Movies That Made You Hurt
 

By which I mean, movies that really hit you on an emotional level, not those films that were so horrible that you felt physical pain.

Mine:
Empire Of The Sun
Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
Phenomenon
Shindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Anna and The King
The Abyss
American Beauty

I'll add more later as I think of them....

Feel free to post your own.

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Jimmy The Hutt

The best of the best was the first movie that almost made me cry. I was only 11 at the time.

Schindler's List is the ultimate in emotional intensity.

The sentinmental sports movies tend to be emotionally charged for me too, movies like:
Rudy
Field of Dreams

hhmmm....recently it was Love Liza.
Warning, do not watch this movie if you are feeling in anyway depressed or down...it won't help! :lol:

Artificial Intelligence... Damn you, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg, for making me depressed for a week. Gaah...

Kids
Trainspotting
A Clockwork Orange
Requiem for a Dream
Bully



All great movies that leave you physically sick after seeing them

Three off the top of my head.

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Heat
Braveheart

Schindlers List comes to mind immediately. i´ve never wept like that before.
Braveheart was moving.
the English Patient moved me in a similar way.

Swingers, although a different style, cuts too close to the bone for my liking, i can´t watch it these days ... it makes me wince.

as for physical hurt - well, the suicide scene in Rules of Attraction made me feel ill.. like i needed to spew... very moving...

Okay, I'll be honest here.

I cry at the end of Monsters, Inc. every single time.

When Sulley opens the closet door and we don't actually see Boo, but we see his face upon seeing her...such a sincere gesture of love for another person, the kind of love that isn't selfish at all and is completely giving...I always lose it.

American History X. Many mixed emotions with that movie.

I think I'm the only person on earth who found Trainspotting to be a brilliant black comedy. But then again, I have a seriously twisted sense of humor.

I'd forgotten about Braveheart, as I spend most of my time pointing out the huge glaring historical mistakes to people completely ignorant of history. Despite that, it was a superb movie, and that ending scene (torture and execution) gets me every time.

I also just thought to include SLC Punk. That ending scene also ruins me.

Great additions, everyone, keep 'em coming....

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Jimmy The Hutt

Irreversible and Salo: 120 days of Sodom are the two films that I can only watch about once every year or so. Any more than that is too much. They're both brilliant movies but they're such brutal portrayals of human evil that they depress me for weeks afterwards.

Jason

It's pretty much supposed to be a black comedy...but few people really "get" black comedy.
I love it!

Irreversible. The opening scene in the undeground club was nausea inducing. The rape in the tunnel is hard to watch. Gaspar Noe's use of "white noise" and free floating camera shots is genius. I love this sad, happy, disturbing movie.

American Beauty. Lester Burnham is one my favorite characters, and watching his death is heart wrenching.

*sigh* Monsters, Inc. too.... I don't think any other movie has ever shown/created such a true child as Boo.

All right, I'm gonna get flogged for this last one: Shakespeare in Love. I'm a self-proclaimed Shakespeare buff, and this movie did a great job of using his plays to make what I think is one of the only recent beleivable love stories.

Pay it forward (Ok yea, this movie is so incredibly sad at the end)

Bowling for clumbine was both funny and scary at the same time.

Call me sick, but I found A Clockwork Orange, while full of poignant social commentary even in this day and age, to be one of the funniest black comedies ever filmed. The multitude of mini-satires in that film just kill me.

As far as movies that just bring me to my knees everytime, just about anything with a self sacraficing hero in it will make me ball like a baby. Schindlers List, Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, etc etc.... If there ever were men and women of this caliber in life, they sure aren't around any longer, and that gets to me everytime.

A couple of love stories wreck me too, like When A Man Loves A Woman and Hope Floats. Ok, so I am a puss, sue me:)

Monsters Inc's ending for sure.
Jin-Roh (the whole film made me so sad)
The Labyrinth always makes me feel happy and like a kid again and I find myself oogling at the screen full of goblins.

Dr. Zhivago
Last of the Mohicans
Braveheart
Bridges of Madison County
Little Women

All major tear-jerkers

Identity

Yeah Requiem for a Dream is one movie that you watch once, and only once. It's good but. . .show it to your friends and leave the room while it's on.

Requiem for A Dream
Rudy

I'm a bit of a softy but some a those chick movies I like a lot. Ex:
3 to Tango
Here On Earth (I actually felt deep sorrow for the guy. Thought Josh actually acted that one really well)
Basically any of those movies having to do with a guy lovin his best girl friend touch a small nudge in my past.

Hardball actually brought a tear to my eye. Dunno what it was but during the funeral scene I just let go and one came down.

