Movie scenes that made you cry

[Kennah]

In the movie "Happy Texas", after Steven (Jeremy Northam) "dumps" Chappy (William H. Macy), Chappy is just bawling over having been dumped, I lose it and start crying.

[HeiressofBickworth]

1. At most movies I either "tear up"

or "bawl" or something in between. I'm a real soft-heart. I had a tear in the corner of my eye at the end of a Chinese movie last weekend about a young girl, now grown, who remembers her first love (The Starry Starry Night). Very tender. Parts of Gone With the Wind also do it for me, but the most sobbing I've ever done in a movie (that I can recall at this moment) was Never Let me Go. One of those movies that doesn't end well for any of the characters.

[Graybeard]

6. Hattie McDaniel's scene.

When Mammy is telling Miss Melanie how broken hearted Mister Rhett is over the death of his daughter. Get's me sobbing every time.

[HarveyDarkey]

2. When Old Yeller died

I was 10 at the time

[turtlerescue1]

5. Me too. Then and STILL!

Any thing sad will do it. News, movies, books, life.

[HarveyDarkey]

9. Also in Little Big Man when Sunshine was killed

I was an adult at the time:

[Trunk Monkey]

54. In the book Travis' mom insisted

that he shoot Ol' Yeller immediately after the fight and he did. It seemed more realistic because you didn't have time to get ready for it.

[Honeycombe8]

101. No fair, no fair! No bringing up animal movies! Noooooo! I cry every time! The Yearling. nt

[HopeHoops]

3. The end of "To Kill a Mockingbird".

[tclambert]

96. I think for me it's "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."

[stuntcat]

174. what a perfect story

I'm gettin all affected just thinking about it now I haven't seen it in a couple of years, I think I'll get it out for the weekend.

[HopeHoops]

180. The acting is incredible, especially by the young kids.

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. Schindler's List

Oskar Schindler: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more.
Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...
Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
Oskar Schindler: I didn't do enough!
Itzhak Stern: You did so much.
[Schindler looks at his car]
Oskar Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.
[removing Nazi pin from lapel]
Oskar Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.
[sobbing]
Oskar Schindler: I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/quotes

[michreject]

21. That hit me just reading it.

Powerful movie.

[ejbr]

85. +1

Thanks for posting the dialogue.

[RedSpartan]

148. That scene was amazing. Liam Neeson was incredible.

[Ptah]

7. I cried over "The Dirty Dozen".

Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of "the Dirty Dozen."
Greg: Who didn't?
Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin
[Begins to cry]
Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop!
Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez...
Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Greg: Stop.
Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. NANA...this scene

IT makes me tear up every time I see it.. I haz tears nao! :'(

[backtoblue]

10. Thelma and Louise

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[Bertha Venation]

158. + 1

[Xyzse]

11. Grave of the Fireflies

Saddest movie I've ever seen.
It is in animation, but just watch it. If you can get through it without hating life for a bit, I'd wonder if you're not human.

[kentauros]

91. It does seem to be relatively unknown in the US for some reason.

I would guess mostly because it's anime and Americans still have this prejudice against anime due to the popular cheap stuff. They have no idea movies like this one exist, even with the popularity of Miyazaki.

I found that the animation in Grave of the Fireflies was so beautiful that I quickly forgot I was watching an animated feature. That's probably one major reason for why it works so well at pulling you into the story, too.

[Honeycombe8]

103. They're unknown probably because they're not shown anywhere. Theatres or TV. nt

[kentauros]

110. Not entirely.

TCM aired many of Miyazaki's and Takahata's films a couple of years ago. They had a full month of anime evenings one night a week. Doesn't seem like much, but that's at least three full feature-length anime movies a week. Most Americans would be lucky to see one per year!

So, the "exposure" to them is out there, but a person also has to be willing to be exposed to them. If they see "animated" in the movie description as well as all the voices listed being Asian, how many people pass it by for something they don't have to think about?

[Honeycombe8]

113. Guess I missed that. And I regularly watch TCM. The exposure isn't there.

I go to movies regularly. I watch movies regularly on TV. I rarely watch network tv. I will go see offbeat films; I don't stick just with the newest movies out.

I have never....ever...seen an anime movie showing anywhere. Or anything with an Asian title I didn't recognize.

I've seen Japanese movies on IFC and TCM. 1940s black and white...ghost stories, violent movies, etc. Excellent. A friend of mine whose passionate about Japanese movies has loaned me a few Japanese movies...usually horror.

They are just not around for people to see. You can't be willing to be exposed to something you don't know exists.

I know what anime is just because I'm older and have picked up a little info about that over the years. There's also a storyline in ...was it Kill Bill...that was anime.

[kentauros]

120. However, there are plenty of good to high-quality anime shows

on the air, especially Adult Swim. They still air Ghost in the Shell: 2nd Gig and SAC, Cowboy Bebop, and others that I don't watch due to not knowing much about them. G4 used to air some of the better series like Serial Experiments Laine, and Last Exile.

