# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![constantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@constantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constantine)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/81 "2003-02-20T05:00:37Z")
The end of **Cinema Paradiso** always makes me cry. In fact, just listening to the MUSIC reminds me of the end, and THAT makes me cry. ---
**Author:** ![ghostrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58f4c7/32.png) [@ghostrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghostrider)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/82 "2003-02-20T07:46:42Z")
Can’t think of much in the way of movies right now, but is anyone else watching Foyle’s War on Masterpiece Theater on PBS? The last 2 episodes both got to me - 2 weeks ago, when the fisherman comes back from the evacuation of Dunkirk without his son, & last week, when the mob blows up the Italian restaurant. Remarkable stuff IMHO. ---
**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 20, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/83 "2003-02-20T13:27:43Z")
> [@](#): > > But I think I may have to turn in my guy card, because Field of Dreams doesn’t do it for me. I think maybe it only works on guys whose fathers are dead, or guys who have unresolved conflict with their fathers, based on a sampling of guys I know who are deeply affected by FOD. I don’t qualify on either count. I’m grown and my Dad is old and he won’t be hitting flyballs in the backyard anymore. It makes me sad because part of me misses this. Baseball (for what it’s worth) was an important part of our relationship because it was something important that he shared with me. Maudlin…I’m getting maudlin. ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/84 "2003-02-20T14:06:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\*SilkyThreat, not to have a laugh at your husband’s expense, but the way you worded your post made me snort. > > \*\* And it’s pretty much hilarious to us, now. In fact, if dad decides it going to be a cry-fest night (like my girlfriends and I do with “Steel Magnolias” or “Terms of Endearment”) the kids all start gathering up sleeping bags and hollering, "Oh no! Dad’s gonna watch “Field of Dreams”! Can we go somewhere else tonight?? _Pleeeeeeeaase, mom??"_ Heh. He almost had a breakdown with “Yah Yah Sisterhood” as well. My sister and I had to stop our little hysteria attack to calm _him_ down. Nah, he’s not a wuss, but he certainly can be a softie during a good ol’ sad movie. Thank God there aren’t that many, in his view. ---
**Author:** ![stuckinthemiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@stuckinthemiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuckinthemiddle)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/85 "2003-02-20T14:10:27Z")
I guess I’m fairly normal. My list of mist: 1. Field of Dreams 2. Saving Private Ryan 3. Life is Beautiful 4. Armageddon Of course, I simply had an allergic reaction to something in my eye! I definitely was not crying! It was dust, I tell ya! POLLEN! ---
**Author:** ![andymurph64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@andymurph64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andymurph64)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/86 "2003-02-20T16:38:21Z")
\*\* ON THE BEACH \*\* My God people, don’t you watch the older stuff? 😉 That movie is so depressing. Movies that I teared up on. On the Beach, Schindler’s List, Field of Dreams, Saving Private Ryan. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Improved\_Scott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@New\_Improved\_Scott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Improved_Scott)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/87 "2003-02-20T17:16:06Z")
“Life is Beautiful” was just the saddest thing I have ever seen, and the olny movie in my adulthood that has made me all weepy. As a kid, “The Fox and the Hound” made me cry every time I saw it, and “Watership Down” scared the bejeezus out of me. So did “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”. [sub]Freaky Oompa Loompas were made to scar psyches.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![BizarroRonJeremy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@BizarroRonJeremy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BizarroRonJeremy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/88 "2003-02-20T17:16:27Z")
Good Will Hunting…when Matt Damon “breaks up” with Minnie Driver…I don’t know why… ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/89 "2003-02-20T17:18:43Z")
