Top 5 movies that choked you up or made you cry?

unranked:

American Beauty ("It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world")
Schindler's List
The Fourth World War
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Baraka

... and those are just the ones I can think of right off. There's more, it doesn't happen often but the right type of movie will do it for me.

[Edited on Oct 09, 2005 by MisterDionysos]

truthfully I cannot think of five - I'm not the type that cries regularly if at all - not that there is anything wrong with a good cry.

But - Big Fish - for some reason the last 15-20 minutes of that film

has me blubbing like a schoolgirl with a skinned knee. I'm talking major waterworks, in fact so many tears fall that friends don't even take the Michael as they think that it is something more then it is. It was on TV the other night and they changed the channel.

I really don't know why I cry, but if works every time.

Oh and Finding Neverland has an impact as well.



[Edited on Oct 09, 2005 by Nezza]

The Notebook
Butterfly Effect
What Dreams May Come
Free Willy (yeh, shut up)
My Girl

and Spinal Tap when Nigel joins the band on stage at the end.

:::::singing::::: Born Free as free as the wind blows..... sorry I just love that movie I have a really old music box that plays that song. Born Free

old yeller

more to follow

If I can only name 5 I'd have to say

Beaches
Steel Magnolias
The Green Mile
Saving Private Ryan
Man in the Moon
The Champ (oops that's 6! Sue me)

This list could go on and on and on and on and on much like this last sentence!

I don't cry in movies- but the ones that make me feel all emotional:

Kramer vs Kramer - ok, i probably cried in this.
The last episode of Blackadder 4 (seriously... wars suck)
Mask - The only thing Cher did that I really liked.
Elephant Man - ok, I know i cried in this.
Blow - at the end- it is so sad when you see the 'real' characters picture. Blub Blub.

Ok, maybe I am just a big softie.

I am sam
Forest Gump
Green Mile
Edward Scissorhands
That home made porn film I found of my mum and dad

Serenity (seriously)
ET when i was a kid
Eternal Sunshine
Grave of the fireflies

And ummmm...spiderman, for some bizzare reason.

Oh and the fucking transformers movie!

Yeah i cry alot

1. Jude
2. Lolita
3. The English Patient
4. Sling Blade
5. Leaving Las Vegas

Dude. Amelie.

1. The Iron Giant
2. LOTR-Return of the King
3. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
4. The Godfather Part III
5. An American Tail

But...they were all manly tears! *starts bulking up in the gym*

The Elephant Man
Million Dollar Baby
Once Were Warriors
and of course Old Yeller

I am a freaking sap. I have cried during and after a lot of movies. These are the ones that instantly came to mind though.

Glory
The Shawshank Redemption
Titanic
Riding In Cars With Boys (the end with her dad...my dad had passed away not long before that and that part still to this day makes me sad)
The Notebook (I was damn near about to go into hysterics when I saw this. Much for the same reason as Boys. My mother had never been with another man and I thought about my parents too much)

haha

the notebook is a good one
the constant gardener
hotel rwanda
meet your meat
peta's recent investigation into the dog/cat fur trade (see peta.com)

Ikiru
Joy Luck Club

Hotel Rwanda
Pieces of April
Magnolia

Surely there's more... I just can't come up with anything else off the top of my head right now.

ok so the thought that I may be dead inside because I haven't cried at the movies for a VERY long time has been put to rest since I've been scanning these titles and thinking "oh yeah, I sure did cry at that one." here is a list just off the top of my head, i know there are more

1. Life is Beautiful
2. I Am Sam
3. Iron Giant
4. A.I.
5. Amelie
6. Forrest Gump

the embarrasing one: Mulan

The Thin Red Line
2010
Sophie's Choice
Last of the Mohicans