Shawshank Redemption
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Bicentennial Man
When I was a kid, every year or so I would see kiki's delivery service on tv.
It wasn't sad or anything like that, but I always swelled up with emotions that I didn't understand and would quietly cry
Return to Paradise. Yet to talk with anyone that's seen it but I cried so much I've never been able to watch it again
The crying game
It's a Wonderful Life, every time
Several plot points in that film are absolutely horrifying like the shopkeeper deafening him as a child
He was deafened by an ear infection after diving into a frozen pond to save his brother from drowning. Later he prevented Mr. Gower from accidentally poisoning a child when Gower was distracted by grief. I do believe Gower hit him during that sequence though, if that's what you're referring to. And yeah that last part is rough but sometimes life and history are unpleasant.
Ah yeah that was it. Has been a while!
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan always makes me cry. The death of Spock, the exchange between him and Kirk, it always kills me.
For me it is Shatner's performance during the funeral. Any time Shatner's acting gets made fun of I bring it up.
Grave of the Fireflies is a good one and has been mentioned a few times already.
Fox and the Hound has several tear jerker moments, though most memorable for me is when Todd is returned to the forest.
Land Before Time was my first parent death in a film that I can remember. And unlike Bambi, this movie shows more of the consequences of losing a mother at that young of an age.
Not exactly "cry", but Terminator 2 was very emotional for me. And it wasn't just the ending, it was the theme song in conjunction with it. Even right before the movie, the whole opening sequence (before the events of the stories start) with the
spoiler
People just enjoying life and the nuke just going off, it was so... emotional... like very high stakes... such tragedy...
The depictions of the fires just slowly burning through everything...
All of this destruction is a version of the future that already happened, and the last hope for humanity is some kid that hasn't even grown up yet...
Whenever the theme plays, the I feel like I've accended beyond the linear 3D plane and went into the 5D world and I can visualize the entire Terminator timeline. Its just this concept of time travel is so fascinting.
It's tragedy, its genocide, and the small glimmer of hope, all contained in a single soundtrack. The spirit of the entire series (especially T2) is all described by this one single magnificient soundtrack.
Grave Of The Fireflies. Two children trying to survive in Japan during World War 2
- Don't mind me turning to dust in my chair.
1990? Old? Get off my lawn!
Oh, don't be coy. We can already smell the soil on you.
Old Yeller
If that movie doesn't get you to shed a tear, you're not human.
I'm a pretty hard-boiled tough guy by most standards, and I'm getting a little misty just thinking about it.
Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. It's been 22 years since release ...
That is not an old movie. It's not a recent movie, but it's not an old movie.
Debatable. There are adults who weren't even born back then.
Almost none of these are old movies
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Powerful ending, just excellent.
No idea if it holds up in the current era.
I think it holds up. But I'm biased because it's on my top 5 movies of all time.
Great film. I hate to call it old. Even though I realize it is now.
Not before 1990 but when I watched Terminator 2 as a kid I cried when they lowered the t-850 it into the molten slag.
2010 (Space Odyssey 2).
Don't cry, it's only thunder.
Grave of the fireflies.
Blade runner.
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
1989
E. T.
Honorable mention: The Neverending Story. Cried during one scene in the movie, not the end.
Artax :_(
Of the relatively recent movies, Interstellar. You know the scene. Or scenes.
Batteries Not Included
Life Is Beautiful
Came here to add this.
Definitely better to watch with subtitles.
Just saw Elephant Man at the Music Box Theatre. Incredibly moving film if you haven't seen it. They're currently running a film series on David Lynch and that was the first of his films I had ever seen. Planning to see more this week if I can!
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Schindler's List
It is a cinematic triumph and a film that everyone should see. With that said, I am unable to ever view it again. The scene where Schindler is breaking down realizing that if he didn't have expensive items he could have saved more people just absolutely killed me.
That plus the descendants of those he saved placing stones on his grave
"Paths of Glory" is one of Kubrick's most underated films (or at least lesser known) and the ending is pure emotional power.
The fact that you just spent almost 90 minutes hating humanity and the shitty situations in which we put ourselves as a species, only to be able to come away from the film thinking "we're not all bad" because of what happens in the final 10 minutes blows my mind.
If you haven't seen it, I can't recommend it enough.
Oldboy. no, not because it's sad
Almost every Charlie Chaplin’s movie.
This mashup is great. i cri evrytim
Yes, and that speech is even now important. Chaplin was a great man.
It's really incredible how timely it is 100 fucking years later.
An Affair to Remember (1957) Yes I did watch it because it is referenced in Sleepless in Seattle and yes I did blubber cry just like the SiS characters suggested.
After the Promise 1987
Escape from Sobibor 1987
Dang '87 was a tear jerker fest in my timeline.
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