What movies make you well-up

[chuck1124]

I know. I'am a guy. But there are certain movies that choke me up. Some of them are, "Rocky", "The Natural" and "The Best Littie Whore House In Texas" I have to explain the last one. When Dolly Parton is willing to give up the love her her life, because it is best for "HIM", I fall apart. But what others bring a tear to your eye, male or female?

[darkeyes]

One more than any other.. Casablanca!!!

[Realist]

For Whom the Bell Tolls

[Drkluvtheory99]

okay not to be uber fem but the movies Beaches and Immitation of Life.

[12voltman59]

There are many such films for me---but one that absolutely made me almost balling was the final scenes of "Schindler's List." I found myself getting pretty emotional over "Blind Side" too.

[johnnyeasy]

Brian's Song

[lookin2tryit]

definitly the blind side....a very real strory about very real people...

[Billys_gurl]

Steel Magnolias is mine. Of course I am a very sentimental lady and I can cry when the Roman soldier runs over the little lamb in The Little Drummer Boy, and when Charlotte the Spider dies in the cartoon version of Charlotte's Web.

[falcondfw]

Brian's Song. Without a doubt. I just ball like a baby at that movie. Always have. Always will.

[llllllllll]

"Marley & Me" got me,as did a few of the previously mentioned

[chuck1124]

OMG, I forgot Brian's Song. Its not "Umanly" to cry.

[Hephaestion]

Too many to mention but 'The Green Mile' was one from latter days.

[sexy couple]

Somewhere In Time
The Sound Of Music
The Fountain

[12voltman59]

"Field of Dreams" is another one. "Tender Mercies" is another

[DuckiesDarling]

I have several that push my buttons so to speak, but there are some that just make your chest get tight and you go "hell yeah" at certain scenes. One of the ones that stands out the most for me was in a movie "The Man from Snowy River", when Tom Burlinson rode Dint down the side of the mountain going after the Bramby Stallion. It gets me everytime.

Sappy moments like Bill Pullman's speech in "Independence Day" when they are getting ready for the mission. And who can forget Ellen Ripley's 'Not my daughter you bitch' from Aliens? Tons more I can think of given enough time but getting tired and cold now.

[Loveinlife]

Brokeback Mountain...common someone had to say it.

[mikey3000]

Field Of Dreams did it for me. Bawled like a baby at the thought of seeing my Dad again.

[open2both]

HIDALGO.
Any movie with valiant, dedicated, magnificent animals.

[by~his~side]

Loveinlife, ....Brokeback Mountain. I'm with you on that one.

I ached during Life is Beautiful. Very very emotional.
Ditto for Saving Private Ryan.

I'll never watch either of those a second time.

~D~

[DuckiesDarling]

Brokeback Mountain....sorry can't go with that. Only part that really got me was when the wife saw them kissing and just slowly closed the door not just on the scene but on her marriage.

I don't know what it was about the movie, the STORY was great, but I just couldn't believe the lead characters loved anything let alone each other. :2cents:

[darkeyes]

Forgive me, and I do know we all have our own tastes in everything and movies are no different. But Field of Dreams? Any film whatsoever which has Kevin Costner in it, the only tears I shed are for the honourable profession of acting... the second I hear that interminable drawl and the whine of his voice I switch off immediately..

I do precisely the same when my dad will insist on watching some cruddie old John Wayne film.. and mum is a huge Stewart Granger fan. God... they bring tears to my eyes ok.. when I was about 10 watching some duff old film on telly with the two of them in it.. I screamed with exasperation and tears poured from my eyes until finally I was ordered up to my room for having a tantrum.. :(

[bizel]

i well up at the drop of a hat. not enuf room to list all the films. don't know if many australians remember the ad for mcdonalds? old war vets sitting there enjoying a coffee on anzac day - medals on their chests, slowly one by one they fade until one is left (meaning the others have passed away), looking very alone. one staff girl comes over, fills his cup, looks warmly at him and says 'thank YOU' (for the service he did us in the war). just thinking of it makes me well up.

[tg Shannon]

2 words..........Old Yeller

[stungun]

In John Ford's superb "How Green Was My Valley": when the entire household has erupted in argument and left the dinner table only the father, Donald Crisp, and his youngest son, Roddy McDowell, remain. The father has his eyes cast downward, sipping his soup. The youngster glances at him, clearing his throat, looking for recognition. Finally the older man says, "I hear you my son. I know you are there." The boy smiles and returns to his meal.
It sets up the scene at the end of the film where they are united for the last time. Without fail, it moves me on every viewing.

[12voltman59]

I keep thinking of such movies----another that comes to mind--"The Grapes of Wrath"----the book is a classic of American literature and the movie is a classic film as well.

What really got me in the movie was the scene of a very young Hank Fonda's final words as his character of Tom Joad saying goodbye to "Ma," then he has the famous monologue about the things he wants. That film, about the depression of course, is even more poignant and relevant in our current economic situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGky0q2j_78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpPSIF8zIHo&feature=related

Another film that gets me at times and another among my favorites is "The Apostle." That movie showed the genius of Robert Duval as not only an actor, but as a screenwriter, producer and director of films since he filled all of those roles in that film and for another great film: "Assassination Tango."

[Hephaestion]

The last 5 minutes of BlackAdder goes forth i.e. the last episode of the last of the TV series set in WW1.

Apparently an accidental creation. The men fade out and the poppies fade in

[Cinticursub]

Recently I was fighting back the tears after watching Hearts in Atlantis.

