Most emotional movies you've ever seen

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Schindler's List
Hotel Rwanda
The Killing Fields
Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
River Runs Through It
Ordinary People
The English Patient


Black Beauty
Bambi
Born Free
 

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Call me soppy as a sandwich but Truly, Madly, Deeply (twee as it is in places) gets me every time.

The Deer Hunter is another I blub through large chunks of.

And there's a very lovely film that not many people seem to have seen called An Awfully Big Adventure the end of which breaks my heart every time.

Legends Of The Fall - I can't even imagine living like that.

I'm sorry - but I laughed all the way through that film - it was so bad it was hilarious - the bear humping at the end half kilt me! Best unintentionally funny movie ever!
 
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Shawshank Redemption - Tim Robbin's character represented the undying will to survive. Hell, he crawled through a tunnel full of literal shit. But the part that really got me was when Morgan Freeman was in teh halfway house and said something like "get to living or get to dying...damn right" and I thought he was going to hang himself like his friend did at the same spot. But in teh end it shows us how beautiful strong friendship can be.
In this movie, the story of Brooks made me shed a tear, when he left prison, lost his friends, lost his pet (jake, the crow) and didn't know where to begin on the outside. Very sad...

Other movies that made me shed a tear:
Schindler's List of course, at the end when Schindler blamed himself for not rescueing any more people
Armageddon: when Bruce Willis stays on the comet and sends his future son-in-law back home (Ben Affleck)

But the only movie that ever really made me cry:
Cast Away: when Hanks lost his "friend" Wilson (it drifted away on a raft), I just cried like a little boy at that moment
 

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Lars Von Trier's DANCER IN THE DARK.

PHILADELPHIA. (The one movie I left before the end credits rolled. I didn't rent it when it came out at Blockbuster Video either. Movies with too much emotion attached to it I will not rent them.)

FORREST GUMP.

UNBREAKABLE.

THE OTHERS.

AMERICAN HISTORY X.

SCHINDLER'S LIST.

WORLD TRADE CENTER. (Another film I didn't bother renting at Blockbuster Video because the movie was too much for my emotionally.)

BENT.

STAND BY ME.

MONSTER'S BALL.
 
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"The Green Mile" reduces me to tears every time. When the old man sees the old mouse. Holy shit! That and so many other scenes.

I agree, too, with many others listed. Especially "Brokeback Mountain" and "Shawshank Redemption."

Robert Redford's "The Natural" gets me every time, too. When the homerun ball crashes into the lights and he rounds the bases amid a shower of sparks. I cry like a baby.
 

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That's TWO von Trier films I should have included.

Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves are are like being dragged over jagged coral.

Others on my list:

Sunrise

The Champ
(1931)

How Green Was My Valley

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Lost In Translation

Wuthering Heights

All Quiet on the Western Front

Nights of Cabiria

Ikiru

Das Boot


I think The Shawshank Redemption is the one single movie men are allowed to cry over. It's the quintessential chickflick in reverse. Shawshank's impact on men seems much more intense than it is for women.
 
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Two movies out of thousands I have watched have made me cry.

Monster - This movie really effected me. I saw Aileen as a very vunerable woman who had been so horribly mis-treated by men all her life that she saw them as terrors. She never loved anyone until she met Selby, whom she trusted and learnt to love - and (SPOILERS) Selby would ultimately betray her just like men had done all her life. I found this movie so heartbreaking.

Brokeback Mountain - The moment when Ennis holds Jack's plaid shirt up to his face and smells is so deeply tender and incredibly heartbreaking - it upsets me just thinking about it! :sad2:

Other movies I have seen that have really got to me are:

Rosemary's Baby - Why wont anyone believe her?!?!
Wicker Man (1973 Version) - What's really going on?
What's Love Got To Do With It - Ike, you're such a bastard!
To Kill A Mocking Bird - I love you, Atticus!
 
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Two movies out of thousands I have watched have made me cry.

Monster - This movie really effected me. I saw Aileen as a very vunerable woman who had been so horribly mis-treated by men all her life that she saw them as terrors. She never loved anyone until she met Selby, whom she trusted and learnt to love - and (SPOILERS) Selby would ultimately betray her just like men had done all her life. I found this movie so heartbreaking.

Brokeback Mountain - The moment when Ennis holds Jack's plaid shirt up to his face and smells is so deeply tender and incredibly heartbreaking - it upsets me just thinking about it! :sad2:

Other movies I have seen that have really got to me are:

Rosemary's Baby - Why wont anyone believe her?!?!
Wicker Man (1973 Version) - What's really going on?
What's Love Got To Do With It - Ike, you're such a bastard!
To Kill A Mocking Bird - I love you, Atticus!

Yea, that last....say 20 minutes...of Brokeback Mountain got me. And the Part when Ledger's guy was on teh phone with Jack's wife and he's finding out about his death and it shows him getting beat to death. That part kinda confused me though. Is that how he imagined it because of teh story he told Jack about his experience with gay bashing when he was younger? Or is that how it actually happened?

Another part about Shawshank that gets me is when the young guy is talking to the warden about Tim Robbins character being framed, then the bitchass warden has him killed, after he found out he passed his GED test.
 

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American history X - The movie touched me on a very deep level. I have known and loved a person in a family much similar to the family Derek comes from in the movie. You know that feeling when you really want to help out, but every time you decide to act, you just pull back again. Thats an awfull feeling. When Edvard Furlongs character was killed in the end I cried from my heart. It shows how terrible and pointless an unnatural death of a teenager really is.