I'll seed this torrent from my seedbox until 2024-08-27, after which I'll continue to seed it indefinitely from my home computer.

I used to frequent an establishment named "Joe's Bar, Ladies Invited". I hope you ladies will join the gents as they gently weep.

If you are subject to the Windows 260-character limit on folder name length + file name length, download this torrent to a folder that is less than 62 characters.

If you love a bit of crying, or need to clear your tear ducts for medical reasons, here are the movies for you!

A Walk to Remember (2002) IMDB 7.3 [HEVC 2.96m 1920x812 01;42;26 2.1GB]
About Time (2013) IMDB 7.8 [HEVC 2.33m 1920x1080 02;03;22 2.0GB]
Armageddon (1998) IMDB 6.7 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 02;30;50 2.4GB]
Big Fish (2003) IMDB 8.0 [HEVC 2.10m 1920x1080 02;05;11 1.8GB]
Brian's Song (1971) IMDB 7.5 [H264 6.14m 1920x1080 01;14;40 3.2GB]
Bridge to Terabithia (2007) IMDB 7.2 [HEVC 5.44m 1920x1080 01;35;32 3.6GB]
Brokeback Mountain (2005) IMDB 7.7 [HEVC 2.00m 1918x1080 02;14;27 2.1GB]
Coco (2017) IMDB 8.4 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 01;45;02 1.6GB]
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) IMDB 7.9 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 01;54;36 1.8GB]
Forrest Gump (1994) IMDB 8.8 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 02;22;06 2.2GB]
Gladiator (2000) IMDB 8.5 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 02;50;59 2.7GB]
Good Will Hunting (1997) IMDB 8.3 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1040 02;06;33 2.0GB]
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) IMDB 8.5 [HEVC 2.10m 1920x1036 01;28;34 1.3GB]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) IMDB 7.9 [H264 33.74m 1920x1080 02;30;02 35GB]
Hachi; A Dog's Tale (2009) IMDB 8.1 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1036 01;33;15 1.5GB]
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1452x1080 02;10;39 4.1GB]
Life Is Beautiful (1997) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1040 01;56;11 1.8GB]
Million Dollar Baby (2004) IMDB 8.1 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x800 02;12;31 2.1GB]
Old Yeller (1957) IMDB 7.2 [HEVC 4.46m 1792x1080 01;23;51 2.6GB]
Saving Private Ryan (1998) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1036 02;49;29 2.6GB]
Schindler's List (1993) IMDB 9.0 [H264 1.74m 1920x1040 03;15;13 2.5GB]
The Fox and the Hound (1981) IMDB 7.2 [HEVC 2.00m 1800x1080 01;23;01 1.3GB]
The Green Mile (1999) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 03;08;38 2.9GB]
The Iron Giant (1999) IMDB 8.1 [H264 2.05m 1904x800 01;26;33 3.2GB]
The Notebook (2004) IMDB 7.8 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x814 02;03;49 1.9GB]
Titanic (1997) IMDB 7.9 [H264 2.40m 1920x816 03;14;50 3.9GB]
Toy Story 3 (2010) IMDB 8.3 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 01;42;33 1.6GB]
Up (2009) IMDB 8.3 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 01;36;08 1.5GB]
Warrior (2011) IMDB 8.1 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x800 02;19;55 2.2GB]
What Dreams May Come (1998) IMDB 7.0 [HEVC 3.21m 1920x816 01;53;44 2.6GB]

The average IMDB rating of these movies is 8.0, which is VERY HIGH. Someone on reddit purports to have measured the distribution of IMDB ratings and says that the average rating is 6.4. These movies are way better than that. EXCELLENT MOVIES.

All of them have:

* English subtitles
* IMDB.html -- double-click it to go to the movie's IMDB page
* IMDB Trailer.html -- brings you to the movie's IMDB trailer when you double-click
* Bracketed info like [H264 2.50m 1920x1080 02;28;52 2.8GB] showing the codec, bitrate (in millions), resolution, duration and file size.
* An Emby-generated NFO file with information like this:

      [video]
        [codec]h264[/codec]
        [micodec]h264[/micodec]
        [bitrate]2498763[/bitrate]
        [width]1920[/width]
        [height]872[/height]
        [aspect]240:109[/aspect]
        [aspectratio]240:109[/aspectratio]
        [framerate]23.976[/framerate]
        [language]und[/language]
        [scantype]progressive[/scantype]
        [default]True[/default]
        [forced]False[/forced]
        [duration]148[/duration]
        [durationinseconds]8931[/durationinseconds]
      [/video]
      [audio]
        [codec]aac[/codec]
        [micodec]aac[/micodec]
        [bitrate]224000[/bitrate]
        [language]eng[/language]
        [scantype]progressive[/scantype]
        [channels]6[/channels]
        [samplingrate]48000[/samplingrate]
        [default]True[/default]
        [forced]False[/forced]
      [/audio
 
"It's a Wonderful Life" comes in black and white and also colorized (horrors!).

