What movie makes you cry?

[Medusa]

Somewhere over the rainbow

Tubi's got that one.

 

[-Oy-]

TRhe only film that ever made ne cry was King Kong. I was about 7.

 

[Della]

Splendor in the Grass

 

[OneEyedDiva]

My son and I saw The Elephant Man in the theater and we both cried. During one scene in Ghandi, I cried so that I had to leave my seat for a few minutes.

 

[OldFeller]

Casablanca
My mother lost her intended in the war (WW2). That movie reminds me of the many sacrifices people faced during WW2.

It's A Wonderful Life
Life during the depression had to be hard

 

[Jace]

The Way we were
But especially the song by Barbara Streisand

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

Lion. Indian movie about a little boy who gets on a train and it ends up going non-stop to the other side of the country. I saw it twice, but my heart hurt so much for the kid that I will never watch it again. A true story.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

The Evening Star, Shirley MacLaine, 1996

 

[SeniorSally]

One that probably none of you remember- Madame X.

Also as someone else mentioned, Taking Chance.

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

The Evening Star, Shirley MacLaine, 1996

You should read this book, it's by Larry McMurtry, one of my favorites. Of course, his unparalleled masterpiece is Lonesome Dove.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

You should read this book, it's by Larry McMurtry, one of my favorites. Of course, his unparalleled masterpiece is Lonesome Dove.

Yes, and Terms of Endearment, by the same author. The ways people can hurt each other. My family had many similarities, I suppose, is why those stories spoke to my heart.

 

[Della]

OT: Back when "Lonesome Dove" was first published, my son and I both read it and that summer we took a vacation to Texas just so we could cover the important spots in the book.

Almost all his books made me cry, starting with The Last Picture Show.

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

@Della Did you visit McMurtry's store? A friend and I talked for years about going on a road trip to see it and meet him. The day he died the first thing I thought was, I guess we're never going to meet him.

 

[dusty]

The movie "Hiatchi" with Richard Gere. If this movie doesn't make you cry you aren't human.

 

[Della]

@Della Did you visit McMurtry's store? A friend and I talked for years about going on a road trip to see it and meet him. The day he died the first thing I thought was, I guess we're never going to meet him.

Noooo! If we'd only known about it we would have gone. How cool it would have been to meet a favorite writer.

 

[OldOld]

I remember my grandmother and mother telling me that the most popular movies during the Depression and WWII weren't necessarily the comedic ones, but the tear-jerkers. It seemed strange to deliberately go to a sad movie during rough times but it must have been cathartic. You had to be so brave all the time, but at the movies you could cry to your heart's content.

I would imagine only wealthy people had the spare money to go to movies during the Depression.

 

[Mitch86]

I don't cry but I do feel sad when watching documentaries on how the German Nazis killed 6 million Jews from 1933 to 1945. I also feel sad about how the white Europeans came to America and then killed 4 million indigenous people and imported 6 million African blacks to keep as slaves for many, many, many years!

 

[mrstime]

E.T.

Me too.

An Affair to Remember and probably a few more.

 

[jujube]

I would imagine only wealthy people had the spare money to go to movies during the Depression.

No, surprisingly, movies were very affordable during the Depression. It was an easy escape from the woes of everyday living.

My grandfather owned and operated three theaters back then, after he left the circus.

 

[Della]

No, surprisingly, movies were very affordable during the Depression. It was an easy escape from the woes of everyday living.

My grandfather owned and operated three theaters back then, after he left the circus.

Yes, and for about 25 cents they often got a short, a newsreel, a cartoon as well as one or two movies.

My father (born 1915) remembered going to the movies every Saturday afternoon for a dime.

 

[Pinky]

Life is Beautiful .. I can't think of it, without getting a lump in my throat.

Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella, Italian: [la ˈviːta ˈɛ bˈbɛlla]) is a 1997 Italian period comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. The film was partially inspired by the book In the End, I Beat Hitler by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni's father, who spent two years in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II.

 

[Kadee]

Every now and then we get a very old movie pop up on midday movies ….it had Richard Gear in it ….it was called
Yanks Yanks - Wikipedia


…..And the Notebook

 

[Mstlyn]

Steel Magnolias! It gets me everytime!

 

[jujube]

Yes, and for about 25 cents they often got a short, a newsreel, a cartoon as well as one or two movies.

My father (born 1915) remembered going to the movies every Saturday afternoon for a dime.

Grampa also had "dish night", a talent show every week, towel giveaways, food prizes, drawings, sing-alongs, live acts, etc. It wasn't just going to see a movie, it was a social occasion.

And it was a bold move in racial equality, too, as his theaters and handbills said "Colored people always welcome"...the first theater that advertised that in a city that was considered the "northern capitol" of the Klan.

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

@jujube What city was that? Bc I read a really good novel about the Klan in Illinois.