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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 ?

Larissa67 Mon 12-Aug-19 00:04:40

Lion ... About the 'lost' boy in India adopted by Australian parents..especially when he eventually gets to return to visit his mother as a young adult. My friend and I were both 'in floods'.
Tangled..when the floating lanterns are launched. Really felt my heartstrings plucked.

gmarie Mon 12-Aug-19 00:04:22

* Hardest movie I ever saw was Sophie's Choice - I tamped my emotions down so much watching this one that I actually got a migraine.
* Toy Story 3
* Life is Beautiful
* The Green Mile
* Dumbo
* A.I.
* Philadelphia
* United 93
* Old Yeller

Marydoll Sun 11-Aug-19 23:56:00

Fairydoll2020
Shadow of your smile

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP3VyB7mIyc

jeanio Sun 11-Aug-19 23:51:14

Life is Beautiful
The Green Mile
Lots and lots of films.

sharon103 Sun 11-Aug-19 23:38:08

Yes that's right Gaunt47. I had read the book when I was at school and first saw the film on tv years ago. A classic. smile

Eloethan Sun 11-Aug-19 23:16:44

One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Driving Miss Daisy
Midnight cowboy
I, Daniel Blake
Marley and me
Tunes of Glory
The painted veil
Imitation of life
Carve her name with pride

Gaunt47 Sun 11-Aug-19 22:51:45

Sharon103 - do you mean the 1939 Olivier/Oberon version of Wuthering Heights? That was going to be one of mine! Had my OH and I sobbing at the end, and I hate hate hate melodrama!

sharon103 Sun 11-Aug-19 22:46:13

The Theory In Everything (life story of Stephen Hawking)
When I was little, Bambi. I was upset for ages.
Ghost.
The old version of Wuthering Heights.
Mrs Minerva. My mums favourite film.

Minniemoo Sun 11-Aug-19 22:26:08

The Feed the Birds scene in Mary Poppins used to make me cry when a child. Not overly sure why. But I've been feeding the birds ever since!

TwiceAsNice Sun 11-Aug-19 22:23:20

Oh and Stepmom with Susan Sarandon . Cried buckets!

TwiceAsNice Sun 11-Aug-19 22:21:30

A dogs purpose
Love story
Dances with wolves
To sir with love
Bambi

MiniMoon Sun 11-Aug-19 22:18:46

Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.
My sister and I went to the cinema to see it and everyone was weeping as we left.
Field of Dreams
Sense and Sensibility.

jacq10 Sun 11-Aug-19 22:12:09

Always have said I'm not a fan of Meryl Streep but two of my "weepies" were Bridges of Madison County and Kramer v Kramer. Remember many years ago going with a friend when we were about 13 to watch "Love is a many splendid thing" and remember both of us sobbing into our handkerchiefs and when I told my parents which film we had seen being told "it was not suitable for us"!!

Fairydoll2030 Sun 11-Aug-19 21:35:53

Oops, re my earlier post the film was actually The Sandpiper.
The THEME TUNE was The Shadow of your smile.

Andy Williams made a rather nice recording of the song -
Google... You Tube Andy Williams Shadow of your smile.

Can’t do links, sorry!

Newquay Sun 11-Aug-19 21:32:15

Fiddler on the Roof

singingnutty Sun 11-Aug-19 21:25:00

Steel Magnolias. I've seen it several times and cry every time. It's the bit where the daughter dies having had a baby which she was advised against.

grannyqueenie Sun 11-Aug-19 21:15:45

Reading through the films others have mentioned makes me realise how much weeping I've done over the years. When my children were small “Who Will Love my Children” and “Champ” always pushed me over the edge. I’m less of a full on weeper as I've got older but do well up at all sorts of stuff...like Maggie even adverts have been known to get me going!

Fairydoll2030 Sun 11-Aug-19 20:54:07

The Shadow of Your Smile. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton.

Seeing that film was the last time ex DH and I ‘went out’ together. I found out a couple of months later that he was seeing his ex fiancée and divorce followed shortly after.

He contacted me twelve years later and told me that he had ‘made a mistake”. Too late, for I had remarried and had a family but even now, when I hear that song, it can still bring tears to my eyes. So sad....

Marilla Sun 11-Aug-19 20:37:31

Madam X
The English Patient
Midnight Cowboy
Shadowlands
Goodbye Mr Chips with Martin Clunes

EllanVannin Sun 11-Aug-19 20:31:28

Oh yes---Goodnight Mr Tom.
Also, Goodbye Mr Chips.

SalsaQueen Sun 11-Aug-19 20:28:22

I forgot this....
Goodnight Mr Tom

SalsaQueen Sun 11-Aug-19 20:27:12

Dumbo (I mean the original, but I haven't yet seen the new version)
Ghost
Stella Dallas (black & white, Barbara Stanwyck)
Schindler's List
Bambi
The Pianist
The boy in striped pyjamas

Brocky80 Sun 11-Aug-19 20:23:53

'The Way We Were' and 'Cinema Paradiso' come to mind.

Sussexborn Sun 11-Aug-19 20:14:02

My older brother was so mortified when I cried when Bambi’s mother died that he climbed over the seats and sat three rows behind me.

angelic Sun 11-Aug-19 20:09:06

A Star is Born with
Kristen Kristofferson &
Barbara Streisand