I've noticed either the Encore channels (I have Dish Network) or one of the other HD network channels airing "Howl's Moving Castle" quite often lately. Sure, it's light-hearted and not too deep, but it's feature-length anime. I've seen several other anime movies on those 'upper' channels, too.

And then there was the time almost thirty years ago now when I watched a letterbox, subtitled airing of Kiki's Delivery Service on Austin Access. My sister told me that they had an anime club that had time once a week on the access channel to air anime movies and shows. I was blown away to see that there. In the past I had to go to Houston's River Oaks theater to see midnight showings of anime movies and only during the summer.

Now, if you're on a service like Netflix, they'll suggest titles according to what you've ordered. This is one other popular avenue where people would have an opportunity to see something unfamiliar. I would be curious to know how often that happens.

Then again, I remember trying to show my parents my laserdisc copy of Fantasia (1940), and having to stop it only a half-hour into the picture due to my mother criticizing pretty much every scene. Some people just aren't ready tor "cartoons" as movies, despite Pixar and the like. It's still "just for kids". I'd love to show those disdainful adults (not my parents!) "Heavy Metal" sometime

[Hissyspit]

122. I've had that in my Netflix queue for a couple of years.

Of course I have about 500 movies in my Netflix queue and can get to about one every two weeks or so!

[Xyzse]

140. Yeah,

It is still the saddest movie I've ever seen.
Seeing that little girl waste away just got me.

[Hissyspit]

146. I will push it into the top of my queue.

Can't quite remember where I heard it about it.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. So many....

"Fly Away Home" when Anna Paquin is flying the geese solo and the song "10000 miles" is playing -- cry like a baby every time.

The end of "Best Years of Our Lives" when Homer and Wilma are getting married.

The end of "To Kill a Mockingbird" -- every single time.

"Dead Man Walking" -- the tension in the scene where they are waiting for him to go to the execution chamber is too much.

When Ennis finds his old shirt in Jack's closet in "Brokeback Mountain" -- bring on the waterworks.

"The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy is saying goodbye to all her traveling companions.

"How the Grinch Stole Xmas" -- I choke up when the Grinch's heart starts to grow 3 sizes bigger.

[bigwillq]

13. The Sixth Sense

when mother and son are in the car


Cole: She wanted me to tell you...

Cole's Mother: Cole, please stop...

Cole: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn't come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn't see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is... "Every day." What did you ask?

Cole's Mother: Do I make her proud?


So many more. I often cry in movies.

[sharp_stick]

16. That one got me too

mainly because I didn't see it coming.

[bigwillq]

22. Such a great movie

I am knew the spoiler before I saw it and I still loved it.

[Lars39]

14. Big Fish

[alphafemale]

29. I love that movie.

I love the very end at the funeral when you see there was some truth behind all the tall stories and that so many people loved that old fart.

[mykpart]

15. Spartacus

(the one with Kirk Douglas) at the end when he's on the cross and Jean Simmons is showing him his son, and he turns and looks at them. Makes me tear up to type this.

The Music Man, when Ronny Howard comes running up the Shirley Jones and shows her his trumpet. Oh, Sister, isn't it the most beautiful golden thing you ever saw? (or words to that effect.)

When ET dies.

An American Tail, when they sing Somewhere Out There. Just the song does it, actually.

The final scene of Swing Shift.

The cemetery scene in Steel Magnolias.

I guess I'm pretty predictable, crying-wise

When Dumbo visits his mom after she is locked up, and she holds him in her trunk and sings to him. Or when I hear that song (I think Bette Midler sang it in Beaches.)

Oh, yeah, Beaches, when Bette Midler is telling Barbara Hershey about what a long memory she has.

Terms of Endearment when Debra Winger tells her children she is dying.

[solara]

46. ET dies?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

77. I think he gets better, IIRC.

[MountainLaurel]

60. Dumbo song: "Baby Mine"

That was the first money I ever cried at. I was 5.

[Honeycombe8]

104. Me, too. It affected me so much that I never saw it again. I can't take it. nt

[RedSpartan]

149. "He's free, Spartacus! He's free!"

If that doesn't get you, you have no pulse.

[sharp_stick]

17. UP

as soon as you realized that Ellie was going to die without having her and Carls wish fulfilled.

Probably made even worse because as one of the hundred or so parents in the theater I don't think any of us expected such an emotional moment in a Disney cartoon.

[annabanana]

170. EVERY Disney movie has one of these hanky moments...

Dumbo, Pinocchio, etc etc

They also all have one REALLY SCARY moment.

[sadbear]

191. The opening sequence of Up always brings a tear to my eye.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Optimus Prime's death in Transformers The Movie (1986)

I was 10 years old and a huge Transformers fan then. I was just in complete shock. They killed off a whole bunch of other established characters from the TV show as well. I was not expecting any of it.

[sharp_stick]

19. The Champ and Where The Red Fern Grows

The Champ: 1979 remake. I was just a little kid and went to this expecting a regular boxing movie. I was bawling my eyes out when I left the theater.

