Name A Movie Or Movies That You CANNOT Watch Without Bawling Your Head Off

[Dinger]

Me:

Rudy
Brian's Song (W/Caan)

[sakabatou]

1. I can't

I haven't seen a movie that made me cry. However, I made a music video that makes other people cry.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Born Free, Born Free and ummm... Born Free

[RubyDuby in GA]

54. Free as the wind blows...free as the grass grows...

BORN FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I cry at this one, but I can't ever watch it without belting the song out at the top of my lungs - and I couldn't carry a tune if it had a reinforced handle. :)

[HCE SuiGeneris]

76. Here is a super cheesy rendition (song starts after about 15 sec)

that should be purrfect to get those vocal chords roaring! :bounce: :hi:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1600465788369365452&q=born+free+music&hl=en

[begin_within]

82. I bought a DVD of "Born Free" last month at Albertson's grocery store for $6.99.

[MassLiberal]

105. OMG, first one that popped into my head!

Yep, Born Free.

Too many others to name (I am a rather emotional person).

[QMPMom]

3. My Girl. Every. Darn. Time.

I know why. It's because my best friend, from 6th grade on, was killed in a car accident a few months after we graduated high school. When I watch My Girl it bring up all the old hurt of his death.

Man, that's Bobby and Me riding those bikes down those streets in that town, don't ya know.

[fizzgig]

4. legends of the fall

gods i bawl like a little girl. also, steel magnolias, my girl and brokeback mountain

[mentalsolstice]

5. OMG, ask my poor father!

I don't remember this... but my dad took me to see the "Incredible Journey" (1963 version) when I was 2-3 years old. My parents had a Siamese cat from several months before I was born, and he (the cat) and I had a very strong bond from the very beginning. So obviously, during the movie I got very upset when the (Siamese) cat faced obstacles (I'm two+, mind you, and I'm watching my beloved buddy drown). I started wailing, and my dad had to pick me up and leave the movie...pissed! because he didn't get to see the ending.

Anyway...I am very compassionate when people die in a movie...but by gawd you kill an animal, and I'm outta there!

[GenDem]

12. My daughter pulled the same thing years ago.

She was given the Michael J Fox version for her 6th birthday. We had to stop the tape when Sassy fell over the waterfall and she refused to finish watching it, even when we told her that the kitty lives. She pulled the same thing with the Lion King.

[mentalsolstice]

23. Kindred spirit!

I feel for her. If I'm in a movie with just a hint that "beloved pet is going to die", I'm sooo out of there! Really! I can buck up and watch "Sophie's Choice", "Schindler's List", "Hotel Rwanda", etc. However, the minute you interject a dog or cat into it, I'm gone, outta there! I still feel for the human loss, but I just get so emotional in a movie where an animal is involved!

I truly hurt for anyone or anything that is exploited for the pleasure of another. The thing with animals is they can't tell us where the mental or physical hurt is. Hopefully, our huamn loved ones can communicate, and we can get them the help they need.

[madeline_con]

6. Donnie Darko.

[SeattleGirl]

7. Brian's Song (w/Caan) is definitely one of mine.

Plus:

Steel Magnolias (the scene with all the women after Shelby's funeral).
Amadeus

There are a few others, but I can't think of them now.

[JackBeck]

8. I have some...

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Steel Magnolias

Brokeback Mountain

Fox and the Hound

[SeattleGirl]

15. Brokeback Mountain is another one of mine.

:cry:

[JackBeck]

19. It's been on cable TV a lot recently.

And I've gone to bed many a night the last few weeks blowing my nose and wiping my eyes.

[SeattleGirl]

22. Yeah.

That scene where one of them (can't remember if it was Heath or Jake) breaks down in the shed by the road just tore me up.

[JackBeck]

24. The scene that gets me is when

Heath's character (Ennis) goes to meet Jake's parents (Jack) and Ennis goes up to Jack's bedroom. (Choking up as we speak) I...can't...do...this...

I wish I could quit you SeattleGirl.

[Rhythm]

66. yeah... that scene's a crusher...

[fizzgig]

20. oh gods! fox and the hound!

i had the book and tape when i was little and my mom and i used to read/listen to it and cry, cry, cry

i have the dvd know and it breaks my heart every time

[JackBeck]

21. I start crying the second it begins.

Such a tear jerker.

