Tear Jerker Movies... Which one breaks you down to jelly?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Poll question: Tear Jerker Movies... Which one breaks you down to jelly?

Everybody has that certain chord that gets strummed. This is just a list of what hits me at the moment. Please let us know about the ones not here on the list.


Others not on the poll: Sixth Sense, Steel Magnolias, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and meny many more... Which one got your tear ducts moving in overtime?

[ablbodyed]

1. Madame X>>>>

with Lana Turner. Shameful I am.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

105. I remember that one!

It came on TV one night during my junior year in college (back when we had only four channels), and one of my fellow dorm residents said we just had to see the most tear-jerking movie ever.

So we watched it, and indeed, by the end of it, we were all in tears. :cry:

[Cobalt Violet]

2. Snow Dogs

:shrug:

[Bluzmann57]

3. One you didn't list

and gets me going is "Mask" with Cher, Eric Stoltz, and Sam Elliot. Maybe not a traditional tear jerker "chick flick", but I'm not a chick. It is just so sad that the kid while being hideously disfigured, was still smart and never forgot his people.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. Great one! I almost listed Mask, but didn't have room.

[madaboutharry]

4. "Blue" with Juliette Binoche

It is a French movie with English Subtitles. It is a truly beautiful flim about a woman whose husband and daughter die in a car crash and I cried non-stop.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

21. I haven't seen that one... It's now on my list. n/t

[Donailin]

5. Schindler's List

[Behind the Aegis]

48. I couldn't stop sobbing!

My partner made me watch it. I had avoided it for a long time. He wanted me to see it, so I did. I cried for three hours after the damn movie was over!

[Donailin]

77. yeah, that movie lingers in your mind

powerful sobering stuff, and not fiction

[Behind the Aegis]

84. so true

I think because it was not fiction, it made the emotions even more powerful! We lost family in the camps in Poland and that was in the back of my mind watching that show and others like it. It is one of the reasons I don't often watch movies about the Holocaust. It is so hard to see such inhumanity, this is another reason I stopped watching the news and read it instead.

[Texasgal]

6. Terms of endearment

Always reduces me to tears.

[ET Awful]

13. Good one. . . I haven't seen that in years.

I may have to add it to my Netflix queue.

[peacefreak]

37. Brings me to my knees, every time.

I first saw it after my brother died of cancer. I know how Aurora felt when she screamed "just give her the damn shot!"

[housewolf]

93. Oh me too...

I recently saw it on tv and still cried my eyes out... Emma was such a vibrant, alive "character" (in the good sense), it just seemed so unfair that she had to die.

I'll never forget her telling her resentful little boy "I know you like me but for the past few years you've been pretending that you don't. Someday you'll look back and be sorry that you never told me that you do, But DON'T. Don't ever be sorry because I KNOW that you like me." and in those couple of lines, freed her son from years of guilt. What a woman Emma was... she just loved and loved and forgave all grievences.

[hippiechick]

7. Amelie, City of Angels, A Brief Encounter

O8) sigh O8)

[ET Awful]

12. I can't say Amelie made me cry. . . I loved that movie, I didn't find it

to be a tear-jerker at all :).

[nytemare]

18. Amelie is a cool movie!

n/t

[hippiechick]

24. I cried toward the end ...

when the elderly gentleman left the video tape in her apartment.

I can relate all too well to being too chicken shit to go get what I want most, for fear of it rejecting me.

So yeah, maybe more touching than tear-jerking, but ... I cried.

[ET Awful]

59. I might have gotten a little leakage around the eyeballs at that part

but no real outright crying :).

Actually that's the first movie I've seen in a LONG time that I actually went out and bought a copy of instead of just renting it. That's how much I liked that one :)

[hippiechick]

61. ooh, speaking of leakage ... Garden State

When they were sitting in the bathtub. :cry:

I guess I'm just a dork like that.


:hi:

[ET Awful]

64. I've got that DVD at home and haven't finished watching it yet

so be quiet dang it. :)

[Donailin]

8. Joy Luck Club

[nytemare]

17. YEP! I love that flick! It even made my dad cry!

He was funny. He was rubbing his nose when the movie was ending and he said "I'll tell you what, that movie was fucking sad! What was the name of that again?"

Good ol' Pop.

[Donailin]

28. it made all my kids cry too

Another movie that stirred the emotions was "Life is Beautiful"

I couldn't get anyone to watch it with me, until I popped it in on a night when there nothing else on. Slowly but surely, they all came in and took a seat. By the end, when the little boy saw the big tank pull up around the corner of the concentration camp, everyone was sniffling.

