Bambi has what is perhaps the most famous tear jerker moments, but what other movies get to you every time - even if you've seen them before.

Example, for me, I tear (ok, guys aren't supposed to, but I do) every time I watch the scene where Hobson dies in Arthur.

Fuckin' everybody cried when they watched Bambi. It's one of the few movies that men are actually allowed to cry at, along with Old Yeller and any movie in which John Wayne dies.


However.


I don't usually watch tear-jerkers. I've never seen Titanic, Beaches, Brian's Song or Ice Castles. But yeah, there are movies that hit me hard enough to make the tears come. First one to pop into my head was Saving Private Ryan when Private Ryan (as an old man, at the end of the movie) looks up and pleads for his family to tell him he's led a good life. That scene just lays me flat every time.

Other good tear-jerkers:

What Dreams May Come (Great flick, but I bawled all the way through the damn thing. Losing a loved one sucks.)
Big Fish
Steel Magnolias (Yeah, I've seen it. And I cried. Wanna make something of it??)
Return of the King (When Faramir led the charge on Osgiliath and Pippin was singing- I didn't quite cry, but it was close. There was a big lump in my throat for that one.)
Hook (The scene at the end, when the kids jump out of their beds and into their mother's arms and she loses it... for some reason, that scene gets to me.)

Brooks' last letter, in The Shawshank Redemption, was the closest ever to getting me going. I just love that scene, it's perfection personnified.

Also, the death of Harry in Armageddon was very well done, although for other reasons, and always makes me go all misty

As for others.... I'm not a very empathic person, so it generally doesn't get to me.
Afterall, I'm the kid who was almost smothered with a pillow because during Bambi, I was sat to one side saying: "Go on.. go on... little to the left... little more...." *BAM* "YAYYY!!!!"

I've cried for more books than movies, but Love Story was an exception. Then again, I did see it when I was 12.

Oh, and Moulin Rouge had me going for a few seconds as well.

I must admit, like all men, I cried at the end of The Dirty Dozen, when Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts, and Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...


Err...please tell me I'm not the only one who knows what movie that line is paraphrased from...(I've never actually seen The Dirty Dozen)

Anyways, like Katiz, I cry more at books than movies (couldn't finish the last few chapters of Taggerung for a week because I thought he was going to die,) but there are a couple that have got to me. Big Fish is one, Armegeddon sorta was, more just sad then tear-jerking, but the oddest one for me was at the end of The Last Samurai when the head Samurai gets mowed down by the gatling-gun, it just got to me somehow...

Eternal Sunshine made me cry once. I think Forrest Gump was the first one that ever made me cry.

Man...I got misty at The Last Samurai too, but what really got me was when Tom Cruise was talking to the Emperor.
"Tell me how he died."
"No...I'll tell you how he lived"

And that just made me flash through the entire movie again and I started to cry when I was reminded of how great of a man was mercilessly killed.

I just realized I left out one of the biggies.


At the end of Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan, when Spock died, my dad and I sat next to each other in the theater and cried. He was the most beloved character from a TV show that we'd watched together for many years, and his death scene was one of the most powerfully moving movie moments of my life (up to that point).

Oh, I totally cried at the end of Wrath of Khan. But it was years after the third movie came out, so everyone else in the room looked at me weird like I should've known what the end result would be.

And I would've cried at the end of Nemesis if I hadn't been so pissed off by the rest of the movie.

I also forgot about Gladiator. That one had me bawling. I think it's the music at the end that did it. I got goosebumbs, then as the credits started to roll I started leaking. Damn you, Hans Zimmer!

But still books seriously outnumber movies. Especially Heinlein books. I don't think he meant to make them tear jerkers, but they really get me going.

As a child, my cousins (all of the older boys) caught me crying and said some simple words that just seemed to stick, "Boys don't cry, stop crying." It's a rather rare occassion that I cry.

A movie that came DAMN close was Saving Private Ryan at the end where he asks if he's led a good life. On a similar topic, there is also a painting I see every so often in a Print Plus (I think that's the name) store of a Vietnam veteran touching the Vietnam War Memorial and in the reflection is his company. THAT, THAT really moved me.

Here's a list of movies that really moved me to the point of an immovable shudder (yeah, it might not quite make sense to y'all, but it does to me):
La Amistad
Life is Beautiful (Amazing testimony of love and the afterlife)
[EDIT] Yeah, that should be What Dreams May Come though Life is Beautiful was a rather touching movie.[/EDIT]

Schindler's List

As for Bambi you can say I was quite desensitized by all of the "Predator and Prey" nature shows I watched as a kid. *smirks* Aww, look at the tough kids cry . . . *grins* yeah, I met retaliation from the teary-eyed kids later.

