<p>Titanic! (idk if it was mentioned before) and the color purple is also sad at times, ok, most times</p>
<p>I just watched Marley and Me again and sobbed!! Think i cried more reading the book but the end of the movie had me crying.</p>
<p>Castaway - I won’t lie. I cry every time I see him lose “Wilson.”</p>
<p>Only other movie that ever made me cry like that was “Old Yeller” when I was a kid. :)</p>
<p>^^ xSlacker…all I have to do is look at my D and say “…WILSON, I’m SORRY!!!..” and she covers her ears and runs away, that part made her so sad…</p>
<p>The Constant Gardener</p>
<p>Not exactly a tearjerker but the saddest most haunting movie I ever watched. I won’t give away the ending but it stayed with me for days afterwards. Watch it just for the love story between a diffident Ralph Fiennes and a gloriously pregnant Rachel Weisz alone, but be careful, the political and corporate corruption story will enrage you…</p>
<p>The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.</p>
<p>I’m sorry but I have avoided anything with Tom Hanks after wanting to walk out of Forest Gump.</p>
<p>A movie that hasn’t been mentioned yet, is one of my favorites for cinematography, but also is sad + has a young Sam Shepard & Richard Gere.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t really call it a tearjerker, but it is somber, almost melancholy.
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<p>For heaven’s sake, this is CC. So the answer has to be the movie talked about a few pages ago - Love Story. My first exposure to Harvard, “legacy”, etc. I knew of Radcliffe long before any of the other Ivies.</p>
<p>For me it is “Somewhere in Time” and “Always”</p>
<p>And just for today – I just watched 1776 and when they call the names and the men sing the declaration and they freeze into the Trumbell painting, I just weep.</p>
<p>^^^Opps. Too late to edit. That should be sign the declaration. Not SING.</p>
<p>lololu, that movie grabs me exactly the same way. Also the moment when John Adams sings “Is anybody there? Does anybody see what I see?” In his wildest dreams, could Adams et al have possibly imagined that the great experiment would still be lurching along after 235 years? </p>
<p>I just learned that the “Cool, Collected Men” number was excised from the released theatrical version because President Nixon saw it before release during a private screening and was Most Displeased. Thankfully, the footage was deleted but not destroyed, and could be restored to go in the laserdisk and DVD versions.</p>
<p>One of the things that I love about that movie is that it shows just what HARD work democracy is. I often think that if we could take Congress, set them down in that one room in Philadelphia, in the middle of July, with no air-conditioning, flies, etc. we would have a whole lot less ******** and get a lot more done.</p>
<p>I have never seen 1776 because the song “Mama Look Sharp” just kills me. An a cappella group on my campus sang it and drove me to sobs in the audience. Ditto the song “Traveling Soldier” by the Dixie Chicks. I listen to the rest of that album all the time, but I can’t hear that song without crying.</p>
<p>“Dumbo” ought to be classed with “Sophie’s Choice” when it comes to appropriateness for children. Though I think it traumatized my mother almost as much as it did me. I don’t know what Disney was thinking.</p>
<p>I agree about “To Live.” Fantastic movie, but it will break your heart. Another great Chinese tearjerker is “Raise the Red Lantern.”</p>
<p>Does anyone remember a commercial from the late 80s – I think it was for long-distance service, or maybe Hallmark – showing brief vignettes of two little best friends growing up together? You see them playing dress-up and curtseying in front of a mirror…then in braids and roller skates…one in a hospital bed holding a newborn and her best friend leaning over her…finally they are middle aged and reconnecting over the phone. This ad KILLED me. I didn’t have a best friend like that and every image of the stages in a girl’s life was so beautiful and evocative.</p>
<p>If we are moving away from purely love stories, what about Huckleberry Finn and Hotel Rwanda?</p>
<p>I just saw America, America (Elia Kazan, 1963) and it was painful. Very moving. If your ancestors were late 19th/early 20th century immigrants, you might find it even more touching. (None of my grandparents had such incredibly horrible experiences in trying to get over here as the main character, a young Greek man, did!–the story was loosely based on the life of Kazan’s uncle).</p>
<p>Anyone seen Pele the Conqueror? (Danish-1987) This film gave me the same feeling. Just about everything goes wrong for the main characters. So depressing, but, in a sick way, sort of inspiring how much abuse and bad luck a human being can take–and still survive, still hold on to a dream.</p>