Braveheart is one of my favorite movies ever! Most recently I thought The Pianist and About Schmidt had some very emotional moments to them that were moving....mostly in The Pianist though. Schmidt had more comedic moments than sad ones.

A lot of the war films are very emotion driven. Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, Full Metal Jacket, Glory, Rambo(j/k) etc. Hmm I'll probably think of more later on. Drawing a blank right now.

Asta!!

American History X
Glory
The Killing Fields

Bridges of Madison County
Mr. holland's opus
i have no explanation why but for some reason the endings to both movies made me ball my eyes out.i didn't even think either succeedded as a movie and yet both were tearjerker's for me at the time i watched them.

Phenomenon
Gattaca
Glory
Dune
Highlander
Green Mile

All of these movies don't make me tear up,
but they do something to me at a deep level.
I shiver/tingle when I see them.

Funny thing is, I don't tear up with sad movies,
only during certain happy endings...weird.

The Cider House Rules, namely when Fuzzy dies. My *dad* cried when Fuzzy died, and Daddy don't cry.

Anna and the King got to me...so did City of Angels. And I BAWLED the first time I saw Armageddon, because of the scene where the dad's saying goodbye to the daughter. I'm really close to my dad, and movies with moments like that make me weep. Hell, the father-daughter moments in "Father of The Bride" choked me up.

Dang it, I forgot about that one.

I'm such a wuss.

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Jimmy The Hutt

Off the top of my head:

American Beauty
Adaptation
High Fidelity
SLC Punk (created a huge lifestyle change for me)
Pulp Fiction
Mr. Holland's Opus (Don't know why, don't even remember it)

How could I forget my favorite: Willy Wonka! It has always made a huge impression on me.
The Royal Tannenbaums

There are many many more, I'm sure I'll edit a few more in after dinner.

I would have to say the Green Mile was pretty emotional. Artificial Intelligence is another film that stands out. And American History X.

Field of Dreams. I've never "had a catch" with my dad.

Forest Gump
Punch-Drunk Love

And for physical pain Jackass:The Movie. By far, it's the only movie that has made my abdomen muscles hurt from laughing so much.

The Fox and the Hound.

When they had to part ways.

Shindler's List
Antwan Fisher

lesse, here.. Flight of the Navigator, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, Edward Scissorhands, The Green Mile, Pulp Fiction, Dune (the '84 Lynch version), Schindler's List, Braveheart, A Clockwork Orange, Jin-Roh and the Wolf Brigade, The Godfather (part 1), Tron, Neverending Story (part 1), The Exorcist, and Rocky Horror Picture Show.

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange (i love kubrick so)
Green Mile (only movie ive ever cried in)
American History X
Once through Requiem for a Dream was all i could muster

I'll agree with saving private ryan, the scene where they are wrestling on the ground and the german guy slowly plunges the knife into the guys chest ... disturbed me for about 2 weeks. I dunno, its like he was staring death right in the face and tried his absolute hardest to fight it but couldnt. just really really sad.

The Professional

oh and blazing saddles

Dancing with Wolves - Made me feel so bad for being a "white man". I can't even watch that movie anymore cuz I just get pissed.

"Amelie" is one that comes to mind. It is a French film with English subtitles. Anyway, there is a scene where the title character gets her heart broken, and to illustrate how she felt the film makers made her turn to water and splash to the ground. Okay, it probably sounds dumb seeing my description, but it is very emotional when you actually see it.

"Dancer in the Dark" with Bjork is probably the most depressing movie I've ever seen. She plays a woman who is going blind and is saving money so she can pay for her son to have an operation so he won't also go blind. She gets screwed over and it sucks. The movie is very good, I think that even people who don't like Bjork's music should check it out, they just might like it.

I've never cried during a movie, but came close at the end of "The 6th Sense" when the kid is telling his mom about her dead mom. It struck a nerve, I suppose.

*edit- "The Fisher King" is always emotional for me to watch. When Jeff Bridges finds out the guy he talked to flipped out and killed those people is pretty crazy. So is the part when Robin Williams goes on that date and everything is looking good for him, then he has that bad hallucination with that medievil horse and knight, and ends up getting the shit beat out of him within inches of his life. Another good movie. Terry Gilliam is awesome.

Schindler's List
Shawshank Redemption
American Beauty
Gladiator (the end fight scene and the face on Commodus' face when the dagger is inside him; and the scene when Maximus finally reveals himself to the Emperor, and the look again on Commodus' face when he realizes the 'Spaniard' is actually Maximus)

Good Will Hunting is the only one I can think of.

I'm pathetic, I know.

don't laugh.

the lion king.

No way man, when Mufasa heroicly saves the life of his son only to lose his own: heartwrenching...

