Topic: Movies that made you cry

[Pfil]

Perhaps this is a girls only thread, since we cry more than guys, but I'd like to see replies from everyone 
I will list some movies that I can think of right now that made me cry.

Atonement (the ending is just heartbreaking), OldBoy, The Brotherhood of War, The secret in their eyes, Moulin Rouge, Marley and me, My dog Skip (yes, I know...).

When I can think of more I will post them.

[Inccubus]

"What Dreams May Come"
and
"Patch Adams"

I love both movies, but I won't watch them because they're both guaranteed to put me in tears.

[Ratty]

Hm think I may have talked about this movie here but before but oh well. Farewell My Concubine takes the cake for me. A tale about traditional Chinese Opera actors before, during and after the Chinese Revolution and later "Cultural Revolution" (which was basically the Spanish Inquisition as done by teenagers) from beginning to end it is one of the most beautifully made and heart breaking films I have ever seen. You can get an idea about the mood and visual style from the trailer below.

farewell to my concubine trailer

In my opinion the cinematography is at least as beautiful as Lawrence of Arabia, but the story is even sadder. Featuring child abuse (and later homosexuality/transgenderism complicated by child abuse) the excesses of two governments including the aforementioned witch hunts of the Cultural Revolution, unrequited love, death and betrayal. But it is a film overflowing with gorgeous technicolor, made by a director who actually lived through the Cultural Revolution. And it seems almost every shot in that movie could be a beautiful and/or haunting painting.

I also seem to remember the children's movie Milo and Otis making me cry as a kid but I haven't seen that in at least a decade and a half. Babe was a good movie that probably did make me tear up as a kid, Babe 2 was a terribly depressing movie that lacked all the heart and charm of the original.

[X]

Star Trek: Generations was a bad film. And by that I mean who they killed of Kirk when it was a dick move to begin with and enraged a lot of fans. That last scene with the two captains just as Kirk dies still brings me to tears. Another one that made me almost cry heavily was not a movie but an episode of the Next Generation called The Inner Light. For me it was literally heartbreaking to know that an entire race was doomed to die without having even begun to reach for the stars, even for their own survival. And the simple flute theme that was composed for that episode; brilliant. It was a real tear-jerker. There are a few other films that have touched me to the point of crying but at the moment I can't recall them.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Those Pixar movies especially Toy Story 3 and Up.
I don't cry much but those movies hit the spot.

[Ratty]

Star Trek: Generations was a bad film. And by that I mean who they killed of Kirk when it was a dick move to begin with and enraged a lot of fans. That last scene with the two captains just as Kirk dies still brings me to tears. Another one that made me almost cry heavily was not a movie but an episode of the Next Generation called The Inner Light. For me it was literally heartbreaking to know that an entire race was doomed to die without having even begun to reach for the stars, even for their own survival. And the simple flute theme that was composed for that episode; brilliant. It was a real tear-jerker. There are a few other films that have touched me to the point of crying but at the moment I can't recall them.

Hey at least we've got the RedLetterMedia review to make us laugh at it and realize just how truly bad it is. Though his Star Trek reviews aren't nearly as the Star Wars prequel ones. And I think "The Inner Light" is usually regarded as one of the best episodes of TNG for good reason.

Those Pixar movies especially Toy Story 3 and Up.
I don't cry much but those movies hit the spot.

I was never a big fan of Toy Story, even the first one (GASP! I know) but woo WALL-E 4ever!

[Laina]

"What Dreams May Come"
and
"Patch Adams"

I love both movies, but I won't watch them because they're both guaranteed to put me in tears.

Word. Throw in Wall-E, The Notebook, P.S. I Love You, Bambi, Charlotte's Web, that episode of Voltron where a sweet little bear gets turned into a Robeast...there's more, I'm just too depressed to go on right now. I...I need to lie down for a little while...

[Neobelmont]

Lion King: The Death of Mufasa


This part always got me I remember crying so badly as a kid. I was thinking what if something crazy happened to my dad? And that is when it hit me like a ton of bricks and afterwards when simba called for help it was over for me and it still get's meto this day 

[Lone Wolf]

Some scenes in "A Walk To Remember"...

