Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante"

Jacques Demy's "Lola"

I didn't cry, but I did get misty toward the end of Juno. It was the scene where Alison Janney was just standing there in the doorway of the hospital room, watching Ellen Page and the newborn. I still don't know why I got so choked up!

The very end of About Schmidt, when Jack Nicholson receives the letter from the child he's sponsoring in Africa. The look on his face after all the miserable things that had gone on in his life got to me.

Female Trouble, when Divine doesn't get her cha-cha heels.

I cry over anything. I cried at the climax of Erin Brokovitch!!!

But the one that really gets me is "Love Affair" and the remake "An Affair to Remember." The tears just flow like a geyser.....

Every Disney movie from childhood. I won't make my post more tedious by listing all of them.

The Color Purple at the end.

Milk made me a mess. I was bawling when Dan White's plan was gradually getting closer and closer.

The carriage scene in Potemkin at first viewing freaked me out. Sublime.

Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands because the endings were so beautiful.

Finding Neverland

ET and Iron Giant

West Side Story

Damn, I'm a softy.

The Keira Knightly version of Pride and Prejudice. The music by Jean Yves Thibaudet for the scene where they declare their love on the moors gets me everytime.

Yes ... I'm gay ...

'The Cider House Rules',
with Tobey Maguire, the 1999 drama film based on 'The Cidar House Rules', a 1985 novel by John Irving and directed by Lasse Hallstrom of 'My Life as a Dog' fame.

Disney's sure-fire formula:
young innocent loses mom.
(works very well if you lost your mom young)
Bambi is the best example.

losing your best buddy always works, too
- remember Old Yeller ?

Recent movies: "Brokeback Mountain."

And always, always, "The Wizard of Oz."

dear Michael, there is something called Senile Lability and it attacks ancient Italians like Junior Soprano in the HBO series who weep and weep and weep and yet are nevertheless killer sociopaths -- sound familiar????????????

OK, my screen name is movielover - I could add "classic" to it. Hard to not start pishing at the eyes watching Streetcar Named Desire and Now Voyager!

People - you don't have to reveal the endings of the movies - just say the end of " " in case somebody else wants to see it!

Terms of Endearment - when you know who was in the you know what and didn't come out.

And because of this one, I won't use my real name: Homeward Bound - when Sassy went over the falls

Yes, West Side Story - though most say there was little chemistry between Tony and Maria

More need for anonymity: Titanic when Jack...well, you know

"Born on the Fourth of July" was the last time, but I don't remember if it was the end or some place earlier. John Williams' music did it for me. Oh, no, Wait! The ending of "Field of Dreams" was the last time, all those cars lined up driving to see the field., and I'm not even a fan of baseball. Again, the music put me over the edge.

Dreyer's Joan of Arc. Falconetti's performance. I weep with joy every time I see it.

Second choice: Olivier's 1965 Othello. Brings tears to my eyes. No other English speaking actor has come close to this towering performance. Who would have thought from those 1931, 32 Hollywood clinkers he made to establish himself as the second coming of Ronald Coleman,that this bland, colorless actor, who looked like Tom Dewey's younger brother would pull himself so up by his boot straps, as to leave us weeping and breathless 33 years later with this monumental display of acting virtuosity.

Definitely Terms of Endearment. I cried in the middle of Mamma Mia when Streep was singing about saying goodbye to her daughter. (OK, laugh. I was postpartum at the time.) That's really it because I try not to see anything too sad. I look really gross when I cry.

The final scene in Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" : Lady Lyndon (Marisa Berenson) hesitates for a moment before putting her signature on an annuity for her crippled former husband, then stares off sadly & the film cuts to credits and George Frederick Handel's "Sarabande"

I went on a terrible bender last December, saw Slumdog Millionaire and Milk back to back. I was totally through the wringer that day.

I actually saw Terms of Endearment in the theater. It was a matinee. When the little boy talks to Debra Winger in that heartbreaking scene, I lost it. Completely. The look on that kid's face. I can see it to this day. So I'm wiping my eyes, eating popcorn, wiping my eyes. I composed myself, walked out of the theater into the sunlight past a long line waiting for the next show. When I got to the car and looked in the mirror, there were little pieces of buttered popcorn stuck all over my face.

