kas_to Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 mine is Madame X with Lana Turner and John Forsythe no other movie makes me cry like this one and it really cleans out your ducts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Beaches Terms of Endearment The Notebook Ice Castles Imitation of Life (1959) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 The Yearling- Miracle worker- Bambi The Champ Miracle in the Rain- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I just watched HUMORESQUE (1946) this week.... what a totally terrific film from Warners. John Garfield is just amazing as the tortured violinist (his finger work is stellar), and Joan Crawford is beyond belief in what may be her best performance (as the bored socialite). A gorgeous film by Jean Negulesco based on a play by Clifford Odets based on a novel by Fannie Hurst. Oscar Levant plays piano and cracks wise, Ruth Nelson and J. Carroll Naish as the parents, Joan Chandler as the discarded Gina, Robert Blake as Garfield as a boy, Tom D'Andrea as the plain brother.... The music is wonderful and helps create the mood. Just a wonderful but overlooked film that's just about perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randyishere Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Imitation Of Life - 1959 All That Heaven Allows Magnificent Obsession - 1954 Camille Kings Row Dark Victory Stolen Hours Mrs. Miniver Blossoms In The Dust They Live By Night To Each His Own Eddy Duchin Story Man Of A Thousand Faces Madame X - 1966 A Time To Love And A Time To Die Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbabe Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Camille, Waterloo Bridge, Titanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
precoder Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I live and die by great weepies ... Miss Lulu Bett 1920 The Crowd 1928 The Divine Lady 1929 City Lights 1931 Queen Christina 1933 Torch Singer 1933 Imitation Of Life 1934 Pride Of The Yankees 1942 Since You Went Away 1944 Roman Holiday 1953 A Star Is Born 1954 Splendor In The Grass 1961 The Miracle Worker 1962 Romeo And Juliet 1968 Brians Song 1971 The Elephant Man 1980 Sophies Choice 1982 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkadin Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 HUMORESQUE is a great film. It's really amazing when you realize the work that Garfield put into his part. Some of the more technical scenes used another violinists hands, but it's Garfield's attention to detail that makes this all look legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyt Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 CelluloidKid, you listed 2 of my favorites - "Beaches" and "Imitation of Life" (isn't that one on everyone's list). Can't watch them though unless I'm having a strong day emotionally. I haven't seen "The Notebook" yet, waiting for a day when I am really strong - since I lost my Mom a few years ago to Alzheimers. From what I have heard it would definitely be a favorite - Pass the Kleenex, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancalover Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 "Field of Dreams"--I do cry in anticipation of the climax, I don't even wait. "Mr. Skeffington"--This movie means more to me the older I get. "Tin Cup"--I shoulda done what Rene Russo did--so I do "regret crying". "Lassie Come Home"--sucker for dog movies. Did I ever tell you the first time I fell in love was when I was 6 yrs old, and I lost my heart to Jon Provost (Timmy) on the Lassie TV series...another blond!--see "blond" thread......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkadin Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 THREE COMRADES (1938) FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952) BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919) MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 "Field of Dreams"--I do cry in anticipation of the climax, I don't even wait.>> Once James Earl Jones starts talking about baseball and what it means to us as a country color me crying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Somewhere in Time and Field of Dreams (I love the baseball in America speech but what really chokes me up is the moment when Ray asks for a game of catch at the end (you would have to see it to understand why it is so poignant. I don't want to give it away)). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvsblacknwhite Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Reading down the list of movies, there are some excellent pictures listed! I find that the classic movies are so much more emotional and exciting than most of what is made today. One of my favorite all time tear-jerkers is: "PENNY SERENADE" starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, made in 1941. It is airing on TCM on February 13 at 6:30 am. If you can, watch it, you will not be dissappointed...but you will definately be crying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 *Gone with the Wind* and *Doctor Zhivago* always have me crying no matter how many times I see them. Their music is one of the chief reasons. Out of Africa is another. Not all the movies that make me cry the most are exactly thought of as traditional "tear-jerkers": Madame X and Imitation of Life (Lana Turner) One-Way Passage How Green Was My Valley The Searchers Ten North Frederick Waterloo Bridge (Vivien Leigh) Young Mr. Lincoln All This, And Heaven, Too Dark Victory Now, Voyager! Wuthering Heights (1939) Arch of Triumph (Boyer/Bergman) For Whom the Bell Tolls Love Story (the music!) Enchantment Letter From an Unknown Woman Humoresque Roman Holiday (the ending!) Random Harvest (oddly, it's not necessarily the lost love theme that moves me to tears so much as the shattering portrait of a shell-shocked soldier painted with such pathos by Ronald Colman. It's a delicate performance.) Penny Serenade An Affair to Remember Three Comerades And So Ends Our Night And *The Man Who Shot LIberty Valance* for similar reasons Lynn mentioned (and then some). But yes, that music.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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