Do you cry at movies?

[Jenny Doolittle]

I dont know how different I am to other guys because I like to dress, I feel that I am more sensitive then they.

Anyway, I wanted to ask; What Movies make you cry every time you see it?

I will start the list with: :sad:

Pretty Woman
Rudy
Message in a Bottle

Care to share the movies that really tear you up... and do you also feel like you are a "Tear Jerk" type of girl?

[Diane Elizabeth]

I fined that since I have been on a HRT regime that I cry more than I used to when watching movies. Especially the holiday movies.

[Sara Jessica]

I tear up or cry way to easily. It can be a movie or an emotional event involving my children such as seeing their enjoyment when we recently took them to "The Polar Express" in Arizona.

As for good movie cries, I spent a good part of the last Harry Potter movie curled up in a ball in my seat doing everything I could not to explode in tears. I had become way to emotionally invested in the characters and some of the revelations just sent me over the edge. Honestly though, even though I held back the full-on cry because my kids were there, it was a neat feeling to feel such emotions that seem to come on way too easy (and I'm not even on the juice).

[Jonianne]

All, the time. After one of my adult sons went to see a movie with me, the next time we went together, he said, "Dad, you're not going to cry like you did the last time, are you?" I said, I'll do my best not to.

I get so emotionally wrapped up in certain aspects of relationships in the movies, ones that hit home, I just cant hold it in. A lot of my freedom to be emotional has come from the nearly 8 years I spent in therapy. Before that I seemed emotionless, but it was just building up inside.

Some of my favorites that always pull tears are:
"What dreams may come"
"My life"
"Contact"
"October Sky"
"Dragonfly"
"Premonition"
"It's a wonderful life"
"Family Man"
"A tree grows in Brooklyn"
"Anne of Green Gables"

and countless others. If it deals with relatinships, I cry.

[steftoday]

unabashedly.

"Field of Dreams"
"Saving Private Ryan"
...
The list is long...

[Anna Lorree]

Yes, I tend to cry for movies that have a significant thread of loss or sacrifice. One I remember crying for was Pearl Harbor. There I am in a theater full of WW-II veterans, and I am crying. Some of them were too, but for different reasons.

Anna

[TxKimberly]

Only while I pay for the popcorn and tickets. . .
Sorry - couldn't resist the joke. Sure, there have been movies that choked me up.

[Inna]

The Fountain........................OMG soaked!!!!!

[Piora]

Are you kidding? Cry? Me?

One word. "Rivers". Literally.

God, I am such a sap for sad movies. Even friggin' cartoons I get all teary-eyed about. Geez.....I'm so emotional! Of course, as men, we're taught we aren't supposed to cry or show emotion. God, I am so sick of that macho horse$hit.....

[Tara D. Rose]

I can't remember the name of the movie right now, but we rented it last year. It was probably made in 2007 I beleive. It starred an elderly James Garner living in a nursing home. And he would go down the hall to visit an elderly woman everyday and night and play cards with her and many other things to keep her company,etc.
At the end of the movie, she died with him holding her hand and then the next minute, he dies as well. He reminded me so much of my own father too. It turned out that the lady he would go see everyday was his wife of many years but she didn't know who he was anymore. When that movie ended I got up from the couch with my wife and I ran to the bathroom and sat in the floor with a towel and cried one of the longest cries I had done in years. And during that cry, so many visions of my late Mother came back to me. That cry lasted for well over an hour. Actually I'm crying as I type this. Does anyone know of the movie I'm talking about?
L&R....................Tara

[Piora]

I can't remember the name of the movie right now, but we rented it last year. It was probably made in 2007 I beleive. It starred an elderly James Garner living in a nursing home. And he would go down the hall to visit an elderly woman everyday and night and play cards with her and many other things to keep her company,etc.
At the end of the movie, she died with him holding her hand and then the next minute, he dies as well. He reminded me so much of my own father too. It turned out that the lady he would go see everyday was his wife of many years but she didn't know who he was anymore. When that movie ended I got up from the couch with my wife and I ran to the bathroom and sat in the floor with a towel and cried one of the longest cries I had done in years. And during that cry, so many visions of my late Mother came back to me. That cry lasted for well over an hour. Actually I'm crying as I type this. Does anyone know of the movie I'm talking about?
L&R....................Tara

I'm guessing it was "The Notebook" with James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Ryan Gosling and Rachel MacAdams. I haven't seen it, only heard what it was about. I don't think I could deal with it....

