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Some of these make me cry big, fat, happy ending romantic comedy tears. Some of these make me cry sad, awful, how can they shoot Bambi's mother tears. And some of them just make me cry for no discernible reason. Every. Single. Time. These are, by far, the movies I've shed the most tears over, ranked in order from heaviest volume of tears to lightest.

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1973
    Sydney Pollack
    Drama, Period piece, Musical, Romance Film, Romantic drama, Film adaptation More
    James Woods, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Herb Edelman, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors, Murray Hamilton More
  2. 2
    1993
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, Black-and-white, History, Period piece, Biography, Biographical film, Film adaptation, Tragedy More
    Ben Kingsley, Mark Ivanir, Harry Nehring, Embeth Davidtz, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Ludger Pistor, Miri Fabian, Ezra Dagan, Aldona Grochal, Albert Misak, Beata Paluch, Anna Mucha, Malgoscha Gebel, Jonathan Sagall, Beata Nowak, Adi Nitzan, Friedrich von Thun, Krzysztof Luft, Shmulik Levy More
  3. 3
    2008
    Mark Herman
    Drama, History, Period piece, War, Film adaptation
    Richard Johnson, Asa Butterfield, David Hayman, Attila Egyed, Cara Horgan, Jim Norton, Béla Fesztbaum, Jack Scanlon, Henry Kingsmill, Vera Farmiga, Sheila Hancock, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Domonkos Németh, László Nádasi, Amber Beattie, Zac Mattoon O'Brien, László Áron More
  4. 4
    1988
    Garry Marshall
    Drama, Comedy, Musical, Comedy-drama
    Lainie Kazan, Mayim Bialik, John Heard, Barbara Hershey, Bette Midler, Marcie Leeds, Spalding Gray, James Read More
  5. 5
    1997
    James Cameron
    Drama, Costume drama, Period piece, Disaster, Action/Adventure, Romance Film, Historical fiction, Romantic drama, Tragedy More
    Gloria Stuart, James Cameron, Kate Winslet, Suzy Amis, Eric Braeden, Jason Barry, Bill Paxton, Victor Garber, Ewan Stewart, Jonathan Hyde, Kathy Bates, Nicholas Cascone, Bernard Hill, Lewis Abernathy, Billy Zane, Bernard Fox, Jonathan Phillips, Leonardo DiCaprio, Frances Fisher, David Warner, Danny Nucci, Ioan Gruffudd More
  6. 6
    1955
    Nicholas Ray
    Drama, Romance Film, Teen, Short Film, Family Drama
    Ian Wolfe, Jack Grinnage, Sal Mineo, Nick Adams, Dennis Hopper, Beverly Long, Tom Bernard, Corey Allen, Virginia Brissac, Ann Doran, Marietta Canty, Frank Mazzola, Robert Foulk, Clifford Morris, Natalie Wood, James Dean, Jim Backus, Edward Platt, Steffi Sidney, Jack Simmons More
  7. 7
    1942
    Walt Disney, Bill Roberts, James Algar, Norman Wright, David Hand, Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Graham Heid More
    Drama, Fantasy, Family, Animation, Adventure, Coming of age
    John Sutherland, Peter Behn, Donnie Dunagan, Sterling Holloway, Mary Lansing, Sam Edwards, Margaret Lee, Cammie King, Bobby Stewart, Hardie Albright, Ann Gillis, Stan Alexander, Paula Winslowe, Fred Shields, Tim Davis, Will Wright More
  8. 8
    2007
    Michael Lehmann
    Drama, Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy
    Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Stephen Collins, Colin Ferguson, Tony Hale, Willam Belli, Diane Keaton, Piper Perabo, Ty Panitz, Mandy Moore, Zachary Gordon, Matt Champagne More
  9. 9
    1982
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, Fantasy, Family, Science Fiction, Adventure, Children's, Family Drama More
    Debra Winger, Robert MacNaughton, Erika Eleniak, C. Thomas Howell, Michael Durrell, Peter Coyote, Pat Welsh, Sean Frye, Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace-Stone, K. C. Martel More
  10. 10
    1983
    Barbra Streisand
    Drama, Musical, Romance Film
    Mandy Patinkin, David de Keyser, Amy Irving, Bernard Spear, Barbra Streisand, Nehemiah Persoff, Mary Henry, Steven Hill, Allan Corduner, Lynda Baron, Doreen Mantle, Miriam Margolyes, Jack Lynn More
