Grave of the Fireflies. That movie makes me feel like utter shit every time I watch it.
Yeah this one definitely got me when I saw it the first time.. so sad..
Good Will Hunting has some good parts too...
Some documentaries can get a little moving as well.. most recently I saw one called The Cats of Mirikitani - it's about a Japanese-American detainee who was wrongfully imprisoned in an American internment camp who ends up on the streets living as an elderly homeless man. He draws pictures of cats to make people around him happy - eventually catching the attention of the movie maker. You'll see how their lives then become intertwined, and how 9/11 brings up the past, which then shapes the future - his mindset on changing his way of thinking, his dream of being an art teacher getting realized, and his getting a stable place to live, all while being a cheerful and happy man - really got to me.
It's somewhat difficult to find it being shown, but if you get a chance, please, really try to watch it. Don't let the apparent "hatred" of America get to you. At first I thought he was angry at America, but when you see what happened to him, you'll come to understand why. He doesn't really hate America. He hates what happened to him... despite all that he's still an American national.
Lepa Sela Lepo Gore. It's about the Yugoslav civil war. It just got to me, I started crying like a little child with a broken toy. It wasn't one scene in particular, but rather the movie as a whole. I wouldn't say it's my favorite, because it's pretty bleak, but I watched it recently.
@Marz: This is absolutely one of my favorite Will Smith movies and I feel you on this scene. Strangely this movie gets alot of hate and I can't understand why.
I'll echo some other people with things like Forrest Gump... but The Illusionist definitely saps any joy out of me. It's the same concept that Toy Story 3 grapples with, moving on from your visions of fantasy, but there's none of that hope that Toy Story leaves you with. I think it was one of the building blocks of my cynicism .
Can't think of any at the moment, for whatever reason (honest, lol :P).
I never really enjoyed that many movies that relied heavily on melodrama, anyway, but those that were actually able to pull off some genuinely heart-wrenching stories or character interaction can squeeze out a pretty...accurate showing of my manliness, lol. >_< *cough* Whatever the case, currently, the only ones that come to mind are Grave of the Fireflies and Schindler's List -- other than that, though, I'm going on a blank. O_o
A good war movie or series like Band of Brothers and Black Hawk Down usually get me, I'm weird like that. Most dramas don't really get to me for some reason. If I had to pick something more traditional, I'd say several parts from Jacob's Ladder, but I'm not going to post any video of that since it's very easy to spoil that movie for people that haven't seen it (which you should).
These are the ones that come to mind. I know, Click kinda sucks but admit, the ending is really sad...
Click is a corny movie, but the last 45 minutes are actually quite good at eliciting a sad response. Fuck, I sound like a robot.
Yes! I cried at the end of Click. Well, more like held back big manly tears, but it is a sad movie.
Anyway, Up. The first ten minutes of that movie are pretty sad.
While it's not a movie, it's a TV show, honorable mentions must go to Hughe's death in the original Full Metal Alchemist. Or, rather, it's his funeral that's sad. The little girl tugging on her mom's dress kills it for me. Excuse the shit quality, I couldn't find a better video.
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