What's a movie scene that made you really cry?

I cry more often in documentaries. I think its because they are true, it hits me harder.

End of Marley and Me

the end of Big Fish, when he’s got to take his dad to the river and all the people from his dad’s life are there.

when i was a kid, when Charlotte died in Charlotte’s Web

I can’t remember the last time this happened to me, but that’s because I haven’t seen any new movies recently. (And most of the movies I re-watch aren’t the type to cry over.)

If an animal dies in a movie, though…I will probably start bawling. Really. Pass the tissues!

Actually, the look how they massacred my boy scene after Sonny gets shot up in TG does it for me.

@jackm Have you seen the Invisible Children documentaries?
@evegrimm Fox and the Hound makes me cry.

The scene in Sling Blade where the character played by Billy Bob Thornton is talking to the little boy in the park about his life.

I didn’t cry, but the girlfriend scene in “Up” got to me.

In the movie, “Where The Red Fern Grows” when the dogs die and the flower appears where they are buried.

When Bambi’s mother died. Gets me every time.

I cried for 85% of P.S. I Love You.
DO NOT WATCH IT. You’ll have such a headache afterward.

Have you ever seen “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”?

Remember the scene where they were going back through all their good memories of being with each other and they couldn’t stop those memories from being erased because they made the decision to erase each other?

It made me cry so hard because at the time I was in the break up stage with my a very close person and it seemed to relate so well.

@buckyboy28 If I hadn’t seen UP with my boy, I would have cried. I was damn near tears until he said something funny.

@Beta_Orionis Too late. I was a mess during that movie.

Also. I feel like I should hide for this, but The Hannah Montana movie made me cry a lot too. >.<

The last scene in “The Mask” because I knew the movie was over.

@Insomnia yeah, that is a very touching movie in general.

Old Yeller where the boy is looking into Yeller’s eyes and he’s all frothy mouthed from rabies.

@rangerr Oh man was it hard to watch!

I’ll overlook the Hannah Montana comment :P

@hungryhungryhortence I haven’t thought about Old Yeller in forever. That’s one of the few scenes that stuck with me because it was so sad!

Here’s the part I was talking about. The whole movie is sad.

Not a movie, but oh god. Every time.

Also, this. And I don’t even like dogs.

@le_inferno; Buffy (the character) annoys me too much to garner any tears, but Willow and Oz have come close.

But, real men never cry. Growl. * Rips shirt *

The end of Old Yeller is the be-all, end-all of sad parts in movies.

@le_inferno, that’s a “good” episode. (If emotional = good, then yes, very good.)

I didn’t answer with any tv episodes or scenes because the OP asked for movies specifically. :P

Steel Magnolias when Sallie Fields breaks down at the funeral. The first time I saw it I sobbed. I still get teary when I watch it.

What’s that other movie we all watched at one point in school that had a dog die? Shiloh?

Also, did anyone ever have to watch the anti-bullying video about the kid who ended up being pushed in front of a car?
I think we saw that in 4th grade, and the entire class cried.

I only cried once, so I’ll never forget it. It was at the end of this old cheesy movie, The Thorn Birds. The scene is at the cemetery, when the Catholic priest is standing at the grave of the son of the woman he loved before he became a priest. He is greatly saddened by the young man’s death, but the big shock comes when the priest’s old love finds him at the grave and scornfully reveals that the deceased was his biological son. The look on Richard Chamberlain’s face just killed me. Watching him get weak in the legs and collapse just made me lose it.

I almost wish I could cry for a movie now. I think it would make me enjoy the movie more and provide a bit of emotional release.

I almost cried at the end of Little Children.

When Mary Louise Parker dies in Fried Green Tomatos.
(Boys don’t cry, though…)

The scene in Hope Floats when the little girl is running after her daddy sobbing for him to take her with him as he drives away. I cried so hard in the theater that I embarrassed the friend I was with.

Give my daughter the shot.
From Terms of Endearment.

@eponymoushipster Big Fish got to me too. I miss that movie.. Need to go and see it again..

Another film which pushed me to crying was Simon Birch towards the end when he’s about to die. I had to rush out of the room to hide my tears. Up also made me tear up in a few places.

The end of “A.I.” had me bawling like a baby the third time I watched it. It was all about the context in which I watched it.

@ru2bz46 I can’t believe I forgot A.I.. Thanks (?) for reminding me.

I don’t know if it’s weird, but I teared up in multiple places while watching Into the Wild.

Any sad dog movie and most of Sampson & Delilah

In Forrest Gump, the scene where he goes to Jenny’s apartment and learns that little Forrest is his son, and asks in obvious fear, whether the boy is smart, or like himself. From there, all the way through Jenny’s funeral.

