Movies that make grown women cry...

cjmcork

saw this in the Gentlemen's Club.........not sure if there's something similar here, but sure, thought it might bring up some fun suggestions!

one of my few, cos I'm tough like! is Fly Away Home (on TG4 at the weekend) - the scene when the geese just fly over when the Mary Chapin Carpenter song starts..........always gets me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCjlubLJcxk&feature=related

Silverfish

The Iron Giant -

"Superman!"

Life is Beautiful

And not a movie but the ending of Six Feet Under had me with a lump in my throat.

Platoon

Asphyxia

- Marley and Me
- P.S I love you
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Time Traveler's Wife

bigtuna

Juno and Beaches. Everytime!

metrovelvet

Cinema Paradiso
La Dolce Vita
Wings of Desire
It's a Wonderful Life

newbee22

My Girl
The Notebook
Armageden
My Sisters Keeper

Tayla

Stepmom.....every time!

I put it on when I have blocked sinuses

unepetite

Harry Potter.

Yep. Doesn't take much to trigger my emotional incontinence.

krudler

I dont know a girl who made it through the beginning of Up without getting a bit teary eyed.

ztoical

The never ending story when the horse dies....seen the movie hundreds of times and know the horse is alive again at the end but it makes no difference.

liah

Up gets me choked up, and most movies involving a dog that gets wounded or killed (Old Yeller, My Dog Skip, Turner and Hooch, I Am Legend :pac:, the lot of 'em). Ring of Bright Water gives me the ol' lump in the throat, too.

Cried at 5am after a loooong night out on various substances during the time of the month while watching Sigur Ros' Heima, does that count? :pac: In that state I was just shattered by the sheer beauty of it all. It was tears of happiness, or something, though not quite happiness.. not sure how to describe it at all. It just struck me, I suppose.

Sometimes a particularly realistic depiction of something heartfelt will choke me up, but for some reason I can't think of anything offhand.. I can think of a few TV shows that can get me choked up (Skins when Chris

dies

, a couple early episodes and the final episode of Scrubs, etc), but not films, oddly. But there are a few!

I tend to be pretty empathetic but only when it's realistic, I can't be empathetic towards anything overly saccharine or soppy or unrealistically romantic etc. Not sure why.

baby and crumble

UP
Wall-E
Toy Story 3
All Dogs go to Heaven

Pretty much every animated movie, it would seem!!!

Mollikins

The Green Mile always makes me cry bucketloads.
Especially when

they are about to execute John Coffey and one of the guards is putting the hood over his head and he says to Tom Hanks’ character ‘Please boss, don’t put that thing over my face, don’t put me in the dark. I’s afraid of the dark’.

There are other moments in the film that really get to me but that part always has me in tears.

Veronica Guerin made me cry loads when I saw it too. I suppose it because it’s a true story.

There are probably loads more but those two come to mind straightaway. I cry more at sad films than I do at sad real life stuff.

wonderingabout

Marley & Me, Hachiko (A Dog's Story), Wall-E, & The Notebook.
Im A Bit Of A Cry Baby, Doesn't Take Much To Set Me Off! Dog's Get Me Everytime Without Fail!

LenaClaire

Steel Magnolias and this is embarrassing...Moulin Rouge.

Lia_lia

A movie has never made me cry.


Music seems to evoke a lot more emotion in me. I'm not completely heartless!

SarahBM

Up!
Toy Story 3
there are others that I just cant think of right now.
Veronica Guierin
An Affair to Remember

wait they are coming back to me now

The first time I saw Moulin Rouge I balled

I would probably cry more after a tv show though

rannerap

krudler wrote: »

I dont know a girl who made it through the beginning of Up without getting a bit teary eyed.

so true I cried for a lot of that film, anything in any way sad tends to make me cry, even tv shows, I went to see conviction yesterday and he ending made me cry, I came out looking like a panda

cjmcork

Forrest Gump - saw it as a teenager and thought it was hilarious - watch it now as an adult and I just bawl...........

krudler

Sarannewrap wrote: »

so true I cried for a lot of that film, anything in any way sad tends to make me cry, even tv shows, I went to see conviction yesterday and he ending made me cry, I came out looking like a panda

That shot of him sitting on the church altar holding a single balloon made something appear in my eye...

rannerap

krudler wrote: »

That shot of him sitting on the church altar holding a single balloon made something appear in my eye...

