Going way back here - “Antarctica”, the Japanese film about abandoned sled dogs, made me cry twice. Many years later, “Dangerous Beauty” had be blubbering in the theater.
Chas.E, thanks for reminding me about IMAX. When I saw “Blue Earth” and our planet seen from space filled the screen, I welled up with tears. I must be a Pagan at heart.
The more times I’ve seen the movie, the more likely I am to cry. Recent ones that made me cry, seen multiple times in the theater and/or on DVD/laserdisc, include:
Moulin Rouge (I know it’s coming, but damn)
Apocolypse Now (Redux) (she just wanted to get the dog)
The Iron Giant (“I am not a gun”)
One From The Heart (“You are my sunshine…”)
Dancer In The Dark (Von Trier got me. Yes he did.)
The Cotton Club (the “Ill Wind” montage)
<sniff>
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Ditto to The Green Mile, Phenomenon, and Titanic and add the movie version of Where the Red Fern Grows.
Boys Don’t Cry made me weep for a very long time.
The movie Boys On The Side also made me shed a few tears in the climax.
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Good googley moogley.
I didn’t realize my faux paus until just now.
Color me dense.
No comment.
The whale sequence in Fantasia 2000.
My husband ran out of the room with a pillow crushed into his face at the final scene of “Love Story”, when I made him watch it. I WARNED him, but he said he could handle it. Get out your handkerchiefs.
Does any one remember that old movie with Jackie Gleason? It has a French title. Lemme look it up… Ah, yes, Gigot, 1962. I remember my sister and I seeing this years ago on TV, but being unable to watch it, because it was SO SAD. We were just little girls. We told our Mom about it the next morning, and she said, “Oh, yes, that is very sad.” I have been afraid yet intrigued by this film ever since.
Does anyone else remember this movie? I was only 7 or 8 years old, but I remember a scene where Jackie is taking care of a little girl, and she is on a carousel… she goes round and round while he chases her and falls over the barriers. My sister and I weeped.
Several of those already mentioned, plus:
What Dreams May Come
Legends of the Fall
A League of Their Own
Dances With Wolves
How could I forget:
Out of Africa
Dr. Rieux, my first thought was of Out of Africa, but I didn’t want to ramble on. Ok, so now I did. I have cried at alot of movies!!! : )
I am not a crier at movies. Dont know why. But I do know some sad scenes:
Dances with Wolves final scene with Wind in His Hair shouting after Dunbar.
About Legends… perhaps the part were Hopkins comes out of the house and meets his son again, makes you remember the man he used to be before the stroke. And then he can’t even talk really…
Also O Captain my Captain.
I also found the Bridges of Madison County touching…
oh well, maybe it’s just me.
An easier question would probably be what movies haven’t made me cry…I’m such a wuss.
A quick list of what has made me tear up…
Lion King
Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Lady and the Tramp
Bambi
Pochahontas
every other single Disney movie
Armegeddon
Dirty Dancing
Pay it Forward
Grease
Cruel Intentions
I’m sure there’s more…I’ll finish my list later…
Forrest Gump always gets me. I know a girl alot like Jenny. I’ve known her since we were both four, and we grew up as good friends. We never really dated, but I’ve got the feeling we’ve alway liked each other. I don’t see much of her anymore, but she started drinking a lot, and was living with an abusive guy for a while, until she got pregnant (by him). Now she’s back home, and trying to clean up her life. Oh, by the way, she’s a waitress now. (The main difference is we’re still not together and she doesn’t have AIDS. Also, I’m not slow like Forrest.)
Always…with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus
Somewhere in Time…just hearing the theme is usually enough to send me running for tissues.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence…I cried during the whole movie
It’s A Wonderful Life…it doesn’t matter that I have seen it 4 million times
Yes, the Dumbo "Baby Mine scene gets me, too.
Braveheart
Wizard of Oz…“Auntie Em, Auntie Em, I’m scared and alone!”
…yeah, I heard it was pretty bad… 
I admit, I have to fight back the tears during the “Jesse’s Story” musical interlude from Toy Story 2.
Couldn’t get worked up over The Joy Luck Club, though. Maybe because I had already put up with too much of that sort of Asian guilt in real life…
I’m glad someone mentioned Grave of the Fireflies That’s gotta be the saddest movie I’ve ever seen. My girlfriend was watching it for a second time, while it was my first, and she started tearing up in the first scene. I didn’t understand why until the end.
Funny Crouching Tiger story: I saw it the first 2 times on a plane (watched it once, loved it, watched it again immediately. Long flight. Paris to NY) At the end (you know when) I was bawling. How embarrasing: “Vould you like zome cheese or fruit, monsieur?” “No <sob> Thank you <sob> just another diet coke <sniff>”
Others:
Schindler’s List
Lion King (only at Mufasa’s death. More specifically, “C’mon Dad, get up, we gotta go home”)
Iron Giant (Yup: “I am not a gun”)
Titanic (Sigh… I didn’t want to, but the elderly couple on the bed got me.)
Romeo & Juliet (the one with DiCaprio and Danes. The reworking of the ending so he KNEW she was alive before the poison takes hold, that really worked.)
Life is Beautiful
Edward Scissorhands (when his creator dies)
Dead Poets Society
Toy Story 2 (Jesse’s Song)
might think of more later…
Oh, man… I am a sap.
Cinema Paradiso By far the worst. Sobbed like a baby.
Life is Beautiful …um… um…Waaaah!
Saving Private Ryan Sniff. Sob.
Etcetera.
Sigh.
Dumbo - the scene where his mother cradles him through the bars.
The Lion King - I won’t even watch the scene where Mufasa dies anymore. Nope, not gonna do it.
Dances With Wolves - when those two yahoos are shooting at the wolf and it won’t run away because of Dunbar . . . I just lost it. That’s one of the most embarassing moment of my life: how loud I cried at that scene. My mother dug her fingernails into my arm and told me to get up and leave the theater, I was making so much noise. Still chaps my behind to remember it, those bastards!
Hook - “Oh there you are, Peter.” sniff, sniff
Saving Private Ryan - oddly enough, I didn’t cry at the movie itself, but the preview made me cry on two separate occasions. I’ve used to be tough, but now . . . I cry at more and more stuff these days. Getting emotional in my old age.
A commercial made me cry recently. It’s the Hallmark commercial where the woman looks out her window and sees her elderly neighbor going out to check her mail and she never gets anything. So the lady gets her a card and sends her son across the street to put it in the mailbox. Then the scene cuts to the little boy handing his mom a jar of homemade jam and saying, “Mrs. So-and-so gave me this to give to you, Mom. I think she was crying.” I was embarassed that I’d started to tear up, until I looked across at my boyfriend and saw him hurriedly wiping away some moisture that had collected in his eyes. Anything that can make him cry . . .