Best tear jerker movie

[hatredisnotavalue]

I just watched Girl Interrupted for the tenth time. I just lost it again at the ending. Frankly, I cried pretty much through the entire 2/3 of the movie. I knew what was coming, but I just sat their blubbering. Why do I do that to myself? But I feel better that I had a good cry. Why is that? What's your favorite tear jerker.

[LostinVA]

1. "Neverland" and "A River Runs Through It"

[hatredisnotavalue]

2. Really?

I haven't seen either. I will certainly rent them when I want a good cry! Thanks

[Maddy McCall]

3. A River Runs Through It.

:thumbsup:

Also, Terms of Endearment.

[LostinVA]

9. TOE was one I almost put down -- that does it, too

[lost-in-nj]

56. Neverland

You are right

Wow.

lost

[Susang]

4. Joy Luck Club

I defy anyone to watch this film without tearing up.

[LostinVA]

11. OOOH -- good one

[lost-in-nj]

57. Yup

I would defy anyone to watch it to and not tear up
Wonderful

lost

[Cannikin]

5. Showgirls

[AlCzervik]

14. thats the movie i use to judge all other bad movies by.

"Is it Showgirls bad?"

[terrya]

6. "Longtime Companion"

It's a movie about friends, lovers and loss. There's one scene where one of the characters is telling his lover to "let go" as he's dying of AIDS. I cry everytime I see it.

[unsavedtrash]

13. I thought about that movie too. Also, Love Story gets me every time. n/t

[Blue-Jay]

7. Radio Flyer always gets me.

also A League Of Their Own, for some reason.

[stanwyck]

41. Ah, so I'm not the only one!

I always cry at some point during "A League of Their Own" and thought I was the only one! I've been validated. It's rare for me to cry during movies...but I tear up whenever I see that movie. I watched it once on one of the Turner channels back when they had these two charming and goofy hosts...it was Dinner and a Movie. They cooked a meal during the breaks and talked. And they were actually a lot of fun. I think the woman's name was..Annabelle? Anyway, they had as a guest one of the women who was in the women's baseball league. She was so delightful. She worked in the film industry in the '40's in California and she played in a league -- then was selected for the short-lived women's baseball league. And I loved how at the end the real players took the field. As a woman who came of age just as Title IX was going into effect, I really am touched when I see how far females have come in sports.

[petronius]

8. The Dirty Dozen

:)

[JackBeck]

10. "What's Eating Gilbert Grape".

Gets me every time.

[martymar64]

12. Ponette

That movie would make Tom Landry cry.

[DainBramaged]

15. City of Angels

[WCGreen]

16. Crash.....

[QMPMom]

17. My Girl.

I pretty much start crying during the opening credits.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

18. I'm going to go back a bit

To 1959, Imitation of Life is the film and it's about race.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052918/

Lana Turner is horrible in it but the basic theme of this film is heartbreaking.

A young girl who can pass for white (Susan Kohner) wishes to be white and deny her dark-skinned mother (Juanita Moore). The amazing Mahalia Jackson has a cameo.

Wait for the end. If you don't respond to Susan Kohner's performance, you ain't human.

[lost-in-nj]

58. I was watching this

one day and my daughter came home and watched it with me.
We both cried buckets and she ALWAYS talks about it and asks me if I know when it will be on again because she
missed the beginning .
Wonderful movie


lost

[cmkramer]

62. Catch the 1934 original if you get a chance

It's even better. It stars Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers who many people thought should have gotten at least an Oscar nomination.. The actress playing the daughter who is trying to pass was a very light-skinned black actress named Fredi Washington.

The plot is different in that Claudette Colbert becomes rich because Louise Beavers gives her a pancake recipe that she first uses to open up a restaurant and then ends up packaging a la Aunt Jemima.

Incidentally, Susan Kohner's sons are Chris and John Weitz of "American Pie" fame.

[lost-in-nj]

66. This is the one we saw

we always say "is the Aunt Jemima movie on?" because that is what it reminded us of.
This is the only version I saw, maybe I should look for the other one!



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[cmkramer]

73. The irony

According to Donald Bogle who is a leading expert on the black cinema - Louise Beavers hated kitchen work and especially loathed pancakes. And publicity pictures always showed her with beautifully polished and manicured nails

We used to debate which version was better - the original or the remake? The original is better in terms of acting but it doesn't have the glamour or the glitz of the re-make. Nor does it have Mahalia Jackson singing in the choir!

[IntravenousDemilo]

19. Old Yeller

I mean, come on...

[terrya]

37. That is a good choice.

Oh, yeah, I remember "Old Yeller". :cry:

[Lex]

20. "The Times of Harvey Milk" - a documentary -

during the candle-light vigil after his murder at the hands of homophobic freeper-type. Makes me weep everytime.




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[VelmaD]

21. Steel Magnolias

Where the Red Fern Grows

Those two just slay me.

[Lisa0825]

23. I second Steel Magnolias... also, My Life....

I cry every time I see Steel Magnolias... the funeral scene, up to the "Hit Weezer" part.... OMIGOD - no other movie has given me more emotional whiplash... from sobbing to hysterical laughter! The movie was brilliant, and will always be in my top 10 list.

My Life, with Michale Keaton... This movie came out the year I lost my father... everytime I see it, it takes me a day to recover. The sweet sadness of knowing someone is dying, and trying to relish every moment... it is so painful to watch, but so cathartic too... like witnessing my own loss from the outside.

[VelmaD]

24. As Dolly's character said...

"laughter through tears is my favorite emotion" :)

[Lisa0825]

26. Yeah. that's a beautiful line. (nt)

[opiate69]

22. The Champ.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078950/

[Lisa0825]

27. I was a kid when I saw that....

I probably only understood half of it, but I bawled. :cry:

[opiate69]

28. Same here!

Maybe it's just because I was a kid, but I haven't ever actually cried because of any other movie. A couple have gotten me close (Hotel Rwanda springs to mind), but no other one has ever put me over the edge like that one did.

