Sensitive topic (pun intended): Movies that make men cry

The scene in "Forest Gump" when he has the conversation with his mom as she's dying of cancer.

I had the very same conversation with my mom as she lay dying of cancer and tried to reassure and console me.

Got blindsided by that one.
 
1970 - Love Story. I was promising myself I would not cry all through the movie until near the end when I saw a guy two rows in front of me crying. I figured if Houston Antwine who led the Patriots in sacks in 1969 and was a six time All-Star defensive tackle could cry his eyes out at the end of the movie, so could I.

Some people cried during Titanic but I had already heard a rumor the ship sunk so it didn't bother me. :D

CW
 
I can't watch Millionaire Baby, I think that was the name of it anyway. It's too much. Why couldn't she have just died.
 
Saving Private Ryan-the end scene
A River Runs Through It-the scene at the very end where the narration is heard over the scene of the elderly Norman fishing. That scene reminded me so much of my grandfather who grew up during that time period and loved to fly fish when he was younger.
The end of the Curious Case of Benjamin Button-anything involving the death of a small child gets me.
 
The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946). The scenes with Academy Award winner Harold Russell, who was not a professional actor and lost both arms in WWII get me every time.
 
Another notable tear jerker for me is when Joe Don Baker as Buford Pusser hits the guy in the back with his big stick like a Louisville slugger in the 1973 classic, Walking Tall.
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Haa haa, that was obviously a time for "individual achievement", if I may be allowed to mix my movies.
 
For me it was "The Fast and the Furious."

I think they really destroyed that 68 or 69 Dodge Charger.

As a teenager, it was my favorite car.
 
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For sure, there is something about dogs dying in movies. The scene in Legend where Will Smith has to put his dog down is hard to watch.
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It wasn't a movie, but on the Animal Planet "Pit bulls and parolees" series last year, they showed an episode where the pit bull rescue people had to put down a really sweet old dog whose pain had become unbearable for him. They gave him a great last meal and lots of loving before they gently sent him to the rainbow bridge. As I'm owned by a loyal, loving and affectionate pit bull, that one did make me shed some tears. It was very, very hard to watch.

John
 
As the ultimate dog lover, any flick with a pooch. Turner & Hooch, Skip, Marley...when the yellow lab is being buried and the dad asks his son if he wants to say something, the kid simply says, "He knows." ... break out the Kleenex.

For "happy tears," the scene that really gets me is when Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) walks up the stairs to see his healed mother and sister at the end of the movie. Earlier in the film, his encounter with Jesus on the way to the galleys.

There's nothing wrong with a man shedding tears. Jesus wept.
 
One that I forgot was "The Wind That Shakes The Barley." The movie, not the album by Loreena Mckennitt. Set in 1920's Ireland, the scene at the end where Teddy has to give the firing squad the order to shoot his brother Damien, an IRA member. Then Teddy has to deliver Damien's letter to Sinead and she's on her knees crying and mourning as Teddy slowly walks away in the final scene.

CW
 
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Around 1995 or so, the History Channel used to have this series called "History Versus Hollywood" and the host was a gruff older guy named Sander Vanocur. One night I came home from work, already living here in Mexico, and found out that they were going to show the film "Escape from Sobibor".

I had never seen the film, but remembered one night around 1989 when I was still living in Canada but working towards coming down here that I walked through the living room of my parent's house after having dinner with them and saw my Dad -- who had been a Bren Gunner from Normandy at June 6th until the war's end and who had helped liberate a concentration camp near the end -- watching some T.V. movie where some guy in a wooden guard tower was mowing down fleeing people with an MG-34.

"Watcha watchin'?" I asked him.

"Aww," he said with a wave of his hand, "just the damned S.S. shooting people in the back again." My Dad had a great respect for the fighting capabilities of the Waffen S.S., I think they were the only thing he ever truly feared, but he also certainly hated them. That came out a lot over the years. I couldn't stop to watch the movie, and it was near the end anyway, but checking the T.V. guide I saw it's name was "Escape from Sobibor."

So, here and now, I was going to watch the film with Sander Vanocur. Cool. As usual, in the "History Versus Hollywood" productions, there was a studio audience and a couple of experts on there with them to have a chat with at the end of the show. One of the "experts" was an older lady who had been a young girl in the extermination camp at Sobibor. She had survived. She had been portrayed in the movie.

At the end of the film, when she spoke clearly and precisely about what the S.S. had done and of the horrors she had seen there, and about how accurate the film had been -- with slight errors in timing or pace as is usual when one tries to portray real life on celluloid -- everyone was quiet. Sander Vanocur started to choke up, and in an attempt to ask her a final question, his voice cracked, and he had to wipe his eyes.

"I'm sorry," he muttered, trying to compose himself.

"It's all right," said the woman, reaching out to take his hand, "It was a hard thing." He sniffled. And I must admit, watching it, I sniffled too.
 
Several scenes in "Lonesome Dove" really get to me but the scene where they have to bury Deets (Danny Glover) and Gus reads his epitaph out loud....
"....never shirked a task....splendid behavior.."

Jeez.

The scene/character was actually based on a cowhand that worked for Charles Goodnight. Goodnight supposedly loved him like a son.
 
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"Saving Private Ryan" - When the woman realizes that the brothers are all from the same family.
"Saving Private Ryan" - When the mom sees that car coming down the road to her house.
"A League Of Their Own" - When the player gets *The Telegram*
"We Were Soldiers" - When the taxi pulls up.
And others of the same vein, I guess.

I don't know why these scenes always get to me, but they sure do.
 
Many of those mentioned here have affected me the same way. No one else has mentioned an old movie that was the first to come to mind for me. "How Green Was My Valley" could bring me to tears.

LTC
 
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