# Non-sports movies that make guys weepy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947 "2013-07-30T20:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/21 "2013-07-31T00:48:17Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > Everyone knows tear ducts are connected to vaginas. That would explain all that wetness.. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/22 "2013-07-31T00:54:34Z")
I do get weepy about once a month. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/23 "2013-07-31T01:00:34Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > The end of Saving Private Ryan. And a couple other scenes too. Also, _Legends Of the Fall_. I know, I know. Sappy me. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/24 "2013-07-31T01:03:14Z")
I am in agreement with many of the aforementioned films, and would like to add Despicable Me, because it hit all my dad-of-daughters buttons. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/25 "2013-07-31T01:26:57Z")
Takes a fair bit for a movie to get my waterworks running. Probably only a handful that I can recall off hand. The last scene of Saving Private Ryan got me all misted up, Flags of our Fathers got me a bit teary, when they were scrolling through photos at the end (credits I think?) The Green Mile, when Coffey is in the chair. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/26 "2013-07-31T02:33:06Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > The Jaguar Shark scene in _The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou_ is also acceptable to cry at. I second this. The ending of The Mission has moved me to tears. [The Mission (1986 film) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mission_(1986_film)) It’s a truly excellent movie in which De Niro fights slave traders in 18th century South America. But it’s about much more than just that. I don’t think it’s nearly as well known as it should be. It’s worth watching for the soundtrack alone. These are TV shows not movies but I cry when Buffy’s mom dies, and I tear up from that stupid fucking dog in Futurama. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/27 "2013-07-31T02:33:46Z")
_It’s a Wonderful Life_ always does it for me. It’s not the end of it so much as the scene where George is in the bar and breaks down praying for help. Jimmy Stewart nails that scene. I didn’t really like _Million Dollar Baby_ all that much, but I did get choked up during the scene where Clint Eastwood is talking to the priest and starts crying, “She ain’t asking for God’s help. She’s asking for mine.” Hmmm. I don’t believe in God, but my weepy scenes are both about men dealing with God. I’m pretty sure I cried at the end of _Glory_. But it was a while back, and I remember it being so horrific that I’m not going to watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/28 "2013-07-31T03:08:34Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I am in agreement with many of the aforementioned films, and would like to add Despicable Me, because it hit all my dad-of-daughters buttons. So I’m recuperating from a painful injury and having trouble getting around; my daughter says she wants to watch some Disney movie; I of course agree. And when Mulan secretly resolves to risk her life instead of letting her beloved father hobble around on the front lines? I wept, I tell you. Wept. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/29 "2013-07-31T03:22:48Z")
OK, I’m picking up a fairly strong geek vibe from this thread, so I’ll venture to suggest another animated film. Gravestone for Fireflies (Japanese) is one of the saddest films I’ve ever seen. It is gut-punchingly sad and depressing. Also, beautifully made. _“Big brother, why do fireflies die so soon?”_ And now I’m choking up just remembering it. Also, The English Patient. Haven’t actually watched the whole movie, but what I did see was damn sad. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/30 "2013-07-31T04:10:07Z")
I’ve never had the guts to watch _Grave of the Fireflies_. I just know I’d be sobbing throughout the whole film. Also, _Mr. Holland’s Opus_ gets me everytime. ---
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None of the above-mentioned films made me cry (still haven’t seen _Grave of the Fireflies_), but 2 that did, off the top of my head, were _Make Way for Tomorrow_ and _Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father_. Also, though it wasn’t a film, the _Frontline_ episode on the Rwandan genocide made me cry. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/32 "2013-07-31T06:47:25Z")
\*Iron Giant \*& _October Sky_ are good ones. \*To Kill a Mockingbird \*always gets me at: “Miss Jean Louise. Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passing.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/33 "2013-07-31T14:11:42Z")
I have a friend who is a movie critic who insists that he cried when the _Enterprise_ blew up in _Search for Spock_. The ending of _Toy Story 3_ kicked my butt proper. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/34 "2013-07-31T14:26:23Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Dirty Dozen when Jim Brown gets killed. > > The end of Saving Private Ryan. Yeah, war movies can do it. I personally cried so much when I watched _ **All Quiet On The Western Front** _ that I gave myself a headache. Also tend to get all verklempt at bad things happening to animals; e.g., when the entire cavalry charge impales itself in _ **Braveheart** _. ☹ (Getting a bit… something in eye… now… poor horses… :() ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/35 "2013-07-31T14:36:54Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > _Big Fish_ got my husband, but he had a very complicated relationship with his father. The scene at the end of Big Fish where they show all the people at the protagonists funeral gets to me as well. As someone who is battling cancer, I think often about who and how many people will be gathered when I go. ---
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Not the end of _Saving Private Ryan_, but after the Normandy Beach scene, the interlaced scenes of reading Lincoln’s letter and Ryan’s mother on her porch. Geekwise, I get a bit misty in _Return of the King_ when the “Arise! Arise, riders of Théoden!” speech starts up. ---
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> [@Yllaria](#): > > I’m not a guy, but I’d nominate _Second Hand Lions_. Very guy oriented in a very good way. Yep, that one gets me every time, as does the end of “Wrath of Khan”. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/38 "2013-07-31T15:19:29Z")
Mr. Snicks got a little teary in _Monsters, Inc_. when Boo had to say goodbye. And he still thinks that that movie has one of the best endings in the history of ever. ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947/39 "2013-07-31T15:38:57Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > I got a bit choked up during _Life Is Beautiful_. This. I honestly couldn’t remember ever crying in a movie until this was mentioned. I bawled my eyes out at the end of this one. ---
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_Steel Magnolias_ : It would take a robot not to cry at that movie! - Bill McNeal But seriously, the procession and funeral at the end of _Backdraft_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sports-movies-that-make-guys-weepy/664947.md?page=3)