[Mooning Freddy]

I remember watching watching Marley & me. The movie almost made me cry but from a completely different point of view: I was so terribly bored. 

Seriously though, I wonder why people love those kind of films. The movie is about a couple and their dog and their hardships in life. It's a movie about a regular couple's life and NOTHING special happens to them through the entire film. I kept waiting for something dramatic or unusual to occur in the movie but it never did.
"Oh!" You'd say, "but the movie is about real life love!" So what? I know lots of movies about love that are dramatic, entertaining, or at least have a plot.   

[A-Yty]

I don't remember any movie actually ever making me cry. But the closest I came to shedding a salty one was when watching Irréversible for the first time. It's bleak, it's revoltingly violent, it's chaotic and it does not give the viewer the relief of a moral of the story or the bad guy getting blown to bits or shit like that. On the contrary, actually. It's a horror story with a horror that exists in the real world. I guess the only "happy" image in the movie is the ending/beginning. And it's just an image. By that time, the viewer knows that is in fact the beautiful thing "time destroys".

[GuyStarwind]

The only movies I really cry in are church films and even that's only sometimes. Most movie that are suppose to be sad aren't very sad to me.

[Mooning Freddy]

I remember in 10th grade I took part in a program of German-Israeli partnership. The whole idea is that of German and Israeli teenagers meeting each other and getting to know each other, and taking part in activities founded by Germany. It was a beautiful experience for me. I cannot forget the kindness of the German (religious) family and my partner who was a great guy with interests similar to mine. 

At one part of the trip to Germany we visited the prisoner / concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. There wasn't too much to see there since it was entirely destroyed by allied forces at the end of the war, and it was turned into a Holocaust memorial.
However, there was a part I remember when we sat down to watch documentation of the atrocities committed in the camp. A very harsh sight, even for black & white footage. I remember that some of the German teenagers cried; We Didn't. 
Why was it, I wondered. Are we so familiar with the Holocaust and its imagery that it no longer provokes an emotional response in us? And even when it does, it is rather anger and disbelief than sadness? Is it the old victim / murderer complex that prevents us from connecting with them, even though we are a fourth generation and should no longer view ourselves as victims and criminals? I truly wished it was not so.

[X]

At one part of the trip to Germany we visited the prisoner / concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. There wasn't too much to see there since it was entirely destroyed by allied forces at the end of the war, and it was turned into a Holocaust memorial.
However, there was a part I remember when we sat down to watch documentation of the atrocities committed in the camp. A very harsh sight, even for black & white footage. I remember that some of the German teenagers cried; We Didn't.
Why was it, I wondered. Are we so familiar with the Holocaust and its imagery that it no longer provokes an emotional response in us? And even when it does, it is rather anger and disbelief than sadness? Is it the old victim / murderer complex that prevents us from connecting with them, even though we are a fourth generation and should no longer view ourselves as victims and criminals? I truly wished it was not so.

Chances are they're probably experiencing what's been described as 'sin's of thy father'. In spirituality doing a bad deed to someone else will come back to hurt you in kind, but only if you are directly responsible for the cruel act. But those German students are not responsible for the atrocities that took place all those years ago, but they no-doubt feel somewhat responsible and ashamed that their own nation would have allowed such and inhuman act to ever occur, and on such a horrific level of genocide not seen in generations' past. Of course there was some good that came out of it and that is our modern intolerance to act's of cruelty against other human beings. Things like the 'Declaration of Human Rights' and the 'Geneva Convention' all came out of such atrocities. Sometimes it take a nightmare like the holocaust in order to help awaken the 'human awareness' as to what's happening around them.

[Lone Wolf]

Lots of spoilers! X)

Just kidding. lol Btw, i think some parts from the Nemo movie could be a bit more touching as well..
But Disney movies are supposed to be touching in certain times, aren't they?
OH, wam.... Toy Story 3 Ending! XP