Tearjerkers: Movies that make you cry

The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, an Alabama simpleton who travels across the world, meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture, and experiencing firsthand some of the historic events of the late 20th century.

127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident.

Up is a 2009 computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios about a cranky old man and an overeager Scout who fly to South America in a floating house suspended from helium balloons

This film tells the story of Rose DeWitt Bukater, and Jack Dawson, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated voyage of the ship.

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.

Rain Man is a 1988 comedy-drama that tells the story of an abrasive, selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his brother, Raymond, an autistic savant, of whose existence he was unaware.

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, in his funeral parlor, and begins to fall in love with her, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up

I Am Sam is a 2001 film telling the story of a mentally handicapped father and his efforts to retain custody of his daughter.

Adam, a 27-year-old man who is otherwise in excellent health, is suddenly diagnosed with cancer. He breaks the news to his girlfriend, his best friend and his mother, who is also dealing with her husband who has Alzheimer's disease. Each deals with the news and subsequent treatment in different ways. In the middle of it all, Adam also seeks therapy from a young and inexperienced therapist, assigned to him by the hospital, and befriends several older, wisecracking chemotherapy patients.

The film centers on the Ludlow family of Montana, including veteran of the Indian Wars Colonel Ludlow, his three sons Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel, and object of the brothers' love, Susannah.

Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita e bella) is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice, who must learn how to use his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.