In Star Trek II, the scene after Spock’s death, where Kirk presides over a ceremony for launching Spock’s body away into space, when he says “Of my friend, I can only say this. Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human” with his voice breaking on “most” and then him having to gather himself to force out the word “human.” It’s just a brief moment, but very poignant, IMO, and probably the best moment of Shatner’s acting career.

Also agreed about Where The Red Fern Grows, Bambi, Old Yeller, and Steel Magnolias…

I would agree with @hungryhungryhortence and Old Yeller. I also cried at the Tom and Huck’s funeral in Tom Sawyer. The book even got to me on that scene.

It takes a lot to wring a tear out of me at a movie. I remember that it’s a movie, and once in a while I choke up, but mostly I just think “well done” if it gets a strong reaction from me, without ever having to grab for a hankie. However, the last film scene that actually had tears streaming down my face was the execution of Anne Boleyn in The Tudors series. And it’s not as though I weren’t expecting it.

Can’t believe nobody has said The Notebook yet. Stupid fucking tear-jerking moie…

Sometimes I feel like I need to cry and I can’t make myself do it. I pop What Dreams May Come in the DVD player and I end up sobbing hysterically. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen it, and I can even watch it twice in a row, and I still cry just as hard every single time.

In general, scenes where a parent breaks down (either crying or in a rage) over something that happened to their child (even if it’s an adult child) will make me cry.

@MacBean Yes!! The Notebook for me too.

When I was 12 years old I saw Titanic for the first time and that made me really really cry. I find the whole love story aspect of Titanic very boring (I’m not a romantic movie fan) but the scene where the old couple are lying on the bed waiting to die, the mother reading to her children, when the captain decides to go down with the ship and when the officer gives the navy salute before shooting himself because he killed someone in the rush to get keep everyone under control all make me bawl my eyes out.

Animal films get me every time. As a kid I found Homeward Bound heartbreaking when the old Retriever falls into the ditch and they struggle to save him made me cry lots too.

I also can’t believe no one has mentioned The Lion King when Mufasa dies!

Legends of the Fall. It’s hard to pick just one moment in this movie. When Tristin holds Samuel until he dies is one heartbreaking scene. I was also in tears when Isabel Two was killed. This is one of my favorite movies because of how emotional the entire film made me feel. Excellent movie and one of Brad Pitt’s best performances. imo

Schindler’s List. Especially when color is being used all of a sudden. There’s this dead girl on a small wagon burned into my mind.

@mattbrowne I’ve never seen the movie. I really need to see it! You just reminded me of Life Is Beautiful. This movie had me in tears quite a bit.

I completely lost it during Terms of Endearment when Debra Winger is in the hospital and Shirley McLaine runs around to the nurses begging them for morphine because her daughter is in so much pain. I turned it off at that point and haven’t even tried watching it again since.

@loser,...yes the Fried Green Tomatoes scene was hard, that’s for sure. The Note Book came to mind with me first thing. And the ending of Titanic. I won’t watch it again. Dewey. I won’t watch it or read the book.

Gulp! Bambi… that movie scarred me for life. I was in kindergarten when I saw it. After, I guess I was so upset and disturbed that I started to act completely different at school. Turns out my teacher thought my parents we’re abusing me and had a huge conference with my parents. Of course my parents NEVER laid a hand on me, and explained it was the movie. It was soooo traumatic! – LB

@jonsblond – Thanks for the tip. I’ll rent “Life Is Beautiful” from Amazon.de

@mattbrowne You won’t be disappointed. You may need some tissue though. :)

Actually, I heard that The Bucket List was quite a tearjerker too, although I haven’t watched it yet. I mean, if it can make a 38 year-old grown man cry (not me, someone else), it’s got to have something in there.

Pearl Harbor made me literally cry my eyes out. There are alot of movies that have done that to me. A couple would be Marley and Me, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, and Armaggedon

Little Women makes me cry. Like @MacBean, I use that movie when I need the emotional release. I’ll sob through the whole movie and then feel better. I’m the same way about the book.

@Insomnia that movie is outstanding
I can’t believe this one hasn’t been said yet…:
wwwwiiiillllllsssssssoooooooonnnnn!!!!!

I never cried harder in a movie than during the “Choose which child lives” scene in Sophie’s Choice.
I was a wreck after that, and I didn’t even like the movie.

My oldest son was watching as I typed my first answer to this question, he immediately said Up. Everyone I talked to who saw that movie cried during the first scenes.