Where The Red Fern Grows: 1974. On video in the early 80's, Mom brought this home because of how well regarded the "childrens" book was. When the first dog died saving the kid from the cougar that was bad enough but when the second one died of grief I just lost it.

Never trusted my Mothers movie selections again after that.

[RedSpartan]

150. The Champ. Great call.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

20. Cuckoo's Nest inspires so many emotions ... the tears begin when Nurse Ratched destroys Billy, and

multiply exponentially 'til fullout weeping by the final scene.

[madinmaryland]

23. Brian's Song.

[TorchTheWitch]

137. I bawl my eyes out at the end of that movie every time

And I've probably watched it at least 20 times.

[Grammy23]

183. Oh, yeah....Brian's Song

Room full of us---family members----bawling our eyes out. Someone picked up a dish towel, dabbed at his eyes, pretended to wring it out and passed it around. Only thing that sort of broke the tension. Never saw a room full of grownups sub-subing like 2 year olds.
You'd have thought it was a family member who died.

[Stuart G]

24. at the end of Romeo and Juliet..1969??

[WorseBeforeBetter]

34. 1968, Zeffirelli... and yes.

I saw that in 7th or 8th grade during an English class field trip -- what an impression it made.

[OnyxCollie]

116. Here it is,

accompanied by the most depressing Radiohead song evah.

[riverwalker]

25. Forrest Gump

at Jenny's grave.....and when he is watching TV with his son and they both tilt their heads.

[alphafemale]

30. Where Forrest can't even get the question out when he knows the child is his.... "Is he...?"

And the relief on his face when Jenny says, "He's the brightest one in his class."

[Bertha Venation]

160. When Bubba is dying in his arms

I can't remember what Forrest said, but I cry every time.

[riverwalker]

26. Lost Horizon

the original....when Conway leaves Shangri-La and looks back for one last look.

[texanwitch]

27. There was a movie called My Dog Skip, a story about a little boy and his dog.

Lots of crying watching that movie if you have a dog.

I had just lost a dog, should not have been watching that movie.

[Honeycombe8]

105. I saw that on TV. Tore me up. nt

[Arugula Latte]

28. Last scene in The Shawshank Redemption, when they meet on the beach.

[progressivebydesign]

42. I cry every time! n/t

[Fantastic Anarchist]

63. Very powerful scene.

[BrendaBrick]

151. yeah....that's a good one alright!

tears just lookin' at it now ~

[Bertha Venation]

161. I cried early on in the movie, about the old man and his bird.

When the old man (James Whitmore?) took one of Tim Robbins's worms from his meal. Of course I thought he was going to eat it. But he opened his clothing and fed it to the bird he carried there. I cried.

[NightWatcher]

31. Rudy Rudy Rudy Rudy.....

and I freakin hate Notre Dame


And most other tear jerky sports movies.

[Honeycombe8]

106. The one with Cuba Gooding? If so, I cried like a baby.

Friend of mine told me to watch it. I said no...sounds schmaltzy. Don't like the sound of the storyline. My friend told me again, "Watch it." So I did. I cried...tears and all. Even though I only now have a vague memory of it, I remember crying.

[TuxedoKat]

32. Peggy Sue Got Married

There is a scene where Peggy Sue has gone back in time to high school and she gets to talk to her grandmother again who had passed away but was still alive when she was in high school. Gets me every time. Then there is another movie with Ingrid Bergman and Tony Perkins called Goodbye Again, the scene at the end they part is just heartbreaking.

[hibbing]

144. Grandmother scene for me too..

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone would post that scene. The look on Peggy Sue's face is just too much for me and I tear up every time.

Peace

[TuxedoKat]

157. Yes

I cry buckets. Just the thought of being able to talk to someone you love who has passed on is overwhelming when you see that scene.

[mykpart]

33. Marley and Me

My Girl.

[Honeycombe8]

107. Marley...oh, yeah. It took me a few years to build up the strength to watch that. I knew it would

I knew it would affect me because of how much I love dogs. And it did. Good movie, though.

[Martin Eden]

142. Our yellow lab is 15 years, 7 months old

I have not seen Marley and Me, and no friggin way am I gonna watch it now because our dear Hunny won't be with us much longer.

[Amaril]

156. Marley & Me -- I didn't just cry, I SOBBED.......

.....chest-heaving, gut-wrenching sobs, with my arms wrapped around my golden retriever, and my face buried in his neck, begging him to promise me that he will never die.

[EastTennesseeDem]

35. The endings of "The Green Mile" and "American History X"

That's it.

[Kennah]

36. The Green Mile

When Paul shook John's hand, and then ...

[DearHeart]

37. Castaway

Kelly Frears: I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You're the love of my life.
Chuck Noland: I love you too, Kelly. More than you'll ever know.

