Movies that have made me cry

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Taegukgi is most brutal movie for me to watch. I cry every single time at the ending and when I first watched the movie, I cried at three different parts. The first time I saw the ending, I kept crying for 30 minutes. Just listening to the main theme or thinking about the movie makes me cry.

Anyways, Taegukgi is a South Korean film about two brothers who are drafted into the army and go off to fight the North Koreans in the Korean War. The Korean War was the only recent war that my relatives were involved in. My half aunt's(whom I think of as my aunt and only recently found out she was my half aunt) dad was drafted and went to Korea with a friend to fight on the front lines. His friend was killed by a grenade, and the shrapnel of the grenade injured my aunt's father. Deppressed, he resorted to drinking which eventually resulted in his divorce of my grandmother. The man my grandmother later married, my grandfather Manuel, almost got drafted, but was left alone because he had asthma. On my father's side, my grandpa was drafted and served as lookout for Korean planes in Tokyo and Okinawa.

Untamed Heart - Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei.

Christian plays a kitchen worker in love with waitress Marisa, although she doesn't know.

The film is really sweet and sad. I've seen it a few times, I know what happens and I still cry.

There is a song called 'Nature Boy' by Nat 'King' Cole played in the movie and it fits it perfectly!!

Vikki ***

herbie goes to monte carlo.

I don't know that I've ever cried during a movie. I have been moved in that ways on a lot of movies that focus on a sort of transcendental innocence vs. the reality we as humans set out - ie. AI, Wall-E, etc.. I actually had a drunk cry after Wall-E, not based on the movie but based on something it reminded me of in my own life. Admittedly though music has much more sway over my emotions in that sense, there's a tune by Ital Tek called The White Mark, for example, that for some reason one day I couldn't listen to without breaking down and crying all the while nodding like "Wow, I really get this now".

We watched a video about human rights abuses in RE at school last week, and I cried a bit (only a bit cos I was trying incredibly hard not to). It's annoying watching those videos at school and knowing that if you show emotion you'll be branded a wuss forever, LOL. It was sad, though.

Frequency had me crying is was so touching. Happily Ever After made me cry as a kid.

Finding Neverland. The last scene is particularly poignant and sad. I can't even think about it without wanting to cry.

Up was pretty sad and another movie named "Keith" was pretty sad too in spots.

Precious.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Adam 2009.

I don't usually cry with movies but I totally lost it with the movie Hatchi.

"Saving Private Ryan"
The Missus and I sat crying after the end credits rolled, hugging each other. An usher came up to us to ask if we wanted a drink water and if we were OK. It touched us both because our fathers served in World War II and this was a pretty accurate depiction of what they went through, and how incredibly traumatic it was. Also because the lead character dies in such a sad way.

Brutal but GREAT movie!

For me John Woo's "classic" films are the equivalent of "tear-jerkers" for men. Even for the most manly, man. "A Better Tomorrow", "The Killer" and especially "A Bullet in the Head" are all emotionally gut wrenching. The cultural context has to be taken into account also. Westerners usually see these films as over the top campy melodrama, but Eastern audiences really take them to heart.

Also on my list-

Iron Giant
King Kong('33 and '05)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The Fountain

Studio Ghibli(Miyazaki) films get to me sometimes. I even got a little choked up at the Ghibli Museum because everything was soooo "perfect". Every last little detail was thought of.

The Iron Giant

Any old Disney movie

The only moment I cried at a movie was during the ending of Godzilla 1985 when I was 4-5 years old. Seeing Godzilla fall into a volcano and the music to accompany that was too heartbreaking...

Ghost
Click
Forrest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile

Also, ever see either movie version of On The Beach? Tragic (and also terrifying).