GUT WRENCHING SCENES IN MOVIES!!!!

[lost-in-nj]

CHAMP!!!!!!! I want champ!!!!!!!!!!


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

lost

[NightWatcher]

1. is it safe? is it safe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG5Qk-jB0D4&feature=related

[BlueIris]

65. self-delete

[Xipe Totec]

2. Tamara pleads for her son's life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIrXqH1YIUo

[AlCzervik]

3. i can't find a clip but the last 10 minutes of "the last king of Scotland" were tough

to watch. gut wrenching and ass clinching.

That champ clip, no way i can wtch that, i've only seen it once and i'll start bawling if i watch it.

also the last 6 minutes of the finale of six feet under, my god i cried for an hour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWdYMuo3_B4

[Generic Brad]

4. Oh my, God!

That is exactly what came to my mind when I saw the title of your post!

[Maccagirl]

5. When Sophie (Meryl Streep) is forced to make her "choice".

n/t

[Xipe Totec]

7. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Oc5ny3hjg

[jgraz]

55. Gotta say, I've never seen the movie and that clip made me tear up

Maybe I should run for president. :P

[Xipe Totec]

58. She has to chose which child to sacrifice

to spare the other.

She sacrificed her daughter, to save her son.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

54. That's the worst for me...

[driver8]

80. I was thinking the same thing.

That was one of the toughest movies to watch for me.

[Lil Missy]

110. That's the one I thought of too.....

I walked out of that movie feeling so depressed and heart broken.

Her role in Ironweed, with Jack Nicholsen, (sp?) was just as depressing.

[Adsos Letter]

6. Schindler's List...

the scene where they are emptying the Children's Camp for transport...my emotional self-control pretty much disappeared at that point...

[Va Lefty]

8. The Killing Fields

When they are trying to make Pran a passport so he can stay inside French Embassy

[NewJeffCT]

75. That whole movie is gut-wrenching

I don't think any movie experience I'd ever had was more intense.

I haven't watched it since it was in the theaters, though, probably because it's something I'd need to sit down & watch from beginning to end.

[crim son]

9. The PBS version of Dr. Zhivago,

when Lara is taken away at the end of the movie, and she tells her son to run. Oh God, I cried all night.

[Kutjara]

10. The first fifteen minutes of "Saving Private Ryan."

For me, it was the first film that viscerally brought home the carnal horror of war.

[crim son]

11. I agree about the first scene.

I could scarcely sit through the rest, though.

[Kutjara]

12. I agree, the rest was crap.

If Spielberg had simple ended the movie at about the 25 minute mark, he would have created a classic. Sadly, he didn't.

[Paladin]

37. They'll Be Showing "Ryan" On Memorial Day 50 Years From Now

It's a classic, whether you like it or not......

[Kutjara]

60. I'm sure you're right.

Doesn't stop it from being the usual Spielbergian blend of mawkishness and leaden symbolism, though. Visually stunning, thematically feeble.

[SPKrazy]

13. It was surreal

and yet, so very real

war is blood and bones, and death, and carnage, and fear, and terror, and sheer force of will and luck.

To have made it to the beach, and beyond, must have been at once both horrifying and unreal feeling at the same time.

The movie was excellent.

War is horror, the horror.

[momophile]

18. I cried like a baby.

the guy I saw it with later told me he was worried about me.

[MrsMatt]

41. my father-in-law had nightmares after seeing that movie

he is a veteran of the Korean war (received a purple heart at Heartbreak Ridge), and had never wanted to talk about his experience. After that movie, he's been much more forthcoming (still reluctant but will answer questions).

[conscious evolution]

107. My Uncle had them also.

He landed on Omaha as a Beach Master with the Navy.
My father and another Uncle said he never spoke of that day.

[MrsMatt]

42. my father-in-law had nightmares after seeing that movie

he is a veteran of the Korean war (received a purple heart at Heartbreak Ridge), and had never wanted to talk about his experience. After that movie, he's been much more forthcoming (still reluctant but will answer questions).

[Paladin]

43. When It Was Released, Warnings Were Issued......

....at some veterans' hospitals and facilities, giving notice that the movie might be unduly disturbing to some of the old soldiers.

My relatives who fought in WWII were just like your father-in-law---they never talked about it. "Saving Private Ryan" gave me a hard, visceral idea of why they remained silent. I would have loved to have talked it over with them, but they were all gone by the time the movie game out.....

