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For anyone who hasn't seen it, I can't recommend Das Boot enough.

One of the most emotionally powerful (and tense) movies I have ever seen.

I can't recall any off the top of my head that have made me cry, nothing really sticks out, but I know I have. I feel sad at times during certain scenes, or else I find a film is trying too hard to make me feel sad and that just angers me - typically the music gives it away or it takes too long to get to the point. The entirety of Titanic falls into this category for me (sorry). I never got why people think it's a great love story, it's sterotypical down to the moment Leo gives a selfless, prophetic monologue in freezing water. To me it's pretty much exploiting history for the sake of an average love story, kind of undermining the tragedy of everyone on board by over-shadowing it with a cheesy kind of love whilst Dion warbles in the background. It did look very nice though

To me The Terminator has a better love dynamic - "I travelled across time for you Sarah", that's so much better than 'poor pikey tealeaf meets rich girl - oh the social conflict' It also touches upon the theory of space/time just through the sheer concept and the Terminator kicks Titanic's ass for entertainment value. It's still Jim's best movie in my book.

A film that did affect me a lot was Irreversible, it's an epic movie. I didn't cry per se, but that was an emotional roller coaster ride all the way through, and at the end, despite all that had happened, it felt like everything was okay. Still it's something I'm unlikely to watch again but that's one of the few films I've watched that was a true emotional experience from the get go.

A few random ones are things like King Kong, even the latest one was filmed with a lot of love. I dug The Crow, oh and Watership Down has left an imprint on my subconscious, I just remember images of uber-militant bunnies, lots of blood and yeah, that was pretty traumatic for me at the time - I'll have to watch it again. Switchblade Romance was also a tense movie. There's probably more including many that have already been mentioned...

Mannahnin wrote:

Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark wins the crying-out-of-sadness award for me. Nothing else has ever come close, and I doubt much will. It is a truely heart-wrenching story that will stick with me forever.

It is also the coolest musical ever.

I've seen most of the other films mentioned here, but none come close this. Even Grave of the Fireflies.

I am actually struggling to express quite how powerful Dancer in the Dark is. Not one for the feint-hearted.

I have only laughed, never cried, at Disney films and their "moments", biccat.

Warspawned has a good one in Irreversible. That movie is like a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster followed by a sparring session with the Klitschko brothers, followed by bowel surgery. I found parts of it quite hard to watch, which is not usual.

I'm surprised no one has said it yet but where the wild things are was a super sad movie. That movie hit me hard, right in the face. As far as videos not really movies, last year my senior year of highschool they showed us a short film about drinking and driving and that messed me up pretty bad.

Here it is.

http://youtu.be/_mQxzufYNiY

At the end of Gran Torino, a couple of tears fell down my cheek. I also emitted tears with the Jack romance scene in Mass Effect 2..quite touching.

I think I actually cry a lot when I see sad films, it just comes out as a yawn or something and I think the tears are just from being tired..who knows.

The first ones that came to mind were

La Vita è bella(Life is Beautiful).

Underground by Emir Kusturica.

And also the wonderful Big Fish.

These movies have endings that always draw a tear.

EDIT: Forgot Donnie Darko.

I do not usually go in for the traditional super touching drama films. Drama is my favourite genre though.

The last movie I remember really making me cry was "Set it Off." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117603/ As soon as the soundtrack plays Lori Perry's "Up Against the Wind" nearing the end. I can barely listen to the song now without getting emotional.

The Road. That movie was awesome, followed the book extremely closely, made me quite sad at the end, because yeah the boy survives, but the world is pretty much on it's way to the end. (Why did that movie get bad reviews? I though it was excellent.)

The ones that I couldn't force the tears back down:

The Notebook (sigh, yep me too)
UP (Dude the first 20 minutes of the movie and I'm all snotty, WTF DISNEY!)
I am Legend (The movie was ok, but the dog schene messed my head up)
King Kong (The Old one, man when I was a kid that had me balling. Who doesn't feel bad for the monkey!?)
The Green Mile (Stephen King is the man)

And finally, Blair Witch Project (Because at the end I realized I'd paid to watch this crap)

Now as awesome as movies are at breaking our pipes and watching the salty tears flow, books for me are worse. I've read my share of books that had me snivelling like a baby.

Harry Potter (Dude, seriously)
The Dark Tower Series (King you bastard)
The Stand (Another dog schene, damnation)
The Dresden Series by Jim Butcher
The House of Night Series (Stupid teen drama books, tapping foot for next book...)

There are others but those are the ones that pop out to me.

