crying in movies

I cry in movies sometimes!

I notice it in two recent movies, and then in various different places too - it happens when "someone realizes something". I cried a little bit during one part of Columbiana and one part of The Avengers. I saw Columbiana in the theatres (the cheap ones) and then my dad was watching it again a few days ago, and both times I let out a few tears at the exact same part.

Spoilers ahead for Columbiana, and then The Avengers

In Columbiana, the movie starts out with the little girl, and then her parents are killed and she has to flee from her killers. She ends up at the Embassy, and with her vital information she ends up going to America, and then escaping custody, getting on a bus and travelling across a few states to end up at her uncle's house. When the uncle sees Columbiana for the first time, he "realizes" that her parents have been killed. They hug, Columbiana cries (as she hasn't seen family for a few weeks now), and then I cry a bit :(

In the Avengers, near the end, Ironman flies through the portal into space, and then loses all his power and is basically dying as he plummets back through the portal just before it closes. All his Avenger friends, mainly Thor and Captain America jokes about Ironman, doing his usual flashy close-call actions. As they continue watching him falling, they notice he's not moving and he's not slowing down. They come to the grim "realization" that something is wrong, and possibly this joky guy is actually in a lot of trouble. They scramble to help him, and I let out a little tear.