# Movies You Didn't Expect To Make You Cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098 "2009-08-20T17:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lunar\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lunar\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunar_elf)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/61 "2009-08-22T16:34:48Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > _Toy Story 2_. The sequence where Jesse sings “When She Loved Me”, as her owner grows up, and forgets her. Another for this one too. And it never fails that the kiddies end up leaving the room just before this scene comes on, and I’m alone. Ah, and the most recent Star Trek movie. I was warned there a was moment when one of our guys friend cried, and I kind of chuckled at the thought but when I saw it I couldn’t help myself! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/62 "2009-08-22T23:01:59Z")
I well up a bit at the end of **Little Miss Sunshine** , and I can’t fathom why. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/63 "2009-08-22T23:09:39Z")
> [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](#): > > Almost forgot, I cry every single time at the end of **To Kill a Mockingbird** , when Scout is walking Boo back home, and Bernstein’s score swells, and Stanley’s narration, and the haunting cinematography. It isn’t a particularly sad moment, but it is so profoundly beautiful and perfect that it gets me every time. I agree. I would also add: “Stand up, Miss Jean Louise. Your father is passing.” ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/64 "2009-08-23T00:16:07Z")
Speed Racer almost made me cry, which doesn’t exactly count, but comon, who thought they’d get emotional over Speed Freaking Racer? The big part is during the big race scene, with Speed ripping the entire WRL a collectively new asshole to take the finish while the audience and announcers go absolutely apeshit. Particularly the announcer lady who can only scream in excitement. Secondarily, Racer X’s line at the end of the movie. Another movie that I didn’t expect to make me cry was the Joy Luck Club. Makes me cry like a little bitch every time at the end. And of course, We Were Soldiers. Particularly the scene that gets me every time (the Taxi driver: “I don’t like this job. I’m just trying to do it.”) Both Transformers movies. First one when Captain Lennox finally rejoins his family, and the second one: Sam is killed by Megatron, with the Medic trying to recussitate him while other soldiers drag his family and his girlfriend away ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/65 "2009-08-23T00:32:51Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > Snoopy Come Home gets me every single time. And The Lion King, and Toy Story 2, and Finding Nemo, and The Little Mermaid, Wall-E…just about every stinking animated film ever made. > > Gran Torino had me in tears several times. You should watch [Grave Of The Fireflies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies). ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/66 "2009-08-23T01:48:32Z")
I cried the morning after watching **The Quiet Man**. Not much of a tearjerker, eh? But the Ireland shown in that movie was soooo beautiful–and real life felt like such a letdown. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/67 "2009-08-23T02:20:24Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > I cried the morning after watching **The Quiet Man**. Not much of a tearjerker, eh? But the Ireland shown in that movie was soooo beautiful–and real life felt like such a letdown. What parts did you visit that weren’t up to expectations? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/68 "2009-08-23T02:57:50Z")
I rarely cry, especially at films or other works of art. I get a little choked up or something. But going back a few years… The Deer Hunter When Nick loses at Russian Roulette The World According to Garp After Walt gets killed and the surviving are trying to heal at his grandparents’ house Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 or 9) When Elizabeth falls asleep…“Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes was brilliant In more recent memory, Joy Luck Club came close a couple times. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/69 "2009-08-23T04:14:35Z")
Is anyone here such a sucker for sadness that they’re taking down names of these movies to rent or order from Netflix or such? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/70 "2009-08-23T04:21:57Z")
Not one, but two scenes in the Harry Potter movies make me tear up, every single time. The first one isn’t even a _sad_ scene, but I’ve had the same reaction since the first time I read the book: In the final scene of **The Sorcerer’s Stone** , when Dumbledore tells the kids that it takes bravery to stand up to your enemies, but more to stand up to your friends. All these years later, and I still don’t know why it hits such a chord. The second is from **Order Of The Phoenix** , when Umbridge humiliates Trelawney in front of all of the students, and even has her beg not to be banished from her home…by the time McGonagall rushes to comfort her I’m always teary. At least that one is understandable, because banishing someone from their home of 16 years is unspeakably cruel. The second ---
**Author:** ![mecaenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mecaenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mecaenas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/71 "2009-08-23T12:13:41Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > You should watch [Grave Of The Fireflies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies). That movie should come with a warning label: you’ll run out of tears by the end of it. It’s the saddest movie I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Hentzau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Hentzau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentzau)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/72 "2009-08-23T13:22:43Z")
I’ll second Mrs. Cake’s comment about _ **District 9** _. Heartbreaking. _ **Love Actually** _. Towards the end, the kid running through airport security. And most of the Portuguese-maid unit. _ **Creator** _, second-from-last scene. “Son! Of! A! Bitch!” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/73 "2009-08-23T13:27:53Z")
Going in, I didn’t expect _Titanic_ to be a sad movie. I mean, it was directed by the _Terminator_/_Aliens_ guy, so it was just going to rock, right? I realized I was probably incorrect in the very beginning of the film with the sepia-toned farewell scene that preceded the credits, but the shot that really got the waterworks going was when the camera pulled out to show all the people in the water screaming for help… and I knew enough Titanic history to know that the help would never come. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/74 "2009-08-23T14:21:12Z")
**Sophie’s Choice** : I knew it involved the Nazis but I figured it was a love triangle thing. It uh, got a lot heavier than that. If you’ve never seen the movie, 1. you should. Today. 2. you may not want to watch this, to avoid a major spoiler. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RYQjsbn4KCM/hqdefault.jpg "Sophie's choice.Le choix de Sophie.Alan J.Pakula.1982") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQjsbn4KCM) The Nazis are deciding to do with the people they have rounded up. Sophie and her two kids are among them. The little girl’s performance in this…wow. ---
**Author:** ![lunar\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lunar\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunar_elf)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/75 "2009-08-23T21:59:30Z")
Re: Grave of the Fireflies > [@mecaenas](#): > > That movie should come with a warning label: you’ll run out of tears by the end of it. It’s the saddest movie I’ve ever seen. I randomly sat down to watch it with my husband while pregnant, and I immediately pointed out something about one of the characters and said did something happen and then I just lost it from there. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/76 "2009-08-23T22:10:57Z")
One more question for everyone to ignore: Would you erase any of these movies from your memory? Or do you appreciate their emotional impact on you? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/77 "2009-08-23T22:15:02Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > And of course, We Were Soldiers. Particularly the scene that gets me every time (the Taxi driver: “I don’t like this job. I’m just trying to do it.”) Do not read the book if the movie bothered you! It’s a true story. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/78 "2009-08-23T22:50:55Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Do not read the book if the movie bothered you! It’s a true story. Oh I know, that makes the taxi scene even sadder for me. That’s a terrible job to have, I understand the folks in the military who do that are trained volunteers. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/79 "2009-08-24T00:02:47Z")
A.I. Artificial Intelligence was emotional porn but it still had me crying like a baby when the little android is pleading with his human mother not to leave him in the woods and he’ll be the best boy ever. The scene where the crowd is torturing him and the other androids is pretty bad too. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098/80 "2009-08-24T01:04:32Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > **Sophie’s Choice** : I knew it involved the Nazis but I figured it was a love triangle thing. It uh, got a lot heavier than that. If you’ve never seen the movie, > > 1. you should. Today. > 2. you may not want to watch this, to avoid a major spoiler. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQjsbn4KCM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQjsbn4KCM) > > The Nazis are deciding to do with the people they have rounded up. Sophie and her two kids are among them. The little girl’s performance in this…wow. I can’t ever watch this movie - never [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-expect-to-make-you-cry/507098.md?page=5)