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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.

bookwormbabe Wed 05-Jan-22 12:49:35

Titanic.

MayBee70 Mon 03-Jan-22 15:59:06

shysal

I recorded 'Last Christmas' last week and had a good cry when I watched it.

I watched it the other night and was quite disappointed. But then I rewatched it and loved it. I might even watch it again, and I don’t often rewatch films.

Sarnia Mon 03-Jan-22 15:25:12

Spartacus with Kirk Douglas and Jean Simmonds. The bit where Spartacus is being crucified and she holds up their son so he can see him for the first time.

Anniebach Mon 03-Jan-22 10:08:24

Always. When Richard Dreyfuss’s ghost dances with Holly Hunter.

Truely,Madly, Deeply.

Good Night Mr.Tom.

Casablanca, when Bogarde says‘we’ll always have Paris.

Ro60 Mon 03-Jan-22 09:25:30

Forest Gump - such a brilliant film but I won't watch it again - so moving.
The Railway Children is on tv right now - just turned over can't bare any more sadness.

shysal Mon 03-Jan-22 09:17:01

I recorded 'Last Christmas' last week and had a good cry when I watched it.

SkyBird Mon 03-Jan-22 09:05:53

Random Harvest with Greer Garson & Ronald Colman. Gone with the Wind. Two of my Mum's favourite films.

MaizieD Mon 03-Jan-22 09:03:55

The Railway Children every time, and The Incredible Journey.

Apart from them I have a heart of stone....

Jaxjacky Mon 03-Jan-22 08:52:17

Railway Children is on this morning BBC1.

DillytheGardener Mon 03-Jan-22 01:51:28

Stepmom, Love Story, Kramer vs Kramer, (the lion king, mine watched on repeat and the death scene always made me ?) Titanic, Mrs Doubtfire (another of my boys favourites)

Grandma2213 Mon 03-Jan-22 01:22:20

Quite a few of the above but ET always gets me, especially since I saw a documentary that said the last scene was actually the last scene they filmed and was therefore the end of filming and they were all then moving on. Apparently those tears were real. sad

Esmay Sun 02-Jan-22 23:35:34

Having read the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert any film about the cruelty of Nazis makes me weep .
I'd add Sophie's Choice to Schindler's List, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Pianist .

I can't watch The Color Purple again .
It haunted me for days .
Ditto The Green Mile .
I howled through the sad bits in Bambi as a child and my daughters howled through the sad bits in ET .
As the other film goers were being disturbed my mother took me out of the cinema and years later I had to take my girls out of the cinema !!!

Lexisgranny Sun 02-Jan-22 22:05:09

Oops sorry posted in wrong thread!

Blossoming Sun 02-Jan-22 22:00:49

Yes, that scene in The Railway Children, especially since I lost my own father.

Sweetpeasue Sun 02-Jan-22 21:38:39

LullyDully Watched West Side Story yesterday and I was howling even though I'd seen it at least 6 times. Brilliant combination of Bernstein'music, the story and beautiful lyrics.

3dognight Sun 02-Jan-22 21:33:23

MissAdventure

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

I went to work once after watching it one Christmas- I was a snivelling mess!

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.

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

The Railway Children does it for me too.

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

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

West Side Story always gets me and Sleepless in Seattle.

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

E.T., Philadelphia, Stepmom

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.

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.

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.

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

The way we were