Movies can evoke all kinds of emotions in us from laughing with joy to screaming with terror, but when was the last time you cried genuine sad tears at a movie?
Vision Direct commissioned a new survey of 2,000 Brits to find out, giving them a list of 50 films to find out which brought them to a tear.
Coming in top with 29.8 percent of the vote was James Cameron’s Titanic. This should come as no surprise, given the depiction of the ship’s actual maiden voyage sinking, along with the death of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack, who had just fallen in love with Kate Winslet’s Rose.
Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson’s Marley and Me was a close second with 29%, given its incredibly sad ending.
However, it turns out that the overall No. 3 with 28.3 percent of the vote was the No. 1 tearjerker among men.
The film that came out on top with men was Stephen King’s The Green Mile, about a man wrongfully sentenced to death.
Meanwhile, Holocaust disaster films The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (18.8 percent) and Schindler’s List (18 percent) came in fourth and fifth respectively.
And the top voted Disney film was The Lion King, featuring Mufasa’s murder, with 16.8 percent in sixth.
As for why Britons cry when watching films, the death of a fictional character proved to be the main driver, with 60 per cent of respondents having shed a tear over such a tragic moment in a film, TV show or book. . See the full top 20 list below.
The top 20 films that made Brits cry
1. Titanic (1997)
2. Marley & Me (2008)
3. The Green Mile (1999)
4. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
5. Schindler’s List (1993)
6. The Lion King (1994)
7. My Girl (1991)
8. The Notebook (2004)
9. PS I Love You (2007)
10. Up (2009)
11. The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
12. ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
13. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
14. Beaches (1988)
15. Toy Story 3 (2010)
16. Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2009)
17. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
18. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
19. Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
20. Inside Out (2015)
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