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I'd have to say Camelot- (the one w/Richard Harris & Vanessa Redgrave, cause the one w/ Sean Connery is not the same). Husband loves wife with all his heart, comes to deeply respect and love his first night almost like a son, is betrayed by them both, is forced to keep the laws of his "round table" and allow her to be burned at the stake or change them and risk uproar in his kingdom, winds up praying for the very man who betrayed him to save his wife, then has to let them both go in the end. What's left!
I'd have to say Camelot- (the one w/Richard Harris & Vanessa Redgrave, cause the one w/ Sean Connery is not the same). Husband loves wife with all his heart, comes to deeply respect and love his first night almost like a son, is betrayed by them both, is forced to keep the laws of his "round table" and allow her to be burned at the stake or change them and risk uproar in his kingdom, winds up praying for the very man who betrayed him to save his wife, then has to let them both go in the end. What's left!
WOW, one of the biggest tear jerkers of all time!
And how beautiful was Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave? I still know the words to every single song
I always feel for Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, caught up in that triangle. It is much more complicated than just the cuckolded husband, who also happens to be the King. I've always cried at the sentiment, too, in the song Lancelot sings, "If Ever I Would Leave You."
Life is Beautiful is a good choice, too, and in the same vein, I'd add Schindler's List -- Oskar Schindler's pulling the swastika pin from his lapel and crying, 'how many could I have saved with the gold in this?' Sophie's Choice. More recently, The Man Who Cried, the story of a Russian Jew looking for her father and trying to reclaim her heritage after being sent to the UK as a child during WWII.
For a sappy, tear-jerker, maybe Love Story from the 1970s, The Notebook?
I'd even have to include Disney's Bambi, with Bambi's plaintive cries, "Mother?"
I might as well be honest -- I can cry at a commercial on TV. Started as a child with the Trix Rabbit.
Life is Beautiful was probably the most tragic. It was wonderful through most of it, and in the end you're just so sad, esp. when you know the mother and son don't know the father is dead yet.
A lot of Chinese movies are pretty heartbreaking. Everybody dies.
Even better if you speak French as the translation does not do it justice. It is just about the most beautiful piece of prose ever written and makes me cry every time I watch it.
The acting is faultless, the sets and costumes magnificent, it has humour, poignancy and some fabulous lines. Pure poetry at every turn. Also my favourite movie of all times.
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