Post a scene from a movie that makes you cry

[Taverner]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-zEwGZ56Bs and then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfcjyXmSqOs&feature=related

from About Schmidt.

[Arugula Latte]

1. Last scene from Shawshank Redemption:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YInN9mc9vXA

[Taverner]

2. Yes that hits me too

"Get busy livin, or get busy dyin."

[KT2000]

24. When Red says

at the end...I hope...I hope...

[kentauros]

3. Then ending of The Iron Giant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UkZOZIO63I

If you haven't seen the movie, see it before clicking on this link, please. It's too much of a spoiler if you have not seen the movie. I highly recommend seeing it, too :D

[Taverner]

8. That was sorrowful for me as a 20-something

For kids, I cannot even imagine....

[JTG of the PRB]

31. +Eleventy million

Gets me every single time. :cry:

[Steerpike]

32. Yeah I do agree...

There are more than a few cartoons that have effected me this way.

[Frank Cannon]

69. "Superman."

All right, who's chopping onions in here?

Agree that anyone who hasn't seen this movie needs to not click the link and just go and rent it.

[jobycom]

78. Hahaha!!!! Vin Diesel made you cry!!! Hahahaha!!!!

Need a damn Kleenex now, thanks. :cry:

[kentauros]

4. A reminiscing scene from "Grave of the Fireflies"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8cFbhtfBdA&feature=related

It does require having seen the movie to know what's going on. That helps in the sadness one feels for Setsuko...

[rbnyc]

16. OMG - that WHOLE movie! (nt)

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. That is sooooooooooo difficult to watch.

I've managed to watch the movie three times because so many times when I start it, I cant bear it more than a few minutes.

I think it's the most perfect anti-war movie ever made.

Absolutely soul-crushing, and leaves me sad for a week after.

I only watched about ten seconds of the clip you posted because I couldn't take any more.

[kentauros]

21. Yeah, I know what you mean.

It's the most beautifully-animated heart-wrenching movie ever. Thinking about it is enough to... well... :cry:

[PassingFair]

39. I refuse to re-watch.

Never recovered from seeing it the first time.

:cry:

[PassingFair]

40. Empire of the Sun.

The final scene, when his parents don't recognize him.

:cry:

[OwnedByFerrets]

34. +1

[Frank Cannon]

70. I knew what scene you linked before I even clicked it.

But that whole movie is just devastatingly sad.

[bookworm65t]

5. A TV series episode worth noting

From Twilight Zone: Time Enough A Last starring Burgess Meredith


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAxARJyaTEA

I will cry at this every time. I can't think of a movie with the same effect on me.

:cry:

[Taverner]

7. There's sorrow - but have you checked out Rod Serling's "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-j-IJHdZY

Watch and see Rod Serling at his most effective.

[rug]

6. Rabies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hB9NTYD0E&feature=related

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. I seem to be in the distinct minority of DU'ers who love Forrest Gump...

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[Taverner]

10. Abso-fucking-lutely! - there are about 3 scenes that are cry-worthy

1 - Bubba's Death

2 - Forrest seeing his son for the first time

3 - Jenny's Death

[jme0318]

57. More Forrest...

When he was telling Jenny everything that he saw while he was running and she said "I wish I could've been with you" and he says "You were..."

[jme0318]

58. More Forrest...

When he was telling Jenny everything that he saw while he was running and she said "I wish I could've been with you" and he says "You were..."

[book lady]

11. The scene is from the ending of Going My Way

when Barry Fitzgerald's elderly mother walks to him in the church and the Irish Lullaby song is playing. It gets to me every time.

[Curmudgeoness]

12. Madame X with Lana Turner. Hell, I have seen it so many times

that I start crying a half hour before anyone who hasn't seen it knows why I am crying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHNjmiTJ4pE

[Kali]

13. pick any sappy scene from ANY movie, even the worst piece of crap ever,

and I will cry. I am almost as bad as that orange guy.

[MiddleFingerMom]

25. The older I get, the more like you I'm getting, so maybe...

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[Ghost of Tom Joad]

14. This scene from Casablanca always gets me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=werf88C7lkA

[CBGLuthier]

26. Yep, that's the one that gets me too

Even after countless viewings the raw emotion of that scene will always bring on the tears.

[rbnyc]

15. Ah, I can hardly think about them. Why am I here? (SPOILERS)

I just can't deal with actually looking for them. But these:

When Ray's brother drowns in Ray
When the father shoots his son in The Mist
When the mother accidentally backs her truck over her youngest son in Lake City

I wish I could think of some that made me cry for better reasons. I have to stop now.

[one_voice]

17. Oh lordy..

that would take me all day. I cry very easily.

Last Dance with Sharon Stone..when she was taken into the room to be executed, then it was stopped only for her to have go back again..

A Time To Kill...closing arguments when Matthew McConaughey was describing the rape of the little girl...plus a few more parts

My Life with Michael Keaton...pretty much the whole movie.

Philadelphia...a few different scenes.

The Notebook..

Platoon...a few scenes...but especially when Elias was killed..


So many more...I'm a big baby.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Death of Spock. Gets me every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVIt0DYKssI

[Graybeard]

20. "The Best Years Of Our Lives" (1946)

The Army sergeant(played by Fredric March) has returned home,from the War, unannounced. When his kids answer the doorbell he tells them not to say anything. He wants to surprise his wife (played by Myrna Loy) who is in the kitchen.

She has heard the bell and calls out, "Who was at the door?" No answer. Again she asks, "Who was....." Loy's back is to the camera but we can see that she senses who it is. She hopes it is....

She steps out of the kitchen and she and her husband are at opposite ends of a long hallway, representing the final distance that is now between them after being oceans apart.

Gets me every time.

[CBGLuthier]

27. Homer showing his gal what life is like with no arms

I think it may be the single most intimate scene ever filmed for a movie. It was real after all, his lack of arms.

Great movie. Possibly the best about this country ever made.

[gimama]

60. awwwsome movie..& I highly recommend..

"Since You Went Away"..
.. about the Families on the HOME-front,in WWII.
Back then EVERY One had someOne in the Service..
and like "Best Years", shows more of the reality of war & after-effects
of war, than were routinely cranked out of hollywood in those times
..and like "Best Years" is very significant to me, in these war-times.

edit:can't post "a scene" from it that gets to me..
from opening scene to closing,
it is a Wonder-FULL, emotional roller-coaster..it ALL gets to me..ALL of it.

[fishwax]

22. I was just thinking of that movie last week

It's a good one, for sure.

[applegrove]

23. Last scene from the movie Missing.

[AngryOldDem]

28. I can think of two.

1) "Terms of Endearment" -- Emma saying goodbye to her kids.

2) The final scenes of "A League of Their Own" -- the reunion at Cooperstown.

[xmas74]

66. The scene where Shirley McLaine's character

has the breakdown in the hospital, when she begs for the medicine, is the scene that gets me faster.

Heck, I'm tearing up just thinking about it right now.

[travelingtypist]

67. 'Give my daughter the shot!!!'

That's the first one that came to mind.

[xmas74]

92. That makes me tear up

just thinking about it.

Way more emotional for me then the scene with Emma.

[AngryOldDem]

83. Yeah, that gets me too.

But when Winger is talking with Tommy -- who will miss his mom terribly but doesn't want to admit it -- damn. I cry.

[xmas74]

93. I cry at that scene too

but it's MacLaine's scene that hits me like a sucker punch.
I can't even think about that scene without tearing up, even now.

[EnviroBat]

29. This one gets me every time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GroDErHIM_0

Saw this in the theater with my girlfriend who looks remarkably a lot like Ellie. I couldn't hold back the tears...

[Taverner]

36. Oh man - definitely

[Taverner]

37. Oh man - definitely

[Taverner]

38. Oh man - definitely

[Swede]

49. You seem pretty sure.

:shrug:

[Steerpike]

30. The Harry Potter Movie

The Goblet of Fire

Cedric Diggory is murdered by Voldermort. Harry manages to teletport back to Hogwarts. The crowd not realizing what has occured applauds and cheers, including Cedric's father. As everyone realizes that Cedric is dead...his father begins to wail...it is a heart rending scene that follows...

[blue_roses_lib]

48. +1

Yep, his father's wailing gets me every time. :cry:

[mentalsolstice]

33. Sophie's Choice

You know the scene. The movie "Life As a House" had me crying throughout, probably because Kevin Kline looked exactly like my best friend who died several years earlier. The end of the movie was like reliving the whole thing over again.

[jobycom]

81. That scene did more than make me cry. It changed who I became.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQjsbn4KCM&feature=fvst

A professor of mine used it in class to drive home the horror of the Holocaust. He used a lot of film clips and projection slides and stuff to make his point--this was in the 80s, too, before the term "multi-media" really had much meaning. He had built the whole week towards it, going over the numbers of dead, the whole way the Nazis used film as propaganda, the whole shebang, and he used that scene to make it all personal. The whole damn room was sobbing at the end. There was this football player who sat near me in class--big tough jock sort--who was trembling after it. None of us would look at each other for a while. Then he wrapped it up with some comedy scene to break the tension.

It may have been the first moment I really understood that type of horror, of what people can do to each other when they see someone as less human than them. It's changed the way I view elitism towards other people, other cultures, gender, race, even elitism towards music and movies.

Years later I watched some movie I've long since forgotten the rest of, where a woman was working as an ad executive or maybe a commercial director or something. Seems like it was an actress I liked then, but I can't remember. Anyway, she discovers that her grandfather, I think it was, was a Nazi leader, and it causes all sorts of emotional and identity crises. In one scene she's casting a commercial, and there's a stage full of auditioning kids and she starts picking out who she wants in the commercial. "This one's too short," she says, or "This one's face is wrong." Suddenly she hears herself, and freezes, and starts crying, and grabs all the kids together and starts apologizing and hugging them. That scene made me cry. That's a scene I'd choose for the list, if I had any idea where it was from.

[OwnedByFerrets]

35. Return of the King

Frodo saying goodbye to his friends at the end.

[Volaris]

71. The Matrix Revolutions..

Not Trinity's death per say, but the moment right before when the ship breaks through the cloud cover and into the sunlight--her expression in that 3 seconds of frame is tear-jerking magic for me.

and the scene from Aliens when Ripley is about to be let go by the Queen, and something snaps in her head (you can see it on Weavers face)and she just goes ballistic...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

41. The end of "Planes Trains & Automobiles"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6n4cTdPc30

:toast:

[LibDemAlways]

42. You have to see the whole movie to understand the context, but

the final scene from Elia Kazan's 1961 "Splendor in the Grass" is a heart-tugger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOW8ZDgTJdo

[Mad_Dem_X]

77. Great movie.

Natalie Wood is superb. "I'm a good little, good little, good little girl!"

[BOG PERSON]

43. from "The Cranes Are Flying"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsJeck9eBSE

[realisticphish]

85. fantastic film nt

[realisticphish]

87. wrong place nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. My Name is Khan... I cannot find the scene on Youtube, but it is when

Mandira holds her dead son to her (beaten on the soccer field for being Muslim) and begs him to come back.

[demmiblue]

45. The Champ Death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhrqKqK_cA

[Arugula Latte]

46. Also this "Andy says goodbye to his mom" scene in Toy Story 3

My son looks like Andy (except w/ brown eyes). He's a tall, sweet, good kid, and he'll be going to college before I know it. His room is blue with hardwood floors, like this one, and he has a little sister. I wish I could have my little boy (and my little girl) with me forever. I was blubbering uncontrollably in the theater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMecluFs60

[jobycom]

84. I started losing it in that movie from the incinerator scene, and never gained it back.

Normally I tear up at movies--why else watch them, right?--but I sobbed during that one. The whole thing--the history of the movies, the memories I had of them with my kids, the fact that I watched it with my daughter who's a senior in high school--just slew me. And it didn't stop. I didn't think they could top the incinerator scene, and then that goodbye scene hit me, and when I figured it was over, they had the scene at Bonnie's house, and then the surprise at the end of that scene--trying to avoid spoilers here--and I gave up trying to look cool. :)

If that movie sneaks into the Best Picture Oscar I'll forgive everything Oscar ever did wrong.

[zen_bohemian]

47. Beach Boys: An American family when Dennis plays "Forever" for his father

when Dennis Wilson plays "forever" on the piano for his father Murry. If you know their family story, the abuse by his father etc, it is a very sad part of the movie..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNRcTu4sf3g

[blue_roses_lib]

50. I cry easily

The ones that get me going without even watching are:

Backdraft, the funeral -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFPhpZlZCY

"That's my brother goddammit"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ldfpdpGe6o


Schindler's List - "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVwbTS_bHHc

The Children of Beslan:

This is part 1, worth watching the whole thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSLuadhO5Rc






:cry:

[Taverner]

52. All I have to do is THINK about that last scene in Schindler''s List and I get choked up

[Swede]

51. Terms Of Endearment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_1fYTbrBqA

[charlie and algernon]

53. the Ending of Pay it Forward

"Calling all angels"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f198pJXYZOs&feature=related

[Dash87]

54. Marley and Me (especially the end)

When I got out of there, I was drenched. lol I really should have brought tissues.

[progressoid]

55. The last episode of Six Feet Under

Actually more of a sequence than a scene, and it was a tv show. But it gets me every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el4eUKmLujg

[jme0318]

56. Gone With The Wind...

When Bonnie dies... sniff...

[Dulcinea]

59. Final scene in "It's a Wonderful Life."

"No man is a failure who has friends." I watch it every year, & I blubber every year.

[Silver Swan]

61. The last minutes of "Oh, What a Lovely War"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrc46ouZz8

Showing the symbolic last man killed before the armistice joining his brothers in a field of graves.

Also pertinent is Roger Ebert's review of the 1960 film: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19691030/REVIEWS/910300301/1023

(This was early in Ebert's career.)

[gizmonic]

62. The end of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" *SPOILERS*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgndOK2zuY0

Bond cradling his dead wife, tells the policeman, "It's quite alright really...we have all the time in the world."

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[LearnedHand]

63. In "Smoke Signals," when Thomas asks Victor why his dad really left

and Victor says, "He didn't mean to." Sob my eyes out every time I watch that scene.

[LearnedHand]

64. self delete -- sorry about the double post

[xmas74]

65. Show me a baseball fan that hasn't teared up at least once

during this speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbNrCxqxzgo

[Frank Cannon]

68. The Death of Boromir

As sad as this was in the book, it was even more sad on-screen. I bawl like a baby during these two scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20w-nuLcneU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcHhlcxUkP4

[WolverineDG]

72. Two scenes in 2 movie had my friend & I sobbing like waterfalls

(we were in high school at the time)

The final scene in "Somewhere in Time" (we were among of the very few who saw that in the theatres---twice)

The scene in Empire Strikes Back where Han Solo is dipped in carbonite.

dg

[nolabear]

73. Two from The Color Purple

When Shug Avery and her father reunite, and when those children come home from Africa. I've seen it about a million times and cry like a baby every time.

[Mad_Dem_X]

80. "See, Daddy? Sinners have soul, too."

[givemebackmycountry]

74. "Testament" with Jane Alexander

http://www.amazon.com/Testament-Jane-Alexander/dp/B00062IDJW/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1298564838&sr=1-2

Start to finish - this movie reduced me to a crying puddle at the very end.

There is a scene where Carol Weatherly (Jane Alexander) discovers her late husbands voice message on the family answering machine.
Watching her listen to her husband, and seeing her break down...

I'm crying just thinking about it.

I've watched it once, and I don't know if I could do it again.

[Mad_Dem_X]

75. From "The Color Purple"

I can't post vids here at work, but I have two from that movie - Nettie and Celie being separated, and then their reunion scene decades later. I can never NOT cry during those two scenes.

[Mad_Dem_X]

76. "Brokeback Mountain"

When Ennis finds the shirts, that have been hidden away for 20 years. I bawl like a damn baby. Every. Time.

[nolabear]

88. Me too.

[ceile]

79. Hope Floats

The little girl screaming "Daddy take me with you!" gets me every time...

[Fire Walk With Me]

82. That scene in Roadhouse, where the extortionists destroy a case of Drambuie.

Drambuie, the Golden Fire. I tell myself that it was only a prop, that no actual Drambuie was harmed in the making of this film. I keep telling myself that.

[Bucky]

86. When David Carradine kills Sylvester Stallone in "Death Race 2000" I'm like a rain cloud.

[jobycom]

89. Can't find it unaltered, but the very last scene of "The Princess Bride."

When Peter Falk says "As you wish" to his grandkid. Doesn't help that Falk has always reminded me of my dad. :)

[Kceres]

90. Any movie starring a dog. Why do the dogs always die?

I refuse to watch dog movies now.

[Badfish]

91. A Beautiful Mind

Scene near the end , the Pen Ceremony.