i have pms-name 10 of the best tearjerker movies to watch

smirnoff's and hankie in hand

Field of Dreams gets me every time. As does Say Anything.

Oh yeah, My Dog Skip. Who knew the dog would die at the end?

at the end of movie. cannot believe friend who gave for son to watch didnt tell me. i know nothing of the story, but wrong movie for son.

funny you mention it.

And Brian's Song.

watched it many times... and I'm sure I will watch it many more times.

Yes, that would fill the bill. For me it's the ending of Glory.

Hanks annoys me, and I didn't think his performance was all that great. Straight man playing gay. I never believed he was a gay man that had AIDS.

Watched it again about a week ago for like the 20th time... yup, sobbed like a baby again. Just the theme song is capable of making me tear up.

I watched this on an airplane and bawled my eyes out.

Felt a little ridiculous.

beautifully played by old critter Eddie from Frasier :cry:

typing the word.

Betty Spaghetti gets the news about her husband dying in the war.

But how about a classic chick flick maudlin tearjerker like "Beaches" or "Terms of Endearment"?

Mystic River did it to me too.

"GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!"

National Velvet always gets me, and Whale Rider.

i'll try to come back with more when they occur to me.

"Lassie Come Home." When she is limping down the street at the end there isn't a dry eye in the house.

I was basically on the floor by the end of that movie.

And a great movie.

a) Anything for a Susan Sarandon fix. Even a tearjerker. :loveya:

b) I just met a little guy named Lorenzo who may be facing health challenges of his own. :( And his mom (my new employer) compares favorably to Ms. Sarandon in many respects.

c) At least you're drinking name-brand vodka. Not only am I deep into a 1.75l of the cheap stuff, I'm mixing it with Squirt. :-)

I've had too many bad experiences with mixing shitty vodka.

I'm greener than kermit the frog right now just thinking about it.

:crazy:

since I have no shotglass, but the room comes complete with, among other things, a measuring cup. I fill it up to 50ml with the vodka (not the really cheap stuff :scared: ), then up to 200 (okay, 175, maybe) with Squirt. Ahhh... ester of wood rosin...

I never get any private messages!

:hi:

:pals:

4 Weddings and a Funeral

I also cried at that IKEA commercial where the old lamp gets put to the curb in the rain. Otherwise:

1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2. Ray
3. Gladiator
4. Ordinary People
5. I'm not Scared
6. Sophie's Choice
7. Grave of the Fireflies
8. The Mist
9. Big Fish
10. Shane

(No particular order. Now I'm going to read all the other lists and I'm sure I will think some of the suggestions should supplant one or two of mine.)

(as a gay man, I'm contractually obligated to mention this one)

1. Rabbit Proof Fence (a true story about indigenous children in Australia who were forcibly removed from their parents in order to "assimilate" them into white culture). The actual story has a somewhat as happy as can be under the circumstances end but the whole movie is a disturbing and heart-wrenching look at what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia had to go through until relatively recently
2. Carve Her Name With Pride (a 1950s movie starring Virginia McKenna as an Allied Spy during WWII)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird
4. Careful He Might Hear You (another underrated but beautiful Australian movie)
5. Ghost
6. ET
7. Dead Poet's Society
8. A World Apart (about an activist against the apartheid regime in South Africa, starring Barbara Hershey)
9. Fahrenheit 9/11

John Hurt is amazing.

...good call.

something empowering and crazy ridiculous

I'm thinking Teeth ( rape revenge movie)


Planet of Terror ( best heroine ever)

Don't be sad......feel strong and a little silly


sad movie.....lifetime movie network is your friend........

go ahead seduce yourself, some porn on demand, a little vodka and a whole lot of you!

Eight Below (yeah, I know, but still)
The Notebook (a chick flick I guess)
March of the Penguins (another animal dealio)
Old Yeller (I see an animal theme here)
Sophie's Choice
Remember the Titans
Million Dollar Baby
Terms of Endearment
Saving Private Ryan, The Memphis Belle, Platoon, Letters from Iwo Jima (my war movies)

have a bowl with a little milk and raisins, you need some GOOD Carbs, works every time!

Downfall (or Der Untergang)
Innocent Voices (or Voces Inocentes)
The Painted Veil

last weekend. That was one of the most beautiful, perfect endings to a film I have ever seen.

...your first time seeing it? That's an ending (and a film, period) that will get you every time!

But I did watch it twice before sending it back to Netflix. May have to add that one to the collection...

I promise it'll never get old. I've bought the movie AND the soundtrack. If I could buy merchandise like apparel, I probably would do that too. :P

with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant- every time I watch it I cry like a baby. There is a happy ending-thank God!!!

in almost post-WWII Japan. Both parents gone (mother burned in the Kobe firebombing and their father presumed lost in the Japanese navy) with one child about four and her older brother (about 14) having to take care of her. It's based on a book the older boy wrote as an adult to try and make up for the loss of his sister, or something like that ;)

Only the most hard-hearted (and there seems to be a few on imdb) won't cry or get choked up. I haven't watched it in years because it "kills" me every time...

I practically needed to be institutionalized after I watched it.

Tokyo Story http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/
The Bicycle Thief http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/
Au Hasard Balthazar http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060138/
El Norte http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085482/
Ikiru http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/

...an obvious choice.

"See ya, Hubbell"- gets me every time.

Oooooo... pms, not PMs. Whoops!

Splendor in the Grass and have some hankies ready. The last scene gets me every time.

Warren Beatty and that movie made quite an impression on me. First watched it while babysitting one night, back in the dark ages (1974 or so...).

in high school, home alone on a Saturday night with nothing to do. Flipped on the tv, and there was Warren Beatty romancing Natalie Wood. I didn't see the last scene coming and it really threw me for a loop. I was a weepy, sobbing mess. Don't think a movie has ever affected me quite that way before or since.

love actually
the great new wonderful
mask (the cher movie)
world's greatest dad (on "on demand" w/comcast--one scene in particular)

if i think of another one i'll let you know. that should get you through half a day.

"That wasn't scary AT ALL." They thought it was supposed to be a horror movie.

Mary Tyler Moore plays a mother with ice water in her veins. No violence, barely any arguing, but a deeply disturbing portrait.

Although it's mostly a fun movie, there are some serious moments and tearjerkers, especially the ending ;)

And and Vin Diesel is the robot's voice :D

I also wanted to add some kiddie movies. I remember crying (and I don't really cry, let alone in movies) in The Land Before Time, Homeward Bound, The Lion King, and The Fox and the Hound.

The after movie was great, but there was no second date...

BTW, Lick the Tins doing Elvis in Celtic style was almost worth the price of the ticket...

The Crying Game, Harold and Maude (well, a bit at the end), Big Fish, Blade Runner, Field of Dreams (wow, that one sure is!), The Way We Were. Oh and Beaches and the one about the women who work at the beauty parlor with all the great actresses. Can't think of the name of it at the moment.



Of course, I'm a big softie though, and cry at pretty much anything. :hide:

That scene where the old man goes back to France to talk to the grave stones and hopes he was worth the sacrifice...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTv9QgPrXCU

Thank you for reminding me.

... the previously mentioned Grave of the Fireflies.

It's about four children who are abandoned in a Tokyo apartment.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E5D9103BF937A35751C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all">Here is an article about it.

http://www.britishvillas.co.uk/a-summer-story.htm

and The Seventh Stream

http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Stream-Scott-Glenn/dp/B000065U2V/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254685577&sr=1-1

An old Carol Burnett, Walter Matthau flick. It will make you laugh a little and cry alot. Very well done. I won't get into the particulars except that Pete and Tilly have a child.