Is there a movie that made you weep/sob?

[TravelingMaaike]

One with a soundtrack?

And what was more moving? The film? The music? Or both?

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Schindler's List, Titanic, Last Of The Mochicans, The Lion King, The Fox And The Hound, The Shack, Horse Whisperer, Armageddon, Terminator, etc.

These made me choke up at times. Even the Disney ones.

[abc3643]

This is a very good question. I am sure there are several, but I am also sure that I am overlooking some.

However, I can name two right off the bat:
"Somewhere In Time", a 1980 movie with a cult following that starred Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer. The ending effects many adult men who've loved and lost.
and
"The Time Traveler's Wife", the 2009 movie starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. Again, the ending scenes...

Oh, and "The Adjustment Bureau", the 2011 movie starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. Again, the last scenes... Not as strong emotional impact because this ending is different, but it is good and I tear up.

Oh, and "One Day", the 2011 movie with Anne Hathaway.

And, "The Life of Pi", the 2012 masterpiece. "Brokeback Mountain".

I also tear-up at the end of Dr. Zhivago, which, of course, being a David Lean film, is an epic classic with music to match, in particular, "Lara's Theme".

These two clips, collectively are the ending. Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) had loved Larissa "Lara" Antipova (Julie Christie) although their love was outside of their marriages. To save her and their daughter's life, he tricked them into going with another man, Viktor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), a powerful man who offered to save them all despite their dislike of him. So, Yuri never saw Lara and their daughter again. This was all in the early years after the Russian Revolution.

In this first clip, we see Yuri years later helped onto trolley by his half-brother Yagrev Zhivago (Alec Guiness aka Obi Wan Kenobi). On the bus, Yuri sees Lara walking to work and he desperately wants to get off and, when he does and tries to chase her, he dies of a heart attack in the street as she continues to walk unaware. Then, the scene shifts to the present day (late 1950s). The second clip is better her. In this scene, Yavgrev has found his niece and he explains the truth. He learns that she can play the balalaika - the instrument Yuri inherited as a young boy after the death of his mother at the beginning of the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/E9F7He0j6Zkhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/Nn1eDT93H1Y

And, of course, "Old Yeller". You're SUPPOSED to cry near the end of "Old Yeller".

If you've never seen "Old Yeller" and don't tear-up watching near the end, you're fucked in the head.

In all of these movies, there's some type of sense of loss or recovery near the end that, if you have the humanity and sense of empathy, enables you to connect with the overwhelmingly emotional experiences of the characters, so it triggers you to at least tear up.

If I can remember more, I will reply again.

[abc3643]

"The Green Mile" and "Saving Private Ryan" and "Cast Away" and "Forrest Gump" and "Shawshank Redemption"... all of these movies at the end connect with me in ways which trigger my empathy and humanity.

[Texaskid1]

And they all star Tom Hanks.

[abc3643]

@Texaskid1 "Shawshank Redemption" doesn't.

There are similarities among all those movies though.

"Forrest Gump" (1994)
- Lead: Tom Hanks
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Score: Alan Silvestri

"The Shawshank Redemption" (1994), story by Stephen King
- Lead: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
- Director: Frank Darabont
- Score: Thomas Newman

"Saving Private Ryan" (1998)
- Lead: Tom Hanks
- Director: Stephen Spielberg
- Score: John Williams

"The Green Mile" (1999), story by Stephen King
- Lead: Tom Hanks
- Director: Frank Darabont
- Score: Thomas Newman

"Cast Away" (2000)
- Lead: Tom Hanks
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Score: Alan Silvestri

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Very often, in Hollywood, you see this:
A director likes to work with a particular actor or songwriter or cinematographer or...

So, for instance, Robert Zemeckis with Tom Hanks and Alan Silvestri.
Frank Darabont with Stephen King and Thomas Newman.
Steven Spielberg with John Williams and Janusz Kamiński (cinematographer).
Martin Scorcese with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
etc.

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[abc3643]

David Lean with Alec Guinness and Omar Sharif.

[Texaskid1]

How true. "Shawshank Redemption" does not have Tom Hanks.

I stand corrected.

[Mansearching]

Sweet November. Reminded me of what my brother went through with his cancer.

[TravelingMaaike]

Ouch 😢

[Mansearching]

Yeah. It did hurt

[TravelingMaaike]

I mean, sorry about your brother

[Mansearching]

I was 6 when he past. But just near the end when she was freaking out and vomiting and etc. Memories came back.

