What Movie Made You Cry The Most; Be Honest? (film, scene, heartbreak)

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Well, this will be telling; but for me it was: "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN", I missed half of the movie, the first time I saw it....LOL...

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by PITTSTON2SARASOTA

Well, this will be telling; but for me it was: "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN", I missed half of the movie, the first time I saw it....LOL...

Come on guys...LOL....I admitted it...even males shed a tear at some movies...and how about the gals...no tear jerkers that got to you???

[annika08]

Lilya 4-Ever-A Russian film that deals with child abandonment, child prostitution, poverty, suicide, and the sexual slave trade. Brutal and heartbreaking and overwhelmingly sad. This is ONLY film that has made me cry. I still cry just thinking about it. It should be required viewing because people (especially us in America who are privileged to have agencies like Social Services and Welfare) need to see how others have to live and what they need to do to survive in the world, and that the Slave Trade is very real today.

[fierce_flawless]

Aimee & Jaguar

Hotel Rwanda

Of Mice and Men

Boys Don't Cry

Gia

Steel Magnolias

Old Yeller

Lost and Delirious

Pay it Forward

The Professional (Leon)

Gone Baby Gone

Anything with a child death, pretty much.

I try and avoid movies that have a reputation of being "tearjerkers". If there's a sad part or two then fine. If the whole movie is a bawl fest, forget it. I really don't watch movies to be drug down into a deep depression! I can understand when it is for the purpose of bringing to light and important issue or educating viewers about the way things WERE and the cold hard truths.....so I forgive it when it's based on a true story or event. But sometimes it's just a matter of a movie that seems to be made only to say "oh, look how life sucks" or "look, tragedy, heartbreak, despair abounds and life is SO UNFAIR!!" (Steel Magnolias comes to mind as well as "Pay it Forward") and thanks but I KNOW life sucks. Don't need to be reminded in my "entertainment". I know the whole tragedy genre has its fans... but I'm not really one of them!

I also don't like to cry because it messes up my sinuses for hours! LOL! I'm not kidding!

[healthpub]

The scene in Catch Me If You Can when Tom Hanks lets Leonardo DiCaprio know his father has passed away.

[nanannie]

My Dog Skip

[trustmeiknow]

Titanic

[DixieChick1972]

City of Angels!

[sayulita]

First movie that made me cry - An Affair to Remember - the one with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.

Since then - oh so many!

The Deer Hunter
Brokeback Mountain
ET
Steel Magnolias
Last Tango in Paris
Brian's Song (TV Movie)
Out of Africa
Philadelphia (with Tom Hanks - especially the opera scene. That about killed me.)
Ordinary People
Gallipoli
Terms of Endearment
The Killing Fields
Ghost
Ponette

And so many more. I feel a good cry coming on!

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by annika08

Lilya 4-Ever-A Russian film that deals with child abandonment, child prostitution, poverty, suicide, and the sexual slave trade. Brutal and heartbreaking and overwhelmingly sad. This is ONLY film that has made me cry. I still cry just thinking about it. It should be required viewing because people (especially us in America who are privileged to have agencies like Social Services and Welfare) need to see how others have to live and what they need to do to survive in the world, and that the Slave Trade is very real today.

I am not familar with it; sounds heartwrenching.