Films that have made you cry, or have put a lump in your throat

Original Highlander-where the lead characters first love asks him why he never left her always makes my eyes water.
Watership Down-the last scenes.
Schindlers list-shot in cold bleak black and white-the sheer horror of the subject matter.
 
I am awful the slightest thing sets me off.

Dying Young
Terms of Endearment
LegenRAB of the Fall
Philadelphia
The Green Mile
Notting Hill (especially when From The Heart by Another Level plays - can't even listen to the song without blubbing)
Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (just watching it again on ITV3 !!)
Titanic (sets the whole family off :o )
My Girl
Beaches
 
All the usual ones - I cry at every weepie going.

The most unusual I've ever cried at is ROBOCOP - the bit where he tells his wife he doesn't know her and she's wrong about who he is when despite the machininess (it should be a word!) of him he still loves her:o
 
Even though the movie was terrible compared to the others I still cry at the scene where Ripley jumps into the furnace. The music does it for me especially the part where everything shuts down and the sun rise over the planet.
 
Me too! I also find Bed of Roses sad (also starring the actress who played Watts) i think its the fact that she's had such an awful upbringing and because she has never been loved by anyone that she cant accept that Christian Slater loves her and keeps trying to push him away.

(i also find a tear welling up that you are in Nigel Harmans bedroom - sob - why not me?)
 
The Champ - when the little boy is trying to wake him up. I become inconsolable.

Anything with animals in it - I'm awful if I think an animal is going to die. Turner and Hooch fgs had me in flooRAB.

It's a Wonderful Life - everytime I watch it, I'm determined not to cry at the end, and then before I know, the tissues are reduced considerably and there's mascara all over the place :o
 
I forgot about United 93.

That film really gives you a better understanding of the full extent of the tragedy of 9/11 in a way that isn't cheap or melodramatic.
 
Many British war films, which have scenes of quiet and noble sacrifice (e.g. the empty rooms/places at the dinner table at the end of The Dambusters, several points in Ice Cold in Alex).

Most of Amelie really seems to make me cry - it's that music.

A lot of children's films really can put you the emotional mill: the ending of The Railway Children, Babe (the music again!) and ET.
 
Theres tons of films i can think of. One i cried most at was probably the end of Gorillas In The Mist. And the ones which left me thinking and upset, Forrest Gump, Ghost and The Green Mile.


Just caught the end of The Champ on TCM, and that is incredibly sad. "Wake up Champ!" :cry:
 
Where to start....

Field of Dreams - baseball with Dad
Stand By Me - the milk money story
It's A Wonderful Life - 'to my brother George, the richest man in town'
Four Weddings and a Funeral - the funeral
The Shawshank Remption - when Red reaRAB Andy's letter
Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King - basically the last 30 minutes I'm an emotional wreak...
 
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