Two that are guaranteed:

- Casablanca, the "Marseillaise" scene, every time.

- Love Actually, when Emma Thompson breaks down as Joni Mitchell sings "Both Sides Now." And probably several other times if it's that kind of day...

What's truly special would be: a movie that made you cry the first time, right, but a few other times you see it afterward, you find yourself dissolving again, even when you know what's coming next. Only Umbrellas of Cherbourg (haven't seen Demy's Lola) and a non-movie, Madama Butterfly, can do the trick for me. And Washington Square Park in winter, certain sections at MOMA, a dog that wags its tail hello, a baby that smiles brightly. Time to kill ourselves now.

Requium for a dream, phone sequence, when he can't be there, and she needs him.. before she takes it in the end.

ET and Iron giant.

Eternal Sunshine caught me after a breakup once in the theater.

Donnie Darko.

The Painted Veil (cried like a baby)
Sweet November
Moulin Rouge

for crissakes,i cried the other night watching that johnny mercer documentary on TCM. it opened with him & dinah shore, i took one look at her & lost it.

Opening credits of the following films are what I watch when I need a good cry:

"Gone with the Wind" (Selznick International-MGM, 1939). With the opening of Selznick's studio headquarters, to the sweeping movement of the main title over the big screen, this score just soars to unbelievable heights. Thank you, Max Steiner!

"Pinocchio" (Walt Disney, 1940) with Cliff Edwards singing "When You Wish Upon a Star...." over the main title. Simple, direct, poignant.

"Ben-Hur" (MGM, 1959), the entire opening sequence, beautifully scored by Miklos Rozsa (sorry, the website here won't let me use the Greek accents). The first 15-minutes of this film makes me realize how misguided certain so-called christian churches are today, only instead of Rome calling the shots, it's Salt Lake City.

The closing credits of "Smoke", with Harvey Keitel...there's a scene where Harvey's character returns a camera to a elderly woman while a hauntingly beautiful Tom Waits song(aren't they all) plays in the background...this scene fucked me up so much that I went to the bathroom to get my shit together, came out prematurely, and the water works started again....

(The song was entitled:"You're Innocent When You Dream.)

Terms of Endearment gets me every time, every damn time. But I cry at episodes of What Not to Wear.

The scene in "The Color Purple" when "Mr." sends Nettie away. The patty-cake scene over the fence makes me weep.

When that fucker asks Sophie to choose which one of her children should live in "Sophie's Choice". Sorry, I may be from Jersey and live in Poland now, but Meryl is God.

The "Gone with the Wind" theme song, but when they used it for "The Million Dollar Movie" theme in the 60's. Wuz a kid, but it got to me.

The end of "Philadelphia", watching the old home movies. The after-party scene with Maria Callas too!

This may be cliche (and fag-haggy), the "Cala Lillies" scene in "Stage Door" after Kay commits suicide.

I could go on, but I won't.

Oooooops. One too many 'l's in lilies. Only a faghag would notice.

"Baby of Mine" scene in Dumbo. The music alone turns on my waterworks.

I always cry at the end of "The Lives of Others" when the main character buys the copy of the book dedicated to him and the clerk asks him if it's a gift and he says, "no, it's for me."

The final scene of "It's a Wonderful Life" when the toast is made: "To my big brother George. The richest man in town."

"Marley and Me" Near the end it was like saying goodbye to every dog I ever had.

A River Runs Through It - even though I thought it was a serious piece of shit right from the beginning - didn't matter!

The scene in which the circus folk aid Elephant Man in escaping from his evil captor never fails to tear me up.

the miracle worker, when she's stumbling around among the sheets and pretty much the rest of the way through.

Sophie's Choice

the end of Accidental Tourist

Agree with An Affair To Remember. The Color Purple. A Leage Of Their Own. Fried Green Tomatoes. The ultimate though has to be The Deer Hunter. I saw it at the theater when it came out and I was depressed for the next two weeks. The entire story was gut wrenching and so extremely sad, but the ending was the killer.

Oh, and Philadelphia. Had to hit the bathroom on the way out of the theater for some personal cry time in the stall.

The end of "It's a wonderful life" and the last scene between Tim Hutton and Judd Hirsch in "Ordinary People."