Little Women-1994 version with Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder:
Beth: If God wants me with Him, there is none who will stop Him. I don't mind. I was never like the rest of you... making plans about the great things I'd do. I never saw myself as anything much. Not a great writer like you.
Jo: Beth, I'm not a great writer.
Beth: But you will be. Oh, Jo, I've missed you so. Why does everyone want to go away? I love being home. But I don't like being left behind. Now I am the one going ahead. I am not afraid. I can be brave like you. I know I shall be homesick for you even in Heaven.


Glory-scene at the end of the movie when Robert Shaw and his company are attacking the fort at night, knowing that they will probably be killed.


Steel Magnolias-Sally Field's speech after the funeral

The Notebook and too many others to mention-according to my mother, I wear my heart on my sleeve

[awoke_in_2003]

94. I leave the room...

if my wife is watching the Notebook and the last scene where she forgets who her husband is again. The look on Garner's face kills me. Alzheimer's is torture on those who don't have it.

[DearHeart]

169. I can't even imagine how torturous that must be for the loved ones and friends

of people with Alzheimer's. My grandmother suffered from dementia, due to old age, and that was hard enough. Don't even want to think about having to deal with someone I love having this horrible disease!!

I cry every time I see that scene and when they die in each other's arms. I become a blubbering idiot!

[Kennah]

38. Bridge to Terabithia

Much of the last 25 minutes

[Thor_MN]

98. Terabithia absolutely destroyed me for a weekend

Rented it, didn't know what I was getting into...

Sixth Sense "Every day", Saving Private Ryan "Did I live a good life?"

[emmadoggy]

129. I read the book as a kid, so I

think I was more prepared for the movie. I'm sure I cried a bit, but perhaps less than if I hadn't read the book.

The book, however, made me SOB. So heartbreaking and at the time, the most serious and saddest thing I had ever read. It left a very big impression on me.

[Graybeard]

39. When Dumbo's mother is in jail.

Dumbo's mother has falsely been labeled a "wild animal" and put in a cage. Her chains keep her from Dumbo when he comes at night and she can just barely reach him through the bars to cradle him in her trunk. And with the music and song....the tears just won't stop.

[Enrique]

40. the ending scene of "Philadelphia"

[KamaAina]

185. Oh hell yeah.

While I certainly do not begrudge Bruce his Oscar for "Streets of Philadelphia", it was Neil Young's "City of Brotherly Love" that really got me.

Aside: I ran into Rep. Rosa DeLauro in the parking lot of theater before I saw it!

[jrandom421]

41. Saving Private Ryan

The final scene, where Jimmy Ryan has returned to Normandy 60 years later, and is talking with all the comrades he left behind. I break down when he turns to his wife and says "Tell me I 've led a good life. Tell me I'm a good man."

[Burma Jones]

67. Yep. me too, exactly right there......

[JHB]

83. Damn, teared up just remembering that scene

Didn't even have to see the linked video

[mike dub]

109. Final scene of Saving Private Ryan, for sure

I remember seeing it in the theater. Getting up to leave during the credits, I was tearing up and almost heaving in my chest/crying. I had to stop and sit back down 3/4 way toward the back of the theater to get composure before I left the theater.

Also, It's a Wonderful Life when George Bailey warns the druggist Mr Gower that he thinks Gower accidentally put poison in a prescription. Mr Gower smacks George upside the head in anger, but then tastes the RX. Realizing it was indeed poison, he starts crying and tries to hug George in remorse for having struck him. Breaks me up everytime.

And he final scene of the 2004 film the Phantom of the Opera. Phantom had apparently left a rose and the ring at Christine Daae's grave. The scene was added as a short tag after the point where the stage musical ends ...so it caught me totally off-guard, and the musical progression by Lloyd-Webber was just so moving (added for the film).

One more (among many, I'm sure), when Dobbie ? died in the Harry Potter movie (part 6 or 7).

[bluestateboomer]

133. I choke up at the first scene of Saving Private Ryan.

[Arugula Latte]

153. Another scene that kills me is when the military guys pull up to the farmhouse

The mom answers the door, and then just falls down. You know she's been told three of her sons have been killed in action.

[justgamma]

43. Brokeback Mountain

After Jack was killed, Ennis went to his parents house and found his old shirt hanging in the closet. I bawled my eyes out.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

44. There's a 1994 version of Black Beauty that I saw with a group of friends

Every one of us middle-aged people--men and women-- was crying at the end when the groom realizes that Beauty is the horse he cared for so long ago, and you can tell that Beauty now knows that he has a kind-hearted forever home after all his suffering.

I think it affected us so because we were at the point in life where we have all lost people we wish were with us again.

[AtomicKitten]

143. I dissolve into a pool of tears when movies portray animals abused/neglected.

Black Beauty was heart-wrenching.

Instinct with Anthony Hopkins is another.

[El Supremo]

45. The ending of the original True Grit

When Mattie offers Rooster a burial plot next to hers.

[solara]

47. The last scene from the movie "Resurrection"

starring Ellen Burstyn

After a car accident, Edna (Burstyn) finds she has the power to heal - which lead to some very interesting scenes.

