# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/61 "2024-11-18T22:15:40Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m not a crier, in general. I more than make up for it. Any maudlin sentimentality will draw a (manly) tear from me. Don’t ask about _Old Yeller_ or _Brian’s Song_. Or _Wrath of Khan_, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/62 "2024-11-18T23:36:03Z")
That’s what I came to say. I can’t even think about it after all these years without crying. ---
**Author:** ![Chumba\_Wumba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chumba\_Wumba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chumba_Wumba)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/63 "2024-11-19T00:27:10Z")
Ah, yes, _Grave of the Fireflies._ If you’re not in tears after watching that film, you’re too cold-blooded to be running around loose. ---
**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 19, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/64 "2024-11-19T00:44:36Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Arguably, Vin Diesel’s best work. “We…are …Groot”. ---
**Author:** ![bobsmom101](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobsmom101/32/2867_2.png) [@bobsmom101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmom101)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/65 "2024-11-19T02:21:17Z")
I saw **UP** the day after my Mom died from her long battle with dementia. All my time had been spent caring for her over her last few months, and when she was finally gone I didn’t know what to do with myself. So I went to the movies. Sobbed through the whole thing. ---
**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 19, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/66 "2024-11-19T03:06:15Z")
Some time after the first Guardians movie came out (I still haven’t seen any of them), we were in the vet’s waiting room and this fellow had a HUGE Great Dane sitting between his legs. It started to growl slightly as the room filled up with people and pets and the gent very quietly said to the dog _Quiet, Groot_. I said to the room in general _Hey, he’s a Groot Dane_. Dead silence. The end. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/67 "2024-11-19T09:33:47Z")
At the beginning of 2013, my wife was in New Zealand and I was living in the UK, attempting to sell our house. That January saw the release of the **Les Miserables** film. Being a big fan of the show, I headed to our local cinema on my own to see it. I must have cried almost all of the second half of the movie. When the lights came up, the lady next to me asked if I was OK. I still cannot watch the movie without a handful of tissues nearby. It doesn’t need to be a movie, either. Some years before, we were driving to Birmingham to meet up with friends. As we drove, there was a radio play of **The Snow Goose**. We arrived in Birmingham and parked up for a picnic just as the story drew to a close. The rest of the family wasn’t invested in the story, but I was utterly hooked. I ended up nearly sobbing in the car as the final scenes played out. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/68 "2024-11-19T09:52:31Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > As we drove, there was a radio play of **The Snow Goose**. It’s not a movie, but I’ve read _The Snow Goose_ a few times. I keep the Kleenex handy when I do. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/69 "2024-11-19T11:03:47Z")
Thanks to Jeremy Irons’s stellar performance, **Dead Ringers** (1988) has enough emotional [moments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7On9GL2meCQ) to make me [blubber](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fIbP2Eoerc) like a schoolgirl who just lost her diary. Then there’s **The Elephant Man** (1980), overflowing with tear-inducing scenes—including, of course, the iconic [“I am a human being”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqg7Ow4SNk8) moment. But I maintain that any tears were solely due to the onions I was inexplicably peeling in the theater. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/70 "2024-11-19T12:15:27Z")
I don’t cry at movies either, but the Best Picture-winning **CODA** somehow got my allergies acting up. mmm ---
**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 19, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/71 "2024-11-19T14:57:01Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Another Japanese dog movie: I’m aware of the real story this movie is based on. The one I watched was the American version starring Richard Gere. Is there a Japanese version of the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/72 "2024-11-19T15:03:28Z")
I loves me a good tear-jerker. [![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ISf9UtYcMg/TwhNs07drHI/AAAAAAAACEI/VOzBjAJbyK4/s1600/Addams+sad+movie.jpg) ](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5ISf9UtYcMg/TwhNs07drHI/AAAAAAAACEI/VOzBjAJbyK4/s1600/Addams+sad+movie.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/73 "2024-11-19T15:22:16Z")
Uncle Fester 🤣 Should have drawn the whole Addams family there. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/74 "2024-11-19T15:25:29Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > _Ol’ Yeller_ > > I win. No you don’t. I raise you _Where the Red Fern Grows_. ---
**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 19, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/75 "2024-11-19T16:19:06Z")
Don’t forget **The Yearling**. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/76 "2024-11-19T19:08:44Z")
Idk, I cried for a day after watching Turner and Hooch. And Joe Vs. the Volcano. I’m weird… ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/77 "2024-11-19T20:02:27Z")
Yes. I mentioned it in the same post – _Antartica._ ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/78 "2024-11-19T20:22:36Z")
I’m pretty mushy, so any number of films can make me tear up. I don’t think anyone mentioned **Titanic** yet(perhaps it’s too cliche?). I didn’t really buy / care about Jack and Rose’s romance but damn, the staircase scene at the end and the theme song playing . . .it’s blub city for me. **Brokeback Mountain** is the only film I can remember unabashedly crying for in public. **The Full Monty** makes me cry triumphant tears, if that counts. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/79 "2024-11-19T20:30:31Z")
I cried in public (in the movie theater) when I saw _Field of Dreams_ the first time. I remember saying “Oh, it’s his father” just before the line about having a catch. I had a little catch in my voice, and then the tears started. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/80 "2024-11-19T20:45:32Z")
And now for the strangest one in this thread: **Home Alone**. I couldn’t believe this comedy movie brought out the waterworks. The scene where Kevin looks outside and sees the creepy old man hugging his estranged son. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391.md?page=5)