EDIT: The "No way man" part means "No way" will I laugh.

The Shawshank Redemption

exactly!
for some reason, i empathize more with animals/animal movies. *shrugs* which reflects the same in real life.

It depends on what you mean "hurt?" There are plenty of movies that effect me emotionally, sometimes sentimentally, but "hurt?" The first movie that ever made me cry was the Prince of Tides. Other tear jerkers were Field of Dreams, The Shawshank Redemption, and Signs.

Amelie (Definately one of my favorites)
Moulin Rouge
Shindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Romeo and Juliet
Cider House Rules
American Beauty

Airbud

/sniff sniff

Spencer's Mountain

Braveheart was damn rough on me... The power of one man and his beliefs...

American History X
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Brazil
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Kids
Moulin Rouge
Schindler's List
Run, Lola, Run
Hamlet

I think the only movie that ever hit me emotionally was Snoopy come Home when I was like 5--I tend to realize that movies and TV are just that so I make no emotional connection...I just watch them for the escape from life...

American History X
Band of Brothers series

The Life of David Gale....the ending of that movie is insane!!!

If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to go and get it....go now!

Hmmm..... this might sound weird

Terminator 2

When Ahnold lowers himself into the fire and terminates himself.

Still the only movie i've ever gotten choked up about.....and it gets me every time. I usually leave the room if i'm watching it with friends lol.

Too true.

I find that scene quite upsetting too, especially with the music, it's perfect, however when Arnold in T3 killed himself I was absolutely gutted, I knew it'd happen but still, this brave warrior whom originally was programmed to eliminate John and came to fight the TX's re-programming and finally ending his own life to save John's, brilliant.

Bridges of Madison County.

Aside from some of the ones that have been mentioned a lot (Schindler's List, SPR, Braveheart, etc), Igby Goes Down does a lot to me. I see myself in the two brothers--part of me wanting to go one way, and the other part of me wanting to go the other.

If you havent seen it, you should, its a pretty damn good movie. It has a lot in common with Catcher in the Rye, the whole growing up thing.

Life is Beautiful... trying to protect a child's innocence all the way to the end just made those tears flow.

Anna and the King

1) American History X
2) Saving Private Ryan
3) Band Of Brothers

hmm i just saw thirteen in theatres and that made me fucking bawl my eyes out.

also, the joy luck club has been an emotional catharsis for me.

the last movie that made me shed tears I believe was called Jack? It stared robin williams as a "kid" who aged 4 times faster than all of his friends. When he gets really despressed and won't leave his room and all of the kids come over and knock on his door so he can come and play, that just did it for me.
The only other movie I remember ever making this happen to me was The Land Before Time. When i was still a toddler and watched this movie, I always had a tear at the end when little foot and his companions find the promised land place.

These have been said before, and they moved me the first time I watched them:
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan

Not mentioned before:
Lonesome Dove (mini series)

Seven -it made me hurt, but in a different way - I wanted to go take a shower and eat vegetables and go to Sunday School.

Not mentioned before and shamed to admit that I got a little choked up:
Armegeddon
The little kid and his dad, especially.

I am really shocked no one mentionewd any classics like:
Old Yeller _ I still ball every time I see it!!
Where the red fern grows_ another tear jerker!!
The Journey Og Natty gann _ inspires me every time i see it!!
My Girl -- the boy dies it kills me too WAHHH!!:(

then there is always Atumn in New York!! - I always cry
sweet november
MY life with micheal keaton-- so sadd!!
E.T> !!!!!!
okay I forgot like tons I know, but this thread is making me want to cry!!!!!

Requiem for a Dream absolutely destroys me everytime I watch it. Talk about a movie to kill hope....

I've only been able to watch that film once. I can't bring myself to watch it again.

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Jimmy The Hutt

I bawled when I saw Ice Age for the first time...dunno why. The part where they are all in the cave and Manny remembers his family just made me lose it!

It's a Wonderful Life always makes me cry every time that I watch it. When Harry says "a toast, to my big brother Geoge, the richest man in town," I choke back the tears.

Se7en. By the end of that movie I really understand Kevin Spacy's character, and that makes me physically ill.

The Lion King - I've said it before that the opening scene may be one of the most effective in any movie ever. Reprising it in the closing scene was genius. (Tearing up thinking about it.) The last scene in Mosnter's Inc. and the penultimate one in Mulan are the same kind of thing.

LOTR. The books were such a gigantic part of my growing up that I weep to see what a good job they have done with the <i>previews</i>, not to metion the movies themselves.

Gladiator. That one hits all the buttons.

The first Star Wars.

