What Movie Makes You Cry... Every Time You See It?

[arwalden]

(And why do you keep watching it if it makes you feel so sad?)

-- Allen

[arwalden]

1. Steel Magnolias... and ET.

[jus_the_facts]

14. Steel Magnolias...and....Terms of Endearment...

...are two of mine....and I watch because they take you through all the emotions...the hallmark of a GREAT film!! :cry:

[southpaw]

28. Steel Magnolias...

Sally Field's breakdown in the cemetary is a punch in the gut every time.

[greeneyedpookie]

51. Oh same here

Sally Fields and my mom look soo much alike and watching that just sends chills down my spine and just seeing the grief on that woman's face makes me think of my mom, and the tears flow.


GEP

:bounce:

edit: spelling, need to use that spell checker button!!!

[Red State Rebel]

66. Those are my top two....sniff sniff...

[Book Lover]

Why does ET make you cry? (nm)

[arwalden]

39. When Elliott Realizes That ET Has Died And...

and says "look at what they've done to you" (or words to that effect).

-- Allen

[Book Lover]

43. Oh!

I remember that bit now... I can't say it makes me tear up, but I totally understand...

[radwriter0555]

64. Steel Magnolias every single farkin' time.

And I watch it because it IS indeed a tour de force... and a lovely story about family and community.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

92. WHY???WHY???WHY???

God I love that movie.

[MissMillie]

2. Pay it Forward

Probably because of Jane Siberry's "Calling All Angels" playing at the end.

[CaptainClark23]

3. Its a Wonderful Life

fcks me up every time, guaranteed. Like some sick holiday version of pavlov's dog....

Now it doesn't make me sad, you just asked if it made me cry

[Bunny]

83. I'll roger that! It's a Wonderful Life.

Gets me every time, too! But in a good way.

Another movie that made me blubber is called Miracle in the Rain. Starring Van Johnson and I think Jane Wyman. A GI meets a girl, they fall in love, he goes to WW2, dies, and returns as a ghost to give her his dog tags (or something like that). I never see it on TV anymore, but it's a three or four hanky movie for me.

[alwynsw]

88. Another vote for "It's A Wonderful Life."

[Missy Vixen]

114. I always miss everything

"It's A Wonderful Life" is my favorite movie. I'll bet I've seen it 30 times. I start crying when Mary leans over the counter and whispers into George Bailey's bad ear, "George Bailey, I'll love you for the rest of my life," and don't stop till the final credits roll.

Did I mention that I married my husband because he's George Bailey in the flesh?

Julie

[henslee]

4. Planes Trains Automobiles...... call me a sucker....

But its that song, combined with the vulnerability of Candy plus the fact that the big guy has passed.

[Skittles]

9. the scene where Candy is sitting in his burned out car

lamenting the fact that Marie is gone - that's a heart-tugger.

[mac56]

5. "The Iron Giant".

I blubber like a baby at the end, every time.

And I watch it again and again because the animation and storytelling are superb.

[toddzilla]

7. just about every movie...

:cry:

[southpaw]

34. Love Iron Giant...

It is my 3 year old son's favorite movie...

I hope he learns from it.

[skypilot]

6. "Terms of Endearment" still gets me...

...also "Artificial Intelligence" puts a lump in my throat every time. I don't actually cry but that movie is so relentlessly melancholy.

[terrya]

13. I know what you mean about "Artificial Intelligence"

There's a melancholy throughout the film. Very sad.

Terry

[skypilot]

29. "Exquisitely melancholy"...

...is how I described it in the User Comments over on IMDb. I watch that movie at least once a month. It's perfect on a rainy day--if you're in that kind of mood.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

100. "Terms of Endearment" also

I'm tearing right now thinking of it...

[Whitacre D_WI]

8. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

[nini]

10. the end of the Color Purple

:cry:

and the cemetery scene of Steel Magnolias.. waaahhhhhhhh

[arwalden]

17. M'Lynn's "Why WHY WHY!" Scene Is Heartbreaking... Then Suddenly...

Clairee says: "HERE! Slap this! Half the county want to hit Ouiser!"

-- Allen

The end of the Color Purple is INDEED one that made me cry. Very powerful!!!

[nini]

22. LOL.. yep Clairee telling her to slap her instead..

classic.

went from crying to laughing in a sec.

