Most emotional movie moment ever?

[Bossy Monkey]

I'm just too goddam political. Although the movie I'm thinking of, Casablanca, will likely provide a lot of nominees, I doubt anybody else will choose this one: Victor Laszlo leading the roues of Rick's in drowning out the Nazis singing Watch on the Rhine with the Marseillaise. Vive la France!

[Itascapark]

1. "Welcome back to the fight..."

"This time I know our side will win." Great moment.

What about Pacino giving hell to Phillp Baker Hall in The Insider: "Don, what the hell else do you need!"

[mac56]

65. One of my favorites from "Casablanca"

"Major Strasser's been shot...."

(long pause and glance between Rick and Renault..)

"...Round up the usual suspects."

Never fails to bring the crowd to a loud cheer. "Casablanca" should only be watched as a group, by the way.

[PATRICK]

143. Great choices

I just had a thought about how this list compares to a Freepers choice.

"Gladiator" moments until their hero the Emperor gets killed. "Gettysburg" until the Yanks win. Hmmm. Are there any movies that end their way?

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. To Kill a Mockingbird...

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

[lastliberalintexas]

57. I teared up just reading your post

There are so many moments in that book and movie that make me cry, but that is the best from both.

In the book, I also cry when Miss Maudie is explaining to Jem why Atticus has been chosen to represent Tom.

And when Jem has his epiphany and realizes that while Atticus may not be able to play football with the other fathers, he is a gentleman nontheless.

And when Scout starts talking to Mr. Cunningham while he is part of the mob at the jail.

And when Scout and Jem visit Calpurnia's church, and the preacher won't let the congregation leave until they raise more money for Helen.

And when...

[nuxvomica]

107. For me it's when they find Boo Radley behind the door

[geniph]

141. "Hey, Boo"

"Miss Jean Louise, meet Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you."

[bowler_4_columbine]

3. It's not even slightly polical but...

Field of Dreams, when Kevin Costner says "Hey Dad,..... wanna have a catch?" See that movie in a room full of men and there won't be a dry eye in the house.

Another part of the movie that chokes me up is the soliloquey by the James Earl Jones character, I parapharse the line I like best
"Baseball reminds us of how great we were, and how great we can still be..."

I DO think of our country when I hear those lines. The greatness that once was, and the greatness that is yet to be.

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Oh, I wasn't expecting any other political suggestions

I'm just rereading Berlin Diary, and that scene in Rick's keeps popping into my head. Those scenes from Field of Dreams always get me, too. "No, Ray. It was you."

[CBHagman]

101. About "Field of Dreams"

My father insisted on renting that movie because the priest mentioned it in the homily at church.

[Catch22Dem]

4. I have a couple

We Were Soldiers: The final ten minutes. I had so many tears running down my face, I couldn't see the damn screen.

The Right Stuff: After Yeager ejects from the F-104 and he's walking through the desert with his charred face. When Jack Ridley says "Wait a minute..." (This one is so flawed though. First of all, Ridley died long before that F-104 flight. Second, Yeager's own recound of that moment is quite different. But it makes for a great scene anyway. :)

Apollo 13: When they take longer than expected to make it throught the ionization blackout.

The Glenn Miller Story: When they realize Glenn's plane has gone missing.

[bowler_4_columbine]

6. Great ones!

.

[bowler_4_columbine]

7. JFK...

"Back, and to the right..."

[bowler_4_columbine]

8. Roger and Me

Made me laugh and cry at the same time. I thought the moment when the laid off worker was describing how he was in shock and driving home after losing his job and "Wouldn't it Be Nice?" by the Beach Boys came on the radio just as he was contemplating suicide was an incredibly poignant moment. I could relate to his pain so much....

Just call me "run on sentence man" lol

[Capn Sunshine]

74. "Pets or Meat"

That was equally as poignant and darkly humorous
Moores flashes of brilliance

[blondeatlast]

76. Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[bowler_4_columbine]

9. When Jim Brown got shot

in "The Dirty Dozen"

[GCP]

96. LOL - what about Trini Lopez? boo hooo

You're channeling "Sleepless in Seattle", yes?

[Amaya]

10. Sophie's Choice

When she had choose to give her son or daughter to the Nazis when she came into a concentration camp.

Whoever has seen this movie, they know what I'm talking about..

If you haven't seen this movie you should. But be prepared though! It is very hard to watch.

[tjdee]

12. OH, that's tops. That's tops.

The rest of the movie I could do without, but that one scene is absolutely heartwrenching, for me after I had my kid it was even harder to watch. Can't imagine if I had two. Now THAT's good writing.

[sugarcookie]

19. I know the scene

very hard to watch. Then you think "What would I do if it were me?.

[GCP]

97. I heard on the radio the other day that a man was given a similar choice

in Bosnia by the Serbs. During the ethnic cleansing he was told to choose which of his sons he wanted to live. He refused to choose and they were all 3 shot by the serbs.

That's one of the things that's come out of Milosovich's trial in the Hague.

[Sick of Bullshit]

47. "Du kannst einen oder die andere wechseln"

Very moving

[blondeatlast]

80. You had to remind me. Damn, it hy=urts anybody, but

I had to leave. The moms out there will understand.

I was damn near hysterical.

[SOteric]

11. Schindler's List. The girl in the red dress.

[layne]

13. Lately -The Pianist

When he's walking around holding that can. It's been a very long time since I've been so effected by a movie.

[tjdee]

18. That's good too.

Adrien Brody has such an expressive face...there are a lot of poignant moments from that film... like when he finds out his family is dead...after he is pulled away from his family and goes back to the building...that whole bit, when he's walking among suitcases and stuff on the streets...

[Bush Loather]

21. When Schindler breaks down at the end, "I could've saved more!"

n/t

[Paragon]

156. And Stern's response:

"You did so much."

[lastliberalintexas]

58. Yes

Especially the scene where Oskar later sees the little girl's red coat on ...

(I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen that movie yet)

[SPICYHOT]

99. I like that one!

that movie was great!

[punpirate]

14. Second version of "1984" after...

... Winston Smith has been tortured by O'Brien in Room 101, and one realizes his personality has become completely obliterated.

[Pert_UK]

15. Andie MacDowell - end of 4 Weddings and a Funeral.......

Well....it gets me pretty emotional.

Anything that makes me get up and put a brick through the TV must be counted as a pretty emotional moment in film making...

:evilgrin:

P.

[preciousdove]

16. A Beautiful Mind...

the moment when you realize you are inside his delusion while you are waiting for them to show it to you.

[MercutioATC]

17. Same movie - different scene

When the little girl holds out her arms to him on the steps and he walks by without reacting. Always gets me...

[toska]

20. Grave of the Fireflies

The whole thing (or as much as I could handle). I had to stop watching half way or I would have been a sobbing mess. If I didn't have kids I probably could have made it.

[jobycom]

24. Yeah, that's an amazing film.

I've never felt like that after a film. Devestated. I don't think I could ever watch it again.

[BigMcLargehuge]

52. Oh Hell yes.... Grave of the Fireflies

That film, even though it shows you the character's outcome in the first two minutes when Saito and Setsuko's ghosts meet in the grass, it still presents their last few terrible months with such poignant desperation that one cannot do anything but grieve for the entire film. I was weeping when they lost their mother, and didn't stop the credits ended.

Grave of the Fireflies is a masterpiece and easily one of the best anti-war films ever made. Someone should strap That Idiot in the White House down like "Little Alex" and make him watch it over and over and over and over again.

[mrhunnybunny]

145. never heard of it?

What's it about?

[Armstead]

22. The End of It's a Wonderful Life

Corny, corny...but snif,sniff, sniff

That singing of the French Anthem in Casablance too,

[bowler_4_columbine]

23. Mr. Smith Goes to Washigton

When Jimmy Stewart is giving the filibuster with Barbara Stanwyck cheering him on from the gallery. Gets me choked up every time.

Any Frank Capra movie. That guy was the master of getting you choked up with emotion over loving your country. Like in "Meet John Doe" when Gary Cooper is about to jump off the building at the end of the movie and Barbara Stanwyck is there with the John Doe club people and they talk him off the ledge.

[Terwilliger]

64. that moment nearly destroys me

BTW, that was the lovely Jean Arthur crying out from the gallery

[bowler_4_columbine]

129. You're right...

It was Gene Aurthur and she was lovely!

[CBHagman]

103. That's Jean Arthur in "Mr. Smith."

Different actress (also a Capra regular), but still a wonderful movie.

[tjdee]

25. The Piglet movie. It's very embarrassing, LOL.

I don't understand it, I never cry at anything.

The scene where Piglet discovers Kanga is Roo's mother by looking at the cards and the pictures...Kanga is a single mom like me, I'd never really considered that until that moment in the film, made me all well up embarrassingly in the movie theater...plus, Carly Simon (not a fave of mine, but she's alright) singing a song about mothers on top of all that...

The scene where they all make memory pictures of Piglet to show how much they appreciate him...and he sees them...

The scene where Piglet finds them and saves Pooh...

Good goodness, it's a good thing I never saw the Tigger movie!

AHEM, now to redeem myself I gots some adult films too.
Anything in the Pianist, and not just because I :loveya: Adrien Brody.

The scene in The Color Purple where Celie is reunited with her sister after a billion years.

The scene in the English Patient where Almasy carries Katherine out of the cave. Our whole film class had major knots in the throat watching that.

And, as stated above, that one scene in Sophie's choice.

[jobycom]

29. Kids' films get to me, too

I guess because I'm more interested in my children than in romance or anything else these days, and because most mainstream films treat kids as objects or stereotypes. I was in tears for many scenes of Lilo and Stitch, and there is one scene in Treasurer Planet, believe it or not, that gets me (the "sun coming off your sails" scene). But the biggest is barely a kids film: the final scene of The Princess Bride, when Henry Faulk says "As you wish."

I also thought of Grave of Fireflies, and you thought of the scene in Sophie's Choice. Both are about kids. See a trend?

[DS1]

26. Saving Private Ryan

U.S. Sniper in the tower during the end battle knows he's about to get f*cked by the tank that just rolled up, but keeps taking out Germans and gets about 7 before being pulverized.

[JohnKleeb]

45. Jackson you mean yeah thats a shame

He's was my favorite what I mean was I identifed with him most out of all the squad he was a lefty and a southerner like me. because we are both lefties not political lefties but left handed. Its so sad that only Reiben, Ryan, and Upton made it out so sad.

[bowler_4_columbine]

27. The Last Just Man

It was a documentary on Sundance Channel about the genocide in Rawanda.

"It was the worst massacre since the Second World War. In just 100 days, 800,000 Rwandans were killed by machete and machinegun -- and it all happened on the watch of Canadian Gen. Romeo Dallaire. The LAST JUST MAN shows a haunted Dallaire still questioning if he could have done more to try and stop the 1994 genocide."

here's the link from Human Rights Watch web site:

http://www.hrw.org/iff/2002/traveling/last-index.html

At the end of the film when this good and decent man can't hold back tears... I got really choked up.

[everythingsxen]

28. Many

Excalibur - When Percival returns to Arthur with the Grail and bids him to drink...
I didn't know how empty my soul was until it was filled again. I can't remember the middle part, about everyone bearing all his responsibilities, which culminates with.. Ready my knights, they shall ride with their king into battle once again. at which point O Fortuna cranks up. That whole scene.. tears.

ID4 - When the Prez gives his Independance Day speech. Makes me a little teary eyed everytime.
Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom...Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution...but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!" We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

The American President - When the Prez goes in front of the presscorps and goes off. No quote, I don't have it on DVD, but its still an inspiring and good scene.

Many others.. but I gotta get some sleep. :D

[tjdee]

31. Yeah, Bill Pullman really pulled it out for that speech.

No pun intended, LOL.
I didn't care for the rest of the film, but that speech was inspiring, I dunno, maybe I just like Bill Pullman's style.

[Samuraimad]

37. Sunday Bloody Sunday

While most of the "protest/shooting" sequence was emotional, the parts that really made an impact on me was:

When 'Barney' was lying on the street and the people who tried to help were shot also.

The worst though,
A large grouip of demonstrators were being cornered off, and to make a break they ran through an alley, while the british troops cut them off and opened fire. I yelled "NO" at the tv in horror. Unfuckingbelievable.

[JohnKleeb]

59. I saw that

Cooper was right that was a victory for the IRA. That movie really made me feel with the Catholics there even more. They are imo the brothers of those in south africa who protested apartheid and those here who fought for equal rights. No I do not condone the IRA. Peace is my goal but in order to that the British need to let Catholics live good. Then they tried to blame it on militants those bastards. Sorry I really dont like the British much for how they've been in Ireland and other nations through time. BTW love your Hendrix avatar he was the best.

[WillyT]

30. 'Platoon'... When The 'Good' Sargeant (DeFoe) Gets Killed...

to Samuel Barber's 'Adagio For Strings'...

SO SAD.................

[HEyHEY]

32. good will hunting

Not THE MOST powerful but what comes to mind is in "Good Will Hunting" When WIll finally admits to his girlfriend that he was abused growing up.

Though it was .... oh trite, the end of bowling for columbine.

[BigMcLargehuge]

54. The scene where he discusses his abuse with Williams was great

Paraphrased:

Will: My dad used to lay out a belt, a stick, and a big wrench and make me choose.
Williams: Oh, I'd have to go with the belt...
Will: Nah, I always picked the wrench.
Williams: The wrench, why?
Will: Because fuck him, that's why.

[bowler_4_columbine]

33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The part at the end when the Chief realizes that McMurphy isn't kidding and the shock treatments have really made him a vegetable, the Chief holds the pillow of McMurphys' face... you're almost sobbing, and then the Chief pulls that huge fixture out of the floor in the bathroom and chucks it through the wall and you see him running away twords the rising sun... What an ending, it makes you cry but then leaves you with this image of hope.... a masterpiece of film making.

[Pert_UK]

34. Agreed........an intensely moving moment of cinema.

Always brings a tear to my eye.

The scene immediately beforehand when Billy kills himself is also incredibly powerful.

P.

[bowler_4_columbine]

35. Toy Story 2

One of those movies that you hate to admit made you cry. But it was the scene when the girl doll character realizes that the little girl who used to play with her is growing up and doesn't play with her anymore,...and she's remembering in a flash back montage all the good times they had playing together... Me and my wife were just blubbering....

[jobycom]

36. Sarah McLaughlin doesn't help, does she?

That song! It's sad enough without the movie.

[bowler_4_columbine]

38. Music

always adds a powerful emotional element to a film when it is used by a smart & creative director.

[Chryslin]

112. Dammit!

AWD and I just teared up reading the post! Thank you SO much.

on edit - AWD says he got "dust in his eye, and he was not crying, so stop saying that."

[tokenlib]

39. ET waking up in the cryo tank

It is just so cute--especially the motor mouth stuff.

[battleknight24]

40. The ending of Mulholland Drive...

... gets me a little choked up every time...

[amazona]

144. me too NT

.

[Rhiannon12866]

41. ``An Affair to Remember,''

1957, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. She had agreed to meet him on the top of the Empire State Building, but never showed up. Because she was looking up, she was hit by a car and crippled for life. He stayed there, waiting for her until they closed, and believed that she changed her mind. The poignant moment was when he finds her again and finally realizes how she really feels and what really happened. A real tear-jerker. The scenario from this movie is used to great effect in ``Sleepless in Seattle,'' 1993, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.;(

[opiate69]

42. The Champ

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0078950
The scene at the end... I think.. it's been a long time since I saw the movie.. Ricky Schroder, of all people, just slayed in this movie.

Honorable mention to Lucas
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091445

[BGAL1965]

43. Two more

The Grapes of Wrath and Mrs. Minnivre

[JohnKleeb]

44. hmmmm

1. Old Private James Ryan in Normandy Cemetery (saving private ryan)
2. Omaha Beach " "
3. The Death of John Coffey (Green Mile)
4. The city of Stalingrad and the Volga river (Enemy at the Gates)
5. The death of RFK (The life and times of RFK)
and so many more

[It was not a pretzel]

82. oh man

when he asks his wife if he's lead a good life. Moves me every time, and that's a film I dislike watching because of it's brutality.

[JohnKleeb]

105. yeah tear

I dont mind the brutality but its beautiful. I've become more senstive as the years go by yet more tougher.

[mrhunnybunny]

146. which film are you referring to?

[Bossy Monkey]

151. Saving Private Ryan (n/t)

[nuxvomica]

122. So they did save him. Cool.

Now I don't have to see that movie. ;-)

[SoCalDem]

46. The Best Years of Our Lives.. when Homer takes off his "arms"

Biography for
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Birth name
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Mini biography
Harold John Russell was born in Nova Scotia in 1914. His family moved to Cambrodge Massachusetts when his father died in 1919. He was training paratroopers at Camp MacKall NC on June 6, 1944 when some TNT he was using exploded in his hands. He lost both hands. After receiving hooks, and training on them, he was chosen to make an Army training film called "Diary Of A Sergeant". William Wyler saw the film and decided to change a character in his film _The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)_ from a spastic to a double amputee. Harold Russell played "Homer Parish. For this role he received 2 Oscars, a Best Supporting and one for being an inspiration to all returning veterans. He is the only actor to receive 2 Oscars for the same role. After the movie he attended Boston University. He later went on to help establish AMVETS as a viable alternative to the American Legion for veterans, though his dream of an international veterans organization was never realized. He later appeared in _Inside Moves (1980)_ and _Dogtown (1997)_. He lived with his wife on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. He wrote 2 biographies: "Victory In My Hands" (1947) & "The Best Years Of My Life", (1981).


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Mini biography
A Cambridge, Massachusetts native, Russell was working on an army film in 1944 when an explosive he was holding detonated accidentally, injuring his hands so severely that they had to be amputated. Russell was fitted with artificial hands and enrolled at Boston University's College of Business Administration (from which he graduated in 1949). At the same time, he went on to make an army film about the rehabilitation of veterans. Sam Goldwyn spotted Russell in the film and asked him to play in _The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)_, which won Russell a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1946.


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Spouse
Betty Marshallsee (1981 - 29 January 2002) (his death)
Rita Russell-Nixon (1944 - 1978) (her death) 2 children

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Trivia
Two children: Adele and Gerald

In August 1992, Russell sold his supporting-actor Oscar, saying he needed the money to pay his wife's medical bills and other expenses. An anonymous buyer paid $60,500, including a 10 percent commission for the auctioneer.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tried to keep him from selling his award, and offered to loan him money, but he turned them down. (Several Oscars have since been auctioned off posthumously, but the Academy now makes all recipients sign an agreement forbidding them from selling their Oscars.)

Annual award presented by the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities is called the Harold Russell Medal.

He was paid $10,000 for his role in The Best Years of Our Lives and received no residuals.

Director William Wyler told Russell after Best Years of Our Lives wrapped, "There aren't that many parts for a guy with no hands. You should go back to college, get your degree." Russell followed the advice, got a business degree from Boston University and became an ardent advocate for the disabled.

First wife Rita was his childhood sweetheart.

Served three terms as the National Commander of the AMVETS. As National Commander, he wrote an 11 April 1951 letter to President Truman supporting his decision to relieve General Douglas MacArthur of his supreme command: "The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy."

In 1964 he was appointed by President Johnson as chairman of the President's Committee on Hiring the Handicapped.

Russell became so adept with the hooks that replaced his hands, he would joke he could do anything with them except pick up a dinner check.

Volunteered the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Interred at Lakeview Cemetery, Wayland, MA.


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Personal quotes
"I don’t know why anybody would be critical. My wife’s health is much more important than sentimental reasons. The movie will be here, even if Oscar isn’t."

"It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts."

"I got my award for special contributions, and I'm hanging around backstage. I found out, months later, that when I was nominated for Supporting Actor, they figured I didn't have a chance, the other guys had too much background. When they got to Supporting Actor, they practically threw me out on the stage."


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Salary
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) $10,000

[blondeatlast]

83. Killer performance. One for the ages . . .

My mom had 5 brothers in WWII. This is a fmily favorite, but still hard to take.

[Dookus]

48. The...

final beach scene in Long Time Companion.

[mrhunnybunny]

147. oh yeh..

I remember that, I sobbed like a baby

[phrenzy]

49. Titanic

Believe me, I am a cynical bastard and normally would HATE movies such as this, but I never, ever balled so much at a movie as I did as I did through the end scenes of Titanic.

[Bossy Monkey]

68. You win the award for Best Typo of the Day

although I like it better your way. (Should be "bawled" as I'm sure you know.)

[Capn Sunshine]

71. Maybe it WASN'T a typo

There sure was a lot of noise in the balcony when I saw that movie....:crazy:

[Bossy Monkey]

78. "Good golly Miss Molly/ Sure likes to ball"

I never have figured out what the real words are...

[LibInternationalist]

50. that was mine, actually

play the marseillaise

[jomcnamara]

51. The baby carriage

rolling down the Odessa steps in Battleship Potemkin.

[maxanne]

53. Old Yeller

need I say more?

Also - the English Patient, when the count is carrying Katherine out of the cave.

Truly, Madly, Deeply - when the Jamie and the other ghosts are waving goodbye.

Sophie's Choice - the choice - oh my god

[nini]

85. WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH -- Old Yeller!

still makes me cry...

[Doctor_J]

55. When the Deltas regroup

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" ;-)

[lapislzi]

56. Moonstruck...Do ya love him, Loretta?

Oh, Ma...I love him awful.

Dat's too bad.

[catpower2000]

60. ALL of "The Killing Fields"...

I was born in 1972 and so don't remember Vietnam, but I have never cried so much at a movie in my LIFE. If you've seen this film, you know what I mean.

Also (guilty) Titanic, cried my eyes out.

Edward Scissorhands, when the town finally turns on him and chases him back to the old mansion.

Cat

[NYYFan]

79. That one gets me too CP, but even more Imitation of Life

the Lana Turner version. The part I start crying is when Annie is on her deathbed- I don't stop crying until the movie is over and the credits have stopped.;(

[magnolia]

94. I was going to say that....

When the daughter comes home and chases her mother's coffin down the street...so, so heartbreaking. If I need a good cry, all I have to do is think about it.

[Hubert Flottz]

61. Slingblade!

Carl was great! Made me want to laugh and cry at the same time!

[peacefreak]

62. Terms of Endearment

When Aurora storms the Nurse's Station for her daughter's medication & when Emma is seeing her children for the last time. Just rip my heart out, OK? Gets my every single time.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

118. Me too...seen it a million times

but when Debra Winger says goodbye to her kids....WAAAAHHHH

[mrhunnybunny]

148. I agree

that scene with Winger and the kiddies is simply heart breaking

[salin]

152. I lose it during the after-the-funeral scenes at Aurora's home.

reduces me to a riverspring.

[Jen72]

63. I am not really someone that cries at movies but...

Shindler's List - Especially when they took the children away.
A Night To Remember - The other Titanic movie
JFK
Silkwood
The Parent Trap (The Second one) - when Hallie as Annie first meets her mother. And going through to the scene in her mothers shop. The music is makes it even more moving.
The Hours

[Kamika]

66. when kirk blows up enterprise..

Or when they at the end of movie 6 gets orders to go back and leave the enterprise for a new crew and it was their last mission ever.

[GOPisEvil]

67. Brian's Song

I love Brian Piccolo...and tonight, I want you to love him too.

[GumboYaYa]

69. The Bicycle Thief

at the end when Ricci has to decide whether to steal the bicycle or not. That is one of the most powerful scenes in all cinema if you ask me.

[Kazak]

70. Watership Down

I love that movie, but I can't watch it without ruining my whole freakin' week.

[GCP]

98. The song, "Bright Eyes" does it for me

I believe it was in that Movie?

[davidinalameda]

72. Old Yeller

when the dog dies

[Chryslin]

113. AWD says "No spoilers, please"

He also says he's kidding....

[TXlib]

73. Schindler's List

When Schindler breaks down towards the end, with his "I could have done more" bit.

Just thinking about it gets me misty.

[Coventina]

75. Dumbo's mom singing "Baby Mine"

while she's in chains at the circus.

Just hearing the song makes me cry. It gets my vote as most touching lullaby of all time.

[blondeatlast]

86. That's it. I'm a blubbering waste now.

Absolutely heart-wrenching; I watched it again when my only child was about 2 weeks old.

HUGE mistake (or was it?)

Old Yeller, Toy Story 2 (When She Loved Me); this scene . . .

Disney was a cruel, cruel man . . .

[marigold20]

110. sobbing just to think of it.

nt

[carolinayellowdog]

77. Children of Paradise

when Garance and Baptiste are reunited and then separated again

[CBGLuthier]

81. Ladybug, Ladybug

Near the end when the girl hides in the refrigerator to avoid the bombs she thinks are coming.

And then it gets worse.

[MountainLaurel]

84. The Professional

When the girl is walking away after Jean Reno has died.

Dumbo: When his mother sings "Baby Mine" to him through the bars of the cage.

Steel Magnolias: M'Lynn in the cemetary after Shelby dies. Holy shit, that's a sobfest.

Beaches: What in that movie isn't emotional.

Philadelphia: Tom Hanks dancing with his partner at the costume party.

Sophie's Choice: OMG. Can't believe I was like 10 when I first saw that. It only hit me later what it was all about.

Leaving Las Vegas: Pretty much the whole movie, but particularly the scene after the rape by the johns.

Forrest Gump: When Jenny throws the stones at the house where she lived with her father.

[Alenne]

87. Boys Don't Cry and Leaving Las Vegas

I am glad I watched Boys Don't Cry alone. From the rape scene to the end of the movie I was angry and sobbing uncontrollably. I will never watch that movie again.

[Jonte_1979]

88. When Chief smothers McMurphy with a pillow

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

[noonwitch]

89. The Color Purple, when Shug and the jazz people go to church

singing "God is trying to tell you something". Then it goes into the scenes of Mister finally doing right by Celie and getting her sister home, and as they reunite, he's standing off watching from afar.

The other is from another Spielberg movie, Schindler's list. When Schindler is in the city and the ashes start falling. The kids are playing in them like it's snow, but it dawns on Schindler just what those ashes are. Spielberg does human transformation so well.

[RandomKoolzip]

90. "Rushmore," when the Faces' "Ooh La La" gets played at the dance...

I've seen this movie abot 50 times and everytime it grabs me by the booboo.

'Watership Down", the whole damn movie!

[EarlG]

91. Amadeus

When Mozart is dying at the end, and he's dictating the final parts of his "Requiem" to Salieri... as he dictates, you hear the music in the background... Salieri's freaking out...

Historically accurate? Doubtful. Emotional movie moment? Definitely.

[jobycom]

130. That movie

is beyond question the best filmwork I've ever seen. The death scene is powerful. Everything in it is powerful.

[DrGonzoLives]

92. The end of "The Killing Fields"

Very touching ending to an otherwise depressing movie.

[Harrumph]

93. The final scene in Funny Girl.

When Streisand sings 'My Man'. The passion she expresses is so powerful. I fell in love with her the moment I saw the movie and continue to be a huge fan.

[bowler_4_columbine]

127. Like butter....

..

[Terran]

95. Here are my favorites...

Except for one of these, I don't think anyone has mentioned:

"Titanic", at the very end when the camera plunges below the water to find the wrecked ship and it becomes like new again, and then you see all the people who died in the disaster and Leonardo and Kate are re-united. Also when DiCaprio's character succumbs, that's pretty damn emotional too.

"The Color Purple", the reunion scene between Whoopi Goldberg and her long lost sister and children.

"It's a Wonderful Life", at the end when George is reunited with his family and all this friends come pouring into the house and shower him with money and affection.

"The Wizard of Oz", two scenes: where Toto runs away out of the Wicked Witch's castle and Judy Garland cries, "Oh Toto! He got away, he got away!" (something about her extraordinary voice makes that line increduble affecting to me); and at the end, when she's reunited with her family, "There's no place like home."

Hmmm, there seems to be a theme here that I never detected before! :think:

And one last, "Little Buddha", at the end, where the boy scatters the ashes of Lama Dorja. Okay, that's not a happy reunion, but a resolution of sorts like the others.

All of these make me bawl my eyes out, but most especially "The Color Purple".

[Terwilliger]

111. from Titanic

when the water starts rushing in over the old couple...oh man, that just wrecks me

[lastliberalintexas]

116. That old couple

were the Strausses- he founded Macy's, I think. The story goes that she refused to get in the lifeboat if he couldn't join her. "As we have lived together, so shall we die together" or some other malarky that makes me cry.

[CBHagman]

100. Actually, that's my favorite moment in "Casablanca," too.

I always get choked up.

One of my friends says that when "Casablanca" plays at a classic movie house in Richmond, VA, the audience STANDS UP for the "Marseillaise."

Of course, there are a lot of other emotional movie moments I could name, but I'll just concur with that choice for now.

By the way, if you are a huge "Casablanca" fan (and I can guess you are), read Aljean Harmetz's book "The Making of Casablanca." It gets into the studio system, the politics, the personalities, the advent black list, etc.

[CBHagman]

102. Oh, you guys are killing me.

I'm going to have to do more. Here are a few:

Two good scenes from "Sense and Sensibility."

First, the angry scene:

When Marianne (Kate Winslet) accuses Elinor (Emma Thompson) of coldness because she hasn't displayed more emotion about her thwarted relationship with Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant):

Marianne: Elinor, where is your heart?

Elinor: What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

Second, a very different scene:

Marianne has fallen ill and is hovering near death, and Elinor begs her to fight her way back to life: "Marianne, you must try... please, do not leave me alone."

Both get me every time.

Then there are the conclusions of "Cinema Paradiso" and "Life Is Beautiful." The endings of both films caused me to weep uncontrollably.

Another scene that gets to me every time: The mud- and blood-spattered Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) laughing and crying in the arms of Fluellen (Ian Holm) near the conclusion of "Henry V."

And the St. Crispian's Day speech in the same film.

[tjdee]

108. There are ALOT from that movie...

Oh! When Marianne says to Colonel Brandon "Thank you for saving my life"...

And the end, when Emma Thompson is so overcome that she falls into the chair and lets out that sound, and the other three rush out of the room.....and them watching from the tree...."He's kissing her!"

And then the final bit, when Willoughby watches from the hill...oh, that gets me every time.

[Darranar]

104. I'll choose that one...

any day.

[Lady President]

106. Shawshank Redemption

The scene where Tim Robbins is in the creek with the rain teeming and tears off the prison shirt and raises his arms. I cry every single time I see that scene.

Honorable mention: Rudy (not the clapping and yelling Rudy's name scene) when his father who didn't really believe he was on the team, turns and starts telling the other fans "that's my boy." And again, I cry.

[Bush Loather]

140. Speaking of "Shawshank Redemption" ...

I always choke up at the part where that old man (the one who used to be the librarian in jail) hangs himself. He had spent so many years in jail he just couldn't readjust to life outside the prison walls. I remember he said something to the effect of: "Life had went and got itself in a hurry."

[DarbyUSMC]

109. So many to choose from

My Dog Skip Scene where the boy chases Skip away from the ball field

Gorillas in the Mist Sending the orphaned Gorilla away in the truck

Schindler's List The scene where he is saying good bye and crying that he didn't do enough. Also the survivors and families piling stones on Schindler's grave.

Love is a Many Splendored Thing Finding out he died in Korea

Glenn Miller Story Listening to the broadcast after getting news of his plane going down

Ghost the end, when he goes to the light

[Kathy in Cambridge]

119. I saw My Dog Skip and the Drive-In

which was good because my uncontrollable sobbing would have been embarrassing in the theater. I tear up jus thinking of that movie!

[kathee]

114. Bless the Beasts and the Children

I saw that movie when I was about twelve, and balled myself to sleep. Then I read the book, and cried all over again.;(

For some reason, I remember crying several times when Rudolph first came on TV. The part when they are on the chunk of ice. Don't know why that made me cry.

[The Lone Liberal]

115. When ole yeller died

Lordy I loved that dawg

[Piltdown13]

161. Oh yeah...

When I was in elementary school, they herded us into the auditorium one afternoon (there was no air conditioning, and it was apparently too hot to learn) and showed us "Old Yeller." By the end you had a room full of sobbing children.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

117. Au Revoir Les Enfants

if you haven't seen it, rent it. It is based on Louis Malle's childhood in a Catholic boarding school during WWII.

'au revoir, mon pere..." kills me every time.

[bmbmd]

120. The only time I have ever gasped out loud in a movie

Was when grown up Billy Elliot made that incredible leap in the "Swan Lake" scene at the end of "Billy Elliot".

The most memorable scene, for me, from any movie is at the end of ""Godfather"" when the guys kiss his ring and say"Don Corleone".

That was awesome..

[PassingFair]

153. Awwww, did ya have to remind me.

The scene where the older brother finds the dad breaking the strike so that Billy can go to dance school. God, I'm tearing up just thinking about it. "He's just a boy, just a little boy!."

[renegade000]

121. the ending of forest gump...

argh...i was tearing like crazy...haha

[nuxvomica]

123. "I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere."

... Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be there in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be there in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they built - I'll be there, too." Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath.

[classics]

124. Blade Runner

When at the end, Roy gives his speech.

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shore of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannehauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain. Time to Die.”

[Terran]

135. Jeez, that's only my favorite movie...

...How did I miss that one? Yes, I totally agree, that's a major choker-upper scene.

[chefgirl]

125. The last scene in 'The Way We Were'

..when Katie (Streisand) reaches up to brush the hair away from Hubbel's (Redford's) forehead.
That scene shreds me every time I see that movie, and I've literally watched it at least 50 times. I cry like a fool EVERY time. :(

-chef-

[Wickster]

126. Mary Poppins

I know it sounds weird, but when Mary leaves those little children I just start crying my eyes out.

Of course there is "Old Yeller" but then there is also "The Lion King" when the father lion dies; "Bambi" when the mother deer is killed.

and "Message in a Bottle";( ;(

[MoonGod]

128. The Fox and the Hound...

... the very end, where they know they can never be friends again... and they see but can't acknowledge each other...

:~(

[jobycom]

131. Immortal Beloved

When she realizes she's lost her entire life to a misunderstanding.

[NightTrain]

132. I don't know about "ever"...

...but I shed a whole lotta tears during the final scene of "Dancer in the Dark" a few years back. Bjork should've been nominated for Best Actress, not just Best Original Song!

Also, the final scene of "Schindler's List," in which we see the Schindler Jews of 1993, moved me beyond words. That's when it finally hits you: all those harrowing, painful events we had just spent three hours watching, really happened to real people! Whew.

[KeepItReal]

133. Jerry McGuire when Rod Tidwell gets the phat contract at the end

:thumbsup:

You gotta love that.

[CanuckAmok]

134. The Cradle Will Rock...

The Dummy's Funeral... probably the best-ever display of the end of idealism.

[DaneUSA]

136. Well...

It's not really a movie but I get all choked up everytime Buffy saves the world at the end of the WB era.

[dback]

137. The hug goodbye between Liotta and Hulce, "Dominick & Eugene"

Try to watch it dry-eyed, I dare you. Both actors have never been finer.

[cosmicdot]

138. Glory ... Out of Africa ... Maurice ...

Glory ... when Robert Gould Shaw rides his horse to the front of his troops to lead the charge up the beach ...

Out of Africa when Karen Blixen leaves Africa for the last time ... before she boards the train, she gives one of her servants a pocket watch, and he says to build bonfires so he would always know where she is ...

Maurice ... final scene in the boathouse - we shall never be parted

don't know if these are the 'most ... ever' ... but, they are examples ...

[DisgustedTX]

139. Forrest Gump at Jenny's grave

Fictional as it may be - the essence of love & longing.

[geniph]

142. Not good emotional, but bad emotional

the single most upsetting movie moment ever, to me, is the scene where the nuns are murdered in Salvador. It's more emotionally wrenching than anything I've ever seen on screen. I was a complete basket case for a week after seeing that.

[mrhunnybunny]

149. not most emotional moment, but still v. moving

I won't give it away, but the final scene of Beautiful Thing as the wonderful Mama Cass music plays.

I cry my heart out every time. Not from sadness, but cuz its sooo sweet.

[WCGreen]

150. So many, so many

All of the one's I have seen on this post made me cry. Does that mean we are all libural sofites.....

A few I didn't see in the thread and few scenes not mentioned ....

In Country - A Bruce Willis movie about life for small town vets ten years on from Vietnam....

A mother, daughter and friend of a killed vet travel to the Wall. The mother is huge, about 350 and she climbs up this ladder to put her hand on the name of her boy... Hold on, I'm Veklemped.....

Matawan - Chris Cooper explaining things as they are to the miners in the hills of West Virginia. The two ladies, one from West Virginia one from Italy sharing food as they keep the strike going.....

Boys Town - One of the worst movies of all time but still, when Mickey Rooney stoops to pick up Pee Wee.....

The Gladiator - When he is at peace and walking through the fields to rejoin his family....

Sullivan's Travels - When he sees it is comedy that calms the beast at the end of the picture....

Primary Colors - When Travolta is talking to the donut boy.....

The Searchers - When John Wayne can't make it through the door at the end. Worse, when no one invites him through the door and into the house....

How the West Was Won - When Jimmy Sewart is trying his best not to kiss Caroline Jones and thus seal his fate as a farmer.....

On Golden Pond - "You're my knight in shinning armor...."

It's a Wonderful Life - When JS and Donna Reed are about to kiss and they are almost angry at each other for falling in love....

The Ox Bow Incident - When you realize the power of the mob and there is absolutley nothing that can be done to save the life of Anthony Quinn...

Lonesome Dove - When they have to string up Bob Urich even though they are know him well, and when Gus dies up in Montana...

The Natural - The end where the shower of lights turn into a ball floating through the air and we see Robert Redford playing catch with his son....

Okay, so I went overboard but I am a nut when it comes to movies. Especially great ones like all the one's mentioned here on thins thread...

Thanks for making the Web Fun and not always so freakin' serious....

[PassingFair]

154. Every year...

On Christmas Eve, I pour a glass of red wine, put on the Alastair Simm version of A Christmas Carol, wrap my families presents and cry like a baby. Twice. Once when Fanny dies, and again when Ebeneezer arrives at his nephews Christmas party and asks his nephews wife to forgive him. Always watched this movie with my dad every year and after the emotional purge, I'm ready for a joyous Christmas. Makes me feel that anything is possible. God Bless Charles Dickens (and I'm an agnostic!)

[mrfrapp]

155. Betty Blue

Final scene.

The only others that spring to mind, have been mentioned already - Toy Story 2 and 1984. Oh, and erm... Star Trek 2, Spocks death scene, but that's just between us, okay :-)

[jus_the_facts]

157. The Green Mile......execution scene.......

.....always makes me SQUALL....gut wrenching sobs every single time...

I'm tired boss....I'm tired of being on the road...lonely as a sparrow in the rain...I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with...to tell me where we's goin' to...comin' from...or why...mostly I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other....I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...everyday there's too much of it....It's like peices of glass in my head all the time...Can YOU understand.....John Coffey~The Green Mile~ by Stephen King x(

[jus_the_facts]

158. I cried all through Braveheart......FREEEEEEEEDOM...

.....there were so many tear jerkin' scenes in it...but that last one.....Ooooooh MAN!x(

[mrfrapp]

159. Stephen King

Stephen King is such an amazing writer of dialogue. One of the best IMO and the Green Mile is his crowning moment.

I read the Green Mile month by month as it was released and devoured every sentence. I was hoping that he would write more chap-books but now I'm just hoping that he writes more books, period. It is true that he has suffered serious injury and that every day is a blessing and I hear that he's nearing blindness, but he's still a young man and I hope, I pray, that he finds the strength to continue. If not, the world of literature shall have been robbed of an author in his prime

[jus_the_facts]

160. Absolutely.....I agree.......

....I'm a HUGE fan...have collected almost all his works in hardback...he's my most favorite author! :)

on edit...I cried even harder after I read the book The Green Mile....it was even sadder than the movie IMO!