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Sorry it's so late, dealing with rl atm (or sorta rl).

What movies really get your emotions going? Either make you really happy, really sad, really angry, etc...
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Good ones!

Seriously though, does this mean I have to out myself as someone who *gasp* cries at movies?

Whoops, too late.

Any decent movie about the holocaust is guarunteed to have pretty strong effects on me.  Life Is Beautiful (La Vita E Bella) is one that will always make tears well up for me.

There have been a lot of dramas that have moved me (I believe I listed the so-called "chick-flicks" under guilty pleasures, didn't I?)

As for happy, that would include the really good Comedies (Mel Brooks, Adam Sandler, etc...) and I watch more comedies than anything I think.

Very few movies make me Angry per se - unless it's angry that I wasted money on them, which happens way too often as of late may I point out.  I try to go to movies to keep from becoming angry.  I will tell you that Cry Freedom did get my ire up that such atrocities are still being ignored in this day and age.  

There have been other movies that have moved me greatly, but not to tears, happiness or anger - Saving Private Ryan was one of those... That one had me thinking about it for at least 24 hours.

I am such an emotional person that if it catches me in the right (wrong?) mood every tear-drawing, sentimental scene can make me cry  :oops: but i usually forget it 10 minutes later.
Hey I'm sure I must have cried even by watching Faramir's desperate ride towards Osgiliath ;) if I think about that scene now, however, I see no reason for tears.
Anyway, one of the movies that really caught me emotionally was "The Bridges of Madison County", and another one I really enjoyed and made me feel much better was "A walk in the clouds". Gosh I'm afraid I'm hopeless romantic. :D

Wow what great responses....I am such a movie buff, and actuallly seek out movies that touch my heart....a few of my all time favorite movies that have brought desperate tears to my eyes.....

Braveheart - *gulp* Need I say more???
Pearl Harbour
Saving Private Ryan
The professional
Hilary and Jackie
Shindlers List
Jakob the Liar
Black Hawk Down
Quills
Bounce
Riding in Cars with Boys
Wind Talkers
Full Metal Jacket

anyone notice a trend??? I tend to really love good well written war movies. I could list a thousand more and bore you all to tears, and rack my mind for hours since I cant remember titles of at least hundred more LOL

State of Grace has always had an effect on me.

And after becoming a father, I can't watch any kind of movie where a parent loses their child, without having to wipe a few tears off of my chin, even though I never used to cry before :)

Just about every sad scene with one main character dying and taking farewell of her/his life companion is too much for me to handle... Being a _man_ I of course manages to hide those tears ;)

I must admit that the classical Bladerunner scene with Rutger Hauer and the dove really fills my heart... Just great!

One movie that makes me sad at first, but VERY happy in the end is 'It's a wonderful life' with Jimmy Stewart, an actor I really love.

One of the strongest moments in any movie, for me, is when Montgomery Clift (now THAT'S one of my FAVOURITE actors) plays the trumpet in 'From here to eternity'.

Ouch, I could go on and on... Have to be enough fore tonight though...

This is sooooo true, even when it's in some detective series it's impossible to handle children getting hurt :(

reminds me of pay it Forward when Haley Joel Osment Dies at the end *SOBS* mmmm hope i didnt ruin it for those who havent seen it :P

I HATE that movie. I hate it because they killed him off just to get people's emotions going. It wasn't good plotwise, it was stupid and I'm sorry for those of you who like this movie but I'm not sorry for those of you who haven't seen it because I gave it a recommendation of "Do NOT ever see" a lot time ago.

Another movie I will never watch again is Blackhawk Down. When that first soldier, the sergeant, was shot I started sobbing and I didn't stop...even after I ran out of the theatre. (That was at the part after the 2nd Blackhawk goes down.) That movie got my emotions going but not in a good way. I had nightmares for quite awhile after it. (And I know it's what happened irl and I would surely have had nightmares had I been there to witness it for myself.)