[radwriter0555]

65. Yes, I have to watch The Color Purple whenever it's on..

yet another tour de force.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

11. Beaches...

And just about any other chick flick (or Disney movie <embarrassed look>) where somebody dies. So I try to avoid watching any movies like that... but it's not easy. Action movies aren't even necessarily "safe" - I bawled my eyes out at that awful "Armageddon" movie.

[Panda1]

76. Yup, "Beaches" and "Steel Magnolias"

As to why I watch them again? I enjoy a good cathartic cry. :cry:
But then, so many movies make me cry.....I confess to crying during "Little House of the Prairie" shows. Weenie. That's me.

[KC]

116. Same here

but then I cried during Home Alone too. lol
Just about anything sentimental gets to me.

KC

[Book Lover]

12. I've got a list

Cinema Paradiso and La Famiglia. Umberto D, of course.

Hmm, I detect a pattern. I guess I watch cry-able Italian movies to feel more in touch with my Italian half... I can't even think of a non-Italian film that's made me cry... Except The Phantom Menace, and that was for different reasons.

OMG; I did cry during Trek III when they blew up the Enterprise. Does that count?

[beevul]

72. Lol

"OMG; I did cry during Trek III when they blew up the Enterprise. Does that count?"

And I thought I was the only one. When spock died in Star Trek II also.

I teared up pretty bad when they ended farscape the way they did, too.

Also pretty much any version of the story of Steve Prefontaine.

[henslee]

15. Wait, changing my answer..... My Life as a Dog.

The mom dying. The child struggling to understand. The little boy describing the brave dog in outer space. I think Lesse Halstrem or whatever his name is, directed it.

[MissMillie]

23. Terrific movie (n/t)

.

[Az]

16. Graveyard of the Fireflies

Dang thing kicks me in the gut every time. Dangit, getting tearie eyed already.....

[henslee]

26. Never heard of it...... heading to imdb, right now.

[arwalden]

37. Neither Had I... I'm Heading To IMDB Also

[Az]

52. Its Japanese

Anime. About 2 children that survive the bombs. It will take your heart and do bad things to it.

[blackcat77]

18. The Goodbye Girl and Breakfast at Tiffany's

In a very different way, "Glory" makes me teary as well.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

101. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" when she is looking for Cat

:cry:

[tedoll78]

111. YES!

I bawl like a little girl when she finally finds Cat!

Ohh.. Cat..

My friends look at me like I'm crazy, sitting there beside myself in tears.

Hell, I'm getting teary-eyed just from thinking about it.

[thebaghwan]

19. The old Captains Courageous with Spencer Tracey.

A really great old B & W flick.

[terrya]

20. "Torch Song Trilogy"

At the end of the film...when Harvey Fierstein's character is sitting by himself...holding mementoes of his loved ones...as Ella Fitzgerald is playing on the radio nearby. A nice sort of cry.

Terry

[bif]

21. Home movies of my daughters when they were little

n/t

24. the last 5 minutes of 8 1/2

When the boy opens the curtain and everyone comes down the stairs to join the parade.


Why? It is so beautiful and life affirming.

[Coventina]

25. Dumbo

"Baby Mine" scene destroys me every time.

Jeez, I'm crying right now just thinking about it.

[elfwitch]

32. me too...

Especially now I am a Mommy.
It used to break me up before.
I don't think I could stand to watch it now.

[LuLu550]

48. I'm glad I'm not alone!

I remember balling my eyes out, watching it with my then-three year old son, holding me newborn daughter....ripped my heart out!

[tedoll78]

113. I'm in tears now..

I really really miss my family.

God, that's so good..

[LiviaOlivia]

27. A Zeffirelli movie,

"The Champ" with Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and Ricky Schroder is the
biggest tear jerker of all time. I have only watched it 3 times since it came out in 1979.

Schroder was also in "The Earthling" with William Holden and that's
also a box of Kleenex. I haven't seen that movie in a long time and
it's not on DVD.

[graywarrior]

30. Honeysuckle Rose...

...and I don't know why. I've seen it at least 20 times and would watch it again in a heartbeat.

[papau]

31. David and Lisa

:-)

[RichardRay]

33. Out of Africa

The toast in the bar, the handful of dirt at the funeral and the lions sitting on the grave.

[bif]

35. Field of Dreams

"Let's play catch, Dad..."

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

62. I can envision an alternate-reality me choosing this one...

...if I

(a) was raised in the USA, or
(b) the movie was in Brazil, about a soccer field, and the protagonist went after Garrincha's ghost.

