Movies that make grown men cry

[olsquareeyes]

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?

[jaykays hat]

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.

[Jeffbiscuits]

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.

[Ancient One]

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

[whitezombie]

Originally Posted by Jeffbiscuits

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.

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.

[fortunesfool]

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

[BondFanatic]

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...

[elmonty]

It's not a film that is generally regarded as a weepie, but the closing scene of Carlito's Way gets me every time. It's just magnificently, beautifully tragic.

That scene at the end of Schindler's List gets me too. It's manipulative, and even as you're seeing you are perfectly aware that you are being manipulated into crying, but it works.

Also, the end of Spanish classic El Verdugo (The Executioner). I imagine most of you haven't seen it and I can't explain the whole setup here but just recommend to everybody that you try to watch it, it's one of the best Spanish films of all time.

[hugman]

the last time i cried was watching Shawshank Redemption but the film that gets me every time is Green Mile, im suprised it hasnt been listed yet

[Porkchopexpress]

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.