Movies that make grown men cry
 

Ever sat in the cinema and had a strange feeling come over you where your eyes well up and your throat develops the inability to swallow comfortably? (Not from the watered-down, extortionately-priced drinks and stale popcorn, but from the combination of some emotional scene set to a moving soundtrack)

Although most of you won't admit it - it has happened to me. Yep, I don't know what causes this phenomenon, but it occurred during the ending of The Green Mile and the end of The Perfect Storm.

What jerked your tears?

A few times at the cinema I have welled up and hurried out quite quickly at the end so as not to be seen, a few of the films that had that effect on me were..

Forrest Gump
Rocky Balboa
The Colour Purple
Scindlers List.

I watched The Road at home on blu-ray and blubbed like a baby.

Didn't see it at the cinema, but the scene where Martin Brundle kills his mutant dog in The Fly 2. The most heartbreaking scene ever committed to screen.:(

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.
Black Swan.
Soldier Blue

Ha, I have to agree, very upsetting!

Schindler's List had a lump in my throat.

Rocky Balboa did make me cry when i saw it on DVD, but I think it was more that I had grown up with the Rocky films, and Rocky had achieved something with his life, even in his later years, and I felt that my life was going down the toilet, and I'd achieved nothing. Man, I was only like 27-8 at the time!

I think Judgement at Nuremburg upset me, not sure if it was to tears though.

Silent Running - The last shot of the little robot watering the plants :o

Last time I cried in the cinema was Toy Story 3.

But I cry a lot in films - Benjamin Button got me all tearey-eyed.

And Casper. I cry at Casper, when Bill Pullman says goodbye to his dead wife. I cry every single time.

Whoo - so macho...

The films that have made me cry a lot (although there are probably more) are:

Paris, Texas
Million Dollar Baby
Into The Wild
The Cove (documentary)
The Road
Toy story 2 & 3
Up
Monsters Inc
It's A Wonderful Life
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind

Thought of some more:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Hunger
La Vie En Rose

Normally it takes a certain sequence of events to press my waterworks, having seen my father cripppled beyond repair by his third consecutive stroke in as many months, I foolishly decided to watch 'Big Fish'.

When he carries Albert Finney to the lake, I just broke down.:o