Oh, there are lots of movies that make me tear up. on scene I haven’t seen here is when they shoot the wolf in Dances with Wolves. Almost any time something bad happens to animals, really. When Willie jumps the rocks. When the animals make it home in The Incredible Journey or Far From Home:The Adventures of Yellow Dog.
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Nowhere in Africa causes an hour of sobbing everytime I watch it.
And Mysterious Skin with Joseph Gordon Leavitt. Excruciating!
How about the ending of Ozu’s Tokyo Story?
I have GOFF in my Netflix queue right now but I keep bumping it down, because I know from what others say that I’m going to be an emotional wreck after I watch it. I should just get it over with (I do really want to see it, though).
Six Weeks
Life is Beautiful
Ordinary People
Beaches
Terms of Endearment
My Dog Skip
My Girl
What Dreams May Come (oh, my GOD!)
Too many to name…I’m a sap!
I cry at a lot of the ones mentioned here–most notably, The Color Purple and Steel Magnolias.
One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Meet the Robinsons. The ending really makes me tear up. Its the part where they take Lewis to his new home and he’s so awed by it all–his new parents are watching him, obviously moved by his wonder. The song that accompanies it (Little Wonders, by Rob Thomas) adds to the emotion. It brings to mind all the times I’ve watched my children in just the same way and been so stirred by the delight they take in the seemingly ordinary.
You should see it, it’s a great film (emotional turmoil not withstanding).
I saw this movie on a highway bus in Taiwan: it was all in Korean with Chinese subtitles, but still managed to choke me up a bit:
A Man Who Went to Mars .
I stumbled on another thread with the same topic: [thread=452160] What films have made you cry?[/thread]
And if we can mention stage plays, Miss Saigon has a song about war orphans that gets me. “They are the living reminder of the good deeds we failed to do.” Sniff! Damn allergies making the computer go all out of focus. Where are those kleenex?
My eyes are misting just thinking about that scene and so many others in the movie.
Heaven Can Wait
Don Ameche or Warren Beatty?
I saw that in the theatre, and while it was one of my very favorite Disney cartoons ever, I didn’t even mist up at that, nor even when Lewis goes to check out his original mother. Dry-eyed, happy, blah blah blah.
Then they showed the title card, with the quotation, that ends the movie, and that was it for me.
The Chronicles of Narnia–when Aslan “died”.
Many years ago, when Chicago Hope was on, the character played by Peter McNichols was going to die. There had been a lot of publicity done on him leaving the show, so it wasn’t going to be a surprise. The few weeks prior to it, I saw several times that he was leaving the show and his character was going to die. However, watching the episode, I found myself thinking, “Oh, he’s going to be okay! He’s NOT going to die!” He died.
I wept like a baby.
I did this when I was younger, with the older animated version. Bawled like a baby at the sacrifice scene…
I’m a big sap but these movies left me emotionally incapacitated for at least a few hours…
SCHINDLER’S LIST
THE NOTEBOOK
ATONEMENT
SEABISCUIT
WE WERE SOLDIERS
also the last scenes of MOULIN ROUGE always get me, even if I didn’t watch the whole movie
Old Yeller still gets to me,also the ending of E.T.Oh yeah,when the blood of Christ mixes with the rain and cures Ben Hur’s mother and sister
Gah, I’m tearing up reading this thread.
Most of mine have been mentioned – Return of the King in particular I cry throughout most of, with noisy racking sobs when Gandalf is telling Pippin what he has to look forward to after he dies. A good friend of mine from college who I’d seen all the movies with on opening night died not long after the movie was out and we sang Into the West at his funeral, and THAT song and Rainbow Connection don’t just turn on the waterworks, they break the valve.
Empire of the Sun is another especially bad one. All throughout, really.
I remembered another one recently: Hair. When I first saw it, I had no idea how it was going to end. As I watched it, I had no idea how it was going to end. And then all of a sudden the ending comes, and it’s like taking a step through a door and finding there’s no floor underneath, just the ground rushing up to meet you. When you-probably-know-what happens, I was just staring at the screen, and the song pushed me that extra inch into crying.