Rudy

"Brian's Song" (the original version)

"Saving Private Ryan"

"Braveheart"

"Shawshank Redemption"

"AI"

"Pride of the Yankees" (Lou Gherig story)

"Gladiator"

Requiem for a Dream
Schindler's List
La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) - Movies generally don't make me cry, but this one got to me, and i was upset for a long time. Such an emotionally moving film.

T2, office space, pulp fiction, Bowling for columbine, most of the starwars movies.

Rudy is nothing compared to Brian's Song.

As an ex-band geek, Mr. Holland's Opus gets me every time.

The Deer Hunter has always been a film that deeply moves me.

I've never seen Nicky's death scene without tears.

The other movie I cannot watch without crying is 'Once Were Warriors'

Also American History X has gotten to me once or twice.

Requiem for a Dream induced some insomnia too.

I cant remember the name right now, and you've all listed a lot of good movies..

but it was the one with jack nicholson playing the elderly man... where he finds his wife, with the vacuum...

god that was so sad.

that whole movie was sad. I put myself in his part and it made me feel so alone.. I hope this never happens to me in real life.

but it will happen to a lot of us :(

I forgot 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

EXACTLY!!! That is one the the scariest movies ever made in my eyes due to the fact that it is fucking real.

Others for me are American Beauty, AI, A Clockwork Orange, Field of Dreams (I cry like a little girl when the kid steps off the field and becomes the Doctor), and Donnie Darko.

American History X
Requiem For a Dream
Gladiator

All of these pulled on my emotions heavily in one way or other.

Most recently I saw a sneak preview for "House of Sand and Fog" this one sent me on a full myriad of emotions. It definitely tugs at your heart towards the end. Overall, it was very good at attacking your emotions. At one point I wanted to run onto the screen and strangle someone. Latter on in the film I was fighting off my tears.

LoTR 1 & 2: movies that caused me physical pain.

Braveheart of course
Some moments of the LOTR movies make me hurt. I love the music they used with the movies.
Requiem for a dream

I made my wife watch Requiem for a Dream after seeing it, and it didn't phase her. I don't know why that bugged me so much but it did, it was kinda like we wern't connecting on the same level, but I guess I can forgive her... Fav line in the movie: Ass to Ass!

Just saw "The pianist"

As of this very moment, I am anti-war.

Armageddon
American Beauty
Gladiator
Dream with the Fishes
Matrix 1-3
City of Angels
Wizard of Oz

I think its called "My Life" with Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman. Its about him making a video tape, for his son, thats not born yet. Now, thats a sad movie.

I have to say, The Green Mile beat me up pretty good.

The Green Mile gets me every time.

American History X
Gladiator
Man on the Moon (Jim Carey as Andy Kauffman)

American History X just choked me so badly...

With Gladiator I was really trying to hold off giving off tears in the theatres... lol

With Man on the Moon though, it just got me when Jim's character finds out that the "special" medical treatment for cancer was just a sham.

Saving Private Ryan, especially the first 15-20 minutes of the movie. It's sad to watch because it really happened and Steven Spielberg did a good job at making it as real as possible.

Black Hawk down.
I was mad when the skinnies were killing the american's. I dont like movies where ppl die.

don't laugh, but both of the Babe movies (about the pig).
Especially in the second one when he saves the drowning dog.

Those movies are cute. They didn't make me hurt, but I can only speak for myself. But hey, I can't really throw too many stones. Look at my list :).

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Jimmy The Hutt

Ohhh man, Requiem for a Dream... fucked with my mind, my body, and my soul.

Thats the only movie that I can think of... It's in a class of its own

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Hands down.

Jim Carrey crying with Beck's "Everybody's gotta learn sometime".
That whole movie made me cry. And a deep depression the two times I saw it in theatres. Hard to keep tears away when you're with a date.

I loved that movie. I will never watch it again.

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Jimmy The Hutt

finally, someone who shares my feelings towards LOTR.

the shawshank redemption, when he finally runs free.

Where's all the old classics from when I was a kid that made you leave the room or risk bawling like your little sister?

Love Story?
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/31/27/70m.jpg

The Champ?
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/34/08/71m.jpg

One that got me was Gus Van Sandts' 'My own private idaho'. The movie closes to 'Have a nice day' instead of 'The end' to make you realise just how good you have it.

Field of Dreams. When he and his dad start playing catch with each other, I'm done.

<--- Didn't play catch with his daddy. :(

YES!!!!!! That's the exact reason why Armageddon gets me all sentimental.

Rudy - Underdog story, theme song, enough said.

I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned: Miracle

Just so much drama, and you know its going to happen, but you still get excited as its happening. I love the song from the movie, but I don't know the name, anybody?

A League of Their Own - don't know why, but when the sisters embrace at the end.