What movies will make you cry?

[retromike22]

Here's mine, in reverse order:

4. Dances with Wolves ("you will always be my friend...")
3. Revenge of the Sith (mostly nerd tears)
2. Titanic (I always have to hold it together at the end)

1..... Edward Scissorhands (I have no idea why)

[moderatevoter]

Titanic is the only one I can remember, but there have been a few more.

[Knives]

Way too many.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm a pretty emotional guy, but I don't ever remember crying at a movie. I tend to express my emotions differently.

[retromike22]

I'm a pretty emotional guy, but I don't ever remember crying at a movie. I tend to express my emotions differently.

A movie can actually make me cry easier than real life.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I'm a pretty emotional guy, but I don't ever remember crying at a movie. I tend to express my emotions differently.

A movie can actually make me cry easier than real life.

I'm the same... I don't cry when it comes to real stuff, I generally don't cry full stop, but if it happens it'll be something I'm personally detached from.

[memphis]

Saddest movie ever is My Girl (normal)

[Lief 🗽]

I don't think I've ever cried watching a movie. The closest was the final scene of 12 Years a Slave, that was pretty rough.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The first ten minutes of Up is the only movie that did this.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The first ten minutes of Up is the only movie that did this.

Oh yes. That was really an beautiful sequence (the movie itself actually might be my favorite animated movie ever, actually).


Anyway, one of the most emotionally gripping movies I've seen is Life is Beautiful. Only Benigni could pull off such a masterpiece from such a difficult premise.

[Mr. Smith]

All Dogs Go To Heaven (Beautiful ending sequence, magnificent even...but it's that combined with the outside circumstances concerning the VA who played the little girl that does it. I could get through it just fine until I found out about that)

Schindler's List (I don't think I need to explain this one...)

[The Dowager Mod]

Casablanca.

[retromike22]

Casablanca.

Oh that one can do it for me too.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I cry at just about all movies, but the one that particularly stands out in my mind is that I watched The Iron Lady with my roommate that Saturday after Thatcher died so that was rough. He's not even remotely the emotional type, but I recall we had quite a tough time trying to laugh at SNL after that. We were both too choked up to speak - just trying to hold back tears in front of another male. Even worse for my case, it was my 3rd time seeing it.

And of course, the haircut scene in Boyhood - I can't even look at the screen.

[traininthedistance]

Mr. Holland's Opus
WALL-E

Even today, listening to "An American Symphony" is instant waterworks.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The first ten minutes of Up is the only movie that did this.

That almost made me cry, but it didn't do the trick. I haven't cried from a movie since I saw the ending of Holes in 2004.

[dead0man]

Father/son stuff always gets me...probably because I don't do a lot of "emotion" type stuff with my dad or sons.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Father/son stuff always gets me...probably because I don't do a lot of "emotion" type stuff with my dad or sons.

That stuff is my kryptonite (dead father and all) ... I watched Frequency and it was intense... cathartic but as a not very emotional person, disconcerting. I got very teary in Selma, a few times actually. 

[All Along The Watchtower]

Spider-Man 3

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Dumbo (especially "Baby Mine")
Bambi (the whole film, but the opening sequence is one of the most beautiful scenes in the history of animation)

Most films don't make me cry, but there are many that come pretty darn close. 

I'm a pretty emotional guy, but I don't ever remember crying at a movie. I tend to express my emotions differently.

This pretty much nails it.  If I think of any more, I will add them in another post.

[free my dawg]

The end of Big Fish got me.

[Prince of Salem]

What a Wonderful Life.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I cried at three points during Les Mis: during Hathaway's Oscar moment, at the death of Eponine and the death of Valjean.

[Gustaf]

I rarely cry-cry but I do tear up every once in a while.

L'Enfant
Frozen
Tillsammans
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
Paths of Glory

...come to mind.

[Mr. Illini]

The ending of Dead Poet's Society.