[PassingFair]

9. Grave of the Fireflies

Empire of the Sun

1951 version of A Christmas Carol

The Deerhunter

[jobycom]

32. I couldn't really agree with that, since I only saw it once, and doubt

that I have the emotional strength to watch it a second time. The absolute saddest, most tragic film ever made.

[charlie and algernon]

10. only saw it once so far, but Bobby

also: Rudy and Empire of the Sun

[SeattleGirl]

16. I had tears running down my face at the end of "Bobby"

I think what really did it for me in that movie was all the footage of the real RFK.

[GenDem]

11. "Where the Red Fern Grows" and

"Old Yeller"

Sad dog movies always make me :cry:

[Left Is Write]

58. I never saw Where The Red Fern Grows, but I read the book.

And I definitely cried.

[mark414]

13. dancer in the dark

the only movie i've ever watched that made me cry more than just a trickle or two down my cheek

[Arugula Latte]

14. Shawshank Redemption

That last scene on the beach ... :cry:

[crim son]

17. So many things make me cry these days that my tears are clearly no measure

of pathos. I guess I'm getting old and this is one positive side effect.

[GalleryGod]

47. Oh, We all have had these patches of Road of Life.

[crim son]

51. I hope so - that is, I hope I'm not experiencing something uniquely

screwed up. :hi:

[Scarlett17]

18. Untamed Heart

Sad, but true. I was pregnant for the first time when I saw the movie in the theater. When the movie was over, I went to the lobby and bought a ticket for the next show. I narrowly avoided naming my first-born daughter after Caroline (I chose my grandmother instead). Had she been a boy, I really think I would have named him Adam.

[Pithlet]

25. At the end of And the Band Played On

when "The Last Song" starts. I always bawl my eyes out. Every time. There are a lot of movies that will make me tear up, but that's the first one I think of when anyone asks this.

[NanceGreggs]

26. Okay, it's not like I am PROFESSIONAL movied crier ...

... but I AM one of the top-ranking amateurs.

"The Joy Luck Club"

"Glory"

"Pay It Forward"

"Tale of Two Cities" (any version!)

"Titanic" (1952 version with Clifton Webb & Barbara Stanwyck, as opposed to the more recent version, which makes me retch)

Sentimental clap-trap, yet they get to me every time ...

[Rhythm]

75. Oktoberain and i are both 'cryers'...

good thing we found each other...

[LeftyMom]

27. Highlander, when Heather dies and the background is Freddie Mercury singing "Who Wants to Live

Forever" and it's even more powerful because we know he's dying, even if we didn't then, so the sequence is doubly painful.

That shit tears me up every time.

[enigmatic]

28. Sophie's Choice

Man Facing Southeast, too..

[u4ic]

64. Excellent choices!

:thumbsup:

[mentalsolstice]

29. So many good mentions here!

Brokeback Mountain was the most recent to leave us, stunned, bereft and brokenhearted. However, remembering my husband wiping away his tears on his jacket sleeve after "Schindler's List", that still gets me all foggy!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

30. Philadelphia

[SeattleGirl]

31. The scene in the courtroom, where Denzel tells Tom to open his

shirt......

I held my breath through that whole scene.

On the way home, I burst into tear, just thinking about it.

[jobycom]

33. The Three Lives of Thomasina.

When I was a kid I saw that film, and just thought it was so sad, and so happy at the end. But I watched it again lately, and now I can see the symbolism in the film, and it's even more of a tearjerker. And, as a kid, I identified with the kid, and now I identify with the father. Funny how that happened somewhere along the way.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

85. I loved that movie when I was a kid.

Haven't seen it in years...

[jobycom]

97. I was surprised

That movie was a big part of my childhood, in a way, since I named a stray cat after her, and wound up with three generations of cats from my Thomasina. So I had told that story so often to my kids they wanted to see the movie. I bought it, figuring it would seem silly now. I was really surprised. It not only was better than I hoped, but my kids loved it, even though the setting was so dated. It's still a sweet movie.

Had a similar experience with Escape to Witch Mountain, so I bought Return From Witch Mountain... which sucked badly! You'd think that with Christopher Lee and Betty Davis, not to mention Jack Soo, it would be good, right? Nope.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

101. That's surprising...

It must have been pretty cruddy if actors like them couldn't make it great.

