I cried and cried at Apocalypse Now, I can’t even remember the particular bits that prompted it. I just can’t watch war films, I can’t get over the fact that whatever happened with the characters probably did happen with someone else, but thirty times worse. And over and over.
But yeah. Good film 
Correct on all points. I cried like a baby (in a quiet, manly way of course) while watching this film. .
Oh man : (
When Davids mother leaves him in the woods like a poor unwanted dog…scuse me I need a hankie
Man… when he pleads with his mother…GOD I HATE HER!!!
someone…please…stop…me 
Love Story - the classic sad love story. My dad was as tough as they come but I saw him tear up at that movie.
Steel Magnolias was a tear jerker for me.
Tears in The Sun, Bruce Willis’ new movie hit hard with me.
Terms of Endearment. That whole movie from beginning to end ripped my heart out. That’s my vote for fictional movies.
For nonfiction-
Schindler’s List- I sobbed uncontrollably for 3 hours after that one. Could anything be sadder than that movie?
For foreign movies, Ponette is most certainly a contender.
I went to see it with a good friend of mine; it was the first and only time I ever saw him cry.
I didn’t cry, but the endings to Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down got to me. A good war movie will get to me.
Oh, and I forgot Glory.
I didn’t cry at the end of Magnolia, but I was depressed for days. Just the memory of it is enough to bring me down.
Malèna - the brutal public beating was just so sad.
I’ve never quite gotten over the 1957 version of An Affair to Remember.
Holy crap, Dancer in the Dark takes the cake for me, for just the reasons Lucki Chaarms said. You know things are going to turn bad, you can see pretty early on how they are going to go, and they go there and go even worse. It isn’t even a tearjerker – nothing that surprising happens, nothing that shocking happens. It just hits you in the gut like a sledgehammer. Depresses me still to think of the ending.
I am a huge Bjork fan, and I have only seen that movie once and could never stand to watch it again. I own the soundtrack and the last song (A New World) is truly awesome, yet it I can’t listen to it very often because it reminds me too much of the end of that movie.
I saw the beginning forty-five minutes of Miracle Mile. It looked like it was starting out to be depressing, but it was a late, late show and I had to go to bed. Being the fan of apocalyptic tales and movies, I can’t believe I don’t know how it ends. Will someone please email me the end (or spoil it in a spoiler box here) or point me to a good web site where I can spoil it myself? Thanks.
Ugh, not only depressing, but very disturbing. That movie seriously creeped me out to the point that I wish I had never seen it.
Second “Schindler’s List”
How about “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?”
And “Of Mice and Men”
Umm, Bambi, anyone? Talk about turning on the waterworks. Actually, there are quite a few Disney/animated films that tear me up. Toy Story 2, with the cow girl doll’s flashback, had bawling like a baby.
All good noms thusfar, but I actually appreciate BOTH endings of AI. The First (Kubrick) Ending because, well, what the hell else are you going to feel after seeing that. But, the Second (Spielberg) Ending, because
Teddy is going to be alone. Forever.
Wept like a baby the first time I saw that.
Angus: when the grandfather (played by George C. Scott) dies (on his wedding day).
I will agree with Schindler’s List, Grave of the Fireflies, and I’ll add Full Metal Jacket.
Moulin Rouge always gives me hiccoughs of sadness as soon as the credits roll around. It ends very sadly, and that final song written by Craig Armstrong sure helps bring out your emotions.
People die in movies for sacrificing things, for instance in war, for a friend or for love, but in Moulin Rouge Satine just dies… so young and in love. She didn’t die for anyone or anything, but it just all happened. Sure, you know she’s dead just about 5 minutes after the movie starts, but it still give you a shudder.
I think I’ve watched that movie about 10 times and I think I have cried just about every time. Other assorted movies that do this to me include American Beauty (specifically the part where we see the homemade video), Saving Private Ryan, Edward Scissorhands, Amadeus and A Beautiful Mind.
Liar’s Moon continues to be a tearjerker for me 20 years after I first saw the film.
Always, Once Around, and Mr. Holland’s Opus still get my eyes damp.
Then again, I get misty when watching Silkwood or A Perfect Storm because I know how they turn out.