Most emotional scene in any film?

[Bossy Monkey]

This is also a Bastille Day thread, since mine is Victor Lazlo leading La Marseillaise in Casablanca. This is the very picture of all that's good in patriotism as contrasted with the kind of jingoism we've been experiencing these last 4 years. (Are you listening John Gibson?)

Yours?

[cleofus1]

1. the end of the champ

when jon voigt dies and his son goes ballistic...

[cleofus1]

2. as a reviewer once said

if you are not crying at the end of this movie...go see the wizard...becouse you have no heart...

perhaps the high point of rick shroeders career..

[underpants]

24. Oh GOd "The Champ" people ran screaming and crying out of the theatre

I saw it with my cousins in WV. Wow that was a tearjerker.

[Bunny]

3. I'll probably be mocked mercilessly for this, but:

the final scene of It's a Wonderful Life, when George Bailey gets to see how many friends he really has. Gets me every time.

[cleofus1]

4. a very popular film

it does not do too much for me...but you are certainly not alone in your sentiments...

[BlueIris]

12. Speaking of being mocked mercilessly...

Tom Cruise to Max Von Sydow in the penultimate scene in Minority Report:

"Don't you EVER SAY HIS NAME!"

I hate Tom Cruise with the passion of a thousand blazing suns, but I think that's possibly his best single acting achievement in any film.

[tigereye]

39. he was pretty good in that

and I really don't like his acting. He does best with really good material.

[tigereye]

38. if I need a good cry

that's the one. Gets me every time. How could it not?

[Terran]

56. I totally agree with you

The final scene never fails to make me cry rivers.

[4_Legs_Good]

100. You know, he has to pay back all that money!!!!

So he's NOT the richest man in town!! Not by a long shot!

Feh!

david

[bliss_eternal]

170. Me too.

But I (embarassingly) weep at Disney films.

:cry:

[ixion]

5. A scene from Magnolia

Where Julianne Moore is simultaneously confessing her betrayal and her love to a (truly) dying Jason Robards, but you could pull several others from that movie.

If you haven't seen it yet, you ought too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175880/combined

[peekaloo]

32. the whiz kid asking his arsehole father to be nice to him is another.

as is Philip Seymour Hoffman's final scene.

[ghostsofgiants]

51. Magnolia is full of emotion

Amazing film.

[4_Legs_Good]

101. I like where Robards is telling Hoffman to use his regret

I've never been a fan of the "no regrets" philosophy, and this scene really drove home to me how regrets can help you be a better person.

The entire movie is almost a miracle, though. One of my favorites. Tom Cruise at his pinnicle.

david

[enigmatic]

120. Incredible film..

Robards is fantastic in it, and the "regret" scene is my favorite. I've been trying to find audio of it to put in my overnight show, but no luck so far..

[NeoGreen]

6. The end of Schindler's List n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. Fuck the end. Two words:

Red dress. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Minstrel Boy]

73. oh, Christ...

First time I saw it, I had to leave the theatre...

So yes>

:cry:

[Minstrel Boy]

78. self delete n/t

[bliss_eternal]

173. How did you even 'leave' I couldn't move

I was crying so hard. I was heaving with sobs, during the entire film.

But it was probably more pronounced when Schindler starts saying something about 'my car, my watch--how many more could I have saved...' or something like that. I.just.lost.it.

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

[tjdee]

7. When Sophie chooses in Sophie's Choice--not my fave, but disturbing...

In fact the rest of that movie blew, if I recall, but the scene where she makes the "choice" of the title.... :scared:

Just horrible.

[Enraged_Ape]

8. The first ten minutes of "Saving Private Ryan"

I'm bawling like a baby, and the movie's barely started.

[AussieDave]

9. Showing my age here:

"An Affair to Remember" 1957 - just at the end, when Cary Grant discovers the reason Deborah Kerr didn't meet him at the Empire State Building - beautifully done.

[1monster]

186. That was a good flick. But then, everything I've ever seen with Cary

Grant in it has been good or great.

[AussieDave]

192. "Penny Serenade" - another of Grant's

underrated performances in an underrated film - the whole movie is tragic from start to finish. They knew how to make movies in those days.....

[KitchenWitch]

10. First I have to put on my flameproof suit!

The scene in Steel Magnolias at the graveyard. Sally Field's character is ranting about the death of her daughter when Olympia Dukakis' character grabs Shirley MacLain and tells the Sally Field character to "Hit Wheezer, come on Wheezer, this is your chance to do something good for the world" (or some such!) Laughing and crying at the same time.