The whole start was just brutal and then everytime he mentions her didnt help either! amazing film though

liah

Sarannewrap wrote: »

The whole start was just brutal and then everytime he mentions her didnt help either! amazing film though

The soundtrack has a lot to answer for, too, everytime I hear the opening notes if it comes up in my playlist I get sad

Giselle

Up... I haven't really watched it past the first twenty minutes, because the part where the elderly man kisses his wifes photo destroys me.

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas...I feel emotionally exploited, and irritated that it works. The ending, although predictable, wrenches me.

The Wrestler... Mickey Rourkes abused face reflects his abused soul. Brilliant.

Brokeback Mountain...A story of thwarted love and lives half-lived, heartbreaking scenes at the end.

Million Dollar Baby...Clint Eastwood emotes from every crease in his lived-in face.

American History X... I love a tale of redemption.:)

A Beautiful Mind... sometimes its perfect to be imperfect.

Theres so many more I can't think of. I generally dislike those films that are designed to hit girl buttons, like The Notebook, as I feel behind the obvious manipulation they're pretty bad movies usually. God, I HATE Steel Magnolias!

rannerap

liah wrote: »

The soundtrack has a lot to answer for, too, everytime I hear the opening notes if it comes up in my playlist I get sad

Its for that reason I didnt put it on mine! :P

desolate sun

I watched In America over Christmas and that film was so heart wrenching. I normally am OK with sad films but throughout most of it I had an awful lump in my throat. It's so sad

Blush_01

I'm a total sap when it comes to movies.

The worst movie I've ever seen in terms of crying was I am Sam. I watched it with my sister and we both bawled from beginning to end. I've cried at almost everything though - and as someone who's not really a crier it shames me every time.

krudler

Theres so many more I can't think of. I generally dislike those films that are designed to hit girl buttons, like The Notebook, as I feel behind the obvious manipulation they're pretty bad movies usually. God, I HATE Steel Magnolias!

theres a formula for movies like The Notebook:

Das Kitty

Like others have said; the start of Up and the end of Toy Story 3.

Every year the bit about Tiny Tim and the ducks in the Muppet Christmas Carrol gets me. Even this year I said to myself here it comes now ha ha. Then wham I'm all teary. Damn you kermit and your line delivery! I always cry at the same two points in It's a Wonderful Life as well. Every year.

There was one film though that had me crying on and off for a week afterward and I defy anyone to get through it without at least misting up. It's Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about his Father. It's months since I watched it and it's still affecting me. It tore my heart out.

krudler

Toy Story 3 is a great example, the ending is brilliant, dont know how anyone couldnt be affected by that. "Thanks guys" indeed.

Dudess

- Atonement
- Brokeback Mountain

The latter had me in an awful state - couldn't leave the cinema for ages...

LambsEye

Atonement
Love Actually
Ghost
Eat Pray Love (I'm not pride of this, but Billy Crudup does the heartbroken husband so damn well.)
The Notebook (Natch,)
The Green Mile
Too many episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer to mention


But honestly I will cry at ANYTHING

As good as it Gets: "You make me want to be a better man." Ooof. Instant bawling.

Dudess

Requiem For A Dream - more horrific than sad, but still so, so sad...

cheesefiend

I Am Sam and A Beautiful Mind got me.

Dudess

Of those lavish old weepy melodramas - Imitation Of Life... :eek::(

EverEvolving

Love Krudlers post about the Notebook formula, I remember reading a review of it saying it was like the director had tear gas emulating from the screen.

It got me anyway, my bf didn't know what was wrong with me, think it was the first time he had seen me cry!!

vicecreamsundae

Beaches

Steel Magnolias

Dumbo, oh my god, so much, when his mom has her trunk outside the bars of her cage and is rocking him in it :,(

merlie

Apart from the one's that vicecreamsundae mentions, the other ones I find that make me cry are,

Now Voyager starring Bette Davis
Forever Young starring Mel Gibson
Somewhere in Time starring Christopher Reeve
The Lake House starring Keanu Reeves
Love Actually ( I won't be watching that one again as it caused me to say, to my new bf at the time,now my ex now, that I loved him and I blubbered down the phone to him!! Grr!!

and even though the whole movie doesn't make me cry, its the scene at the Christmas tree near the end in, Home Alone 2, Lost in New York, it makes me cry every time.

