i've worked out that the majority of my favourite films are ones that have made me cry so i thought i'd made a thread so that i can recommend some of my favorites and so that you can hopefully recommend some of yours because i'd love to bawl my eyes out a bit more :P i can't remember the last time i actually cried because of something in my actual life but with films i just can't hold back. so here are my recommendations..

 

dancer in the dark

 

i'm not sure whether people who don't like bjork will like this or not because she does a lot of singing in it and she bursts into song during the saddest of scenes but when you get to the end you'll realise why they've done it like that and it just pulls at the heartstrings even more. i don't really wanna say much about this one because i don't wanna give anything away but it's about selma (bjork) who's moves to america with her son to start a new life but it really doesn't go as planned. it's so emotional especially the last half hour!

 

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dear zachary

 

okay i just watched this earlier and this is what made me wanna make this thread because i really wanna see if i can find a film sadder than this. dancer in the dark is my favourite movie of all time but it's certainly not the saddest for me after watching this one. like i said with dancer in the dark it only really gets me crying during the last half hour but with this one i was already crying during the first 10 minutes. from then til the end i didn't stop crying once and everytime i thought i'd ran out of tears and energy to watch it i'd start again. it's a documentary made by the best friend of a man who's been killed made for his son for when he grows up to see what kind of a man he was. he goes all around america and the uk to interview his friends, relatives work colleages etc to build a picture of what he was like. i wont say anything else because it will definitely spoil it and i wouldn't recommend watching the trailer if you're actually thinking of watching it either because that just gives everything away and will probably ruin the experience. but seriously i stronnnnnnngly recommend this. it will definitely drain you of all your emotions but i feel it's worth it for such a great film.

 

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the notebook

 

i'm sure everyone's seen this one but if not it's about this couple who fall in love, are separated and then reunited with loads of happiness and sadness in between. it's not the best film to shout from the rooftops to protest your love for but there's not doubting how much it made me cry. especially in the last half hour like dancer in the dark.

 

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the orphanage

 

the trailer makes it look like a horror which it kind of is but i've never cried at any other horror film so i can't work it out. it definitely does has it's scary moments but amongst all of that it has a great story and a lot of emotion. it might be spanish and you might have to get used to reading the subtitles but you just forget about them and somehow read them subliminally while you're watching the film. it's not sob your heart out sad but it made me cry for a good few minutes and at the same time creeped the hell out of me!

 

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2:37

 

this starts off with a suicide and then tells the story of 6 high school students whos lives are all interwoven in some way and each one has their own troubles. you're left to guess which one of them it is and i can tell you the end is just incredible. not in a good way obviously but in the way it's all revealed. it's also shot really interestingly with really long shots of the same person walking through the school passing the other students which is often shown through each students perspective. it's one of those films that will not only make you cry but also make you think about a lot of stuff after you've watched it.

 

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the iron giant

 

i never thought i'd cry at an animation but this came right out of left field! i began watching it thinking it was gonna be a jolly film about a little boy and a big giant who become bezzie mates and live happily ever after but how wrong i was! and even though i was crying like a baby the last thing it made me do was smile and it was the most perfect ending ever in the end.

 

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other honourable mentions go to the colour purple, edward scissorhands, a walk to remember, the bridges of madison county and seven pounds.

 

also once again if you're planning on watching any of these in the future i wouldn't recommend watching any of the trailers beforehand. obviously you'll wanna known what it's about and if you do please just have a look at the plot on wikipedia or something because trailers for sad films and pretty much every film really give away the ending in them.

I cry too much in movies so I may be here all day :lol:

 

Daredevil - When Elektra is killed, oh God I was in floods of tears :lol: It is so sad :(

 

Raising Helen - Quite a few times in this, beautiful film.

 

there is more but I am too escited after my exam reulsts :cheer:

I feel really stupid for saying this but I cried at Click, idk, something about the sentimentality of it at the end just made me RLY sad

These are all movies that either made me cry or had a very saddening or moving impact on me;

 

American Beauty

 

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This film didn't make me cry per se, but it did have an extremely profound and moving effect on me. The film in general is shot, scored and written in a very 'artistic' way (for a lack of a better term) that really makes you reflect on life and what it means to you. There is a character called Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley) who is considered wierd in part due to the, at first, seemingly pointless and bizarre things he records on his camera, but he makes an utterly captivating speech on why he does it: in that even in the most mundane things you can see the beauty of the world. Despite the backlash and teasing the speech recieved post-success, it is an iconic moment that is very touching. Also, we are constantly told throughout the film that the main character Lester (Kevin Spacey) who is sufferng a mid-life crisis is going to die, and his death scene is such a tender moment in the film, depsite the violence and the circumstances of his demise. The final voiceover commentating on life and it's trivialities; the final line and the music combines to make a hard hitting, yet calm and reflective, end that will stay with you.

