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The older I get, the more sappy I get, but still very few movies have made me cry.

But here are the ones that do....which ones for you?

#1---a huge #1 goes to Tim Burton's BIG FISH. One of the most endearing, sweet, funny and sad movies ever. I don't just cry, I weep. The man who is dying reminds me of a couple friends who have died.


#2-Finding Neverland
#3-House of the Spirits

For me, these ones make me just BAWL:

- E.T.
- The Colour Purple
- Scrooge (with Alistair Sim)

I also remember as a kid crying my eyes out at the end of "Born Free" when they released Elsa back into the wild. I didn't want her to go.

My Life (sad sad sad)
Terms of Endearment (just sad)
City of Angels (sometimes)
Butterfly Effect (as he loves her so much he lets her go)
Rescue Dawn (the rescue scene)
A lot like love ( i just love that they finally come together)

I dont really cry, but i tear up

- Steel Magnolias
- Beaches
- The Notebook
- Billy Elliott

Rudy
Steel Magnolias
Brian's Song
Field of Dreams

I have cried every time I've watched "Meet the Robinson's"

And hates the Notebook. The whole movie was designed to make you cry.

The Hours
Far From Heaven
De-Lovely
AI
Bella
Magnolia
Crash
Pay It Forward

August Rush
A Girl Like Me
Pay It Forward
Forrest Gump ()
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Vanilla Sky
A.I.
Love Actually
The Pursuit of Happyness
World Trade Center
Million Dollar Baby
A Walk To Remember
Little Miss Sunshine (when the son finds out he's color blind and can't be a pilot - I was still fully closeted and partly in denial at this time and I had to pause the movie, run up to my room and cry. LOL)
I am Sam
The Family Stone
Kramer Vs. Kramer

That's all I can think of atm.

Big Fish was good, but it didn't make me cry. (Partly because in the father's recounting of his exploits in China, a Red Guard ventriloquist was shown... and he was speaking in filipino about how tired he was and how long they've been shooting or something. To a foreigner it would sound chinese, but to me, who could actually understand it, it was hilarious)

Most sports movies make me tear up at the inspiring moments too. LOL.

The Color Purple.....every freakin' time!

Terms Of Endearment

Steel Magnolias

Yes, the Color Purple did it for me too. Saw it in high school.

Wild Reeds by Andre Techine - I was still in the closet.

Sometimes in April http://www.hbo.com/films/sometimesinapril/

When I saw E.T. at age 6, I bawled when he was being shucked out those long tubes, half dead. LOL.

Embarrassed about this one, but... Titanic.

I third The Color Purple. So many scenes in that one really get me.

TOO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

FORBIDDEN GAMES (JEUX INTERDITS)

Terrence Davies' THE LONG DAY CLOSES

Victor Erice's THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

Alexander Sokurov's FATHER AND SON

Enchanted.

You laugh at me I cut you

Terms of Endearment (when she's talking to her kids for the last time and when her mother loses it when she goes)
Born on the Fourth of July ("Who's gonna love me?")
Field of Dreams (duh)
October Sky (reconciling w/ his dad)
Brokeback Mountain (another duh)
Good Will Hunting (arguing with Skyler and breaking through with Robin Williams' character)

"The Hours". There is a scene in that movie that just about destroyed me emotionally. Also the "The Return of The King" at the end can get me a bit misty eyed.

Besides that I have a tendency to have a heart of granite at movies. I get emotional but you would never know it. I have difficulty crying at the best of times.

the closing scene of Finding Neverland made my eyes water. so do parts of The Fountain.

czarodziej saidthe closing scene of Finding Neverland made my eyes water. so do parts of The Fountain.

"Finding Neverland" was that the one with Johnny Depp playing the guy who wrote "Peter Pan"? Yes that was a bit of a tear jerker at the end I must admit.

get me a box of Kleenex...

RU-DY! RU-DY! RU-DY!

czarodziej saidthe closing scene of Finding Neverland made my eyes water. so do parts of The Fountain.

Oh yeah The Fountain. The scene where his bubble finally reaches that center of the universe thingie... er golden nebula was too beautiful.

its one of my favorite movies- its so gorgeous and there's a lot of mysticism and symbolism bound up in it- every time i watch it i see or realize something new. but yeah, when he's with his dying wife in the bath tub i get teary eyed, and at the funeral.

u know, in all the space scenes, they used digitally processed footage of chemical reactions in petry dishes for all of the cosmic phenomina? macro/microcosm :p its all the same thing at different scales..

