I cried when I saw “All Dogs Go To Heaven”. The ending of it. I want to cry just thinking about it. I was 7 when I last saw it.
Oh God, her speech to that empty chair. WRECKED me.
The first movie I remember crying at is “The Mission,” with Jeremy Irons and Robert DeNiro. My mother dragged me to it when I was about eight, so I don’t remember it very well, except the one scene that made me bawl out loud in the theater: DeNiro laying dying amidst the slaughtered native village, everything burning all around him, and through the flames comes Jeremy Irons carrying the cross. (Gah, it chokes me up now and it’s been 20+ years since I’ve seen it.)
I cry all the time at movies, but one I didn’t see listed here is “Sling Blade” – at the end, when Billy Bob Thornton gives the little boy his books and a bookmark on which he’s written, “You will be happy.” That poor little boy. sniff
I forgot: Watership Down!
When Hazel dies peacefully at the end- and isn’t it that Art Garfunkel song Bright Eyes that plays as his soul goes up into the sky? Gah-
Mulan, yes.
Also Hero. Mr. Lissar warned me, and I was watching it unmoved until the execution, and I just… went to pieces. Sobbed and sobbed.
Anyone else just about die watching Serenity, when
Wash dies?
Oh, the pain.
I’ve mentioned this before, but when we say FotR the first time, Mr. Lissar started having tears leaking down his face when Gandalf rode up to Minas Tirith, and pretty much the whole rest of the movie was crying. That was because of happiness, though. Mostly. Except for Gandalf’s fall, which was awesome (except that a nice but clueless friend of ours leaned over and stage-whispered, “When does he come back?”. She’s still alive).
I am never ever going to watch Grave of the Fireflies, no matter how good it is. I’ve been warned. Anyone seen it?
I think, at least for me, the reason that version of Romeo and Juliet is so heartbreaking is because Juliet wakes up when Romeo is drinking the poison. The look on his face when he realizes that she isn’t dead…oy. Plus Clair Danes rocks in my book as well because I too grew up on My So-Called Life.
My additon? The Notebook. The end of that movie just killed me.
I’m such a sap there are more movies that make me cry, isntead of don’t. City of Angels is another. Most of the movies mentioned here that I’ve seen have done it.
My Dog Skip the end when Skip is getting old. I’m tearing up now. Also the Incredible Journey When the old dog says’ Jamie needs me"
I’m crying now, because I just had Watership Down spoiled for me…I’m halfway through the book. 
That’s what I get.
No, you didn’t. It’s not what you think at all. Keep reading!
Seriously. Whatever impression you got here, it’s quite likely wrong. Even if it’s by some wild chance not, it’s still worth reading - the journey is the point, not the end.
FWIW, all I saw was “…when Hazel dies…” and stopped reading, so that is what I think.
Thanks for the encouragement, though! I’d have finished it last night if it wasn’t for my damn migraine.
Aww, me too. Mostly because I lived the movie.
I love Life as a House. Made me bawl like a baby, but the critics were horrid. I don’t understand why they hated this charming movie so much.
Yay! I double quoted successfully.
Yep, and, whatever you think about that, I’m 95% sure it’s not what happens in the book. Trust me, it’s like hearing the boat sinks at the end of Titanic. Not really a spoiler at all. Here, I’ll spoiler this for you and you can come back tomorrow and tell me if I was right:
[spoiler]You thought Hazel died as part of the battle, or in captivity, or in the journey back to the warren, right? No one ever suspects he grows old and fat and dies in peace surrounded by does and babies.
Oh, and you totally cried anyway, right?[/spoiler]
Amen. The part where he’s flying into space and says “Superman” to himself and closes his eyes…
My mother once watched the end with me and mocked me when she saw that I had tears. Thanks, mom! 
Ah, hell…
“Regular” male, here. I seem to tear up regularly at movies, though.
In Lars and the Real Girl, when Bianca is in the hospital and Lars comes out of his room to see several women sitting around knitting, and they tell him “We’re the ladies who wait.” Dammit, I hope no walks by my cube…
J.
Speaking of Watership Down, there’s also The Plague Dogs.
Synopsis:
[spoiler]Snitter, the terrier, and Rowf, the lab, have escaped from an English animal research facility where Snitter underwent neurological operations and Rowf was subjected to repeated ‘drownings’ to test his endurance. A media story breaks that (A) the dogs escaped and (B) the same lab was testing bubonic plague. The military is called out to locate and destroy the dogs (who are trying to either live free or else find a real master).
Ignoring a bunch of stuff in the middle, eventually the military locates the dogs and corners them on the shore. Rowf has a phobia of the water and Snitter convinces him to swim for it by telling him that there’s an island out there somewhere where they’ll be free. The dogs swim out to sea and eventually start to flounder. Snitter says he can’t make it and Rowf says the island can’t be far. Snitter admits that he made the island up but Rowf refuses to believe it and the dogs continue to swim out to sea.[/spoiler]
Most of Return of the King. I’ve seen it dozens of times, and “My friends, you bow to no one” kills me every time.
The end of Miracle. I’m an absolute sucker for sports underdog stories, and that’s not just the best hockey games, it’s one of the most fantastic sports moments ever.
Pretty much any war movie that shows war as realistically horrible and stupid and pointless and insane. Hotel Rwanda and The Wind that Shakes the Barley both come to mind.
And, since we’re being honest: the end of Lilo and Stitch. Disney movies don’t normally really get to me, but pretty much from the point where Stitch gets lost, I’m sniffling away.
The Notebook had me crying so hard I was hiccuping. I will never watch that movie again, I swear. And I know it’s cheesy, but the flashback scenes in Armageddon make me tear up.
The montage scene of family films at the end of Philadelphia always gets me. And the end of Amadeus, when Mozart’s body is rolled into the pauper’s pit with about 10 other bodies already there.
I just can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet, so I’m going to contribute now, a scene that made me cry (and I don’t cry easy).
It was in the movie “Sixth Sense” (Possible spoiler), where the mother is in the car with her son, driving home. The mother is tired and frustrated about her son, his anxiety, his claim that he can see and talk to Spirits. He is trying to convince her of this ability and off-handedly mentions, “Granny says she’s sorry she moved the bracelet. She likes to take it sometimes because it reminds her of the past”, (Granny died years before). Then the boy says, “Granny told me to tell you that the answer to your question was ‘EVERYDAY!’… What was the question?”.
A few seconds go by…
The mother then starts to cry and says “Well… sometimes when things aren’t going well I ask her if she’s ever proud of me”.
I really got emotional with this scene. I guess it struck a chord for me.
I gotta stop reading this thread! I’m blubbering just by your descriptions of movies I’ve never even seen!!
But I just can’t tear myself away!!