Heartbreaking Films

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  • perfectingpatti
    perfectingpatti Posts: 1,037 Member
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    I don't watch films that are MEANT to upset a person.
    I wasn't thinking about movies that just make you cry here. I was thinking of movies that change your view on life. Because many of these are based on or inspired by true stories, they tend to pull at the heart strings.
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
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    I don't watch films that are MEANT to upset a person.
    I wasn't thinking about movies that just make you cry here. I was thinking of movies that change your view on life. Because many of these are based on or inspired by true stories, they tend to pull at the heart strings.

    My heart strings don't like being pulled. ;)

    But taken from that perspective, there was this movie about a little orphan boy who becomes a musical genius that was pretty darn good. AND it had a happy ending (the only kind of ending I will tolerate). August Rush I think? Totally implausible but it definitely made me cry at the end when he meets his parents finally.
  • mariapuhl
    mariapuhl Posts: 529 Member
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    Haven't read the whole thread, so don't know if anyone has posted it, but

    The Stoning of Soraya M.

    It's an amazing movie but you are crying nearly the entire way through. It's a rough watch.

    I saw this in the theater. It was hard to swallow! Took everything I had not to get up and walk out...I was so angered at the treatment of this woman, and these poor women in general.

    I watched it on Netflix. It took me a couple of days to get through it because I kept getting so upset. When they finally get to the actual stoning scene, oh. my. god., I was a mess.
  • bexxxster
    bexxxster Posts: 88 Member
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    Just thought of some more, disney films! Cannot watch Bambi or Fox and the Hound.. I cry like a baby :(
  • perfectingpatti
    perfectingpatti Posts: 1,037 Member
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    August Rush I think? Totally implausible but it definitely made me cry at the end when he meets his parents finally.

    Yes! Great movie!
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
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    Philadelphia
    The Cure (a movie that had me bawling hysterically on my knees next to my sons bed for hours)
    Schindler's List
    Steel Magnolias
    Beaches
    A Star is Born (with Barbara Striesand)
    Marley and Me
    The Notebook
  • ShenanigansOHoolihan
    ShenanigansOHoolihan Posts: 61 Member
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    Into the Wild.
  • Joreanasaurous
    Joreanasaurous Posts: 1,384 Member
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    Up.... Toy Story 3... Bambi.

    Any movie where an animal dies or gets hurt. Old Yelled and The Yearling come to mind.

    The Sea Inside. It is a Spanish movie based on a true story of a man who broke his neck and is now bedridden who is petitioning thegovernment for assisted suicide. I bawled.

    Dangerous Beauty.

    The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas.

    Life is Beautiful.

    Radio Flyer. I can't wait kids get hurt.

    Shindlers List. I can't finish that movie.

    Grave of the Fireflies

    Requiem for a Dream.
  • ShenanigansOHoolihan
    ShenanigansOHoolihan Posts: 61 Member
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    Up....

    Life is Beautiful.


    Yes & yes.
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
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    Into the Wild.

    I loved this!
  • WeepingAngel81
    WeepingAngel81 Posts: 2,232 Member
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    Life is Beautiful

    A Beutiful Mind

    My Sisters Keeper

    I Am Sam

    Crash
  • LitaRose77
    LitaRose77 Posts: 124 Member
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    I cry so easily, whether it is due to the movie being sad or something really great happened...I'm a sap.....
  • ShenanigansOHoolihan
    ShenanigansOHoolihan Posts: 61 Member
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    Into the Wild.

    I loved this!

    No movie has ever touched me that way. I felt way too in tune with Chris McCandless.
  • trophywife24
    trophywife24 Posts: 1,472 Member
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    I cried as in full on sobbed in
    I am Legend (I literally can not watch that movie anymore)
    La Vita E Bella (Italian movie about a father and son in a Nazi concentration camp)
    Six Feet Under series finale (TV show on HBO but I full sob every time I finish the series... it's the best 15 minutes of TV ever IMO)


    I'm sure there are more but those are my full on sobbing ones.

    They were just playing that Sia song that they play in the Six Feet Under finale in the mall and I swear I was tearing up in JC Penney. lol. That crapped on my heart, in the good way. I miss that show so much.
  • Liatush
    Liatush Posts: 627 Member
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    Life is Beautiful - broke my heart. Also, the Persuit of Happyness.
  • BCinDenver
    BCinDenver Posts: 10 Member
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    Bridge to Terabithia
  • chocolatierswife
    chocolatierswife Posts: 19 Member
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    haichi
    Armageddon
    bicentennial man
    marley & me

    havent watched p.s i love you, snotted at the book though.
  • Maribel_1986
    Maribel_1986 Posts: 457 Member
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    -Million Dollar Baby
    -Ghost
    -End of Watch
    -A Little Bit of Heaven
    -My Sisters Keeper
    -The Last Song
    -Dear John
  • Luvmesumkenny
    Luvmesumkenny Posts: 779 Member
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    * Marley & Me
    * My Sisters Keeper ( Dear God I will never watch this one again)
    * A Walk to Remember
    * Ghost
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,454 Member
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    Most embarrassing tear jerker moment: I cried when Wilson floated away in Castaway (in my defense, I was pregnant at the time).

    Who DIDN'T cry when Wilson floated away? No defense needed!

    Grave of the Fireflies - it has already been mentioned but it's about the saddest film I've ever seen, and it's based on a true story.

    Breaking the Waves - a really haunting film that kept preying on my mind after I saw it.

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