Add to my list:
Juno

One more to add, Empire of the Sun. This movie gets me everytime at two scenes. 1st, where Jamies friend offers him a mango, and is then gunned down. 2nd, when Jamie is found by his Mother, but no longer recognizes her.

hivemind66 wrote:Harry Potter (Dude, seriously)
The Dark Tower Series (King you bastard)
The Stand (Another dog schene, damnation)
The Dresden Series by Jim Butcher
The House of Night Series (Stupid teen drama books, tapping foot for next book...)

There are others but those are the ones that pop out to me.

I have to admit, I was nearly in tears at the end of Changes (the Dresden Files). Just the end of that one chapter.

Yeah.

Butcher is a real bastard lol. I'm seriously anxious for the next book. Cold Days is going to rock!

So I finally watched "Senna" tonight, and I have to admit I cried.

Not a tear in my eye like when daddy dies in "Lion King", but actually crying.

Now I think that has probably a lot to do with remembering sitting in front of the TV when I was 12 and watching him race and crash and remembering the sadness that I felt back then when he died.

That movie was very touching and I did not expect to start tearing up from the very beginning when they showed an interview with his mom when he was just starting out and her talking about how scared she is that he would get hurt and that she prays that he will always be safe.

And when they spoke about him reading the passage in the Bible about God giving him the greatest gift the morning of his death, that was the point of no return.

Now I didn't boohoo in the theater, but I did have some solid stream of tears and was chocking up pretty heavy at that point.

Heck, my wife didn't even cry....but she never watched the sport until this year.

I think Senna is going to be a sad movie (but not really tears) for anybody watching it. But if you watched it when you were young and already have an emotional connection to Senna and the crash, then I think it will impact you a lot.

Return of The Jedi

I pretty much never cry. In fact, my friends all say that I have no soul.

I laughed during Walk the Line and made loud puns during Apollo 18 when everyone died.

Crying in movies seems kind of weak, in fact.

killykavekommando wrote:

Crying in movies seems kind of weak, in fact.

Not...

I have truly never cried from a movie, but I did tear up when Dr. Beckett died on Stargate Atlantis

oh and at the end of toy story 3

killykavekommando wrote:I pretty much never cry. In fact, my friends all say that I have no soul.

I laughed during Walk the Line and made loud puns during Apollo 18 when everyone died.

Crying in movies seems kind of weak, in fact.

You feel the same emotions, you just have a crappy coping mechanism to deal with sadness. This opinion is reinforced by your statement that crying is week, which leads you to mask what you consider an undesirable trait to the opposite sex.

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Old Yeller

I'm just really insensitive, okay. I like sad movies, or at least to see bad actors die (Bridge to Terrabithia )

When Adam Sandler looks back on his life in "Click"

Gran Torino.

rockerbikie wrote:Gran Torino.

Loved that movie, but it didn't have any weird effects on my outlook on life.

d-usa wrote:So I finally watched "Senna" tonight, and I have to admit I cried.
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I think Senna is going to be a sad movie (but not really tears) for anybody watching it. But if you watched it when you were young and already have an emotional connection to Senna and the crash, then I think it will impact you a lot.

Same here. I found it hard watching, what hit me hardest was the death of Roland Ratzenberger. I was braced for Senna's death, I didn't know prior to that that Ratzenberger's death had been caught on film so graphically.

If you want to see a similarl themed programme, the BBC have shown "Grand Prix: the Killer Years" a few times now, that's pretty tough. When you know a car is on fire with some guy inside and there's no one around to help because no one wore fireproof overalls.

Bad Santa fits into this category.

I HAVE NO SOUL and by that i mean i have never seen a film that moved to tears.

Nom

Howard A Treesong wrote:

d-usa wrote:So I finally watched "Senna" tonight, and I have to admit I cried.
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I think Senna is going to be a sad movie (but not really tears) for anybody watching it. But if you watched it when you were young and already have an emotional connection to Senna and the crash, then I think it will impact you a lot.

Same here. I found it hard watching, what hit me hardest was the death of Roland Ratzenberger. I was braced for Senna's death, I didn't know prior to that that Ratzenberger's death had been caught on film so graphically.

If you want to see a similarl themed programme, the BBC have shown "Grand Prix: the Killer Years" a few times now, that's pretty tough. When you know a car is on fire with some guy inside and there's no one around to help because no one wore fireproof overalls.

That was part of what made that weekend crazy. Not only did they race after Ratzenberger died on Saturday, they restarted the race after Senna died as well. The show must go on I guess...