A
guy-cry film is a
film that generally addresses a male audience, but has strong emotional material.
Sports films are important to the guy-cry genre, but sports action is not necessarily essential to qualify a film as a genuine guy-cry. War movies and biographical films of a male character tend to also be guy-cry films. Some notable films that could be defined as guy-cry would be
Field of Dreams,
Rudy,
Brian's Song,
The Best Years of Our Lives and
The Wrestler.