# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**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 19, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/81 "2024-11-19T21:52:45Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > **The Full Monty** makes me cry triumphant tears, if that counts. Definitely. > [@HubZilla](#): > > 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. I totally get it - while that isn’t something that pushes my own buttons, the two movies I named in my OP (_American Beauty_ and _The Nineth Configuration_) make me cry because they do hit particular notes that speak to me in intimate terms, based on my own experiences and values. It’s when a movie touches on something deeply personal, for whatever reason, that the waterworks start to flow. That could happen in a lot of movies, not just ones designed to pull at heartstrings. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/82 "2024-11-19T23:39:40Z")
The octopus and shark story from **Short Term 12.** Has anyone else here seen that movie? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/83 "2024-11-20T02:13:17Z")
In 2021, I had my girlfriend over for dinner, after which we screened _Yesterday_ (she was a huge Beatles fan). I had seen it a couple of months earlier, but it was new to her. Much to my surprise, when the protagonist visited the house out in the boonies and the door opened to reveal John Lennon, I just dissolved. I had to pause the movie and cry in her lap for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/84 "2024-11-20T02:52:11Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > _An Affair to Remember_ 1957 > Deborah Kerr to Cary Grant final scene Then, of course there’s _The Dirty Dozen_ (clip contains spoilers for both movies). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3vCYHpKJZd4/maxresdefault.jpg "Sleepless In Seattle "Dirty Dozen"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vCYHpKJZd4) Seriously, an obscure movie to see, once (that’s my limit) is _[My Life Without Me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life_Without_Me)_. A young mother (Sarah Polley) finds out she only has a couple of months to live and creates a bucket list. Hilarity does not ensue. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/85 "2024-11-20T03:51:16Z")
Two that always get me: **The Fisher King** The last act is happy/sad tearjerker for me. **Starman** when Karen Allen sees the alien resurrect a dead deer, realizes how kind and impossibly powerful he is. Both Jeff Bridges films- coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/86 "2024-11-20T04:19:28Z")
I have only cried at two movies. One was **ET**. Nor when he dies, but when the kids show him to their mother. She is frightened and takes them away, and he reaches out his hand and cries. He’s sick and dying a long way from home and now he’s being abandoned. The other was **Barry Lyndon.** A young boy has been mortally injured in a riding accident. As he lays in bed dying his estranged parents are at his side, one on one side and one on the other. He asks them to stop fighting with each other. The scene abruptly changes to his funeral procession, and his coffin is borne on a small cart drawn by goats, a vehicle he use to play with; The time I saw that with my then husband I turned and started bawling on his shoulder. ---
**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 21, 2024, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/87 "2024-11-21T03:06:37Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > **The Fisher King** The last act is happy/sad tearjerker for me. Yeah, that’s a favorite of mine. I can actually stand Robin Williams for the entire movie! > [@Baker](#): > > The scene abruptly changes to his funeral procession, and his coffin is borne on a small cart drawn by goats, a vehicle he use to play with Yeah, that’s a hard one to watch. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/88 "2024-11-21T06:49:16Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > … I can actually stand Robin Williams for the entire movie! Same here. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391/89 "2024-11-22T01:54:22Z")
An old one, but “West Side Story”. That speech Maria gives at the end — “How many bullets are left?” — always leaves me sobbing, no matter how many times I’ve seen it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391.md?page=4)