[synrosyn]

For me as of late it has been Up. The first 10 minutes always get me.

[WolfKing]

The only movie I can think of that I have ever cried at was Blood Diamond, when Djimon Hounsoo is yelling about how he should have protected his son.

The only other time in recent memory I can think of wasn't a movie...it was a show...a kid's show...a kid's cartoon haha.

Avatar: The Last Airbender, the episode "Tales from Ba Sing Se", when Iroh holds the memorial for his dead son, that had me crying a little bit. Anyone else? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

[void()]

Legends of the Fall (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110322/)

Soldier's Girl (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324013/)

Life of Gary -- A ray of hope through lead curtains of tragedy. Oddly enough not able to find a link to it. Guess because it is a film about a bi guy and his lovers, it's one of those non-existent types.


Old Yeller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Yeller_%281957_film%29)


Where the Red Fern Grows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows)

Shooter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/) See what happens when you kill a man's dog.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snows_of_Kilimanjaro_%281952_film%29)

Serenity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_%28film%29) Merry and sad.

[ziggybabie]

I cry when those kids won't give that rabbit the cereal.

Oh wait, that's not a movie.

[Realist]

I can certainly agree, Void! Especially with "Shooter"

Shooter is a dark picture that makes one wonder how devious and dangerous the government really is. Only the very tip of the secrets have ever been revealed, I'm sure.

The power that some politicians have is astounding. Once they get in power, their ability to do the most evil things can only be imagined. The Common Man, probably will never know 90% of all that goes on behind closed doors.

That makes me want to cry!

[void()]

I can certainly agree, Void! Especially with "Shooter"

Shooter is a dark picture that makes one wonder how devious and dangerous the government really is. Only the very tip of the secrets have ever been revealed, I'm sure.

The power that some politicians have is astounding. Once they get in power, their ability to do the most evil things can only be imagined. The Common Man, probably will never know 90% of all that goes on behind closed doors.

That makes me want to cry!

Dark? Yes, I can see it as very dark. But in it's own way the movie follows the darkness with a hero bringing some light.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely.html) a.k.a Lord Acton

I recall a contractual offer slid over a desk in the darkest hour of a night n'er to be forgot. The contract would have taken away a soul, replacing it with a wind up crank. "You'll be a ghost, no records. We get you where we need you, you pull the trigger. We do not know you, nor you us."

Humble country boy's first thought. "Sir, I want to tell my mom goodbye."

Contract vanished. "We don't play that way. She'd get a sob story, you're gone. Contract is if you insist."

"Keep the contract then."

Let me clarify a bit. I was nothing or no one special as far as military was/is concerned. But being a marksman is/was sort of in my blood. I'm also good at knowing systems, reading patterns, and mayhem. Grandfather and uncle were both marksman, both worked in motor pool things. I'm not mechanically inclined particularly, however I did tear down a machine lathe, clean it, put on blindfold and then put it back together correctly. This scared my high school welding teacher. "You memorized the order?"

"No, I did it by touch."

"Ah um ... Well, your ready for second year stuff then."

This was week one of year one. But honestly I truly hate car talk, motor hugging all that ghastly macho bull type of stuff. I just fool with what I need, may look something up to confirm, then get out. But this is what the military thought quantifiable for use as saboteur.

"You know how to break it up proper, go get it!"

Being a bit of a marksman helped too. It meant I had experience as far as sneaking about. "He won't let himself get caught, he'll stay out of their range and snipe 'em first."

And my step father was a seriously mean drunk that used to beat me senseless. So, I had hands on 'get messy' experience. I didn't break, just got jostled round, laughed and asked for more.

There's your dark, the making of people into monsters. Yes, I could have been if humanity didn't intervene. "Need to tell my mom, goodbye."

Saw others go for that. Many 'round the bend and back too much. The sorts that keep coming even as a grenade goes off in their chest. "Fine blow me up, I'm still gonna kill ya!"

With all this press ongoing on Common Man, hard to not miss that life's benefits. Full medical/dental/vision, college money, housing, food a fair code to live by, people reliable to 'do the job'.

But I'm happier in a way than such a life could not provide, even being poor and just barely scraping by. She is my wife, he's my man. :) Would have never met either still in service. Both bring me wealth that's not measured in objects or worthless paper money. Something nobody can hope to replace. And by the by, got three dogs and a small gaggle of cats. Family is much saner than not.

[bibottom08]

brokeback mountain

[djones]

"Its a Wonderful Life" . There are others, but this one does it to me every time. I don't know why.

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

Several will make me 'well up' Some will make me bawl like a baby...lol

Recently saw Up and leaked.
Leaked at Hidalgo.
Almost bawled at Story of Little Tree.
Teared up at Disney's Swiss Family Robinson, Pollyanna and naturally at Dumbo...Old Yeller is a given..LOL
All of the old Lassie movies
Flaming Star

And will bawl my ass off at the Color Purple.
I'm too kind hearted for my own good...lol :bigrin:
Cat

[darkeyes]

The power that some politicians have is astounding. Once they get in power, their ability to do the most evil things can only be imagined. The Common Man, probably will never know 90% of all that goes on behind closed doors.



Nope..an wen we do all hell breaks loose as we are just findin out... as so many r so fonda sayin.. just sayin..:rolleyes:

[first time guy]

The Third Man, especially the final scene, the music just makes you cry.