Own up-films that make you blub

[Melvil]

I always cry in films if the emotion is done well, so it's hard to pick one or two in particular, but... Grave of the Fireflies, which is a Japanese animation about two kids in WW2, and Nobody Knows and Afterlife, both directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu will make anyone cry. Il Postino gets me too. Lots of others.

Some films stir up so much without forcing you to feel any one thing in particular you just can't speak afterwards for quite some time... United 93 was like that...

Seconded for After Life - that film is really excellent and as well as being great it shows what you can do with a sterling idea and not much budget!

Most of the time I don't cry at things in the films themselves but at what's happened in my life at the time - for a long time after my dad died all a film (or a telly programme for that matter) had to do was show a father figure in even vaguely vulnerable circumstances and I would be the proverbial foreign weeping widow - much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I have to say also that I found the end of twelve monkeys really quite sad, too.

 

[goo_mason]

Oh, just thought... Amelie. Not guaranteed to make me cry, but a bit lump-in-the-throat...

Amelie's Charentais hypochondriac pal is in one of my other fave pieces of French cinema - Tatie Danielle. The way her relationship with Tatie Danielle develops is quite emotional.

Oh - and just remembered another blub-fest - Cinema Paradiso

 

[goo_mason]

Dear Lord...Audrey Tautou and hubba hubba mentioned within 3 miles of one another - no wonder you have no chance

Oops - I should have said "huba huba" to fit with the lingo

 

[Abitrary]

I adore Amelie. One of my fave French films.

Audrey Tautou.... hubba hubba
The thought that she'll never be mine is enough to make me cry

dunno, she looks weird. The type that won't let you talk to your friends and makes you eat grapefruit for breakfast and makes you kiss all her teddybears goodnight

 

[marinyork]

dunno, she looks weird. The type that won't let you talk to your friends and makes you eat grapefruit for breakfast and makes you kiss all her teddybears goodnight

Audrey Tatou looks absolutely gorgeous and Amelie is a great little film. It doesn't make me cry but I think it's got a nice little niche somewhere in the feel good films. Bits of it are just so damn funny like at the beginning where it says the cat likes listening to children's stories.

 

[marinyork]

Incidentally I think The Shawshank Redemption and Life is Beautiful.

 

[goo_mason]

Have to say I'm very pleased that there's not been one mention of 'Ghost' making anyone cry.

Anyone who professes to liking that film should be locked up...

 

[marinyork]

Absolutely. I dislike Demi Moore and a rather cynical use of Unchained Melody there.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I dislike Demi Moore

...but you would, wouldn't you?? (wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more...)

Be honest now.

 

[marinyork]

Nope . Never seen why people find her like that.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Have to say I'm very pleased that there's not been one mention of 'Ghost' making anyone cry.

Anyone who professes to liking that film should be locked up...

Although someone did mention The Green Mile, which is far more evil - IMHO one of the most exploitative mawkish Uncle-Tom movies ever made.

Amelie on the other hand is beautiful. Definitely makes me cry - and actually the much less well-known A Very Long Engagement made by the same team (and with Audrey Tatou) again, also does the same despite being too long...

 

[Pete]

Schindler's List.

I suppose the scene where they present him with the ring; and he drops it; and he bursts into tears. Bound to get you going in concert.

Several have mentioned The Railway Children. The scene for me: where Bernard Cribbins (the stationmaster) rejects his 'birthday presents'. That concept of childish innocence going badly awry...

 

[marinyork]

A very long engagement was an altogether much sadder film, still very good though.

 

[purpleR]

The last one that did it for me was Harold & Maude.
Don't think anyone has mentioned Beaches yet..?

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

Sorry, I don't own any up-films but when Rick's Bar starts to sing 'The Marseilles' in Casablanca in defiance of the Nazi's Host Wessel song, it brings tears everytime.

The conclusion of Field of Dreams when his dad comes out of the corn fields got me as well unfortunately.

I also defy anyone not to blub at the end of Killing Fields when Dith Pran (God rest him) reunites with Sidney Schanberg as 'Imagine' kicks in.