CaliforniaDream

I cry at every remotely sad scene in a movie. I love animated (Disney/Pixar usually) movies - they always get me.

Movies that always make me cry are:
The Lion King
Up
Braveheart
Marley and me
The Notebook.

I know The Notebook gets tossed out there a lot but it's so personal to me that I cannot help but bawl my eyes out. I can't watch this movie with anyone as I literally go into convulsions.

The Sweeper

American Beauty. I find myself over-empathising with Kevin Spacey's character throughout. It doesn't help when I come up against folks who just think he was a pervert. There be rows, there be.

CathyMoran

Casper, When Harry Met Sally, The Railway Children - they are the ones that come to mind straight away - am not great at the really tragic ones (avoid watching them in the first place) as I know that I will get too upset and do not like that in a movie as a rule.

Das Kitty

CathyMoran wrote: »

Casper, When Harry Met Sally, The Railway Children - they are the ones that come to mind straight away - am not great at the really tragic ones (avoid watching them in the first place) as I know that I will get too upset and do not like that in a movie as a rule.

Do not, under any circumstances, watch the film I was talking about on the last page so.

cdaly_

I seem to cry at almost anything. Silently, secretly so my wife won't slag me...

Up!
Harry Potter (can't wait for Deathly Hallows part 2. Hell, I cried at the end of the book last week!)
Toy Story 3
Garage (with Pat Shortt, brilliant movie. Jeez, I'm even crying about it now...)

Emotional incontinence indeed...

Yep, Up and Toy story 3. Have seen Up three times and I have bawled every time. Like, seriously uncontrollably!

Beaches. The Green Mile. Shawshank Redemption. Crash. Miracle on 34th St. Song for a raggy boy, I was actually hysterical for ages after that one.

There are definitley others I can't think of right now....

mariebeth

Must watch UP soon...haven't seen it, but I haven't had a good cry during a film in awhile

I'm a sap, I'll cry at happy endings & I'll cry at sad endings.

Watched Secretariat last week and cried at the end because it was so happy

Other movies that make me cry:

Armageddon (even though I've seen it a gazillion times, I always cry)
Titanic - not so much anymore but the first time I saw it I cried for about 20 minutes after the end
Bambi
White Fang
Beauty & The Beast
A Walk to Remember - oddly enough I've never cried during the Notebook, even though I love the story

Marley & Me
PS I Love You (cried reading the book as well)


I'm sure there's loads more, but that's all I can think of right now!

I cry to everything, tbh... But I'll try to list some
Black Beauty
The Lion King
UP
Toy Story 3
The Crow
Pokemon 1, 5, 8 and 13
Che
And probably some others I can't remember right now.

mollybird

off the top of my head there are only

notebook, marley and me, p.s i love you. sure there are more but just can't think of them right now,

Malari

I must be hard as nails. I rarely cry at movies.

I did get a lump in my throat for Up.
I found King Kong upsetting, but I think that's more frustration & outrage when I see cruelty to animals!
I cried a little in the cinema for the first time in my life when I saw The Road. The bit where the father took all yer man's possessions after he stole from them.

I can't think of anything else!

kiwi123

Up
The Notebook
My Sisters Keeper (although I know it sets out to make you sad which bothers me)
Michael Collins
I am Sam
Into the Wild
Toy Story 3
Schindlers List (went to auschwitz and oscar schindlers factory with boyfriend and only saw the film after it - heartbreaking, couldn't watch the end of it)
Titanic - found out my grandad was dying when i watched it over christmas four years ago, always get emotional when I watch it now.
Also, I thought the wind that shakes the barley was super sad

Novella

I cry at all those typical romance-y type movies so, The Notebook, Dear John, PS I Love You etc. I don't think I cry at the movie, more so the thought of anything like that ever happening to me...

Other than that, The Shawshank Redemption, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, a lot of movies based on sad true stories.

neveah

Sad films make me cry easily but here are some that really had me bawling:

The Green Mile
Titanic
Romeo & Juliet
E.T
The Notebook
The Lion King
Bambi
Braveheart
Gladiator

cdaly_

kiwi123 wrote: »

My Sisters Keeper (although I know it sets out to make you sad which bothers me)

Never saw the movie but I cried at the book.