# So what movies made you cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235 "2012-09-09T21:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/122 "2012-10-14T21:16:53Z")
The Painted Veil A Single Man Melancholy throughout with heart-wrenching endings. Love those movies. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/123 "2012-10-14T21:55:20Z")
_An Affair to Remember_-“If you can paint, I can walk.” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/124 "2012-10-14T22:31:07Z")
**Labyrinth**. I hear the director says the magic was true. I want to believe that. **Glory** and **Schindler’s List**. Two movies I was glad to watch and will be glad to never see again. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/125 "2012-10-14T23:22:55Z")
Nobody mentions _King Kong_? I cried like a baby when that big monkey died. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/126 "2012-10-15T01:30:47Z")
I’ve cried at lots of movies…I’m a bit of a sap, but only two still make me cry EVERY single time I see them. The oft mentioned **Field of Dreams** and **Saving Private Ryan** …“Tell me I’m a good man…” Damn. Every time. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/127 "2012-10-15T01:38:15Z")
I thought I don’t cry a lot but turns out I do. Thanks to some of the posts that rattled my memory. Dumbo Back Street Woman The Color Purple Gallipoli Heidi El Norte Rudy Titanic 8 Seconds A Better Life Since a commercial was mentioned upthread…my parents fought tooth and nail but after my mother died my stepfather was just lost, although always a survivor and optimist. He didn’t know how to cook and had to start eating at fast food places and AYCE buffets. McDonald’s came out with a commercial where an old guy gets his order then looks around for a place for a sit. There’s only one other customer in the place, a senior-aged woman sitting alone. He goes over and says, “Excuse me, is there anyone sitting here?” The swallowed tears almost tore out my throat. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/128 "2012-10-15T01:50:34Z")
I think the last one was _Agora_. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/129 "2012-10-15T02:20:00Z")
Winona Ryder, young again, and dancing in the snow from the haunted house at the end of _Edward Scissorhands_ (on reflection, the waterworks start when I see Edward chopping away at the blocks of ice). Gena Rowlands needing to be sedated after her moment of lucidity has passed in _The Notebook_. James Garner’s got a lot of company. About every thirteen minutes in Franco Zeffirelli’s _The Champ_. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/130 "2012-10-15T02:45:51Z")
Seriously, something about my Dad’s death loosened up something inside me, and I become much more emotional watching TV and movies since. Or maybe it’s just that I’m getting older. The final scene in _Rocky_, when he’s screaming for Adrian. Every. Single. Time. Maybe I’m the only one. _Brazil_ – the end. So many others already mentioned. John Miller’s death and the cemetery scene in _Saving Private Ryan._ I can’t even watch _My Dog Skip_ through to the end anymore. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/131 "2012-10-15T02:47:19Z")
The Plague Dogs, and Watership Down. I can’t _think_ about the Black Rabbit scene at the end without getting watery. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/132 "2012-10-15T03:16:49Z")
There’s a movie you’ve never seen called _Run Wild Run Free_, from the 1970’s (I’m not going to look it up). It was about a boy, traumatically mute, who has a nothing relationship with his parents, and who finds a substitute father who encourages him. He also develops a very strong relationship with a wild horse. Events develop, eventually his father understands him a little and tries to relate to him, and he gradually starts to talk a little. At the end, his beloved horse becomes caught in a bog, and he has to talk to the horse to get him to work with the people trying to free him (the horse). When the horse is saved, he falls into the loving arms of his now no-longer-oblivious parents. This film spoke to me on a very personal level when I first saw it. I don’t know if it would do so now or would be meaningful to anyone else - I suspect not. But I treasure the memory of that last scene, and the way I felt when I saw it. For different reasons, _The Lord of the Flies_ (original version). It was completely depressing, and when Piggy was killed I felt like the bottom of my stomach was missing. Side note: I don’t think you can see this film today due to the pre-pubescent boy nudity. Sad, really. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/133 "2012-10-15T03:47:44Z")
Didn’t used to cry at movies… much, but the older I get the more susceptible I am, damn hormones. Up - The beginning and the end. Finding Nemo - Got me a few times. Wall-E - Beautiful movie… Pixar seems to have the formula down pat to elicit tears. Being at Home with Claude - Emotionally wrenching Breaking the Waves - See above description, so, so, … have no words, The only movie I’ve ever seen and loved that I will never see again. Nicholas Sparks is nowhere to be found at my house, there may be a ward on the doors to incinerate the book if someone tries to bring one in. However, I did see The Notebook when it came on TV a few years ago. TV on for background noise while on the 'puter and Wow, a good movie. James Garner and Gena Rowlands were perfect. So yes, I cried. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/134 "2012-10-15T12:53:16Z")
Oh, Dancer in the Dark. Screw you, Lars von Trier, you manipulative dick. And that one episode of Futurama that we won’t go into. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/135 "2012-10-15T16:42:46Z")
Already mentioned by others - _Big Fish_. It hit me especially hard, as my dad had a rather astonishing life that would have been unbelievable to me if I hadn’t witnessed quite a bit of it. I never had any reason to doubt any of his stories, but there was still a huge distance between us all my life that the film brought home. He died when I was 16, and my mom and I saw _All That Jazz_ in the theater, neither of us having the faintest idea how it ended. Do **not** watch that film if you have just lost a charismatic workaholic. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/136 "2012-10-15T20:30:24Z")
Rocky holds the championship belt over his head, “Yo, Adrian! I did it!” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/137 "2012-10-15T20:34:44Z")
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#): > > Rocky holds the championship belt over his head, “Yo, Adrian! I did it!” Interesting, because the end of _Rocky II_ doesn’t choke me up at all. For me, it’s then end of the first movie when he knows that he’s won Adrian’s love and the outcome of the fight doesn’t hardly matter at all – except that he was still standing at the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/138 "2012-10-15T20:45:43Z")
The last scene of\* We Bought a Zoo\* comes to mind. But I cry easily these days ( especially when children and dead parents are involved.) ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/139 "2012-10-16T00:25:43Z")
_My Sister’s Keeper_ had me a weepy, snotty sobbing mess. _SLC Punk_ gets me every time I watch the scene with Stevo trying to wake Bob…sniffle. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/140 "2012-10-16T00:41:56Z")
[QUOTE=Jman;15590404 and **Saving Private Ryan** …“Tell me I’m a good man…” Damn. Every time.[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, that for sure. And also the part when their medic is dying and his compadres are directing his hand into the wound so he can determine where exactly he’s been hit and then the “Oh my god…MY LIVER!” when he realizes his wound is mortal. And then when he starts crying for his mother right before he dies. That’s just painful to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-movies-made-you-cry/634235/141 "2012-10-16T01:54:53Z")
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