Films that make you cry

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Just finished watching "Cool Runnings" - I blub everytime they carry the sled over the line.

Also most war films, esp "Went the Day Well" and "Carve Her Name with Pride"

[Domitianus]

The Ninth Configuration, starring Stacey Keach, is magnificent. It makes me cry so much I am beyond tears!

[Ultraconsultancy]

Anyone who doesn't cry buckets when Salvatore watches the reel full of kisses at the end of Cinema Paradiso, has a heart of stone. Similarly when the flower girl realises who the tramp is at the end of City Lights.

[Domitianus]

Can we extend this to literature? The moment when Scout recognises Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird. Or, movie-wise, when a young Macaulay Culkin comforts Tim Robbins character in Jacob's Ladder.

[Narnia]

Ultraconsultancy Wrote:

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> Anyone who doesn't cry buckets when Salvatore

> watches the reel full of kisses at the end of

> Cinema Paradiso, has a heart of stone. Similarly

> when the flower girl realises who the tramp is at

> the end of City Lights.

This is my absolute all time favourite. I hope you have seen the directors cut as it's about an hour longer than the released version and only adds to the story.

PS I refer to Cinema Paradiso

[Domitianus]

The bit in one of the Rambo movies when he growls "WE want our country to love us, as much as we love it!" Chokes me up every time. At least I think it is tears, could well be laughter.

[Michael Palaeologus]

A Canterbury Tale, not because it is a sad tale but because it harks back to more innocent times.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh I love that film too and always cry at the organ playing. Glue man is very creepy though.

[PeckhamRose]

It's a Beautiful Life. I cry for how life could be.

The Glenn Miller Story. The actress who played his wife, June Allyson, when she hears he's disappeared, and the flypast, I'm welling up as I write.

[lozzyloz]

It's a Beautiful Life

Manon Des Sources

[Michael Palaeologus]

Bizzare this, but whenever I watch the end of the Dads Army film I fill up. Bunch of silly old farts prepared to do their best to save dear old Blighty.

[Clazza]

Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, Top Gun

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Antwone Fisher, Green Mile, Titanic (sorry!), The Bodyguard

[SeanMacGabhann]

Final scene in merry christmas mr lawrence with Tom Conti and Beat Takeshi...

Scene in Smoke where the "short story" has Tom Waits 'Innocent When You Dream' playing

Most of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset

Oh - and Beautiful Girls - with Tim Hutton, Uma Thurman, Natalie Portman and whole lot more

[Brendan]

What about Watership Down? When I was a kid it was one of those films that the folks would put on for the kids to watch to keep them occupied when they were bbqing or having diner parties or whatever suburban parents did in the 80s. I don?t think they ever watched it themselves they just thought it was a happy happy cartoon about bunnies.

In reality it emotionally traumatised a whole generation of kids.

[mightyroar]

Hear hear Brendan

I watched it in exactly such circumstances. Very sad. But also really scary! What's that really tough old rabbit- Sergeant or something that is in charge of the prison camp warren or whatever it is that they get stuck in.

That is one scary rabbit.

and of course bright eyes at the end to make you cry

[Annasfield]

When Goose dies in Top Gun ;-)

[East Dulwich Angst]

When John Coffey gets the chair in The Green Mile

[Annasfield]

No, when Mr Jingles gets squished

[SimonM]

The Dam Busters

The very last scene with the butterfly in "Elvira Madigan"...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

When James Cagney gets the chair in "Angels with Dirty Faces"

[Ultraconsultancy]

Declan - I've seen three or four cuts of Cinema Paradiso, and I think the shorter one is by far the best; I really don't like the one where he goes off to find the girl. Isn't it supposed to be about how life doesn't provide answers? The stroy Alfredo tells about standing outside the girls house for 99 nights is the same thing.

Fantastic date movie tho. Guaranteed.

[PeckhamRose]

When Bambi's Mum is shot. Oh gawd here we go....

[missd]

Life is Beautiful - my favourite film

[Rolo Tomasi]

One hour, 12 minutes, 37 seconds into "The Crying Game"