[AussieDave]

11. Thank you KW - that was my second thought

- I was trying to remember the full scene - all I can think of is Sally Field screaming "Why? Why?" - another good scene.

[Jeanette in FL]

185. I could cry just reading these posts

That is my favorite movie when I just want it all to come out of me, whatever that is. I start crying before the scene even starts. The other one is "Term of Endearment", when Shirley McLaine is screaming to the nurses that her daughter needs her pain medication. My Lord, you can just feel what both of these Mothers are going through.

[tigereye]

40. no that one is full of tear jerking moments

[Shell Beau]

50. Yep I agree. Do people not like that movie or something?

I loved that movie.

[Terran]

58. I love the end of Steel Magnolias

The whole Spring = life metaphor in that final part is so moving, and the final shot of Darryl Hannah's husband in a bunny suit rushing her to the hospital in his pick-up so she can have her baby--well, the combination humor and resolution in that really makes me emotional.

[greeneyedpookie]

99. I have to admit that one too

I bawl like a baby during that sceen. Hubby was flipping through the channels last night and caught the last 30 minutes of the movie on Lifetime. Still cry at that sceen!

GEP

:bounce:

[ronnykmarshall]

154. Oh yeah!

That's a great scene.

[LynneSin]

13. Just about all of Hotel Rwanda, but the scene with the Rwanda Orphans

where they shove all the people who run the orphanage (the foreigners) on the evacuation bus and leave all the kids behind. God, I'm getting freaking teary-eyed posting this

[Shell Beau]

42. That movie made me nauseous. It was so sad.

[Guaranteed]

172. Yes. I'd say, overall, probably the most moving movie I've ever seen.

It was just...Holy shit...the whole way through.

[nuxvomica]

14. When Xu Fugui loses everything gambling in "To Live"

Gosh, I've never seen anyone cry so hard in a movie.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

94. Or when the daughter dies because the Red Guards

have taken over the hospital. :cry:

[Shell Beau]

15. Well I watched Million Dollar Baby last night and

I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it, but it was very emotional!

[Jade Fox]

I saw that movie last night too....

"Remember what my daddy did for his dog Axel?"

Man, oh man. :cry:

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

180. If you haven't seen "The Sea Inside"

I recommend it. Similar theme to MDB that you are refering to.

[blondeatlast]

16. Old Yeller.

Just thinking about it gets the waterworks going.

[Shell Beau]

28. There is something about poor little

helpless animals that gets my tears flowing! I get so emotional when a movie involves an animal getting hurt or dying.

[Justpat]

30. Same here. I have watched it so many times

and sob my heart heart each time.

[Modem Butterfly]

Torch Song Trilogy

Harvey Fierstein's cemetery speech in "Torch Song Trilogy" kills me every time. I can't even breath during that scene.

[soleft]

17. Meryl Streep's silent scream in Sophie's Choice

It exists on a separate plane of film existance.

[arwalden]

18. M'Lynn's "Why?! Why?! WHY?!" Scene In Steel Magnolias.

[bigwillq]

19. Just watched that again last night!

It was on Lifetime!
I love that flick.

There's this guy that works at the bar that I frequent. He dabbles in stage productions and musicals in our local area, well I call him "Joey Drama" because whenever we're at the bar, he's always acting out little skits. One of his faves is doing scenes from "Mommie Dearest."

Well, he can act out much of Steel Magnolias and the M'Lynn scene is one of his greatest works!:hi:

[arwalden]

20. Why... Can't... You... Give Me The RESPECT...

... that you'd give... to a STRANGER ON THE STREET??!!

[bigwillq]

21. LOL!

My friend just loves chewing on that scene.

I'm calling you Joan from now on arwalden!!:hi: :D

[QueenJane94133]

53. Because I'm NOT one of your fans!!!!!

[Bouncy Ball]

144. Then:

AAAAHAHHHHH (screaming!)

She LANDS on her, HANDS around the throat, THROTTLING her on the gorgeous blue carpet!

I love that film and I don't know why. It's just so....tawdry.

[devilgrrl]

179. I love it when Stephanie Miller plays that clip on her show...

cracks me up! :rofl:

[AussieDave]

193. Oooohhh - "Mommie Dearest" !!!!

"NO...WIRE....HANGERS!!!!" WHACK WHACK WHACK

That scene cracks me up every time......

