Tear jerker films
 

Brianna inspired me by another recent thread, I got to thinking about movies that make me cry. There are some movies at which I've cried, in the theater, or at home. The ones at home are most often ones that I love enough to have purchased. Here's a list of movies that make me cry just about every time I watch them.

It's a Wonderful Life (absolutely reliable. every time)
Field of Dreams
What Dreams May Come
Big Fish
The Green Mile

That's a start. I'll check out the library at home to see if any others have slipped my mind. Of course, I'm sure there are movies I haven't seen yet that would move me. What films have you seen that are powerful, dramatic? Movies that get you again and again. Go on, I have the tissues right here.

The Notebook

Simon Birch

l123, you should check out Tuesdays with Morrie. To be honest, I read the book, and not this show, but the story is similar, and wrenching.

Grave of the Fireflies - I choked up within the first few minutes, the first time I saw it, and I'm a bit teary eyed just thinking about it now.

Lorenzo's Oil
That scene when she's holding her son and comforting him if he has to fly away.

Oh, and I've mentioned my love of this movie before, Truly, Madly, Deeply- the tears and struggle, and laughter of the lead actress amaze me. Its a performance I could watch and have watched many times.

I'll second "Grave of the Fireflies."

Also, and I'm embarassed to admit this, the M. Night Shyamalan movie "Signs." Overall the movie was pretty stupid I thought, but the scene with the wife all crushed by the car and calmly giving her husband instructions on what to tell the kids and how to go on living now that she's going to be dead... gets me every time.

i didn't get the tearjerker reaction from signs, but i really like that movie. i may have to go home and watch that now.

Cold Mountain
Love Actually - despite being a comedy
Big Fish
The Pianis

My ultimate tear jerker - The Cider House Rules - I pretty much cry though the entire movie.

Amazingly, despite being quite the avid movie-watcher, I haven't seen most of the above. Of course, my preference is for movies in which someone's head explodes ...

There are some movies, however, that do get me every single damn time. Even if I know it's coming. And they aren't even necessarily GOOD tearjerker movies.

E.T. (I have seen this movie only once, and despite my somewhat obsessive compuslive need to buy movies on video or DVD do NOT have this, nor do I plan to ... but I cried buckets in the theater. Luckily my friend's mom was prepared and started handing kleenex out at the proper moment, even without check to see if there was weeping going on)

You've Got Mail

I saw 3/4 of a horrid movie that my friend's daughter was watching, and got a bit weepy at the end ... First Daughter? Had that dude that played the army guy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in it ...

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Amazing Grace on Bagpipes is GUARANTEED to get me.)

Backdraft

Ladder 49

Anger Management (yes, really. The Ballpark.)

I think I cried seeing Braveheart.

I know I did when I saw Gladiator in the theater.

Wild Geese
Sophie's Choice
Shadowlands

I'll third Grave of the Fireflies. That movie was traumatizing.

Moulin Rouge.

oooh, I forgot about Moulin Rouge... that movie also has me crying from the beginning to the end.

I had completely forgotten about some of those scenes. Particularly Wrath of Khan. When I first saw it in the theater, I was all "Spock? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" /Darth Vader


Come to think of it, my lower lip gets wobbly at about half the movies I see. I'm a glutton for sweeping musical crescendos that correspond with things like dogs running towards their families, good guys winning, and gruff old men hugging their grandkids a la Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions. Although that was a nephew I think.

And at the end of LOTR, when Aragorn says to the hobbits, "My friends. (pause). You bow to no one." (kneels)

I bawled. And my eyes just got wet writing it. stfu.

I also like heads exploding in a fine red mist, though.

I think we are very alike, although I haven't seen Secondhand Lions.

Plucky side-kicks and partners who get killed halfway through an action film to provide motivation for the star to go kick some major ass despite his reticence to do so for the prior 47 minutes also make me cry.

You know, like Dirty Harry's partner, or the hardworking, disadvantaged youth that Chuck Norris always seems to know?