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Since the original thread has reached over 100 pages, I'm starting a new Directory thread just for male scenes. I'm going to be posting links to all comments in the previous thread so we don't have to sift through the whole thing just for the male scenes.
yellowrose's TVTropes link:
There are several other crying tropes pages listed on this page. It's a user-edited site, so sometimes the lists have something new added. (Yes, I have occasionally contributed.)
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Clive Owen in Trust
Hugh Jackman in X-Men 2 and 3, near the end. It's harder to see and more restrained than his crying in his more dramatic roles.
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Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island
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Robert Carlyle in the movie "Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School"
Michael Fassbender in A Dangerous Method
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Jude Law in Alfie and Robert Downey Jr in Two Girls and a Guy
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Colin Farrell in Pride & Glory
Guys crying on Vampire Diaries
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More guys crying on Vampire Diaries
Zac Efron in Charlie St Cloud
Chris Hemsworth near the end of Snow White and the Huntman (the Queen of Heaven scene on youtube)
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I closed the old thread. If and when someone wants to start a female crying directory, just start a new thread, and I will pin it up. Cheers.
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George Eads on CSI
Keanu Reeves, The Lake House
Channing Tatum and Ryan Phillipe
Various male actors in I Melt With You
Shia Lebeouf, Eagle Eye
John Malkovich, Death of a Salesman and Dangerous Liasons
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Giovanni Ribisi in For My Brother
Dr Wilson in House
Penn Badgley, Margin Call
Male (and Marion Cotillard) crying in the French movie Little White Lies
Matthew Goode, Burning Man
Ashton Kutcher, Personal Effects
Ben Mackenzie and Shawn Hatosy on Southland tv show
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Finn, Blaine, and Kurt on Glee episode 'The Break-Up'
Bradley Cooper on Inside the Actors' Studio
Zachary Levi in the penultimate episode of Chuck
Marc Warren in various projects
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Daniel Craig in Our Friends in the North, and at the end of Skyfall, kinda
Ryan Reynolds in Fireflies in the Garden
Colin Farrell multiple times in In Bruges (holy shit there's another scene?)
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Jason Isaacs in Awake
Bradley Cooper, The Words
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some male tears in like the Turner classic movies
Ben Whishaw in Criminal Justice
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Mehcad Brooks in Necessary Roughness 2x11
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Page 16
Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty and I Love You Phillip Morris
Kiefer Sutherland in Flashback
Bronson Pinchot in Perfect Strangers
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Clint Eastwood, Outlaw Josey Wales
Spike in Buffy
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Ryan Gosling in Drive, The Ides of March, and Place Beyond the Pines
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Brick
Barry Pepper in The Kennedys and The 25th Hour (with a little bit of Edward Norton)
Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena in End of Watch
Josh Duhamel and David Lyons in Save Haven
Robert Downey Jr in various scenes
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Callum Best in an interview
David Lyons in various things
Tim DeKay in Law & Order: LA, Carnivale, and NCIS 3x6
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bruce Greenwood and Simon Pegg all have teary moments, and Pine outright sobs
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Raj on Big Bang Theory
Aiden Turner, Desperate Romantics e6
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Henry Cavill in Man of Steel
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Channing Tatum, The Vow
Ewan McGregor, Beginners
Daniel Craig, Dream House
Hayden Christiansen, Shattered Glass (I could never shit on his acting too much--how bad can he be if he can cry well?)
George Clooney, The Descendants
Jim Caviezel, Person of Interest 3x9
Most of the principal male cast in Lord of the Rings, particularly in Fellowship of the Ring, and Return of the King
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Gabriel Mann and Nick Wechsler in Revenge, along with various other male cast members
Jim Caviezel, Angel Eyes, High Crimes, Outlander and probably Passion too
James Sorenson in an '08 episode of Aussie soap opera Neighbors
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Scott in an early 2014 episode of Teen Wolf
Burt Reynolds, The End
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Matthew McConaghey and Woody Harrellson in True Detective
Alex in Modern Family episode 'Under Pressure'
Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting
Simon Baker approaches tears in the last Red John episode of The Mentalist, and gets super close at the end of an early episode with a self-proclaimed psychic
Dillon Casey in the pilot and possibly e3 00of Canadian show Remedy
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Ansel Elgort in The Fault in Our Stars
Patrick Wilson in The Conjuring 2 and Insidious
The English commander in Sink the Bismark
Archie in All in the Family when his wife dies
James Spader getting choked up in The Blacklist (does this guy ever really break down?)
