I Cried During A Movie This Weekend, What Movies Have Made You Cry?

[THUNDER HANDS]

I saw the film The Notebook at a special screening this weekend.

It made me cry. For those who've read the book you probably understand why. For those who haven't, feel free to continue thinking I'm a wuss.

The last time I cried during a movie was at the end of AI, the Steven Speilberg movie.

Yeah, maybe I am a wuss.

So what movies have recently made your eyes swell up with tears?

[toddzilla]

1. just about any movie..

What can i say, i'm an emotional disaster. :shrug:

[meegbear]

2. I cried at a Lassie movie when I was a kid ...

She was crawling out of a wrecked house, wimpering. I started balling.

[VelmaD]

3. Schindler's List...

I got it on dvd. I sobbed all the way through it.

[Mnemosyne]

4. House of Sand and Fog.

I hadn't cried over a movie in years.

[4_Legs_Good]

67. Most depressing movie ever!

But you gotta love Jennifer Conneley!

david

[mstrsplinter326]

5. John Q

I am NOT a crier, but that movie made me ball

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. which part?

I saw that, thought it was a good movie, but I don't remember any really emotional scenes in it.

[mstrsplinter326]

17. Don't read if you've never seen John Q

The part where you think denzel has shot himself to give his son his heart. I really thought denzel was dead, and I balled

[jobycom]

12. Credit to Denzel

The script was weak and cheezy, but Denzel pulled it off for me.

[MsUnderstood]

6. Lots! But the most recent is Big Eden

It is playing on Sundance this month about a gay man who returns to a small town to care for his dying Grandfather.

It is mostly a comedy but there are a few sad moments.

[loftycity]

7. I saw "Bridges of Madison County" for the first time

That is a crying fest.

[bif]

8. Field of Dreams and I am Sam

[patcox2]

18. Field of Dreams, every time.

I mean, for god's sake, he plays catch with his dad. Imagine meeting your dad when he was young?

[XNASA]

37. "Field of Dreams" I whimper like a little boy..........

And when I was younger, "The Yearling" got me every time.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

That one is a damn good tear jerker

And I don't even understand baseball!

If they ever make one in similar lines around Garrincha, I'll start a flood in the theater. :cry:

[jobycom]

10. I cry easily. I cried at Shrek II. I cried at LOTR, but only

because I hated the director for stealing four hours of my life.

The hardest movie, though, was easily "A Grave of Fireflies." I watched it once, and am afraid to ever watch it again. Most films, you indulge in the sadness, and enjoy it. That film hurt.

[4_Legs_Good]

68. Grave of the fireflies was a definite OUCH!

Good call.

david

[LTR]

11. "From Justin to Kelly"

Deemed as cruel punishment by the Geneva Convention.

It was so painful I cried.

[BigMcLargehuge]

13. I cried at AI too.... I couldn't believe it ended so stupidly

and that made me sad. Worse, Spielberg's massive infusion of Schmaltz nearly overpowered my kidneys. What a waste.

[David__77]

19. That mivie irritated me to no end.

It was a downer, but in no way was it enriching.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

45. I was ashamed that movie made me cry.

There was more saccharin in the ending than in a ton of sugar substitute... VERY disappointing.

But I cry at just about every movie. Disney flicks, chick flicks (which is why I never watch either), you name it. The last Lord of the Rings movie had me bawling like a baby.

[RebelOne]

14. Any movie where an animal gets killed or dies

makes me cry.

[chenGOD]

15. Nothing really recently...

but Phar-Lap made me bawl like a baby when I was about 13.

The only other thing that's gotten me sad was a Korean drama...

[Forkboy]

16. The American Godzilla

[eyesroll]

20. ET, when I was 7 -- I'm not much of a movie crier

...but "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" came close. (If you haven't seen that one, go.)

[phillybri]

21. Saving Private Ryan...

I was so emotionally drained by the end of the movie, I just fell apart...

[SarahB]

22. Love Actually

It was the last movie I cried over anyway. Last month when I saw this on a Saturday night, it sent me into a tailspin of tears for the rest of the weekend. The reasons why are a bit complicated as I don't quite understand it all myself on a number of layers.

Emotionally charged fool that I am. :cry:

[VelmaD]

36. That movie makes me cry in a good way...

Liam Neeson is just so sad and luminous. And the part with his character and his son going after that little girl makes me smile and cry at the same time. :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

46. I was sad that Laura Linney dumped the hot guy for the brother.

I mean...why couldn't she have had both? There's absolutely nothing that says that she could not have had a life for herself AND taken care of her brother. Complete bullshit.

That part pissed me off. If that had been me, that cel phone would have been clicked off so fast, that schizo brother wouldn't have known what hit him.

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[VelmaD]

48. I felt bad for her character...

because she either couldn't or wouldn't take that step.

And that guy was F-I-N-E.

[fudge stripe cookays]

60. Check him out...

Rodrigo Santoro....woof....
From Brazil, ya'll.

