"Stand By Me"....
The first movie that made me weep. I remember being about six or seven and watching that one with my parents. I went to bed shortly after it ended, and was overcome by a kind of sadness I had never experienced.

I cried quietly in my bed, thinking, "It was just so sad. So SAD...."

A life-changing experience right there.

Barnyard

Watching Otis deal with Ben's death. I can't stand it.

The Southern Dandy: Maybe not a children's story because it deals with some heavy emotions, but so do a lot of great children's stories. I let my 10 year old watch it.

The film is beautiful, like a piece of moving art work. The tales are wonderful yarns spun by a desperate man, but envisioned through the mind of a very imaginative young girl.


I forgot about that movie. A true work of cinimatic art. I need to watch it again.

Alright you want a sad non children movie



Maybe its because I'm black, but I was ready to get really really pissed at God because I thought this really happened.

I was so relieved to find it was fiction.

No Mary Poppins?

"Feed the birds -- tuppence a bag."

It's Walt Disney's favorite song and Jane Darwell's (Mama Joad) last film appearance. She was wheelchair-bound and living the old actor's home and initially refused to play the part, but Walt went and personally invited her. He was on-set when her part was filmed as well.

SwiftFox: Plag

Came in here to say this.. was beaten to it. Only movie to ever come close to bringing a tear to my eye.. and only reason I admit that much is because I was like 6 at the time, watching it for the first time at 5 in the morning, and never again since.

Plague Dogs too.. stupid quoting.

thanks for letting me know what films to avoid!
/life is sad enough without having to buy tickets

ArkAngel: Succumbs to the sadness of being left off the list

THIS times eleventybillion

Inaditch: I must not have a soul because movies have never made me cry, even as a child.

I misted up a bit when I read Where the Red Fern Grows - I think I was about 7 or 8. The only movie I can recall choking me up even a little as an adult was Schindler's List, at the end where he's breaking down about how he could have done more.

Either I'm a heartless ball of granite, or you guys are a bunch of sissies.

No worries. Now, if you didn't get choked up at the end of "Schindler's List," then I'd say you were heartless.

ThreeEdgedSword: Your Favorite Token Black Chick: DigitalCoffee: BadAnalogyGuy: DigitalCoffee:

Mr_Ectomy: Your Favorite Token Black Chick: Not for kids but the ending to this movie was pretty tear worthy

If we are talking Robin Williams movies, this one is WAY worse
I know, not a kids movie

*throws up hands*
you win sir
/is now on an express one way trip to baaaw like a biatchville

Oh man. I watched that movie after not being able to cry for a long time. That hit a switch in me somewhere and I couldn't stop for 30 minutes.

Oh, so much This...few movies have gotten to me like that, and Big Fish. As soon as Albert Finney starts talking about 'how it happens,' I'm gone.

I see anime is now in play.

Then Air (TV or movie) should be included.

Some a-hole recommended it to me and I netflixed it. Did not know what I was getting into at all. At first it seemed like some silly, Tenchi like series but then I got to the end. Yeah, what I saw was about as devastating a thing you could see that did not happen in real life. It ripped me a new one to be sure.

Evil Cat: I see anime is now in play.

Then Air (TV or movie) should be included.

Some a-hole recommended it to me and I netflixed it. Did not know what I was getting into at all. At first it seemed like some silly, Tenchi like series but then I got to the end. Yeah, what I saw was about as devastating a thing you could see that did not happen in real life. It ripped me a new one to be sure.

Key has a monopoly on anime that devastates you/makes you cry. Air was farking tragic.

stoli n coke: No worries. Now, if you didn't get choked up at the end of "Schindler's List," then I'd say you were heartless.

I'd say you were a Nazi sympathizer. But then, I repeat you.

The Southern Dandy: Maybe not a children's story because it deals with some heavy emotions, but so do a lot of great children's stories. I let my 10 year old watch it.

The film is beautiful, like a piece of moving art work. The tales are wonderful yarns spun by a desperate man, but envisioned through the mind of a very imaginative young girl.

Really excellent movie, but marred for me by watching it at my local tiny art-house cinema (where the crowd never fails to make for a thoroughly alienating experience). People always farking laughing at the parts I'm bawling over...

/they all thought the little girl trying to wake him up was just hilarious, the bastards

Definitely not a children's movie, but Man on Fire got me in the end. Also the Lion King, and I watched that about a week ago.

I haven't seen most of these movies in a while, and now I want to watch them again..

