Movies that made you cry [Archive] - Soulforce Community Forums

BenL

06-01-2007, 08:37 AM

I lifted this quote from Daniel in the thread on Anger in the Faith and Nonviolence forum:
And maybe it's just me, but at some point I can find myself crying. I make no bones about it. It isn't a weakness. Sometimes I thank God I am gay so I can cry. Like when I watched Brokeback and sobbed.
I watched Rent (the movie) over the weekend for the first time. I bawled during Angel's death scene and funeral. Afterward I was flabbergasted at how deeply it touched me. I even talked about it with my therapist. One thing we talked about was how much the AIDS epidemic has affected those of us who lost so many friends.
How about you? What film moved you to tears and why? Do you think GLBT people cry more or "better" than the rest of the population?

dsdrane

06-01-2007, 09:01 AM

BrianB

06-01-2007, 12:56 PM

I've been known to cry at AT&T commercials ("I just called to say I love you, Mom"...I mean: c'mon! [sniff] Gets me every time.)

However, the best kind of cry is the one that grabs you the scruff of the neck, yanks you up and gets you laughing through your tears...and that's exactly what Steel Magnolias does.

That scene in the cemetery when M'Lynn (Sally Field) is raging against the heavens smacks you right in the gob, but when Clairee (Olympia Dukakis) offers Ouiser (Shirley MacLaine) as an outlet for M'Lynn fury, you bust a gut.

Flippin' fabulous is what it is.

God, how I love those women! :cool::cookie::award:
That is the first movie I thought of when I read this question. Never cried and laughed at the same time while watching a movie before.

There was one made for TV movie starring Julie Andrews where she plays the mother of a young man with AIDS. I don't remember the name of the movie but it was a real tear-jerker.
The name of the movie is "Our Sons". It is out on DVD and well worth viewing.

suzer1013

06-01-2007, 04:14 PM

My biggest "cry" movie is "Sophie's Choice." I've seen it once, and I'll never watch it again. The book was fantastic, too, but I don't think I could put myself through that again.

A more recent movie I cried during was "Memoirs of a Geisha." It wasn't necessarily a tearjerker, but at the moment the young girl first looked at the man who had been kind to her (I can't remember the character's names at the moment), I lost it. She was so shocked at the kindness, and I think I could relate to something within her, about having been treated badly and having a man do something that is so simple, but so kind and loving, and feeling undeserving. I don't think I regained my composure for the rest of the movie.

And, of course, "Schindler's List."

Susan

Jennifer5

06-01-2007, 05:03 PM

RENT! I love that movie so much!!! ...and I think it's one of very few that I would watch that I would consider a tearjerker. Other then that.. life does enough for us.... :love:

tpdncr4christ

06-01-2007, 05:17 PM

ever... so when I watched Angels in America in my advanced drama class and found my self bawling with all the other twelve students in my class I was astounded. No other movie has touched me like Angles, and I recommend that everyone should see it... It is amazing... touching, life changing. Great movie.

Dash

06-01-2007, 05:58 PM

I've been known to cry at AT&T commercials ("I just called to say I love you, Mom"...I mean: c'mon! [sniff] Gets me every time.)

Hahah!! My claim to fame is that I cried in Sister Act II (the SEQUEL!!!)

But...and getting very serious...

If you need to cry, watch Wit (2001, stars Emma Thompson) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243664/)

Be careful though. It'll tear your soul. I cried for days--uncontrolled sobbing--after I saw it.

Austin, I just cried my way through Angels In America this last weekend. So good! Oh man!

tdogg

06-01-2007, 06:06 PM

Yeah, Schindler's List will do it every time. The scene where Liam Neeson/Schindler is sobbing because he feels he could have saved more. :'(:'(:'(

The Color Purple, especially at the end. I've seen that movie numerous times and cry as bad as the first.

Any movie having to do with Secretariat (a famous racehorse). Watching his Belmont Stakes win and hearing the stretch call, never fails to bring me to tears.

Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, here here. There are so many others. Oh, that's not counting the Hallmark & Kodak commericals (whaaaahhhhhhh).