[SarahB]

73. I think of Colin Firth and the housekeeper.

They both knew how they felt and despite all the obstacles (lived in different countries, different worlds really, didn't even speak the same language) they still knew and were able to overcome it all and get together because he loved her enough to go out of his way for her. Real life is very, very different. In my experience anyway, men either want you to accommodate them or they bolt if anything's too difficult.

[m-jean03]

23. The Three Stooges movie -- the one about the story of their life together.

Sad and happy tears. :cry:

[demnan]

24. The Color Purple, at the end

when the Whoopie Goldberg character is finally reunited with her sister and sees her grown children. I've seen that movie ten times and I always cry at that point.

[quisp]

25. Matewan

because it's true.

[terrya]

26. "Longtime Companion" Shown on the Sundance Channel this weekend.

I cried when I first saw this powerful film in the theater. And I cried when I saw it again (the scene where Bruce Davison's character tells his lover to "let go" is one of the most moving scenes I've ever seen in a film)

In all of the hoopla about Reagan and his "greatness" as President, I was so glad that the Sundance Channel chose to air this film about the human costs of the AIDS epidemic at its beginning.

[m-jean03]

27. Also, "Luther"

The one about Martin Luther and the Protestant reformation.

I'm not what anyone would call religious, but just the pure
passion of his fight against injustice, and the ugly corruption of the Church
at the time, made tears stream down my face for what had to be the whole
first hour of that movie! I surprised myself, that time. :cry:

[NewHampshireDem]

28. Big Fish ...

made me think about the relationship I want to have--and don't want to have--with my own son as he grows up. I only hope that he'll understand and accept the difficult choices a father has to make.

[THUNDER HANDS]

30. i almost cried during that one too

But it ran too long and I got bored with the movie.

[NewHampshireDem]

44. Yeah, it was a bit long, but

the end is so fabulous that it's worth hanging around for. It really puts the film into perspective, as you find out that everything the father did he did for his son. When the son finally realizes that and finishes his father's story ... I get goosebumps just thinking about it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

29. Platoon

When Willem Dafoe is left behind by the evil sergeant.

Some others I can't recall now.

[Flaxbee]

31. I had almost a complete breakdown in "Seabiscuit"

damn, that movie just got to me, but I'm a sucker for horses and even the Kentucky Derby makes me cry. As a teenager, I would help train thoroughbreds for a transition from race horse to show horse or pleasure horse, and now I'm severely allergic to horses and it's just so damn depressing, I can't get near a horse anymore.

[Speck Tater]

32. When I was a kid, all the Shirley Temple movies.

More recently, Saving Private Ryan.

[ChickMagic]

33. Several

The Color Purple
Paulie
Whale Rider
Little Women (my sister had just died)
Steel Magnolias (ditto)

Probably others

[Lavender Brown]

34. The House of Mirth with Gillian Anderson

I rented it and cried during the ending.

[bearfan454]

35. I cried when they took Dumbo away from his Mama

when I was a kid.

[The empressof all]

52. dating myself here

Dumbo was the first movie I ever saw. I was 4.-Despite the happy ending I was so traumatized my parents couldn't take me to see another film for at least 2 years. I still have a hard time with Dumbo today. Bambi is also a killer and gets me every time.

[m-jean03]

38. First Blood

That scene in the end, when Rambo breaks down crying.

Who said Stallone couldn't act? :shrug:

[TX-RAT]

39. OLD YELLER and Shenandoah

[XNASA]

50. In the same genre how about......

"The Yearling"

:cry::cry::cry::cry:

[VelmaD]

53. Or "Where the Red Fern Grows"

If you haven't seen that you ought to. The book is better but the movie makes me just curl up and bawl like a baby.

[TX-RAT]

58. Forgot about that one

It was a great.

[derby378]

40. Paulie

Yes, I was touched when Paulie, the neurotic parrot, finally took wing for the first time in a cross-country search for Marie. It's a beautiful sight.

[ChickMagic]

41. You and I cried at different times

My wailing began when Paulie was taken away from the little girl.

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. There was one on TV years ago

with Dennis Weaver called "The Ordeal of Doctor Mudd" that was heartbreaking. IT was based on a true story.

Mudd was the doctor who unknowingly treated John Wilkes Booth for his broken leg while he was escaping. He was a doctor; it's what doctors do!

When the authorities came after Booth, they stopped at Mudd's house, and found out Mudd had treated him, then figured he was involved in the plot.

He was convicted, sent to "Shark Island" prison, and endured terribly harsh treatment from the brutal warden and other convicts. There was so much unfairness involved. Then, they had an outbreak of something on the island, and he helped treat the prisoners and guards, and....

I can't tell anymore. It would ruin it for you. Find this movie if you can. I bawled like a baby at the end.

(There was also another movie made back in the 30s I think called "The Prisoner of Shark Island." I think it had Ward Bond in it. But I've never seen that one.)

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

49. I saw that one. Very good movie.

The savage injustice of it made me real mad (moreso because it HAPPENED), no tears though.

