Films that make you cry.

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

I love watching old films.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Little Women--Beth dying. Was in bits.

Oh yes Shelbel . The Yearling with Gregory Peck.

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

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

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! ?

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.

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

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

Truly, Madly, Deeply - every time.

Beaches with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey ?

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

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The Bridges of Madison County .

Oh me too!

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

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 .

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.............

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.

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.

The Bridges of Madison County .

"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.

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.