Damn, I can still tear up now just thinking about it.

[CBHagman]

35. "Life Is Beautiful" got me, too.

I can honestly say that "Life Is Beautiful" and "Cinema Paradiso" both made me weep uncontrollably.

And I cried all the way through "Romero," which is one of those films that progressives really need to see.

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being," in the scenes concerning the end of the Prague Spring, really shook me up, too.

[ze_dscherman]

76. Great movie

My son was about the same age as the kid in the movie when I first saw it. Just to think about it brings mist to my eyes, too.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. I Love Amy Tan...

I bought her book "The Opposite Of Fate" for my girlfriend last Christmas....

[nytemare]

40. That was a good book.

I end up reading 10 books at once, and I honestly don't read much fiction, but Amy Tan is one of very few fiction writers that I read. I recently finished "Bonesetter's Daughter" which was good. I am now reading "100 Secret Senses". Maybe I will finish sometime this year...lol.

[pres2032]

9. Passion of the Christ

saw it twice and wept like a baby both times.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

11. That one didn't get me... I already knew the ending.

:toast:

[pres2032]

15. well, yeah, so did i

it was just that seeing what apparently happened hit me with full force

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

19. Actually, the story had been over done...

When you hear it over and over and there's been so many takes on people dying for a cause that it just comes across as gratuitous and smarmy when considering drama.

:toast:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

26. I cried through most all of it...

It touched me to the core. Most of it was just all the shit that has been carried out in his name that probably pisses him off.
Duckie

[Donailin]

36. I only needed to see it once

and yes, I cried. But with an unfulfillable longing cry unlike the prodigal son scene in "Jesus of Nazareth" which I found comforting beyond words. God loves unconditionally and rejoices not so much at the 99 who stay in the fold, but at the one who is lost, and then found.

[RebelOne]

60. That's one movie I never want to see again.

It was the most sadistic and brutal movie I have ever seen. Freddy Kruger and Jason slasher movies are tame compared to that flick.

[Nikia]

14. Let me try to remember all the one's I cried during

Because they involved death: Schindler's List, Dead Poet's Society, Titanic, Armegeddon, What Dreams May Come, Pay it Forward
Emotional non death: A League of Their Own, Angela's Ashes, Field of Dreams, Home Alone (the scene with the old man who he had been scared of), It's a Wonderful Life, Shine, Girl Interupted
Carrie, which could be in both categories, and the sequel.
There are probably a lot more. I don't cry as much now though as I did in high school and college.

[LynneSin]

16. What, you don't have the ultimate Tear-Jerking movie: Beaches

Shame on you!!

[Rowdyboy]

42. Gawd....Everytime I hear the word "beaches" I tear up....

"Did you ever know that you're...." fade to Bette

[acmavm]

20. Old Yeller is not a kid's movie. I've never seen a kid who wasn't

devestated when they heard that rifle go off. Myself included. It's like the scene in Bambi when his mother dies. Wrecked my weekend, I'll tell you. I believe kids should know the facts of life, but those two movies really bummed me out.

[NuttyFluffers]

57. well, i guess i'm an exception...

i smiled with glee to see that bambi scene. for some reason i just hate deer (don't ask me why, i just hate the animals) and watching that sickeningly cute bambi get all traumatized put a very big grin on my face.

also same thing with old yeller. for some reason i couldn't stand that brat of a younger brother character. and i hated that dog even more (and i like dogs :shrug:). so after yeller helped this grating family fighting all those danger i was elated to see he turned by an unforgiving disease. turned against those he previously loved and forced to be destroyed. loved it. once again i smiled gleefully. when my folks weren't paying attention in the other room i'd replay the tape to replay the trauma on the young actors' faces as they had to face up to the fact they had to kill that damnable old dog. i distinctly remember as a kid being sad that the death was quick and one of the brothers couldn't die horribly with the dog. :shrug: and to think, my parents thought i was trying to cope with the tradegy.

now i love a good drama. i was an absolute pool of tears watching the color purple, a wreck with beloved, the last emperor, empire of the sun, dead poets society, etc. they and many others all tore my heart out.