[VOX]

80. I admit that I'm a sap for FOD, too...

Thre's a lot about this flick that makes me batty (like “Shoeless” Joe Jackson being shown batting right and throwing left, when in fact Joe batted left and threw right), but the "Have a catch, Dad" line does me in every time.

[Twillig]

89. NO NO NO NO NO NO!!

I't would be ok in my book if in fact Costner's character did say "let's play catch, Dad", or "wanna play catch, dad?", or anything other than what he did say:

"Wanna have a catch?"

Now, what the hell is that? That just nonplusses me to no end.

Nobody had ever said that phrase in the history of organized or unorganized ball up till that point. No one has since.

[Fight_n_back]

112. YESYESYES

the man who wrote the book is about as big a baseball fan as there can be.

The man who starred in the movie has been an three baseball movies.

It is "Iowan".

[Leilani]

36. Born Free

Because they have raised her from a cub, & don't know if she'll make it, or if they will ever see her again.

[boobooday]

38. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

I'm highly sensitive.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[RebelOne]

40. Turner and Hootch

when Hootch was killed. But I love the movie because it is so funny up to that point.

[henslee]

41. How 'bout that scene in "Bad Santa" when Billy Bob tells the fat kid

he's not Santa. (paraphrased) And the kid goes, I know you're not Santa, I just thought you'd give me a gift because you're my friend."

[marigold20]

84. Yes - Bad Santa is my new favorite cult film.

It was funny and sad and really twisted.

[lanlady]

42. Elephant Man

--starring John Hurt.

[NuckinFutz]

44. Here goes...I'm SUCH a sap

Steel Magnolias
Beaches
It's a Wonderful Life
Dark Victory

Why do I keep watching them??? 'Cause sometimes I just need that emotional rollercoaster. Sometimes it's like therapy.

[geniph]

45. Anything that involves animals

and that includes cartoons! It's damned embarrassing, but Lady and the Tramp and the Lion King both make me cry. The Incredible Journey, Ole Yeller, the Yearling, My Dog Skip - hell, everything except A Boy and His Dog, which just makes me laugh.

I'm REALLY sentimental about movies. I cry very easily watching movies. It's how I make up for not allowing myself to cry at other times.

[KC]

118. I'm the same way

I cry during all those types of shows too. I'm such a sap.

Sometimes the tears just need to come out after holding them in and a good, sad movie will always do it for me.

KC

[necso]

46. Hero

The one with Dustin Hoffman, a tremendous movie.

"People are always talking to you about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or something and they got a supply in the closet. But what you learn as you get older is that there ain't no truth. All there is, is Bullshit, layers of it. One layer of Bullshit layered on top of another. And what you do in life, like as you get older, is you pick the layer of Bullshit you prefer, and it's your Bullshit."

I might argue that certain models of truth better approach it or have some other basis for adhering to them, but truth is, after all, unknowable and this is not a bad starting point.

Hero is all about the realities of life (a little overplayed perhaps) and the painful choices and situations that character, beliefs, human frailties and our strange society bring about. It is also about coming to terms with these things even if in some contradictory and sad little way.

I watch "Hero" because it reminds me of the cost of having ethics (the Cassandra element in the movie at least), the role of character (not high minded ethics) in behavior, the venality of life, the ultimate pointlessness of it all and the need for coming to terms with the world outside of my head.

[LuLu550]

47. LiLo and Stitch

Yeah, I know, it's a cartoon, but it makes me cry because they are so dysfunctional and they are trying so hard to be normal. There is a line in it that makes me cry every time I hear it..."Our family is little and broken, but still good, yeah, still good."

SNURF!! There I go again!:cry:

[SaveElmer]

49. Glory

Give 'em Hell 54th !!!

[LuLu550]

50. Oh, God, Glory gives me goose bumps!

Especially that part...

[frylock]

53. the pride of the yankees..

kills me everytime.

[montana_hazeleyes]

123. I'll second that!

:cry:

[Arbustosux]

54. Color Purple or The Mission

always...

[BurtWorm]

55. The Miracle Worker

:cry:

[kmla]

56. Brian's Song. Every time.

Especially the part where Billy Dee Williams (as Gale Sayers) gives the speech in the locker room. And the bedside scene where James Caan (Brian Piccolo) is talking in a really feeble voice about coming back next year. He never gave up.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

57. I can't believe nobody said "The Kid" by Chaplin

Specifically, when the thuggish orphanage people come to take the kid away from Charlie. The kid screaming from the truck, and Charlie's LOOK while being held by two men and watching.

