Recommend me some tearjerker
How come no one mentioned Old Yellow?
doesn’t sound like friendship 2 me
@like2sleep: it’s a weird friendship, alright.
Here is a few.
Under the Same Moon (Mexico 2007 Patricia Riggen)
Life as a House (USA 2001 Irwin Winkler)
The Sea Inside (Spanish 2004 Alejandro Amenabar)
Innocent Voices (El Salvador 2004 Luis Mandoki)
Oasis (Korean 2002 Lee Chang-dong)
Pay it Forward (USA 2000 Mimi Leder )
The Color of Paradise (Iran 1999 Majid Majidi)
The King of Masks (China 1999 Wu Tian-Ming)
-a short film about killing
-lilja 4-ever
the Forgotten Ones by Luis Bunel is probably the hardest I’ve ever sobbed
for me it would be :
UP
atonement
it’s a wonderful life
MARLEY and ME
and Wall-e
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Wild Bunch
The Notebook
Time Traveller’s Wife
Both films featuring the lovely Rachel McAdams.
Ehrenstein, you are one sick puppy.
Imitation of Life
Pixote
In a year with 13 moons
Ju Dou (Yimou Zhang)
my eyes were still watering hours after I turned off my television set…
i always just say the passion of joan of arc. if you think that a 19 year old illiterate genious being bullied around and executed by a relentless mob is sad. and if you can deal with silent movies
I agree with Mr. Ehrenstein. watching the peaceful village interlude in The Wild Bunch, knowing that it is fleeting, is one of the most poignant moments in modern film.
The Elephant Man
Time To Leave
Tender Mercies
Lilya 4 Ever
I second Make Way for Tomorrow. It’s the last film I watched that made me cry. Before that, I think it was when I watched Waltz with Bashir at the cinema.
Some have already mentioned Umberto D, Imitation of Life (1959) and Make Way for Tomorrow, all of which reduce me to a puddle. I’d also mention Barbara Stanwyck at the end of Stella Dallas, Jean Gabin saying goodbye to Dita Parlo in Grand Illusion and the end of Nights of Cabiria. Oh, and for some reason, the end of 8 1/2. If I just listen to the music I get teary-eyed.
Almost forgot: The Apu Trilogy. Used up a lot of kleenex on those 3!
I third Make Way For Tomorrow. And it’s all the more tragic because it doesn’t try to force any cheap melodramatic staples…it just lets a melancholy situation play out to its subtle, earthy conclusion.
Although IN AMERICA is my number 1 tearjerker, I did ALMOST cry at the end of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Good movie.
And Caddyshack 2. For different reasons.
OF MICE AND MEN, the 1939 version by Lewis Milestone… not that a later edition wouldn’t do the trick, but Burgess Meridith and Lon Chaney, Jr. are hard to beat!
All or Nothing.
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. Not really a tear-jerker in the traditional sense. More like devastating.
I don’t think every film that makes you sad is necessarily a “tearjerker.”
Pixote
try
Farewell to Arms [Coop and Helen Hayes version only]
For whom the bell tolls
Casablanca
Tale of Two cities [Ronald Colman]
Love Affair [Irene Dunne]
Good Earth [Paul Muni]
Stella Dallas [Babs Stanwyck]
gosh there really are so many more
There are some mentioned up there that I would recommend as well like Up, Casablanca and It’s A Wonderful Life, but I thought I would mention a few that I see I have seen that have not been put on here yet and those are two films that I can think of at the moment. Try “The Best Years Of Our Lives” by William Wyler. It’s about some returning veterans coming home after WW2. Also, there is a great documentary that is about senior citizens who sing rock music called “Young At Heart.” I could hear a lot of nose sniffing during it in the theater and there is a scene in particular that really makes you cry uncontrollably.
Anthony's brother
“Paris Texas”
I was taken aback when I cried at the end of “Standing in the shadows of Motown”. Such a moving ending.