[Xipe Totec]

14. K-19 The Widowmaker

Russian sailors walking to certain death inside a hot nuclear sub reactor, to keep it from exploding off the US coast and starting WW-III.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTHS7sjTls

This is just a clip collection from the film; could not find the crucial scene.

[Danger Mouse]

15. Here are some of my favorites...

'Once Upon a Time in the West'
A cold-blooded killer guns down a family, then shoots the survivor, a small child, when one of his men calls him by his name (thus making the child a 'witness')

'Sweeney Todd'
So uhm...wait a second, WHAT'S in those pies? :puke:

'Once Upon a Time in America'
The scene with Noodles in the back of the limo. Instantly transforms a somewhat sympathetic character into a loathsome scumbag.

but for me, the big winner is...
'Little Big Man'
The main character watches helplessly as General Custer mercilessly slaughters a Native camp, right down to the women and children, while cadence is playing in the background on the drum and flute. Lots of intense stuff in that movie.

[nytemare]

16. Joy Luck Club and Crash

Joy Luck Club when the sick mother Suyuan fled the Japanese invasion of China, and had to leave her infant twins under a tree, along with all her worldly possessions, of fear she would die around the babies and no one would take them out of fear they were cursed.

Couldn't find that clip.

Here is the one from "Crash", with the protective cloak. Heartbreaking.

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

[Flaxbee]

17. a few scenes in The Constant Gardener, but one of them just

absolutely killed me... The main character (Ralph Fiennes) goes to a refugee camp to see one of the doctors who had been involved in the pharmaceutical scam that led to his wife's murder, and a raid begins - one of the groups involved in tribal warfare comes to steal food, and kids for their militia. The aid workers all dash to the plane (that had been there to drop the food) and Ralph grabs one of the young girls - 6 or 7 - to take her with them but the pilot refuses (aid-group rules or something) so they leave her behind; you see her running off to try to hide as the plane takes off. He asks what will happen and the doctor just said that if she's lucky, she'll be able to hide and find another camp. But just seeing her run, knowing she'd been abandoned by the aid group, but you know she's just running for her life at that point and has no time to be sad or scared, was so devastating. One of the reasons why the the main character makes the decision he makes in the end.

I just see it over and over and over again, especially in light of President Shithead starting wars and wasting resources that could have been used to save others in need, rather than creating a new nightmare.

Edited to remove spoiler

[nytemare]

19. Forgot the end scene in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".

One of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GDJXDGhae8

[pokerfan]

20. "Hey Dad? Wanna have a catch?"

http://www.youtube.com/v/3XS2UtAlmX4&rel=1

[Left Brain]

40. omg that kills me

Can't even THINK about that scene without tearing up.

[IndianaJones]

21. Me, Myself and Irene when he finds out those aren't his kids. nt.

[Broken_Hero]

22. Simon Birch

at the end....

And We Were Soldiers, when Madeline Stowe's character takes up the charge of delivering bad news to mothers/wives, that their husbands have passed.

Schindlers list, at the end...when he grabs the gold pin he was wearing, and asks his wife, how many jews could I have saved if I sold this

[krispos42]

23. The end of "Life is Beautiful"

I sat in the theatre sobbing for a couple of minutes after the lights came up.

[SacredCow]

29. That movie was just phenomenal....

didn't come to any theatres here, so I watched it on DVD. At the time I was feeling sorry for myself for the bitter divorce I was going through, and it really put things in perspective for me.

[krispos42]

46. I watched on the $2 movie in Newtown...

They got movies a month or so after they were released. I think it was the old town hall that they used. So I got to see it on the big screen, and I was a blubbering mess afterwards.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. The end of Vera Drake

Where she (Imelda Staunton) is sentenced in court to prison for giving poor women illegal abortions in Britain in 1950.

[MilesColtrane]

25. "Brian's Song"

Locker room scene.

[driver8]

81. If you don't cry during that scene, you aren't human!

Man, that movie gets me everytime!!

[Frank Cannon]

26. An obscure movie with Don Johnson called "Cease Fire"...

from 1985.

Johnson (in a very good performance) played a Vietnam vet who's suffering from severe PTSD and whose life is pretty much in a shambles. At the end of the film, he finally comes to grips with a certain act he performed in the war that brought about such grief. I cried like a baby.

I don't know why this film didn't get more attention than it did.