[steftoday]

it is indeed "The Notebook". Nicholas Sparks is the book's author.

[GBJoker]

I have only cried a very rare few for movies in my entire life.

1: Throughout the ENTIRE Star Wars prequel movies, episodes 1-3................. They were that bad. Ruined Star Wars for the rest of my life.

2: Almost any relationship movie that I used to catch glimpses of (use to work at a theater cleaning stuff), especially if any of the characters were part of the LGBT community.

[DanaR]

I cry at movies all of the time.

[monica.missil]

I have always been more emotional than a "normal" man. I cry at movies, story's about kids, and just life. Used to bother me, now I embrace it as part of my feminine side.

[Jonianne]

unabashedly.

"Field of Dreams"
"Saving Private Ryan"
...
The list is long...

Both of these too! Saving Private Ryan was the one my son went with me the first time when I cried. The first 30 minutes were unbelievably emotional when you could feel what they must have went through. The guy walking around in shock, looking for his arm that was blown off, was probably exactly what I would have done.
The ending is hard to think about even now.

Reminded me of this print of the Vietnam Memorial: http://www.vietnamreflections.com/

After Vietnam a lot of big tough guys learned it was OK to cry. Saving Private Ryan made it OK for the WWII vets to cry too.

[Melody1985]

When I'm in male mode, I try to be very manly.. So I hold back the tears from parts where I probably would cry, but I definitely get choked up on some movies.. My throat usually starts hurting if I try to hold back for long enough..

The movie that made me let it out though was Man on Fire, where a young Dakota Fanning just got released from her kidnappers, and when she saw her body guard Denzel at the top of the overpass, she screamed his name a few times and ran to him.. It usually takes something like this versus romance movies.

Anyway, good question.

[PretzelGirl]

Anytime is possible depending on the mood. But consistently, Ghost gets some tears out of me.

[Jonianne]

Ghost, you had to bring that one up! "Love....., you take it with you!"

[TxKimberly]

Y'all should watch a movie I just caught on HBO yesterday called "Flipped" Awesome "growing up" type movie. There were several times when I both giggled and choked up.

[SusanLCD]

Yup. I'm emotional when others appear stoic.

Field of Dreams
Ghost
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Wonderful Life
Old Yeller (I read the book a few times; now, I can't even pick it up without welling up.)
Private Ryan ("Earn this")
Lots of others.........

Anything that tugs at the heart-strings will set me off. Maybe it's just an outward manifestation of who we are.

[VioletJourney]

Forrest Gump
not a movie, but some episodes of Futurama
and any dog movie, because the dog inevitably dies.

I wouldn't say I cry because I'm female to any degree, that would be preposterous. I am just man enough to embrace my feelings without fear.

[Karren H]

I tear up during the reveal on Extreme Home Makeover.. Or when ever I hear "move that bus". Sniff sniff.

[Shananigans]

My SO was tearing up at the ending of Marley & Me...

He was watching it with me and my grandfather, and I could tell he was trying to be discrete...

Totally called him out on it. But, as Ryan said, "It's a f*cking dog dying...do you know how sad that is?!?"

Point made.

[Denise69]

Yep, the list is long...... I'll go one further though. Every time I hear our national anthem.

[eileendover]

Some of my favorites that always pull tears are:
"What dreams may come"
"Contact"
"October Sky"
"It's a wonderful life".
:iagree:
Yep, "What dreams may come" is at the top of my list too, Jonianne.

[sometimes_miss]

Actually, I'm pretty good at handling anything regarding death. But romantic stuff breaks me down all the time; movies, TV shows, commercials, songs. So when I go out to movies, I watch the action/mystery stuff, and leave the drama to home rental/cable and netflix.

[LilSissyStevie]

Last night I was watching "The Hangover" and when the naked Chinese guy jumped out of the trunk of the car and whooped everyones azz with a crowbar, I was rolling on the floor with tears coming out of my eyes.

[Danni Renee]

I am to the point I avoid most movie but it is too hard not to cry. Heck, I am to the point I cry on commercials!

