Best/Worst tear jerker?

[threebikesmcginty]

Goodbye Mr Chips, the Robert Donat version, when his wife dies, along with the baby, during childbirth.

 

[glenn forger]

Robert Donat can't act for toffee, he's so wooden in that film it's like lobbing a chair into shot. Try Ronald Colman in the same author's Random Harvest -one of the most ludicrous plots ever, amensiac escapes an asylum, meets a showgirl, they fall in love and have a child in an absurd cottage, man gets hit by tram, loses memory and reverts to previous life as wealthy industrialist, former wife works for him incognito as secretary, he proposes marriage of convenience, memory returns when he visits absurd cottage: :


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZjLXOPQ30Q


That cottage is totally fake, it's ridiculous, what a stupid film. Sniff.

 

[Fab Foodie]

The Railway Children
Ben Hur
The Elephant Man
Les Miserable

 

[Lullabelle]

The Green Mile is another. One of the few movies which gives men a license to cry

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZIWH9Apfc

Excellent film,I sobbed like a baby at the end it is so beautiful and emotional

 

[Sara_H]

The Railway Children
Ben Hur
The Elephant Man
Les Miserable

Oh yes, I remember watching The Railway Children not long after my Dad had died when I was 10 years old. My Mum should have been locked up for emotional abuse for letting me watch it!

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

Imitation of Life with Lana Turner. It's one of those films that I'd watch with my gran on a miserable Sunday afternoon under a blanket and with loads of crisps and chocolate and tea. I took himself to watch it at the Barbican a few years ago and the whole cinema was wailing through the end of it.

 

[Lullabelle]

Philadelphia, Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas

 

[Lullabelle]

The Green Mile is another. One of the few movies which gives men a license to cry

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZIWH9Apfc

I read the book before I watched the film so I think I got more out of it as I understood it better.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Anything the wife says I have to see at the pictures makes me cry, its not the actual film its the thought of having to sit through her soppy choices

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Robert Donat can't act for toffee...

The thread doesn't call the finest acting ever and anyway he's not that bad, it's sentimental old tosh like It's a Wonderful Life but I like it. If it was for the finest acting ever I'd be putting forward something classy like the cast of Police Academy 14.

 

[glenn forger]

the remake was pretty good, Peter Otoole and Petula Clarke.

It's A Wonderful Life bombed, I think, then started get shown at Christmas in the seventies and became a family favourite. nobody does sentiment like Capra. The bit with the chemist "please, not my bad ear!"

 

[Crackle]

When Midge the Otter gets chopped in half by that nasty ditch digger

 

[Sandra6]

i once watched a film called (i think) "who will look after my children". About a woman who had an alcoholic husband and about 10 children. She was diagnosed with cancer and bcoz her husband couldn't look after them, she had to find adoptive parents for all her kids. Based on a true story too. I cried from beginning to end.

When I saw the thread title that was the first film that came to mind. I think it was called Who will take my children, doesn't matter. I watched it first when I was in my teens and again as a parent and I sobbed so hard, just thinking about that film makes me emotional.

 

[vickster]

'Empire of the Sun' gets me every time at the end. Fantastic film

And 'Au Revoir les enfants', another super film

Not seen either for ages, that might be my evening sorted!

 

[Doseone]

Plague Dogs by Richard Adams (same person who wrote Watership Down).