Today I was reading a local news article, where a man witnessed a horrible auto vs. semi accident. He stopped, got out and went to the young mans' car to find him completely encased in crushed metal. The young man's arm/hand was sticking out of the mess, and this man took his hand, comforted him and talked to him, encouraged him and listened to him for at least 10 minutes before emergency teams arrived. He died pretty much there, at least his hand was held by a loving caring soul. The man then later met the victims wife and family and spent a day with them. It was a complete tearjerker article.

Wow, hope I didn't put a damper on things. I gotta go cry again! :'(:love:

lydiam

06-01-2007, 06:29 PM

I watched RENT again this past weekend and LOST IT! :'(Again! I usually start crying about the time the preview end and quit crying only a few days after the credits stop rolling;). My other big tear jerkers are Life Is Beautiful and I Am Sam. They get me everytime. I've got plenty of others.

I think part of the reason we cry so well:D is we know first hand what it feels like to be an "other" and an outcast and so we have a leg up on really feeling what the character is feeling... I don't know, just a thought.

BrentRichards

06-01-2007, 07:25 PM

Gee, where to begin ... Pulp Fiction, Caddyshack, Star Wars the Phantom Menace ... ok, sorry, none of those.

I was fortunate to grow up in a household that didn't buy the "boys don't cry" crap ... we used to say that Dad cried at grocery store openings. A few that always get me:

Get Real
Lorenzo's Oil
The Cure
Loss For Words

Actually, it's silly to even make this list for me ... never know what might set me off and get me crying ... for example, I cry without fail at the end of "Rat Race" ... which is about as far from a typically "touching" movie as you can get.

tdogg

06-01-2007, 09:09 PM

Darn I forgot this one:

Brokeback Mountain - esp the shirt scene :'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(

Sherrie Z

06-02-2007, 02:59 AM

d_pedr

06-02-2007, 07:31 AM

T-dog
couldn't agree more
the shirt scene in Brkeback Mountain:'(:'(:'(

Philedelphia is another, (not watched for a long time), but especially the scenes where it focuses on the lawyer played by Tom Hanks and his long term partner:'(:'( - sorry names have gone out of my head for the moment.

d_pedr:'(

dewdrop_world

06-02-2007, 08:05 AM

Cinema Paradiso (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/), Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988.

Trust me on this one.

hjh

Britt.

06-02-2007, 05:30 PM

Dancer in the Dark, probably more because it was Bjork playing that role than what actually happened though. Fascinated w/ her for some reason.

Yesterday. Aids in Africa. Her father had kept telling her, "Yesterday is always better than today."

It's My Party You know the man is going to die from reading the back of the box, but it still got me.

Pablo Rafael

06-02-2007, 08:02 PM

Yesterday. Aids in Africa. Her father had kept telling her, "Yesterday is always better than today."

I agree with Britt. Anyone I have ever talked to that has seenYesterday has been moved by it. If you haven't seen it, put it in your Netflix queue.

I would like to add my all time #1 tear-jerker Glory.

There are a lot of movies that made me cry. ( But I cry easily. A break in my tough masculine image, I admit.) I won't try to list them all. In fact I have probably gone on longer than necessary as it is.

Tu Amigo, Pablo

Dash

06-02-2007, 08:39 PM

T-dog
couldn't agree more
the shirt scene in Brkeback Mountain:'(:'(:'(
(

I certainly agree about the shirt scene, but the part that took me out in Brokeback was when Ennis fell apart-- "It's cuz of you I'm like this...ain't nothin'...nobody!" :'(

That realization of how much time is lost suffering over sexuality and love...

foolish waste..

tdogg

06-03-2007, 12:47 PM

Yes, Dash, that part made me bawl like a newborn baby! :'(:'(:'(

u-dog

06-03-2007, 02:17 PM

The classic sentimental holiday tearjerker ... "It's a Wonderful Life" ... it doesn't matter how many times I've seen it ... even if I only see the last five minutes of the film ... that final scene gets me every time.

Oh man! We watch that movie every year on Thanksgiving night and I tear up EVERYTIME. I am a such a sucker for that movie. It's really pathetic.

BrentRichards

06-03-2007, 05:30 PM

It's My Party You know the man is going to die from reading the back of the box, but it still got me.

