Movies that made you cry that you thought wouldn't.

[Ldude893]

How to Train Your Dragon. That whole movie was a fantastic surprise for me, but I never thought that it'll be the only Dreamworks film that could even get me even a bit teary eyed.

Spoiler: The specific part?

Hiccup and his father reconciling before Hiccup goes to fight the gigantic dragon, and his father finally accepting Hiccup for who he is. After all the events in the film, I just cracked.

 

[MrDumpkins]

The Bridge to Terebithia got me good, I'd never heard of it, hired it out and watched it on a whim and damn, I've never seen anything sadder in my life. Did not see that ending coming at all.

I watched that movie with a bunch of friends in my college dorm room, we were all teary eyed since nobody had the balls to actually cry. When my roommate and his GF got back they laughed at us, then we told them to watch the movie and after that they understood. Very good one, you think it's one of those happy stories, it just hits you hard.

 

[FoxKitsune]

Oh, dear.

I have an embarrassingly long list of these, but then I tend to tear up at some songs too, or even hypothetical story things I haven't written yet.

The most notable would be a certain duel at the end of Star wars episode 3 (yes, the prequel movie.) Whatever you can say about those films, that was a hard face off to watch. The discussion leading into it really pulled the ol' heartstrings.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

I didn't quite cry, but I came damn close watching...Wreck-It Ralph. Yeah, the video game cartoon.

Spoiler: WIW spoiler

Damn it, Sarah Silverman! When did you learn to act! Seriously, that scene where Ralph smashed up her cart...I've got sand in my eyes just thinking about it.

Oh man, me too! I was definitely not expecting it to be such an emotionally engaging movie as well as a hilarious and fun one.

When I watched Spirited Away about a year ago after not having seen it in ages, I teared up three times during it. Just thinking about two of those scenes makes my eyes well up. They get me every. single. time.

Embarassingly, Titanic. James Cameron's way to build a love story might have the subtlety of a sledgehammer, but dammit, it works! Might be for the most part thanks to DiCaprio and Winslet's chemistry and of course the incredibly sappy music.

While it didn't exactly make me cry, Drive's ending packed an immense emotional punch that I wasn't expecting. The music hit the mood perfectly.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Toy Story 3 was one of those movies I'm glad was in 3D that way when the ending came up the glasses covered up my emotions... but goddamn all the sobbing in the theater was enough to really makes you feel euphoric and not alone on the feel train. Choo Choo.

And a movie that always makes me shed a tear when I watch it from beginning to end is Forrest Gump.
Why is it so good?! WHY?! D':

 

[GodzillaGuy92]

Also the movie "Up". Who the hell gets teary 5 minutes into an animated feature? Great movie though.

Seconded. I don't think I even came close to crying the first time I saw it. The second time, a year later in my eleventh-grade English class, was a different story. The teacher showed us three clips in order for us to gauge our emotional responses to it (the first two being the death of Bambi's mom and a succession of sports injuries), and though I remembered the first five minutes being sad, I was nothing short of shocked when I found myself crying for the first time in almost ten years.

On the subject of not thinking I'd cry because I'd seen the movie already, there's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. I did cry the first time, during the Pensieve flashback scene, which I suppose was already a surprise since I didn't do so when I read that scene in the book. But I figured I'd be fine when I saw the movie again less than a week later. For whatever reason, I cried even harder the second time, and it wasn't until the third time (considerably longer afterwards) that I made it through that scene okay. Naturally, Viewing #4 somehow managed to drive me to tears again.

 

[RedDeadFred]

When I first saw the Lord of the Rings movies, I didn't think I'd get all that emotional during them. Oh how wrong I was. The following scenes had me AT LEAST tearing up and still do:
Gandalf falls
Boromir dies
Sam runs after Frodo
Gandalf charges into Helm's Deep
Sam's Speech about them being put into stories
Charge of the Rohirrim at Minas Tirith
Theoden Dies
Frodo sends Sam away
Merry and Pippin charge at the orcs
The Ring is destroyed
Aragorn is crowned King
You bow to no one
The end

There's probably more but these are the ones I've thought of off the top of my head.

 

[Nouw]

Having read Cloud Atlas before hand I knew what would happen but that didn't make a few scenes any less moving.

I didn't quite cry, but I came damn close watching...Wreck-It Ralph. Yeah, the video game cartoon.

Spoiler: WIW spoiler

Damn it, Sarah Silverman! When did you learn to act! Seriously, that scene where Ralph smashed up her cart...I've got sand in my eyes just thinking about it.

Same movie, different scene.