Ah, and the reunion.

Yeah, there's tears in my eyes right now. Do you have a problem with that?

[BurtWorm]

58. Is it City Lights or Modern Times

that ends with the flower girl recognizing the Tramp from the feel of his hand? :cry:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

61. City Lights, a good one too

But I still vote for "The Kid".

[GOPisEvil]

59. "Hoosiers" and "Seabiscuit" both made me choke up...

...although it may have just been dusty or maybe it was my allergies...;-)

[Burma Jones]

60. Babe

You know, the one about the pig with the unprejudiced heart.

Perhaps it speaks to that part of me that still seeks approval......
Perhaps it is the success despite being completely "wrong"



Also, Field of Dreams, because I am a guy.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

63. See post #62 (nt)

[slinkerwink]

67. Beaches and My Girl

[Kamika]

68. America's next top model

When there's a girl who's getting voted out.. I always cry :(

[Forkboy]

69. The American Godzilla

I keep watching because it's still a big monster movie,of which I am a sucker for.

[Shopaholic]

70. Steel Magnolias, Sophie's Choice. . . & more

Steel Magnolias: My oldest cousin died from diabetes complications too so that movie just brings it all back to me.

Out of Africa-the very end, where we find out that she never saw Africa again.

Sophie's Choice

An Affair to Remember

[everythingsxen]

71. "Donnie Darko"

Saddest. Movie. Ever.

Why? It is too close to my own heart.

Why watch it again? It is good to stare into the abyss once in a while, so long as you don't stare so long that the abyss stares back.

[Padraig18]

73. "Steel Magnolias"

I keep watching it because it's a GOOD kinda cry. :)

[Spirochete]

74. Jaws

It's so sad when the poor fishy dies in the end.

[Sequoia]

75. Madam X

because she was forced to give up her son as a baby by her mean ole mother-in-law and then she became a street lady in Europe. Later on her young son was a lawyer and was defending her without knowing she was his mom. But the mother-in-law and ex-husband sure knew who she was and when the ex (Henry Fonda) went to the room in the courthouse where she was staying she died soon afterwards, happy to see her son and his success. Rats, why did you have to ask that question, I'm already getting sad.

By the way, like your "Bewitched" pics. That show makes me happy when I'm down. It's cute and corny but only when the first Darwin was in it.

[tigereye]

77. Beauty and the Beast

Its A Wonderful Life

even High Fidelity!

I'm a softie I cry at everything

[twistedliberal]

78. "The Green Mile" and "Good Will Hunting"

are the first to come to mind, but I'm kind of a sap with all movies that aren't full-out comedies.

Can't watch either of those without tearing up a little.

[GregW]

79. Saving Private Ryan

When the old Ryan finishes his two-hour flashback, collapses at the foot of Miller's grave, and asks his family if his life was worthy.

[Sticky]

81. Lion King

The opening song chokes me up and just as I'm getting composed Mufassa dies and Simba runs away.....waaaah....:cry:


LOVE that movie.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

82. edward scissorhands

yes, really

[CatWoman]

85. Imitation of Life

[RobinA]

86. Running on Empty

and Mary Poppins.

[thelocalkgb]

87. A Trip to Bountiful and...

Testament.

The Trip to Bountiful gets me every time, and it is the number one all time tear-jerker in my family.

Testament, is a whole other story. That movie made me sob uncontrollably from start to finish. I don't think I'll ever watch it again. Disturbing, to say the least.

Oh, honorable mention to Hambone and Hillie the most disturbing/depressing pet movie ever made. Don't ever see this, if you can.

Edited to include Hambone and Hillie a movie that still disturbs me to this day.

[Carni]

90. American Beauty

And yes, I know that is a little weird.

[Zomby Woof]

91. Terms Of Endearment

Why do I watch it again and again? Jack! Plus, great performances by everyone else - Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, John Lithgow, Jeff Daniels, and others... James L. Brooks did a great job with McMurtry's novel.

[Joanne98]

93. Mask

It kills me;(

[Bill of Rights]

94. Boys Don't Cry

One powerful flik! I just cried during Monster, too.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

95. The Yearling

I must of seen it about 20 times-I cry every time. Now, I find myself turning the channel when they have to shoot the deer.

[sistersofmercy]

96. The Lover

Beautiful story but the ending makes me sob everytime.

