Most Tear-Jerking Movie?

This thread is Kiki (Katie)'s idea. She suggested a "tearjerking" movies thread, so...this is all her. I'm just getting the ball rolling.

Okay, I'm a very emotional guy. Very emotional. I cry at the drop of a hat. NOOOOOO! Don't drop that hat! Darn! Now look what you made me do:

Ahem.

Anyway...

I cry very easily at movies too, even if the movie isn't necessarily sad. So here are a few of the four-hanky movies that make me well up:

Love Story (1970) - yes, it's a corny, cliched film, but I just can't help blubbering at the simple plot: rich boy meets poor girl; rich boy marries poor girl; girl gets a disease; girl dies. I'm a goner right at the very beginning, when we see a huddled Ryan O'Neal sitting on the bleachers in the snow alone, reminiscing about his lost love, as the haunting theme from the movie plays in the background...

Schindler's List (1993) - well, the whole movie is extremely sad and depressing, obviously, but one of the many moments that stand out for me is at the end, when Schindler breaks down, wishing he could have saved more lives...

Carrie (1976) - yep, it's a horror film, and the director, Brian De Palma, is a master at toying with one's emotions; the prom sequence before Carrie's final rage is excrutiating, because we know what's going to happen, but De Palma stretches the scenes of Carrie's once-in-a-lifetime happiness with her dream date almost to the breaking point. The scenes of Carrie's awkardness at feeling "pretty" and slow dancing with her date are just so sad to me...

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - the scene where James Stewart tearfully prays in the bar always gets me, never fails...

There are many more, but I just wanted to start this for Katie. I'll add some more later.

Grave of the Fireflies - This film makes me absolutely miserable every time I see it. It's an amazing film, but it ruins me for the rest of the day. It's not a tearjerker, it's an overwhelming wave of depression.

Big Fish - I remember seeing this movie for the first and being absolutely mesmerized by the finale. And this film now holds an extra punch since my grandpa (who reminded me so much of the film's main character) passed away a few years ago.

Finding Neverland - Once again, the ending is a tearjerker.

Hey, but, but- you're the movie buff 'ere! Secondly, we discussed it together and all... I'm glad you made it though. ^^

I'm really emotional too Tony, don't worry! I don't cry over spilt milk, like if someone calls me names or what have you, and yet sometimes when I'm at home I'll cry fer no reason whatsoever! I think it's healthy, though- crying. People think you have to be sad about something, but that's not always the case. It's like the lyric's from that Joni Mitchell song, er, '...Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release...'.

ANYWHODIDOODLE...

Let's see...

Carrie (Stephen King got the inspiration of it from being a teacher and noticing the social pecking-order of students, I now it's not real but it just goes to show how cruel kids can really be), Cinema Paradiso (I adore the film, but it really chokes me up, I'm an emotional wreck by the end of it, it's so darn beautiful) and even though it's not a film I cried during one of the episodes of Degrassi High when Lucy visits LD who has cancer. It's kinda full-on, not sugar-coated whatsoever, really emotional stuff.

Grave of the Fireflies. It is an absolute masterpiece, but an incredibly sad one. Singer Angela Gossow from Melodic Death Metal band Arch Enemy wrote a song about the film called " The day you died" and claims she broke into tears writing the lyrics. I love sad anime films, as much as you can love sadness I suppose

More Brian De Palma...

Casualties of War (1989) - absolutely gut-wrenching Vietnam war film, based on a real-life incident, in which an innocent young village girl is abducted "for fun" by a bunch of weary American soldiers, led by a vicious Sean Penn.

Blow Out (1981) - contains an ironic, haunting, chilling and very downbeat ending; IMO, this film features John Travolta's best performance.

When I was a kid, The Fox and the Hound always tore me apart.

Nowadays, October Sky is another tear-jerker. The whole father/son/reaching for your dreams deal is very powerfully done (along with the violin-solo in the soundtrack).

I forgot about both of those movies. They really are sad.

Old Yeller (1957)!

Actually, any movie where animal violence is shown/implied upsets me...

