Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry?

FiveThirtyEight.com ^ | January 12, 2015 | Walt Hickey

[caww]

While typing Schindler's List he kept demanding..."More" more"..

[AbnSarge]

Yup, that one did it for me

[OneWingedShark]

>> Starship Troopers 2.
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> My God man, have you no soul?

I made my little brother, active duty Army doing ATC watch it with me… does that answer your question?
(Note: It's a little brother so, as a big brother, I'm obligated to find ways to torment him… like when confirming a sequence of numbers throwing in an eight-er.)

[Jane Austen]

A relative who is not even religious cried at “The Passion of Christ.” His wife said it is the only movie that made him cry.

[KC Burke]

Below is a good link. It is in a movie related to baseball and to me is one of the best scenes in film.

It shows how foundational the love of a good woman can be to a man, even when unseen or distant. Watch it an give me your opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0lof7tFKtE

[yarddog]

I don’t think I have ever cried from watching a movie but a few have made my eyes a little misty.

Interestingly, you mentioned the only one I can recall off hand. Wee Willie Winky, where Shirley Temple is singling “Auld lang Syne” at Sgt, McDuff’s funeral.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Walt Disney’s “Dumbo” where he says goodbye to his mother who is chained up for trying to protect him from the nasty clowns. Hated clowns ever since

[MAKOTHEDOG]

The last free man in America vs the big blue meanies on wheels.

Classic line of the movie right there.

Ok, I am sold. That is what I am watching tonight :) Seeing I-70 under construction before Grand Junction, CO brings back some memories.

[Oratam]

I weep near the end of 1958's A Night To Remember. The scene when the band members regroup after parting to continue playing as the ship goes down, rather than trying to find themselves a lifeboat.

The other scene that gets the water flowing is of the lost little boy calling out "mummy, mummy," and the old man, a waiter from 1st Class I think, finds him and takes his hand to "find his mummy." Sadly, both are fated to be among the last people to go down with the ship. "Don't tread on this boy! Don't tread on this boy!" Gets me even now.

[Paisan]

“Schindler’s List” ending did me in.

For me, it was the text at the VERY end.

He was named Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli government in 1963.

To be named A Righteous Man by the Israeli government is a distinction that, for me, outranks the Congressional Medal of Honor...

[caww]

Well the entire movie had many tear jerking moments ....it's one of my favorite movies....the acting is fabulous and the story line well presented. YEs, Schindler was honored for what he did...rightfully so. The more you look at what happened then, before and after, and the German leadership, the more you see why things happened as they did. But nothing can justify the mas killings. Which BTW...We have in our country our own industrial genocide operating every day-24/7-of which Hitlers effort was the template...Abortion Law/Ethanasia. though it's been renamed.."Death with Dignity". 

[TalBlack]

I don’t know that any movie ever made me cry but a line in a song that happened to be playing during a movie got me close “...my son will wear the Green Beret...and silver wings...upon his chest...

[Fledermaus]

I can’t believe no one listed this one: “Bryan’s Song” with James Caan and Billy Dee Williams.

I kind of tear up at the ending of “The Greatest Game Ever Played”.

[Craftmore]

Worst movie for me was “I am Sam” a story about a mentally disabled man fighting for custody of his child.I was involved in a bitter custody fight of my own and it hit way too close to home.

2nd worse.”What dreams may come” with robin williams as a man in heaven trying to save his wife from hell.The scenes with his children and dog are tortuous.

3rd choice.”Patch Adams” also starring Robin Williams.Both of these movies showed me that he was a real actor.

[Stand Watch Listen]

We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts! Here's proof: his nose is cold! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw "Old Yeller?" Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end?

[Sarcastically] Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? I'm sure. [hands are reluctantly raised]

I cried my eyes out. So we're all dogfaces, we're all very, very different,…………………………………….

[caww]

Bogie! quite a bit before my time but my son took a liking to his movies and the big band era. He should have really been born before his time!

[Interesting Times]

[2CAVTrooper]

For me its Blackhawk Down.

[billphx]

Taking Chance got to me.....

[VMI70]

The Exorcist