[lost-in-nj]

60. Champ, Champ

Wake up champ!!!!

ugh i forgot about this one....
Heartstrings almost broken

How about the Earthling???

lost

[Hosnon]

25. As much as I hate to say it: The Notebook.

I can't make it through the end of that movie with dry eyes.

[stranger81]

29. Blue and Tout les Matins du Monde

[stranger81]

30. oh, and Magnolia too . . . .

[krispos42]

31. "Life is Beautiful"

Lost it in the last few minutes. In a theatre, none the less.

[OllieLotte]

32. Brians Song

[ruiner4u]

33. Boys on the side...

Whoopie singing while the camera pans over the empty room makes me gush..


Oh and Schindlers List.. I had to watch that in high school and almost lost it when they showed the little girl in the red coat..

[blonndee]

72. OMG me too!

That scene is heart-rending. "You Got It."

Every time I look
Into your loving eyes
I see a love that money
Just can't buy

One look from you
I drift away
I pray that you
Are here to stay

Anything you want
You got it
Anything you need
you got it
Anything at all
you got it
Baby

Every time I hold you
I begin to understand
Everything about you
Tells me I'm your best friend

I live my life
To be with you
No one can do
The things you do

I'm glad to give
My love to you
I know you feel
The way I do

Anything you want
You got it
Anything you need
you got it
Anything at all
you got it
Baby

[GenDem]

34. "Dr Zhivago" is an epic tear jerker

I haven't seen it in quite a while, but it has always remained on my list of great movies. And it will make you cry. The music score is pretty powerful, too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. "The Kid" by Chaplin. No shit.

The scene when they haul the kid away must be THE most tearjerking scene in the history of cinema.

[kevsand]

65. Chaplin was king.

The ending of "City Lights" knocks me down every time, too...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

36. To Kill A Mockingbird

Never fails to move me although I don't watch it often enough

[Lumily]

38. What Dreams May Come.

I've only been able to watch that movie twice. It just kills me.

[mcscajun]

39. "Somewhere in Time"

It was enough of a tear-jerker when I first saw it, and now, after Christopher Reeve's passing? Doubly so.

[begin_within]

40. "Tokyo Story," "Au Hasard Balthazar," "El Norte" and "Daughter from Danang"

All four pack an emotional wallop.

[mondo joe]

42. Field of Dreams; Joy Luck Club; A League of Their Own; Urbania

"Hey, Dad, you wanna have a catch"

[anarch]

43. First Blood

[blondeatlast]

44. Dumbo, Old Yeller, Ordinary People. nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

46. And Bambi. You have to have Bambi in there. n/t

[blondeatlast]

54. Of course. "Baby Mine" is probably the most plaintive song ever written. Ouch! nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

45. Old Yeller! I can't watch that movie. It is just too sad. n't

[VALibby]

47. Glory.

[VALibby]

67. oh and Moulin Rouge

[CBGLuthier]

48. Grave of the Fireflies

There is no more heartbreaking film and if their were I wouldn't want to see it.

[judaspriestess]

49. Moll Flanders for me

its so sad but such a great movie.

[Danmel]

50. Field of Dreams

always makes me cry even though I've seen it 100 times. The last line of To Kill A Mockingbird "Atticus would be there all night and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning"

Just in case you think I have unresolved Daddy issues (I really don't- I speak to Dad every day)

Brian's Song, Pride of the Yankees

(OK- now you think I have an unresolved sports issue)- not really though I like sports more than most 46 year old Jewish women-)

I also think Edward Scissorhands is a sweet sad movie- makes me cry like a baby

I always tell my husband he has the perfect wife- not materialistic or high maintenance, a sports fan,a good liberal, a really good cook and I'm the same weight I was the day we got married 19 years ago!

[Bzzzz]

51. Love Story

.

[salin]

52. Terms of Endearment

[Liberal Veteran]

70. Yeah....that's my choice.

I can hold it in pretty good until the death scene and Shirley McClaine's performance in that scene just starts the waterworks.

[hatredisnotavalue]

53. Rabbit Proof Fence was another one that made me just weep n/t

[Little Wing]

55. World Trade Center just made me fight off some tears

:shrug:

[lost-in-nj]

59. Mine

Powder
Armageddon
Hook (Oh, there you are Peter)

My list is endless..... :)
Steel Magnolias
Finding Neverland
The Red lantern
Joy Luck Club
In the Gloaming
And the band played on
I hate to admit it but
Finding Nemo, Land Before time and Anastasia all choke me up to :7
and many more

lost

I forgot Glory....awesome

[kimsterdemster]

61. Shindler's List n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

63. All Mine to Give

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050112/

:cry:

[kevsand]

64. Shadowlands

It's the story of C.S. Lewis and his wife, Joy Gresham. The 1993 theatrical with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger (directed by Richard Attenborough) is very good, but the version that absolutely slayed me was the original 1985 BBC TV production with Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom, which I saw first (on PBS?), many years earlier.

[bikebloke]

68. Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Not a real tearjerker, but nice. Just saw it this evening. And Robert Carlyle did a good job. And he wasn't the usual psychotic maniac.

[oustemnow]

69. Butt Sluts 29

Well, something was jerked, anyway, and it reulted in fluid. Does that count?

[blonndee]

71. Sorry, but Good Will Hunting

I ALWAYS cry when Will says, "I don't love you" AND when he drives off "to see about a girl."

[Doctor_J]

74. Hard Times

When Chaney gets on the train at the end and Speed and Poe are in the car, it makes me cry like a baby.