Ok, I don't cry from movies, at most my eyes get a little watery, but no actual tears. I'm not cold hearted or anything like that, but if anything in a movie starts to get to me, I know it's just a movie, not real.

latter days
old yeller
steel magnolias

The Colour Purple......The first time I saw it, when it first came out I wept so hard that I couldn't get out of my seat and they had to delay the next showing. I guess it just hit me hard at that time of my life.

Then, just about anything where someone really gets what they want. You know success or underdog stories. Like, I cry every time someone wins in the Olympics.....I try not to watch it so much....lol

SILVERFOX1 saidEnchanted.

You laugh at me I cut you

*points and laughs* Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahh ahahha hahahahhaha
*gasps in pain*


I like happy movies, cartoons and such.

Enchanted? Really? Where's the sad part?

One that comes to mind for me (there are a lot actually) is The Notebook. Man that was a killer for me.

1) The Color Purple
2) E.T.
3) Simon Burch (saw this one in a movie theater while on a DATE. It wasn't pretty...)

Even though its not a movie, the last 6 1/2 minutes of the season finale of Six Feet Under.

Wow. Too many to name. hahahahahah

Stand by Me for sure always does the trick.

World Trade Center did it. I even made 4 friends watch it - and I still cried after 4 times.

Pan's Labyrinth more than once.

Titanic (around the scene where a mother reads a fairy tale to her children my crying peaks)
Lord of the Rings 3
Bridges of Madison County
The way we were
The notebook
Kramer vs Kramer
The Hours
Moulin Rouge
Rent
Breakfast at Tiffany's
and a few others...

however in most movies I just get goosebumps or my eyes just well-up

Road Trip
Not another teen movie.

not!

Armageddon is the only movie that makes me cry. Ben and LIv are so in love and it's amazing the way they can get it across. I cry through out the entire movie.

The part liv's dad stays behind on the asteroid makes me cry the most.

czarodziej said but yeah, when he's with his dying wife in the bath tub i get teary eyed, and at the funeral.

Similarly in BIG FISH, when the dying father is in the bathtub and his wife gets in with him starts the tears for me. They both know he's going to die, and he tries to stay strong for her.

It's one of the most endearing scenes ever in a movie....my eyes are welling up thinking about that scene, how that must feel knowing that the person you love so intensely is going to be leaving you.

The Hiding Place

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Schindler's List


Hmm, seems to be a theme there.

Shindler's Fist made me cry, but for whole different reason.

Philadelphia

The Lion King

Short Bus

Big Fish

Bambi Meets Godzilla.

Short, but oh so sad.

latter days ...

the trip ...

philadelphia ...

steel magnolias ...

titanic ...

"The Diane Linkletter Story" by John Waters and "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" by Todd Haynes.

So sad.

Dirty Dancing.

Pretty Woman.

Contact.

"Dancer in the Dark" - when Bjork's friend brings in her sons glasses as she is about to be hanged.

"PS I Love You" - only movie that has made me cry from multiple scenes. I think I cried once every 15 minutes.

Without a doubt!!!!!!

Love Actually.

Stella Dallas. (The Original)

Imitation of Life. (The Original)

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (the 1945 version) - there's a scene near the end that is just devastating.

jprichva saidBambi Meets Godzilla.

Short, but oh so sad.

LMAO!!!! ahahahhahaha

anyway, I pretty much haven't seen any of the movies mentioned. The most recent one that made me cry was Click , yeh it may have been cheesy but that scene was Adam dies in the rain and passes the note just opened the floodgates.

Shakespeare in Love


every time, damnit.

the sixth sense

Wow. A great question.

I actually come across pretty butch (believe it or not) but a well-told sad story will reduce me to tears easily.

I actually started welling up re-listening to an old This American Life the other day about Last Words. The first story, told by Sarah Vowell, is a real heartbreaker.

As far as movies, so many have already been listed that do it. The end of Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, Billy Elliot (plus the sigh of relief that the grandmother didn't die)... so, so many.

Sedative included A.I., but that only made me cry out of desperate boredom. It was like "three hours later and translucent robots are flying around in rubiks cubes... great"

I can cry at some real cornball stuff. Books, short stories, the final episode of Moonlighting. I almost never watched Will & Grace, but I did see the last episode, and sure enough, waterworks.

Why the hell am I admitting this on a message board. Now I have to go do something extra manly just to recover. Somebody bring me some nails and some pressure-treated lumber!

American Flyers
Out of Africa
She's Having a Baby (the scene with Kevin Bacon in the hospital waiting room)
Empire of the Sun
Lost and Found (Takeshi Kaneshiro)

the only time I ever cried in a movie was in brokeback mountain whenever you see the one shirt inside the other. its obvious, yeah, but it gets me every time.

There was a movie in the late 80s or the early 90s that stared Kevin Bacon called She's Having a Baby its got a very emotional last 15 minutes.