I'm just remembering a Disney Channel movie that my older son enjoyed as a kid. "Lost in the Barrens". I think it was based on a Farley Mowat story. I'm going to have to see if that's on DVD now...

[pinniped]

34. Del.

.

[mac56]

35. "The Iron Giant".

The ending gets me every time.

[Evoman]

67. I am NOT a gun.

I never cry at movies, but that was a close one.

[jobycom]

109. Vin Diesel's finest hour!

I Superman!

You're right, great ending. The story lost me for a while in the middle, but the ending made it worthwhile. Well, not the very end, but the climax.

[CrazyForKucinich]

36. Life as a House and Life is Beautiful.

[peacefreak]

37. Terms of Endearment

Color Purple
Grave of the Fireflies

[Telegram Sam]

38. Fahrenheit 911

Possibly the worst American tragedy.

[Midlodemocrat]

39. Let's see.

Cider House Rules
Brokeback Mountain
Independence Day (I know, I know, but that speech at the end by the Prez gets me every time)

[hippywife]

40. The two latest

are Gandhi and Syriana. :cry:

[bleedingheart]

41. Lorenzo's Oil

from start to finish...a tear jerker.

[CactusJock]

42. i cried during Hitch

yeah i know its lame, i think i must have had unresolved stuff going on in my head at the time.
also i was REALLY stoned.

it was a couple of years back and I watched it on DVD with a bunch of friends - you won't believe how often they still manage to bring it up.

[Glorfindel]

43. "Latter Days"

but they're tears of joy... I can't watch movies in which animals die like "Old Yeller" or "Where the Red Fern Grows." I just won't do it. I'd be depressed for weeks.

[Cannikin]

44. Showgirls

[kwassa]

45. A Bridge Too Far

one major allied screwup.

[GalleryGod]

46. DU Lounge and "tears" and "Bawling" OP's ? Sheesh.

This Show.

[NewJeffCT]

48. The last movie to get me misty-eyed was

believe it or not, "Return of the King" - the last Lord the Rings movie. I was in my late 30s when the movie came out, but first read "The Hobbit" when I was very young, and the trilogy not long after that. The books had a huge influence on my life, as I would later spend countless hours playing D&D and reading other fantasy & sci-fi novels...
As they were doing the multiple endings, I just got all misty-eyed thinking that I was the end of something that I had been waiting for for essentially my whole life.

[Rhythm]

69. the scene at the end where all surviving of Gondor bow to the hobbits got me...

"You bow to no one..."

*bawl"

[Burma Jones]

81. yep

[Pied Piper]

78. Same here

I know there are some who were disappointed with the series, but I thought they were great. Those books have also been very important to me through my 42 years. I was a mess at the end of "Return of the King". I have some close friends who are also fans of the novels, and we looked forward to seeing each of the films as they came out, 3 years in a row. Before "The Two Towers" opened, one of my friends threw a LOTR party - everyone drank beer out of steins and watched "Fellowship" on DVD, then went to the theatre to see "Towers". She even baked a bundt cake with yellow frosting and red elvish letters around the side ("One Bundt Cake to Rule Them All...")

On the way home from ROTK, we were all so sad, because it was all over Fortunaley, we still have the DVDs!

[MassLiberal]

107. It's that LOTR theme song that gets me

I don't even like those movies, but someone can sneak up behind me and play that majestic theme song, and I'm a puddle.

[seaglass]

49. Angels in the Outfield. Ok - I don't cry IRL but EVERY movie

can make me cry. Just saw the end of To Sir With Love - made me cry, same with the end of Angels as mentioned above...I swear I was not like this before I had kids.

My aunt told me I was cold and heartless because when I saw Love Story with her it didn't make me cry - AT ALL. Now everything makes me cry - what happened to me????

[MissMillie]

50. Million Dollar Baby

Out of Africa
Sophie's Choice
Terms of Endearment
Field of Dreams
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

[Goblinmonger]

52. Babe

I'm serious. When he says "that'll do pig" it just kills me. Of course I'm a crier from way back. My son finds it amusing.

[kaiden]

57. When Babe says, "Goodbye, Mom" at the pig farm.

That's it for me; I weep through the entire movie.

[Burma Jones]

83. I start with the line

"This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever."

That little Pig is my Hero....

