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Films that make you cry.

(67 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.

suep1953 Sun 02-Jan-22 18:15:03

Beaches with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey ?

MayBeMaw Sun 02-Jan-22 18:43:33

Truly, Madly, Deeply - every time.

annodomini Sun 02-Jan-22 18:45:21

Truly,Madly, Deeply. There's a scene in which Juliet Stevenson weeps so convincingly I can't help joining in.

Jaxjacky Sun 02-Jan-22 18:50:32

I can’t think of one, I suppose because they’re not real.

Georgesgran Sun 02-Jan-22 18:57:57

I can’t watch The Green Mile. I’ve seen it a few times and went from needing a tissue to using a towel. I’ll never watch it again - I’ve no idea why I put myself through it!
Tear up at ET, Beaches and quite a few others - and anything with animals usually gets me going too.

Sweetpeasue Sun 02-Jan-22 19:28:17

So many here already mentioned. Just to throw in something different - - - - anyone remember WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND
Ive watched it a few times and it always gets me. The innocence of children who think it's Jesus in the barn! ?

Shelbel Sun 02-Jan-22 19:39:36

I just remembered another one - The yearling, when I was a child.

MissAdventure Sun 02-Jan-22 19:41:12

All of the Lassie films.
Her limping along... going home.

Sweetpeasue Sun 02-Jan-22 19:42:44

Oh yes Shelbel . The Yearling with Gregory Peck.

Sweetpeasue Sun 02-Jan-22 19:43:59

Little Women--Beth dying. Was in bits.

Kc55 Sun 02-Jan-22 19:57:08

Love Story - Saw at the cinema with a tough rugby player who asked me on a date back in the 70's. I was a mess and then I looked over and so was he. I still find it hard to watch Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias. Beautiful performances in both films. And any film where the dog dies.

BridgetPark Sun 02-Jan-22 20:02:34

I dare anyone to watch The Dollmaker with Jane Fonda and not cry. Its absolutely heart wrenching, but a wonderful film.

Lexisgranny Sun 02-Jan-22 20:08:21

Amongst the traditional type of items I inherited was a large box full of old prayer books and bibles of a size designed to carry around with you. All items have been inscribed, mainly in beautiful copperplate handwriting, and go back a number of generations. Many are names that I have only heard of on our family tree, and several of the prayers books have a narrow silver edge and clasp.

Also included are small religious books that were given to children on their confirmations by the clergyman who prepared them for it. My grandmother lived in a town and my grandfather in a village, the didn’t know each other til their late teens. I am 99.9% certain that they didn’t realise that they were confirmed in the same church on the same day, which I discovered from the appropriate inscriptions.

The box remains in the loft, I really don’t know what to do with them, no-one in the family is particularly interested, and I don’t want to dispose of them. Now and again I take them down and look through them, it’s is a lovely feeling of continuity.

Redhead56 Sun 02-Jan-22 20:13:02

Whistle down the wind I remember Hayley Mills in that. Good night Mr Tom is one of my favourites. Fly away home is a lovely film and I cried laughing watching Leap year with Amy Adams. There are more I cried buckets over just can't remember the titles.

MayBee70 Sun 02-Jan-22 20:13:42

Oh crikey. I’m going to have to go through the tickets I’ve saved from years of going to the cinema to try to remember which ones resulted in me not being able to leave the cinema straight away because I was in floods of tears. I know Brokeback Mountain was one though. Life of Pi might have been another. UP had me in floods of tears at the beginning of the film. Ditto The Belstone Fox when I saw it at the cinema decades ago. Bambi, of course. There was ‘that’ excerpt from it on tv a few months ago and I was traumatised for hours afterwards. The bit in Last of the Mohicans where Alice dies. And, not a film but the bit in the Gemma Arterton tv series of Tess of the d’Urbevilles where the flag goes up at the prison.

Marydoll Sun 02-Jan-22 20:47:17

Going My Way. I always cry at the end.
How Green Was My Valley.

I love watching old films.

chelseababy Sun 02-Jan-22 20:59:00

The way we were

Yammy Sun 02-Jan-22 21:00:03

Kc55

Love Story - Saw at the cinema with a tough rugby player who asked me on a date back in the 70's. I was a mess and then I looked over and so was he. I still find it hard to watch Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias. Beautiful performances in both films. And any film where the dog dies.

I forgot about Love Story Kc55, the bit where she is dying and she tells Ryan O'Neal to screw[see] Paris for her I was with a tough Rugby player at the time as well, he laughed and we've been married for nearly 50 years.
Also, Dr Zhivago when he runs along the street after Lara and falls down dead with a heart attack.
An officer and a gentleman", because the heroine gets her man in the end.Tears off the end of my chin.

foxie48 Sun 02-Jan-22 21:03:28

Out of Africa made my friend cry so loudly the man in front of us at the cinema turned round and told her to shut up! ET makes me well up, I just love that film and Doctor Zhivago also makes me feel a bit teary.

Nell8 Sun 02-Jan-22 21:03:51

The Remains of the Day with Anthony Hopkins brings a tear to my eye at the sense of waste and missed opportunity.

The scenes in the dog pound in Disney's Lady and the Tramp used to set me off.

Sapphire24 Sun 02-Jan-22 21:06:42

E.T., Philadelphia, Stepmom

LullyDully Sun 02-Jan-22 21:12:09

West Side Story always gets me and Sleepless in Seattle.

3dognight Sun 02-Jan-22 21:14:41

As someone else said on The Railway Children, when the oldest girl (Jenny Aguter) runs towards her father at the station and says “daddy, my daddy “
Well I’m tearing up just typing!

Any of the films of my childhood watched now will create floods -

Sky West and Crooked

Three Three Lives of Tomasina

Incredible Journey.

bambi of course

Grandmadinosaur Sun 02-Jan-22 21:16:58

The Railway Children does it for me too.

MissAdventure Sun 02-Jan-22 21:24:29

Wow!
I went to see the Thomasina film at the cinema when I was very young, and cried my eyes out.