[Modem Butterfly]

22. One thing that's always bothered me about that movie...

Where are all the black people? They're living down in Louisiana, there should be some black people, if only as extras. But there's nary a one.

[arwalden]

26. Same Thing With The Andy Griffith Show...

... none.

[bigwillq]

27. Good point!

I wondered about that before in that movie.
Also, I sometimes watch "The Bold and the Beautiful", a daytime soap on CBS.
Well, it's set in the L.A. fashion world and yet, there are never any gay characters.:shrug:

[1monster]

190. In Mississippi: ONCE UPON A TIME WHEN WE WERE COLORED...

The whole movie was beautifully done, but the most emotional scene is when Ma Ponk finds that her mother has died while she was checking out the burlesque show at the local circus/fair.

[AnnInLa]

75. Definitely, Steel Magnolias!

In the cemetery scene, you can see my grandparents gravestones in the background...The Old American Cemetery in Natchitoches, LA

[Bouncy Ball]

142. Overall it's not like the BEST movie ever,

but she just hit the PERFECT emotional pitch in that scene. I swear to God, she was really feeling every single bit of it.

The first time I saw it, in the movie theater, I was horrified at myself, because I actually sobbed out loud and I hardly ever even tear up at the movies.

[BooScout]

153. Best scene ever....

I love that scene....I can remember seeing it for the first time, tears just streaming down my face and then BAM .....laughing like hell when Olympia Dukakas screams...."Here...........hit Weezer!" Now that was an emotional scene!

[Mizmoon]

23. There is some Stephen King movie

in which a child is killed by his father by having an injection put into his neck. I saw it one time by accident and have been disturbed every since. It was so horrifying ...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. Pet Sematary. You're lucky not to have seen it whole.

One word: truck.

[underpants]

25. Brian's Song (made for TV movie)

The whole last 30 minutes

[hickman1937]

81. When Billy Dee Williams as Gayle Sayres says "I love Brian

Piccolo, and when you hit your knees tonight, ask God to love Brian Piccolo." I've never seen anyone, male or female get thru that scene with dry eyes.

[Love Bug]

85. That reminds me

In 80-81 we lived in West Germany because my (now ex) husband was in the Army stationed in Friedberg. The AFN TV station ran a contest listing all of the movies they had and asked people to vote on their favorite and they would show the winner. Well, out of all the choices those tough GIs picked Brians Song.

[driver8]

196. Great movie, but I cry every time!!

[Debbi801]

29. Crash (still in theaters)...

Where the little girl gets shot.

Although honestly, that movie was super emotional all the way through it.

[bigwillq]

31. That was a really good flick!

I cried several times during the movie.:hi:

[Debbi801]

47. Me too...

I thought it was incredible.

:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. Thanks for the warning. I'll avoid that movie like the plague. (nt)

[Debbi801]

46. Please don't, just from my description...

It is one of the most amazing movies I have seen in a long time. It is just not a light type movie. There are a lot of deep messages within this movie. I saw it a month ago and I'm still puzzling pieces of it out in my mind.

[loudestchick]

71. That scene hits you like a punch in the stomach...took my breath

away...I could hardly breath as she's wathcing from the doorway...you know what's coming...so painful. Also the "traffic stop" scene made me so angry and sick. Her face said it all.

[Guaranteed]

171. It was UNBELIEVABLE.

Saw it, remember how I felt.

Could NOT hold the shit back afterward.

[Guaranteed]

169. YEAH. That scene will KILL you.

Just fair warning.

I WARNED you.

[peekaloo]

34. The kids torching their house (and mother) in 'What's Eating Gilbert

Grape?'

[MissMillie]

66. That's a good choice

very good

[patcox2]

36. Hey Dad, wanna have a catch?

Yeah, Field of Dreams

[tigereye]

44. oh that's a good one too

for me the end of Life Is Beautiful... very intense. And many other films dealing with the holocaust.

The end of Harold and Maude always makes me cry too.


Of course, I'm a terrible weenie, cry at the drop of a hat. :)

[noamnety]

74. Life is Beautiful, yep

The first two I thought of were that and Sophie's Choice.

[kevsand]

145. That's quite a moment,

but the scene that always gets me is when the rookie turns back into Burt Lancaster to save Costner's daughter, and then can't rejoin the game.

[Shell Beau]

41. This isn't the most emotional scene but it was real which made it

sad. In the movie Closer when Natalie Portman's character find out Jude Law's character has been cheating on her. It was sad. If you have ever been cheated on, you totally feel it with the character. It takes you back to the moment when you felt that way. It made my stomach churn.