"The Iron Giant" has the usual theatrical release and in addition to the director's cut (I haven't watched the director's cut yet and wanted to be sure that you got a good version).

These are the directors who directed more than one move:    

Steven Spielberg 3 (he directed 3 movies)
    Lee Unkrich 2

The actors in more than one movie:

    Tom Hanks 4
    Ben Affleck 2
    Peter Coyote 2
    Rachel McAdams 2
    Robin Williams 2

See "Directors of and Actors in these movies.txt" in the Extras folder for the full list of directors and actors (just the 4 primary actors of each movie, as identified by Emby, are on the list).

The Extras folder also contains:

* Movies In IMDB Rating Order.txt

These are the 10 movies with the highest IMDB rating:

Schindler's List (1993) IMDB 9.0 [H264 1.74m 1920x1040 03;15;13 2.5GB]
Forrest Gump (1994) IMDB 8.8 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 02;22;06 2.2GB]
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1452x1080 02;10;39 4.1GB]
Life Is Beautiful (1997) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1040 01;56;11 1.8GB]
Saving Private Ryan (1998) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1036 02;49;29 2.6GB]
The Green Mile (1999) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 03;08;38 2.9GB]
Gladiator (2000) IMDB 8.5 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 02;50;59 2.7GB]
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) IMDB 8.5 [HEVC 2.10m 1920x1036 01;28;34 1.3GB]
Coco (2017) IMDB 8.4 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 01;45;02 1.6GB]
Good Will Hunting (1997) IMDB 8.3 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1040 02;06;33 2.0GB]

* Movies In Year Order.txt

These are the 10 oldest movies:

Old Yeller (1957) IMDB 7.2 [HEVC 4.46m 1792x1080 01;23;51 2.6GB]
Brian's Song (1971) IMDB 7.5 [H264 6.14m 1920x1080 01;14;40 3.2GB]
The Fox and the Hound (1981) IMDB 7.2 [HEVC 2.00m 1800x1080 01;23;01 1.3GB]
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) IMDB 7.9 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 01;54;36 1.8GB]
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) IMDB 8.5 [HEVC 2.10m 1920x1036 01;28;34 1.3GB]
Schindler's List (1993) IMDB 9.0 [H264 1.74m 1920x1040 03;15;13 2.5GB]
Forrest Gump (1994) IMDB 8.8 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 02;22;06 2.2GB]
Good Will Hunting (1997) IMDB 8.3 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1080 02;06;33 2.0GB]
Life Is Beautiful (1997) IMDB 8.6 [HEVC 2.00m 1920x1040 01;56;11 1.8GB]
Titanic (1997) IMDB 7.9 [H264 2.40m 1920x816 03;14;50 3.9GB]

How did I decide that *these* were the movies that belong in this collection? Let me pretentiously present my

Methodology:

1) First I collected a pool of candidates by looking at Google results and reading 3 long "What movies make men cry?" (WMMMC) threads on Reddit.

2) I put the text from 5 large WMMMC Reddit threads into one text file and used code to count how many times candidate movies were mentioned

3) I wrote code to download the 10 pages of each movie's IMDB User reviews and count how many times the word "cry" was mentioned

4) I put the results of (2) and (3) into Excel, created a weighted index combining those measures, sorted by that index and cut the bottom 9 movies - because they apparently move very few people to cry.

Here is a screenshot of the spreadsheet:

https://pasteboard.co/SBJmxtmJBNqX.png

I thought it was interesting that the correlation (r-value) between the reddit threads and the IMDB "cry" counts was 0.01. That suggests that one of the other of my methods is weak -- or both. Suggestions?

I found it remarkable how often Redditors would nominate a WMMMC movie and when I checked IMDB, there wasn't even ONE "cry" among the reviews.

IF YOU HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT WHICH MOVIES DO NOT BELONG IN THIS LIST, OR SUGGESTIONS FOR MOVIES THAT SHOULD BE ADDED, PLEASE SAY SO IN A COMMENT.

If you're interested the data I collected (LOL as if!) it is available as an Excel spreadsheet "Title Counts.xlsx"

I hope you cry a lot watching these movies.

Sincere thanks to all of you who create the torrents I download to make my collections (and you seeders)!

Enjoy!