I remember tearing up at the end of Lady Vengeance with her daughter and th music that was playing. I laughed out of surprise at the cake part but it was still beautiful.
several scenes in Cries and Whispers
pretty much all of In A Year of 13 Moons (my favorite film)
When Wall-E takes care of Eve after she shuts down… I bawled. Anyone… anyone? Nope, I figured. I’m lame.
Snow Falling on Cedars made me cry for hours afterward. I don’t know why it got to me. Wes Anderson frequently makes me cry, particularly in The Darjeeling Limited. Au Hasard Balthazar, Wild Strawberries, Brokeback Mountain.
Another confession… Love Actually.
not in any attempt to showcase some sort of machismo but, i dont think ive ever gotten close to crying in a film. films have made me feel great emotion but the physical reaction of crying was never one of them.
L’enfant. If you’ve seen it, you’ve probably felt something, too.
I’d never come close to crying because of a film until I saw Dancer in the Dark.
The final battle in Seven Samurai is the closest i’ve been to crying
Of course who can possibly keep from crying at the end of Dancer in the Dark!
But for sure, one of my favorite scenes of all time, is when Jimmy Stewart is all rumpled and worn out and barely has a voice in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”
Say what you will about Capra, but he knew how to make you cry.
(possible spoilers)
Shadowlands — after Joy dies, and Lewis & the child are mourning her
various scenes in Immortal Beloved
Shine – at the end, when grown adult David plays for a large audience & they show his old piano teacher in the crowd, proud as can be.
My Left Foot — the part where Christy writes “MOTHER” with his foot, using chalk.
I know this is hokey…but in The Color Purple I weep like a baby twice. I’ve seen this movie 428,526 times, but it still gets me.
1. When Mister forces Nettie off his property (yeah, you remember it)
2. When Nettie comes home at the end, but specifically when Whoopi stands in front of them all and hesitantly begins her hand-slapping game with Nettie, trembling and crying…yeah, that tears me up
OH…and Old Yeller. I’m bawling by the end of the credits, I can’t even watch that movie.
Let’s see. Elegy, Benjamin Button, (sadly) Gran Torino, and I’ve Loved You So Long were all movies that made me cry this year.
The end of Brokeback Mountain when Heath is living alone in the trailer and we see that he has kept Jake’s shirt. A real tear-jerker for me for some reason.
american history x when edward furlong dies
Wall-E had me teared up
In the Silent Short Film in TALK TO HER.
The Final Scene of LA VIE EN ROSE.
i’m a sap when it comes to tear-jerkers. if its played right the emotions will pour out of me like a fucking leaky faucet. here’s a few that really got to me:
the scene in Wings of Desire when the angel is trying to talk the man out of jumping. when the man does end up jumping, the look of pain and agony on the angels face made me tear up.
the end of Wendy and Lucy when she finds her dog and realises she has to go on without her.
the ending of Life is Beautiful when the little kid finds his mother and says, “We won mommy!” still thinking it was all a game.
(this one is lame, but here we go…) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire when Harry brings back Cedric’s body to his father. the reaction of his father was too much for me. i never read the book, so i really didn’t know what to expect when that scene came up.
Lena’s final scene in Shoot the Piano Player
Ikiru (on the swing… devastating)
The entirety of Bicycle Thieves
Umberto D. (when his dog finds him, I don’t care if it’s melodramatic, as a dog owner (and film lover), I am destroyed by that scene)
There was a Father
Late Spring
The End of Summer
An Autumn Afternoon
Tokyo Story (Ozu makes me cry more than any other filmmaker, he barely has to do anything to do it, too, he’s amazing)
Au Hasard Balthazar (I saw Donald Ritchie talking about the film in the Criterion extra and he started crying just thinking about the last scene, that says it better than I could)
A Man Escaped (just because of the release, the tension in that film is astounding, it felt like a bus was lifted off of me at the end and crying was all I could do)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (I think that’s the only appropiate reaction to Renee Jean Falconetti’s beauty, and perfection on screen)
A Time to Live, a Time to Die (The whole family crying over the father gets me every time, just an overwhelming scene, and film)
Cries and Whispers (Harriet Andersson’s death is just so terrifyingly perfect)
… there’s more, but I think I’ve emasculated myself enough for the time being.
When Spock saves the ship in The WRATH OF KHAN, but fatally irradiates himself, and gives a farewell “live long and prosper” hand sign after saying “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.” I lost it.
The Letter reading during the finale of The Burmese Harp and the ending of the Ninth Configuration. The Documentary Ring of Fire, the meeting between The Boxer and the son of the man he killed in the ring.
OH CRAP…how could i forget When The Levees Broke? this movie had lots of moments, like when the guy is talking about how his Wheelchair bound mother-died and he had no choice but to leave her body in the house so he could try to escape and live? some of the photographs of dead bodies in the Superdome were chilling tear-jerkers. once scene of a dog caught on a fence—dead for days—had me bawling, mostly because it reminded me of all the animals there were torn apart from families.
dogs make me cry…
Lawrence – How could I forget the letter reading Burmese Harp. Also, when Mizushima walks away in the fog, and disappears. Masterful sequence.
Grave of the Fireflies
The Bicycle Thieves
COL. DAX…" I agree 100% ! The Burmese Harp is one of the most moving films i have ever seen. IKIRU.. i feel is another one.
when McMurphy has a lobotomy and Big Chief smothers him with a pillow. one flew over a cuckoo’s nest
These scenes don’t really make me cry but they do get my eyes watery:
the telephone conversation in the Diving Bell and the Butterfly with Max Von Sydow as the father
The last seen in Late Spring
The ending of Umberto D
The Passion of Joan of Arc when she sheds her first tears(which was strange because I didn’t felt that way the first time I saw it)
Oh and a lot the close-ups from Casablanca man are those something,just the way they look at each other towards the end…
that’s all i could think of for now.
Ending of The Orphanage made me cry like crazy.
Liam Neeson’s speech at the end of Schindler’s List.
Ending of La Vie En Rose.
When the old man sings “Fix You” in memory of his friend who passed away, in Young @ Heart.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest ending.
End of the Pianist.
Just got pretty emotional at a point in Mystic River
Wendy and Lucy – when Wendy bids goodbye to Lucy
The Bicycle Thief – when Ricci slaps his son and he walks away crying, the restaurant scene, and of course that final scene
stewart SFA Adams
Ikiru