what animal movies make you cry?

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Lassie but perhaps you are all too young to remember.

Showing my age here but as a child I wouldn't watch Lassie films (or Little House of the Prairie) as I got embarrassed when I cried and I just couldn't stop myself.

I can cry at an advert though. Black Beauty is another tear jerker. It's the bit near the end when Beauty is at the sales and Joe is there but doesn't recognise him.

I think it does you good to have a cry sometimes. I wait until I'm on my own and watch a film and blub to my hearts content. :o
 
It doesn't need to be a film - I was watching racing at Newmarket a few weeks ago and a horse reared and fell over in the stalls. I had my heart in my mouth until they got the poor horse up... then I wept buckets :o

Actually, it doesn't even need to be a horse - I wept buckets at ET :o is there any hope for me :)
 
Black beauty's the worse for me, I cry from start to finish.
Also Marie and me, international velvet, war horse, and anything with animals in really.
Hubby cried at marlie and me which I thought was sweet.
 
All animal films make me cry!! Used to be entertainent in my house - watching me, watching Lassie Come Home! I started crying at he opening credits and by the end my eyes would be puffed shut and I couldn't breathe.
I cry at the sad bits and the happy bits, I always swear I won't watch any more animal films, but I can't help myself!
Haachi is definitely one of the saddest recent films. My mum lent me one recently about a team of sled dogs left behind in Alaska, based on a true story. Can't remember the title but it was a real weepy!
 
Remembered another one, a benji film. Lost in the wild? Or wilderness, the one with the cougars or similar in. I cry when one of the cubs is taken by the bird.
 
I forgot all about Lassie! I haven't seen Haachi that sounds like a bad one! We have Netflix and I am always going to the 'family' section to find animal films to make me cry haha.

I haven't seen the horse whisperer :-0 seen buck and read the book though and that was sad!
 
mandwhy said:
I also recommend a lovely lovely recent film called red dog, it is an Australian independent film and was out at the cinema a few months ago, that had me sobbing and was surprised how good it was, and has got some handsome men in too :-)
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Red Dog is fantastic, saddest film ever
 
All of the above, at least the ones I've seen.

Black Beauty does it to me every time. Watership Down, Bambi, etc, etc.

I watched War Horse and the bit where he runs 'thro the wire had me crying buckets.
 
I cry at the beginning titles of black beauty ... right through to the end really. My dad mentioned it on the beach in Cuba and both me and my mum started blubbing:o
I remember crying my eyes out at a film called 'my dog skip' but can't for the life of me remember what happened.
fox and the hound... can't even think about it :o
 
ooh Black Beauty when Ginger goes by on the cart and when Beauty sees Joe at the market when hes older
Free Willy when he jumps over the wall at the end
War Horse the book but not the film, they ruined the ending :(
 
This is bugging me now - does anyone know the title of a film set in Ireland about a boy and a grey stallion? In the end the boy and the stallion are being chased on a beach so they gallop into the sea, swim away and are drowned. I found that really sad. The film that traumatised me many years ago was 'The Deer Hunter' No, nothing to do with animals, but I found it unbearably tragic, and will never watch it again.
 
vickyb said:
This is bugging me now - does anyone know the title of a film set in Ireland about a boy and a grey stallion? In the end the boy and the stallion are being chased on a beach so they gallop into the sea, swim away and are drowned. I found that really sad. The film that traumatised me many years ago was 'The Deer Hunter' No, nothing to do with animals, but I found it unbearably tragic, and will never watch it again.
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Is that Tir Na Nog? Saw it yonks ago and loved it, if it is that one!
 
Another 'hard old bat' here. We watched Hachi and my OH actually got a bit emotional, not crying or anything but it clearly got to him. I, erm, laughed at him......

I did get a bit of a lump in my throat watching Dumbo with my 4 year old though at the part where he visits his mum when they lock her up. He said to me "Dumbo's crying because he misses his mummy and he loves her. I would miss you if you if you got taken away because I love you".

Oh and I can't watch the start of "Up!".....
 
Sam_1985 said:
homeward bound....every time :( lol. My parents stopped letting me watch it when i was little cos i spent the rest of the day in tears asking "are the poor animals going to die or will they come home"!!!
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Ah, I think maybe this is the film I was on about, the book it called The Incredible Journey.
 
I'm crying just reading this thread!

All of these films made me cry, Watership Down left me mentally scarred as a small child, as did All Dogs go to Heaven!

Totally irrelevant and not at all horsey but I BAWLED at Titanic (of all things :o ) when they showed it in cinemas again recently. What is wrong with me? All those people :(

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Does anyone remember the Don Bluth films?
A land before time, with the dinosaurs and littlefoots mother dies saving him from the t-rex and they try to find the green valley and they nearly give up and then Diana Ross starts singing and I'm in floods!
Or an American tail with Fievel the russian mouse and he loses his family and then the story of how he re-finds them. God they make me a mess, feeling sad now just thinking about it!

Not animal but the bit in the Railway Children when the oldest girl (bobby?) goes to the station and sees the train and then the train smoke as it leaves and her Dad's there and she's shrieking "Daddy! Oh My Daddy!"

Even seeing it on clip shows makes me sob uncontrollably and want my Dad even though he died 6 years ago.
I'm pathetic :(
 
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