# What movies make men cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026 "2003-02-19T01:30:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/41 "2003-02-19T05:44:23Z")
_Life is Beautiful_. Sobbed. Complete emotional wreck for hours afterward. Also, _The Iron Giant_. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/42 "2003-02-19T06:17:55Z")
My neighbor admitted to crying at _Armageddon_ as part of his shameless ploy to get me to watch the movie. Also, I witnessed my husband tearing up at the conclusion of _The Spitfire Grill_. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/43 "2003-02-19T06:30:26Z")
Of Mice and Men always brings a tear to my eye (both movies and the book). The end of Saving Private Ryan when old man Ryan is asking his wife if he is a good man. When ET turns white and they find him laying in an underpass creek bed. I was 9 at the time though. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/44 "2003-02-19T06:53:35Z")
Last movie to make me cry was _Lilo & Stitch_. “This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.” ---
**Author:** ![Blackhawkeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@Blackhawkeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackhawkeye)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/45 "2003-02-19T07:59:22Z")
Midnight Cowboy ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/46 "2003-02-19T08:02:48Z")
The four movies where John Wayne dies. (Look it up)…Timmy ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/47 "2003-02-19T08:11:55Z")
Another vote for _Brian’s Song_. Also, I am a mess for about the last 15 minutes of _Jerry McGuire_. Every time I watch it. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/48 "2003-02-19T08:16:41Z")
Six words: “My brother… my captain… my King!” ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/49 "2003-02-19T08:20:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baldwin \* > **_The Passion of Joan of Arc_, 1928 silent film, still the best movie made on the subject (although somebody really should film Shaw’s play).** [They did.](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0050928) ---
**Author:** ![stringy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@stringy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stringy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/50 "2003-02-19T08:24:47Z")
My guy has cried during _Life is Beautiful_, _The Iron Giant_ and at the end of _Monsters, Inc_. He says the relationships that get him emotional are: a boy and his dad; a boy and his robot; and a girl and her monster. I’m pretty sure he also loves the ads on tv for toilet paper, featuring a boy and his puppy. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/51 "2003-02-19T08:34:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stringy \* > **My guy has cried during _Life is Beautiful_, _The Iron Giant_ and at the end of _Monsters, Inc_.** Ooh, forgot about _Monsters, Inc._ Teared up at the end of that one too, until I managed to make a stupid joke and break the moment. :o Judging from this thread, I’m staying the hell away from _The Iron Giant_. Can’t let those womanly tears spoil the line of my manly-man jaw. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/52 "2003-02-19T08:46:12Z")
I’m with **SPOOFE** on the end of Fellowship. I think it’s just because Boromir is the most “down to earth” guy in the flick. He’s not immune to the temptation of the ring, he’s stubborn about what he thinks is the right use for it, but he’s also willing to give his life for his companions, and he just flat out refuses to quit. It’s hammered home a bit more in the EE DVD, when you get a better look at the absolute _carnage_ he left on the field, most of which was done with at least one arrow in his chest. The scene as it was filmed makes me a bit misty, but had he instead ended with “my liege,” instead of the slightly clunkier “my king”… It’s a pretty minor distraction, but that bugs me for some reason. That, and seeing the flick for the very first time, just a bit more than a month after 9/11, and hearing Frodo and Gandalf’s exchange about “So say all those who live in such times…” Yeah, that caught me off guard. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/53 "2003-02-19T08:51:36Z")
Three months, actually… Dunno where that came from. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/54 "2003-02-19T08:52:21Z")
> [@](#): > > The scene as it was filmed makes me a bit misty, but had he instead ended with “my liege,” instead of the slightly clunkier “my king”… Hey, at least they kept “Fly, you fools!” despite the fact that it is far more archaic and most of today’s Harry “Who’s JRR Tolkien?” Potter kiddies probably wouldn’t understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/55 "2003-02-19T11:45:39Z")
_Moulin Rouge_. _Mrs Doubtfire_, when she tries to explain to a young letter-writer why parents break up. _Never-Ending Story_, when Artax dies. But the one that really, really does it for me, is the Swedish film _Bröderna Lejonhjärta_ (_The Brothers Lionheart_), after a book written by Astrid Lindgren, who you probably know best as the author of _Pippi Longstocking_. The end scene where the dragon is dead and evil is eradicated and the brothers are talking and the younger brother is so happy that everything is alright and they’re together, but the older brother has been burned by the dragon’s fire and is becoming paralysed, and the younger brother drags him over the edge of the cliff so they can go on to the next world together… I saw it the other day with Mrs Priceguy, and we both just bawled and bawled and bawled and held each other tightly. Writing about it now makes my eyes wet. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/56 "2003-02-19T11:47:28Z")
_Schindler’s List_. At the end, when Oskar has been berating himself for not doing his utmost to save even one or two more lives… and then it cuts to the present, and the titles are rolling as they explain what the survivors and their descendents did as a memorial for him, and they’re filing past his grave and dropping a stone apiece on it, and how they planted a tree for him and “it grows there still”… My wife (then fiancee) and I were watching this in bed, and at this point we just turned to each other and bawled our eyes out on each other’s shoulders. And I won’t say my eyes didn’t just mist a little at the memory, either. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/57 "2003-02-19T12:05:45Z")
**Malacandra** , I’ve seen _Schindler’s List_ in a crowded theater twice. It’s the only time I’ve seen everyone sit through the credits. Grown men were sobbing and with good reason, I think. I also saw a big ole Texan crying like a baby at the end of _An Affair to Remember_ (1957) That’s usually considered a “ladies’ movie” but there are a few romantics out there. I can remember my husband crying at the end of **The Natural**. Gee, I love a tender-hearted man… ---
**Author:** ![peterW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@peterW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peterW)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/58 "2003-02-19T13:52:19Z")
I agree with Iron Giant. “Su…per…man.” Gets me everytime. You would have to be Hitler to not cry at that one. I would also like to add ‘Hero,’ the new Jet Li movie. I get choked up just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Sebhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Sebhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sebhal)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/59 "2003-02-19T14:13:14Z")
Put me down for ‘It’s A Wonderful Life.’ We’ve got a baby (our first) on the way, and when George goes back into his house and hugs his family . . . \ ‘Schindler’s List’ too. I’ve never heard an audience stay so quiet for so long after a film ended. . . As a child (really baring all now) the two that got me every time were ‘E.T’. and ‘West Side Story’. N. ---
**Author:** ![Zen\_Postman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4da419/32.png) [@Zen\_Postman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zen_Postman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/60 "2003-02-19T14:20:20Z")
> [@](#): > > The four movies where John Wayne dies. (Look it up)…Timmy Nah. Just off the top of my head. Wake of the Red Witch The Fighting Seabees Sands of Iwo Jima The Alamo The Cowboys The Shootist I’m almost positive I’m missing one… He played a corpse in a movie called The Deceiver. (That’s not the one I’m thinking of.) There’s a list in one of the Wallace-Wallechinsky Book(s) of Lists. As far as making me cry… **Field of Dreams** - “Dad, you want to have a catch?” **Saving Private Ryan** -“Have I been a good man?” That poor little girl making riceballs out of mud in **Grave of the Fireflies**. Happy the wife and kids were in bed while I watched that. I surprised the sobbing didn’t wake everyone up. um…er… **Forrest Gump** “Is he…?” “He’s smart, Forrest.” Then again, I get weepy at commercials. Wanna make somthin of it, bub? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026.md?page=4)