The years go by and Edna ends up a recluse, running a tiny gas station in the desert. A YOUNG COUPLE pass through in their R.V. with a boy, BOBBY, who's dying of cancer. Edna talks to the boy, laying her healing hands on his cancerous body. Although they don't know it yet, she has healed the child. The boy thanks her, but it is Edna, all too happy to express her gift, who thanks the child who has allowed her to heal him...

This gets me every time..

Along with most of the other scenes everyone has mentioned.

[Kennah]

53. Awesome movie, "Resurrection". Had completely forgotten about it.

[Zen Democrat]

89. Oh yeah, Resurrection - when the little boy refuses the puppy

And says "I don't think I can keep him. I'm not going to be around very long." Boo-hoos from me! And then when she hugs him and tells him he's going to be fine. Beautiful!

[tclambert]

93. "Alien Resurrection?"

I don't remember a crying scene in that one.

[solara]

145. Haha no just "Resurrection" starring Ellen Burstyn & Sam Shepherd

[Generic Brad]

48. Spock dying in "Wrath of Khan"

I get choked up just thinking about him saying "I have been and always will be your friend".

[Kennah]

50. Kirk's speech at Spock's funeral

[benld74]

49. My Dog Skip

when the boy left for college, the dog still did the same things at home - laying on the boys bed etc, BUT he now needed assistance to get up into the bed. And then the boy called home one day to be told the unevitable happened,,,,damn I'm doing it again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[kentauros]

51. The ending of The Iron Giant

DO NOT watch this if you haven't seen the movie. Major spoilers:

[DaDeacon]

80. I never cryed at the part untill...

My Youngest (who was 5 at the time) looked at me with tears in her eyes and asked "Daddy where is robot? I don't want him to go!"

Broke me down!

[kentauros]

90. I understand how kids would see it that way, too.

I don't remember how I interpreted my feelings the first time I saw it. I do know that I tend to see it as a heroic sacrifice, and it's so well-done, that it affects me in the eyes and so forth

You may or may not want to see "Grave of the Fireflies" and would suggest if you haven't seen it to not view it with your kids, unless they're older now. It's a truly heartbreaking story.

[annabanana]

171. A really great sacrifice & resurrection story.

(seems we humans are suckers for these)

[mythology]

52. The ending of Mice and Men

Also the ending of Casablanca and if I'm feeling depressed the ending of It's a Wonderful Life.

[Nikia]

55. I cried at the end of Toy Story 3

My three year old didn't understand why I was so upset of course and wanted to see the movie multiple times.

[ejbr]

87. +1

I saw it by myself in 3D. Wonderful ending.

[Mister Ed]

134. For me, the scene in Toy Story 2, where Sarah Mclachlan sings "When She Loved Me"...

...over a montage of scenes showing the little Jessie doll as she's overlooked, forgotten, and finally discarded by the growing girl who had loved her. I used to bawl my eyes out over that. My little daughter would hurry to my side to hold me and console me when the scene approached, because she knew what was coming.

Cripes, now I'm tearing up just remembering it.

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[Bombero1956]

56. the reunion scene

in the Color Purple.

[emmadoggy]

64. Beat me to it.

That scene KILLS me, every time.

[Mr Dixon]

57. IMO

Diary of a mad Black Woman, church scene “Father Can you hear me”
The Five heartbeats “I feel like going home”
Color purple”god is trying to tell you something”

[VOX]

58. The final scene in Kubrick's "Paths of Glory"...

Where French soldiers in a cafe are verbally teasing and tormenting a frightened young German woman, who is then forced to sing. The men gradually cease the catcalls and quiet down; then they become introspective and emotional (some cry); and finally, they begin to hum the song along with her. The faces shown in close-up are extraordinary, distinctive and memorable. Very, very moving.

[AngryOldDem]

59. Endings of "Toy Story 3" and "A League of Their Own"

"Toy Story" because I'm a sentimental schmuck. "League," because there is just something really poignant about watching the women still playing the game they love after so many years. That, and the perfect Madonna song that plays while the credits roll.

[bluestateboomer]

61. The American Symphony from Mr. Holland's Opus

Gets me every time.

[BrendaBrick]

152. I never tire of that movie...

and yup - that scene always gets to me too!

Another one I really like is this scene:

[SCVDem]

62. The Bucket List

At the end of course.

[truckin]

65. The ending of "Life as a House" with Kevin Kline.

[awoke_in_2003]

66. When Tom Hanks lost Wilson...

I almost lost it.

[Honeycombe8]

108. You know, I actually got upset when Wilson fell off. I forgot for a sec he wasn't a person.

Amazing how wrapped up you can get in the main character's mind.

[awoke_in_2003]

131. Hanks did a good job

in that movie

[Honeycombe8]

136. Yep, he did. When he was going after Wilson, I shouted, "Go get him! Get him!" wanting Hanks to

rescue Wilson. ?????

[rationalcalgarian]

68. Dead Poets Society

"Captain, my captain!"
Always get choked up as that scene plays out at the end of the movie....

[bullsnarfle]

69. Longtime Companion

The end of Longtime Companion.