Spoiler: Spoilers

When he's falling near the end, reciting the speech having accepted his death I shed a few tears. I don't know why I got that reaction, I guess it just felt so real to me.

 

[Jedamethis]

Pacific Rim. YES I CRIED AT THE GIANT ROBOT MOVIE SHUT UP

Spoiler: I guess it counts a spoiler?

When baby Mako's crying and holding her shoe and hiding and then Stacker Pentecost comes along and...goddamn. I have a weak spot for lost children okay.

 

[Trucken]

Click. Yes, seriously. I went in expecting the usual Adam Sandler-flick, a silly comedy. But there were scenes that hit me like a sledgehammer.

Spoiler: Spoilers for Click

First, the flashback with his father.

And then, we have the ending. Where he has just learned that his son is turning out the same way he did, too focused on work to spend time with his family.

 

[Saelune]

The House. A South Korean animated film that my brother and I watched on a whim. It ended without any resolution, and left me feeling sad and hallow. I get the point of it I suppose, but ugh.

Was expecting something more family friendly and silly. I don't like sad movies. (Cause it makes me sadder than I already am, not that it wasn't good)

 

[soren7550]

The opening scene of the Lion King, where Rafiki holds little Simba up and all the animals and the music, It was just all so beautiful... (yeah that other scene made me cry also).

Same here, but I figured that it touched me so much because I was particularly sick that day (was throwing up, even threw up in the shower and smashed my head into the knobs. -_-').

The first ten minutes of Up, and later on when the old guy finds his wife's book.

50/50, when JGL is about to go in for surgery.

Toy Story 3's ending, as well as the toy's escape.

The ending of The Jacket. I didn't even see the whole movie, but that ending, and the music.

 

[ecoho]

The Bridge to Terebithia got me good, I'd never heard of it, hired it out and watched it on a whim and damn, I've never seen anything sadder in my life. Did not see that ending coming at all.

screw that movie it was on my summer kids movie pass when I was like 13 and we went in thinking it would be a cute kids movie with fantasy fighting, then the end happened and dear lord if one dry eye was in that theater id be surprised balled like a little baby still do.

 

[The Hero Killer]

The last 10 mins or so of Toy Story 3 punched me in the heart. I'll never forget that moment when the whole theater was sniffing especially the older people.

 

[CellShaded]

I love you Phillip Morris is probably one of the only movies that has made me cry. I don't remember any others, anyway. Went in expecting a typical Jim Carrey movie, and some of it was the way I expected, but one or two scenes just really pulled at my heartstrings.

 

[Quazimofo]

Also the movie "Up". Who the hell gets teary 5 minutes into an animated feature? Great movie though.

Because it was one of Pixar's best films yet? Hopefully after cars 2 and brave and (arguably, I haven't seen it) monster's university they'll get back to the fantastic feels factory we all know and love. (that upcoming one about dia de los muertos has potential I think).

I'm going to throw in a vote for UP as well, mostly because no movie has made me cry before. Ever. I just caught up on tv for a second time not too long ago, and the scene where he finally gets to the falls and finds the book... just goddamn. Right in the feels just doesn't cover it, catharsis maybe? It's hard to place exactly.

If anyone here hasn't seen UP, go watch that movie RIGHT GODDAMN NOW,
....or maybe tomorrow. Earliest convenience really. Just make sure to watch it soon. It's top 5 pixar movies easily, discounting the most recent 3 of dubious quality.

 

[Drummodino]

I don't think I've cried while watching a movie since I was 6 when I saw the first Pokemon movie.

Several (Japanese) video games and anime have made me tear up this year though. Two of them made me cry like a baby.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Click. Yes, seriously. I went in expecting the usual Adam Sandler-flick, a silly comedy. But there were scenes that hit me like a sledgehammer.

Spoiler: Spoilers for Click

First, the flashback with his father.

And then, we have the ending. Where he has just learned that his son is turning out the same way he did, too focused on work to spend time with his family.

Ooooo--gonna have to second this. Those last scenes killed me. The rest of the movie is so ridiculous (I mean, he accidentally goes back to the moment where his extreme-jewish-stereotype parents are conceiving him), I wasn't prepared for these two moments. Seriously, it's the one with his dad that really got to me. I've never felt so bad for Adam Sandler, and I probably never will again.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Hachiko: A Dog's Tale. I'd known about Hachiko, the real dog, from high school, but I thought it'd be toned down for kids, so me and my niece watched it.

By the end, we were both cradling each other, in tears. Stupid dead dog...

 

[Vedrenne]

Shawshank Redemption, the last scene with Brooks. Makes me tear up all the damn time.