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Films that made you cry

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CaroDane Sun 11-Aug-19 13:41:41

We watched The Light Between the Oceans last night, and both ended up sobbing at the end of it ! Brilliant film but very sad. What films have made you cry ?

Musicgirl Mon 12-Aug-19 12:02:48

I'm with those who said Goodnight, Mr. Tom, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, (I often feel like Mrs Chips myself these days) and Kramer vs. Kramer. The original version of Captains Courageous also did it for me along with Mr. Holland's Opus and The Chorus.

bigbird1 Mon 12-Aug-19 12:00:46

Thanks lovebeigecardigans, was trying to remember Random Harvest. I like to think I was named after Greer Garson ( Paula). Such a beautiful film. Mind you there are loads more that make me cry as well.

Nograndsyet Mon 12-Aug-19 12:00:43

Fat fingers pressed too early. WW2 resistance fighter, Violet Zsabo who gave her life in the end. Virginia McKenna was simply wonderful

Craftycat Mon 12-Aug-19 11:59:59

Oh E.T. every time!! I cry buckets.
West Side Story when Bernado dies.
Bambi

Mind you I do cry very easily at films- I have to check before I take GC that there is no sad bit. I can vouch for Toy Story 4- saw it last week & it is fine

Nograndsyet Mon 12-Aug-19 11:58:43

Carve Her Name With Pride. True story of WW2 resistance fight

annodomini Mon 12-Aug-19 11:57:00

Truly, madly, deeply. Juliet Stephenson's tears trigger mine.

lilydily9 Mon 12-Aug-19 11:52:56

I'm a sucker for old Hollywood movies and it doesn't take much for me to well up.

'Love is a many splendored thing'
'An Affair to Remember'
'The Roaring Twenties'

to name but a few.......

geera Mon 12-Aug-19 11:52:33

Our souls at night - read the book, then got the film. Cried both times.

EllieB52 Mon 12-Aug-19 11:50:44

Beaches - gets me every single time
Les Miserables
Mamma Mia - here we go again. Don’t laugh - the end bit makes me well up.

Marilla Mon 12-Aug-19 11:49:34

Reading through the lists is reminding me of so many other films that made me cry. Some of the old Hollywood films fill me with nostalgia of watching them with my mum which makes me cry....even the happy ones!

JulieMM Mon 12-Aug-19 11:44:24

Love Story and Brief Encounter ... still bring a lump to my throat.

jaylucy Mon 12-Aug-19 11:41:20

Love Me Tender with Elvis
ET
Top Gun (when Goose gets killed)

Joyfulnanna Mon 12-Aug-19 11:40:19

Schindlers List

scrabble Mon 12-Aug-19 11:36:56

Sorry- You before me

scrabble Mon 12-Aug-19 11:36:22

Your before me

BettyBoop49 Mon 12-Aug-19 11:35:40

Life is Beautiful
Like Water for Chocolate
Love is a many splendour thing

AllTheLs Mon 12-Aug-19 11:34:38

Elephant Man - I was still crying a week after I first saw it! And still do now if/when I watch it.

Then the soppy animal films - Bambi, the Yearling, The Incredible Journey, ET (animal???).

Dee1012 Mon 12-Aug-19 11:25:02

Spartacus...leaves me a blubbering wreck.
Million Dollar Baby.
Tale of Two Cities ( Ronald Coleman version).
Lassie come home.
The Vikings.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Mon 12-Aug-19 10:58:15

Random Harvest - a lovely old B&W film with Ronald Coleman and Greer Garson.

henetha Mon 12-Aug-19 10:49:14

Yes, JackyB, Brooklyn was lovely and it did make me cry.
Death in Venice starring Dirk Bogarde always makes me cry
no matter how many times I see it.

JackyB Mon 12-Aug-19 07:54:58

Practically every film I've ever seen, even many comedies have moving scenes in them.

I can't think of any that stand out but I'm surprised no one has mentioned Brooklyn yet.

kittylester Mon 12-Aug-19 07:47:25

sussexborn, you reminded me that DD2 took her little sister to see the original Lion King - she moved rows too.

Youngest daughter howls at all sorts of things. Having watched West Side Story on video dozens of times, she still howls when Tony dies.

Firecracker123 Mon 12-Aug-19 07:43:47

'Who will love my children' 1983 film lady at work lent me a dvd not my usual sort of film to watch a bit corny for me I thought but was literally sobbing at the end lol.

BradfordLass72 Mon 12-Aug-19 01:03:13

I found The Notebook so badly acted by Gena Rowlands, the Director's mother and so ludicrously schmaltzy, that I laughed rather than wept. I only wtched it for James Garner.

There's an Indian version which I think is better. Zindagi Tere Naam

The films which made me cry:

Shadowlands
Watership Down
Brokeback Mountain
Old Yeller (but I was 11 when I saw this)

Goodbye Mr Chips (Robert Donat and then Peter O'Toole)
The Snow Goose
Ring of Bright Water

Even hearing (or even imagining it seems) the theme from Watership Down can make me cry My husband used to sing it to our baby.
Tears now in fact. sad

DillytheGardener Mon 12-Aug-19 00:11:46

Holiday Inn gets me everytime and makes me miss family no longer with us