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Crying?

posted 19 years ago by little-miss-chocolate
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I know this isn't related to 'The Secret Garden', but you seem a friendly bunch on this board, and I hope you don't mind.

I just wanted to know which films people have cried watching. I cry all the time when I'm watching TV (it's when people are dying or permanently leaving that it gets to me), and I was wondering if I was the only one who did. I am now going to try and list the films and TV show that I have cried while watching.

Troy
Henry VIII
Doctor Who (Episode - Father's Day)
Doctor Who (Episode - The Parting of the Ways)
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Gone With the Wind
The Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King

I will probably remember some more, but that's all I can think of right now.

Therapy is expensive, but bubblewrap is free!

[–] silentbob8201 18 years ago

Lord of the Rings is insta classics but Troy *beep* TROY? lmao *beep*

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[–] dfrolik 18 years ago

The Secret Garden
Tuck Everlasting
Gettysburg
Ladder 49
The Horse Whisperer
Timeline
Secret Santa

[–] ladyIndie 18 years ago

Ugh. It happens everytime:

THE LAST DAYS-the documentary on hbo(to hear what they endured makes you so upset)

INSTINCT(its so sad when you find out how the poachers found them and what happend...freakin poachers)For some reason it really got to me, thts probably why i can't watch movies with animals in them b/c one way or another someone dies.

THE NOTEBOOK(when she starts to flip out, i lost it)

FINDING NEVERLAND(it was beautiful how she finally found her neverland)

GLADIATOR(geez, the music/acting everything was perfect)

PROOF (i can't stand to see anthony hopkins like that)

MAN ON FIRE (when he finds out that pitas alive and on the bridge when she screams creasy, ugh, I still can't take it)

THE CONSTANT GARDENER(The end is awesome)

BAMBI (I hid the movie when i was 8 and we havn't found it since, i couldn't stand to see bambis mom die)

THE SECRET GARDEN(I wanna live there)

A LITTLE PRINCESS(i was sitting there saying please remember,shes your daughter,please)

[–] fatimaali8 18 years ago

LOTR trilogy

But most of all Little Women (1994)

...its a must see for fans of the book. The book is even more poignant. Its not just Beth's death. You get so attached to the characters that it becomes easy to empathise with them...particularly Jo, with her feelings about change and leaving childhood.

[–] wyvern43 18 years ago

hi, I'm a newbie here (:
I've cried during some of those movies also- you all are not alone.My fav cry movies are:

Gone With the Wind
The Secret Garden
The Wizard of Oz
Ol' Yeller &
The Outsiders-
I cried when the one boy got burnt really bad & was in the hospital having to be rolled over because of the burns.And the part where they were under the tree & he was reciting the poem-

"Natures first green is gold; her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower but only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf;so eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down today; nothing gold can stay."

thanks for sharing the moment (:
(((((everyone)))))

Lillie

[–] thebomb126 18 years ago

Wow, I'm surprised no one mentioned "The Fox and the Hound." The music and the voices they used for Todd and Copper make me well up every time. I won't even go near "Bambi"! There is something about a child calling for his mother, unable to understand she isn't coming back-whether she's a deer or not-that gets to me. Just like one reader mentioned the dream sequence in "The Secret Garden" when Mary dreams she's a little toddler crying pathetically as her mother runs off into the bushes. Uhhhh...:'( Another one I cannot get through without practically breaking down is of course "Steel Magnolias", near the end when M'Lynn breaks down in the graveyard. I DO love how her friends manage to turn the scene around though. And a real shocker is that no one mentioned "The Color Purple". By the time I'm done watching that one, I feel emotionally wrecked and cleaned out. Perfectly drained to say the least. Haven't touched that one in years. And to round out the list (before I can think of any more) is "Amistad". I bought that movie before first seeing it, and since owning it a few years, I've seen it all of twice. It's almost scarring, as was "Rosewood" a few years back. Anyways, those are the major tearjerkers on my list.

[–] MrzScofield 18 years ago

hello why has no one mentioned "all dogs go to heaven"?! i saw that in first grade and cried my little eyes out. i also howled in "la vita e bella (i.e life is beautiful)" and for some really weird reason i cried in "contact"...i don't know why. but then again i cry in any and every movie but the one scene of all time that breaks my heart is when dumbo goes to visit his mom in jail and she rocks him on her trunk....wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[–] fruitytune 18 years ago

I cried at mighty joe young wen i waz little!

[–] MovieFreak523 18 years ago

A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Edward Scissorhands
Big Fish
The Lion King
Leon
The Crow
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Titanic
Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Click
King Kong
SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Batman Begins
The Rugrats Movie
Hero
House of Flying Daggers
Memento
V for Vendetta
Crash
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Jacob's Ladder
The Fifth Element
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
12 Monkeys

Many more, most likely...

[–] unolimbo 18 years ago

I have to admit, I am one of those people who always tears up at the appropriate moments. But there are very few movies that actually make me CRY.

Finding Neverland,
The Lion King

*SPOILER*
WATER. That movie made me bawl. The end of the movie is going between two characters/places - every time they switch back to the train station (if you see the movie you will understand) I just break down. I recommend it to anyone who likes sad movies. The only movie that ever comes close to it is Finding Neverland. But Water is a happy cry as well as a sad cry, which is good!

[–] AshTheMovieGeek 18 years ago

House of Sand and Fog, Requiem for a Dream, The Secret Garden, Lost in Translation, Schindler's List, The Pianist,Awakenings, The Green Mile, The Notebook, The Slaughter Rule, United States of Leland, Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Donnie Darko, Saving Private Ryan, Cold Mountain...Probably more. I see a lot of movies, I rarely cry. But sometimes I will if something is unique or beautiful.