Well, not JUST the end... but it takes the most kleenex for me.

[Burma Jones]

70. Field of Dreams, Babe, Saving Private Ryan

Field of Dreams - the last scene

Babe - A Lot of this Movie. From the beginning where the Narrator says "This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever." The part where Hogget tries to nurse Babe back to health and cheer him up by dancing, and of course, "That'll do Pig, That'll do."

Ryan - "Tell me I've had a good life, Tell me I'm a good man."

[LynneSin]

71. The ending to 'Cinema Paradiso' but only the original version of it

The special edition re-release had the same ending but the lead-up to it was kinda like

[LynneSin]

72. Also the ending to 'Il Positino' *** spoiler ***

And what really made it sad was the movie mirrored RL in that that the lead actor had died in the film but he had also died about 4 days after finish making the film.

[CBHagman]

184. When I saw "Cinema Paradiso" in the theater...

...I wept uncontrollably.

[Cleita]

73. Bambi of course, when he loses his mother. n/t

[Doc_Technical]

74. This scene from "Sometimes a Great Notion"

[rommey38]

75. The Patriot

The one that gets me everytime is when Susan refused to talk to Mel Gibson's character on the beach and he starts to ride off. She chases after him saying something like stop don't go tell me what you want me to say I'll say anything please don't go. Reminds me of when my father died.

[Still Blue in PDX]

177. Oh, geez, here I am bawling at work.

Why, oh why did I click on that??

Usually I enjoy a good cry over a movie, but this is so incredibly well done that it brings back the pain of every loved one I've lost.

[a la izquierda]

76. The end of Like Water for Chocolate...

that whole movie is just sad.

[Brigid]

78. "Waiting for Superman"

There is a series of scenes near the end where several kids we have gotten to know during the film are waiting to find out, through a lottery, whether or not they are going to get into good schools or not. Most did not, though one more got in after being wait-listed. The rest were left to fend for themselves, and by the looks on their faces they knew it, even at so young an age.

[DaDeacon]

79. RUDY RUDY RUDY!

[emmadoggy]

81. So many of the movies already listed.

I am a HUGE crybaby. Doesn't take much to make me tear up. There have been a couple of movies that have made me outright sob.

As mentioned above - the reunion scene in "The Color Purple" is a sobber for me.

I also cry every time I watch "Field of Dreams" - the final scene.

The scene in "Crash" when the guy shoots at the little girl. That scene really hit me hard for some reason.

Legends of the Fall, Dances with Wolves, nearly all of the Pixar movies, The Killing Fields, Titanic (I know), The Green Mile... and many more. I know there is a big one - made me sob - that I am forgetting...

I cried a lot during the scene in "City of Angels" when Nicholas Cage is picked up by a trucker. Why? Because the truck was a Schneider National truck and my dad used to drive for Schneider. He had died just a year or so before I saw the movie.

There are many, many films which have made me misty-eyed. That is why I love movies so much. I love the emotions they can evoke in us. I love being carried away, escaping into another world or another life. I love the drama, humor, excitement, sentimentality, sadness, and all the others things that movies bring. I'm a sucker for it all.

[rep the dems]

99. I did a ctrl+f search to see if anyone had mentioned that scene from Crash.

Gosh, I wasn't even a parent the first time I saw that and I'm still not but the acting and writing in that scene is just amazing. Gets me every time. I also agree with you on the end of Field of Dreams and I don't know if you've seen American History X and don't want to spoil it if you haven't but that ending and some of its other scenes are pretty good tear jerkers.

[emmadoggy]

126. I have seen American History X.

Very good movie. I don't remember specifically, but I probably teared up for that one too. It would probably be a MUCH shorter list for me to tell the movies that DIDN'T make me cry or at least teary-eyed.

[NRaleighLiberal]

82. Sister reunion scene at the end of The Color Purple.

When Winona calls back Gabriel Byrne at the end of Little Women - just to name 2.

[ejbr]

88. + 1 n/t

[KansDem]

84. Final scene from "Waking Ned Devine"

It's what I hope to say to my best friend(s) with whom I've traveled life's journey...

[ejbr]

86. The ending of the most recent King Kong

When he was lying on the ground and Naomi Watts goes up to him and they look at each other. I was an f'n mess...

[slutticus]

92. UP!

The first 5 minutes

Brutal and efficient tear generator.

[tclambert]

95. I have always been a sucker for "A Christmas Carol,"

when Bob Cratchit talks about visiting Tiny Tim's grave, yet insists that he is a happy man, a truly happy man.

[FloridaJudy]

97. The end of "The Color Purple"

When that car pulls up to the farmhouse. I've read the book as well, but when that car shows up, I always start blubbering like a baby. Hell, I'm crying just thinking about it!

Also, I cry every time E.T. dies. And again when he comes back to life.

Spielberg knows how to turn on the water works!

[emmadoggy]

127. The scene from "The Color Purple" has

gotten several mentions in this thread. I saw that movie with some friends during my first year of college. We walked out of that theater SOBBING, and sobbed all the way back to our dorm. I still can't handle it when I watch it and yes, just the mention of it makes my throat constrict a bit.