but for some reason those two movies, bambi and old yeller, make me smile with wicked glee. i also loved watching the agonizing scene of dumbo being separated from his mother. made me smile too. don't like elephants much either. or maybe i just don't like disney's overwrought children dramas. can't tell. also hated beaches as a child. for some reason i don't like bette midler's movies and watching her cry in that movie over the death of her long-time friend also cheered me up. probably a loving streak of sadism in me. also liked the suffering in graveyard of the fireflies... mmmm, like finely aged wine.

hmm, fascinating. i wonder if there's a pattern why some dramas really get to me and make me a sobbing wreck and others draw forth my sadistic side? hmm, weird, the inner mysteries of the human heart. sometimes you really can't explain why things make you feel certain ways. my best guess is i develop antipathy for certain characters or stories by how 'overdone' or camp they feel to me. but i don't know if that's the reason. strange. i doubt i'm alone in such strange moments of antipathy, though.

[tuvor]

23. I don't weep at movies.

Although I have been known to get choked up at times.

The one I remember that did it the best is Edward Scissorhands.

[Zomby Woof]

25. ROTK

I mean, when hobbits cry, how can you not? :cry:

[NewJeffCT]

31. me, too... I got misty eyed at the end

How could you not?

Though, I did get a bit misty over Joy Luck Club, too.

[Bok_Tukalo]

27. "Silent Running"

The robot dies.

[webjamn]

29. Brian's Song

[fortyfeetunder]

111. Yeah, Brian's Song

I saw that tonight cable on demand, probably first time in its entirety.

Remember when Brian's Song first came out on TV 30+ years ago, I happened to be out of the house, playing a gig. When I returned home, the entire household was in tears. And this included several grown men.

[bliss_eternal]

30. Another vote for Joy Luck Club and Schindler's List!

I haven't been able to watch Schindler's List again. Not only did I cry during the film, I sobbed. Seriously, my body was wracked with sobbing... Knowing this, I just don't watch it.

I can't watch Farenheit 9/11 for similiar reasons

Others that I have lost it during--

Fearless
Shawshenk Redemption (LOVE this film!)


I'm the biggest baby. I cry during Disney films.

[progmom]

32. 4 come to mind immediately

Philadelphia
Million Dollar Baby
Beaches
The English Patient

[MountainLaurel]

33. Shawshank Redemption

And believe it or not, Meet the Parents. Anytime someone is falsely accused of something they didn't do, I'm just devastated. (Issues from my childhood much?) I sobbed through large parts of that movie. I actually had to turn off North by Northwest for the same reason.

[Taxloss]

34. The Sixth Sense.

Makes me cry like a baby for some reason.

[peterh]

38. I’ll admit to… Steel magnolias…

it got me…

[loudestchick]

72. M'lynn in the grave yard...trying to hold it together..WAAAHH!

[NNadir]

39. To Kill A Mockingbird.

[elehhhhna]

65. when Scout says "Hey, Boo." I lose it every time. Book or film.

[Flaxbee]

41. Seabiscuit

I saw it at home and just completely broke down and sobbed. I think a lot of it was the voice-overs about the Depression, people trying so hard to just survive and comparing that with today just clobbered me. But, I also cry whenever I see horses running - like at the end of "Electric Horseman" when Redford sets the stallion free, or "The Black Stallion" or "The Man from Snowy River" when the main guy and his horse go flying down the steep hill after the wild herd. I can't help myself.

Also bawled during "The Barbarians at the Gate", a good Canadian film about dying and friends and family.

[Seabiscuit]

55. Awww... shucks.

:cry:

[Thor_MN]

43. I Remember Mama

Especially since I "discovered" it at about the time my Norwegian grandmother died..

AS far as the poll, I think I've only seen two of the movies listed...

[MnFats]

44. "Sophie's Choice"

at the end of the film, when Meryl Streep has made her ultimate choice, and the McNichols kid is doing the final soliloquy about all the lost and mistreated children .... oh, I cracked up.
I don't think I could see it again.

[Obamarama]

110. You and me both......

Meryl Streep is such a talent.

[MarianJack]

118. YES!

"It was not judgement day, only morning, excellent and fair"

:cry: EVERY SINGLE TIME!

[mykpart]

45. I can't believe you left out

"E.T." and "Spartacus."

[texas1928]

46. My Life

With Michael Keeton. I can not watch that movie, it tears me up everytime I do.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

47. Pay it Forward, Leaving Las Vegas , Schindler’s List,The Deer Hunter

[maveric]

49. Amazing Grace and Chuck

The RWers killed the hero but his spirit prevails and ends up saving the world.
Gregory Peck, Jamie Lee Curtis, Alex English were all great in it.