Oh man, yeah! I cried most of the way through that one!

kara speltz

06-03-2007, 06:33 PM

I lifted this quote from Daniel in the thread on Anger in the Faith and Nonviolence forum:

I watched Rent (the movie) over the weekend for the first time. I bawled during Angel's death scene and funeral. Afterward I was flabbergasted at how deeply it touched me. I even talked about it with my therapist. One thing we talked about was how much the AIDS epidemic has affected those of us who lost so many friends.
How about you? What film moved you to tears and why? Do you think GLBT people cry more or "better" than the rest of the population?

Long Time Companion is the one that got me in terms of AIDS. I went to see it with my friend AJ, and he died just a few months after. So the next time I saw it, I bawled like a baby.

The only other movie I cried that much at was, "Imitation of Life." They made the two versions one in the 40s and the other I think in the 60s. The scene where Susan Kohner goes running after her mother's funeral herse had be literally sobbing so much that the whole theatre heard me.

kara

BrentRichards

06-03-2007, 06:36 PM

The only other movie I cried that much at was, "Imitation of Life." They made the two versions one in the 40s and the other I think in the 60s. The scene where Susan Kohner goes running after her mother's funeral herse had be literally sobbing so much that the whole theatre heard me.

kara

Here we go again ... you're all reminding me of movies I cried at ... I'm thinking I might be a bit of a crier.

Sherrie Z

06-04-2007, 10:58 AM

Oh man! We watch that movie every year on Thanksgiving night and I tear up EVERYTIME. I am a such a sucker for that movie. It's really pathetic.

Maybe every time we cry at this film, an angel gets their wings ... : )

mortensen_jon

06-04-2007, 03:21 PM

Billy Elliott, Schindler's List, Color Purple....

Alecto

06-06-2007, 01:31 AM

Am I the only one that cried at Brokeback when he went to see Jack's mother? Shirt scene might not have gotten me if I wasn't already done from that.

What else? The Notebook (straight friends made me watch it ::grump:: ), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (I know, I know, but when Bernadette is talking to the one that got bashed... ), Boys Don't Cry,

...a LOT more depending on my mood. (Garden State and Equilibrium, for example, but I think it says a LOT more about me than it does anything about the movies).

Sandi

06-06-2007, 01:43 AM

Long Time Companion is the one that got me in terms of AIDS. I went to see it with my friend AJ, and he died just a few months after. So the next time I saw it, I bawled like a baby.

The only other movie I cried that much at was, "Imitation of Life." They made the two versions one in the 40s and the other I think in the 60s. The scene where Susan Kohner goes running after her mother's funeral herse had be literally sobbing so much that the whole theatre heard me.

kara
I can't believe you mentioned "Imitation of Life"! I can remember watching that movie for the first time (the version with LanaTurner)...I was a teenager and folding towels from the dryer. Before I knew I had tears streaming down my face and a towel over my mouth to keep me from waking others with my sobbing. Yes, that's a good one! The funeral scene with her screaming "Mama! Mama!"

Guess I have to add it to NetFlicks. Thanks for the memory!

Sandi

Progo35

06-06-2007, 09:56 PM

The thing I love about "It's a Wonderful Life" is that it NEVER gets old. Everyone has been where George is, even if they didn't almost throw themselves off a bridge. And, it is so true that we forget the impact we have on each other when things seem black. That movie had so much meaning for me when I was 18, after the second time that asked for Christ's grace and salvation. I had been in excruciating pain before this, feeling abandoned by God because of really bad experiences with church folk, so badly that I developed an eating disorder...and I realized that underlying my anguish was my feeling of having lost with my ultimate mentor and friend, and I realized that this had really undermined my sense of self...so, when Clarence takes George to the graveyard and he sees his brother's grave, and jumps up and accuses Clarence of lying, and Clarence says, "Every man on that transport died. Harry wasn't there to save them because you weren't there to save Harry." Tears were falling down my cheeks. Afterwards I and my younger neighbors went out and played in the snow. They night was very clear, and the shining silvery tone of the snow and stars was magical-it just clinched the meaning of the story for me.

Another movie that I recently cried over was "Bridge To Terabithia," it just touched on some loss issues I've been experiencing over the last couple of years but expressed these feelings beautifullly. I also used to love playing in the woods and imagining things with my neighbor when I was in elementary school.

tdogg

06-06-2007, 11:56 PM

What else? The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (I know, I know, but when Bernadette is talking to the one that got bashed... )

Ok, cool. I was embarrassed to put that down, but now that someone else has taken a jump into the waters...

