# Movies that make you cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2001, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185 "2001-08-26T09:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/81 "2001-08-31T01:56:03Z")
I cried near the end of “Amadeus,” when Mozart’s body is carted off to a paupers’ grave to the strains of the _Lacrymosa_ from his _Requiem_. I almost cried during “The Sixth Sense” and “Apollo 13.” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Airman Doors, USAF \* > … **Rudy**. Every single time I’ve ever seen that movie I’ve cried at the end. I cried at the end of “Rudy” too, but only because Georgia Tech lost. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lionors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c37758/32.png) [@Lionors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionors)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/82 "2001-08-31T02:15:07Z")
I gulp a bit on occasion, but movies that really make me just bawl are rare. That being said… [ul] [li] _Platoon_[/li][li] _Saving Private Ryan_ [/ul][/li] It was one thing to know there were demons from Vietnam and WWII that haunted my father and grandfather…but seeing those movies were, to me, like having front row seats in their nightmares. I think in both cases I cried more out of grief for what two essentially kind and gentle men lived through and lived with as a result of their experiences than I did for the movies themselves. Less close-to-home films: [list] [li] _Rob Roy_ - Danimal, I am SO with you on that scene…and even more in the aftermath, when Jessica Lange and Alastair are in the loch while Tim Roth and the rest of the thugs are retreating. However the KILLER to me is the duel at the end between Liam Neeson and Tim Roth. (I’m a sucker for guts and gallantry.)[/li][li] _Braveheart_ - Self-explanatory.[/li][li] _Sommersby_ - Although this movie ties with _The Green Mile_ as the two movies with the single most INFURIATING endings and/or plot twists I’ve seen, so I’m not quite sure if I was crying in fury at those two or just crying. (I like my happy endings,I do.)[/li][li] _Titanic_ - For the same reasons other folks mentioned before. All of them. When we saw the old folks holding each other, my husband and I just cuddled up and bawled unashamedly.[/li][li] _Somewhere In Time_[/li][li] \*The Way We Were \*[/li][li] _Bicentennial Man_…right at the end. \[/li] [sub]okay, _I’m_ off for a good stiff glass of perspective and soda…anyone else want to join me?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/83 "2001-08-31T05:57:42Z")
dirty dozen ---
**Author:** ![Lionors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c37758/32.png) [@Lionors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionors)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/84 "2001-08-31T08:00:29Z")
Ack…almost forgot… [list] [li]_Armageddon_[/li][li]_Terms of Endearment_[/li] Damn, I cry more than I thought… ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/85 "2001-08-31T18:34:13Z")
**[ul][_]Forrest Gump[_]Patton[/ul]** ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/86 "2001-08-31T18:45:25Z")
Patton? Did you mean Platoon? Wow, that’s pretty cool. I think I was suppossed to cry during Bambi and back then I never wanted to disappoint my parents so I’m sure I did. Other than that (jeez, I hate to admit this) I did tear up a little when Henry torched the dreamhouse so ClayBoy could attend college in “Spencer’s Mountain.” ---
**Author:** ![Jen\_Jen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@Jen\_Jen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jen_Jen)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/87 "2001-08-31T21:01:02Z")
Life is Beautiful Terms of Endearment A League of Their Own What Dreams May Come Father of the Bride (remake) ---
**Author:** ![SteverinoAlaReno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SteverinoAlaReno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteverinoAlaReno)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/88 "2001-08-31T21:44:28Z")
Shenandoah (the old Jimmy Stewart movie) was for a long time the only movie I’d ever cried at. Then I saw Life Is Beautiful. And October Sky. (Okay, that’s an unususal movie to evoke tears, but the relationship between the main character and his father was eerily familiar.) Sheesh, I’m getting soft in my old age 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/89 "2001-09-01T06:28:57Z")
Shane - Any western fan who does not cry when the boy calls is made of STONE Agree with Iron Giant - I can’t hold it back when he says “Superman” The Incredible Journey (the new one)- I am sorry but I bawl everytime Shadow and his boy meet. Field of Dreams - Dad, you want to play catch? ---
**Author:** ![Turlough](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@Turlough](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turlough)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/90 "2001-09-03T04:51:48Z")
First post 😃 Dr.Shivago Casablanca Otherwise all the movies I’ve cryed at have already been said (And yes, I know Dr.Shivago has already been said) ---