Father of the Bride, with Steve Martin, made me laugh so hard that I cried. The scene in the grocery store still cracks me up.

Rudy. I hate American football but that movie always makes me cry at the end.

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wow, I cried a lot through that one too.

A Few Good Men gets me emotionally but it's a whole rollercoaster.

Saving Private Ryan got me too but I've only seen that once.

Project X had me bawling.

I cried at Dumbo too.

I know there are more but I can't think of them right now. I'll come back and probably have 100 more movies. ;)

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Ok, this is quite hard...I might not get all the movies that touches me in some way or another in this list but I give it an honest try. These movies are not all my favourtite movies..it's just that they either made me think, made me cry, made me angry or made me feel something else that I think matter.

Battle Royale (don't know what feeling I get, but a feeling there is.)

Pianisten (not a distinct feeling here either, but it gets to me somehow.)

Armageddon (ok, I admit that some american tricks with this bombastic sad music and lots of hero-feelings DO get my tears running.)

Lord of the rings triology (same as above.)

Titanic (same as above, although this one I'm slightly more ashamed of.)

Terminator 2 (I always cry when Arnold die!!)

The last of the mohican (bombastic music, lots of hero-actions and the most wonderful love story = I cry a lot.)

Tiggers movie (I cry.)

A beautiful mind (it gets to me in that way that I can't stop thinking about it, it's sad, it's beautiful and it's a true story...it simply gets to me.)

Lilja forever (made me think a lot and got me quite angry.)

American History X (made me think.)

Nosferatu (make me feel are warm and cozy inside  :twisted: )

Les Miserables (also the cry feeling and the bombastic music.)

Shadow of the vampire (I don't know what it is about this movie, I watch it over and over and over again..can't simply be cause it's good? I think I get a feeling of "beauty" within it..perhaps.)

Something like that...

The Killing Fields - Deals with Pol Pot's "Year Zero" ethnic cleansing campaign in Cambodia between 1975 - 1979.

Battle Royale - Can you kill your best friend?

Platoon - In my opinion the best movie on the Vietnam war. Superb acting.

Apocalypse now - another movie on the Vietnam war. Dark and surreal.

Threads - A documentary movie on a nuclear holocaust and its effects on a city in England, and the eventual long run affects of nuclear war on civilization.

Trainspotting - Who need reasons when you got heroin?

Lilja Forever

Das boot

American History X

The lord of the Rings trilogy - Yeah, Of course I get moved by heroic deeds, epic battles and grand music.

I also find movies who deals with the life of "famous" serial-killers, like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer etc, quite intriguing. I'd say the deeds of some of those easily fits in the most horrific of movies... and it happened for real. Indeed I prefer documentaries over ordinary movies on this subject, but I suppose those movies gets to me as well, being based on true events.

Oh, I forgot "Captain's Corelli Mandoline" it made me smile, made me laugh, made me cry, made me think... beautiful movie  :)

   Gladiator
   Braveheart
   Snatch
   American Beauty
  Alien series
 there are more but i cant remember :D

I usually don't remember movies, or at least names.
Bot, remembered a few as I saw the titles in others' list.
Lord of the Rings is a classic, I could say. :)
American History X, yes, that gave me some thoughs; however, I don't think it is a very good movie because presenting everything so black and white, as you would say it's for dumbs tu understand.
Lost in Translation touched me also. Many say it's a lame movie, it might be, I am couldn't know about its artistical valour; but I might be the lamest male around to cry when watching so many movies; I just can't do about it. Movies do get me and I just forget about RL usually when watching them.
City of Angels got me also; what can I say, I love Meg Ryan.
Yesterday watched Taking Lives, Angelina Jolie is gorgeus as usual. :D (yes, I liked Tomb Raider too :)). I really liked the movie and of course the few standard tears were there too at the end.
Watched What a Girl Wants too lately, not much of a movie but I gave a few tears to the lame standard american happy-end.
Hell, I even cried a bit watching Ice Age. :)
Some of the movies make me think for like a few hours, a day, or several days; but thats the max.
When being with someone else of course I try not to weep as I would be ashamed. :p

Nilram says there isn't a movie I've seen in which I didn't cry.  Hmm...I can't think of a counter example, so he may be right.  Two I think of that really got the tears flowing were _An Affair to Remember_ and _Love Story_.  Classics.