YES, totally CRIED MY BABY GREEN EYES OUT!!! :'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(

There were other scenes in that movie too....I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who got on a cryin' jag with Priscilla!! :rolleyes:

Zerbie

06-07-2007, 01:25 AM

Ok, cool. I was embarrassed to put that down, but now that someone else has taken a jump into the waters...

YES, totally CRIED MY BABY GREEN EYES OUT!!! :'(:'(:'(:'(:'(:'(

There were other scenes in that movie too....I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who got on a cryin' jag with Priscilla!! :rolleyes:

OMG YES!! :D I don't think of it, but, yeah.

That movie has a certain extra meaning to me according to the circumstances when I first saw it. I had just lost the girl I was in love with (like, the night before), & totally in panic over what the hell my orientation was, uncontrollable weeping, when a friend (straight chick) sat me down in front of that movie. It's total therapy for me. View it once or twice more & I'll probably have the whole script memorized. Quite the surprise that I don't actually own it. One more time watching & I won't need to, it'll be burned in. :p

The day I first saw it, I sat there crying during the scene where whatsisname (what IS the protagonist's NAME, anyway?? I can never understand what they call him.:o) is afraid to tell his little son that he's gay & he puts on the macho straight act but the kid ignores it and asks him if he has a boyfriend. BAWLING. :'(:'(:'(:lol: :lol::lol:

tdogg

06-07-2007, 09:50 AM

it is a great movie. Never fails to move me, laughing and crying and I've seen it numerous times. I can't think of his name off-hand, but the defining actor for me was Terrence Stamp - Bernadette. What an incredible performance, totally believeable. I lived that movie, not watched it!

Another great one, Flawless with Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Excellent movie!!! If we lived closer you could borrow them all!

Zerbie

06-07-2007, 12:59 PM

I agree. But I love Hugo Weaving. :love:

I just looked it up. Hugo Weaving played "Tick" in Priscilla, no wonder I couldn't figure out the name! What kind of first name is Tick?

Vanessa White

06-07-2007, 01:51 PM

Because I cry at many things- happy, sad, frustrating, internal angst and struggle- you name it! From commercials to sitcoms to ten-hankie films..... Some of my faves are: Titanic, English Patient, Elizabethtown, It's A Wonderful Life, the one that Kara mentioned that I right now cannot recall due to my aging brain, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, Top Gun (really!), and one of the biggest for me in a long time is Brokeback Mountain- the shirt scene, the scene with Jack's mother and Ennis, the scene where Jack's wife is talking to Ennis on the phone- it is all raw, emotional pain. Also, Desert Hearts from years ago, I have never seen Priscilla but now I want to!

I am a total crybaby!!! That reminds me- Edward Scissorhands also I will add to the list.

Progo35

06-08-2007, 01:38 AM

Another goood movie that would be worth renting some time is the Third movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy...which I can't remember the name of right now...but there is a scene in there after this Vietnese woman's American husband has died and she prays for him with a Buddhist monk-it just summed up the human struggle and was a tear jerker for me at the time.

I always cry during the last scenes in "My Girl," and am always shocked when I see it in the "comedy" section of the video store...I LOVE Patch Adams and cry during his dialogue with God followed by the butterfly...I also really like Simon Birch...it's a neat film that wasn't that widely known-and The Mighty, one of the only mainline films I know that has a (somewhat) positive depiction of learning disabled people. (by LD, I mean things like dyslexia, to me, things like down syndrome are better referred to as "mental challenges" or something like that, to avoid confusion between overall cognitive impairments and those that are present in a person of otherwise average or above average intelligence.) Another recent film that I really liked was "The Night Listener"-it really touched a chord because of the relationship the main character developed with someone who may not have ever existed, and his coming to terms with that...in terms of gay issues, I also liked that the film incorporated that as a matter of fact characteristic that impacted the char'acter's life. Bias was portrayed but it being gay was just another characteristic of that character. But, anyway, I really start to cry when Gabriel talks about the Velveteen Rabbit at the end...I love that story, esp. the FHE video version of it, which also made me cry the whole way through the last time I watched it.