[Yavin4]

53. "The Black Dahlia"

Every time I think about the $11.00 that I wasted on that piece of crap it makes me cry a river.

[DixieBlue]

55. Hope Floats, Oliver, Hope and Glory, Empire of the Sun ...

I cry at a lot of movies. I'm very much a mess.

[texas1928]

56. "the Dirty Dozen."

Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
And Trini Lopez... He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines... And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...


No seriously, "My Life" I can not watch it at all.

[Left Is Write]

59. Well, I wouldn't say "bawl my head off", but - Fried Green Tomatoes and The Outsiders.

I'm sure there are more I will think of later.

[cedahlia]

94. The Outsiders

I always cry during the movie (I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but you can probably guess which parts) but then, what really kills me is the end when Stevie Wonder starts singing "Stay Gold"...;( That really gets me every time.

I love that movie. :-)

[Phillycat]

60. Love, Actually. Sad tears, happy tears, wistful tears.

Total chick movie. And I love it.

[lizziegrace]

71. The montage at the end

gets me every single time. :cry:

[LaurenG]

61. A movie called "Powder"

and a bunch of others, some are mentioned here already.

[Phillycat]

62. Also cried my eyes out at "8 Below" and anything where animals are hurt.

[LanternWaste]

63. Schindler's List & Watership Down

Schindler's List & Watership Down.

In both instances, it's the last scene (Schindler saying "I could have done more..." and Hazel's final 'sleep') that do me in.

Every. Frikkin. Time.

[Phillycat]

65. Oh, and The Killing Fields.

My. God. :cry:

[NewJeffCT]

77. I didn't cry over that one, but

it really left me drained emotionally...

[u4ic]

68. Walter

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383046/

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

70. If I were to cry for a movie *wink wink nod nod*

Dead Poets Society
Life is Beautiful
Schindler's List


My husband cries everytime, on the clock, with Field of Dreams, at the end of the movie.

[Rhythm]

74. Dead Poets is one of my all-time favorites...

and yeah, there are places where it is heartbreaker.

Possibly Robin Williams best work.

[Rhythm]

72. The trailer for "The Pursuit of Happyness" had me teared up the other day...

It was on the DVD for something i rented, and it killed me.

[Catchawave]

73. Just saw Dreamgirls

Effie's song "I'm telling you I'm not going..." was the first scene ever I had no control over my tears. They just poured out :cry: She will get the Oscar too.

[jpgray]

79. Wizard of Oz

I mean, what the fuck? x( Can get through the saddest of sad "serious" movies without the barometer dropping, but I'll cry at Ray Bolger getting a hug.

[Burma Jones]

80. Babe, Field of Dreams, ET, Big Fish, Saving Private Ryan

Of Mice and Men - with Malkovitch and Sinise

It's a Wonderful Life

Mary Poppins

Henry V - Kenneth Brannagh version

[MassLiberal]

108. Mary Poppins, big time!

When they're all flying kites at the end and singing "Let's go fly a kite," and Mr. Banks decides to be a human being after all! *sigh*

[Burma Jones]

121. I like a good redemption movie.......

[unpossibles]

84. Life Is Beautiful

and several others - they at least choke me up.

What Dreams May Come too.

[TommyO]

113. What Dreams May Come

is a movie that people told me to avoid since my father had recently died. I saw it about two years ago and was bawling my eyes out.

[begin_within]

86. These are pretty much guaranteed to make you cry:

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Tokyo Story (1953)
The Yearling (1954)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
Au Hasard, Balthazar (1966)
Born Free (1966)
El Norte (1983)
Daughter from Danang (2002)

[SaveElmer]

87. Well I don't cry...but "Glory" gives me goosebumps...

Particularly the scenes with the white soldiers cheering the 54th...

Great line "Give 'em Hell 54th"

And then of course the attack on Fort Wagner!!!

[applegrove]

88. Missing, My brilliant Career.

[rug]

89. King Kong

[Parche]

90. TEACHER DINGER

Its kind of a movie, its the HBO series "Band of Brothers"

At the end, the real Major Winters says......My grandchild came up to me the other
day and asked me "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war" and I replied, no grandpa
was not a hero, but he served with a company of them" Easy Company 101st Airborne
CURAHEE

[Dinger]

92. Oooo, That Gives Me The Shivers

:patriot:

[Flaxbee]

91. Seabiscuit

something about the mix of how hard life was in the Depression plus the horse (and Red, and all the characters, actually) overcoming hard times. Actually, I cry like a baby anytime I see horses run - like the end of "The Electric Cowboy".

