Titanic has been named the nation's favourite tearjerker in a new survey of film fans. The 1997 epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, received nearly a quarter of the votes, beating other emotional classics to the top spot.
The film, which grossed over a billion dollars on its initial release, follows the tragic romance of Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater aboard the ill-fated ship's maiden voyage. One voter commented: 'It has to be Titanic every time for me. I start sobbing the moment the ship hits the iceberg.'
Coming in second place was the 2012 musical Les Misérables. A fan of that film noted the power of music in eliciting tears: 'It is the music which always gets me with these films, I only have to hear the opening bars of My Heart Will Go On, Bright Eyes, or especially Unchained Melody, and I start to weep.'
Disney's Bambi took third place, while War Horse came fourth. The survey highlighted that animals are a common theme in many tearjerkers. One voter said: 'I'm not a very emotional person, in fact the only film I cry watching is Watership Down – the sight of all those bunnies dying gets me every time.'
Other films in the top ten included E.T. at fifth place and Ghost at eighth. A spokesperson from FreeDeliveryLand.co.uk, which conducted the survey, said: 'Though not everyone would admit it, we've all cried at a film at one point in our life.'
