Has a movie or novel ever (almost) brought you to tears?

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I've never cried or felt really sad reading/watching any type of media, but The Elephant Man got the closest.

I got misty eyed while watching The Great Gatsby a second time. Especially when the full weight of understanding the despair and loss of hope felt by the narrator Nick Caraway after his friend Gatsby, having reinvented himself and creating a world of wealth and excitement all for Nick's vacuous, fickle cousin Daisy, only to lose her, his reputation, and his life, and with scandal and lies now associated with his name. That, and how Gatsby, so in love with this woman who is hardly worthy of him, believes he can turn back the clock to a time before she was married to a rich racist snob, when she had first loved him. And that was in the end disastrous for him.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The ending to both the book and the movie adaptation were very sad indeed.

Most of the books that made me cry were from back when I was in school - Where The Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawles) especially, but also IIRC Flowers For Algernon (Daniel Keyes).

The books "The Remains of the Day" and "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro tend to make me brood and get very emotional.

In films, "Paris, Texas" and "Songs From the Second Floor" usually affect me quit e a bit.

Music, movies, novels, poems, and short stories have all made me cry.

The first story I remember reading that made me cry was Charlotte's Web when I was 4 years old.

But making a child cry is easy! The first story that made me cry as an adult (18+) was Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing."

Music - Saw/listened to the Kronos Quartet perform Requiem for a Dream soundtrack live. Cried. Out of body experience.
Books - Harry Potter 7, Everything is Illuminated
TV - Last episode of Battlestar Galactica. Sometimes get very un-sober and re-watch it, will cry for a full half hour.
Movies - (major ones I remember) The Return of the King, Waltz with Bashir, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Across the Universe, Amor, Biutiful
Poems - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

Yes The final battle at the end of Zero no Tsukaima season 2 is soooooo tragially beuatiful i cry every time. Then the ending song to Record of Lodoss war again beauty. Oh and Parn when he goes to save Deedlit at the end of the Lodoss War Ovas..That music the scene plus the whole chaos magic..Just sooo great a scene.

I seem to cry most at tragic beauty or beauty in general.

I cry really easily, especially at character deaths. But here's an abridged list:

Movies: The Fault In Our Stars (three times during the movie)
Books: Mockingjay (I think? I know I was so into the book I couldn't speak or process emotions for at least ten minutes), Harry Potter 7
TV Shows: Castle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Doctor Who, Skins (uk), Supernatural, Criminal Minds, Sherlock (BBC)

I watched John Lennon's 'Imagine' on TV at the age of 15 and I was crying as the credits were showing at the end of the movie. I also cried after watching Forest Gump. I get a lump in my throat at the end of 'Mary Poppins' because the main character has to leave to help another family. I feel extreme empathy for Austin Powers while watching 'Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery at the part where Vanessa disowns him for a while and he flashes the peace-sign at the bar, for obvious reasons.

The ending of Beasts Of The Southern Wild, I cried, then my mom yelled at me for crying.

The Impossible. When the three boys reunite with their father, just after the boys reunite with each other.

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