• The classic tear-jerker Marley & Me stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a couple who grow through life with their sometimes difficult but always loveable yellow Labrador, Marley. Courtesy Regency Pictures
    The classic tear-jerker Marley & Me stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a couple who grow through life with their sometimes difficult but always loveable yellow Labrador, Marley. Courtesy Regency Pictures
  • Terms of Endearment won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1984. The critically acclaimed film stars Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson and focuses on the mother-daughter relationship between MacLaine and Winger’s characters over the decades. Courtesy Paramount Pictures
    Terms of Endearment won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1984. The critically acclaimed film stars Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson and focuses on the mother-daughter relationship between MacLaine and Winger’s characters over the decades. Courtesy Paramount Pictures
  • Beaches is another clssic film that shows the beauty and strength of female friendship. Starring Barbara Hershey, left, and Bette Midler, the film also produced Wind Beneath My Wings which went on to have major Grammy success. Courtesy Touchstone Productions
    Beaches is another clssic film that shows the beauty and strength of female friendship. Starring Barbara Hershey, left, and Bette Midler, the film also produced Wind Beneath My Wings which went on to have major Grammy success. Courtesy Touchstone Productions
  • Another Oscar winner for Best Picture, Titantic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, left, as star-crossed lovers on the doomed Titanic ship and produced the Celine Dion classic My Heart Will Go On. Paramount Pictures / AP photo
    Another Oscar winner for Best Picture, Titantic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, left, as star-crossed lovers on the doomed Titanic ship and produced the Celine Dion classic My Heart Will Go On. Paramount Pictures / AP photo
  • Tom Hanks earned an Academy Award for Best Actor in Philadelphia by playing an AIDS stricken gay man dealing with discrimination and homophobia. Courtesy Tri-Star
    Tom Hanks earned an Academy Award for Best Actor in Philadelphia by playing an AIDS stricken gay man dealing with discrimination and homophobia. Courtesy Tri-Star
  • The Champ stars Jon Voight as a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life back together for the sake of his young son played by Ricky Schroder. Courtesy MGM
    The Champ stars Jon Voight as a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life back together for the sake of his young son played by Ricky Schroder. Courtesy MGM
  • The romantic crime thriller Ghost stars Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. Moore plays a young woman in jeopardy and Swayze stars as the ghost of her murdered husband trying to save her from danger. Courtesy Paramount Pictures
    The romantic crime thriller Ghost stars Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze. Moore plays a young woman in jeopardy and Swayze stars as the ghost of her murdered husband trying to save her from danger. Courtesy Paramount Pictures
  • The film My Life has Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman as a married couple expecting their first child together before Keaton’s character is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Columbia Pictures
    The film My Life has Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman as a married couple expecting their first child together before Keaton’s character is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Columbia Pictures
  • Billy Dee Williams and James Caan starred in the TV movie Brian’s Song, which was based on the real-life relationship between football teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying. Courtesy Screen Gems TV
    Billy Dee Williams and James Caan starred in the TV movie Brian’s Song, which was based on the real-life relationship between football teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying. Courtesy Screen Gems TV

In pictures: Movies that bring us to tears

Olga Camacho

June 11, 2014

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The newly released film The Fault in Our Stars, based on the best selling novel from John Green about two teenagers with cancer who fall in love, is sure to have more than a few people shedding tears by the end. So if you are looking for a good cry, here's a list of 10 other classic tear-jerker movies.

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