[Garage Queen]

43. Oh, start with the ending of EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

LOTR:FOTR - the aftermath of Gandalf's battle with the Balrog

LOTR:ROTK - in many places (Theoden's speech; "I'm glad to be with you, Samwise Gamgee,..."; the Gray Havens; "For Frodo")

AVALON - Oh, man, the ending just KILLS me, when Sam is sitting in the nursing home muttering over and over "I came to America in 1914, I came to America in 1914..." Good Lord I bawl like a small child.

PHILADELPHIA - The "aria" scene. If any of you just can't figure out why some of us just love opera, watch this scene, over and over, until you do.

MOONSTRUCK - the Metropolitan Opera scene and the very, very end as the camera is panning the house and we hear the sextet singing the end of "Quando men vo." Wow.

FIELD OF DREAMS - "Hey, Dad? Wanna have a catch?" Commence crying: NOW.

SCHINDLER'S LIST - 'nuff said.

THE PIANIST

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

47. When they take The Kid away from Chaplin and he goes to rescue him

That has got to be the most powerful tearjerker of all time.

The look on Chaplin's face when he's being held and the kid is being put in the truck is burned in my mind forever.

[sus]

51. "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" gets me everytime..

Elia Kazan's first film

http://imdb.com/title/tt0038190/

"Empire of the Sun" makes me cry, too.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0092965/

[soleft]

54. That's my litmus test for a good movie

If it makes me cry, it's a thumbs up. Doen't have to be hyper ventilation, but if the eyes get moist, :thumbsup:

If it tries to make me cry and fails, like Steel Magnolias, then it's a piece of crap.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. Any WWII movie in which they show children being put on those trains

And you know there isn't going to be a spectacular rescue scene later.
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[fudge stripe cookays]

61. Doesn't have to be children for me...

I think every human being should be made to watch "War and Remembrance."

When they showed the entire process where John Gielgud went into the "showers," taking off his clothes and hanging them on the peg, and actually depicting what it was like to die in there, I broke down completely.

A horrible, beautiful, emotional miniseries.

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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

56. Madame X

...damn, am I an oversensitive crybaby or what?

[nini]

57. Steel Magnolias and The Color Purple

Steel Magnolia's cemetery scene - waaahhh


and the end of The Color Purple when the sister comes back from Africa. I lose it at that scene everytime I see that movie.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

59. My movie group went to see Black Beauty

a few years ago, and we all ended up crying. I think it's because at our age, we all have people we've lost and would love to find again. It's made as a children's movie, but most of the adults in the audience were in tears.

Schindler's List, when the prisoners were finally released.

[fudge stripe cookays]

62. "If These Walls Could Talk"

I became a hysterical, sobbing wreck at the end. I had to have a couple drinks and go to bed for awhile I became so depressed and sad.

That movie makes me angry and scares the shit out of me at the same time.

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[Mnemosyne]

78. hugely intense, had same reaction n/t

[jukes]

63. ***************(simulated drumroll)

gangs of new york. the riot scene.

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

64. "Tears of the Sun"

"Steel Magnolias", and "A Walk in the Clouds"--but then again, I'd leave my hubby for Keanu! ;)

By the way, guys if you want to get a really good "Chick flick" and get closer to a woman, THAT is the one to choose!

[RiffRandell]

65. Legends of the Fall

When Brad Pitt's Indian wife got killed.

[LowerManhattanite]

66. "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

It's a weird mish-mosh of gut-splitting comedy and heart-wrenching pathos. Those two damaged souls have always gotten to me in a big way. The two of them hugging and crying in the rain at the end...I should know better...and yet...

The second movie that absolutely gets me is "Radio Flyer". Those two kids and what they go through at the hands of the brutal "King" leaves me blurry-eyed through much of the film.

I'm not a crier at all...and yet, these two movies make me one.

Go figure.

[livetohike]

69. Love Story

it wasn't recent, but I can't think of any recent movie that affected me like that one.

[tigereye]

72. I am a softie

cry at pretty much anything :) Cried at Harry Potter III, both times I saw it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

77. Yes, Ali McGraw's bad acting does bring tears to one's eyes.

GOD that woman sucks. She can't even breathe convincingly.

[frylock]

70. pride of the yankees..

gets me everytime.


"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been
reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I
consider myself the luckiest man on the face of
the earth."

[Commendatori]

71. None, I'm a coldhearted bastard

I'm sure I did as a kid years and years ago, but can't remember one - and Rat did say "recently." :)

[Kazak]

74. Watership Down...

has me bawling everytime...

[2bfree]

75. I cried at the end of Life is Beautiful.........

out loud, like a baby, very embarrassing! Something about when the Dad died and then the little boy sees the tank coming just made me sob uncontrollably at the theater. When Bonnie died in Gone With the Wind I cry.

[stavka]

76. Most recently - Big Fish

[NashVegas]

79. My Life as a Dog and Most Anything from Lasse Halstrom

waaaaaaah