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Irrfan Khan at the end of Life of Pi
Kevin Bacon in Death Sentence (apparently multiple scenes in this movie), She's Having a Baby, He Said She Said, Murder in the First, Rails & Ties and Queen's Logic
Josh Charles in Bird People
Anson Mount in Hell on Wheels
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Corey Stoll, The Strain 1x10
John Simm, Intruders e6
Josh Charles, In Treatment
Matthew Macfayden choked up in Ripper Street e3 and e7
Heath Ledger, Candy
Taylor Kinney in Chicago Fire 3x1
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David Tennant and Andrew Buchan in Broadchurch (no word on if he cries in the American remake Gracepoint)
Robert Downey Jr multiple times in The Judge particularly the one at the end
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Corey Stoll in House of Cards 1x10 and 1x11
Matthew McConaghey and Matt Damon both have sobbing scenes in Interstellar, and Matthew has several crying or tearful moments. Possibly a tearful moment with Michael Caine as well (Michael has a wrenching sobbing scene near the end of Muppet Christmas Carol, I swear to Rizzo)
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Michael Keaton in Birdman, and Clean & Sober
Miles Teller in Whiplash
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Charlie Hunnam, Kim Coates and Walton Goggins (who was presenting female in the scene jsyk) in Sons of Anarchy 7x10
Charlie Hunnam, Theo Rossi, and Jimmy Smits on Sons of Anarchy 7x11 (I think this is the one where Charlie and Theo both cry at the same time)
One of the guys in western Gunman's Walk cries
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
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Jim Bowie in The Alamo
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Various male characters getting at least a little teary in The Hunger Games
Walton Goggins, Jay Karnes, and Michael Chiklis, The Shield
Aidan Turner, Martin Freeman, and Luke Evans in the last Hobbit movie
Martin Freeman, Nativity
Possibly River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho
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Josh Duhamel near the end of You're Not You
Johannes Bah Kuhnke in Swedish drama Force Majeure (there's interview where he talks about how he did it)
Aamir Khan in Hindi movie PK
Eddie Redmayne in Theory of Everything
Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner
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Ryan Phillipe near the end of Secrets & Lies pilot (and a similar scene in the original Aussie miniseries the show is based on)
Joel Kinnaman and Peter Sarsgaard, The Killing
Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson tearing up slightly in The Rover
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James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class (these X-Men movies are positively sprinkled throughout with little teary moments from those two)
Hugh Laurie in Mr Pip trying not to cry
Danny Miller on British soap Emmerdale
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Patrick J Adams and Gabriel Mann on Suits
Kevin Kline in My Old Lady
Billy Crudup in Rudderless
Oscar Isaac, Show Me a Hero miniseries
Every male lead in Sense8
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Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan 3x12
Justin Theroux, The Leftovers 1x6, 2x4, 2x10
Bradley Cooper, Burnt
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Mike Vogel in miniseries Childhood's End
Ben Whishaw, London Spy, e1 and e2
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Benjamin Walker, The Choice
George Eads in CSI (Original Flavor) again
Adam Rodriguez pre-Magic Mike in CSI: Miami
Bruce McGill, Rizzoli & Isles, 6x17
Bradley James in Damien e1
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Chris Pratt teary in Guardians of the Galaxy vol 1 (and it turns out, vols 2 and 3)
Aaron Paul, The Path 1x1
Kevin Durand, Dark Was the Night at around 1:15:00
Grant Gustin, CW's The Flash (I have a dedicated Flash thread)
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The Tony character on NCIS in the episode Family First
In the movie Sunset Song, the male lead is whipped with a belt by his father and is seen later crying from the abuse
John Krasinski, 13 Hours
Marc Warren, Mad Dogs 1x4
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James McAvoy, Victor Frankenstein
Alfonso Herrera and Ben Daniels in The Exorcist show 1x1 and 1x2
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Joseph Fiennes tries not to break in Spring 1941
Colin Egglesfield in Lucifer 2x2
Aaron Paul in Need for Speed
Colin Farrell, Winter's Tale