[CBHagman]

43. The Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is my favorite.

Such a wonderful movie, with so many wonderful scenes, and that's the top for me.

I also like the sequence where -- **SPOILER ALERT** Rick comes to the assistance of the young Bulgarian couple.


Some of my favorite emotional scenes:

In Sense and Sensibility, Elinor's "What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?" speech.

There's also the scene where she begs the gravely ill Marianne to fight for life: "Marianne, you must try...Do not leave me alone." :cry:

[Shell Beau]

45. And another one, basically the whole movie-- The Color Purple.

[Saphire]

54. Ah, yes, I cry everytime in this movie...one of my favs.

[Terran]

59. Ach, the reunion of sisters at the end

just makes me blubber!

[Shell Beau]

60. Yeah, me too!

[Terran]

62. And the way that whole scene builds, too,

it's just too pleasurable for words. Even if you've never seen it before, you know what's coming. Spielberg can be such a sentimental schmuck, but he did it flawlessly in that scene.

[Shell Beau]

64. Absolutely!

[Shakespeare]

105. And the reconciliation of Shug Avery and her father...

Good lord, but that scene makes me SOB. Other two scenes that get me are when the sisters are separated, and (of course) reunited.

[youspeakmylanguage]

48. The boy approaching his mother's house in "Kikujiro"...(n/t)

[formerrepuke]

49. The 'Elephant Man' reciting the 23rd Psalm........n/t

[Squatch]

52. The final skating scene in "The Cutting Edge"

[Catchawave]

151. Yep, and a related movie....

the final skating scene in Ice Castles.

[Coventina]

55. The "Baby Mine" scene from Dumbo

:cry:

[tigereye]

113. yup

that always gets me too

[Felix Mala]

126. OMG I haven't thought about that in a long time... (We weren't

allowed to see Disney when were kids. (Me mama thought they murdered the classics.)

Remember the not-so-funny 1941? Robert Stack is bawling like a baby while he watches that scene.

[MountainLaurel]

182. The first movie I ever cried at

I was four, and it was on "Wonderful World of Disney" and I was sobbing and couldn't understand why.

Disney movies can be horribly traumatic.

[GaYellowDawg]

57. Last few minutes of "Braveheart"

I know, I know, Mel Gibson, but it gets to me.

[4_Legs_Good]

104. Gawd, if he said "freedom!!!!!" one more time I woulda burned the theater

down!

I liked the movie, actually , when I was watching it, but started disliking it almost immediately after I left the theater.

david

[Terran]

61. Little Buddha

I don't think this is a very well-known film, but I highly recommend it--great cast and a very cleverly told story. The last scene, where the ashes of Lama Dorja are scattered on the waters of Puget Sound, is incredibly sad and sweet. It's a beautiful beautiful film.

[tigereye]

114. that is a lovely film

very atmospheric

[Jade Fox]

130. Yeah, that was a moving scene.....

Spiritually emotional, I guess you could call it.

I also love the soundtrack to that movie--one of the few I own.

[Doctor_J]

63. I think it's the closing scene in Hard Tines

Where Chaney gets on the train, leaving Speed and Poe in the car. Always makes me cry like a baby.

:evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

65. The Color Purple

When Shug Avery makes amends w/ her father. I always loved that scene.

[henslee]

67. this may not be the winner but believe it or not in Bad Santa, after being

a dick the whole film, the billy bob thorton char. says to the chubby and lonely little boy, "goddammit kid, what the fuck is wrong with you...I'm not really Santa Claus!!" And then the little boy finally admits.... I know that, I just thought you wanted to buy me a present because you were my friend." And it just hits the Billy Bob Char. soberingly hard. He is finally gotten to. Maybe because the whole movie was full of cussing and rudeness, that when this moment comes it is really tender. That was not a perfect movie but it could have been. Terry Zwick is super talented.

[Shell Beau]

69. I loved that movie. I felt so sorry for the little kid.

[henslee]

70. That kid was great. The film reall sneaks up on you. & there's nothing

melodramatic about it... That's my beef with the champ which gets to you emotionally sure... but so does Brian's Song an dall those tearjerkers.

[Cannikin]

68. Sally Fields in the funeral scene of Steel Magnolias

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

72. Chaplin's "The Kid"

When Social Services From Hell come take the kid from him. Shot of the kid crying and screaming from the truck - cut to Chaplin being held by two thugs.

