Your cry-like-a-baby movie?

[Bossy Monkey]

I was surprised to find that "Casablanca" doesn't quite do it for me like it used to, though La Marseillaise still gets me. So I guess it's "Field of Dreams" for me. And you?

[Haole Girl]

1. Out of Africa

:cry:

[Captain Hilts]

2. I also cry at La Marseillaise - sp? - the end of Mr. Roberts. nt

[Bossy Monkey]

14. Vive la France! n/t

[Orrex]

3. Schindler's List

Even the big dance number halfway through the film can't keep me from turning into a blubbering fool by the end.

[newcriminal]

4. Wendy and Lucy

I know this was just a small independent movie, but I really wish more people would have seen it. It is great. Well worth a rental fee if any of you find it out there.

[Bossy Monkey]

9. It's on Netflix

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Wendy_and_Lucy/70108546 I'm sort of planning to ditch Netflix when my current queue of MST3K DVDs runs out, but I'll certainly consider adding it.

[muffin1]

50. I just received my copy from Netflix.

Haven't watched it yet...I'm trying to work up my courage!
One that broke my heart was "My Dog Skip". The box art for that movie turned ne off for years. A friend of mine insisted I see it, and I'm quite glad he did. Check it out if you haven't already.

[newcriminal]

56. Come back and tell us how much you did or didn't like it.

[taterguy]

5. Breaker Morant

Although I guess a baby wouldn't quite understand why tears flow for anyone who watches that movie.

[CreekDog]

33. Hot Shots Part Deux

i'm mostly sad because i know there won't be Part Trois :cry:

[Bluzmann57]

6. Mask

Yes, Mask. I cried like a baby after seeing that movie. That kid was one of the coolest kids ever, even with his facial deformity and a wild ass biker mom. Cher was fantastic in that movie as was Sam Elliot. And in case we forgot, Eric Stoltz played Rocky Dennis, the courageous young man.

[newcriminal]

8. I love that movie.

Sam Elliot with his "free mustache rides" shirt makes me weak.

[MorningGlow]

7. It's a Wonderful Life

Every. Fucking. Year. :cry:

[Lionel Mandrake]

25. Wonderful? Sorry, George, It’s a Pitiful, Dreadful Life

At least, that's what WENDELL JAMIESON writes in the NY Times, December 18, 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/movies/19wond.html

Here is an excerpt:

"Take the extended sequence in which George Bailey (James Stewart), having repeatedly tried and failed to escape Bedford Falls, N.Y., sees what it would be like had he never been born. The bucolic small town is replaced by a smoky, nightclub-filled, boogie-woogie-driven haven for showgirls and gamblers, who spill raucously out into the crowded sidewalks on Christmas Eve. It’s been renamed Pottersville, after the villainous Mr. Potter, Lionel Barrymore’s scheming financier.

"Here’s the thing about Pottersville that struck me when I was 15: It looks like much more fun than stultifying Bedford Falls — the women are hot, the music swings, and the fun times go on all night. If anything, Pottersville captures just the type of excitement George had long been seeking."

Amen.

The boogie-woogie in the sound track is "Kaycee Feeling" by Pete Johnson. (His home town was Kansas City.)

[MorningGlow]

35. Poor, cynical Wendell, trying to get some attention in the vast stable of NYT writers

Wendell misses the point, Lionel. By a country mile.

[Lionel Mandrake]

38. He did, in fact, get some attention.

He recognized and rejected the majority viewpoint on this movie. Since criticism is not an exact science, Wendell's viewpoint is equally valid.

IMHO he didn't miss anything.

[MorningGlow]

39. Dude, this is a thread about movies that make you cry

I'm not going to get into an argument with you about such a personal topic--everyone is moved by something different. IMO, many people are moved by this movie, because it shows--and very well, I think--how individuals touch other lives in positive ways (ways that we may never even know), as well as shows the importance of love and mutual support in family, groups of friends, and community. I refuse to be a cynical person and roll my eyes at these concepts, which are the very foundation of creating a worthy life while we're here on Earth. I also refuse to criminalize sentimentality in order to be "hip".

So let's agree to disagree, shall we? Peace.

[Lionel Mandrake]

44. Point well taken. Peace. NT.

[CBHagman]

45. Tell it to Violet Bick!

And Harry Bailey. And Mr. Gower. And Mr. Martini. Hell, tell it to Uncle Billy.

Diehard IAWL fans will know exactly what I mean.

[Lionel Mandrake]

51. Alas, the actors who played those roles are all dead.

But Violet, Harry, Mr. Gower, Mr. Martini and Uncle Billy are still out there somewhere.

[pink-o]

10. Like their food, their art and their beautiful men and women, Italians get me every time!

Franco Zeferelli's "Romeo and Juliet". Vittorio Di Sico's Bicycle Thief".

And especially "Cinema Paradiso". Anyone who can watch that dry-eyed is no one I'd want for my friend!

[CBHagman]

52. I too am a victim of "Cinema Paradiso."

In fact the two movies I can think of whose endings caused me to cry uncontrollably were Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful.

[applegrove]

11. Missing, Platoon, Schindler's List, Terms of Endearment.

[Paladin]

12. "A Very Long Engagement" (n/t)

[bigwillq]

13. Brokeback Mountain

I cried during the last 30 minutes when I first saw it in the theater. I have watched it countless number of times since, and it still makes me bawl.

[Mad_Dem_X]

36. Same here.

The scene when Ennis finds the shirts - I cry buckets, every damn time.