I don't cry. I haven't shed a tear over anything in longer than I can remember. I know there are some movie moments that have put a lump in my throat. The most recent (and the only one that jumps to mind) is Ladder 49. Then again, my father used to be a fireman, and as a kid I used to worry he'd end up caught in a burning building, so the entire movie really caught my imagination.

And I never cried for Bambi as a kid, because for some weird reason I never saw Bambi.

When I was little I cried at the Benji movies, but all time was Old Yeller.

Oh man, totally. I hadn't ever finished reading ROTK so I had no idea what the ending was either, and that part got me going too. I also agree with Schindler's List and Gladiator. And I'm nominating Donnie Darko and Dragonheart.

The end of Glory, when they charge up that last hill to the Confederate fort...that is probably the closest I ever came to crying in a movie. Something about that scene just gets me.

As far back as I can remember, I've only cried during one movie. That was Phenomenon, when John Travolta died. I was pretty young, but still. For some reason movies really don't make me cry. They make me sad, and sometimes I'll cry later because of something it made me think about, but rarely do the plots of movies ever actually make me cry.

Oh grief, Schindler's List. I have never cried at so many separate intervals in any one film as that.
The scene in The Sixth Sense, as they're sat in the car talking about his grandma.
And finally, The Lion King. Because Mufasa was my favourite.

When I was 3yrsold, it was "Snoopy Come Home"
Since then, "Shadowlands" (C.S. Lewis bio-pic), and
that's about it...
personally, we prefer action/comedy, since life has enough drama.

I remember Snoopy Come Home! I cried as well...damn, I was so young. And since then, Snoopy has become my favorite cartoon character by far. My favorite stuffed animal is a Snoopy! *sheds a tear due to reminiscing*

And then there was the scene from Castaway when Wilson floated away. Don't know why, but a couple tears got away from me there.

And definitely at the end of The Last Samurai. That was one of the most powerful and touching movies I've seen in a long time.

Oh good, other people cried at Last Samurai too; I figured I wasn't the only one, but when I told a friend that the ending was really sad and emotional for me, because it represented the death of all those values, etc, he just laughed his ass off at me...But then I found out he cried at Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which I guess didn't get to me because I have never been in a relationship (his first real relationship had just ended recently, so he connected more to the movie or something...)

Life is Beautiful is the only movie to make me full-out cry. As in more than one tear.
Couple of tears were shedded cause of Gladiator, Ghost (in my defence, I was young), Wrath of Khan... there's a couple more, can't remember.

Oh, I also cried when I saw Final Destination 2, but that was a different kind of sadness. Like, "I'm sorry, brain!" tears.

Totally, Totally, Totally Return of the King. With the aforementioned Faramir and Osgiliath bit, and also when sam carries Frodo up Mount Doom at the end. And, when Frodo leaves for the Grey Havens. Bawled like a little bitch...

I cried when Mufasa died in Lion King, and also, in Deep Impact, when the girl left her parents and took her baby sister to higher ground...

I think that's all for me...

Wrath of Khan, Nemesis, and Big Fish pretty much does it for me. Anything else, its "aww, man, that sucks," or something to that effect.

I guess I'm one of the only males that will admit to crying. I really don't mind saying that I've cried during a movie.

.. Pretty much everyone that posted in this thread has admited to crying because of a movie.

Woman.

Well...wait...I had a point, but now you've made me forget it.

Movies that made me cry..

Well I cried during where the red fern grows back in fifth grade I think it was hormones though cause I can watch that movie and remain dry eyed nowadays.

Dangerous Minds made me cry the first time I saw it.. right after that guy dies. I still get a little misty eyed at that part.

Last samurai makes me cry though every time I watch it.. right at the end during the battle scene. *sniffle* I need a tissue.

I cried all the way through Joy Luck Club. I was living in the city of Chicago all alone in a 3 flat. The house was of an Asyrian family I was renting it from and they had 4 girls who had moved out. I think the left over estrogen had gotten to me

Riiiiiiiiggggghhhhhtttt....

How'd you do during "Devine Secrects of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood?" and "Now and Then"?

Saw the Ya Ya and did fine.. course I saw it with my wife and typically I'll choke crap down sittin with her. But honestly can't remember that movie too well.

The other one never saw.

I tend to constantly laugh in sad movies, pissing off the girl or whomever I'm seeing it with.

They're just so corny...(at least the romantic ones).

But I will admit that the Korean movie "My Sassy Girl" really got to me...I didn't cry but was thinking about it for many days afterwards.

I gotta give my pick to Turner and Hooch the part in the warehouse when Hooch was shot always gets me, then Tom Hanks is talking to him afterward and he is dying i drop a tear everytime............