Danni

[Amanda Katharine]

Suprised no one as mentioned The Green Mile. I watched that for the first time this weekend and pretty much was in tears for the final 30 minutes of the movie. For those who've never seen it, SPOILERS AHEAD:





I started when John said that he wanted to die because there was too much pain in the world and since he feels it more than most, he himself was tired of hurting. Seeing that old mouse at the end as well made me cry because even though he was alive and well, he was so weak and feeble that it was painful to see. The notion of being totally alone as well got to me. The idea of outliving all your friends and relatives and thus becoming completely and totally alone is something I personally am afraid of. I don't think it'll happen in my case as I'm rather obese but the thought of it is frightening and depressing.

[sue ellan]

i have nit been to movies for a long time but watch movies on tv and i have had lots of tear ups.

sue ellan

life is like a roll of tp. the closer to the end the faster it goes.

[Sophiewouldbenice]

Actually I start crying at too many movies ;)

Just an hour ago I cried half of the movie (lol, never cried at movies some years ago - emotions do change to the better!): Raising Helen

[drag n fly]

Any of the old versions of a Christmas Carol...Love that movie...Jackie

[Carla]

Are you kidding? It has nothing to do with hormones, male or female. If you have a soul you cannot help but cry at:

Brian's Song
Rudy
Saving Private Ryan


and a few little known but some of my absolute favorite tear jerkers (you need to get/rent/buy these)
Always
With Honors

[Vale]

Well done ballet gets to me too. The movie black swan left me unable to stand.

[Jocelyn Quivers]

Yes I admit I cry at movies, and each time I have been busted and caught crying.
A list of a few movies that had me balling in tears.

1. Terminator 2
2. Gladiator
3. Battlefield Los Angeles
4. Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn
5. The Color Purple

[Dawn cd]

Jenny I'm just like you. (Maybe that's why our eyes are teary.) I'm a sucker for romantic stories. Sleepless in Seattle.

[Lori31]

Yes I do. My go to movie is Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants. I can't watch that one without some kleenex...lol

[Vanessa Storrs]

One nice thing about movie theaters is that they're dark. If I weep quietly nobody knows.

However, one thing left on my list of places to go en femme is the cinema, I shall either have to see a comedy or be prepared to fix my mascara.

[Piora]

"Terms of Endearment"
"Playing by Heart"

....are just a couple that have me in puddles. The entire Lord of the Rings movies had me as well, but it wasn't all sadness - tears of happiness as well in those.

[SarahLynn]

No tears for romance scenes, and none for adventure movies but and a big BUT here, anything about our armed forces wherein the hero dies or is old and remembering his/the past, oooh yeah, tear ducts are open and flowing. I'm fair sure there is a little guy back there behind my eyes with his hand on a spiget and he gives a mighty heave on it when the climax of the movie hits. I'm a writer (an author is published and i'm not) and even though i've written several stories i can tear up when i read certain parts. Yes even though i wrote the script i tear at it. During one session of writing i was in tears all through the session. Why? Because i was writing about a good friend of mine when i was overseas in Vietnam. That part never made the book, in part because i can't see the words because of the water stains, but also because it was too personal. Something i just couldn't share with others. Some here would, but most just wouldn't understand.

Movies to bring tears:

The Long Gray Line
Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
The Bridge On The River Kiwi

And many more of this ilk

And books: To numerous to list.


Yep, the list is long...... I'll go one further though. Every time I hear our national anthem.

Just had to bring that up didn't you. Can't even sit here at the 'puter thinking about it and not tear. And "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic", and,... and,.... and,... anything of a patroitic ilk, if i'm thinking of the honour the song/music represents.

[Brenda456]

I never cry at movies. But, give me the right play or even my children's graduation that is another thing. . .

[KellyJameson]

Crying is one of those things that has haunted my life, not because I have a problem with it but because it makes everyone else uncomfortable. Movies are always a problem. The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons wrecked me and I had to walk out of the theater and than buy the movie to see the ending. If you go crossdressed than there is a whole different set of problems because of the danger someone will try to console you, very awkward indeed.

[Jenny Doolittle]

Wow, Seems we all cry at the drop of a hat!

Thanks Everyone for showing we all are a bunch of really sentimental softies!

[Beverley Sims]

Lorelahs post in "The lighter side".
Affected me more than any movie I have seen.
Some movies do stir up my emotions though.

[KylieA]

Only while I pay for the popcorn and tickets. . .
Sorry - couldn't resist the joke. Sure, there have been movies that choked me up.