[Glorfindel]

57. Me, too - I'll probably never watch it again

now that Heath is dead, the whole thing is just doubly heart-wrenching.

[MissDeeds]

15. Elephant Man

I was still sobbing an hour after it was over. It was a fabulous movie that I will never watch again. I saw Brian's Song when I was a teen and it had the same effect.

FYI - I often cry at Hallmark commercials, especially the ones they run during the holidays.

[_dynamicdems]

16. Amadeus and The Black Stallion.

In "Amadeus" it's the burial scene that does it. When they dump his body out of the coffin, it's just so heart-wrenching.

In "The Black Stallion" it's the race scene. The camera goes into slow-motion as blood runs down the horse's leg and then the scene turns into a flashback of Alec and The Black riding bareback on the beach. That gets me every time, even when I'm waiting for it determined NOT to tear up.

[onestepforward]

17. Philadelphia

[liberaltrucker]

18. Bryan's Song

It's a guy thing, OK????

:cry:

[RadiationTherapy]

19. Not very prone to crying, but Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

The leap from comedy to tragedy is powerful and wonderful.

[bluesbassman]

20. Born on the Fourth of July.

My dad (a decorated WWII vet who HATED the Viet Nam war) and I went to see it when it first came out. We both walked out of the theater in tears. First time I had ever cried with him or in front of him for that matter.

[sakabatou]

21. Never seen one but I made a few:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/1491103/5090994
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3883273/10582165
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/480180/2601920
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/392073/2326442

And my newest: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5722043/14990016

[Lionel Mandrake]

22. Bambi Meets Godzilla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCUBVS4kfQ

[Bossy Monkey]

37. "Wiggle your toe, asshole!" (Not you. Godzilla.) n/t

[proteus_lives]

23. Of Mice and Men.

Movie or book. I bawl like a baby.

[armyowalgreens]

24. Million Dollar Baby had me crying like a little bitch.

The euthanasia scene almost had me on the floor. I wanted to job off a tall building.

[KT2000]

26. Out of Africa

every time i see it.

[Missy Vixen]

27. Sleepless in Seattle

(Someone else already took my other cry-like-a-baby movie, "It's a Wonderful Life".)

The last five minutes -- the little boy and Tom Hanks, and he's clutching that little boy as tightly as he can and saying, "What if I had lost you? What if I couldn't have gotten to you? You're my family! Have I screwed it up for the both of us?"

Oh, yeah, I'm crying. Every damn time.

:cry:

[JCMach1]

28. Charlotte's Web, and yes AI

darn it!

[bridgit]

42. AI is one of the saddest movies ever made

:(

[JCMach1]

60. It also always makes me sad to see what Spielberg did to it

like watching a shadow of what might have been and then still balling your eyes out.

Could have been Kubrik's final magnum opus.

[Critters2]

29. The Perfect Storm, though Field of Dreams has been known to do it, too. nt

[laylah]

30. Dances With Wolves is just one of

many. But then, I cry at Hallmark card and Maxwell House coffee commercials :silly:

[proud patriot]

31. Fried Green Tomatoes

[WillParkinson]

32. Real men don't cry at the movies....

That's why I do mine at home.

A lot of movies and TV shows make me sniffle and well up. I cried when Snoopy Came Home, I cried when they shot Ol' Yeller. I cried when Tasha Yar died.

And the list goes on...

[Beer Snob-50]

46. one flew over the cuckoos nest

made me well up.

of course i went to that movie with a few of my male friends and it was hard for me to hide the fact that i did this.

mercifully, these same assholes are still my friends (30 something years ago i believe) and they had forgotten the episode.

[Orsino]

34. The Fifth Element

It doesn't really make me bawl, but I get a tear during Diva's performance--it's just that damned beautiful. Leeloo's sad epiphany does it to me, too.

[bridgit]

43. ^

[Coventina]

40. Dumbo

especially the "Baby Mine" scene.

I can't even hear the song without bawling.

Heck, I'm welling up just thinking about it.

[bridgit]

41. While a gorgeous sweep of human event & comedic relief; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon...

has several passages in it that bring tears to my eyes




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYbfvrO2Poc

[HamdenRice]

47. Hate to admit it: "Pieces of April"

I think it's a very under appreciated film. It went over my head the first time I saw it. It's very subtle, and the most important revelation of the film isn't even verbalized -- it's just registered on the face of the mother character played by Patricia Clarkson.

As a writer, I have to say it's one of the best written movies ever, and it was very brave of the screen writer/director to make the main point so subtly.

After that scene it's basically turn on the water hoses.

[elehhhhna]

48. all of the above plus Napoleon Dynamite, no kidding --

the music at the end while he's bashing that ball, somehow makes me cry. In a good way.

[TrogL]

49. Silent Running

[Monk06]

53. Ponette

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117359/

Couldn't bear to watch it twice. Just
too sad.

[hippywife]

54. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, believe it or not! LOL

The scene at the wedding with all the old Greek men at the bar having an uproarious time reminds me of all of my Italian great-uncles who used to make every family gathering an absolute blast. They're all gone now but one, and I've moved far away. I miss that generation of my family so very much. :cry:

[PAMod]

55. Miracle on 34th Street

When Santa speaks in Dutch to the little Dutch girl. Gets me every time.

[w8liftinglady]

58. several-boy in striped pajamas

[Whoa_Nelly]

59. An Affair To Remember

Cary Grant slays me every time :cry: