Melissa in CA Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 I cry a lot during movies, cartoons, whatever. It's pathetic. But there is one movie that made me literally bawl my eyes out, to where I was actually holding back sobs in the theater: Lorenzo's Oil http://www.amazon.com/Lorenzos-Oil-Nick-Nolte/dp/B0001CNRAM/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1324571579&sr=1-1 Now perhaps it was because I was a very young new mom at the time, idk, and perhaps if I saw it again I would not cry, idk, because I refuse to ever watch that movie again. Ever. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch The Notebook a second time either. Ugh. Wonderful movie though. My latest cry fests were... Courageous (SUCH a great movie though) Remember Me (The ending was so completely and utterly unexpected!!! I was stunned into immediate tears) The Help (LOVED it!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 last Minutes with ODEN It's fairly short, not kid friendly. It's a documentary on saying goodbye to a beloved pet while paying tribute to all the things this dog was.'' You must have some backbone to get through it, it's very emotional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggieamy Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Oh, shoot, I cry at everything. I get all teary when Lightning McQueen gives up his chance for the Piston Cup at the end of Cars. There are a lot of scenes in the LOTR trilogy that make me cry. Steel Magnolias makes me cry. The one movie that actually had me sobbing in the theater was The Green Mile; I'd read the book and knew the ending that was coming, and it did me in -- I buried my face in DH's shoulder and sobbed. I thought I was the only one that cried during the Green Mile but I thought that movie was so sad I almost couldn't sit through it. Cruelness just does me in and the scene when the bag guard doesn't wet the sponge to electrocute that one person was horrible. I had to leave the theater for awhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iucounu Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Frankie and Johnny Wall-E Schindler's List Saving Private Ryan Gladiator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 A Time to Kill Steel Magnolias Beaches Wit Fried Green Tomatoes My Life Lorenzo's Oil Swing Kids Shining Through Love Actually Up, especially the part where Russell talks about eating ice cream with his dad and says, "it might sound like a little thing, but it's the little things I remember the most". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBS Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Frequency Time Traveller's Wife Ghost Wuthering Heights (with Timothy Dalton) None of these are cinema giants, but I remember sobbing. I do cry more frequently, as an old lady, though. It feels cleansing, but I also feel wrung out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhomemaker25 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 GhostDying Young Revenge Untamed Heart OTOH, I have to be the only human that did NOT cry at Titanic. Everyone in the theater was bawling and all I could think was "you all knew the ship was gonna sink, right? And I can't believe she got off the lifeboat for some guy she met like 12 hours ago!" There is clearly something wrong with me. :tongue_smilie: I cried because of all the poor people being locked in and not being able to get to a life boat at all. I could have cared less about dumb ol' Rose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poke Salad Annie Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I agree about many of the titles already listed, so I'll add two of mine. * Imitation of Life * Madame X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Up -- saw it soon after my father had passed away, and in the first part of the movie, all I could think of was my mother missing my father. Empire of the Sun -- love, love this movie; I am not a big movie person, but I don't understand why this one was not more acclaimed; I felt it was quite powerful--about a boy who was living in China when the Japanese took over in WW2 I love "Empire of the Sun", too. Very powerful, and a part of history we don't hear much about. Great acting, too. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poke Salad Annie Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Two more... * Thomasina * Old Yeller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhomemaker25 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I try to avoid movies that will make me cry. Dh and I also have a bad habit of making fun of the sad part in movies. It's our defense mechanism. I've never seen The Notebook and I avoid all animal movies if I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) * Imitation of Life Oh yes, every time! Also An Affair to Remember. Steel Magnolias never fails to make me cry. I've only seen Toy Story 3 once, but I know I'd cry again if I watched it again. Deathly Hallows Part One, when Hermoine erases her parents' memories. Most of the titles already mentioned make me cry. I cry easily when watching movies. Edited December 26, 2011 by floridamom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 "Charlotte's Web" "Sophie's Choice" "Titanic" (that came out when ds was a baby, and the worst scenes for me involved little children and parents) "E.T." all the "Lord of the Rings" movies - every time (DS and I saw the extended versions in the theatre over the summer, and we both cried at every movie.) "Up" "Toy Story 3" "Love Story" "Finding Neverland" Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannie in NJ Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 FI don't tend to cry watching movies (must be something wrong with me lol) but the ones that I do remember crying at are: SHenandoah ( have seen probably 30 times and cry each time, Jimmy Stewart is just so dang good in that movie) Homeward Bound (the scene that makes everyone cry, when the golden lab comes home) Secondhand Lions (when the lion dies "protecting her cub") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momof3Maidens Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Stepmom..... I cry EVERY SINGLE time, especially in the restaurant scene with Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts. The line that gets me every time is when Julia Roberts says she's afraid that the daughter will say that she misses her Mom and then Susan Sarandon says " And I'm afraid she won't". Ugh! Gets me every time! The Passion of the Christ....I started crying in it and never stopped until about 2 weeks later. I love this thread :) Good movie choices for the week after Christmas, the only week of the year I actually don't feel guilty for just doing nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIS0320 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) Searching For Bobby Fischer - when the father loses sight of his son and is more focused on how well he plays chess... sob, sob, sob. Dead Poet Society - when Neil kills himself because he knows his parents will never allow him to be who he truly is... and the standing on the desk scene in the end. Buckets. Driving Miss Daisy - When Daisy suffers from dementia and tells Hoke he is her best friend and then later when Hoke feeds Miss Daisy in the nursing home. Edited December 26, 2011 by drexel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Stepmom..... I cry EVERY SINGLE time, especially in the restaurant scene with Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts. The line that gets me every time is when Julia Roberts says she's afraid that the daughter will say that she misses her Mom and then Susan Sarandon says " And I'm afraid she won't". Ugh! Gets me every time! Oh man! I saw that movie for the first time when I was 24 and childless. I cried a bit at the time. Then I saw it again a few years ago when I was home alone for the day, and I bawled like crazy! I had a whole new perspective on the topic, obviously :crying: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarfoot Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I cannot stand anything sad, or anything where anyone is mean to anyone else. or to animals-that's actually worse. I'm such a dork. A softie-dork. My DH watches all of those awful shoot 'em up movies while I'm taking a bath. The whirlpool jets barely drown out the screaming, explosions, and shooting.:glare: On another note, RemudaMom, you might like this: My kids just finished filming a short film that involves a horse, sheep, and a couple of bungling cowboys. Parts of it were filmed in Old Abilene Town and parts on a farm in Olsburg. My daughter loved the horse so much. She was so gentle; she also carried our governor when he had need of a horse awhile back.:) You can see it on their website or YouTube. On YouTube, just search for The Sheep Rustler. It comes up under The Sheep Rustler Trailer. You'll see a girl in a pink shirt and a cowboy hat.;) It's just the trailer--they can't show the whole film online because it will be entered into various contests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetbasil Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 In Babe (the pig movie), after the sheepdog trials. I love, love, love that movie. It's perfection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorMom Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Many of the ones mentioned before, and add Life is Beautiful, My Girl, A Beautiful Mind, Dumbo..... Lastly- yes, this is weird,,,, The newest King Kong. I cry like crazy at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simka2 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 I just bawled through War Horse!!!! Almost the whole thing. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denisemomof4 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 The Help On Golden Pond Watched both in the past few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momof3Maidens Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Oh man! I saw that movie for the first time when I was 24 and childless. I cried a bit at the time. Then I saw it again a few years ago when I was home alone for the day, and I bawled like crazy! I had a whole new perspective on the topic, obviously :crying: Yes I know. It allowed you to feel emotions from both characters, the mother and the stepmom. It was good in that it allowed me to see the perspective of a stepmother. I don't think I had ever stopped to think about it in the way they portrayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 When Wash dies in Serenity. When Angel dies in Rent. Both of those make me sob no matter how many times I watch them. I hope those are not spoilers :glare: but both movies have been around a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lang Syne Boardie Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Hope Floats. I know it's a cheeseball movie and lots of people hate it, but if I really need a good cry I know to watch Hope Floats. It doesn't matter how many times I see it. There are about three scenes that have me ugly-crying every time. Big, snotty heaving sobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Family