What are your top five saddest movie moments?

[MrScorpio]

Every time I see these, something gets in my eye.

Mine in no order

- The End of Saving Private Ryan when older Ryan asked his wife over Tom Hanks grave, "Tell me I'm a good man"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTv9QgPrXCU


- The End of Spartacus - The Crucifixion "He's FREE."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOWZpu8vS0c

- Two Scenes in Forrest Gump

The moment he finds out that he's a father:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK1XOwrj-vI

and the death of Jenny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y1gakGhZn8

- Little Big Man: The Death of Sunshine

No vid of the actual scene.. But it leads up to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGAdzn5_KU

Every time I hear "Garryowen"... Well.

- and the End of Schindler's List

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


Honorable mention

It's A Wonderful Life: Two scenes:

The drug store scene and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k_Vsmqf6X8


Some others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ40uig4yFU

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

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

[begin_within]

1. Hopefully without giving away spoilers,

1. "El Norte" (1983) - last scene between Enrique and Rosa
2. "Tokyo Story" (1953) - Shige won't let parents stay overnight
3. "The Bicycle Thief" (1948) - Frustrated Antonio slaps his own son
4. "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) - Bobby's conversation with his father
5. "Daughter from Danang" (2001) - Mother after Heidi leaves

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. Most of the movie "Brian's Song" but only because I knew how the movie ended before it began. n/t

[Contrary1]

3. Shawshank Redemption

Pretty much the entire movie, but especially the "Get busy living, or get busy dying...that's God damned right."

I was going through chemo for breast cancer at the time. I really needed to hear those exact words at that exact time. I drew strength from it.

Several movies bring a tear to my eye, but this particular one has a very special meaning to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f6LLZaNCGY

[AllenVanAllen]

4. My five

Boromir's death scene from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The funeral scene from Philadelphia

The scene when the plant workers give Schindler a gift from Schindler's List

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre scene Gandhi

The scene when the 101st find the concetration camp from Band of Brothers: Why We Fight

[tango-tee]

5. The Elephant Man.

I cried through most of the movie, but IIRC there was a scene when some hooligans ripped the mask off his face. By that time I was blinded by tears anyway.

[rcrush]

6. When Spock dies in Star Trek II is up there somewhere.

If I had a list that would be on it.

[mitchum]

7. The last glace between Dunaway and Beatty in Bonnie & Clyde

Scout walking Boo home in To Kill A Mockingbird
The death of Old Yeller
Brando's "Look at what they did to my boy" in The Godfather
LaMotta practicing his routine in the Raging Bull

[peekaloo]

8. Chief putting the pillow to McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Little Bill watching his wife on the driveway (Boogie Nights)

The kids torching Mom's house and Mom (What's Eating Gilbert Grape)


more to come.....too early to start bumming.

[Urban Prairie]

9. The sled dogs who died in the movie Eight Below

The wolf that was pot-shot at, and killed for fun by the US army troop in "Dances With Wolves" "(Sarah Palin would probably have clapped and cheered them on)

The scene in Midnight Express when Billy is visited in the Turkish prison by his girlfriend for the first time.

The scene in the Movie The Road Warrior, when Mad Max's pet dog was killed by being shot with an arrow from a crossbow.

Old Yeller becomes rabid, and in the scene where he is shot and killed.

I dislike seeing courageous/heroic humans being brutally killed, or die in movies but even moreso innocent animals/pets. I could never have been an "animal cop" b/c I would too quickly and easily lose my composure, and might beat the piss out of any adult male or verbally berate any adult female who I thought would deserve it by intentionally mistreating or beating their own or their neighbor's pets.

[WCGreen]

10. Mr, Scorpio, that scene in Private Ryan made me cry like a baby...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

11. Mine

Numerous scenes in Fahrenheit 9/11 but that's more a documentary than a movie

Madonna/Evita dying in "Evita"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPyr4bfswU0

When Gandhi is shot in "Gandhi"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9YoJ6o0nc0

The ending to "Ghost"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crY-QmZcANQ
More so now that Patrick Swayze is deceased

The ending to "Courage Under Fire"

The ending to "Carve Her Name With Pride"

The outcome of Tom's trial and his subsequent death in "To Kill A Mockingbird

This scene from the Sixth Sense (no, not the ending)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLyYYHqVTsE

[smoochpooch]

12. Warning: Super Spoiler!

Gus and Call saying their good byes in "Lonesome Dove"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deV68rbsNyQ

[lunatica]

13. Elliot telling ET goodbye both when ET seemed to be dead and at the end

when they bid each other farewell.

The second time I saw the movie I cried more because I knew what was coming.

I also like all the movies mentioned previously here

[GoCubsGo]

14. An Inconvenient Truth

The scenes from the 2000 election are THE saddest scenes in any movie ever.

From "Bang the Drum Slowly": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo_zhHcxt5I&feature=related

The post-funeral scene from "Philadelphia".

Sydney's and Pran's reunion at the end of "The Killing Fields". Hell, that whole movie was sad.

Tonto's death in "Harry and Tonto".

[Biker13]

15. "Where the Red Fern Grows"

I should have known better, I read the book, once! Never again!

We have "Marley & Me" on DVD, I gave it to Biker13 on his birthday, but we can't bring ourselves to watch it. His birthday was in October.

We're big time dog lovers...

Biker's Old Lady