# What films have made you cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203 "2008-01-19T23:39:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/1 "2008-01-19T23:39:05Z")
I was watching AI on TV tonight and remembered how the first time around it made me bawl my eyes out - the ending with the little boy completely alone and never able to see his mommy again made me so sad, and then he got his wish to see her one last time. 🙂 Other films that have reduced me to blubber: [ul] [li]Brokeback mountain - the hugging the shirt in the closet bit[/li][li]LOTR Return of the King - the bit where Aragorn says “my friends, you kneel to no-one”, so powerful![/li][li]Stranger than fiction - it really is a moving film, Will Ferrell aside.[/li][/ul] Everyone else? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/2 "2008-01-19T23:43:18Z")
_Grave of the Fireflies_. I was a wreck after the end of this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/3 "2008-01-19T23:45:05Z")
Gladiator, the “we will meet again…but not yet” part at the end Stardust, the narration at the very end. makes me tear up every time I think about it Spider-Man 2, the scene on the train I guess that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/4 "2008-01-19T23:47:26Z")
_Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_ is the first movie I can think of. I also cried while watching _Persepolis_ yesterday. I cry fairly easily though. I remember crying buckets during the Sailor Moon episode where Uranus and Neptune sacrifice themselves for … something or other, I can’t even remember the details. But it was sad. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/5 "2008-01-19T23:51:58Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] Gladiator, the “we will meet again…but not yet” part at the end Stardust, the narration at the very end. makes me tear up every time I think about it Spider-Man 2, the scene on the train I guess that’s it. [/QUOTE] Oh, and the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama. If that doesn’t make you tear up, you have no soul. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/6 "2008-01-20T00:09:14Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] Oh, and the Jurassic Bark episode of Futureama. If that doesn’t make you tear up, you have no soul. [/QUOTE] Yes. Also the episode where Fry wrote “I Love You” to Lela, by moving the stars themselves around, and nobody saw this. Sad. Jurassic Bark really got to me. Don’tchew be messin’ with no dogs, hea’ !! And of course “Old Yeller” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/7 "2008-01-20T00:10:43Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] Oh, and the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama. If that doesn’t make you tear up, you have no soul. [/QUOTE] Agreed. That show was all the more wrenching,IMO, because you weren’t expecting it from a normally-wacky cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/8 "2008-01-20T00:13:54Z")
I don’t go to movies very often, so this is ancient history, but I was totally blindsided by “When She Loved Me” in Toy Story 2. There have been lots of films that have caused tears to course silently down my cheeks. In this case, I was working hard to make sure those around me didn’t hear my sobs. I keep wanting to download “When She Loved Me” from iTunes, but I know I’ll bawl every time I hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/9 "2008-01-20T00:14:46Z")
**E.T.** , but I was in elementary school, so it really doesn’t count. I’ll admit to getting a little teary-eyed during the very last scene of **Shaun of the Dead**. Shaun is a _good_ friend! ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/10 "2008-01-20T00:15:40Z")
I’m not much of a weeper, but for some reason, no matter how many times I see it, and for reasons I don’t understand and can’t explain, Donnie Darko reduces me to big, snotty, heaving sobs. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/11 "2008-01-20T00:20:00Z")
My elementary school had a peculiar fondness for showing _Where the Red Fern Grows_ every year (a dead dog(s) movie). One year I actually ran away from school and went home b/c I couldn’t bear to see it again. Ditto on _Brokeback_. _Life is Beautiful_ almost killed me. Shan’t be watching that ever again. _Terms of Endearment_, when I saw it in the theatre with my mom. _Nowhere in Africa_, a German(?) film was wrenching for me. A TV series, but: the last episode of “Six Feet Under” had me on the floor sobbing for two hours afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![neorxnawange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f4b2a3/32.png) [@neorxnawange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neorxnawange)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/12 "2008-01-20T00:36:34Z")
Too many to count but, The “Brooks was here” part in **The Shawshank Redemption** does it every time, as does the moment when Will realizes that he loves Marcus in **About a Boy**. ---
**Author:** ![RunSilent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@RunSilent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RunSilent)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/13 "2008-01-20T00:40:51Z")
Bambi - when Bambi’s mother is killed. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/14 "2008-01-20T00:46:11Z")
_Forrest Gump_, when Forrest is talking to Jenny’s grave about how their son is growing up… _We Were Soldiers,_ and movies of their ilk…_Saving Private Ryan_ (especially the end when Matt Damon’s elderly character is standing at his long-dead captain’s grave and asks his wife “tell me I lived a good life”…) As a vet, many of these realistic war movies that depict the all too real suffering that wars cause is usually enough to get me sobbing, especially after a few beers… _Schindler’s List_… And anything with Molly Ringwold… ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/15 "2008-01-20T00:51:01Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] Oh, and the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama. If that doesn’t make you tear up, you have no soul. [/QUOTE] I saw this right after my childhood pup had died in a somewhat gruesome manner. I cried even more at that than the Gilmore Girls series finale. As far as movies go, The Hours had me crying my eyes out the whole time. I watched it by myself (something I rarely do) and had a snotty lil blubberfest. Happiness (Todd Solondz is a freakin sadist, I swear) made me wish I’d never been born, let alone watched this movie about awful awful things. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/16 "2008-01-20T00:51:45Z")
I’ve been sad at countless scenes in movies. But as an adult I’ve cried only twice. Once was during _E.T._ Not when he “dies” but at the scene where the kids reveal him to their mom. As mom makes everyone back out of the room E.T. reaches out an cries. He’s sick, dying, and now he’s being abandoned. Anyone remember Ryan O’Neal in _Barry Lyndon_? The scene where the dying boy asks his parents to stop fighting with each other, then the shot changes to his funeral procession, as the music swells loudly? I turned my head and lay it down on my husbands shoulder and started to _bawl!_ It was worse because I just didn’t expect it. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/17 "2008-01-20T00:56:33Z")
_Brassed Off_, especially the ending. You see, my father played in a brass band in England, and my grandfather played in a band that won Best Band in England several times. Dad moved from Lancashire to America when I was a child, but that music is what I grew up with and what’s in my soul. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/18 "2008-01-20T01:02:27Z")
_The Cure_, especially since Brad Renfro just died. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/19 "2008-01-20T01:05:06Z")
I was expertly manipulated by _Shadowlands_. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203/20 "2008-01-20T01:09:17Z")
Please tell me I’m not alone in this – I tear up at the last scene of _Rocky_ – when he wins his girl and you hear the announcer saying he lost the fight, and you know that doesn’t matter one bit to Rocky. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-have-made-you-cry/434203.md?page=2)