"I rule!" -Lester Burham

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[–] ladyIndie 18 years ago

Whoever said THE LION KING is dead on. I used to walk out of the room when simbas dad died b/c I would start balling. And to think I was 15 at the time. lol. I'm just joking, but seriously as a kid I couldn't watch that particular part. Other than that I loved it.

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[–] mano0002 17 years ago

I'm sure there's more than this, but:

The Secret Garden (I cry when they first show Dickon on the white horse against the Yorkshire moors...makes me homesick and it's all beautiful and Prince Charmingish or something)

Black Beauty

Pride and Prejudice (BBC/A&E), near the end when Lizzy explains to her father why she's agreed to marry Mr Darcy..."I love him...he is the greatest man I have ever known."

[–] MadTom 17 years ago

I don't cry at movies very often. So rarely in fact that I can name only three specific instances:

United 93- the entire last 45 minutes of the movie, knowing it's a depiction of a real-life event and knowing the ultimate outcome.

Saving Private Ryan- when Private Ryan (Matt Damon) tells Captain Miller (Tom Hanks), "Tell my mother I was with the only brothers I had left."

Eight Below- when Max leads Jerry to Maya's apparently dead and frozen body.

Only three movies but quite a wide range of genre. You never know what's gonna get you in the gut!

[–] ladyIndie 17 years ago

The Sea Inside-I just watched it, it was beautiful. Tears came to my eyes when ramons sister in law tells the priest what she thought about his comment(about ramons lack of love from the family). FANTASTIC movie!

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[–] benshki 17 years ago

An odd one maybe but the scene in The Fly 2 where Martin has to put the dog to sleep because its in such pain. Everyone time i see that dog and here its cry/wimper i myself can't help but cry.

[–] Mandyjam 17 years ago

I cried at the distress of the unsympathetic and unbending housekeeper, and the fact that she was so distressed and so desperately in need of comfort and understanding that she was prepared to accept it from a fifteen-year-old under-house-maid who was far below her station.

Part of the background of this story is the class system. Martha SAYS that she is common and stupid, and that she only has the job because her mother is known to the housekeeper. Normally, in a house like that, housemaids would be brought in from London, they would not be country folk off the farms. There is a strict hierarchy among the servants, of which the Butler and the Housekeeper occupy managerial positions. As a working woman, Mrs Medlow has a considerable degree of status as housekeeper of Misslethwaite.

"great minds think differently"

[–] kikacc 17 years ago

UFF... A LOT!

- THE SECRET GARDEN
- SCHINDLER'S LIST
- LION KING
- BAMBI
- THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC (HANNA DECIDED TO CHANGE HER PLACE AND GOES TO THE GAS CHAMBER INSTEAD OF EVA)
- PETER PAN
- THE LITTLE PRINCESS
- OPERATION DAYBREAK/THE PRICE OF FREEDOM (WHEN THE SS DECIDED THE BOYS HAVE TO BE DROWNED)
- THE ROSE GARDEN (WHEN THE BROTHERS MEET AGAIN DURING THE TRIAL)
- THE SOUND OF MUSIC (THE ESCAPE)
- LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
- STEEL MAGNOLIAS
- STAND BY ME
- COCOON
- THE GREEN MILE
- CINEMA PARADISO
- STEPMOM
- THE MISERABLES (THE VERSION WITH JEAN PAUL BELMONDO)
- NOTTING HILL
- MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING
- CINDERELLA
- THE PIANO
- FATELESS

THEY ARE ALL I CAN REMEMBER

[–] turkish_delight2323 17 years ago

I used to brag about being quite tough when it came to emotional scenes in movies, but over time I've come to realise I'm completely pathetic!!

I watched the Secret Garden for the first time in ages thisafternoon, and felt on the verge of tears all the way through. I get teary at all the moments already mentioned in this topic, but my absolute WORST is when they first take Colin to the garden, and he's all "I imagined this..." - and you see all the flowers and there's this beautiful music playing :'(

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"Am I still me? And if not - who's eating this chicken?!"

[–] xPoisonPrincessx 16 years ago

i left my first post in this thread back in 2005. and its STILL going.

just wanted to add to my list.

Atonement.

nuff said.

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You Blame It On The Inside.
Cause That's The Safest Place To Hide.
All Of Your Friends Are Gone.

[–] sweetj9 16 years ago

Oh gosh I have a ton!

-Black Beauty (the scene when Ginger dies and when he is finally saved by Joe)
-The Green Mile (the last couple of scenes)
-A Little Princess (when Sarah's father finally remembers her...omg I always bawl)
-Click
-Thirteen
-Interview with the Vampire

[–] ballaBrittany33 16 years ago

-LOTR the return of the king (when all the people bow to the hobbits)
-Bicentennial man (when robin williams dies just before he becomes a human)
-love actually (sooo sweet!!!)
-tarzan the cartoon movie (when the gorilla king dies)
-lion king (when mufasa dies and when simba becomes king)
-brokeback mountain (ennis at the end... how can you not cry your eyes out!?!)
-a walk to remember (when janie gets her telescope and at the end)
-the notebook (the whole dang movie cause i had read the book and knew what was coming)
-the benchwarmers (when they let the little boy get the run at the end)
-wuthering heights 1992 version (when heathcliff gets the dead catherine from her coffin and just hugs her)
-300 (when all the spartans die)
-rigoletto (when he dies and the townspeople realize that they killed him for no reason)
-my all time favorite RENT (when angel dies and tom sings "i'll cover you" at the funeral)