The LOOK on Chaplin's face hits you like a ton of bricks.

[Love Bug]

87. God, yes

How about the scene from City Lights when the girl finally realizes Chaplin's character is her benefactor?

[kevsand]

149. That's the one.

A perfect ending to a perfect film. I can't even think about that without tearing up. Now I'm all verklempt. Talk among yourselves...

[Taverner]

76. Catch scene in "Field of Dreams"

[AnnInLa]

77. "I Want to Live" with Susan Hayward

old, old movie....sent to death row because some scuzzies blamed her for a murder...she was a good-time girl who was just partying with them...had a little child that she wanted to live for....before the execution march, screaming, "I want to live." Chokes me up every time.

[Catchawave]

159. I remember that one, very good choice.....

Also, Madame X of that same time period?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

195. Yes, that is one intense scene

especially her dying in the gas chamber.

[Catfight]

79. for me personally, "Priest" at the end when the girl takes communion

from the gay priest.

[u4ic]

127. That scene

really gets my waterworks going.

[Minstrel Boy]

80. Anyone else seen the mid-80s adaptation of Peter Carey's "Bliss"?

If so, then the final scene: the narration over Harry Joy's spirit leaving his body. That's the most emotional scene for me, in a good way, at least. (Dammit, it chokes me up just typing about it!)

And the best adaptation of a novel to screen I've ever seen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088821 /

[AnnInLa]

82. Any film that plays "Amazing Grace" or "Taps"

at a funeral.

I boo-hooed when they played "Amazing Grace" during Silkwood, one of my all-time favs.

[XemaSab]

83. I thought "Whale Rider"

was a tearjerker.

[I Have A Dream]

90. Yeah, I agree.

I was weeping throughout it.

[Bouncy Ball]

141. That's an amazing film.

My uncle gave it to my daughter on DVD for Christmas and it's become one of her favorites. I LOVE that movie and it kills me every time.

[XemaSab]

176. Seriously,

I tear up thinking about it, even in passing.

That's how powerful the film was for me.

[Love Bug]

84. In LOTR: Return of the King

When Sam picks up Frodo and tells him "I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you!" Brought tears to my eyes.

Edit: Not the most emotional scene in any film, but the first one that comes to mind.

Here's another one: "Imitation of Life." That scene at the end when the daughter who rejected her mother throws herself on the hearse yelling "Momma, I'm sorry!" oh Lord, that gets me every time. Shit, I'm tearing up just thinking about it now.

[pilgrimsoul]

91. Terms of Endearment

When Emma dies. Shirley McLaine is amazing in that film - no matter how many times I see it, I tear up.

Also, the end of The Joy Luck Club when the daughter goes to China to meet her sisters - "Mei Mei!" <sob>

[tigereye]

115. yes Terms of Endearment

I couldn't think of the title. McLaine is great. Agree with both your choices.

[Jade Fox]

134. Another amazing scene in "Terms of Endearment"....

was where Emma tells her older son that she knows he loves her. I
thought that was so amazing, because she was relieveing him of
future guilt he would feel because he was angry with her when she
died.

[Tallison]

160. Oh, yes. That was the first scene that came to my mind when

seeing this thread title. And the last scene when Jack Nicholson draws Tommy out by offering to teach him some new swimming stroke and Tommy asks, "Are you sure this is the right time and all?" and Jack says, "Oh, I think it is." :cry: Something about that child's story line really gets me going.

[silverpatronus]

132. that scene in ROTK is also one of mine. eom

[kevsand]

152. One of the most amazing scenes in English lit --

The Council of Elrond, when Frodo says "I will go, though I do not know the way."

[AnnInLa]

86. Very appropriate for today....Inherit the Wind....with Spencer Tracy

very exhilirating to watch Spence grill his foe/friend on the witness stand about Darwinism and Creationism....during the whole movie, you are rooting so hard for the enlightenment that Spencer is sure to bring to the nation! If you haven't seen this oldie but goodie, please watch it...it should be required watching for every public school student in this country. (Scopes trial)

[hyphenate]

88. One of my favorites, though a wee bit manipulated

is where ET and Eliot are both lying down in the makeshift tented building, and ET is about ready to die, and Eliot is so distraught. I haven't seen the new director's cut, but that always was so heartwrenching.

[I Have A Dream]

89. For me, it was in the movie "Ghost" with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore...

when they were dancing after he died. Every time I see it, I just weep! In fact, I'm ready to cry now after thinking about it!