The final scene of "Days of Wine and Roses" with Lee Remick as Kirsten disappearing down the San Francisco street and Jack Lemon's face in the window looking for her with the reflection of the neon sign blinking "Bar". She was so pretty in the beginning and so tragic in the end. Why didn't she get an Oscar?

Most recently, Where the Wild Things Are
Most reliably, Children of Men

I've also shed a tear during The Royal Tenenbaums, Away From Her, Seraphine, United 93, Grave of the Fireflies, Paths of Glory, The Way We Get By, Pan's Labyrinth...

Ha, I even teared up during The Dark Knight the second time I watched it, after the tragic consequences of Eckhart's idealism hit me.

Reds- Warren Beatty's masterpiece
Passion of the Joan of Arc-Dreyer- glad someone else mentioned this too.
Scenes from a Marriage- Bergman (ya gotta watch all six episodes)

I find I'm getting choked up at all sorts of unexpected moments. Some of the same movies as others mentioned earlier, but very different scenes:

Casablanca when the young Bulgarian woman tries to talk to Rick about sleeping with Renault to get herself and her husband out of Casablanca...

How Green Was My Valley when the men volunteer to save Roddy McDowell's father, trapped in a mine collapse...

It's A Wonderful Life when old man Gower boxes young Harry Bailey's ears, and when the young Donna Reid whispers in his deaf ear in the drugstore "Harry Bailey I'm going to love you until the day I die."...

In the final scene of Paths of Glory when a German servant girl is forced to perform for French soldiers, and they move from mockery to sentimentally singing along...

Too many to name!

When Jessica Rabbit says she loves Roger because "he makes me laugh."

The Kite Runner, in most recent memory.

Always at the end of 'Breakfast at Tiffanys' and at the end of 'The Trouble with Angels' when Hayley Mills decides to stay at the convent and become a nun.

And, 'The Way We Were,' of course.

Field of Dreams - cry from start to finish.

The movie "UP" really caught me by suprise.

You guys above are all so good. Most of my favorites have already been mentioned. But here are a few more:

2 with Katherine Hepburn:
-Alice Adams (the ending finding Fred MacMurray on her porch)

-Summertime (the ending with her bidding farewell to Rossano Brazzi)

Two with Irene Dunne:

-Penny Serenade (it's sappy but when that kid dies it gets me)

-I Remember Mama (the final scene is so great)

Just a few that come to mind:

The Sea Inside (when Bardem dreams of leaving his room and walking on the beach)
Dancer in the Dark
High Noon (when Cooper realizes his wife is on his side)
Sunrise (when the husband tries to make up to the wife)
A Star Is Born (Garland/Mason version)
Into the Wild
The Biscuit Eater (1940 version)
Running on Empty (the ending)

It must be the power of identification, but if a female character cries in a movie, I might cry. If a child cries, I probably will cry. If a male character cries, I am a goner.

The freeze frame at the end of The 400 Blows, Central Station, and the Japanese film Nobody Knows reduce me to tears.

At the end of 'Baby It's You'.

Check Out "The Great Lie" and thrill to the vicious bitchery of Bette Davis and Mary Astor (lines they wrote themselves) and then prepare to bawl like a baby with Astor's final line.

Sooooooo identify with Jonster's assessment of the little boy saying goodbye to Debra Winger.

It's the reason I've never seen this movie again. It worked perfectly when I didn't know where it was going, summoning up bits of a situation I knew too well.

Longtime Companion, Broke Back Maountain and Angles in America.

Forrest Gump (at Jenny's grave)
Big Fish (dad's deathbed)
The Notebook
Titanic
Milk (I boo hooed the the car for a half an hour after that one...)
Brokeback Mountain

..just to name a few

Aren't there any _good_ movies that make people cry?

I sob when Judy sings to Margaret "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in Meet Me in St. Louis.

MEN DON'T LEAVE -- when the oldest son (played by Chris O'Donnell) apologizes to his mother's boyfriend (Arliss Howard) ... and then again when the youngest son (Charlie Horsmo) runs away to the playhouse.

Atonement(every other scene) and

The Color Purple (from beginning to end).

Atonement(every other scene) and

The Color Purple (from beginning to end).

Steel Magnolias - during many scenes - but the funeral when Sally Field starts having a melt down.

Australia

The Secret Life of Bees

Cider House Rules

Dead Man Walking