[cemaphonic]

27. Both scenes at Miller's Crossing

in the eponymous movie.

"Look into your heart."

[blindpig]

28. Apocalypse Now

The air assault, when the school girl throws the grenade in the chopper, blowing it up, and is then machine gunned.

While Wagner pounds on.

[SPKrazy]

50. the horror

the horror

this is the end my friend, my only friend, the end...

that end scene is something else altogether... gut wrenching and mind wrenching...

[hellbound-liberal]

30. One word.. Platoon!

A haunting end to a truly haunting chronicle of one of the darkest periods of our history. This ending and the music have stayed with me ever since I first saw this movie back in the 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIJZGR2FaDA

[MrScorpio]

31. The Final Act of Spartacus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkFLvntC1R8

[alphafemale]

32. Artax dies in the Swamp of Sadness

That was the only time I've heard a gasp and open sobbing in a theater.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y688upqmRXo

[livetohike]

33. Requiem for a Dream....

the entire movie :-(.

[Wetzelbill]

68. in that weird ending sequence

that has quick edits and goes back and forth to all the different characters, this girl I knew went with the movie with her friend, and it was too much for him. He had a seizure and dropped over in the theater. An ambulance had to come get him and everything. Intense stuff.

[livetohike]

77. That part triggered a migraine for me so I can see how

your friend's friend had a seizure.

The movie was haunting...."there but for the grace of God" - I know some people who didn't make it :cry:.

[S n o w b a l l]

34. Big Fish

I cried and cried.

Last scene of the movie....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJJkDsG2590&feature=related

[alphafemale]

61. I love this movie. I think it is one of the most over looked ever.

A really great story.

[Bzzzz]

35. Bridges of Madison County...

when Francesca went to town with her husband and seen Robert. She was in the truck and had to make the decision of jumping out and leaving with Robert or continuing her life with her husband. :cry:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. Once Were Warriors

When you realize just how traumatized Grace is and what she is about to do...

When I saw that film at the Portland Film Festival, the whole audience gasped with one voice.

[Wetzelbill]

69. oh yeah that is heavy

that's a great film.

[Broken_Hero]

83. Good choice, that

movie was powerful...

[vi5]

90. Holy Hell.....someone has seen that!!!

That is one of the greatest movies and so underrated and not nearly enough people have seen it or give it the respect it deserves.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

121. Yes, it played at the Portland Film Festival a few years ago

and then had a run at one of the art house theaters there. I recommended it to friends who were social workers, and they thought it was superb, too.

I think what makes that scene so wrenching is that Grace is the most likable character in the film.

[elehhhhna]

117. The book is even better.

[Paladin]

38. 'Pan's Labyrinth"---The Whole Fucking Movie

Absolute agony, the entire way through. Beautifully done, but sheeesh........

[Mz Pip]

39. The insurrection in the Warsaw Ghetto

in the movie "The Pianist." Actually the whole movie was pretty gut wrenching but the scenes in the Warsaw Ghetto stay with you a long long time.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[sakabatou]

44. Grave of the Fireflies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_KCRIDbEXM

^---- Summary music video.

[no name no slogan]

45. The scene in Stripes

where the platoon does their graduation drill without training

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

Brings a tear to my eye every time :rofl:

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

47. Wow!

[peacefreak]

48. Terms of Endearment.....

Excuse me. It's after ten. Give my daughter the pain shot.
Mrs Greenway, I was going to.
- Good. Go ahead. - Just a few minutes.
Please. It's after ten.
I don't see why she has to have this pain?
- Ma'am, It's not my patient. - It's time! Do something!
All she has to do is hold on until ten!
And it's past ten! My daughter's in pain!
- Give her the shot! - Are you going to behave?
GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!
Thank you very much. Thank you.

Brings me to my knees every time. It brings back watching my loved one in pain & waiting for the fucking shot.

[Mad_Dem_X]

52. Yes, that scene and

when Debra Winger dies. Shirley MacLaine was terrific in that movie.

[youthere]

88. You see the exact moment of realization on her face...

There's no dialogue, just superb acting.

[Red State Rebel]

102. My Mom died of cancer and that movie wiped me out!

It looked so real when she was dying and when she died - I was an absolute mess.

[Sacajawea]

57. peacefreak.....when I worked as an RN, giving pain meds. promptly was always my first priority...

