Movie that Made Me Cry (shed a few manly tears of sorrow)
These are movies that have made me cry over the last several years. The top few in the list get me every time.
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- DirectorPeter ChelsomStarsKieran CulkinElden HensonSharon StoneKevin suffers from a Morquio's syndrome, which weakens his heart and stunts his growth. Maxwell has dyslexia and towers above his classmates. The two couldn't be more different, but, when Kevin is asked to help Maxwell, they soon bond.It's obvious when it hit me. It hit me hard the first time, too. I recommend this movie highly, it's a powerful story of friendship.
One word: laundry. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.Two parts got me: When the army officials were arriving to bring the news to the mother of her 3 sons' deaths, and the scene in the field when the soldier was dying and crying for his mother.
- DirectorRyan LittleStarsCorbin AllredAlexander PolinskyKirby HeyborneFour American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.Two parts got me here too: When Deacon recognized the German soldier from his mission, and toward the end with the cigarette.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.The whole movie is powerful, emotional, sad and depressing, but the part that got me was the end when Schindler was realizing how many more people he could've saved.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel BarrymoreAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.This movie gets me every time at the end. It makes me feel gracious for everything I have, and it warms the heart and helps you remember the power of human kindness.
- DirectorJonathan DaytonValerie FarisStarsSteve CarellToni ColletteGreg KinnearA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.The color-blind test scene.
- DirectorTim BurtonStarsEwan McGregorAlbert FinneyBilly CrudupA frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.At the end when he's bringing his father down to the river, and all his friends are there.
- DirectorGary SiniseStarsJohn MalkovichGary SiniseRay WalstonA nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.Kinda obvious when.
- DirectorPaul HaggisStarsDon CheadleSandra BullockThandiwe NewtonLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.The scene that contains the picture on the left
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksHelen HuntPaul SanchezA FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.When he loses Wilson at sea. For the 4 years he was on that island, Wilson was the closest thing to human companionship he had. So when he lost him, I bet that was the loneliest he ever felt. It finally pushed him over the edge and he realized how alone and hopeless he was.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsJim CarreyEd HarrisLaura LinneyAn insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.The ending, when he's banging on the wall.
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsDon CheadleSophie OkonedoJoaquin PhoenixPaul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsTsutomu TatsumiAyano ShiraishiAkemi YamaguchiA young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.I'd heard this was a tear-jerker and I told myself I wasn't gonna get suckered into crying. I was wrong.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsHugh JackmanRachel WeiszSean Patrick ThomasAs a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.When emotions run high.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.The rock-bottom ending.
- DirectorLasse HallströmStarsJohnny DeppLeonardo DiCaprioJuliette LewisA young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness.When he was hitting his brother, who didn't have a clue why.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsBradley CooperSienna MillerKyle GallnerNavy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.Not a dry eye in the audience at the end. I've never heard it so silent leaving a theater.
- DirectorJoseph KosinskiStarsJosh BrolinMiles TellerJeff BridgesBased on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.Without spoiling anything, I expected something tragic to happen, but the magnitude of it was completely unexpected and hit ALL of us hard at the theater. So many people were crying.
- DirectorMark HermanStarsAsa ButterfieldDavid ThewlisRupert FriendThrough the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.The ending.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsPeter BillingsleyMelinda DillonDarren McGavinIn the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.Ok, let me explain this one: First of all, this movie hits home for me. It's not only a phenomenal Christmas movie, but it's a lot about family and tradition; it's extremely relatable for me. It hits me twice: The scene toward the end when his father lives vicariously though his son as he opens his "final gift," and the scene when Ralphie's mother stops his fight, and he starts to cry. The latter scene hits me, as I was no stranger to being bullied as a kid, but I never had the courage, nor was I ever pushed far enough, to feel so beaten and cornered to lash out like he did, so I emotionally empathized with Ralphie, poor guy. And the way his brother looked out for him by grabbing both his glasses and mother, and even FURTHER, the way his mom avoided telling the details of the fight to Ralphie's dad, leading to the source of the final tear down my cheek, when Narrator Ralphie explains that after that, his relationship with his mother had grown ("From then on, things were different between me and my mother").
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsJames WhitmoreBeverly GarlandJack GingWhere the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.Childhood classic emotional ride. Not just the ending, but the "axe" scene always kinda got to me as well.