The scene when they are all at the dinner table (for Thanksgiving?) gets me too. Actually, there are several scenes in that movie that can affect me.

The end of "Field of Dreams" also has a few mentions - I'm from Iowa, so that film has perhaps a bit more sentimental value for me, but when Kevin Costner says, "Hey....Dad?....Wanna have a catch?" as his voice cracks a bit and the music swells - OMG, another one of those scenes that can get me just by thinking about it!

Isn't it amazing how movies can get to us?!

[Honeycombe8]

100. Midnight Express. End scene, which is just pics of him being greeted at airport by his parents...

and girlfriend. Esp the pic with his dad hugging him.

Oops. I'm almost crying now, just thinking about it.

[sorcrow]

102. Dersu Uzala

Toward the end when ....
You should watch it. 1975 Academy award winner. Soviet film about Russian Siberia c. 1905 directed by Kurosawa.

Crow

[Martin Eden]

111. "It's a Wonderful Life" when George & Mary first kiss during the phone call

What can I say? I'm a sucker for Love.

[radiclib]

117. "To George Bailey..

.."the richest man in town."

[grahamhgreen]

132. And when he sticks it to the banisters at the end....!

[Shrek]

112. When Captain Call couldn't bring himself to claim Newt as his son

And handed him a watch instead.
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Also the wedding of Shrek and Princess Fiona.

[VWolf]

114. "Sicko"

When the Cuban firefighters meet the first responders.

[Kennah]

115. Citizen X

There are two scenes in particular that always get me, and I've probably seen the movie 10 or 12 times.

When Burakov (Stephen Rea) breaks down in tears in front of the committee.

After the Soviet Union falls, Fetisov (Donald Sutherland) tells Burakov about the conference call with the FBI, and essentially tells him, "You were right about everything".

[OnyxCollie]

118. Pan's Labyrinth

Everything was so beautiful at the end, and the soundtrack, oh, I'm getting teary just thinking about it.

[Hissyspit]

121. Well, you knew how it was going to end. They showed you at the beginning!

[OnyxCollie]

124. The very end?

When the doors open, and the Faun is there, and Ofelia is welcomed into the room to take her place as princess?

That's the part that makes me cry.

It's been a while, but I don't remember that being in the beginning.

[Hissyspit]

147. O.K. Fair enough.

It is interesting what they give away at the beginning.

By the way, if you've never seen 1973's "Spirit of the Beehive," that is clearly where del Toro got his inspiration. "Beehive" is more grounded in the real world, and I like both movies, but it is almost the same story. (Almost.)

[OnyxCollie]

163. Thanks for the recommendation.

I'll see if NetFlix has it.

[shanti]

119. somewhere in time

the ending...yup, definitely a tear jerker.

[Lifelong Protester]

123. Great scenes, all

I'm all teary-eyed here, recalling the scenes as you've all described them.


One that gets me, beyond the ones here already, is the scene in "Love, Actually" where Sam runs through the airport to see his 'girl' off to America. And you realize the whole movie, and most all of the characters, were set up for this scene.

And even when Linus recites the Christmas story in "A Charlie Brown Christmas".

Not to mention, I am always boo-hooing at the end of the "Christmas Story" when Ralphie is sleeping with his b-b gun, and talking about how it was the best gift he would ever receive. It is a reminder of how innocent we were as kids, when all could be right with the world because we got something we wished for, because parents cared to make sure that wish was fulfilled. Life was so simple when we were 10! And "pranging ducks on the fly and getting off spectacular hip shots..."

[emmadoggy]

130. I love the movie

"Love Actually". Funny, sad, sentimental.

[Bertha Venation]

164. about "Love, Actually"/airport scenes

My sister told me she'd never understood emotional scenes in airports, whether they're around someone arriving or someone leaving, until her first trip to see me after I'd moved from CA to MD. Then she understood. The first time she saw "Love, Actually" she lost it, because she finally understood.

[Art_from_Ark]

125. The Great Escape

The part where several of the captured escapees are let out of the transport trucks ostensibly for a bathroom break but then hear the sounds of German weapons being readied.

[VenusRising]

128. I don't think I've ever cried harder than at the end of And the Band Played On

[RFKHumphreyObama]

135. I hardly ever cry

But if you're talking about scenes that make me emotional and where I feel a lump in my throat, here goes -and an obvious warning SPOILERS

(1) The end of Ghost where Sam is taken up to Heaven. Yes, I know its cliched and all the rest but it is still just beautiful and it gets me no matter how many times I see it

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(2) The ending of Dead Poets Society where everyone stands on the desk to farewell Robin Williams's character. My parents took me to see this with them when I was quite young and I didn't understand most of it then but, even at that time, this scene really stuck with me and touched me even when I could hardly remember anything else about the movie (I have since watched it again)
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(3) The ending to "Edward Scissorhands" -just so beautiful, moving, sad and haunting.