[DizzyDesii]

-Soul Surfer during her crying scene to Carrie Underwood -The Impossible when the boys scream their brothers name while running to reunite -When he discovers his kids are dead in Shutter Island -When her mom dies in Divergent -When Paul is getting his nose broken with the hockey puck in Running Scared -When the shooting happens at the family reunion in the Punisher -When he's rescued in Captain Phillips

I think Will Smith, Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom Holland are some of the most convincing crying actors of all time

https://www.youtube.com/embed/YQFm5l2J48Mhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/LeNRbtWgerohttps://www.youtube.com/embed/LalslCf2kLQhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/T5-LhZ2YpGchttps://www.youtube.com/embed/M-GOtreNc1I

[DizzyDesii]

m.youtube.com/watch

[DizzyDesii]

If we’re talking soundtracks then probably Whitney Houstons songs in The Bodyguard

[DizzyDesii]

I’ve teared up but The Impossible and Shutter Island scenes were the main ones i recall breaking down too. A kid being hurt or killed hurts everytime

[sheikalana]

I recently watched 'The Creator' and the ending really made me cry.

[strateguy632]

when the "hero" killed himself and others? gross agenda.

[aceleon]

brother bear: when their brother commited suicide to protect his little brothers and the last scene where both their older brother and koda's mother reuinited with them as a spirit and then leave them.

lion king: when mufasa died and simba cried snuggling his father's dead body

this 2 made me and still makes me cry like a baby, i normally don't make sounds when i cry or make mimics it is just my eyes who cries but when i watch these i turn completely a 5'10-11 baby

[Bricealan]

Yes, it did and still does being me to tears..."Like Sunday, Like Rain" ... wonderful, wonderful, film, you should watch it, guaranteed, that Reggie, and Eleanor will bring you to 'happy' tears.

[bowenw]

Love Actually. The music is good, but the stories are moving.

[TravelingMaaike]

That's a pretty good film.

Funny, cute and even sad.

[bowenw]

It's probably my favorite movie if I was forced to choose.

[strateguy632]

usualy the music causes me to feel sad. except once when nicolas cage , character was trying to stay awake , to stay with the lady he loved, instead of sleep, in the Christmas miracle film i sobbed. that was so touching and so powerless.

[strateguy632]

film title family man 2000

[Andres77]

The song, into the west at the end of the lord of the rings. That’s the song we picked for my mom’s picture collage at her funeral.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/UoVaK2NXmJA

[Sonorous]

Movies can't make me cry but they can make me tear up. The last one that did was probably the end of Reminiscence:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_BggT--yxf0

[exitseven]

Avengers Endgame. It was sad when Tony Stark died but it was also sad that this was really the last of these movies that were so entertaining over the ;last ten years.

[Jackblue]

I cried in happiness at the end of the episode "San Junipero" of Black Mirror (tears of joy). I cried tears of sorrow at the end of the Korean film "Castaway on The Moon."

[Jackblue]

If you haven't seen "San Junipero" I suggest doing so, it was one of the most beautiful TV episodes I have ever seen.

[Texaskid1]

The movie Philadelphia with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

Great movie. I saw it in college and got a wee bit misty eyed at the end.

[JesseP1nk]

Man on fire

https://www.youtube.com/embed/tlgz71v1oIk

[NathanDavis]

a couple...

but more than the movie, it is about where did it brought me to, the memories...

[DerekC321]

Terms of Endearment

Atonement

The Lives of Others

[Chewy______]

None made me sob, but Schindler's List was damn hard to watch.

[BCRanger10]

No. Been close a couple of times though.

[TravelingMaaike]

Which ones?

[BCRanger10]

Terminator 2 (come on, who HASN'T?), The Passion of the Christ (the scene when Mary looks right at the audience), Monsters, INC., and Inside Out.

[tfan1]

The ending of Driving Miss Daisy, and I don’t know why but the ending and synthesizer music during the credits of Lucas

[Simslover92]

Beaches maybe. That movie is so sad at the end.

[syncheart]

Last Man Club brought tears to my eyes.

[Luckycharms12]

Marley and me made me sob

[CubaPirate]

Bambi when I was a child

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

Not weep, but tear up a bit.

[riverrat3]

Imitation of Life

[riverrat3]

The story itself

[riverrat3]

Old Yeller

[TravelingMaaike]

That one too.

[BLP11520]

More than I care to admit

[sirderpsalot123]

Nope