# Movies that really made you cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 1999, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-made-you-cry/7272 "1999-08-25T22:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-made-you-cry/7272/61 "1999-08-30T14:21:00Z")
I almost hate to admit this, but . . ._E.T._. I can’t help it. I know it’s manipulative, but dammit, I cry every time. _Schindler’s List_, too. Lots of others. Man, I cry a lot at the movies. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-made-you-cry/7272/62 "1999-08-30T21:50:00Z")
In the final episode of \* M_A_S\*H, \* Klinger–who has long since shed his dresses by this time and returned to fatigues–speaks privately to the young Korean woman Soon Lee, whom he has been keeping company with for a long time. He shows her a white dress–forgetting momentarily that in the Orient white is a \*funereal \* color. He explains what white means in Occidental countries and proposes. She accepts. This always makes me break down. 🙂 [with tears] ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-made-you-cry/7272/63 "2000-05-10T22:52:44Z")
There was a tearful scene in _Dog of Flanders_ (1963), in which an orphaned boy, an aspiring artist, living with his grandfather (Donald Crisp), adopts a dog whose previous owner abused him. After the story has unfolded the grandfather sits in a chair outside the hut, posing for a sketch by Nello, the boy. A little while later Nello says he’s finished, but the grandfather isn’t sleeping–he has died. And then, until the very end, Nello, now homeless and with the dog, finds out the world has deserted him. ☹ ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-made-you-cry/7272/64 "2000-05-11T01:33:23Z")
It would be so much easier to list the ones that _didn’t_ make me cry. Yes, yes it would ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-made-you-cry/7272/65 "2000-05-11T03:07:01Z")
Many movies mentioned have made me teary (I cry everytime I put my copy of Truly, Madly, Deeply in the vcr) but two have made me SOB. Old Yeller. Watched it once when it came out in the theaters and have refused to watch it ever again. Hearts and Minds, a documentary made in the seventies about the Vietnam War. One particular scene had General Westmoreland in a voice-over saying that the Vietnamese had a different way of seeing life and dealing with death, intimating that they were less emotional. The scene was of a devastated woman trying to climb into the grave of her son. I totally lost it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-really-made-you-cry/7272.md?page=3)