Finding Nemo
Lion King (when Mufasa dies)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Old Yeller
Where The Red Fern Grows
Shane

Ghost
The Notebook
Moulin Rouge
The Little Mermaid
Sex And The City (just the part at New Year's and on the bridge)

that's all i can think of right now

Casablanca (when Rick tells Ilsa she's getting on the plane)
Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon (when Li MuBai dies)
Now, Voyager (the end)
The English Patient (when Almasy goes back to the cave, and when he asks Hannah to euthanize him)
Out of Africa (when Karen can't drop a handful of soil on Denys's grave, and her monologue "If I know a song of Africa, etc")
A River Runs Through It (the end)

Oh, and for completely different reasons:

The Fawlty Towers episode called "Basil the Rat"---it's a masterpiece of comedy. The last scene is the funniest thing I've ever seen.

There are so many but my top three that come to mind are:

1. Lost in Yonkers
2. Bridges of Madison County
3. On Golden Pond
4. Butterflies are Free

I know that was four but..

czarodziej said

u know, in all the space scenes, they used digitally processed footage of chemical reactions in petry dishes for all of the cosmic phenomina? macro/microcosm :p its all the same thing at different scales..

Yeah, they used macrophotography instead of relying solely on CG. And yeah, i think everything's one anyway (Entanglement theory, hehe). The theme on the quest for immortality is totally Buddhism trumping Christianity LOL. The conquistador seeks the tree of life when life itself is already cyclical and the true quest is to end it.

Oops wait. I'm supposed to be atheist.

*assumes atheist POV*

It's all bullshit, but certainly beautifully symbolic.

26mileman saidThere are so many but my top three that come to mind are:

1. Lost in Yonkers
2. Bridges of Madison County
3. On Golden Pond
4. Butterflies are Free

I know that was four but..

I go with most of them and Steel Magnolias and some animal films like White Wolf!

La Vie En Rose killed me.

One doesn't need to be a Francophone or know who Edith Piaf is to be chilled by Marion Cotillard's performance.




Oh, and Glitter of course.

I thought for sure Brokeback Mountain was going to be on many a list, but maybe I'm one of the few who actually cry whenever I watch it. The love they have for one another simply reminds me how fortunate some people are, and yet...

And if anyone has seen Leolo, a beautiful movie that makes me cry too.

Then there's Anchorman, but those are tears of pure laughter.

La Lengua de las Mariposas -- Cute, sad little kids ALWAYS get me
Good bye Lenin! -- I know it's supposed to be a tragicomdey, but the final scene was really poignant for me.
I'm not 100% sure but I think I cried at some point during Pan's Labyrinth too.

Seeing as my favorite movies are horribly sad, I'm sure I cried during all of them, but I don't actually remember doing it.

The Baz Luhrmann directed Romeo and Juliet. Im such a sap

Mr. Holland's Opus

Latter Days

Steele Magnolias

Rudy

Field of Dreams

Joy Luck Club
Color Purple
The opening of Lion King
Sophie's Choice

I've always been a big sap for the sad stuff. I have to admit that there are even commercials that can make me well up, so there are more than a few movies that can reduce me to tears. I'm only going to list the ones that REALLY tug on my heartstrings and make me sob, and continue to do so no matter how many times I've seen them...
- Amelie
- Moulin Rouge
- On Golden Pond
- Love Actually
- Sense & Sensibility (Ang Lee version)
- Beaches
- The Color Purple
- And many, many scenes from SATC series

Movies that make me cry include:

THE COLOR PURPLE: so manipulative, so sentimental, and so renders J a god-damned mess!

FRANCES: I alternate between horror, fear, and pity with this one, but Lange is phenominal as is her mum.

MASK: I've not seen this one in years, and it's just as well because once again, mess!

DANCER IN THE DARK: god, brutal movie (though as far as artistry, DOGVILLE is the better statement).

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?: I cry tears of laughter each time I see it! "But ya are in that chair Blanche, ya are!"

HEAT: Sylvia Miles is a scream in this as is the late great Andrea Feldman. SOOOOOOOOOOO much quotable dialog, including:

"That's right! You did send me to that psycho ward and had me locked up!"
"Don't worry about it Sally, lots of kids are 'peculiar' in Hollywood these days..."
"What makes you think he loves you, that he cares about you...at your age???"

the only movie that made me cry was...

In America

Brokeback made me cry the day after when i was thinking about it.

Same Time Next Year
The Green Mile
Brokeback Mountain
ET
Stand By Me
Hope Floats

Virtually all of the above.

A couple more that haven't already been mentioned:

It's a Wonderful Life
Immortal Beloved