Can't watch anything anymore with animals getting hurt (and not getting better) - ergo no "Where the Red Fern Grows" or "Old Yeller" or ... anything like that. Too many tears.

[cedahlia]

93. The Secret of Nimh, The Outsiders, Titanic...

Fried Green Tomatoes, Charlotte's Web (the original version), A Christmas Carol,

and probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting...I'm very sensitive! :-)

[cedahlia]

95. How could I forget...GLORY

That movie...oh, how it breaks my heart every time. I remember watching it for the first time in 7th grade history class, and just sitting there at my desk, stunned, and quietly sobbing...it still has the same effect on me today.

[BlueIris]

117. For me, it was 8th grade history class.

"And we all covered up in it, too--ain't nobody clean."

That's how I feel every. day.

[boston bean]

96. Terms of Endearment, no matter how many time I see it.

[Critters2]

98. Anything with a dog. Honest to God.

Where the Red Fern Grows, Ol' Yeller, Sounder, Eight Below, Call of the Wild,...

If it's got a dog, hand me a kleenex!

[VelmaD]

104. Where the Red Fern Grows...

just kills me every time. I cried when the teacher read us the book in the 2nd or 3rd grade. Cry at the movie. Hell, I'd probably start crying if I sit here and think about it.

[Critters2]

106. Turns me into a tear fountain every time!! nt

[Nevernose]

99. October Sky

At the end, when they play the film of the space shuttle and say what happened to the costars.

[Rosco T.]

100. A very obscure film called "Knightriders"

George Romero of all people. an early Ed Harris performance. Long, character driven... and I guarantee that if you don't break down crying at the next to the last scene, you're not human....

[TroubleMan]

102. Oops....never mind....I thought you mean bawling as in laughing

nvm.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

103. Paulie

I took my niece to see it when she was about 7. My sister was concerned, because she's a sensitive kid, and she'd heard that it was a tear-jerker. After I brought her back home, my sister asked her if she'd cried. My niece replied, "No; but Aunt Brenda did." :D

[MassLiberal]

110. An Affair to Remember

It's a killer!

[Captain Hilts]

111. Bang The Drum Slowly, Mr. Roberts, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Great Escape. nt

[TommyO]

112. I found myself getting teary during tonigh's Scrubs episode

Anything more intense than South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut gets me emotional!

OK, so I'm exaggerating a bit. Steel Magnolias is my quintessential tear-jerker!

[barb162]

114. "The Joy Luck Club" "Tess of the Durbervilles"

and animal movies

[Manifestor_of_Light]

115. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

When Big Chief does you know what to Jack Nicholson (Don't want to spoil it) and then smashes a window and runs off.

The Keeper:The Legend of Omar Khayyam when the little boy's grandfather in Iran says "It wasn't the poetry that Omar Khayyam wrote that made him great, it was the poetry of his life."
Vanessa Redgrave gives a similar speech in that movie earlier.

Fabulous movie, came out in 1995, you can order the DVD at www.greatomar.com


Titanic.

Little Women.

Schindler's List.

All the Battle Scenes in Little Big Man, when the U.S. Cavalry is slaughtering Native Americans as they run, and set their tepees on fire.


Vera Drake. Depressing movie about the bad old days of illegal abortion in England in 1950.

[BlueIris]

116. Even at this late date in my emotionally scarred life, "The Sixth Sense."

"...do I make her proud?"

[Zookeeper]

118. Big Fish made me cry...

and I don't cry easily at movies.

[sakabatou]

119. Can it be short movies,

music videos or the such?

[Skittles]

120. the ending of MY DOG SKIP

*SNIFF*

[noonwitch]

122. Ordinary People

The part where the kid calls his friend's house and is told she committed suicide is just so heartwrenching. The ending is too, when the mom ends up leaving because she can't deal with emotions at all.

[Tracer]

123. Four Weddings and a Funeral

The Funeral part, where actor John Hannah gives that moving eulogy with the W. H. Auden quote.

A guaranteed Kleenex moment.