Know what you mean about the popcorn etc. On a happier note, we have a local art house theatre "The Wilton Town Hall Theatre" that charges just $6 per ticket. They were apologized when the film distributors forced them to raise the ticket price to $6. Also the soda and popcorn is less then half the price of any other theater in the area. They once in a while run a major first run film. I think I saw the first "Lord of the Rings" there on opening night. The small town of Wilton, NH was swamped. The opening night of a major block buster at only $5. Mostly they show independent films.
http://www.wiltontownhalltheatre.com/

There have been a few films that have choked me up recently. I don't remember which ones.

[DMichele]

Although I do not watch many movies, I inevitably reach for the tissues -again and again when I do watch one. Usually around this time of year I'll watch 'Miracle on 34 Street' and will cry.

In am an emotional person, for example the PBS Memorial Day and July 4th Tributes from Washington DC - I'll be sitting with tears trickling down my face. Also, I enjoy Andrea Bocelli and Andre Rieu (and others) concerts on PBS and DVD, and will undoubtedly shed tears.

Finally, when my youngest daughter was in high school, she would sing the National Anthem at basketball games, which just caused my neck hair to stand up and the tears to roll down my face. Yes, I am emotional and cry frequently.

[Savannah Smiles]

My partner said she fell in love with me because I cried at the movie we saw on our first date. I guess I wasn't thinking about impressing her by being cool, I just got emotionally wound up during a scene. It was the little robot boy in the movie A.I. who so desperately wanted to be human, and prayed for the mythical blue fairy to help him to be a person, like in the story of Pinocchio.

[April_Ligeia]

The only movie I ever cried at was Dumbo, which I can not watch because it gets me every time. I don't know why, but that movie really gets me.

[Imeni]

Oh lord, it really depends on a few things.

1. It has to be one clearly "in love" movie. If some dick dies in a movie just because, meh.
2. I have to be having what my friend calls male pms. That time of the month where any little thing can set me off.
3. Real life implications. I have to feel for the character, somehow relate to them. Case in point, the other day at work, watching some movie called "One Day" where it took like ten to fifteen years for the characters to finally get together, and BAM! One dies so unexpededly. I teared up hard. Not a word of a lie. Because thats always been my fear, unable to make sure shit like that doesn't happen. And I know that I'd never be the same person if I lost the woman I loved due to some stupid accident.

ps. I also just lost my grandmother of twenty five years to cancer in March and Im that sort of person who just presses everything down until he's ready and alone to deal with that crap. So with that much crap boiling underneath the surface at times, sad movies tend to start picking at that wound too. :o But I like romantic comedies, myself. Like, "Friends with Benefits", "Hitch", and "As good as it gets". I have a very eclectic stack of favorite movies in my movie collection. Mua.aha.aha. =3

[Ash Leland]

'May' with Angela Bettis usually does it....that's one thing that hasn't changed since I was fifteen. There's also this series of music videos on youtube....the band is some Japanese punk-ish group. They portray a love story between a cat and a rabbit, and the cats and the rabbits don't believe in marrying each other. Their families try to separate them, and in the second to last video the cat is imagining the rabbit jumping out of a window and to his death, with the words 'no answer' passing by the screen over and over again. I broke into uncontrollable sobs when I saw that. For real. I only saw those videos once, but if this rings any bells with anyone....please let me know what they're called!

[Jessicajane]

I'm hopeless at watching movies..even adverts set me off !!!...It is a nightmare watching a film on a plane...or sat in a full cinema..and trying to supress my sobbing!!!...my wife thinks its hilarious:o

Fav movie sound of music...especially the bit where Maria returns...LOL it works everytime!!

[jillleanne]

I cry at just about anything anymore it seems, particularly in the afternoons if I am a bit tired. I can cry easily where a son and a father are concerned. Any love story or sad movie wil make me tear up.

[ArleneRaquel]

Saving Private Ryan
The Searchers
How Green Was My Valley

[Misti]

Anyway, I wanted to ask; What Movies make you cry every time you see it? Care to share the movies that really tear you up... and do you also feel like you are a "Tear Jerk" type of girl?

Guy/Gal, girl, I even became teary sitting here en femme reading a couple of the posts already...


...but, and a big BUT here, anything about our armed forces wherein the hero dies or is old and remembering his/the past, oooh yeah, tear ducts are open and flowing... Some here would, but most just wouldn't understand..

I do. Period.


Yep, the list is long...... I'll go one further though. Every time I hear our national anthem.


