"Bridges of Madison County".......the ending gets me every time....she loved him, wanted to go with him but couldn't leave her children to follow her heart.  Reminds me of someone I know :(

MzHartz wrote:

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I just finished watching The Green Mile. That was a tearjerker.

The movie that gets my husband every time is Big Fish. Great movie!

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Oh the Green Mile!!  Yes..I bawled my eyes out!

Mr Hollands Opus

"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"

oh and "To Kill A Mockingbird"

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the Rose

The Australian movie "Rabbit Proof Fence" about the stolen generation.  Now that was sad!  And a true story at that!

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Bambi!!!!!

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My sister was little when we watched Bambi, maybe 4 years old. (There's a big age difference between us, she's currently 14.) When Bambi's mother got killed, she didn't even flinch. At the end of the movie, she looks at me and asks, "Where's Bambi's mom?" I replied, "She got shot by the hunter." My sister immediately started bawling!

Unfortunately my list would be too long   What can I say, I get emotionally invested in a movie

 

But my favorite is "Heart & Souls".  That's like a roller-coaster of emotions, back and forth between very happy and very sad about five times.

Everytime one of the characters accomplishes their goal I get happy, then when they have to leave it makes me get that pain in my throat that occurs when I try to avoid letting any tears flow.

I know it's not a movie but this brought tears to my eyes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVFF98kNg8Q

Wow, what an incredible list of good movies! I think there are different types of tearjerkers...there's the tragic, the dramatically sad, the touchingly joyful...so many! Here's a few of my faves, and yes, I cry every time I watch them...

Schindler's List - a magnificent depiction of one of the greatest human injustices of all time. I wept at the horror of it all, but also cried a bit for the beauty of the human spirit.

Awakenings - A  rollercoaster of joyful tears and sorrowful sobs for the fortunes of the group of people who somehow touch your heart.

Memoirs of a Geisha - An exotic, romantic tearjerker...the struggles of that beautiful, gentle soul and the powerful and undying love for a man finally satiated! {{sigh}} If you read the book, it's even better.

I forget what it was called, but there was a movie with Michael Keaten and Nicole Kidman where they are married and he gets cancer. Now cancer movies are terrible that way...but in one scene he is slow dancing with her at some fair, saying it was a special holiday for them. She's all "what...what is it?" and it was the day the doctors told him he would be dead by. And he was just fine that day...and they slow dance........holy crap....I could almost cry thinking about it......

yea.....I think I'm gonna go outside and smash up some bricks and haul them off by hand to the dump.....then eat my dinner of beef jerky and blatz...(FAAAAAAAARTTTT) YEP!

thats the one ghost dancer!!

a few winters ago it was just brutal through february weather wise, so I'd gotten into full on movie rental mode and indeed a few of these were "chick-flicks", but with that element of plausability to at least let me give it a chance.......

I think I cried at the end of Rocky 1 too tho, I was just proud of him.....the rest I cried during and after simply because they were so bad.

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Mr Hollands Opus

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Oh I am such a blubbering fool at the end of that movie.

I'm glad we started this thread, now I want to rent the one's I haven't seen yet... and just cry my eyes out....w/ Kaisha gone still I'm in a depressed kinda mood. 

I'm a tearophyiliac.  I cry at the drop of a hat during movies.  Thus I'll limit myself to movies that I actually saw in a theater:  "When a Man Loves a Woman", "Steel Magnolias", and "Forrest Gump".  I know the last one isn't a sad movie as a whole, but when Forrest is standing at Jennie's grave and talking to her under that big tree I just lost it.