:cry:

[indigo32]

92. The Hours

when the little boy is screaming as his mother leaves him with a sitter to go check into that hotel.

[tigereye]

116. yeah that movie was brutal

[AnnInLa]

93. How about the rage/despair you felt in "To Kill a Mockingbird"

when Atticus proves that Tom didn't rape Mae-ella, but you just KNEW the all white bubba jury would find him guilty anyway?? Made you just want to jump into the movie and slap everyone upside the head.

[Shakespeare]

111. Yup. My favorite tear-jerker scene in that movie:

When Atticus brings Boo Radley out from behind the door to introduce him to Scout, and she smiles sweetly and says "Hey, Boo."

[nashville_brook]

95. every single bit of What's Eating Gilbert Grape

[WeRQ4U]

96. When Rudy gets a sack in "Rudy" - Get's me every time.

[Guaranteed]

164. Yeah...I couldn't believe he actually sacked him.

I thought they made that up.

Totally true, though.

Glorious.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

97. The suicide in Once Were Warriors

The whole audience gasped when they saw that it was going to happen.

[barb162]

98. Tess of the Durbervilles

when her kid dies and she's burying the kid

[Richardo]

102. Kay announcing her abortion to Michael Corleone...

The silent rage was palpable. :scared:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

103. 'Au Revoir Les Enfants': the end where the priest and children are taken

away by the Nazis. :cry:

'au revoir mon pere!'

Sophie's Choice.

Hotel Rwanda

Schindler's List-the red dress. :cry:

The Killing Fields

Salvador

Definitely the Marseillaise scene in 'Casablanca'

The scene between Matt Damon and Robin Williams in 'Good Will Hunting'

ET go home.

Breakfast at Tiffany's-the cat scene

[Kathy in Cambridge]

110. Forgot 'All About My Mother'

when her son is killed, and the end scene too.

[demily]

118. Aw I love the cat scene!!

So sweet! That cat was a really good actor. You know, for a cat.

[4_Legs_Good]

106. "I've decided not to stay" in Shawshank

is a good one, and the converse when Red scribes "so was Red" in the wall near the end.

I hope...

david

[terrya]

107. The scene in "Longtime Companion"...

where Bruce Davison's character is sitting by his lover's bedside. His lover is dying of AIDS. Davison's character is telling him to "Let go. Just let go".

I saw this great film in a theater...and the tears were running down my cheeks watching that very emotional scene. You could hear others in the audience as moved by it as I was.

[4_Legs_Good]

108. "Dead Man Walking" the scene where the family is waiting in the visiting

room with Sean Penn and don't really have anything else to say... they're just kinda running out the clock.

Also the last scene in the movie where Sister Prejean is praying with the father of one of the victims.

david

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

109. "Dances With Wolves! I am Wind In His Hair! Do you see that I am your

friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?"

The end of Dances With Wolves, when the fierce Lakota Sioux warrior Wind In His Hair cries down from the mountain as Dances With Wolves rides away always gets to me:

But I agree with you that the scene from Casablanca with the French national anthem is very powerful, too.

[Guaranteed]

163. Ouch. Ouch.

That one hurts really bad.


Good, good, thinking.

[driver8]

197. That is a great scene. It chokes me up, too. n/t

[kodi]

112. rob roy, his wife pleads with her cousin dont her husband she was raped

if he does, rob roy will go after the tim roth character and will kill her husband.

emotional as hell. i wept the first time i watched it. jessica lange's best performance ever.

second is the end of "the ice storm" kevin kline looks over his shoulder at his son and weeps and shows how much he loves him after finding a neighborhood boy killed hours earlier.

[BamaGirl]

117. Steel Magnolias, pretty much the whole movie

and especially the "why why why" scene that's already been mentioned.

Also the Auden recitation at the funeral in Four Weddings and a Funeral. I bawl every time I see that.

[TX-RAT]

119. Shenandoah, the church scene

Jimmy Stewart was great.

[ksilvas]

121. "Baraka" children in garbage dump,Dead Can Dance song, horrible beauty.

[Midnight Rambler]

122. The Godfather

"Look how they massacred my boy." What Brando does there, all in his face, never fails to get me.