Stone. I was just devastated. I think it was worse because it was billed as a comedy. So not a comedy! Stuck with me for days, too. Toy Story 3 and Up were both kid movies that made me so sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cin Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) Oh and that ice skating movie where she went blind "The roses!! Look out for the Roses!!!!" Ice Castles. And am I the only crazy one who cried at the end of Edward Scissorhands? I don't even remember why I was crying. I've never watched the movie again. I HATE movies that make me cry. There's enough of that carp in real life! That's why I am one of the few people in America who have never seen Titanic; Like Heather said, the boat sinks! ET Love Story Up Dolphin's Tale (just the previews; I won't even watch the movie!) Several American Girl movies and many others that have already been mentioned. Edited December 26, 2011 by cin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Hope Floats. I know it's a cheeseball movie and lots of people hate it, but if I really need a good cry I know to watch Hope Floats. It doesn't matter how many times I see it. There are about three scenes that have me ugly-crying every time. Big, snotty heaving sobs. When Bernice runs after her father with her backpack, and he leaves her there?! :crying::crying::crying::crying: I love that movie. I was actually just thinking about it this morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra in FL Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 The only movie that has ever made me cry is 50 First Dates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vettechmomof2 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 When Wash dies in Serenity. When Angel dies in Rent. Both of those make me sob no matter how many times I watch them. I hope those are not spoilers :glare: but both movies have been around a long time. I still cry every time I watch Wash die :crying:, and the episode where Buffy kills Angel and sends him to Hell! The Notebook, City of Angels and P.s. I love you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinE Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Being a geek, but the most recent Star Trek when Kirk's father and Spock's mother dies. Tears! It's been said, but the opening sequence of UP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokons Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 The Champ with Ricky Schroder always makes me cry, but I haven't seen it since I was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlbuchina Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 I cry at all the previous movies mentioned if I have seen them. The one that surprised me was "Tangled". I cry every stinkin' time they let the lights go to celebrate her birthday. All I could think of were all the families with missing children in the world! :crying::crying::crying: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 The only movie that has ever made me cry is 50 First Dates. I LOVE that movie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Laurie Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Up and Juno are bad ones for me. Toy Story 3 because my oldest loved Toy Story 1 as a little guy and is 17 and growing up now just like Andy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Does anyone remember Mask? That was a massive tear jerker in our house (a million years ago when it came out ;)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Instead you should ask what DOESN'T make me cry. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renmew Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 A bunch people have already mentioned, like Up, Steel Magnolias, and Beaches for sure. Also, Return to Me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlbuchina Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Does anyone remember Mask? That was a massive tear jerker in our house (a million years ago when it came out ;)) I saw it on tv when I was a kid. Cried buckets. I think it scarred me for life! That one and Adam, about the Walsh's little boy that was kidnapped. :crying: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Up, especially the part where Russell talks about eating ice cream with his dad and says, "it might sound like a little thing, but it's the little things I remember the most". Everytime he mentions the dad I want to march into cartoon land and shake that man. He doesn't deserve such a great kid. The longing that they put into that one line . . . I will get teary at lots of stuff. But the one movie I've just lost it in was Black Hawk Down. We watched it in the theater shortly after September 11. Somehow all of the pain and helplessness of losing people at the Pentagon ended up transferred to the movie. I bawled through the entire credits. The episode of Band of Brothers when they liberate Buchenwald. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 My Girl...I have seen it so many times and I still bawl when the little boy dies and during the funeral scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranquilMind Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Steel MagnoliasTerms of Endearment Up and, yes, Lonesome Dove (I was at a potluck sunday night and we were talking about Robert Duvall, Middleburg Va - he lives there- and Lonesome Dove). Definitely "Terms of Endearment". I had a younger sister who died and my Mom recreated that scene at the nurses' station a time or two, which was totally out of character for a quiet, dignified woman such as she was. Same with "My sister's Keeper" for the same reason (dying teen girl). I just got cable TV and I had to turn off the scene in "Sophie's Choice" when the German officer tells Sophie who is in line at the concentration camp that she may keep one of her children and she chooses. I can't even watch it now, 30 years later. Most movies by Spielberg, including "Band of Brothers", the best miniseries ever. My Dad was shot on Normandy Beach through the head and the bullet came out his mouth - and he lived. I watch all WW II movies. I cry at a lot of movies but I must be watching them alone. I don't cry in front of others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houseofkids&pets Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 To Ma23Peas: We are in the same age group, so I have seen all of those movies listed. ALL tear jerkers! I cry easily at movies and when I read books. Even the sappy Hallmark commercials make me shed tears. As a child, I saw "Where The Red Fern Grows" and used up a box of tissues. When my dd read it, she commented that it was sad, but didn't shed a tear:confused:! I cannot watch any movie with sick children or injured animals. NO WAY will I be seeing War Horse (at least not in the theater). BTW, the skating movie with the blind skater is" Ice Castles". How can anyone from that era forget Robby Benson!! He also starred in the movie version of the book "Death Be Not Proud." I remember crying in my 6th grade class when our teacher had us read the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranquilMind Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 FrequencyTime Traveller's Wife Ghost Wuthering Heights (with Timothy Dalton) None of these are cinema giants, but I remember sobbing. I do cry more frequently, as an old lady, though. It feels cleansing, but I also feel wrung out. The ONLY good version of Wuthering Heights is the 1968 version with Timothy Dalton. I didn't think anyone here would remember that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranquilMind Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Does anyone remember Mask? That was a massive tear jerker in our house (a million years ago when it came out ;)) Yep, I remember. That was a tearjerker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 I know I will forget some but it is war movies with me including Empire of the Sun All Quiet on the Western Front Bridge over the River Kwai Gallipolli Breaker Morant Das Boot K19 Black Hawk Down Hotel Rwanda We Were Soldiers Those are just the ones that come to mind right now and I am teary eyed as a result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Oh and Audrey, that movie clip is not subtitled in Polish. Polish has some additional letters but those are a, e, l,o, s, and z. Not c and g and u. I would guess either Hungarian or Estonian since I can't understand any of the writing at all. Normally if it is in a Slavic language, there will be some words that I understand, and the same is true for me with Germanic and Romance languages. One of my jobs long ago as a work-study job was in the library of the University where my language recognition skills came in use with cataloging books. I had to be able to tell what was the actual title of the book and it wasn't to hard for me except when they made a mistake and would give me a book in Hungarian or Albanian. Those aren't Slavic languages and I couldn't do anything with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choirfarm Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Hachi: A Dog's Tale. Sobbed like a baby. Even my husband had to hide his eyes. Ok, a lot of movies make me tear up just a bit. But I was sobbing during half of this movie!!!! My dh has a dog that loves him so much and just the thought my dh dying and then our dog... I can't even look at the cover of that movie anymore. It was horribly sad.... The Ultimate Gift is one movie we own that makes me cry every time I see it. That said, it isn't a depressing movie. It is one of our favorites! Did anyone mention Toy Story 3? My oldest is about to go off to college in a little over a year, so I was crying like a baby at the end and my children were shaking their heads in disgust! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chava_Raizel Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 I'm a huge sap and I cry at a lot of movies. Honestly, it doesn't take much for me to start crying. The Time Traveler's Wife -- I know what happens, I cried through the book, but I just cannot get through that movie. Braveheart Little Women Fried Green Tomatoes Mr. Holland's Opus A League of Their Own Fiddler on the Roof Steel Magnolias Titanic Up Beauty and the Beast Romeo and Juliet -- the one that came out in the 90's...again, it's not like I didn't know what was about to happen, but I can't help it. Lord of the Rings I could only get through one viewing of Schindler's List and The Passion. I'll never watch either of those movies again--I could barely make it through the first time. I'm talking about hysterical, nearly throwing up crying. Horrible. Not the movies...just my reaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chava_Raizel Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 When Wash dies in Serenity. Me too! It was so shocking...I should have known better, Joss Whedon is known for the surprise death scene, but I just didn't think it would be Wash! I also cried at the end of Dr. Horrible. When he says he won't feel a thing I can't help but tear up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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