Have any movies made you cry?

In the last few years, have you seen any movies that made you cry? If so, what was it about them that triggered your sadness?

For me...
I love watching movies, but I hardly ever cry. However, I've cried twice in the past few years, and both of the movies concerned failure of asexual relationships.

Failan is a South Korean movie in which a low-level gangster(Kang-jae) agrees to marry a woman he's never met(Failan) for money, and she agrees to pay because she needs immigration papers. He signs the marriage license, collects his money, and leaves her to fend for herself. She leads a very depressing life, but is eternally grateful to Kang-jae for marrying her. All she has is a picture of him, but she hopes to see him one day and treat him as a real husband. Soon she falls ill and cannot afford hospitalization costs. Before she dies, she writes Kang-jae a thank you letter. Kang-jae receives the letter along with a phone call stating that she's deceased and that he must identify the body. When Kang-jae travels to identify Failan's body, he discovers that the people she slaved for could have easily saved her, and he becomes extremely guilty that he couldn't have helped her. Through her death, he familiarizes himself with Failan's life, and he is genuinely touched by it. He decides to leave the gangster lifestyle, but is then betrayed by his friends over it.

The King and the Clown is also a South Korean movie. Two performers in an wandering acting troupe are very close with each other. One is effeminate and plays roles of women, while the other plays more masculine roles. The masculine actor tries his hardest to protect the feminine one from being exploited for sex, but he also feels like he's powerless. To make a long story short, they end up performing before The King, but The King finds the feminine one 'desirable.' This puts everyone in a bad situation, including the King's mistress, and so she blackmails the feminine one and condemns him to death. The masculine one tries to take the blame for it, but the whole situation turns out tragically. In the end, their nonsexual love for each other perseveres even when the kingdom falls.


I don't know why, but the asexual love in both of those movies seems much more real than the conventional type. I thoroughly recommend both of those films and would provide links if you PM me.

Thanks, you made me remember that Korean movie. (Wang e Nam ja) The King's Man (The King and the Clown to some)

The Masculine performer was in love with the effeminate performer, but it was shown by caring and looking out for the weaker one instead of a physical relationship.

The scene where the effeminate performer is using the finger puppets in front of the king just brought the tears.
No words were spoken, but it conveyed so much tenderness.

The effeminate performer was very beautiful. I may have popped a few woodies also.
The Korean cursing was a bit much, but still a fantastic movie.

Vady5,
I'm glad you liked it too. ...And you're right about Lee Jun-ki being...well...hot.
If sexual orientation was a religion, perhaps he'd be a test of faith?

Hmm, I should check those out. Is there an English sub? Also, that fellow is quite attractive, but I can think of a couple Japanese singers who might just top him. Have a look at the frontman of Janne da Arc, or a guy called Hyde.

As for me, I have not cried naturally (without aid of hypnosis) in eight years, but I've recently gotten close by watching The Fox and the Hound (yes, really) and again, nearly, during AI: Artificial Intelligence. There's this thing about abandonment that just gets to me.

And yes, asexual relationships are infinitely better not only in film for the emotion there, but in real life as well. I think sex just mires it all by bringing us down to some Darwinist level: they're not really in love, they just want to propagate and satisfy primal desires. The only problem is that so many love movies just end up being sappy and making the characters look like totally illogical morons, it's hard to find one that I won't just end up smirking at. These two sound promising, however, and I shall torrent them if I can find one I understand.

I dont remember crying because of any films, but perhaps when I was a child. I do remember being told that I cryed once when I watched a children's tv show when I was about 4.

I do remember a few years ago, when I was a teenager and had some friends, I was dragged out the cinema to see King Kong. Some of my "friends" said i was crying at the end when king kong died, I wasn't crying, my eyes were watering because i was so bored and had forgotten to blink for ages, I was in some kind of trance of boredom. I probably made some kind of quiet defensive remark to direct attention from their laughing at my supposed crying.

I tend to laugh at "sad" endings because I find it funny when people feel sorry for fictional characters, then again i find it hilarious when I see a mangled car with people inside, sleeping forever.

Pay it Forward saddest movie ever, I have yet to meet a person who didn't shed one tear cause of it.

I've never actually sobbed or anything, but got a strong sense of release and some tears came...unless the move was like The Nines and made me have a psychotic meltdown, then there was alot of crying I'm not a cry-er in general. Not really a pro in my personality but I find it hard to release my emotions that way...

Movies are so close to fantasy that sometimes I can relate to them just as much as I can relate to my fantasies (which are able to evoke emotions in me). Never cried because of a movie though, just felt sad. Examples that just popped into my mind are The last Samurai with Tom Cruise, when at the end all the samurai charged at the soldiers and got killed mercilessly, and Troy when Priam visited Achilles at night to get the maimed dead body of his son back.

The last movie that made me mist up was "The Secret Life of Bees", when the Alicia Keyes character started to cry. I can't think of anything specific, but there have been numerous movies that have brought tears to my eyes.

Newp, never cried.

Laughed a few times though.

Blow made me cry the two times I watched it. I watched the Elephant Man about 4 years ago, and the same thing... not sure if it would today though.