<p>I think Schindler’s List is the only movie where I actually sobbed. I thought I had made it but than those last two scenes…I was done for. I’m not a big crier.</p>
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Awakenings
Kiss of the spider woman
Lorenzos Oil
Passion Fish
Tuck Everlasting
Against all Odds ( dont judge)
My Girl
Elephant Man
Mask
Crash
Hustle & Flow
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Silkwood.
( i just noticed Cher is in two of those movies) 
So many movies make me cry & not just the writing!</p>
<p>Everything makes me cry. I can cry over commercials. (Oh, look, the nice woman brought the crossing guard stuck out in the rain a cup of Maxwell House. sob)</p>
<p>My H “never” cries. The only movie I ever saw him cry over (well, he went out in the backyard so I wouldn’t see it) was “Big Fish” which he watched right after his father died.</p>
<p>Rory McShea was here. <3</p>
<p>I always start sobbing near the end of The Sixth Sense, when the boy talks to his mom in the car…the part when he talks about seeing the grandma, and asks his mom what the question was, because the answer is “Every Day”…Oh I could start crying right now.</p>
<p>Ive never seen Big Fish, but Eddie Vedder can make me cry, especially when I listen to the lyrics.
[Man</a> of the hour - Big Fish- Pearl Jam -](<a href=“Man of the hour - Big Fish- Pearl Jam - YouTube”>Man of the hour - Big Fish- Pearl Jam - YouTube)
Not only did my dad die very young- but Eddie Vedder only knew his father as " a family friend" until after he died, also young.</p>
<p>A movie that is sad but empowering to me is The Color Purple.
A movie that is tragic & overwhelming is Hotel Rwanda.
We saw Slumdog Millionaire while our 18yr old was traveling in southern India. Which made me tear up in recognition of how far away she was.</p>
<p>Into the Wild is very sad, not just Vedders beautiful soundtrack, but knowing that Chris Mccandless may not have died if he had got beyond the squeamishness of eating meat that had maggots in it.</p>
<p>Leo McGarrys funeral on the West Wing ( McGarry was played by John Spencer who died a few days before his 59th birthday)
[The</a> West Wing: Leo’s Funeral (Original) - YouTube](<a href=“The West Wing: Leo's Funeral (Original) - YouTube”>The West Wing: Leo's Funeral (Original) - YouTube)</p>
<p>wow Charly - are you referring to the movie about the mentally disabled man who gets better with an experimental drug and then regresses? That is an old one but I remember sobbing in the theatre as a teenager.</p>
<p>Old Yeller, the Incredible Journey, War Horse- I cry almost anytime there are animals involved.</p>
<p>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</p>
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<p>I kinda wish I had just stopped after that opening because it was just so darned good and emotional. The rest of the movie was fun, but didn’t have nearly as much impact. Toy Story 3 for the same part everyone else is talking about got both my girlfriend and I to tear up.</p>
<p>I’ve probably seen Apollo 13 about a billion times by now, but it still gets to me.</p>
<p>The movie with the metal patients that would only wake up when given that medicine was Awakenings. I recently saw another movie, The Music Never Stopped, which has a similar impact. It’s a great movie, with a really fantastic soundtrack.</p>
<p>What chokes me up more than movies is seeing or reading about the heart-wrenching tragedies of real people, even ones that lived long ago.</p>
<p>For example when I first read the 2000-year-old Latin inscription below I got a little weepy - made worse because my own “incomparable” daughter was 15 years old at the time I read it. So I knew exactly what is must mean to the grief-stricken Roman parents who paid to have this stone inscription erected:</p>
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UMBRICIAE AFILIAE
IUSTAE VIXIT AN XV
MENS VII DIES DECE
A UMBRICIUS MAGNUS
ET CLODIA FELCIITAS
PARENTES FILLIAE INCOMPARAB
QUOD PIA PARENTIBUS FACERE
DEBUIT MORS INTERCESSIT
FILIAE FECERUNT PARENTES</p>
<p>“For the gods and for the ancestors of Umbritia Justa, daughter of Aulus.<br>
She lived 15 years, 7 months, 10 days.
Aulus Umbritius Magnus and Clodia Felicitas her parents to their incomparable daughter.
That which a dutiful daughter should have done for her parents, death intervened, so
the parents did it for their daughter.”</p>
<p>In other words, death has pre-empted what a dutiful daughter should have done for her
parents (i.e. bury them), so they’ve had to do it for her instead.</p>
<p>I agree coureur, some of the most poignant stories are taken from real life.
Awakenings, Into the Wild, The Elephant Man, and another one that is so sad, my book group refused to read it even though it is beautifully written- The Sweet Hereafter based on a school bus tragedy in Alton Texas. ( the movie stars Sir Ian Holm)</p>
<p>RacinReaver…just watched The Music Never Stops online a few weeks ago. Had never heard of it. Glad I decided to give it a look. It was really good…and sad.</p>
<p>Another real life story that was a gut wrenching teary eyed movie was" The Impossible".</p>
<p>Gallipoli - an older film by Peter Weir about World War I. Utterly hopeless tragedy and yet, preventable too.</p>
<p>I cry at everything. And I mean the ugly cry, not just a few tears. Which is why I seldom watch movies. When I do, I usually do it at home to avoid embarrassing myself. I especially can’t handle anything involving animals or children. I sobbed uncontrollably in Titanic, not because Jack died, but because the “lower class” mother and her kids were trapped in the bottom of the boat. And Bambi just breaks my heart.</p>
<p>Beaches
Love Story
Steel Magnolias
Charlotte’s Web</p>
<p>Musicmom, yes, the scenes below decks where the old people are in bed dying together, the mom with her children.</p>
<p>Oh, yes, and the original Miracle Worker…does anyone not cry when Helen says wah wah?</p>
<p>I make a distinction between touching movies that make you cry but at least have some, if not a lot, of happy/amusing parts, like Marley. But others are so intense and have no comic relief at all; just really dark. These are like:</p>
<p>Boy in Pajamas
The Grifters (Jon Cusack)
Road to Perdition (Tom Hanks)</p>
<p>Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage & Elizabeth Shue was heart wrenching in a sad and depressing way. Great performances and soundtrack … Movie still bothers me to this day.</p>
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<p>You definitely are not the only one. I had just had a miscarriage when I saw the opening montage and when it showed them preparing the nursery and then sitting in the doctor’s office crying? Egads, I’m crying now just remembering it.</p>
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<p>I not only sobbed during the sinking, I went home and tossed back a shot of whiskey to calm my still frazzled nerves. It was that it really happened, you know?</p>
<p>I have never not cried at the end of “It’s a Wonderful Life”. And I’ve seen it scores of times.</p>