Movies that made you cry?

[JCoatsworth]

Inspired by @Wildfly 's thread Books that made you cry?

What movies made you cry? Was it happy or sad cry?

Here are mine:

Happy
Jurassic Park

Sad:
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
The Lion King

 

[Samuel Reyes]

Toy Story 3 is the first one that comes to mind. Sad, but also happy, since they ended up with a new owner who was going to take care of them.

 

[GwenRaiden]

Dumbo
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (do documentaries count?)
As Good as It Gets
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

[Skanky Vamp]

I don't think I ever have. I thought for sure a recent movie would make me cry and it didnt. Creed did make my eyes mist over a little- and that surprised me.. but I don't think I ever cried.

 

[white avenger]

"Goodbye, My Lady." It's an old movie about a boy in the old rural South who finds a champion Basenji (that's a very special breed of dog, for those who might not know) Boy and dog bond, then the rightful owner shows up and takes his dog back. The title refers to the trait of Basenjis of actually crying when they are upset. I saw that movie once, a long time ago, with no idea how it was going to end, and was left in utter shock when the dog was taken away.

This is one of the very few movies that I absolutely refuse to ever watch again, or read the book on which it was based.

 

[Mr Trick]

I cried more at films when I was a kid when I was younger than now, but Inside/Out did move me a lot.

Honey I Shrunk the Kids (the Ant scene😱)
Big
Home Alone
INLAND EMPIRE (strange choice I know, but the end I find really powerful)
Scrooged
Dumbo

 

[JCoatsworth]

Interesting choices. But I'm surprised I'm the only one so far who mentioned Schindler's List. I was under the impression that this is being considered one of the most powerful films in cinema history.

 

[Mr Trick]

Interesting choices. But I'm surprised I'm the only one so far who mentioned Schindler's List. I was under the impression that this is being considered one of the most powerful films in cinema history.

It may well be but I'll be honest I still haven't seen it. Certainly a worthy and devasting story, great cast, I just don't trust Spielberg with that sort of subject. Will take a look at it sometime though.

 

[JCoatsworth]

It may well be but I'll be honest I still haven't seen it. Certainly a worthy and devasting story, great cast, I just don't trust Spielberg with that sort of subject. Will take a look at it sometime though.

Spielberg gets criticized a lot for making a movie about a thousand people who survived instead of the millions who died. But, to be honest, making a movie about the holocaust doesn't seem to have been his intention in the first place. It's a rather hopeful film, in a way.

 

[Mr Trick]

Spielberg gets criticized a lot for making a movie about a thousand people who survived instead of the millions who died. But, to be honest, making a movie about the holocaust doesn't seem to have been his intention in the first place. It's a rather hopeful film, in a way.

Well filmmaking is all about selection. I don't mind picking an uplefting message as long as its delivered in a sensitive and credible way. With United 93 Paul Greengrass was bascially celebrating human spirit in the face of the most extreme threat and plessure and did a fantastic job, it was a really movie film.

 

[PassionBecoming]

As I said in the other thread, any movie where an animal dies gets me all teary. The first one I remember bawling during was Old Yeller. We watched and read it in second grade and I was a mess.

 

[Mr Trick]

Oh yeah! On that note Turner and Hooch!😛 In fact I heard an interview with Tom Hanks where he said that it was actually his idea to kill poor little Hooch off😱

 

[JCoatsworth]

As I said in the other thread, any movie where an animal dies gets me all teary. The first one I remember bawling during was Old Yeller. We watched and read it in second grade and I was a mess.

Oh, yeah. Animal deaths usually get me pretty good as well. They don't really make me cry, but kind of choked up. Even if it's something like this. That's actually my favorite scene from the movie, believe it or not.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Oh, yeah. Animal deaths usually get me pretty good as well.

I agree.. that's the part where I almost cried in Star Wars.. when Chewy died.
 
Sorry.. didn't mean to spoil anything.. just forget I said it that way you can be as shocked as everyone else when it happens.

 

[Fuffy Baith]

Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
Mulan
A Walk to Remember (I cried in the theatre)
The Book of Life (also cried in the theatre)

Sometimes the oddest things will get me all teary eyed

 

[SlayerFest]

The Rugrats Movie - sad
The Shawshank Redemption - sad
Inside Out - happy

those are the top 3 that come to mind ha...

(but *a lot* of movies/things in general have made me cry....)
 

Certainly a worthy and devasting story, great cast, I just don't trust Spielberg with that sort of subject.

Can I ask why? I haven't seen it either to be honest ha but he is such a versatile director so yeah I'm just curious as to what you mean 🙂

 

[Taake]

INLAND EMPIRE (strange choice I know, but the end I find really powerful)

I felt more like sitting in a dark corner and rocking slowly back and forth for a while. Then to re-watch and re-watch and re-watch... x infinity

 

[Mr Trick]

The Rugrats Movie - sad
The Shawshank Redemption - sad
Inside Out - happy

those are the top 3 that come to mind ha...

(but *a lot* of movies/things in general have made me cry....)
 


Can I ask why? I haven't seen it either to be honest ha but he is such a versatile director so yeah I'm just curious as to what you mean 🙂

Yeah Inside Out got to me too, such lovely film!

I think Spielberg is at his best when working as a genre direction, and when his films are reasonably light hearted adventious such ET, Jaw, Raiders of the Lost Ark etc... When he tackles more dramatic and serious subjects his films become too maniplitive, shallow, and melodramatic. That is my concern with SL but I would like to see it.

I felt more like sitting in a dark corner and rocking slowly back and forth for a while. Then to re-watch and re-watch and re-watch... x infinity

Don't get my wrong I had that reaction too, as I do with most his films, but there something so emotive and beauty about the merge of pure colour, and powerful music, plus the layers of images within that final sequence which overwhemed me with emotion. Something simliar was happening in the conclusion of Fire Walk with me just slightly different emotions.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Disgust and outrage were the only emotions that filled me after Fire Walk With Me. Disgust that they soiled the vibe of Twin Peaks with that movie (rather than shelving it when MacLachlan said he only wanted to do a guest appearance and not be the star) and outrage that I actually sat and watched it.

 

[Mr Trick]

Disgust and outrage were the only emotions that filled me after Fire Walk With Me. Disgust that they soiled the vibe of Twin Peaks with that movie (rather than shelving it when MacLachlan said he only wanted to do a guest appearance and not be the star) and outrage that I actually sat and watched it.

Didn't soil it at all went in totally different direction, the film was distinctly differently visually than the show, and was more extreme with its content and genre. That's just what they needed to do. MacLanlan was hardly in it because the film was set before Palmer's death, so it made no logically sense for him to have a large role. Besides, in another thread you said you actually quite liked it, so I don't know where this is coming from.