Tearjerking Movies – Then & Now

From The Past: February 14, 2005

BBC NEWS has compiled a list of the top 20 tearjerking movie moments. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4262201.stm

This is the list:

TOP 20 TEARJERKING MOMENTS

  1. E.T
  2. The Green Mile
  3. Titanic
  4. It’s a Wonderful Life
  5. Ghost
  6. Bambi
  7. The Shawshank Redemption
  8. The Champ*
  9. Field of Dreams*
  10. My Girl
  11. Forrest Gump
  12. Beaches
  13. Blackadder*
  14. Gone With The Wind
  15. Watership Down*
  16. Terms of Endearment
  17. Stand By Me
  18. Brief Encounter*
  19. Sophie’s Choice
  20. Dead Poet’s Society

I can say that I definitely agree with E.T. being the number 1 tearjerker. I agree with many of the others even if they only made me cry the first time I saw them. If I could add any movies to the list, they would be Savannah Smiles, Steel Magnolias and Schindler’s List. I think Savannah Smiles would be my top tearjerker of all time.

*I have added an asterisk to the end of the movies above that I have never seen.

Currently (2021): These days, there are so many movies to add to the list. Other than the movies I mentioned in 2005, I would add Beaches, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, Marley & Me and Frankenweenie.

What movies would you add?

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