 

The Magdalene Sisters

 

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Now this film did make me cry, and not only that, it left me horrified and disturbed, but touched at how these three women has bonded through the horrific circumstances they had suffered together; and the reason it had such an effect on me is that it is all true. It is a true story based around the Magdalene Asylums, which were created for "fallen women". These were popular all over Europe and America during the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century: with the last of the Magdalene asylums in Ireland closing in 1996 (this fact really shocked me). The mission of the asylums were to rehabilitate women (who did things as horrifying as having a baby out of wedlock!) back into society, however lots of women were incarcerated for increasingly petty things, such as being too pretty (:mellow:). The film is based around three fictitious women (although their stories are all based on testimonies) who are sent to one of these institutions. One women was sent by her family after admitting to being rapped by her cousin, another for being too flirty, the third for having a baby out of marriage. We see how these women were emotionally, sexually and physically abused by the staff. One scene, shows the nuns lining up the women naked, and holding contests to find the girl "with the most pubic hair" or the girl "with the biggest breasts." It is just wrong, and the worse part is, former Magdalen inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh, told the director that the reality of the Magdalene Asylums was much worse than depicted in the film. Which is just unthinkable. The ending is so cathatric, downbeat and uplifting all at the same time. The trailer for the film makes this seem like a purposely controversial, cheesy TV movie of the week affair, but this is far from that. Just completely gut wrenching.

 

Sunshine

 

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This film isn't tear jerking in the traditional sense, but it is an incredibly involving film, and it really makes you stop and reflect. The whole philosophical element to the film, and the wanting to see the sun in all it's glory, has a smilar effect on me as the Ricky Fitts speech in American Beauty. The ending with the last transmission, the music, and of one of the characters seeing the creation of a sun - is powerful and moving indeed. A gem of a movie.

 

I Love You, Phillip Morris

 

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You may have seen this at the moment being advertised on TV; while the film is a razor sharp comedy first and foremost, it has a really tender relationship at its center (I really connected to it, because it was the first time I have seen a romantic story revolving around two through and through gay men). It is based on the true story of notorious con man Steven Russel. When the film starts, Steven is seemingly perfect, he is a good christian and husband, aside from the fact that he is secretly gay and having sex with men on the side. After nearly dying in a car accident he deicdes to come out of the closet, with the eventual support of his now ex-wife. However, to fund his new expensive lifestyle he decides to scam people; after doing it one too many times he is caught and sent to prison, where he ends up falling in love with the titular Phillip Morris. Steven wants to give Phillip anything he desires (which he does through manipulation and conning - and the stuff he manages to pull of is all true, and shows how idiotic some of these "officials" are. No offence Americans). But will his con man nature ruin the life he has built with the man of his dreams? This is one of the few films that can make you cry one minute and laugh the next, the ending is another that makes you feel mixed emotions. It's downbeat, but it still finds a way to make you smile.

 

Towelhead

 

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Written and directed by Alan Ball, after he finished his TV show Six Feet Under and before he began on True Blood, it is the best film on the issue of "growing up" I've even seen, it's another one that is very shocking and disturbing. The story centers around a 13 yeard old girl called Jasira, who after reaching puberty, is sent by her materialistic mother to live with her strict and neglectful father. Without understanding it, her sexuality begins to blossom, and she must face the issue of sex and puberty alone without any guidance, and mixed messages from her father, and the sexualisation of women she sees in glossy and dirty magazines.On top of that she deals with; her attraction to her african-american classmate Thomas, who her father does not approve of; the racist comments of her classmates and a local boy; and more shockingly, her reciprocated crush on his father, who eventually becomes obsessed with sleeping with her. Jasira's journey into adulthood is moving, but the ending is so uplifting you can't help but shed a tear. The indie breakout hit that never was.

 

As it is getting late, I will hurry things up a bit

 

Romeo + Juliet, the modern remaking of the famous Shakespearen play, which keeps the original diologue, has a few moving scenes. The standout being when Romeo and Juliet first meet, leading up to their first kiss in the elevator, the intensity of their connection is captured perfectly in the score, direction and cinematography.

