Non-sports movies that make guys weepy

That would explain all that wetness..

I do get weepy about once a month. Hmmm.

And a couple other scenes too.

Also, Legends Of the Fall.

I know, I know. Sappy me.

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.

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.

I second this.

The ending of The Mission has moved me to tears. The Mission (1986 film) - Wikipedia 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

*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.”

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.

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. :frowning: (Getting a bit… something in eye… now… poor horses… :()

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.

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.

Yep, that one gets me every time, as does the end of “Wrath of Khan”.

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.

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.

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.