Favorite tear-jerker..,

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For me it is a piece of beautiful music:
Richard Strauss…Four last Songs sung by Gundula Janowitz
Anyone who can listen to this with a dry eye is super human
Listen on You Tube…you will NOT be disappointed!
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When I was in college and needed a good cry, these are the two films I would get from the library:

The Color Purple

Little Women
 
Buongiorno Principessa!

Oh, Life Is Beautiful absolutely. Great mix of comedy and tearjerkery.
 
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I don’t know that one, but my neighbor ‘s dog is named Yoshi.
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It calledcHatchi,A Dogs Tale Richard Gere it’s based on a true story.A real tearjerker and made my heart hurt
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It opened up the floodgates when I watched that movie.
 
Gone With the Wind - the scene where Rhett is crying

Imitation of Life - the Lana Turner version

Another animal movie The Biscuit Eater.
 
While I do have a fondness for bears, Bart the Bear was legendary. Anthony Hopkins greatly admired him, and two directors called him “the John Wayne of bears.”

He also appeared at the Oscars handing an envelope to Mike Myers, with his trainer’s help.

Actually all this does remind me of a tear-jerker movie I liked though it is extremely hard for me to watch, despite having a happy ending. “The Bear” starring Bart.
 
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Very sad when Annie dies, also when she presents herself as her daughter’s nanny to her friends.

I thought the actress who played Annie was the strongest one in the film.

I’m not a Lana Turner fan, I think her acting is often too melodramatic.

There’s an older version of the film. I’ve never seen that one.
 
In the older version, the African-American maid character (named “Delilah” in that version) is more stereotyped, but the story that has the two women going into partnership in a pancake and syrup business rather than the whole actress-and-maid thing is more realistic. Claudette Colbert is a better actress than Lana Turner for this part also. I felt like all Lana did in “Imitation of Life” was sit around looking pretty.
 
Looking pretty, and staring off into the distance. I’ve got a vague memory of Carol Burnett playing Lana Turner in a skit and using that look.
 
I’m glad you mentioned Gregory Peck. One of the few book-based movies done right, falls under this category. And that would be, To Kill a Mockingbird.
 
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I’m glad you mentioned Gregory Peck. One of the few book-based movies done right, falls under this category. And that would be, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Ah, Robert Duvall as Boo Radley :cry:
How about Robert Duvall too as “Lucky” Ned Pepper in another book-based movie? True Grit (John Wayne, Kim Darby, 1969) :cry:
 
Oh my goodness. Amen to that, great movie, but those first few minutes, for a pixar movie, were heart breaking.
 
Every movie is a tearjerker right now. It’s called being a ridiculous mom and I used to laugh so hard and so cruelly at my mother for it. Still some deserve the designation.

Edges of the Lord
Braveheart(is the greatest movie ever)
Band of Brothers (ok its a series)
I am Sam
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Hacksaw Ridge

Kid’s movies get me, bad:
Up, Coco, Moana, Shrek Forever After, ET
 
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I cry at the ends of sappy Christmas movies like It’s a Wonderful Life. More recently, I was pretty triggered by 90 second childbirth scene at the beginning of “Wonder”, which they clearly made every attempt to not make traumatizing, but it still broke me in front of a roomful of 4th graders who were looking at me like I’d lost my mind. I guess when you’ve lived through that sort of experience, you look at it differently.
 
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