Favourite 'weepie' films

[susieq]

Chatting with one of our Tibb friends we discovered that we're both gluttons for 'weepie' films. So, what's your fave? I think some of mine would have to be (in no particular order):

It's A Wonderful Life
The Way We Were
West Side Story
Good Will Hunting

Go on, there must be plenty of films that make you sniffle!!

[Kaz]

Oh god, susieq - don't get me started, there are SO many! Not necessarily 'soppy' love films either. :blush:

The Green Mile
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart (well, I AM Scottish!)
Ghost

I could go on for ever! Even Bambi when his mother's killed, for god's sake! And I get worse as time goes on. :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

(I may come back with more later!)

[Amy]

Ghost always gets me every time :bawling::bawling::bawling:
:bawling::bawling::bawling:

[James]

'The Elephant Man' makes me blub. :bawling:

I think I said that before on a thread, didn't I? :conf: I've got a feeling of deja vú.

Such a sad story. :bawling:

[Mairi]

Now Voyager
Dark Victory
The Song of Bernadette
Field of Dreams
Ghost
ET
Marnie
Spartacus
The Wicker Man
The King and I
Sleepless in Seattle
An Affair to Remember
The Elephant Man
Greyfriars Bobby
The Railway Children
The Hills of Home
The Incredible Journey
Pollyanna
Old Yeller
It's a Wonderful Life
A Town Like Alice

Well, you did ask, Sue!

Pass me a tissue someone. :bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling:

[sweetlittlesara]

ET


I love that film!!! it makes me cry every time i see it :bawling::bawling::bawling:



The green mile


Janette said that was good too, might watch it next time i feel like crying :bawling::bawling:

[WILDCHILD]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Titanic. No mater how some people have gone off that film, I found it really emotional and I was crying buckets coming out of the cinema.
I always find myself crying at the Roger and Hammerstein classic, 'Carousel'.
I also cried at The Green Mile.
Im sure there must be a few more, Ill get my thinking hat on.:bawling::conf::bawling:

[Janette]

All of the above and also Dumbo!


I cry when Mrs Jumbo is caged up because the men think she's gone crazy.

I cry when Mrs Jumbo sings "baby mine" while cradling little Dumbo in her trunk.

I cry when the nasty birds start laughing at Dumbo's big ears.

I cry at the end when everyone is cheering Dumbo.

I'm nearly crying now just thinking of it all!

:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling:

[steve_o]

I won't comment:laugh:I'll only show my sensitive side.:thumbs::bawling:

:blush:

:spin:

[Janette]

Oh go on Steve, us girls like a sensitive man!


:spin2:

[steve_o]

:blush:I'll think about it.
:blush::thumbs::joker:

:spin:

[James]

Originally posted by steve_o
I'll think about it.


You could always compromise and say something like 'The Great Escape'. That was pretty sad at the end. :hugesmile:

Heres another couple of films that have been known to get me misty-eyed:

Edward Scissorhands,
The Shawshank Redemption (the scene at the end, on the beach)

:hugesmile:

[Mairi]

Originally posted by James
You could always compromise and say something like 'The Great Escape'. That was pretty sad at the end.

Yes!! I'd forgotten about that one, James. I always cry when the character played by Donald Pleasance walks straight down the hill towards the "enemy" because he can't see them and they shoot him.

:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling:

[Janette]

Fellowship of The Ring made me cry at the end when Sam nearly drowned and then told Frodo he would never leave him.



:bawling:

[Mairi]

I have never seen so many tears in one thread.

Makes me want to cry. :bawling:

[steve_o]

Oh ok how about this then, Gladiator when his family get killed and at the end where he dies and goes off to meet them again and the music's playing. sniff:bawling:

:bawling:

[blinkinlovely]

I'm not a big fan of the weepie film - that said I do like:
It's a wonderful life
Sleepless in Seattle

I tend to get weepy in all sorts of filmL
I love
Notting Hill
Field of dreams
Groundhog day (sorry)
Big Night
Harvey
North by Northwest (not weepie at all just chuckles)
ealing filmd

Sorry getting carried away.............:thumbs:

[lyndy]

what about:

the champ:bawling::bawling::bawling:
kramer vrs kramer;:bawling:

[susieq]

I love it that we've got so many sentimental people on TiBB (as if I didn't know already!).

People have mentioned so many of my favourite films. How could I forget?:

Field of Dreams
Untamed Heart
Sleepless in Seattle
ET
Ghost
Billy Elliott

So many wonderful films - it's a wonder I'm not completely wrecked!!

[Sticks]

Films like Brave Heart and the Great Escape leaves one crying with RAGE because they made a travesty out of what really happened. :mad:

One that should get people, although I have never seen it should be Schindlers List, I understand at the end of the film they have the real people who were saved.

For a conventional one I have actualy seen, La Man of La Manche with Peter O'Tool especially the final chorus of Impossible Dream (http://d21c.com/dolphinsdream/midis/impossible.mid)

But the obvious weepie, which may come from "Left field" is in an advert. A woman is playing over and over again a video clip of her child. Husband comes in and takes remote from her hand and she colappses sobbing. Fade to black and then an instruction to remind us to make sure the batteries in our smoke alarms are regularly replaced.

A mini Weepie of sorts

[Romantic Old Bird]

Miriam, we are of one mind on Now Voyager:


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I also love of course It's a Wonderful Life
A Portrait of Jennie

AND
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of course!!

There are SO many

Meet me in St Louis

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The incomparable Robert Donat original version of Goodbye Mr Chips
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I was not moved at all by Titanic I'm afraid. I thought the cast were in sympathy with the iceberg and kept 7/8 of their talent submerged in lukewarm water.

Of course The way we were, but mostly in memory of how Robert Reford looked asleep on that bar stool in his white naval uniform......

I also wept buckets when Sean Bean snuffed it in LOTR, and I don't even like him particularly.....and howled when Samwise told Froda 'Don't you never do that again Mr Frodo'.

Yep, me and my :bawling: and snivelling loudly in the stalls, as dear old Dean said about someone else, I am 'the kind of person who ruins a film for you'.

Mind you, I have been known to cry at adverts as well before now....

[BusyBee]

Favourite weepie :bawling::bawling:
I am the world's expert. My favourite evening would be a boxful of tissues, bottle of wine and an endless supply of my favourite films - nothing like a film you can have a bawl to. My own favourites include

Casablanca (my all time favourite film)
While you were sleeping
ET (I know its pathetic)
Its a Wonderful Life
Love Story

It can be a sad ending or a happy ending to set me off. OH is very good at passing the box of tissues - he's had enough practice. All I can say is I enjoy a good :bawling::bawling: