Movie Moments that Make You Cry

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Oh gawd, I'm such a sap, here's a short list of my sobfest movies:

Term of Endearment (from "give my daughter the shot!!!!" to the end of the movie)
Steel Magnolias (from Julia/Shelby's collapse til the end of the movie)
The English Patient (I come completely undone when Ralph Fiennes is carrying the dead Katherine from the cave with her scarf billowing in the wind)
Untamed Heart (I was not expecting this movie to be so sad!)
Dancer in the Dark (the ending almost killed me, I had to go lay on my bed to recover)
Pretty much any movie where a beloved animal dies, gets lost, abandoned, etc. (such as Michael, Return of Yellow Dog, most Disney movies)

And random scenes in some movies will turn on the waterworks, like in Stuart Saves his Family when Laura San Giacomo is upset about her lousy father and Stuart said he would be her dad. He hugged her and said, "I'm so proud of you. You are such a wonderful girl." And I cried for 10 minutes.

A couple of years ago Entertainment Weekly had an article with the top 50 tearjerkers of all time. I cried just from reading the freaking article. I mean sobby, need my box of tissues crying. Just from reading a blurb about a sad movie. Accchhhh! But I cry very rarely over real life stuff. Go figure.

[Coffeecakes]

I cry tears of happiness at the end of Gattaca. I cry at the part where Ethan Hawke's character goes to work anyway, thinking that he will finally be discovered and be arrested, making his dream of going to space caput. Well when the scientist that takes his sample changed it so that his real DNA, will be of the upper class human, I lost it. Yes, dammit I was crying thinking "how sweet of him to do that!"

[swanflake]

Coffecakes, I cried the first time I saw Gattaca too.

Last night I watched The Fox and the Hound for the first time since elementary school. Is it pathetic to cry buckets over a cartoon?

[iceblink]

Not if it's The Fox and The Hound!! Goddamn Disney.

[starskin]

I cried during both Gattaca and The Fox and the Hound. Don't tell anyone. I've got a tough-as-nails image to maintain. It might be bad if people knew I also cried while watching a documentary on the true story of Balto. I can't help it, I have a soft spot for sled dogs.

[monkey]

The Sound of Music - yes, I've seen this film at least a hundred times and can recite the entire thing, but there are certain scenes that almost always make me tear up...Captain finds his children singing to the Baroness and the music festival, most consistently.

The Godfather II - I get a little misty in a couple of scenes in Godfather I, but I wept in earnest at the end during the first time I saw II.

To Kill a Mockingbird - Sooo many..."Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives." and "He would be in Jem's room all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning." Also love when Scout is asking Jem about their mother and Atticus is listening.

Love Story - Most manipulative piece of film out there. Still, I cry.

Schindler's List - Girl in the red coat. False alarm in the showers. End credits.

Stepmom - I know, I know. Schmaltz. But I watched it with my mother, and I couldn't help it.

Ordinary People - the reason Pachelbel's Canon usually makes me weepy.

Apollo 13

Doctor Zhivago - When Yuri's chasing Lara.

The Great Escape - Towards the end, when Roger is talking to Mac, right before the fifty are shot. I love Dickie Attenborough and Gordon Jackson. Oh, and the last scene between Ramsay and the Stalag's old commandant - "How many were wounded?"

Terms of Endearment - when she's talking to her boys.

A Bridge Too Far

Brian's Song - shut up. Even the theme music gets me going.

The Best Years of Our Lives – All three homecoming scenes, but especially Hoagy Carmichael’s. Carmichael was a real veteran who had lost both hands during the war. Myrna Loy was wonderful in this film, and in...

Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) – Not the crappy Steve Martin remake. This one was wonderful, and very faithful to the book. I love Anne’s scene at the dance with her father, and the final shot of the mother ascending the stairs with Anne’s voiceover.

The Big Chill

The Pride of the Yankees – If you can sit through the last 20 minutes of this without a single tear, you’d best see the wizard about getting a heart (I kid, I kid). The end speech is a given, but there’s also his reunion with a certain someone outside the stadium, the scene in the doctor’s office, and the painful moment when he and his wife are discussing their plans for the ‘future’ while she helps him with his tie. Oh, man… "Doc, I've learned one thing. All the arguing in the world can't change the decision of the umpire."

White Christmas

The Magnificent Seven - Ay, me. Lessee…there’s Petra and Chico, there’s Bernardo and the village boys, there’s cool cat James Coburn...mostly, though, it's scenes between the cowboys and the villagers that make me a little misty.

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I just saw We Are Marshall and spent most of the first half sobbing.

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The final frame of Il Postino where Mario [beige]is trampled making his way to the stage after the clash between protesters and the police during the Communist rally[/beige].

Even more painful was the actor who played Mario (Massimo Troisi) died a few hours after finishing the film making that scene even more poignant.

[irma2gumball]

It doesn't make me cry but makes me feel very happy for Red (Morgan Freeman) in the Shawshank Redemption when he breaks his parole at the very end and sneaks off to Mexico to find Andy. The whole unravelling of being left the money and finding a way out of a depressing and dead-end life and going to find this amazing place and have a new start is very uplifting. I really feel they both earned that. Such a great story.

[Margo]

tiamaria said:

The English Patient (I come completely undone when Ralph Fiennes is carrying the dead Katherine from the cave with her scarf billowing in the wind)

This is the only film that ever makes me cry. It's that scene, and also the scene in which he reads the letter she wrote to him as she was dying in the cave, in the dark.