Phoebe McsquishyPants: /Artax
//Fight against the sadness Artax
///You're My friend I love you

No doubt this just proves that I'm a terrible, soulless person, but even as a kid I just thought that scene was stupid (it's not the sadness sucking the horse down, it's the damned quicksand), not to mention horribly written. And horribly acted. I was seven years old and I just rolled my eyes through that entire bit.

Then at age 12 I cried like an itty-bitty baby through most of What Dreams May Come.

Khazar-Khum: Neeek: Khazar-Khum: The most shameless tearjerker of all time has to be Titanic.

I was on some pretty strong painkillers when I saw it, but I seem to remember cheering when Leo drowned.

I thought he looked good blue.

But my sister & the nieces started bawling at every little thing, and by the time he drowned they were hysterical. And so was just about everyone else.

Personally, the diamond being tossed into the ocean got me.

Titanic made me cry, not when Jack died, I cried when the band played on, when the woman puts her kids to bed as if nothing is wrong and when the old couple hold hands as the water rushes in under the bed.

The first bit of Up is pure emotional torture. It's amazingly well done.

Pretty good list, although at least considering the books, Where the Red Fern Grows doesn't have shiat on Sounder. Where the Red Fern Grows is sad. Sounder is monumentally depressing. Where the Red Fern Grows is about the power of love and friendship and even though it is sad the dogs die being heroic. Sounder is basically about how life as a poor black sharecropper was horrifying and the only redeeming thing about the book is the main character manages to get the hell away.

I love that there is a period around 4th-6th grad where you just read sad childrens' books about death and poverty and suffering.

The Flexecutioner: I balled my eyes out when Optimus Prime died in The Transformers cartoon movie. It didnt have a good ending until the last 15 minutes of the movie. I was really bummed.

Good lord, it took THIS long for someone to mention this.

Leolo

Schlock: There was some commentary by Stephen King via one of his characters in the Dark Tower series, regarding the fact that a lot of writers for children seem to be sadistic bastards. Though the stories usually end happily, it's the part that makes you start bawling that still resonates for pretty much the rest of your life, long after you've forgotten the rest of the book/movie. This is paraphrasing pretty liberally, but I fully agree.

Fark I read that series from when the first came out right until the end. You got so attached to the characters.When Jake dies i lost it. I lost it even more when Oy died heck i had to stop reading the book and collect myself.I was 7 years old when i started reading that story so in fact i spent most of my childhood and my twenties with those four(five if you include Susan's MPD) and thier mutant dog.Losing one of them was tragic. I think that was much more saddening than any fictional character in any movie i have ever watched.

"That's it I'm calling my lawyer."

ArkAngel:

Succumbs to the sadness of being left off the list

This.


/Artax

driven to quit: I can't believe they didn't have the lion king on there. I don't know many people who didn't cry when the buffalo stampede killed simba's dad.

Still cry a little at that scene even today.

This. I've seen men who were fully grown when that movie came out cry at that scene.

Bridge to Terabithia should have made the list, first time I watched it things were going along just fine and the WTF?

but Zooey Deschanel made me feel all better

Quasi Funny Story about FMA

My wife and I are "casual" anime watchers, never sought out much, etc, mostly on Toonami or what not (yeah, bad us). Well FMA was being shown on Cartoon network, and we caught the episode that starts a 2-3 week arc where Ed is originally going through the trial, training, researching with the other professor, etc.

Thought it was great, let our then 5 year old (i think? might of been a bit older) watch it with us, since it looked decent.

Yeah, then that whole "Ed? Where's (the little girl)? And where's the dog?". Yeah, scarred our daughter for a while.

/whoops.

I gotta goo gooo goo ggood brain

Seriously no one has seen Fluke??

It's an odd movie but it is pretty sad for the most part. SPOILERS -----

It's basically a dad who dies in a car crash and is reincarnated as a cocker spaniel or something similar. He tracks down his family and they adopt him and the love and care he can provide for them is limited since, well, he's a farking dog. I've seen it a lot of times as a kid but not recently...so I don't remember what happens. The movie gets emotional, however, when dealing with the death and the car crash scenes.

Oh yeah and Babe 2 is a really, really good movie. Not like the first at all (which was still very good IMO). It's a very dark movie that is definitely worth watching. Don't be fooled by talking animals (not like those piece of shiat Dog Vs Cats movies).

Haven't seen Curly Sue yet. Friggin' movie hit me like an anvil.

"The Stone Boy" (new window)

Like Niagra Falls every time.

Query: what is your subjective definition of a "Kid's Film"?

