Movies to cry on: no eye stays dry here

Emotional films, in which one or two tears sometimes flow - our selected strips are guaranteed to make you cry. We have selected a few older TV and cinema films that you may still be unfamiliar with.

Movies to cry on: "Marcelino"

The first film that we recommend and introduce to you is a black and white film by Frank Capra, which has since been re-filmed in color.

• The title is "Marcelino" and dates from 1955. The color adaptation was released in 2010.
• The film is about a little boy in a monastery in Mexico. This boy is put outside the door of the monks - probably because the mother cannot feed the child.
• So the monastery brothers ask themselves what they should do with the child. You decide to admit and then place the child in a family. This fails because the monks are too fond of the child.
• The child finds a cross with the body of Christ in the attic. Since the child is alone despite good care, he visits the store again and again. There are dialogues between God and the child asking about the mother.
• A film without a really happy ending with very funny sequences, but above all heartbreaking, sad scenes. From time to time, the film is broadcast on TV on Easter. The color version can be found on Amazon Prime.

"The Champ": A film to cry on

A child and an aging boxer are at the center of the drama filmed by Franco Zefirelli in 1979. The film is also well cast with Jon Voight, Rick Schroder and Faye Dunaway.

• The storyline is that the little boy is raised by his father. The father is doing poorly as a horse trainer. The father's dream is that he can offer something to the son and can prove that he is a good boxer. Both train together.
• So he starts training for a boxing match. In the course of the boxing match, the father dies of the aftermath of the fight because he is determined to impress his boy. The son then stands alone until Faye Dunaway takes him in.
• The film was nominated for several awards. Ricky Schroder won a Golden Globe Award in the category for best young actor for his performance. Jon Voight went away empty-handed, but was nominated for Best Actor in the Drama category.

"Life is Beautiful"

The very controversial film was made by Roberto Benigni in 1997. Benigni also played the main role.

• The film takes place in World War II. Roberto Benigni is an Italian Jew who is persecuted by the Nazis and ultimately interned in a camp. He has a young son who has to go to the concentration camp with him.
• To make life easier for the child, he pretends that the whole thing is a game. The child has to keep hiding permanently. The father instructs it permanently with new rules that he has to come up with, which is often very funny.
• Towards the end of the film, Roberto Benigni looks for his wife in the camp because the boy longs for the mother. In this search, the father is shot. The camp is liberated a day later, which is in line with the game's prophecy - winning father and son.
• The film is a great tragic comedy for which Benigni won two Oscars in 1999. One in the Best Actor category. The other in the category of the best foreign film. A laughing and a crying eye are certain in the film.
• The appearance of Roberto Benigni at the Oscar ceremony in Hollywood by Sophia Loren will never be forgotten. He broke all conventions, for example because he went over the stage to chairs and people.

"Love Story" - a classic

The film "Love Story" with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal dates from 1970. The film was nominated for an Oscar in six categories. These were: best film, leading actress, leading actor, supporting actor, director and original screenplay.

• The story of the film is quite simple: A poor girl gets to know a rich and respected young man. The two fall in love. He, Ryan O'Neal, encounters family resistance, but defies it and stays with her.
• After a short but intense happiness, she, Ali MacGraw, falls ill with cancer and dies in Ryan O'Neal's arms. Before that, he was at the woman's bed every day until she died. It is primarily through the dialogues that the film gains its emotional depth, with the acting performances of the two being emphasized.
• Erich Segal was responsible for the dialogues and the screenplay. With a small budget of just under $ 2.5 million, the film grossed over $ 200 million at the time. The film is also famous for the sentence: "Love never means having to ask forgiveness."

"As long as there are people"

Douglas Sirk made this film in 1959. This leads to racial conflicts in the family. A colored mother has an almost white daughter, whose ethnicity cannot be seen. The mother works in the household of a wealthy white family in the kitchen and in the house.

• There is a close friendship with the daughter of the house. However, the daughter cannot deal with the mother because she rejects the skin color - she wants to be white and is ashamed of her mother.
• In the vicinity of the city in which the two live, the daughter denies the mother until her death. Only when the mother dies does the daughter find her way to the mother.
• The film lives from many individual situations and a grandiose finale that was very controversial in the 1960s. The film has since been included in the National Film Registry as one of the greatest dramas of all time. More specifically, in 2015.
• The funeral of the mother is also very sadly accompanied by the music of Mahalia Jackson with the song "Trouble".
• The German cult director Reiner Werner Fassbinder said about the film: "A great, insane film of life and death."

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