[silverpatronus]

123. for me, they come from the LOTR movies

from 'fellowship': boromir's death scene. 'i would have followed you my brother, my captain, my king.'...gets me every time.

from 'two towers': the whole of theodred's funeral. in the extended cut miranda otto sings a dirge...tears to my eyes every time.

from 'return of the king': hell, that whole movie was an emotional moment. but standout moments are sam carrying frodo up the side of mt. doom, faramir's suicide charge and theoden's death. in the extended cut, the scene where eomer finds eowyn on the battlefield also brings the tears.

[Felix Mala]

124. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Finding the sopping wet cat. I cry a river...

Moon river, that is...

I get choked up at the beginning when Holly is having her coffee and donut outside of Tiffany's. The cab coming down the street with the slow, instrumental version of Moon River...

http://www.reelclassics.com/Audio_Video/Music9m/tiffanys_moonriver.mp3

[AngryAmish]

125. When Dalton first walks into the bar in "Roadhouse"

And that guy was with the girl in the back room telling her "Your gonna be my regular Saturday night thang!"

[I Have A Dream]

128. I mentioned "Ghost" above, but, in the moving "Awakenings"...

with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams where Robert DeNiro, who had awakened from a sleeping state after decades, began to go back into the state after the drugs stopped working. I can't watch it a second time -- it was just too emotionally painful!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

129. The end of "The Joy Luck Club"

When June meets her Chinese sisters. Also the scene with her late mother when her mother tells her, "I see you." That movie makes me BAWL!!

[bliss_eternal]

174. My husband knows if he hears me weeping chances are

that I am watching the Joy Luck Club.

The "I see You" moment DESTROYS me. I also love the moment with the sisters...such a beautiful film.

Oh, I can't forget the part when the one girl tells her husband, "I died years ago, eating opium...you will NOT take my house..." Just gorgeous!

[tjdee]

184. You took worst quality crab because you have best quality heart!

:cry:

[Neshanic]

131. "Ordinary People" the dining room scene when Sutherland breaks.

That is for me the tops.

"Dad..wanna have a catch?" right up there.

[Jade Fox]

133. The "give us free!" scene in Amistad.

[hippywife]

135. The Glenn Miller Story

at the end when his wife knows Glenn has disappeared over the English Channel and they are listening to the live Christmas broadcast of the band playing without him. When she rubs the back of her neck and smiles with tears in her eyes, I cry like a baby everytime! (If you've seen the whole movie, you know the significance to her rubbing the back of her neck.)

[I Have A Dream]

136. The entire movie "Ponette".

It's a movie about how a little girl deals with the death of her mother. (It's in French, but still amazingly powerful watching it with subtitles.)

I still get weepy when I see the picture on the box at Blockbuster.

[sniffa]

137. when agustus gLump get's sucked up the chocoLate pipe

i cry every time. :cry:

[Groggy]

138. When ET goes up in his spaceship!!

I know its dumb, but I cry everytime!!

[nytemare]

139. The end letter scene in "About Schmidt"

Where Jack thought his whole life was a failure after his wife died, and his daughter married a wierdo type, and he got a letter from the kid he sponsored through Childreach, with a drawing. He then started crying!

What a perfect scene of redemption!

[Bouncy Ball]

147. Oh my God, I'm glad I rented that on DVD and watched it at home

because that made me bawl like a baby. I couldn't even SEE the TV.

[nytemare]

150. I know, the end scene was a killer!

Kathy Bates was a hoot!

I ended up sponsoring a kid because of that movie.

[Guaranteed]

162. Yup...that was something...it was like the whole movie

was just setting up that one thing.

[nytemare]

166. At that point, the movie was so depressing!

Then, the old fella found out he made a difference to someone. I thought he was great in the role of a normal guy.

[Quixote1818]

201. That movie was a masterpiece and that scene was very powerful!

nt

[Bouncy Ball]

140. It's not the MOST emotional, but I LOVE the scene

between Nicolas Cage and Cher in Moonstruck after they've gone to the opera and he's trying to convince her to stay with him:

"Everything seems like nothing to me now, 'cause I want you in my bed. I don't care if I burn in hell. I don't care if you burn in hell. The past and the future is a joke to me now. I see that they're nothing. I see they ain't here. The only thing that's here is you - and me.

Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!"

If he said that to ME like that, I'd be a pile of jelly by that last word. He could do with me whatever he wanted.

[bicentennial_baby]

143. The end of 'Au Revoir Les Enfants'

:cry:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

181. I said the same thing.

au revoir mon pere

:cry:

[bicentennial_baby]

189. Oh I know!

I can only imagine how wrenching it must have been for Louis Malle to make that film...so many painful memories.

[ThoughtCriminal]

146. Testament (1983)

There are many movies that bring sentamental tears, but this one still haunts my nightmares. Maybe one of the saddest movies ever made.

Several scenes:

-Carol (Jane Alexander) Preparing her youngest son and daughter's burial.
-The mass cremation scene
-Daughter asking her mother what making love is like, knowing she'll never live to experience it.

[AwakeAtLast]

148. In the Shawshank Redemption

When Morgan Freeman's character sees his friends name carved into the apartment wall. He decides to break parole and join Tim Robinson in a tropical location. I am weeping uncontrollably by then. :cry: I'm getting a little misty now.

[BikeWriter]

155. "Platoon" when they're leaving Willem Defoe.

[Guaranteed]

165. Yeah...yeah....serious anger from that scene. nt

[BikeWriter]

168. Yep, it didn't help my already screwed up emotions about that war.

[Catchawave]

156. When Bambi's mom was killed....

...I swear, the shot heard 'round the world.

[I Have A Dream]

158. Ohhhh my...

:cry:

My father took me to see it at a drive-in theater. I've always associated this with drive-in theaters.

[Seabiscuit]

194. I've been crying for 53 years over that scene!

I saw it when it first hit the theaters.

(oops... I'm dating myself)

[kevsand]

157. Towards the end of Raising Arizona

The whole scene where they return Nathan, Jr. to his father.

Also: When Charley finds the golden ticket in the original Willy Wonka.

And of course, the final at bat in The Natural.

[Guaranteed]

161. The end of Dead Poet's Society.

Probably one of the most romantic- in the classical sense- things I've ever seen.

[Guaranteed]

167. OH shit...probably not recognized by most...but the end of "Backdraft."

Not just the trying to save his brother, but the way he's fighting that fire at the end....

"That's my brother, goddammit."

[Blue_Tires]

175. the end of requiem for a heavyweight

on another note, "Traffic" and "Arlington Road" ended on some serious down notes

[MiniMandaRuth]

177. Fromn the Shining,

When that one lady, the mom, is going through the crazy guys papers.

Just me.

[uppityperson]

178. Ring of Bright Water, 2 minutes before the end WHACK

It is such a sweet movie. My dear little son and I watched it 1 night, kept watching even though it got late, wanted to finish it and go to sleep then WHACK! "mom, whyyyyyyy did you make me watch this sob sob sob sob sobsobsobsobsobsobsobsob". No one told me the otter gets killed 2 minutes before the end. Way emotional, mad, trying to not laugh at my sweet little boy, sad.

[MountainLaurel]

183. "Four Weddings and a Funeral"

At Gareth's funeral, where Matthew reads the Auden poem.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

[Allenberg]

187. Though I don't they're the most emotional

(IMO, the end scene right before Schindler leaves as someone mentioned before)

Two scenes that deserve mention is the scene in Memphis Belle between John Lithgow and David Strathairn when Strathairn pulls out the box of letter that Strathairn's men's parents wrote him, after they find out about their sons being KIA.

Another is when the older version of Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan tells his wife "Tell me I'm a good man."

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

188. At this moment... The last 15 minutes of A.I.

Movie got panned by everyone, but I loved it!

1Z8V49074371943118

[Ramsey]

191. Breaking the Waves

The scene in which Emily Watson rides the boat out to the ship to whore herself to the sailors because she thinks god is telling her to do this so her husband can live.

Really powerful stuff. Complete self-sacrafice for another and for god.

[blonndee]

198. My first thought? From Good Will Hunting...

the breakup scene between Will and Skylar. Especially her reaction after he says "I don't love you." Minnie took my breath away, she was so good.

Oh and the "It's not your fault" scene. God.

[Lindsey]

199. In "The Pianist " when he's walking around with the can of food that he

couldn't open. OMG - That movie effected me almost like no other.

[enigmatic]

200. the wake for Mr. Watanabe in "Ikiru"

Especially when the ladies who he helped in building the park come to pay their respects..

[PittPoliSci]

202. y'know, happiness and laughter are emotions too...

And on that note, I nominate the fight scene in Anchorman, and the walk to the drug store in Shaun of the Dead.

[Quixote1818]

203. Scene from Bridges of Madison County when Eastwood stopped his

truck in front of Streeps and her husband and sat waiting for her. She had her hand on the door handle and was so conflicted she didn't know what to do eventually bursting into tears as her hand started to push the handle down only for her to let it slide off before the door opened.