[MissMillie]

69. One of my all-time favorites

I've been looking for it on DVD but have yet to find it.

[sandnsea]

50. I Am Sam

I cried and I cried and I hardly ever do that with movies anymore.

[UdoKier]

51. "The Cure" is the ultimate tearjerker of ALL TIME!

It had Joe Mazzello as a boy with AIDS and Brad Renfro as his pal.

Annbella Sciora and Diana Scarwid were also great as the boys' moms.


I was bawling for 10 minutes after it was over. Such a damn touching movie.

[Lexingtonian]

52. oh...

Casablanca
Sex Lies and Videotape
Leaving Las Vegas
City of Angels
Cinema Paradiso
The Princess Bride

Return of the King
Wild Strawberries
The Last Temptation of Christ

[Rhiannon12866]

53. Isn't "An Affair to Remember" supposed to be the ultimate tear-jerker?

I didn't cry, but came close. But I'm not much of a crier, and I haven't seen most of these movies. I guess I'm deprived. I did see "The Sixth Sense," "Steel Magnolias" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Nope.:shrug:

Maybe "The Wizard of Oz?" Or "Gone With the Wind?" I guess I like old movies. Most modern movies leave me cold, or scared. I was scared by the latest Harry Potter movie and, last weekend, I watched "Executive Decision," on TV, an Islamic fundamentalist airplane hijacking movie, released in 1996, and was scared to death. I guess I'm behind the curve.:shrug:

[Seabiscuit]

54. West Side Story

[KitchenWitch]

56. All of the above *and* F 9/11 and Stepmom

I cried during the scene where Lila Lipscomb was at the WH dealing with that freeptard. I also cried when the Iraqi woman was screaming about what the war had done to her family. It totally broke my heart.

And stepmom hits all the melancholy of my being a mother and never knowing for sure whether I will be present to watch my kids grow up.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

58. "The Outsiders"

Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.

[FuzzySlippers]

62. The end of Schindler's List

when all the survivors, accompanied by the actors who portrayed them, and their descendents file past Schindler's grave. That really does me in.

[bmbmd]

63. Billy Elliott

Anyone?

[amandabeech]

101. I'll second that. It's one of my favorites and it gets three and a half

stars for Kleenex consumption.

[RedSpartan]

66. The Champ (1979)

Starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and a very young Ricky Schroder. I've only seen it once, and I can't bring myself to see it again. Just crushes you.

[fryguy]

67. Dead Poets Society

The final scene, when the students stand on their desks and proclaim "Oh Captian my Captian"....gets me everytime....

A close second is the end of Field of Dreams when Kay asks his father if he wants to play catch

[Jessica]

68. October Sky ...

I cry everytime ... Love that movie.

[Patiod]

70. Truly Madly Deeply

and "How to Make an American Quilt"

[loudestchick]

73. "Truly, Madly, Deeply" is my favorite film. The sun ain't gonna shine

anymore, the moon ain't gonna rise in the sky, when you're without her!

[twenty2strings]

71. Regarding Henry...I love repemption movies!

[loudestchick]

74. "Philadelphia", I tear up just hearing Springsteen's song.

[Magrittes Pipe]

75. I cried when I realized I spent $2 to see "Jury Duty."

I really miss those two dollars! :cry:

[bigwillq]

78. None of those movies have ever made me cry and

I'm such an easy movie-cry.

[FredScuttle]

79. The Killing Fields

n/t

[agitpropagent9]

80. other

immortal beloved. never fails.

[Padraig18]

81. "Steel Magnolias"

I absolutely cannot watch it without crying.

[Garage Queen]

82. "Avalon". I *sob* at the end of that movie.

"I came to America in 1914 ... I came to America in 1914 ..."

[Itascapark]

89. Yup...

I've seen it three times now...the end gets me everytime.

[tishaLA]

83. The Way We Were

[seaj11]

85. "Life is Beautiful"

Oh, and F9/11. There have been many...but there's a couple that come to mind.

[goodboy]

86. Requiem for a dream...(nt)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

87. I also forgot Of Mice and Men

[mahina]

88. What Dreams May Come

I would marry him.
If he wasn't Robin Williams.
But he is a good democrat so that fits one criteria.
I imagine he would be a little draining to be around all the time though. Not that he's asked me.
What was the question?
Oh ya...
See, I get the Lounge now.