/Eris

The Iron Giant, I'm serious when the robot flies into the sky and goes "SUPERMAN" I defy you not to get teary!

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, thats a gimme, everything in those movies is set to pull your heartstrings. (Only movies I have ever openly cried at)

Titanic, ok, I'm a wuss, but if you were following the romance at all during the movie, the promise at the end and the reunion scene has to filled your heart with something.

Apollo 13, leaves you drained from all the tension but with a certain elation that few other films capture.

I could probably go on and on but these are the ones off the top of my head...

I'd have to join in here with "The green mile". That wasn't the occasional tear. I was devastated.

Irreversible, Passion of Christ, Pisces of April, LOTR, Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, Memento, Matrix, Fight Club, Cidade de Deus, La Haine, Requiem for a dream, How High, American History X + many others....oh there are so many movies that I really enjoyed and made me feel good.

I am no good at remember names on movies, and when I do, I mostly know the swedish names. But here is a few that really moved me.

LotR - Return of the king. As Ladychris said, when Faramir had to ride back to that place (do not know the name) and Pippin, was it? who sang that so very sad song. Cried my eyes out.

Pay it forward - (sorry Poogus) Cried in that one for personal reasons, as I do in every simular movies.

But my all time favourite is Leon. That had everything. I got sad, happy and angry.

Ybbie

Ah and I forgot the last movie that really impresed me: Gadjo Dilo. A very realistic gipsy story.

Leon was nice too.
I like very much 'Underground' and 'Black cat white cat'. Latest one is funnier but Undeground is a very good movie I think. It's also somewhat familiar for me as it's not that far just here in ex-Yugoslavia ...

for me the 3 greatest movies of all time are:

Leon (The Professional ?)
The Crow
MadMax

others i _really_ liked:

Casablanca
Shogun
Dangerous Liaisons
Contact
Terminator 2
Payback
City of Angels
How to steal a million dolars
North by Northwest
Point Break
Dances with wolves
The Postman
Takedown
Lost in Translation
American Ninja
the Starwars series

and more... dont wanna spam :)

I dug around for a movie today, wanted to watch something ... and it just struck me as I saw it in my folder -- Meet Joe Black, I can't believe I didn't mention that before, that movie moves me enormously.

Hmmm...

I cried at Titanic but I wonder if there is anyone that didnt?

The LOTR trilogy made me cry, every single one.  :oops:

Romeo and Juliet also got me sobbing. I love Shakespeare so much and I loved what Baz Lurhmann did with that play.

Footloose is my favourite film of all time and although I cant say it moved me, it must have had some effect to be my favourite, right??

A Time To Kill made me real angry at the beginning and then real sad towards the end. I *hate* racism and prejudice of all kinds so this really did move me.

I guess that's it for now....

Laysha. xx

I didn't cry at Titanic either...  :oops:  Towards the end of the movie I just wanted to drown all the main characters so it would be over with. Please don't kill me because I didn't like that movie either.

/P who also really loathes Valentine's Day

Titanic is a very lame movie.

Well, I really do not care much if the questions is old or not, I do answer them again and again if I come up with something. As I, this evening, watching the tv, remembered a question Poogus asked, I had to put on the comp and answer it. One other movie that made such an impression on me, was: Philadelfia (do not know if that is the correct spelling on the movie). But the movie when sir Tom Hanks plays this sick man, sick with Aids, and sir Denzel W helps him with the case... Who does it not move? That movie moves every string of emotion I have in me.. I know how it ends and that does not matter to me. I can see that one, over and over again

-Braveheart
-Vanilla Sky
-Titanic (cheesy yes I know, but it was emotional)
-Caddyshack (too damn funny)
-JFK
-Field of Dreams
-LOTR (of course)
-O Brother, Where art thou?  (inspiring)

What can I say... I never saw Titanic and I still dislike it a lot :D

When a man loves a woman. (flood of tears)
Shrek 1&2 (very funny :) )
The Gamers (totally hilerious!)
The Ring (the asian version, very very scary)
Juice (I think, with tupac shakur) (angry, sad, funny)

There are so many films...did anybody mention Forrest Gump? I found the script fantastic:)

I am one of the supporters of Titanic 8)  such a long film..with a lot of ship sinking...and I still liked it very much (I mean, a ship sinking is not among my likings). The love story was beautiful and everything was very real.

Someone like me not liking films with heads cut has to be a bit careful, but I can always choose a love comedy...it may be boring, but it may be as funny as French Kiss.

Another film on a different style I enjoyed very much was "Desafío Total" (cant remember in english now) = Schwarzenegger with confused identity and all that.

Huh, is that 'Total Recall'? Yeppers, good movie... Who can't love watching a real cat-fight with Sharon Stone in it?!?!?!?

that's a hard job indeed...loved many movies...

let's see what poppes through my mind now..

Trainsspotting
requiem for a dream

Drug addicted teenagers...have 2 options...love or hate them  :twisted:

Pulp Fiction
American beauty
White Cat Black Cat
The Wall great music there...the movie itself is a bit twisted...as well as Roger Waters mind  :wink:

One of my rules...big sell movies are GARBAGE...as well as anything the large masses love. Never seemed to be wrong til' now.

Does LotR count as big sell movie?
because we all find it beautiful it seems ;)
Large masses love just what they are persuaded to love...
The Iliad was considered boring when i was in  school, and now, after "Troy" it is going to be a bestseller :)

That's the one Carrion :D

Fenix, when most people like something...they like it. I rely more on general people's taste than on the ones who give awards, for instance.

You mentioned 2 films there that got awarded and I disliked: Pulp Fiction and American Beauty.

Many people liked Pulp Fiction even...but it revolted my stomach completely. I was afraid it would get the Oscar for best film instead of Forrest Gump, which didnt happen fortunately.

I dont know many who liked American Beauty very much, I personally just found it an oportunistic story painting everything black...though it won the Oscar for the best film :roll:

I thought this thread was about movies that got your emotions going, not the best movies (though those two could be valid for a movie)

Absolutely, and Sharon Stone, in a cat-fight, that sure gets MY emotions going... Hmm, erm, did I already mention that?

Relying on general people's taste is what makes you the perfect soulless sheep we all want you to be :)

The question is now...who are the sheperds?
Definetly not the ones like you  :twisted:

And Ladycrys...yeah i think you might be right...the Iliad might be a bestseller someday but with one condition...to print Brad Pitt's picture everywhere Achille's name appears  :lol:

I think it's better to have an open mind to all movies. Some big sell movies can be very good. White cat black cat has been a tremendous success and could easily be considered a big sell movie by european standards. That doesn't make it bad.

Not sure what you mean by big sell movies Fenix, you mean movies that are so successful that they make a lot of money, or do you mean movies that comes from big productions?

It's probably so that when you make a big movie production that costs drillions of money, you'd like to atleast break even, so you have to appeal to the masses, and the safest way to do that, is to repeat past successes. And if you don't like that general-successful-type-of-movie you probably don't like most of the expensive movies.

And who's the sheperd? the one watching thousands of hours of lousy polish cultural movies, per 1 hour of great polish cultural movies?  ;)
Depends on your definition of entertainment I guess :)

Ment those easy-to-understand stereotype movies filling up theaters all over the world.

White Cat Black Cat was indeed a great movie...thousand of times greater than Matrix but not nearly as sold.
That says it all.

Yeah i know the european movie industry is a little child compared to HollyWood and the boolshits they keep feeding us most of the time.

That's sad  :(

Entertainment and culture...two very different concepts indeed.