[Crowdance]

97. An Affair to Remember

Man,when he realizes she's paralyzed I'm weeping.

[KC]

117. I love

that show !!
I cry when it gets to that part too.

KC

[flamingyouth]

98. Breakfast at Tiffany's

In the end, when they find Cat. But I'm not crying out of sadness - I just really love that film.

[dae]

99. King Kong,I keep pulling for the underdog, in this case uberape.

:cry:

[Mrs. Venation]

102. Dead Man Walking

when Sean Penn's character admits to murder. The entire movie is gripping, but that scene is unforgettable.

The Color Purple. Every time I see it I cry at the end. I watch it because it's a wonderful story.

Of Mice and Men, with Gary Sinese and John Malkovich. An extraordinary film. On my Amazon wish list.

Gorillas In The Mist. The simple beauty of that film moves me to tears.

Some of the standard tear jerkers don't have that effect on me. I didn't cry when I saw Beaches; I thought it was a great story about how love endures. I don't cry at Steel Magnolias, either, but I understand why that cemetery scene means break out the tissues for many people.

Turner and Hooch made me mad as hell. I was outraged that the dog died. I didn't think it contributed anything to the story.

[Ramsey]

103. Gorillas in the Mist

Horrifying tragic inhumane cruelty of man towards beast and fellow man, all for a bit of cash.

[Red State Rebel]

104. Pennies from Heaven - Cary Grant

[Vittorio]

105. None.

I don't cry during movies. There's no need to, imo.

[jonnyblitz]

106. house of 1000 corpses. n/t

[kodi]

107. old yeller, lassie & the ice storm.

in each the bells tolls for me too.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

108. Les parapluies de Cherbourg

It is good to feel strong emotions, and healthily cathartic to cry at a movie.

[Djinn]

109. Rarely cry at the usual ones

I find a lot of "tear jerkers" try to hard to do just that, for me Beaches was a dull, sappy and boring movie.

Once Were Warriors always gets me - the bit where Jake goes outside and in blind rage takes an axe to the tree that his daughter hung herself from had me doing that embarrasing deep breath snotty crying thing

The Laramie Project also got me bawling - I didn't know about Matt Shepherd before that, I assume it was probably reported in Australia somewhere but I must have missed it.

Documentaries and the news tends to set me off more than fiction.

[Fight_n_back]

110. Field of Dreams

because someday I won't cry and I know I will have healed a little.

[mockmonkey]

115. Some of mine

"Parting Glances" when Michael tells Nick that Nick is the one he has always loved the most.

"Terms of Endearment" when Aurora discovers that Emmas death was not a relief when it happened....no matter how prepared she thought she was.

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" the end when you learn that George really is the stronger of the two and after all they have gone through they still love each other enough to try again.

"Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"



*goes back to lurking*

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

119. Cyrano De Bergerac

The filmed version of the masterpiece play with Gerard Depardieu (Academy Award nomination - should have won). One of the best movies ever made. You have truly missed something if you have not see this EXTRAORDINARY film.

CYRANO
What say you? It is useless? Ay, I know
But who fights ever hoping for success?
I fought for lost cause, and for fruitless quest!
You there, who are you!—You are thousands!
Ah! I know you now, old enemies of mine!
Falsehood! Have at you! Ha! and Compromise!
Prejudice, Treachery!. . . Surrender, I?
Parley? No, never! You too, Folly,—you?
I know that you will lay me low at last;
Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still!
You strip from me the laurel and the rose!
Take all! Despite you there is yet one thing
I hold against you all, and when, to-night,
I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed,
Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue,
One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,
I bear away despite you.

ROXANE
'Tis?. . .

CYRANO
MY PANACHE.

[Selwynn]

120. American History X

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

121. I just saw American History X the other night - makes me cry too

The final scene with the beach leaves me speechless everytime .

[Rocinante]

122. Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

So beautiful but alas so sad. I felt sorry for the Martians but Santa made it all better. It starred a very young Pia Zadora also.

[Bake]

124. Steel Magnolias! Thank God I'm not the only one!

I loved that movie. Watch it every time it comes on cable. Hell, I ought to just go buy the damn DVD.

Is it painful? In a way. But gawd, sometimes it just hurts so good!

Bake

[Kinkistyle]

125. Cinema Paradiso, Dead Poet's Society, Shadowlands, Scent of a Woman

Wow, too many to count. I am a guy by the way. :cry: