# The manly weepers - What films are OK for men to cry while watching? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484 "2006-12-17T06:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![indierock82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f14d63/32.png) [@indierock82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indierock82)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/101 "2006-12-19T22:37:49Z")
Exactly, **Improv Geek** , exactly. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/102 "2006-12-19T23:36:05Z")
Well, apart from many already mentioned (LOTR, Shawshank) _The Mighty_ - a Kieran Culkin vehicle lifted from likely mediocrity (in my opinion) by a sharp script and a seriously good ensemble cast including Harry Dean Stanton, Sharon Stone, Gillian Anderson, James Gandofini, and Meatloaf. _The Mission_ They make me cry - so sue me Si ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/103 "2006-12-19T23:56:35Z")
**Rudy Forrest Gump Madame X** with Lana Turner and Keir Dullea. (I first saw it on TCM on Mother’s Day) **An Affair to Remember** (including the 5-second scene in Villefranche showing the US Navy ship on which I spent two years homeported in that harbor) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/104 "2006-12-20T00:43:11Z")
Edward Scissorhands for me as well. I’ve said this before. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/105 "2006-12-20T01:11:41Z")
What about the movie **Charly** starring Cliff Robertson, based on the novel **Flowers for Algernon?** I know that I blubbered like a baby when I read the book. I’ve never seen the movie so maybe it wasn’t as good? ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/106 "2006-12-20T01:47:11Z")
_Hoosiers_ The locker room huddle scene when hackman tells the team he loves them and the scene where one of the boys reconciles with his alcoholic father. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/107 "2006-12-20T02:24:40Z")
\*\*Cinema Paradiso Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade\*\* ( I know…weird. When Sean Connery gives that speech on the zeppelin about the forces of darkness marching across the face of the earth, I get teary. Perhaps because it was so true. ) \*\*Rocky Moonstruck Gigot Brian’s Song Saving Private Ryan Sophie’s Choice\*\* ( active sobbing. ) \*\*E.T. October Sky\*\* ( nonstop crying for the last 10 minutes. My kids were in the theatre with me, and were fairly young. Completely freaked em out. The space program was kind of a big part of my childhood…) Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/108 "2006-12-20T02:38:49Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Boys and girls are different. They even have different bits. 😉 [/QUOTE] Say it ain’t so !! ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/109 "2006-12-20T02:54:42Z")
[QUOTE=Malienation] \* Life is Beautiful \* [/QUOTE] This one to the 8th power. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/110 "2006-12-20T03:29:57Z")
I came in and admitted to Armageddon earlier. Yeah, I know. I suck. And I’d like to thank those that mentioned some of the others, like October Sky and Cassablanca. It’s always good to know that I am not crying alone. But, pardon me for saying this. The only time I will cry for a Tom Hanks movie is if they show his actual death. They will be tears of joy, from knowing that I will never see his overacting, preening, strutting, “I am so lucky that Steven Spielberg loves me, because we are both talentless icons” that I wont have to look at the stars before I pick a movie to see again, euphoria, that it will bring tears to my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/111 "2006-12-20T03:47:26Z")
**Here’s** a reply y’all haven’t read in a while: “The Manly Weepers” **Band Name!** 😃 Q ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/112 "2006-12-20T10:52:25Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] Edward Scissorhands for me as well. I’ve said this before. [/QUOTE] Which scene? I love that movie, but I don’t think it’s ever made me cry. > [@Cartooniverse](#): > > **Indiana Jones** and The Last Crusade ( I know..weird. When Sean Connery gives that speech on the zeppelin about the forces of darkness marching across the face of the earth, I get teary. Perhaps because it was so true. ) Isn’t that speech given when they’re on a motorcycle somewhere in the Austrian-German countryside? ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/113 "2006-12-20T15:32:19Z")
_Schindler’s List_ left me emotionally devastated for about a week. I was too stunned to cry. Several moments in _Return of the King_ were pretty overwhelming. Not only the “you bow to no one”, but also Pippin’s song and the “white shores and far green country” dialogue. Intense. One other that I haven’t seen mentioned yet. What red blooded male doesn’t get weepy when he hears these same two words repeated about fifty times? **"I’m Spartacus!"** ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/114 "2006-12-20T15:45:01Z")
**Ghost** the ending when Sam is gonna have to go with the good guys. ---
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[QUOTE=Priceguy] Which scene? I love that movie, but I don’t think it’s ever made me cry.Isn’t that speech given when they’re on a motorcycle somewhere in the Austrian-German countryside? [/QUOTE] I sit corrected- I thought it was the talk they had on the zeppelin, but you are right. It was when they stopped at the crossroads. Venice one way, Berlin the other. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/116 "2006-12-21T05:10:41Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] This. This made me cry. Damn you, **Drum God**! [/QUOTE] Well, **McNew** , I guess I hit your soft spot. Sorry about that. It was a very tough time for us and, when I want to, I can make the hurt come back as fresh as if it were yesterday. However, I have had many wonderful experiences with my other two kids (a 16 year-old daughter and an 11 year-old son). ---
**Author:** ![4everkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/76d3ee/32.png) [@4everkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4everkid)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/117 "2006-12-21T05:55:23Z")
Not only is this one okay to cry over, I defy even the manliest of the manly weepers to make it to the end of this without a complete emotional breakdown. Dancer In The Dark - written & directed by Lars von Trier The lead is played by Bjork, but don’t let that stop you. It’s a musical. Again, get past it. I am neither a fan of Bjork, nor musicals. But she is perfect, and the music works for this film. I am not talking sobs and sniffles. I was literally wailing for a half hour afterward before I could compose myself to do anything. Luckily, I was home alone, so no one had to witness this. Anyone else seen this film? Back me up. If you want to retain any macho reputation you might have, better watch this one alone. Cause you are gonna bawl like a big girly-baby! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/118 "2006-12-21T12:56:21Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] What are you, a freakin’ cyborg? Who isn’t touched by Will Patton’s kid seeing the “salesman” who came by to visit earlier on the TV? (and I don’t care what anyone says about the ridiculous science, it’s a fun action film) Also **Terminator 2**. You would have to be a Terminator to not cry when the T800 told John Conner “he knows now why [humans] cry but it’s something he can’t do” and then has himself lowered into the steel. [/QUOTE] Terminator 2 didn’t get me either. Apparently, I was sent from the future in order to not cry at movies. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/119 "2006-12-21T13:54:25Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Not just that one- how about when Harry tells AJ that he always thought of him as his son. AJ just loses it and screams “I love you, Harry!” Gah. Broke my damn heart. [/QUOTE] Bleep. Blorp. Does not compute. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/120 "2006-12-21T15:09:25Z")
My kids have reintroduced me to a older kid movie that gets me now. Getting older has made me sentimental The Animated version of Charlottes web, as Charlotte dissapears behind the ceiling beam and goes quiet. Other films: Chaplin’s “The Kid” in the scene where the police are trying to take the kid away. The Music is overly sentimental and the scene melodramatic but when I see that look on Chaplin’s face as he is being held back by teh police and the shot of little Jackie Coogan reaching out from the truck mouthing “I want my Daddy Please don’t take me from my daddy” I get misty. Grave of the Fireflies Life is Beautiful A Christmas Carol (Alister Simm) I’ll admit this one… The Color Purple in the Christmas Scene where Oprah comes home for the first time in years of brutal imprisonment and servitude. The shot where the character of Harpo slides his hand on hers and they exchange a glance… Yeah I’m getting sappy in my old age [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484.md?page=7)