Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I was really deeply affected by Pan's Labyrinth - I was weeping all the way up Brixton Hill.
Films that make you cry
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Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Yes I was looking forward to itIemanja said:Still worth watching it though, it's a good film!
Reno
The In Kraut
vauxhallmum said:Oh yes. Made a real show of myself in the cinema with that one.
Also- Breaking The Waves, I was full on blubbing just at the point when her husband broke his legs- imagine my distress by the time she got raped.
Afterwards I felt really manipulated and kicked the bus stop I was so cross. Mind you that film stayed in my mind for years and haunts me still.
That's why Lars Von Trier's films leave me completely cold. Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark are manipulative to the point of taking the piss and those two films don't really have anything to say that makes any sort of sense unless you are a devout Christian (in the case of Breaking the Waves) or are taken in by the caricatured anti-Americanism of Dancer in the Dark, which seems to condemn a legal system that has no roots in any sort of reality. Whats the point of simply heaping one indignity and torture after another on your female protagonists when you have nothing to of value say ?
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Cos Von Trier's a nasty piece of work when it comes to women...
stdPikachu
Plughole in bathtub curve
Have to agree with ky and Reno on Dancer in the Dark. Yes, it's very sad, but I found it to be relentlessly bleak and it didn't really speak to me about much of anything, and I found myself incapable of empathising with any of the characters, whose sole purpose always seemed to be to fulfil a particular build 'em up, knock 'em down role. Can't say I've seen anything else of LvT's work though...
How did I forget the Elephant Man! Truly staggering film and the only one of Lynch's I'm that keen on.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
WordReno said:
I sat and watched that in 1 sitting it was so ace!
Oh god yes, I do. Same with the Amber Spyglass too - I was wretched for about a week after finishing it as wellMay Kasahara said:So who else cries at books? I cried nonstop throughout the last four chapters of The Amber Spyglass
I cried my eyes out reading Stone Butch Blues too. For films, Fried Green Tomatoes gets me every time, as does King Kong - all versions. I KNOW what's coming, but the 4 year old me who was destroyed when first watching Kong get used and then shot down, is still in my head
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Reds - the bit where she is waiting for him to get off the train, after he's been sent to Siberia or summat, and everyone else gets off, and there he is at the very end, and he walks towards her and they just have a huge hug.
The Killing Fields - when Pran is reunited with Sydney, who had been looking for him for years.
The bit in Philadelphia where the family come into the hospital to say goodbye, and his brother starts crying.
The English Patient.
Dead Man Walking.
The Killing Fields - when Pran is reunited with Sydney, who had been looking for him for years.
The bit in Philadelphia where the family come into the hospital to say goodbye, and his brother starts crying.
The English Patient.
Dead Man Walking.
when a man loves a woman
donnie darko
stepmom
ghost
last of the mohicans
schindler's list
It's the internationale montage that does it for me - after Jack makes his speech to the workers' meeting, and then the revolution takes place. And then the disillusionment sets in...
donnie darko
stepmom
ghost
last of the mohicans
schindler's list
It's the internationale montage that does it for me - after Jack makes his speech to the workers' meeting, and then the revolution takes place. And then the disillusionment sets in...
Augie March
blahem
The Elephant Man. If you don't feel a little tear coming along by the end of the film, then you must have a heart made from pure granite. 
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
I think I got a bit moist at the end of the third lord of the rings movie, but that might have had something to do with overconsumption the night before.
scifisam
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mentalchik said:Terms Of Endearment..................
last time i watched this i was literally howling !
(when spike died at the end of buffy i cried a lot..............
It was Anya that got me in that episode. No, not Anya! :'(
I just realised that the ones they killed off that episode were the ones who the most to make up for, in terms of people they'd previously killed.
ebonics
on the black hand side
The Color Purple, from the minute Mister kicks Nettie out of the house and Nettie vows that nothing but death can keep her and Celie apart...
And a co-sign on Whale Rider, especially when Paikea gives her speech about coming from a long line of chiefs...
And a co-sign on Whale Rider, especially when Paikea gives her speech about coming from a long line of chiefs...
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
ebonics said:
OMG how could I forget TCP? Every single time, when Celie sees some dust in the distance and starts to wonder, who could it be...and then she sees that it's Nettie....SOB
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Angelas Ashes
My Neighbour Totoro
My Neighbour Totoro
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Death and the Maiden. Every fucking time. And that's the only film that does.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
wow, such a lot of films there!
angelas ashes gets to me, but not as much as the book, even though i've read it at least six times i still cry at it.
i've never cried at ghost. its sad but somehow i just dont feel it, i suppose its saddening but not that emotive for me. science of sleep i found moving but i wasnt moved to tears, moved to contemplation but not tears. i did love the film though, i will rent it actually to watch again.
i migth also try pans labyrinth and brokeback because i meant to go see them at the cinema but never got around to it.will go back and see what other films to rent, thanks for all the suggestions
am watching betty blue tonight
can you tell i have a dvd rental trial?
angelas ashes gets to me, but not as much as the book, even though i've read it at least six times i still cry at it.
i've never cried at ghost. its sad but somehow i just dont feel it, i suppose its saddening but not that emotive for me. science of sleep i found moving but i wasnt moved to tears, moved to contemplation but not tears. i did love the film though, i will rent it actually to watch again.
i migth also try pans labyrinth and brokeback because i meant to go see them at the cinema but never got around to it.will go back and see what other films to rent, thanks for all the suggestions
am watching betty blue tonight
can you tell i have a dvd rental trial?
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Spartacus, when Kirk Douglas on the cross sees his young son for the first time and is told he's free (I'm even starting to cry writing about it).
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
oh gosh road to perdition made me cry
