Schlinder’s List
My Girl
Steele Magnolias
Hope Floats (when the little girl is running after her father)
and many, many others.
trisha
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice - Albert Einstein
A Midnight Clear
It’s a war movie. You have to see it or read the book to really understand the impact. My heart breaks anew each and every time I see it. The symbolism, the characters, where the grand design goes wrong. I can picture myself in those young men. I can feel their pain and the horror.
The part that makes my body ache and my soul scream? When, after all they have been through, that uncaring buffoon puts the dog tags in the body’s (can’t say who, you have to see it) mouth and smacks it shut.
The first time I saw it I almost became ill. So violent against such a body so well loved. A body that had saved their own lives. It still brings tears to my eyes. If you’ve seen it you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t than you are missing out. I can’t ever hear that Christmas song without thinking of this movie.
Add me to the parade for “Truly, Madly, Deeply” – when he comes back and she starts bawling, it always tears me up.
And there’s an extraordinary scene in “Wings of Desire,” when a young man is dying from a motorcycle accident, and an angel comforts him. Never fails.
And “Braveheart,” always.
Catrandom
There was a period of about 5 years in my life when I wouldn’t and didn’t cry. I’ve been catching up ever since.
Awakenings had me practically sobbing…I cried first when Leonard was well (“Mom! Mom!”), then soaked several tissues in the last half hour watching everyone degenerate. I cried without interruption for probably 40 minutes of that movie.
Schindler’s List, Steel Magnolias, Babe, The Incredible Journey, and Lorenzo’s Oil are guaranteed tearjerkers every time I see them.
Meanwhile, on TV, “Emergency Vets” frequently causes me to choke up. I’m such a sap.
“Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”
“English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.”
Watership Down
The Color Purple
ET
A TV moment that made me cry recently…
I hardly ever watch “Trauma: Life in the ER,” but there was something on there a few weeks ago about a guy who had a knife stuck in his head. Anyway, he lived. But there was an 18 month old baby who had been in a car accident with her mom. The kid was strapped in the car seat, but the accident was particularly bad, and the baby didn’t make it. The irony of the guy with the knife in his head (which had gotten there in a drunken fight, IIRC) surviving vs. a baby safely strapped in, but dying anyway, was too much for me.
What you guys said, as well as:
Forrest Gump (several times)
The last scene in The Searchers, John Wayne walking out the cabin door (never liked him except in that movie)
Also – almost any Hallmark commercial, and the old phone company ads – daughter calling home just to say hi and her dad is so proud
Do the rest of you hate it when you have to buy a sympathy card? They need to put tissues in the display. Just reading most of those messages tears me up. Geez.
What about “Life is Beautiful”? That’s is one of the saddest movies ever made. But I must admit I did cry during the part in “Titanic” when the musicians are playing, and one says to the other “Why are we even playing? They’re not listening anymore?” and the other guy says “Well, they weren’t listenind during dinner either.” That got to me. . . has anyone here ever seen the movie “Lawndogs”? The ending is supposed to be “happy”, I’ve been told, but I thought it was painfully depressing.
This may sound silly…
“Godzilla vs Destroyer” (1995; Japanese), when Godzilla died. It was billed as Godzilla’s final movie, but I still teared up seeing my favorite movie character die.
See my profile for my page about this movie.
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument” - William McAdoo
… and almost any Disney movie. “Fox & the Hound” especially.
Has no one mentioned “Old Yeller”? Even Hitler would tear up after that one.
Oh, my God,…I forgot my favorite movie, and just thinking of this part makes me want to bawl…
Forrest Gump- when Forrest is speaking in Washington and Jenny runs across the reflecting pool yelling “Forrest!!”…Oh, MAN! That just makes me bawl like a baby Each and every time…just seeing that one scene will do it to me…
I also recently saw a commercial for Visa where this guy is talking to a doctor in a hospital setting, and he’s saying how he’ll (the patient) have to stay off his feet for a while, but he’s going to make it just fine- cut to the guy opening a door, and there on the table is his beloved doggie- leg bandaged- and the moment he sees the guy his face just lights up and he starts wagging his tail. Oh MAN! I literally burst out in tears at that one…I am getting so soft…
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
It was a made for tv movie called Kent State about the 4 students that were killed on campus in the 60’s.I am a yippie from way back,so I cried at the end.
Hey Arg: The ship sinks.
City of Angels…can you say bittersweet?
The first 3 times I saw Titanic I completely lost it at the very end. Sappy as hell, bad dialogue, but lovers torn apart by death or fate just rips me up. Especially by death.
The only part I cried at in Gone with the Wind was when the horse died.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
And yes, PLATOON! Oh my lord…another one where I cried and cried and kept crying all the way out of the theatre. But by that time, I wasn’t crying for the Dafoe character, I was crying for all wars everywhere, the madness of them, the cruelty and insanity and all the people who died. It was a large cry for the pain of humanity.
And hey, no one cried at Dances with Wolves? I absolutely hate Kevin Costner, but I love that movie…when Wind In His Hair says goodbye, I thought I was gonna hemorrhage I was crying so hard.
Too often, we lose sight of life’s simple pleasures…Remember, when
someone
annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown BUT it only takes 4
muscles to extend your arm and SMACK the person right upside the head.
Another TV one: When Bobby died on NYPD Blue, I completely lost it; I could hardly talk the next day. I think it was the tear that rolled down his face as he died that really did it.
Catrandom
I’m a guy, I’ve never cried during a movie, but I’ve had a few close calls. The Bear almost got me cause I was maybe 8 and cared more for animals then people. Cheetah, a pretty cheesy movie, and Dances With Wolves (minor spoiler: I couldn’t stand the wolf and the horse getting shot) for the same reason.
The saddest movie I ever saw was the Blue Lagoon… something about the innocense of it all. I was watching it on a pay-per-view channel I didn’t have, in negative colour, but I still could barely handle the scene at the end.
I’ve only seen short clips of Sophie’s Choice, but if I ever want to cry I’ll rent it.
Hey, Stoid, I know the ship sinks, I’ve seen the movie. 
You asked about Dances With Wolves. That’s another movie that I own, and I cry at the end. It is one of the most powerful scenes in any movie, at least in my opinion. I purposely don’t watch powerful/tear jerker movies too many times, because they lose their “flavor,” and the emotion tends to wear off after too many viewings.
Adam
“Life is hard…but God is good”
Speaking of bittersweet…Bittersweet Love is one movie which brought the tears to my eyes.
What follows is an Inside Joke, don’t worry if you don’t follow: ARG, if you think the emotion wears off after too many viewings, catch that other 6%. (Hey, I’m just trying to win the ICTATIAHOHAFTAC award!)
Snoopy Come Home. It was so sad you know he didn’t want to leave but what choice did he have?
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
I can’t believe I forgot to mention Patch Adams…
I assume that everyone else in the world has seen it, but just in case Adam hasn’t I won’t say why… just that it made my heart bleed.
Veni, Vidi, Visa … I came, I saw, I bought.