I never wanted a patient to have to wait any longer than was required, but we were allowed a certain amount of leeway and I generally stretched it as much as I could. I'm so sorry you had to witness your loved one in pain.

OP/mod -off topic, I know.

[Dogmudgeon]

49. The beach scene in *Deep Impact*

That one gets a lot of people.

--p!

[texas1928]

85. For me it is when the astronauts are telling their families goodbye.

I have a hard time with that scene.

[WinkyDink]

51. "Old Yeller". You know the scene.

[Mad_Dem_X]

53. Brokeback Mountain - When Ennis finds the shirts

in the closet at Jack's childhood home. Heath Ledger was phenomenal. :cry:

[zingaro]

92. Yep. That's where I start

and I don't stop until the credits have all rolled by.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

56. I probably shouldn't bring this movie up here....

...but my gut was wrenched during the beating scenes in Passion of the Christ...
And the scene in YaYa Sisterhood where Vivianne beats the crap out of her kids.
Duckie

[Stuart G]

59. NIght and Fog....32 mintues.,,

Every second is real, ..most powerful, horrific film ever made.

...you don't need to believe me...here are comments from IMBD...(Internet Movie Data Base...user comments)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/usercomments

[MonkeyFunk]

62. The final beach scene of Longtime Companion

oh. my. fucking. god.

[MotorCityMan]

96. Another scene in Longtime Companion that gets to me...

The scene where Bruce Davison tells his dying lover to let go just gets me sobbing.

[Benfea]

63. The little girl's death scene from Grave of the Fireflies

I don't think this board supports spoiler tags, so I don't want to give anything away.

[kentauros]

119. I was just looking for a clip of this

and saw the post above with the trailer. The whole movie will tear your heart out, but that ending... Well, just go rent it and have someone to hold at the end, you'll need it ;)

[Perry Logan]

64. Toward the end of "Coming Home," when Bruce Dern's character walks into the sea...

...and you hear this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thc-sWNcGU

[BlueIris]

66. The scene in "Boys Don't Cry" when (spoilers)

Brandon is recounting the details of his sexual assault to the police.

That and "I don't care if you're half monkey or half ape—I'm getting you out of here." (At which point, BlueIris burst into tears.)

[Orsino]

67. The Abyss

The scene in which the hero and heroine decide that the only way for both to reach safety is for her to drown and depend on being revived...followed by the drowning. That's gut-wrenching.

[zingaro]

93. Yes yes yes

That book is also quite intense in and of itself.

[Benfea]

98. Yeah, that scene always gets me.

It's funny. The filmmakers obviously felt that the emotional climax was Bud trying to revive her in the sub bay, but for me the most tear-jerking moment was Bud watching her drown herself.

[Orsino]

105. Yeah, funny I didn't mention the reviving.

That sort of thing has been done again and again. But drowning oneself? That's unique, or nearly so.

[Wetzelbill]

70. "Swingers" when Mikey (Jon Favreau) keeps calling the girl and leaving

messages on her answering machine. Oh man that is cringe-inducing. It reminded me of something I did before. Not like that exactly, but leaving a drunk message, oh lord.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0PUrNwvvBk

[Eurobabe]

71. The cave scene in the English Patient

yeah that is my favorite movie, EVA. I saw it 7 times in the theater.

[PRETZEL]

72. I'm not a huge movie fan nor a big Matthew McCougheney fan

but the final courtroom scene in his movie "A Time to Kill" where he asks the jury to close their eyes and he recreates the story of the crime is very moving and telling.

[bif]

73. "Dancer in the Dark"

When the cop steals Bjork's money out of the coffee can.

[vi5]

91. Great movie...and also Dogville

..also by Lars Van Trier.

[Rambis]

74. The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Brutal throughout but a great film- I felt ill after watching it but it was well worth it.

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[NoBorders]

76. 'I Am Sam'

When Sean Penn's character has his daughter taken from him at the aiport.

[MissMillie]

106. "I worry that I've gotten more out of this than you"

Sean Penn getting his daughter back was not the only gut wrencher in that story. Michelle Pfiefer learning to re-arranger her priorities... made me cry.

[hamsterjill]

109. Mystic River

The pain and anger of Sean Penn's character when he comes upon the police homicide scene and realizes his daughter is the victim.