[housewolf]

90. "Brideges of Madison County"

Can't help it, the movie just moves me to tears everytime - the way in which Meryl Streep breaks her own heart by staying for her family, sacrificing her passion for her husband and children, then then at the end when the kids (now grown, of course) toss her ashes from the bridge after she's said "I gave my life for my family, I want to give Robert what is left of me."

Well, you get the idea.

[barb162]

91. "Joy Luck Club" and "Tess of the D'urbervilles"

and any movie where an animal dies, so I avoid them

[MarianJack]

119. I'm Almost 50 Years Old...

...and I still cry at the end of "The Yearling"

[tamtam]

92. The color purple

Wow what a movie. Pay it forward really had me in tears.

[housewolf]

94. "The Notebook"

James Gardner's wife has Alzheimer's and they are both in the same nursing home. Every day he reads to her from a diary he wrote about their life together and the intense love they had for each other. She doesn't remember who he is. Against all odds, he brings her back for a short time and she remembers. The amazing power of love!

In the end, they are laying in bed together and they both died over night, so great a love that they both went at the same time.

A real tear-jerker, the whole theater was sniffling & sobbing.

[bettyellen]

95. Brians Song

[LTR]

96. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

A pretty sad movie, but pretty good.

Second would be Scarface.

[The Great Escape]

97. The House Of Sand and Fog...

it breaks my heart and pisses me off all at the same time.

[truebrit71]

98. Field Of Dreams...

..'Hey Dad..wanna have a catch?"....

I lose it every single time....

[Doctor_J]

99. Hard Times

Whenever Cheney turns and walks toward the train, leaving Poe and Speed in the car, I cry like a baby :-)

[sphincter]

100. Japanese flicks

Can't say that I am easily moved, but there are a few Japanese films that makes the ol' eyes a bit moist.

Hachiko monogatari

http://www.fabuloustravel.com/globe/hachiko/hachiko.html

Grave of the Fireflies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/

Marilyn ni aitai

http://www.dogsinthenews.com/issues/0104/articles/010409a.htm


Just something about animals that touches the heart....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

106. oh, Grave of the Fireflies!

:cry:

[Kazak]

102. Watership Down

That movie kills me. :cry:

Edit: How 'bout if I spell it right?

[PassingFair]

103. Holiday Movies...

A Christmas Carol: 1950's version with Alaister Sim
I have a cathartic cry EVERY X-Mas eve with that one, corny, but true.

Another: Home for the Holidays: Charles Durning's dad makes me sob like a baby.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

107. The first movie I ever cried over was Penny Serenade

The movie that set my whole Sunday movie group to weeping was, believe it or not, a mid 1990s version of Black Beauty.

As we came out of the theater, all the adults we saw were crying, while the kids were unaffected.

As we thought about that odd phenomenon, we decided that the story resonated with us adults because we all had people we had lost track of and would love to find again--as Black Beauty is reunited with his former groom at the end of the film (and the book).

Oops, I hope I didn't spoil the plot for anyone! :-)

[qnr]

104. Well, "The Notebook" just did it to me n/t

[Obamarama]

108. A Very Long Engagement

I saw it in October when it opened in Paris and again last week in Chicago. Not sure how widely it will be shown here in the states...it IS a FRENCH film, after all.

It's a touching story of love and loss set in France during WWI. It stars Audrey Tatou for those of you who are Amelie fans. Jodie Foster also makes an appearance. Excellent, excellent movie.

I am not typically prone to shedding tears over movies, but I will adimit to getting a little misty eyed at the end of A Very Long Engagement.

http://wip.warnerbros.com/avle/

[Squatch]

109. Cool Runnings.

no shit.

[Zenlitened]

112. Charly

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[PassingFair]

113. Just finished reading Flowers for Algernon

...and couldn't read a word of dialog without seeing Cliff Robertson's face. Very sad little story.

[Zenlitened]

114. Sadly beautiful, beautifully sad.

A very moving work, both the book and the film.

[Telly Savalas]

115. Frank Capra/Jimmy Stewart does it for me...

It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington have me fighting tears everytime. Guess I'm just a cheesy sentimental old SOB.

[Hans Delbrook]

116. Bang the Drum Slowly, Mr. Roberts, Out of Africa, Silkwood

Gee stop me when you've had enough..
Killing Fields, Brian's Song, Sophie's Choice, and don't laugh - Lilo and Stich

[SW FL Dem]

117. Never could watch Ol Yeller

I refuse to watch any movie/show in which animals are hurt.