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...

[CarlSmith]

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

[CarlSmith]

Thought of some more:

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

[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.