I’ve got you all beat. I blubbered at, get this, **Lethal Weapon 3**! Yeah, I know. But, I was on a plane, coming back from Austria after having spent a month with my fiance, whom I was now not going to see for another six months. So, give me some space. I just know, at my final reckoning, this is written down somewhere, so I thought I’d better fess up to it now. Put me in the camp of anything with fathers, too. Heck, I bawl listening to the last two Flaming Lips records. One that no one has mentioned so far is **Meet Joe Black**. How about **Babe**? Where the man says, “That’ll do pig. That’ll do.” I just lose it. ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/90 "2003-02-20T17:20:31Z")
Oh god, **Watership Down**. That “Bright Eyes” song just tears my heart out. Like now. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/91 "2003-02-20T17:29:34Z")
I have to agree with **Iron Giant** - why this wasn’t marketed well and a huge success, I will never know - one of the best movies of the past decade. And **Narrad** - definitely see it - the ending works out… One movie not mentioned that I have watched too many times with my kids is **Babe** - at the end, when Babe competes, and all goes well - that emotional release is huge. Gets me every time - just a pig doin’ the best he can and doin’ right by Farmer Hoggett - gotta love it _sniff_ see, here I go… ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/92 "2003-02-20T17:37:42Z")
I’ll cast my votes for… _Saving Private Ryan_ - beginning & end scenes - tears of respect _Babe_ - When the crowd goes wild at the end - tears of joy _Old Yeller_ - Because you’re supposed to ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/93 "2003-02-20T17:51:14Z")
One I forgot: a small French movie called “Ponette.” It’s about a little girl whose Mom has died. The girl is like, six years old, and is more natural on camera that anyone I’ve ever seen. Positively hearbreaking. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/94 "2003-02-20T18:08:36Z")
I’ll answer for my hubby (who is one of those big, betray no-emotion, ex-jock kind of guys)… Spoilers, if you haven’t seen these movies… [ul] [li]Sixth Sense (the scene at the end with the mom and the grandma)[/li][li]Aspen Extreme (When Dex dies)[/li][li]The Other Sister (the whole end)[/li][li]8 Seconds (When Lane does his final wave)[/li][li]Rudy[/li][li]Youngblood[/li][/ul] That’s all I can think of right now, but he’s pretty mushy, when you think about it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/95 "2003-02-20T18:12:47Z")
My dad finds “Its a Wonderful Life” to be a tear jerker. ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/96 "2003-02-20T18:25:30Z")
The Age of Innocence. Because the storyline paralleled my situation, and Michele Pfeiffer looks like my ex. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/97 "2003-02-20T18:46:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGauss \* > \*\*Where the Red Fern Grows. > > Schindler’s List (last 10 minutes). \*\* Damn, KG beat me to both of my picks… ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/98 "2003-02-20T18:52:19Z")
Two more I would like to add are **Gallipoli** for the aforementioned scene, and rather surprisingly **Toy Story 2** during “When She Loved Me”…:sniff…: ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/99 "2003-02-20T20:56:56Z")
**Zen Postman** wrote: > [@](#): > > I’m grown and my Dad is old and he won’t be hitting flyballs in the backyard anymore. It makes me sad because part of me misses this. Baseball (for what it’s worth) was an important part of our relationship because it was something important that he shared with me. Hmm. Maybe that’s it. My dad was already pretty old when I was born, so we didn’t toss the baseball around much. Maybe that’s why FOD doesn’t do it for me. (Fishing was more our connecting point. Guess that explains why I’m partial to A River Runs Through It.) ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026/100 "2003-02-20T21:21:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Moonchild \* > \*\*One I forgot: a small French movie called “Ponette.” It’s about a little girl whose Mom has died. The girl is like, six years old, and is more natural on camera that anyone I’ve ever seen. Positively hearbreaking. \*\* OK, I’m a girl, but I have to chime in here and say that **Ponette** made me cry like no other movie I’ve ever seen. I swear to God, I cried from the very first scene to the very last scene without rest – just a constant stream of tears. Because it’s not just that her mom died, but that she doesn’t understand what death means. She doesn’t know where her mom went, so she looks for her everywhere. And her dad ignores her in his grief, and her schoolmates are mean to her and tell her it’s her fault her mom died… And the poor little girl is younger than six…maybe four, and she’s so convincing an actress you forget you’re watching a piece of fiction. And surprisingly, at no point did I feel like my heartstrings were being manipulated – it’s just a naturally heartrending film. **Ordinary People** is another one I can’t watch without bawling. It’s also one of the rare movies that show a father and son who openly love and connect with each other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-make-men-cry/156026.md?page=6)