Just had to bring that up didn't you, Denise? Can't even sit here at the 'puter thinking about it and not tear. And "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic", and,... and,.... and,... anything of a patroitic ilk, if i'm thinking of the honour the song/music represents.

Got me again, there, girls...

As I was readng through all the posts, I immediately thought of "Somewhere in Time," because I relate to "his" anguish so very much. But I tear up easily and sob equally as easily at too many things to mention...

[Annaliese2010]

The last part of James Cameron's film TITANIC w/Kate Winslet, et al, was emotionally overwhelming to me when I first saw it in the theater w/my ex back in 1997. I certainly wouldn't have elected to see a 'chick flick' like that on my own back then. Out of guilt so as not to otherwise let her down did I relent and go along with her. Well...when the end of that movie was playing out it had me biting my tongue & upper lip so hard so the pain would distract me. It worked for a few minutes but when that old lady started saying sh*t like..."A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets..." and later when Celine Dion started to sing 'My Heart Will Go On'...I could Tell I was gonna have a melt down. At that point I was So afraid I wouldn't just wet my eyes but gush and OMG...maybe even start balling full-on...lose it... and actually make crying sounds.

There was no Way any of the usual tricks or mental devices were gonna work...I was sweating...knew I just had to get out of there! So I pretended I had to potty really bad and acted all disappointed to my ex when I whispered I gotta go th the bathroom cause I couldnt hold it. As I was scurrying up that carpeted aisle to the lobby doors I could hear all the women crying and sniffling which didn't help. By the time I got to the bathroom I made a bee-line for a stahl so other guys couldn't see my wet eyes. Once safe inside, I quietly wept until I got control again...wiped my eyes blew my nose, dried my cheeks and bravely went back into the theater biting my tongue as hard as I ever had in order to retrieve my damn ex as the end credits began to roll.

I've always cried at movies...or had to fight it back. But that was the worst! I still have a lil scar on my upper lip to prove it.

[KimberlyS]

Movies, tv shows, news clips,...... hell i was tearing up watching and episode of Warehouse 13 last night.

[kymmieLorain]

I do at some movies. I cannot watch a Lassie movie without balling my eyes out.

Kymmie

[donnalee]

I cry at the awfullest movies there are. The most puerile, trite, hackneyed plots with writing that smells worse than a dead mackerel; second rate actors directed by hacks,mouthing old chestnuts and bathos galore! They also have to have children or puppies or children and puppies.
I get choked up and teary-eyed - it's really very embarrassing! Makes me want to kick myself in the capris, mostly because I'm well-aware of exactly what they are yet still I do it to this day. Apparently Hollywood is aware of this predilection, as they keep shoveling out this manure year after year; they've got me hooked! Is there a 12-step program or a medication that can cure me of this curse? Please, someone tell me! I need HELP!!!

[Tina B.]

I never cry at the movies, well except for Funerals, weddings, births, lovers dying, children being miss treated or dying, animals being hurt, or killed, and lovers breaking up, and a few other things.
Tina B.

[Daphne Renee]

I rarely go to the movies anymore. Its just so expensive. That is not to say I dont watch movies. I normally rent dvd or blu ray movies.
To answer you question though. The last one I can think of is P.S I Love You.. Some TV shows will cause me to tear up from time to time too.

[Annaliese]

I tear up at most movies (chic flick) or here a sad story, I have cried many times reading story on this site.

[Marissa333]

There are many scenes in many movies and tv shows that make me cry. The one film that absolutely destroys me, is "the color purple". When Celie's baby gets taken away, when Nettie gets taken away, when Shug sings "God is trying to tell you something", when Nettie comes home, when Danny glover waves to Celie after Nettie comes home... That movie turns me into a wreck.

[Shelly67]

Star Wars ( opening sequence ) A new hope
Bladerunner .
Hope and glory .
Shawshank Redemption
Leon
The English paitient
Elephant man

Also any reality tv show where people get to meet lost relatives , or folks who are suffering some form of illness , disability .

Pass the Kleenex .

[Gina's dress-up]

I cry very quick it does not have to be movies

[Piora]

Just the other day, I finished watching "My Transsexual Summer" as far as episode 4, and my God what an emotional roller coaster that was for me. I cried tears of happiness for them, and of course, ones of sadness, especially when they were all leaving the house and going their separate ways. Stuff like that always really gets to me....

[Mi$$ Despair]

I cried watching Twilight because it bored me to tears :D

[Elana]

I do, espcially the romantic ones more often than others