Disney classic Bambi named top 'tear-jerker' film of all time

Top ten movie tearjerkers

1. Bambi (1942)
2. Ghost (1990)
3. The Lion King (1994)
4. E.T. (1982)
5. Titanic (1997)
6. Beaches (1998)
7. Philadelphia (1993)
8. Watership Down (1978)
9. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
10. Steel Magnolias (1989)

My favorite disney movie of ALL time. It's so good to know that I wasnt the only one who cried (and still does) when Bambi's mother died. And who can forget Mufasa?

"Long life the king..."

"Noooooo!!..."

Omg :(

damned disney...they sure know who to pull the heart strings

Bambi was made back when Disney animation was done by hand. Nowadays all Disney movies are done with computer animation. I miss way they made the movies back then... they seemed more genuine than today's overly commercialized Disney cartoons.

The part when Bambi lost his mother was especially tearjerking when I was a little kid.

urbangypsy, i completely agree with you. I think disney is relying too much on CGI...I've always said that they had to go back to hand drawn animation. glad to see i'm not the only one who thinks this as well

I've still not seen it. Answers on a postcard!

someone needs to post the image of bambi pooping out other bambi's

Hmm... I dunno... when it comes to Disney films the Fox and the Hound is the one that gets me every time.

The Lion King always makes me cry.

Bambi, ET and the Lion King?? People are such suckers for cheap tear-jerkers and feel-good movies. I've seen far more emotionally affecting and genuinely disturbing films, though I suppose they tend to be more art-house or independant so less people would have heard of them and voted..

Gets me EVERY time, but I watch it EVERY time!

Same with Steel Magnolias and Sound of Music!

Wait, what about Dumbo or Old Yeller? C'mon people..... Old (Freakin') Yeller!!!

To me "Life is Beautiful" (La vita e bella) is the ultimate tear-jerker, my date and I even cried while having mad passionate sex afterwards...

Well that makes me feel better. My mother has never quite forgiven me for bringing the packed cinema down with howls of sorrow when I was 7. I'm sending her this article.

As a disney movie..
Bambi, yes..
But also Lion King
and Dumbo, is your memory could go that far back...i hated to see Dumbo separated from his mother =( and the clowns mistreating him..
and im with tokyo_chic, fox and the hound as well

yea, dumbo is the one that I remember being upsetting, bawled for that. bambi is a close second.

never could understand why people enjoying killing other animals so much, especially for "sport"

I could see a couple of those being on the list... but Bambi, Lion King, Ghost and Titanic give me a break. You couldn't pry a tear of boredom out of me from those movies...

What about movies like Hotel Rwanda or Darfur Now? People are so fucking superficial, they will cry over a cartoon deer... but the Rwandan Genocide left nearly one million people dead and the Genocide in Darfur has left nearly half a million people dead. That to me is worth shedding a tear over...

What about Gia or Powder maybe even My girl?

Disney crap should not be on the list, didn't he abuse his children?

I think I cried watching #6 only.

For me...

Remember the Titans
Pay it Forward
Boyz in the Hood
Freedom Writers

Lots more that aren't coming to mind, but certainly none of them Disney

The end of the series Cowboy Bebop is my ultimate tear jerker. Excellent series, even for most who don't really like anime. Good fun plot, but the end is such a sad and realistic thing.

I love this movie!! By far one of my all time favorite disney movies, I cried plenty at this movie.