**Author:** ![kismet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc8723/32.png) [@kismet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kismet)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/91 "2001-09-03T05:17:26Z")
**Homeward Bound** -When Shadow walks over the hill and says “Peter.” (over dramatic music, of course.) Lordy, I’m a sucker. I’m tearing up just thinking about it. I cry when I’m watching movies I’ve seen a hundred times. I guess that’s why I like them so much! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![the\_O-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@the\_O-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_O-man)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/92 "2001-09-03T15:33:39Z")
The first movie I remember making me cry was **“The Wizard of Oz”** when I was a child. I remember seeing **“Madame X”** which also reduced me to tears (during the courtroom scene). I cried as an adult when I saw **“Forrest Gump”** in the theater. His mom and his only true love both dying. That was tough. That movie about the parrot, **“Paulie”** always makes me cry at the end. Happy tears, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Spooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Spooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spooky)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/93 "2001-09-04T06:18:33Z")
Hi, I’m resurrecting this post, because I watched Midnight Cowboy for the first time. Wept like a baby. And it wasn’t just from that song sung by Nillson. I’ll never take a bus trip again without thinking of that movie. Jon Voight, you have my respect. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/94 "2001-09-11T04:04:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > **Harold and Maude, primarily the end sequence. Cat Stevens’ “Trouble” as Harold zooms along, expression just numb and dead, towards his final decision. And the concluding moments after that decision is revealed.** I’m there. What I love about that last moment is SPOILER the fact that he looks like Kermit the Frog. Long skinny legs and a banjo. It can’t have been intentional, since the film was released in 1971, but it’s there. There has just never been anyone like Bud Cort, before or since. Matthew McConaghey came close, and Tobey Maguire was/is a plastic version, but no one else has really had that uncultured innocence. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/95 "2001-09-11T04:47:05Z")
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope When Darth Vader died. Gets me every time. Subsequently, Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace Pretty much during the whole thing. Gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/96 "2001-09-11T04:52:11Z")
Oops. Not Vader (RETJ and all), but I mean Obi Wan. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![McKenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@McKenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McKenna)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/97 "2001-09-11T05:29:48Z")
“Avalon”, with that glorious Randy Newman score. The scene where old Sam is trying to tell his grandson about the glorious new America he walked into that long ago July 4th of 1914 as a new hopeful immigrant, and all the kid wants to do is watch his stupid TV. “Schindler’s List” “Baby Mine” from Dumbo (Bambi’s mother getting killed didn’t get to me much, because I knew some deer hunters and well, that’s what happened to deer sometimes) As a history buff and a great fan of the Broadway musical at which I shed many a tear, the movie “Titanic” just provoked in me tears of laughter, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![snermy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@snermy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snermy)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/98 "2001-09-11T06:03:12Z")
Didn’t used to _ever_ cry at movies as a kid. (Though I would absolutely gibber in terror at anything scary, but that’s a whole other hangup) Now I’m a big wussie. But the movie has to be good, or it’s too unbelievable/annoying to be sad (Dying Young , anyone? Right) Best comment I EVER read on that was a movie reviewer’s line to the effect of _my tear stayed in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked_. Movie I cried most at, ever, was **An Angel at My Table** sneef ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/99 "2001-09-11T06:12:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by McKenna \* > **"Avalon", with that glorious Randy Newman score. The scene where old Sam is trying to tell his grandson about the glorious new America he walked into that long ago July 4th of 1914 as a new hopeful immigrant, and all the kid wants to do is watch his stupid TV.** Yeah, and how about the ending? Michael finally wants to hear about it, and to have his son hear about it, but Sam’s so far gone, all he can say is, “I kem to Amirica in 1914…I kem to Amirica in 1914…” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185/100 "2001-09-11T06:28:32Z")
Okay, I was in a hurry before. Here’s my list. Some have already been mentioned. Any version of **A Christmas Carol** or **Peter Pan** , unless they’re animated and musical. The latest one with Patrick Stewart is exquistite, although it’s missing some of the moments from the George C. Scott incarnation, and the one I saw on PBS. The entire landing scene in **Private Ryan**. Almost all of **Deep Impact**. Are there really that many people who hate this film? When I saw it, here in LA, the women’s room was crammed with weepers, and Mr. Rilch told me that the men’s was similarly overrun. Jessie’s song in **Toy Story 2**. Also, when Sarah MacLaughlan sang it at the Oscars, it was lucky I had Cartman with me (he wanted to see if his movie got anything); only his meanness kept me from losing it. Often, it’s just that one moment that sneaks up on you just when you thought you could keep it together: **Iron Giant** : “Superman…” **Heavenly Creatures** : “It was a condition of their parole that they never meet again.” **Titanic** : The shot of the stern disappearing. **[sub]TITANIC \* LIVERPOOL[/sub]**. Two years to build, two and a half hours to destroy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cry/78185.md?page=6)