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What old movie ending made you cry?
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It's a Wonderful Life, every time
Grave of the Fireflies is a good one and has been mentioned a few times already.
Fox and the Hound has several tear jerker moments, though most memorable for me is when Todd is returned to the forest.
Land Before Time was my first parent death in a film that I can remember. And unlike Bambi, this movie shows more of the consequences of losing a mother at that young of an age.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan always makes me cry. The death of Spock, the exchange between him and Kirk, it always kills me.
- Don't mind me turning to dust in my chair.
Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. It's been 22 years since release ...
That is not an old movie. It's not a recent movie, but it's not an old movie.
22 years is old.
It's relative.
Debatable. There are adults who weren't even born back then.
Almost none of these are old movies
Shawshank Redemption
Old Yeller
If that movie doesn't get you to shed a tear, you're not human.
I'm a pretty hard-boiled tough guy by most standards, and I'm getting a little misty just thinking about it.
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Powerful ending, just excellent.
No idea if it holds up in the current era.
Great film. I hate to call it old. Even though I realize it is now.
I think it holds up. But I'm biased because it's on my top 5 movies of all time.
2010 (Space Odyssey 2).
Don't cry, it's only thunder.
Grave of the fireflies.
Blade runner.
All Dogs Go To Heaven.
1989
Schindler's List
It is a cinematic triumph and a film that everyone should see. With that said, I am unable to ever view it again. The scene where Schindler is breaking down realizing that if he didn't have expensive items he could have saved more people just absolutely killed me.
That plus the descendants of those he saved placing stones on his grave
Life Is Beautiful
Came here to add this.
Definitely better to watch with subtitles.
Batteries Not Included
The Lion King (1994)
Of the relatively recent movies, Interstellar. You know the scene. Or scenes.
E. T.
Honorable mention: The Neverending Story. Cried during one scene in the movie, not the end.
Artax :_(
"Paths of Glory" is one of Kubrick's most underated films (or at least lesser known) and the ending is pure emotional power.
The fact that you just spent almost 90 minutes hating humanity and the shitty situations in which we put ourselves as a species, only to be able to come away from the film thinking "we're not all bad" because of what happens in the final 10 minutes blows my mind.
If you haven't seen it, I can't recommend it enough.
Just saw Elephant Man at the Music Box Theatre. Incredibly moving film if you haven't seen it. They're currently running a film series on David Lynch and that was the first of his films I had ever seen. Planning to see more this week if I can!
Nice! Welcome to the world of Lynch! Hope you enjoy them. Have you seen Twin Peaks?
Oldboy. no, not because it's sad
Almost every Charlie Chaplin’s movie.
This mashup is great. i cri evrytim
Yes, and that speech is even now important. Chaplin was a great man.
It's really incredible how timely it is 100 fucking years later.
An Affair to Remember (1957) Yes I did watch it because it is referenced in Sleepless in Seattle and yes I did blubber cry just like the SiS characters suggested.
After the Promise 1987
Escape from Sobibor 1987
Dang '87 was a tear jerker fest in my timeline.
When I was a kid, every year or so I would see kiki's delivery service on tv.
It wasn't sad or anything like that, but I always swelled up with emotions that I didn't understand and would quietly cry
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)
Harry and the Hendersons when they make him leave. Lithgow telling him he wasn't wanted 😢
Bicentennial Man
Return to Paradise. Yet to talk with anyone that's seen it but I cried so much I've never been able to watch it again
Goodbye Mr Chips (1939)
The crying game
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Is 16 years old? If so Summer Wars for some reason
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