  11. 11
    1995
    Rob Reiner
    Drama, Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Romantic drama, Political cinema More
    Michael Douglas, David Paymer, Nina Siemaszko, Annette Bening, Wendie Malick, Michael J. Fox, Aaron Sorkin, Richard Dreyfuss, Joshua Malina, Samantha Mathis, Shawna Waldron, Martin Sheen, Anna Deavere Smith, John Mahoney, Anne Haney More
  12. 12
    1957
    Leo McCarey
    Romance Film, Romantic drama, Drama Film
    Deborah Kerr, Cathleen Nesbitt, Charlie Watts, Cary Grant, Neva Patterson, Richard Denning, Fortunio Bonanova, Robert Q. Lewis More
  13. 13
    2006
    Nancy Meyers
    Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy
    Eli Wallach, Rufus Sewell, Bill Macy, Alex O'Loughlin, Jack Black, Odette Yustman, Jon Prescott, Kathryn Hahn, Cameron Diaz, Miffy Englefield, Emma Pritchard, John Krasinski, Jude Law, Sarah Parish, Jay Simpson, Shelley Berman, Dustin Hoffman, Nicholas Downs, Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Kate Winslet, James Franco More
  14. 14
    1988
    Mike Nichols
    Drama, Comedy, Romance
    Melanie Griffith, David Duchovny, Robert Easton, Amy Aquino, Oliver Platt, Alec Baldwin, Nora Dunn, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, James Lally, Jeffrey Nordling, Philip Bosco, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Joan Cusack, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Spacey More
  15. 15
    1990
    Garry Marshall
    Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy
    Tracy Bjork, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Jason Alexander, Ralph Bellamy, Elinor Donahue, Hector Elizondo, Laura San Giacomo, Alex Hyde-White, Judith Baldwin, Amy Yasbeck, Bill Applebaum, Jason Randal, Billy Gallo, Gary Greene More
  16. 16
    1983
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Drama, Period piece, Teen, Film adaptation, Coming of age
    Patrick Swayze, Nicolas Cage, Tom Waits, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Leif Garrett, Glenn Withrow, Darren Dalton, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, Diane Lane, Michelle Meyrink, Gailard Sartain More
  17. 17
    1961
    Blake Edwards
    Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic comedy, Drama Film
    José Luis de Villalonga, John McGiver, George Peppard, Martin Balsam, Patricia Neal, Audrey Hepburn, Orangey, Alan Reed, Buddy Ebsen, Mickey Rooney, Stanley Adams, Claude Stroud, Beverly Powers More
  18. 18
    1995
    Leslie Linka Glatter
    Drama, Comedy, Period piece, Teen, Crime Fiction, Indie, Coming of age, Romance More
    Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell, Thora Birch, Melanie Griffith, Gaby Hoffmann, Demi Moore, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Rita Wilson, Devon Sawa, Walter Sparrow, Cloris Leachman, Lolita Davidovich, Janeane Garofalo, Rumer Willis, Hank Azaria, Bonnie Hunt, Brendan Fraser More
  19. 19
    2002
    Adam Shankman
    Drama, Romance Film, Teen, Romantic drama, Film adaptation, Coming of age More
    Paz de la Huerta, Peter Coyote, Erik Scott Smith, Marisa Miller, Kelly Cole Childers, Anne Fletcher, Kevin Osborne, Matt Lutz, Xavier Hernandez, Jonathan Parks Jordan, Paula Jones, David Lee Smith, Al Thompson, Robert C. Treveiler, Lauren German, Mandy Moore, Clayne Crawford, Sheila Brothers, Shane West, Dean Mumford, Daryl Hannah, Chip Thomas, Mervyn Warren, Adam Shankman, David Andrews More
  20. 20
    2001
    Baz Luhrmann
    Drama, Comedy, Costume drama, Period piece, Musical, Romance Film, Romantic drama, Remake, Jukebox musical More
    Kylie Minogue, Caroline O'Connor, Kerry Walker, Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Deobia Oparei, Richard Roxburgh, Jacek Koman, Jim Broadbent, Natalie Mendoza, David Wenham, John Leguizamo, Matthew Whittet, Garry McDonald, Linal Haft More

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