Movies that made you cry - Page 5

As a few people have mentioned Doctor Who already, the recent Vincent Van Gogh episode (Vincent & The Doctor) had me blubbing.

As for movies, The Fountain, Rocky and The Red Violin always get me.

To Kill A Mockingbird, specifically the scene where Atticus finds out that Tom Robinson was killed. I saw this film again last night and I got all weepy even though I've read the book several times, and even played Boo Radley a couple of years ago in a theatre production. The way Gregory Peck plays that scene is absolutely flawless, and beautiful and heart-wrenching.

NO....Laura Linney and Gere did good work in setting that moment up throughout the movie. Not a weird choice at all. Yeah, it's not a great movie, but I bought them and the way they approached things.

The beginning of "Up".

God damn that movie and the sadness it brings to me.

The endings of:
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Paths of Glory
City Lights

The penultimate scene of:
Paris, Texas

The opening scene of:
Up
Star Trek 2009 (there goes my credibility...)

Didn't mention that cos I thought it was just a given.

You have to have a heart of stone not to cry during UP's opening montage.

The ending to Children of Men made me bawl. I cried all throughout The Fountain, my eyes were slits as I stumbled out of the theater.

Lots of my heavy hitters have been named already, so I'll go with another...

This Is England.

The scene near the end where SPOILER Combo attacks Milky, the build up, the performances, the act itself... Left me utterly devestated.

Everything from that moment right up until the final scene set to Clayhill's cover of "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want", I just sat in complete shock, fighting it off.

While the credits rolled, I just sat there quietly listening to Ludovico Einaudi's music play. I rarely bother to sit through the entire credit reel but I needed to for this movie, I used the music as some sort of catharsis to let it out because I was such a wreck from what I'd sat through.

But I have no fucking idea why I decided to rewatch it again, a few months later, on an airplane. I was just a glutton for punishment there.

GATTACA: The movie was a love song/letter for me PERSONALLY.

THE KILLER: This movie move had me ballin'. I was 15 years old at the time.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION: Tears of joy. Damn good movie.

I'm not sure how anyone who is a dog person can make it through Marley & Me without at least welling up.

Where The Wild Things Are made me cry in the theater. I was eating weed muffins with a girl who is a good friend of mine the whole time, and by the end of it we were both in tears. What an amazing movie.

Searched the thread and it didn't seem to be mentioned. Maybe because it most likely is supposed to do it.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

Whatta fucking gut punch.

Requiem for A Dream -- Burnstein's monologue.

Leaving Las Vegas

Eternal Sunshine

The ending of 8 1/2 and La Strada

Far from Heaven

The Straight Story

The Assassination of Jesse James

Cries and Whispers

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Harakiri

COOL RUNNINGS

The Great John Candy: "A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without it ... you'll never be enough with it."
Derice: "Hey coach ... how will I know if I'm enough?"
The Great John Candy: "When you cross the finish line ... you'll know."

And then during their final run, the old sled getting loose suddenly, the commentator hollering, "... I don't think he's going to be able to hold it!" And then that crash. The horrible inverted slide down that long, long track when the swelling, dramatic score has suddenly cut out and all we hear is the crunching, grinding, tearing, violent scrape of metal on ice for what seems like an age.

And then silence. And then in slow motion, out of the blur, the feet of the paramedics running towards them in the distance.

And then, "Derice ... are you dead?"

And then, "No mon ... I'm not dead ... but I have to finish the race."

And then we're shown what The Great John Candy was talking about when we see the way those boys finally cross that finish line, carrying their rickety old sled on their shoulders to while all of the people who had doubted them and disrespected them and ridiculed them are now applauding them. And I'm a ridiculous mess.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Three different scenes.)

The Return of the King (The ending. There is only one of them. Don't be an ass.)

Toy Story 3

Up

Gladiator

HP6 (Wands in the air. Wasn't expecting to, either.)

25th Hour

The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist and Stand By Me. Every single one of them. Every single time.

The Majestic.

And, the king of making me bawl like a child: The Truman Show. Seriously, waterworks for half an hour at least every time I watch the damn thing.

Also, the Van Gogh episode of Doctor Who for sure. A blubbering mess of a human being I became, I tell ya.

The greatest slow clap scene of all time.
Interesting choice, as I've rarelty heard anything but derision for this film. I love it presonally and the scene that gets me is Carrey saying to a dying Landau, "I'm not...", then noticing Landau's fearful expression, "...ready to say goodbye." Carrey is really great in that scene.

I'm not saying the film is a masterpiece, but goddamn, its got some great scenes in it, the showdown in court being the high point.

E.T., damn that's a good movie.

The scene near the end of AMELIE, where she is alone with her cat thinking that her stratagems have backfired, always makes me cry. It is so sad and lonely, the future she is faced with in that moment.

Before my best friend died of cancer, I was a rock, man. Now? I'm a mess in any movie where longtime friends either bite it or go through huge experiences together. Return of the King, Saving Private Ryan, even goddam Star Trek 2. And don't even get me started about The Shawshank Redemption. When I watched Toy Story 3, the scene that got me was (SPOILER FREE) when Buzz takes Jessie's hand, etc. Powerful stuff.

Okay, since someone mentioned The Majestic, I guess I can admit this, but I always end up bawling by the end of Vanilla Sky (no "because it was so bad, right?" jokes, if you all wouldn't mind). The waterworks start when Kurt Russell gets his great acting showcase, where he tries to hold onto all he knows, I just loose it then because Kurt absolutely nails the emotional truth of that moment. All in all, I've always had a spot in my heart for the film (don't know what most chewers feel about it). I feel that it is a beautiful "cover" version of ALO.

I actually think Vanilla Sky just about beats out Abre Los Ojos - ive certainly watched it mroe times - with its constant mood of tragedy that hangs over the second half. I wouldn't say it makes me cry, but it does affect me deeply.

I was going to apologize for bumping, but noticed the last bump had a 2.5-year gap so meh...

• The Orphanage. Oh God, now I just bawl at the beginning, too.
• The beginning of Up, as others have said. When the balloons are released from their cloth I also get kind of teary.
• Grave of the Fireflies used to, but I haven't seen it since middle school so I don't know if it still would.

Not a film, but the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama. Jeezus, I was crying for like a day after that.

Edited by Iridia - 1/7/11 at 9:49am