The manly tears thread, Which movies made you well up?

Not a film, but the documentary “Vietnam; The Lost Films.”
Almost at the end, they showed the POWs landing back at various airports around the U.S.
In Augusta GA, in March 1973, Colonel Ben Purcell was reunited with his wife and kids after nearly 6 years as a POW.
Home movies had already been shown of the couple and their kids, prior to Colonel Purcell being deployed to S.E. Asia, and of his wife Anne trying to keep the kids happy at Christmas times, so you kind of felt like you knew the family.
To see Anne’s face when her husband appeared at the top of the plane’s steps, then running to him and hugging him, you’d have had to be made of stone not to get misty eyed.
It reminded me of the time that my elder son returned from a tour of Northern Ireland, to his regiment in Bielefeld, Germany.
He called me to say that he was back, and although his time in Ulster was nothing like being a POW, after 20 to 30 seconds on the phone, I had to stop talking, as I was weeping like a baby.
I remember saying to him, “Want me to phone your mother?”, he said, “I called her first dad, sorry.”
As if I cared that he called my ex first, I just thanked God that he was back in one piece.
 
Reality|Bites said:
When did Southpark first broadcast, I think I was a preteen and me and my mum watching it, I was only watching it as a cartoon, then Kenny died, cue me not understanding why and looking to mummy lol.
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The movie that always brings a tear to my eye is Fisting Firemen 9 (I've never seen 1 through 8).

But as some people have mentioned music, if you can watch this to the end and feel nothing then either you don't appreciate what's going on (e.g. that the old gits in the balcony are Led Zeppelin and that the drummer is John Bonham's son) or there is no hope for you:

 
Ooh another recent one for me... The ending of Toy Story 4. Probably the most recent thing to make me cry. Actually Kanye West's gospel album made me shed a tear but that was for another reason entirely
 
If we’re talking music as well as film, I find it impossible not to well up if I’m standing anywhere along Avenue Des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Bastille Day, and as the military bands go by, the crowd roars out the first chorus of La Marseillaise;
AUX ARMES, CITOYENS!
FORMEZ VOS BATAILLONS!
It never fails to blow me away.
 
American Sniper. Won't go into details, but, jeez what are the odds?
Rocky 4 - Apollo Creed, such an epic film!
 
-Shawshank Redemption, in a couple of places (when Brooks is on the outside, and towards the end when Red is travelling)
-Top Gun, Goose
-Up, the intro. I think that's quite unusual, to have quite such a powerful opening. In fact it kind of spoils the film, that's the sort of climax you expect at the end of a film, and it never reaches those heights (no pun intended) again
-Terminator 2 ending. Kind of surprising in a way from what is essentially a raucous action movie.
-Platoon, dash for the heli. Like a lot of people I imagine, this also introduced me to Adagio for Strings. I do wonder if the film would've had less of an emotional impact with a different score.

Not a film, but the episode "The Leap Home" in Quantum Leap hit me very hard. I saw it not long after my mother died and the idea of being somehow go back in time to see lost family members, and maybe change the outcomes for your family seemed very poignant.
 
There is a very intense scene mid way through Saviour (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120070/) which involves the savage murder of a number of people. Our protagonist is hiding nearby with a newborn child, trying not to be seen/heard. Cue the baby doing what a baby does and starts crying, he has to keep the child quiet and has to muffle the childs mouth/nose with his hand. Won't say more on the outcome in case anyone wants to watch it.

In fact, most of this movie has some very hard going scenes, being the bosnian conflict and by the time the credits rolled, I was a bit of a mess.
 
The Time Traveler's Wife.

The scene where he meets his daughter, who’s 10, 5 years after his death.

My room gets dusty during that scene every time I watch the film.
 
ElliorR said:
The Time Traveler's Wife.

The scene where he meets his daughter, who’s 10, 5 years after his death.

My room gets dusty during that scene every time I watch the film.
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when you overthink that movie it does tend to come over a bit creepy lol, but yes it was good and I enjoyed it, and felt sad when he died.
 
The start of UP! - how is it possible to convey so much emotion with no words?
Marley and Me - watched once, never again. Just thinking about it gives me a lump in my throat.

And not a film, but Gears of War 3. Dom.
 
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