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Old 17-07-2010, 09:51 AM #1
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Default Can you recommend a good tearjerker?
Ones I have loved:

The Notebook
Atonement
A.I
Sophie's Choice
A Walk To Remember
Beaches
The Color Purple



Anyone recommend any others?
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The Kite Runner
Love Story
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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American History X
My Sister's Keeper
Titanic
Hotel Rwanda
Crash
This is England
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Oh, and I forgot Seven Pounds.
That is an amazing film!
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The Kite Runner
Love Story
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Life is Beautiful
Life is Beautiful is excellent

Also try...

You Can Count on Me
The Barbarian Invasions
Driving Miss Daisy
Mississippi Burning
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Ordinary People, great film and Tim Huttons first major role, and probely the best acting in a film ever.
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That was a great film - Robert Carlyle was fantastic.

Just remembered another one: The Duchess with Keira Knightley
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The Green Mile
Benjamin Button
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Seven Pounds
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Goodbye, Lenin

I also found Moon, Milk and The Lives of Others very moving.
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Cheers guys, there's a load of films for me to look up here.
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@ss-master 27. It's so poignant. Moody sound track that goes "bow-chicka-bow-boooow!. You'll well up with emotion.
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The boy in striped pyjamas was extremely moving.
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The boy in striped pyjamas was extremely moving.
Yes, it was really hard to come away from this film, It was on my mind for days afterwards.

The book itself was was incredibly moving too.
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