Agrees with "The Iron Giant"

Wizard of Oz when Dorthy says good bye to the scarecrow.

Any guy that tells you movies have never made them cry has never seen Old Yeller.

Iron Giant...only movie to make me "cry".....and Futurama undid Jurassic Bark in one of the hour episodes so I can put that disc back in the case and off the banned pile

Amen on Iron Giant and Finding Nemo.

Surprised no one has mentioned Wall-E. Like a BAY-BAY! Yes a happy ending, but still...

anyone remember this one?

crap

Dammit! Would you people quit kickin' all the dust up? It keeps getting in my eyes...

Bambi, 1942 - Never seen it actually. We do own it now for the kids but still no real urge to see it.

Old Yeller, 1957 - Nope, never seen this one either.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 - Meh, I have seen it. It didn't make me sad in anyway. I seen it on rerun on t.v a few years ago so that maybe why it wasn't really great to me.

Where the Red Fern Grows, 1974 - I had to read the book but don't remember it and am pretty sure it didn't make me cry.

Up, 2009 - I haven't seen it yet but own it for the kids. We will be taking this on our road trip to watch though so we shall see.

Dumbo, 1941 - Nope, never seen it.

Charlotte's Web, 1973 - Read the book but didn't make me cry.

My Girl, 1991 - This one I confess gets me every time. Stupid Bees!!! Stupid kid going after that damn mood ring! If only he had stayed home that day. The funeral got me crying badly. Stupid Bees!!

An American Tail, 1986 - Seen it don't remember much of what went on though but I know I didn't cry or was even sad.

Fluke, 1995 - Seen it, it was a pretty good movie but I was dry eyed.

UP - I cry every time through the opening sequence. It just really hits me hard. Beautiful movie! And yes I cried when he screams at Doug...broke my heart...Of course tears were shed when the old man reads rest of the book...yeah. Excellent film on all accounts!!

Dumbo - that scene in the article makes me cry hard...

Iron Giant...yeah, every time even though I know it's coming...

And cuz I am such a sap when it comes to dogs, Air Bud when the kid tells the dog to go away...I had a golden retriever at that time and i just cried because I couldn't understand how anyone could do that to their dog...

And dammit, where the red fern grows...I cried.

Non kid films...
What Dreams May Come
A.I. (the end, god it gets me every time)

Not a kids movie, but would make Pollyanna suicidal its so depressing.....

crunch-o-matic: Iron Giant...only movie to make me "cry".....and Futurama undid Jurassic Bark in one of the hour episodes so I can put that disc back in the case and off the banned pile

I still say "The Luck of the Fryrish" was sadder. It's the first time the series really emphasizes that as crappy as your life might be, traveling forward in time 1000 years and not being able to come back is perhaps the most tragic thing that could happen to you, if only because you'll never get to resolve those loose ends.

It's really the point when the show transitions from a concept comedy to something with a genuine narrative.

95BV5: What? No Children of Men?

/any movie is a kids' movie if a kid watches it
//cried at the end
///thanks, mitch

What a great movie, though clearly not for kids of any age.

The scene where the preggo girl reveals her swelling belly was something else.

inthemiddleofitall: Dark Tower Spoilers?

Man, i about balled my eyes out when he destroys the awesomeness and intrigue that is the main character at the beginning of the second book and then spends the next 2 novels trying to replace his awesomeness with scrappy upstarts who are generally agitating. There are 3 books in the Dark Tower series.

The Gunslinger
Wizard and Glass
The Seven Samur.. er Wolves of the Calla


Only 2 of those are worth reading. God I hate you so much Stephen King(I hate you Ron Burgundy!). Jake was alright, Father Calahan was alright, Cuthbert, Alain and Roland were awesome. Sheemie fits into his own archetype or cliche if you prefer.

Eddie and Susannah should have been shot.

*spoilers for sure*

The part where Stephen King totally cops out and cries as himself in his story about how hard it is for him to write it was such a lame move. What a cop out. Then with the terrifail anti-climactic ending he offers that bribe of a second ending. By this point I so infuriated with King i didnt give a damn about his second ending with promises of future self-loathing for reading it so I didn't.

The whole series went down hill with did-a-chink dad-a-chum. Stephen King is a hack.

queenb4biatch: A.I. (the end, god it gets me every time)

Which ending? I love that film, but they take it ALL the way "outside the changes" at the end.

Has anyone mentioned The Yearling yet. That movie still depresses me just thinking about it, and I haven't seen it in at least 15 years.

/So many depressing "family" movies.