 

 

 

Also, the typical Titanic, the most sad scene for me is when Rose manages to get a place on a lifeboat, but jumps back onto the Titanic, sacrificing safety to most likely die with the man she loves. The way they run to eachother gets me every time.

 

I will add to this if I can think of anymore.

Edited August 6, 201014 yr by Daniel Gleek

I NEVER cry at movies, only one film has ever made me slightly teary eyed.

This is going to sound so stupid haha, but it was...

Monsters Inc :heehee:

I feel really stupid for saying this but I cried at Click, idk, something about the sentimentality of it at the end just made me RLY sad

I laughed at Click when I went to watch it in the cinema. :( :lol:

 

Ermm I've always found The Green Mile to be really sad!

The "only" films I've cried at, ever were 'E.T.', 'Lion King' (You have no heart if you haven't :() & 'Hachi'.

I got Notebook'd once :( I hadn't seen it before and my ex made me watch it with her. She knew what was coming... I didnt...

I laughed at Click when I went to watch it in the cinema. :( :lol:

Ermm I've always found The Green Mile to be really sad!

 

Same, While I have never cried at seeing a movie The Green Mile was a major lump in the throat job at times especially the scene with the warden attacking the mouse

I cry like a baby everytime i watch Marley & Me :lol:

 

First time i watched it, i cried so much that half an hour after the film had finished, my mum saw me and said 'are you ok?? whats up why are you crying??' and as i was telling her about the film i started crying again :rofl: She thought there was something seriously wrong before i told her because my eyes were all puffy :lol:

 

Other films that make me cry are....

into the wild

notebook

shawshank

green mile

I cry like a baby everytime i watch Marley & Me :lol:

 

First time i watched it, i cried so much that half an hour after the film had finished, my mum saw me and said 'are you ok?? whats up why are you crying??' and as i was telling her about the film i started crying again :rofl: She thought there was something seriously wrong before i told her because my eyes were all puffy :lol:

 

Other films that make me cry are....

into the wild

notebook

shawshank

green mile

 

Never seen Marley & Me, I heard the dog dies and I am too scared to watch it incase it does set me off lol

 

I am an animal person, people can die the most gruesome of deaths, be hacked to bits etc and I won't even blink but shove a cute animal into a film or have a scene of animal cruelty I am a totally different person lol. much prefer animals to people

Never seen Marley & Me, I heard the dog dies and I am too scared to watch it incase it does set me off lol

 

I am an animal person, people can die the most gruesome of deaths, be hacked to bits etc and I won't even blink but shove a cute animal into a film or have a scene of animal cruelty I am a totally different person lol. much prefer animals to people

 

you should watch it, it WILL make you cry but its such a good film. Every time i watch it now i think, i know whats coming, i've seen it millions of times before, i'm not gonna cry this time.....but then when

Jen loses the baby

It sets me off and i cry straight through to (& usually past) the end :lol:

Will watch it sometime in the week or next weekend lol, think it will have to be the weekend but will see it ^_^

 

 

not seen any of the films recommended so far apart from e.t, titanic and monsters inc. so i now have a big list to watch! i did go to see marley & me in the cinema but i fell asleep :(

Being the pathetic gay that I am, I do have the tendency to cry at absoultely EVERYTHING which is even vaguely upsetting in films/TV programmes, but special mention must go to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas which I just weeped at completly :(

Being the pathetic gay that I am, I do have the tendency to cry at absoultely EVERYTHING which is even vaguely upsetting in films/TV programmes, but special mention must go to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas which I just weeped at completly :(

 

i'm literally just about to watch this! just trying to find a good video of it. it does look really good though!

i'm literally just about to watch this! just trying to find a good video of it. it does look really good though!

 

It wouldnt be at the top of my recomendation list, but yeah it was a very good film if you're willing to overlook a couple of historical errors here and there and the severe underuse of Sheila Hancock.

My Sister's Keeper - Amazing movie but it drained me emotionally.

LOL Aled I'm the same, Holby City got me sad today because there was euthanasia on it =\=\=\=\

 

Oh but yes The Green Mile was horrid, I nearly cried like 3 times through that. It's always the relatable sentimental situations I find really upsetting, so I usually cry at things other people don't

ugh really 2:37? it's like a poorer version of elefant which itself isn't even that great I DUNNO

 

My Sister's Keeper - Amazing movie but it drained me emotionally.

 

ugh i really despise this movie too. you can tell it set out to make people upset/cry so it just feels like...i dunno, twisted and relatively offensive. it's not honest at all. a film should never set out to make people cry.

 

anyway

 

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