Films (or movies) which reduce one to a quivering mess of tears!!!!

[aabram]

I just left the house in tears after watching Pollyanna (again) and I was wondering what other films or movies left you in bits like Pollyanna does to me.

I have others on my list such as

Bicentenniel Man
Watership Down
Goodnight Mr Tom

and please don't cry until after you have watched them! :)

Love Annabel x

[sister rose]

The Color Purple http://smilies.vidahost.com/cwm/cwm/crying.gif
Fried Green Tomatoes
Cold Mountain


for starters

[aabram]

Love your "smiley", Lexa.

I found Cold Mountain too violent to watch it much, although I bought it in 2006, and I should watch it again.

Annabel

[sister rose]

yeah, it was very disturbing. The first time I only watched part of it, but, it had such a talented cast, that I finally got it out and watched it all the way through a few weeks later.

[TwinLori]

I'm not that old, but love classic movies...so here are some oldie but goodie tearjerkers that always make my eyes water:

The Wizard of Oz ("There's no place like home.")
An Affair to Remember (ah, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr)
It's a Wonderful Life (with Jimmy Stewart)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (another Jimmy Stewart classic)

Some more recent movies:
Ghost (Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore/Whoopi Goldberg are great)
Beaches (Bette Midler sings "Wind Beneath My Wings")
Bicentennial Man (a very underappreciated Robin Williams movie)

Strangely enough, I never did get or like "Terms of Endearment" as just am not a fan of Shirley MacLaine.

[aabram]

Some more recent movies:
Ghost (Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore/Whoopi Goldberg are great) .

Love Whoopi Goldberg but wouldn't say this is a film which brought tears to my eyes every time I watched it though



Bicentennial Man (a very underappreciated Robin Williams movie)


This is my favourite Robin Williams film. Thanks.

Annabel

[Sara]

Bicentennial Man (a very underappreciated Robin Williams movie)
I've seen "Bicentennial Man" twice now (the second time, on TV during Thanksgiving week), and was touched both times. I find Robin Williams both talented and warm-and-fuzzy. (I'm not referring to his over-abundance of body hair. ;))

[Marcia Drummergal]

The final scene in West Side Story......

Marcia :(

[Mary6906]

Yes, I'd agree with you on Watership Down, Annabel, I haven't seen that in years, but I remember when I first did, I cried.

I'm into the classics, too, so here are a few of my favorites that bring a tear to my eye when I watch them.

Beaches
The Color Purple
How Green Was My Valley
Imitation of Life
The Killing Fields
Schindler's List
Sophie's Choice
Sounder

[Eva]

I stay away from movies that make me cry. I also stay away from movies that scare me.

(Mary, I love your 'new' avatar :D)

Eva

[aabram]

Mary, there are bits in Watership Down which I just can't watch.... eg at the line "my heart has joined a thousand for a friend stopped running today" Everything stops, and the tears flow. :(.... I LOVE THIS FILM!!!!!

[dragonlady]

It's kinda crazy but I can cry at almost any movie...heck some commercials on TV can tear me up....I guess I'm just weird that way.

-di

[Mary6906]

Nah, Di, you're just a sensitive dragon.

[Sara]

For those who loved the movie, "Watership Down," I highly recommend the book. SO good, I had to find more by the author. "Watership Down," IMHO, is by far his best.

[BGG]

The final scene in the movie 'Without a Trace' (my all-time #1 blubbering movie scene)

Many scenes/lines in the movie 'Remember the Titans' (well, really any football movie where the team members and community come back from emotional devastation to be 'whole' again)

Though not a movie, watching Randy Pausch's Last Lecture gets to me when he has the audience sing happy birthday to his wife, Jai

BGG, still blubbering after all these years...

[Bat]

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Dead Poets Society, Dark Victory

[sister rose]

Men of Honor
Forrest Gump
Steel Magnolias

[Oak Kitten]

An HBO movie I saw several years ago starring Emma Thompson, called "Wit."
It is an adaptation of Margaret Edson's 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a renowned English literary scholar who finds her whole world turned upside down after she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. What makes it so powerful is her character's efforts to deal with her situation completely rationally and realistically, an approach that is emulated by one of the young doctors attending her as well. As the end approaches, there is a scene between Thompson and her mentor who comes to visit her at the hospital that just left me sobbing inconsolably. I was grateful to be traveling and in a hotel room by myself, with no witnesses. An incredible film.

Oak

[hoops]

i've had many moments within many films that brought a tear to my eye but just two i can think of that left me crying. the dollmaker, with Jane Fonda...sad as heck and Bent, i know Mick Jager had a tiny part in it but i can;t remember the stars. two men in Nazi Germany taken prisoner for different reasons who ended up together. i cried for days
peace
hoops

[Greener]

Bridges of Madison County gets me every time. Meryl Streep is so good with that whole 'having to choose between what you have that's safe, and what could be if you take a risk' It's so painful and hard to watch, although I think I would have gone with Clint Eastwood.