[Stuart G]

78. A scene in Sicko....when..........

It is shown in LA where they dump elderly people off , they are thrown out of a taxi
........ in front of a public hospital and let them walk around in front of it until someone comes out from the hospital to talk to them.
..We are told that is the way some other hospitals treat elderly people who cannot pay their bills, they throw them out, and send them out into the cold.........

..........egh
...:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Arkansas Granny]

79. Steel Magnolias. When Sally Fields was trying to explain to

the other women her anger at losing her daughter so young I found myself holding my breath to keep from sobbing uncontrollably to the point that I thought I would pass out. It so accurately mirrored by own feelings about the loss of a child that it was almost unbearable. It literally made my heart ache.

[Mad_Dem_X]

113. Yes

Very, very heartbreaking scene. Sally was marvelous.

[TrogL]

82. Car crashes that come out of nowhere

Brings back several baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad memories.

Craftygal's had to help unclench my fists and get my jaw to unlock.

[Blarch]

84. Braveheart's ending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgukYsAF5TI

[texas1928]

86. The whole last half of "My Life"

I can not watch that movie.

[youthere]

87. The plane crash in "Alive"

[racaulk]

89. Two scenes from "The Color Purple"

The scene when Shug and her father reconcile their differences, the "God Is Trying to Tell You Something" scene.

And the scene at the end where Celie and Nettie are finally reunited. Makes me cry every time.

[alphafemale]

111. In "The Color Purple" when Mister physically wrenches Celie and Nettie apart.

My gawd that is almost impossible to watch.

[Mad_Dem_X]

114. "Whyyyy? Whyyyyyy?"

That scene tears me up!

[zingaro]

94. The Last Samurai

The final "battle" scene. It slays you anyway but then when that gun starts firing...ach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz68_xDww2o

The first time I saw that, I could barely breathe. It broke my heart. What a way to bring that movie home. Tom Cruise might be a total freak but he didn't suck in that movie. And Ken Watanabe is amazing. Just amazing.

"Perfect. They are all...perfect."

[NoPasaran]

95. Kathleen Turner disemboweling Lonnie Horsey in "Serial Mom"

Although to be Jesuitical about it, she's using a fireplace poker, not a wrench.

[MotorCityMan]

97. Homeward Bound; The Incredible Journey

I have seen this movie so many times and there are two scenes in particular that just turn on my waterworks;

1) In the beginning, when the older dog Shadow jumps on his owner and says "You're the best boy in the world!". I don't know why, but that scene gets to me.

2) The ending when the pets make it back home to their owners. Just the happy ending of the 2 dogs and cat making it back starts the tears. Then the older dog Shadow runs to his boy and says "I was so worried about you!" (all Shadow's been through, almost doesn't make it home, and he's more worried about his boy). I am a total mess at this point.

I think, for me, it's the wishful thinking that this is how MY pets would feel and talk, if they could.

[Benfea]

99. Does TV count? Battlestar Galactica (new series)....

...the scene from the beginning of season three when Ellen Tigh was executed by her husband made me all gushy.

[Vanje]

100. Whats eating Gilbert Grape

When Gilbert Grape hits his brother.

The whole movie was pretty gut-wrenching

[alphafemale]

115. When the mother went to get her son from jail and people were snickering and pointing on the street.

"Give me my boy!"

[lost-in-nj]

101. THANK YOU!!!!!

I have read EVERY POST

and watched every clip......

awesome

thank you
thank you


lost

I agree with EVERY ONE


:hug: :hug:

[Dukkha]

103. The "curb stomp" in American History X

the teeth scraping the pavement!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a08PnAc76CI

[tigereye]

104. there are a few in Pan's Labyrinth....

[qb]

108. The beginning of "The Thin Ice" in Pink Floyd the Wall

"Momma loves her baby..." sung over images of bloody & crying soldiers on stretchers.

[JanMichael]

112. When the Senate ignored motions that the 2000 election was stolen

Who presided over that scene in F-911? I'd rather not say...

[EnviroBat]

116. The end of Gladiator...

The sound track gets me every time. Like a little punk.

[elehhhhna]

118. When Scout looks behind the door and says, simply "Hey, Boo."

In the book or the film it just somehow KILLS me.

Hell, the theme from the film makes me cry like Pavlov's dog drooled.

[Deep13]

120. The scene in Braveheart where Mel Gibson is disemboweled.

That's literally gut-wrenching. Still, I have the urge to watch it over and over again.