is a killer for me. I even welled up at Anchorman, for god's sake.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

What Freaky Friday did you cry at Charlie? The old one or the new one?

The new one. And to add a more recent teen flick weepie, Raise Your Voice got me once or twice too.

Also, watching Stereolab doing "French Disko" on The word, on the 'Lab's newish DVD the other day, made me cry, completely unexpectedly. Not a film, but sad nonetheless. Mary RIP.

(I am aware of how corny and indie this makes me, yes)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 September 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

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