Films that make you cry

[fatfightersforever]

just saw once-sobtastic....

[Bellenden Belle]

Magnolia - great ensemble film which leaves you emotionally exhausted at the complexity of life and yet manages to capture the wonderful notion of serendipity in a shower of frogs! (Does that sentence make sense only to me?)

Good call on Beautiful Girls Sean - that gorgeous exchange on the ice rink - And I'll be Winnie The Pooh

to your Christopher Robin." Garden State, also starring Natalie Portman also managed to get me.

But it is theatre that usually gets me - most things by Owen McCafferty - particularly Scenes from a Big Picture; Conor McPherson's Port Authority... Laura Wade's Colder Than Here... wonderful quiet plays. And books - Augusten Burrough's Dry had tears running down my face, as did Jonathan Saffran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

And sadly... On Golden Pond works every time too!

[Ondine]

Missing (gave me lifelong devotion to Sissy Spacek), ET (the bit where ET seems to die gets me every time, had it at a sleepover and one of the kids cried so much I thought I'd have to send her home, Silkwood, Paris Texas

[Ultraconsultancy]

Oh yeah Ondine - "i knew these two people once..." ; the second most famous cough in cinematic history.

[fish]

The uncut version of 'Cinema Paradiso'. Absolute classic.

[Domitianus]

The Beast Must Die. Made me cry as it was so appallingly bad, truly grim 1970s horror B-movie.

[spadetownboy]

the saddest scene in a film for me, in the name of the father, when guiseppi dies and they throw all the burning tissue paper from the cell windows in to the prison yard to the sound of some irish lament, powerful scene.

[mockney piers]

Land & Freedom (Tierra y libertad) at the funeral where they sing the international. Brings a lump to my throat and I confess the room can get quite dusty.

[blinder999]

the end of 'The Butterfly Effect' (how embarrassing)

and Rutger Hauer's death in Bladerunner is a soppy one too.

[Keef]

spadetownboy Wrote:

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> the saddest scene in a film for me, in the name of

> the father, when guiseppi dies and they throw all

> the burning tissue paper from the cell windows in

> to the prison yard to the sound of some irish

> lament, powerful scene.

Good call! One of the saddest things about the whole sad affair!

[barrymarshall]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Land & Freedom (Tierra y libertad) at the funeral

> where they sing the international. Brings a lump

> to my throat and I confess the room can get quite

> dusty.

that one gets me too - the whole sorry affair of Spain in the Thirties in general, really

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

If it's songs in films that make one cry I have to bid for the "Marseillaise" in 'Casablanca' - gets me every time.

[Michael Palaeologus]

King Kong's death fills me up.

[Keef]

That used to always make me cry when I was a kid, loved both the original and the 70's versions. The recent effort was really poor though in my opinion.

[Muttley]

The Elephant Man. David Lynch's finest work.

[citizenED]

Secrets and Lies - mike leigh. So much in there about loss and human fraility. Naerly any scene where our Brenda is nerving her painful way towards an emotion has me near to tears - just the pain an the poor lass.