Who doesn't cry at the end of Old Yeller? Gets me every time.
I also cry toward the end of E.T....I know he's going to live and get home, but I always tear up at the part when we think he dies.
I also...and I may be alone here, but oh well...cry my eyes out at the end of the original Rocky. When Rock goes the distance with Apollo Creed, he doesn't talk to the reporters, he doesn't brag about what he just did...he calls for Adrian. When she finally makes it to the ring, the first thing he says is "Where's your hat?" Rocky is so into her, that he notices her hat is missing...not look what I did, or how did I do, where's your hat? His performance during the fight is secondary to the woman he loves. I'm getting choked up typing right now. Sounds weird, but that scene gets me every time.

I definitely agree about Carrie. It's one of my favorite movies ever and a lot of the scenes are heartbreaking. Whenever I hear the theme in the beginning with the shower scene and then later when she's crying after the prom, I instantly fall into an unshakable depression.

Other movies that come to mind are The Green Mile, Of Mice and Men, Glory, My Girl, Edward Scissorhands, and All Dogs Go to Heaven. I always manage to get choked up at any of these.

Grave of the Fireflies-we knew what was going to happen the whole movie, and yet the tears still come gushing down.

The same applies to the tv movie/miniseries that aired years ago about Anne Frank (I don't know which one it was). The scene near the end with her father breaking down in the house they had stayed at is very upsetting and haunting. They had been so close to freedom.

OMG! How could I forget The Green Mile and Edward Scissorhands? Yes! Those two are extremely sad movies...my eyes are so red every time I see The Green Mile...but it is one of my favorite movies.

The Wizard of Oz (1939) - yeah, I get choked up at the end...

King Kong... that poor ape didn't see it coming. And those heartless opportunists. No, it wasn't beauty that killed the beast, it was showmanship and greed.

Plus, at the end of the Fat Albert movie where Bill Cosby and all the people that inspired the Junkyard Gang stand over the gravesite of the inspiration for Fat Albert... that brings a tear to my eye.

Hm, for the ones I haven't seen mentioned yet....

Beauty and the Beast. I don't cry at the end like I used to, though.

Field of Dreams.

Stepmom. I personally didn't like it, but it was a tear-jerker and my brother liked it.

Philadelphia, per my brother.

The Care Bears movie where the little girl at camp nearly dies and the villain is all remorseful.

Where the Red Fern Grows, similar to Old Yeller in "boy and his dog" sadness.

Pay It Forward. My brother said to just say "Haley Joel Osmond" movies.

Ghost Town (?) The one with the jerk dentist who sees dead people.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ... I'm a sucker for ghostly romances.

Ghost. The king of all ghostly romances.

Steel Magnolias.

Jack, with Robin Williams.

What Dreams May Come, another Robin Williams tear-jerker.

Man in the Moon, Jim Carrey's take on Andy Kaufman.

Bambi and Lion King kinda tie in my mind.

I've seen lots of movies that are depressing, but don't really instill tears in my eyes.

I don't cry often and almost never at "sad" movies.. I cry at very odd moments in movies.. more often at stirring triumphs than sadness.. like in the new movie Milk, I didn't cry where you'd expect me to, but my eyes did well up a bit when the board of supervisors passed Harvey's bill.. or in Ken Burns' documentary Baseball, I teared up when Jackie Robinson made the major leagues but not when Lou Gehrig died.. that said, I did tear up at the end of El Laberinto del Fauno

Exactly. Kong was an innocent, fighting prehistoric creatures and worshipped as a god on Skull Island; then he's taken out of his habitat by sleazes who should know better, and put on display as "the 8th Wonder of the World." No wonder poor Kong goes ape in NYC. Agreed: "beauty" had nothing to do with the downfall of the "beast."

Yup! I haven't seen it in a long time, but I do remember welling up at certain parts, especially the sequences were Patrick Swayze tries to reach Demi Moore, but can't. I know this is pretty much the whole movie, but I'm talking about specific sequences, such as when Swayze is standing right next to Moore, and she's oblivious; or when he's trying to warn her about the evil yuppie dude.

Man on the Moon kinda made me want to go out and try reading The Great Gatsby from cover to cover to large crowds... Great movie, though.

But it's typical to blame the woman.

I balled like a baby when I watched "Schindler's List". The part at the end when he regrets not saving more people. tear!