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Films that make you cry.

(66 Posts)
Shelbel Sun 02-Jan-22 16:37:06

I mean the o es that you can't watch unless you're alone.

Mine is A. I. Its so sad, his longing to be real and wanting the 'mother' to love him. It's rather like the Pinocchio story but really emotional.

GrannyGravy13 Sun 02-Jan-22 16:39:37

Millennial Man, gets me every time.

I also cried at the latest James Bond, No Time to Die.

MissAdventure Sun 02-Jan-22 16:41:05

The green mile.
Goodnight mr Tom.
Edward scissorhands.

I don't watch films much.

MissAdventure Sun 02-Jan-22 16:41:44

Dumbo and Bambi, too, of course!

MissAdventure Sun 02-Jan-22 16:44:22

Educating Rita.
I really wanted her and the professor to at least have a fling...

TerriBull Sun 02-Jan-22 16:52:53

Watched Saving Mr Banks again recently, that always makes me cry.

GrannyGravy13 Sun 02-Jan-22 16:56:32

MissA I forgot about Goodnight Mr.Tom I have watched it this week, yes I cried. Also Goodbye Mr. Chips (the Martin Clunes) version.

Basically I am a blubber

MissAdventure Sun 02-Jan-22 16:59:59

grin
I'm fairly blubby myself these days.
My daughter used to tell me I had ice cubes in my veins when I laughed at her my my mum for crying at 'surprise, surprise'.

Josieann Sun 02-Jan-22 17:00:24

I'll join the blubbing.
Schindler's List
The boy in sritped pyjamas
Marley and me
ET

jandrayson2 Sun 02-Jan-22 17:02:25

It's a Wonderful Life with James Stuart, I watch it every Christmas & It still makes me cry every Christmas. just love this old film.

Shandy57 Sun 02-Jan-22 17:02:50

I thought Terms of Endearment was extremely sad and I did cry.

NotAGran55 Sun 02-Jan-22 17:04:20

E.T. ?

Kim19 Sun 02-Jan-22 17:06:02

Petula Clarke/Peter O' Toole version of Goodbye Mr Chips cripples me every time. Still love the relationship they had though and regularly punish myself with the video.

MissAdventure Sun 02-Jan-22 17:07:06

I can't remember which actress it was who was asked it ET made her cry.
"Oh no, dear, I cant get sentimental about something that looks like a hoover pipe" was her reply.

Jezra Sun 02-Jan-22 17:10:00

The Colour Purple - a brilliant film that has me going through a myriad of emotions. Has me in floods of tears at the end.

LilacChaser Sun 02-Jan-22 17:10:41

The Elephant Man - every time.

Blondiescot Sun 02-Jan-22 17:14:05

Very, very few, to be honest - my daughter reckons I'm made of ice! But I will admit to shedding a tear at Marley and Me and Black Beauty - and the only film I've ever cried at in the cinema was Watership Down.

Yammy Sun 02-Jan-22 17:50:10

"A River runs through it." When Brad Pit,s character is murdered and his father asks which hand was crushed and it was the hand he cast his fishing flies with. Also, the end is when his brother is fishing alone remembering all the family who has died.

tiredoldwoman Sun 02-Jan-22 17:50:11

The Bridges of Madison County .

Mattsmum2 Sun 02-Jan-22 17:52:18

I blub at a lot of films, especially children’s ones. Also some marvel ones get me going. It’s not sadness, sometimes it’s jyst happy tears.

TerriBull Sun 02-Jan-22 17:55:25

A film from a few years ago, Million Dollar Baby with Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank, I had a good blub in that, apropos of her character dying, I think.

Oh and Bambi, Dumbo I was very young 3 or 4 in Bambi, apparently I howled the place down, anything to do with animals dying or being treated cruelly always had me grizzling.

HowVeryDareYou Sun 02-Jan-22 17:58:47

Goodnight Mr Tom
Ghost (the end bit)
Big
Stella Dallas (Barbara Stanwyk)
Dumbo (the original, not the new version which I hated)
Bambi
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Schindler's List
The Pianist

I cry at a lot of things, actually.............

Mogsmaw Sun 02-Jan-22 18:02:34

I only watched the last 10/15 mins of “Deep Impact”and was in floods of tears, twice. Both times when babies were being handed over. Gets me every time!
Second both A.I. And Bicentennial Man.
Also the end of The Ghost And Mrs Muir. Only need to see the last scene despite it being ridiculous, classist and excruciatingly sentimental. Floods every time .

Lucca Sun 02-Jan-22 18:07:18

tiredoldwoman

The Bridges of Madison County .

Oh me too!

The railway children .”.daddy my daddy….”

muse Sun 02-Jan-22 18:10:38

I could name quite a few but latest one was A Boy Called Christmas.