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(4) Can't find the clip for it but the ending of Jumanji where Allan is returned to the 1960s and he and his father reconcile always gets to me for some reason

[TorchTheWitch]

138. The ending of Pay It Forward

when all those people come to house with lit candles and that sad song is playing... I cried my eyes out. I just watched that movie for the first time about a week ago, and I still tear up thinking of the ending.

[truth2power]

139. "To Kill a Mockingbird" when Calpurnia says:

"Stand up, Miss Jean Louise. Your father's passing".

[Martin Eden]

141. That scene gets me too, but it wasn't Calpurnia who said that ...

... it was the reverend in the balcony of the courthouse.

[truth2power]

159. You're correct. Thanks. n/t

[stuntcat]

173. Yes!

oh my gosh, I'm so un-sentimental, about human drama anyway I couldn't think of a movie.
To Kill A Mockingbird is it though, that movie reaches in and pulls my hard little heart out

[Joe Shlabotnik]

154. Pat Garret and Billy the kid

But... not the ending, rather when Slim Pickins gets offed. Thats one of the very very few movie scenes that have choked me up, I'm usually otherwise pretty numb.

Ohh... on edit, some parts of 'We were soldiers' got to me too.

[MichiganVote]

155. Sophies Choice

[AnneD]

162. Was wondering when that film....

would be mentioned. The water works started when you realized what her choice was and did not let up until the end. The picture of them at the end and the reading of the Elizabeth B. Browning poem (I think it was EBB) was so painful. Meryl Streep deserved the Oscar for that. I only saw it once when it first came out, but all these years later it is still fairly fresh in my mind.

[MichiganVote]

166. The acting by all the central characters was breathtaking. U should watch it again.

[Shrek]

165. The end of "Without a Trace"

When the kidnapped child is reunited with his mom.

[Kennah]

167. Turner and Hooch

[lamp_shade]

168. The Champ, Sophie's Choice, Finding Nemo... in that order.

[pinboy3niner]

172. EVERY fuck'n scene with Jar Jar Binks

The waterworks just refused to stop! Same with the screaming!

[Ineeda]

175. The Secret Life of Bees

When poor May dies. Also the scene when Lily wonders, sobbing to August, how it's possible for both of her parents not to love her.
What about Love Story? I can't believe no one's mentioned this one.

[Still Blue in PDX]

176. Lots of movies, but most notably "The Wedding Singer."

My family thinks it is absolutely hilarious.

Most recently, "Brave."

[begin_within]

178. Bicycle Thieves, El Norte, Daughter from Danang, Tokyo Story and Make Way for Tomorrow

Basically the whole damn movie, in all 5 cases. But more specifically...

The scene where the father hits his son in "Bicycle Thieves," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/

A death scene in "El Norte," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085482/

Mother essentially loses her daughter twice in "Daugher from Danang," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303281/

Conversation between Noriko and Tomi in "Tokyo Story," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/

Scene of elderly couple being separated in "Make Way for Tomorrow," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029192/

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

179. In Dances With Wolves, when Wind In His Hair shouts down from the mountain in Lakota

at the end saying “Dances with Wolves, I am Wind In His Hair. Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that I will always be your friend?"

I know it's been mentioned further up but the last part of Schindler's list, when the actors and the actual people they portrayed leave stones at Schindler's grave it gets to me every time. I also can't help but break down at the end of the film version of Cyrano de Bergerac, especially the Depardieu version.

[BrendaBrick]

181. Good Will Hunting: It's not your fault.

[WiffenPoof]

182. The White Stripes - Documentary - Last Scene

[7wo7rees]

186. Anne Bancroft in "Fatso" at Sal's funeral.

[greatauntoftriplets]

187. The end of "Empire of the Sun".

Jim's parents have just found him in the sports stadium, and they look so healthy and strong while Jim is thin, pale and looks like he has been through hell. And he had been.

[EX500rider]

188. West Side Story..Doctor Zhivago... Armageddon

West Side Story...end scene

Doctor Zhivago...end scene where he see's Laura from the bus and has a heart attack and dies..

Armageddon....when Bruce Willis stays to die and tells Ben Afflick to take care of his daughter

[Kennah]

190. On Armageddon, I gotta agree

Movie was cheese-ball, but I bawled at the end.

[Kennah]

189. Band of Brothers

Finding the Death Camp

When they lock the prisoners back in, that's worse.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

192. Shadowlands:when Joy dies

and her son and C.S. Lewis mourn together

[Bolo Boffin]

193. E.T. -- "Come." "Stay." Cry. n/t

[LibDemAlways]

194. The end of Splendor in the Grass when

Natalie Wood's character has been released from the mental hospital and goes to visit her old boyfriend played by Warren Beatty. She doesn't know he's married. The look on her face when she finds out and when she sees his little boy is heartbreaking. Gets me every time - and I don't generally cry at movies.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

195. When the '68 Charger blew up in Bullitt

Loosing 5 hubcaps looked painful too.