# Your unabashed tearjerker movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391 "2024-11-18T07:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/1 "2024-11-18T07:56:27Z")
Movies don’t make me cry, ever. You think you saw some welling up of water in my eyes after a film I just saw? Yeah, no, didn’t happen. Just your imagination. For example, I just now watched the Tom Hanks film, _A Man Called Otto._ Blew my nose a couple of times afterward. Nothing to do with the film, just coincidence. But two movies I’ve seen made me sob uncontrollably, to the point that I didn’t even try to hide it: _The Ninth Configuration_ and _American Beauty._ What about you? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/2 "2024-11-18T08:11:28Z")
I’ve mentioned Carrie Snodgrass and Ray Milland in the made-for-TV _The Attic_ mostly in threads where people recomment their fave horror flicks. But it’s also an intense tear jerker. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e_AS0Qy7_zk/hqdefault.jpg "The Attic (1980) - Original Theatrical Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_AS0Qy7_zk) ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/3 "2024-11-18T08:22:05Z")
_[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/)_ (2000). ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/4 "2024-11-18T08:30:36Z")
- Grave of the Fireflies - Schindler’s List ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/5 "2024-11-18T08:31:29Z")
I think that [Me and Earl and the Dying Girl](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582496/reference/) is a much under appreciated movie. It is frequently genuinely funny despite the the subject matter. But a tearjerker indeed. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2qfmAllbYC8/maxresdefault.jpg "ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL: Official HD Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qfmAllbYC8) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/6 "2024-11-18T08:38:11Z")
[Joey (1974)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sZqbSNRa8Fk) Based on a true story of a boy with cerebral palsy unable to communicate until adulthood, when he met another patient who could finally understand what he was saying. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/7 "2024-11-18T08:55:08Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Schindler’s List I’m afraid to watch that movie because I’m pretty sure it would tear me apart. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/8 "2024-11-18T09:09:15Z")
It’s a great movie but yeah…it is very emotional. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/9 "2024-11-18T09:38:56Z")
_My Dog Skip_ A movie that not only makes me cry, but that packs a tremendous emotional impact. As the movie ends, the boy and his dog had both been transformed by time. The boy had grown up and moved out on his own, and the dog, feeble and disabled in its advancing years, huddled sadly in the boy’s empty bedroom. It’s such a powerful allegory on the ravages of time that I can barely manage to watch it any more. The great Roger Ebert, reviewing that film, said that it hit such emotional notes that it was impossible to review objectively. ETA: > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I cry hard when watching “My Dog Skip”. Which is why I have only watched it twice. You and me both! ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/10 "2024-11-18T09:43:12Z")
I cry hard when watching “My Dog Skip”. Which is why I have only watched it twice (and not sure why I watched it a second time). ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/11 "2024-11-18T13:48:04Z")
Just reading these posts on My Dog Skip just about had me lose it. Not going near it! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/12 "2024-11-18T14:41:39Z")
I weep buckets at ANY animal movie. 'The Incredible Journey: Homeward Bound ’ (even with a happy ending) - tears are welling up even as I type…‘Babe’ - That’ll do, Pig, That’ll do… ‘Milo and Otis’… 😢…‘My Dog Skip’ - actually don’t remember that one. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/13 "2024-11-18T14:45:47Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Just reading these posts on My Dog Skip just about had me lose it. Not going near it! Then don’t watch _Harry and Tonto_. By all accounts it’s a five alarm weepies. I’m afraid to get to close, so I’ve never seen it. And by all means don’t EVER watch Futurama “Jurassic Bark”. If it takes forever I will wait for you For a thousand summers I will wait for you Till you’re back beside me, till I’m holding you Till I hear you sigh here in my arms 😭 ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/14 "2024-11-18T15:02:53Z")
All-time tearjerker [Hula Girls](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768116/) (2005, the Japanese version). It is fun and ultimately uplifting in the end, but damn it beats you up emotionally along the way. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/15 "2024-11-18T15:08:39Z")
I think that final sequence of Shawshank Redemption, when Red gets released from prison and narrates over the search for Andy, etc., is some pretty powerful. “Get busy living or get busy dying. Damn right.” and "I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. **I hope**.” That final “I hope” gets me. I’m glad they filmed the moment they meet instead of leaving it hanging. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/16 "2024-11-18T15:18:01Z")
15 posts in, and nobody’s mentioned Pixar’s **Up**? ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/17 "2024-11-18T15:20:40Z")
Hachi: The Tale of a Dog It’s the only movie that has ever made me really cry, not just tear up. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/18 "2024-11-18T15:23:46Z")
Will Smith in **I Am Legend** has to attend to his dog and I actually wailed the first time I saw it. **The Green Mile** **Ordinary People** ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/19 "2024-11-18T15:38:39Z")
**The Dreamlife of Angels** ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/20 "2024-11-18T15:48:44Z")
Definitely _An American Werewolf in London_ (1981). I like the characters individually and the very quick set-up and resolution at the end is overwhelming. The whole film is a roller-coaster. And I think the quick cut to the final song and credits puts a perfect period to the scene. TL;DR: My wife is always ready to hand me a tissue with two minutes to go. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391.md?page=2)