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Tearjerkers (36 titles)

Movies to make you weep.

by: A customer

I defy anyone not to cry at this film.

My Girl on DVD (1991)
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: Howard Zieff
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A hypochondriac tomboy called Vada experiences a wealth of human emotions when she meets Thomas J.
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One of my favorites, even Julia Roberts shines!

Stepmom on DVD (1998)
Starring: Darrell Larson, Lynn Whitfield, Jena Malone
Director: Chris Columbus
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The career-minded Isabel (Julia Roberts) reluctantly takes on the role of stepmother when she starts dating divorcée Luke (Ed Harris). The children's real mother Jackie (Susan Sarandon) is still very much involved in their lives, and is suspicious of Isabel's parenting skills. However, when Jackie ..read more »
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I literally cried my heart out.

All Dogs Go To Heaven on DVD (1989)
Starring: Dom DeLuise, Loni Anderson, Melba Moore
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
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One of the most expensive of Don Bluth's animated cartoon features, All Dogs Go to Heaven was also among the most successful. Set in late-'30s New Orleans, the story centers upon a roguish German shepherd named Charlie B. Barkin (voice of Burt Reynolds), who is killed early in the proceedings by ..read more »
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- 60
- from 1992 members

Another classic, but of a different kind

An Affair To Remember on DVD (1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning
Director: Leo McCarey
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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during ..read more »
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Classic tale of lifelong friends, and Barbara Streisand!

Beaches on DVD (1988)
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Lainie Kazan, John Heard
Director: Garry Marshall
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Modern weepie which traces the ups and downs of unlikely friends C.C. (Bette Midler), a brash singer, and Hillary (Barbara Hershey), a conservative rich girl. Meeting as children on a beach in Atlantic City, the two swear lifelong friendship, but don't meet up again until they are in their twenties...read more »
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Total Shocker

The Lives of Others on DVD (2006)
Starring: Ulrich Muhe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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East Berlin, 1984. State Security begins surveillance on playwright and, on the surface at least, good socialist Georg Dreyman (Koch). But as the operation progresses, Stasi Captain Wiesler (Mühe) discovers compassion in his stony soul.
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- 80
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Injustice, Evil, Tom Hanks

The Green Mile on DVD (1999)
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan
Director: Frank Darabont
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Screen adaptation of Stephen King's best-seller. In 1935 Louisiana prison guard Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) meets convict John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) and it is an experience which will change his life forever. Coffey, an eight foot giant, is on Death Row convicted of the murder of two ..read more »
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Despite Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage both being in this film, it still manages to score very highly!

City of Angels on DVD (1998)
Starring: Rhonda Dotson, Brian Markinson, Joanna Merlin
Director: Brad Silberling
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This Hollywood remake of Wim Wenders' art-house hit 'Wings of Desire' stars Nicolas Cage as an angel desperate to hang up his wings and join the mortal rank-and-file. His chief object of affection is a distinctly down-to-earth surgeon (Meg Ryan), who needs some convincing that the man she starts ..read more »
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I cried at least four times during this film. Even if you haven't seen the series, you should still cry at least once.

Sex and the City - The Movie on DVD (2008)
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon
Director: Michael Patrick King
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Join Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda four years after the hit HBO series ended as our favourite foursome continue to juggle jobs and relationships whilst navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate!
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- 70
- from 51,094 members

a true classic

Sophie's Choice on DVD (1982)
Starring: David Wohl, Peter MacNicol, Kevin Kline
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-..read more »
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- from 5624 members