[DaveM]

"The Plague Dogs" (another from a book by Richard "Watership Down" Adams)
"Somewhere In Time"
"Kiss Of The Spider Woman"
"Brazil"
"Schindler's List"
"What Dreams May Come" (in large part because it makes me remember the book)
"Paths Of Glory" (tears of anger and frustration)
"The Bicycle Thief"
"The Princess Bride"
The "Life Lessons" segment of "New York Stories" (possibly the most intense depiction of the artistic temperament even put on film).
"Man Facing Southeast" (the Argentinian inspiration for "K-Pax" and lightyears beyond its imitator--get the subtitled version as the dubbed version is not at all well-translated).
"The Man Who Fell To Earth"

[Marcia Drummergal]

Hoops mentioned Jane Fonda and that reminded me of the movie, "Julia." Talk about a tear-jerker. Did somone already mention, "On Golden Pond?"

Marcia :)

[aabram]

I just watched Pollyanna again. The same bit got me again. Had to watch a comedy to compose myself.

[DaveM]

"The Orphanage".....gosh, what an ending.

[Elliott]

I just watched "The Children's Hour" on TNT.... I didn't see it coming until Audrey did! Very moving. This was the 1961 version.... loved the score too.

[aabram]

Just remembered, although Dragonheart was a children's film, I still cried at the end..... When will I learn to stop watching the weepies.... :rolleyes:

[angelgirl]

The ones that come to mind are;

Love Affair: Annette Bening & Warren Beatty. I think there was wonderful charisma between them captured in the making of this movie. Its a real weepie for me.

Gladiator (2000): Russel Crowe. The part that really gets me is when he returns to find his family have all been murdered. The music just gets me everytime!

And of course........ ET....... that bit where ET wants to go home. Bring out the tissues.


Angelgirl

[sky]

Life is beautiful,
Leaving Las Vegas,
The baby dance,
Prince of tides,
The accused,
Ghost,
Sophies choice
Philadelphia
Forrest Gump

Sky

[aabram]

Need to add Shrek to this list too. :D Particularly the bit where they fall out and "Hallellujah" is played.

[NinasSpaceChild]

There are so many.

All About My Mother
Imitation Of Life
Magnificent Obsession
It's A wonderful Life
Beautiful Thing
The Fruit Machine
Born Free

Loads more.

[Darlene]

The Man of La Mancha
Life is Beautiful
The Never Ending Story
The Point
Pet's Dragon
The Boy Who could Fly
The Day of the Dolphin
Sophie's Choice

[Wildflower Fever]

There aren't many for me, but...
"Life Is Beautiful"
"Pan's Labyrinth"
this may sound odd, but the ending of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" always gets me. Chief smothers MacMurphy with a pillow because he's now a vegetable, then escapes to his freedom while some sort of haunting Indian music plays on...

[hoops]

WFF, "one flew over the coo coo's nest" gets to me too. i remember the first time i saw it...it was before i was diagnosed with my mental illness...but i promised myself that if ever i was in that situation i would Never have ECT...which makes me wonder to this day...9 years later...why i ageed to have it.
another movie is Agnes of God..jane fonda was in that one too...
and since jane is on my mind...they shoot horses, don;t they...is heart wrenching
peace
hoops

[sky]

The pursuit of happiness
The perfect storm
the sixth sense
whats eating Gilbert Grape
untamed heart
Immediate family

Sky

[sky]

the movie Mask with Cher! That was a real tear jerker.

sky

[Wildflower Fever]

WFF, "one flew over the coo coo's nest" gets to me too. i remember the first time i saw it...it was before i was diagnosed with my mental illness...but i promised myself that if ever i was in that situation i would Never have ECT...which makes me wonder to this day...9 years later...why i ageed to have it.
another movie is Agnes of God..jane fonda was in that one too...
and since jane is on my mind...they shoot horses, don;t they...is heart wrenching
peace
hoops

This is the scene where Chief discovers they gave MacMurphy a lobotomy...

http://www.heyokamagazine.com/images/cuckooindian.jpg

[NinasSpaceChild]

[QUOTE=Wildflower Fever;101830]There aren't many for me, but...
"Pan's Labyrinth"
[QUOTE]

How could I forget Pan's Labyrinth. One of my favourite all time films.

[aabram]

I forgot another one. My Left Foot (Branda Fricker, Daniel Day Lewis). It makes me howl every time I watch it

[Roady]

The Pianist
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[marjan]

the green mile
bear

and any other film or documentary on Animal Planet or Discovey that involves animals

[hoops]

WFF, there are many things from my own life that I don't remember, still the scene after Mac gets ECT and the one after his lobotomy stick in my mind like needles. i just thank goodness lobotomy is not as widely practiceed as it once was...at least in the better US hosptials. i may look like MAC today...my sister who is a Pyschotherapist ( and shouldn;t be one), it turns out over 9 years later, had a lot to do with my ECT treatments taking place. dang what a way to lead your weak and psychotic sister...and cause i don;t remember anything about the time, i had to wait this long to find out the truth. wow! i was used!
peace
hoops

[aabram]

Batteries Not Included
Short Circuit

[trish55]

Any Lifetime movie. I thought I had found such a great guy recently he was embarrassed to tell me he liked Lifetime movies..I thought wow, there aren't many men like that how did I luck out and find one. Later I found out it wasn't such a great thing, he ended up in a mental hospital....don't know if it was me, him or the Lifetime movies.:ee

[hoops]

it was him trish... he was ill
peace
hoops