I agree with what’s been said. I cried during Up, The Bucket List, The Notebook, and Pearl Harbor. I even made my roommate rewind the dying scene in The Notebook so that I could get all my tears out she thinks I’m a loser now .

I also cried for The Fox and the Hound (first sad movie of my life), Shawshank Redemption (AMAZING MOVIE) and The Green Mile. Oh and The Persuit of Happiness during the bathroom scene- so sad!

@patg7590 Castaway is depressing in the same way I Am Legend was for me.
With the exception of when he killed Sam [I lost it during that scene].
Even the scene with Fred was sad once you got past laughing.

The scene in My Girl where Vada comes to Thomas Jay’s funeral and asks where his glasses are… “He can’t see without his glasses!” OMG.

To many to name all but I cried uncontrollably at the end of The Grey Zone.

I suffered wracking sobs during Titanic in the theater.. that was… high school I think.

I cried during Forrest Gump at the last scene when he’s at Jenny’s grave.

Philadelphia… now Philadelphia, the last scene at the apartment when the home movies are playing on the TV… I cry nearly every time. The first time, I was watching the movie alone in the dark on my couch, and I actually called my best friend, who knew I was seeing it for the first time, and yelled at her because she didn’t warn me. I was a wreck.

And not a movie, but I cried through like 90% of the play The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer.

I’m a huge fan of ‘40s movies. One of my all-time favorites is “The Life and Death of Colonel; Blimp,” a ‘40s written, directed and produced by the great British team of Pressburger and Powell. There are many tear-producing scenes, but one that never fails to get to me (I’ve seen this film at least 20 times) is when an aging German who has rejected his native country because of his hatred of Nazism is requesting asylum in England. The British official, leery of the German’s motives, asks him to explain his reasons. The German’s speech was shot in close-up in one take, and it is one of the most moving pieces of writing/acting I’ve ever seen.

I almost forgot about this one.
It’s not a movie.. but Sesame Street.
RIP Mr. Hooper

“Peggy Sue Got Married,” when Kathleen Turner’s character goes back in time and walks into her childhood home.

Oh man, I completely forgot Seven Pounds. That was one of the hardest movies to watch, mostly because you know where it’s going from very early on. Extremely, hauntingly beautiful, but oh so sad.

I didn’t want to link to the IMDB page because it’s certainly one you need to see without prior knowledge, but it’s another film I would not necessarily recommend watching, regardless of the story’s power.

@Beta_Orionis: It actually took me until quite a way into the movie, more than halfway, to figure it out. By the time the movie was over, I was too irritated with it to feel anything from it. I understand the concept, but really, I think if the movie doesn’t make sense when you’re halfway in, it’s really hard to be attentive.

@Austinlad that is a great scene, and when she talks to her grandma on the phone…

I forgot to mention Beaches. I sobbed quite a bit during that film!

@poofandmook oh weird. Figuring it out so early only made it more sad, because it emphasized the lead-up.

I actually much prefer when a good story is drawn out, when it’s a true puzzle, and everything comes together toward the end. Then you experience the exhilarating rush of understanding all at once, like solving a really tough problem. It also makes me super attentive to details because I want to put the pieces together.

I suppose it goes back to individual movie/story preference though.

@Beta_Orionis: Oh, a drawn out puzzle is okay with me. But I felt like Seven Pounds was branched out a little too far… I kept saying to myself… “who, wha? Why?” the whole time. Bah. lol

@poofandmook haha. I suppose I can see how that might happen.

The movie that made me cry was probally King Kong.It was sad when the gorilla died :(

The first movie I cried in was A Beautiful Mind. I was12 or 13 and when we find out that his best friend is a hallucination, me and my friend just started bawling. Also, 28 Days Later, when Frank gets the drop of blood in his eye and starts telling his daughter how much he loves her because he knows he’s infected make mes cry every time.

A movie from my childhood- Milo and Otis. I cried every time.

I took my son to the animated movie Balto when he was young. It’s the story of the dog who led the dog team that brought medicine to Nome, Alaska during the 1918 influenza epidemic. It focuses on the dog and the little girl whom he helps save. The ending of the movie switches to live action and shows a grandmother showing her granddaughter the statue of Balto in Central Park. She reveals that she was the little girl who was saved. I started bawling my eyes out and looked around and all the other mothers were crying too.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities I love that movie! I still have it on VHS.

the first war scene of Windtalkers
absolutely atrocious.

@jonsblond Me too! I’ve always called my mom Chicken Mommy because of it.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities why did it make you cry?

@Beta_Orionis Because Milo gets in a box that floats down the river. I thought he was dead. I did mention that I was just a child at the time.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities I mean, I saw it first when I was 4, but there were no tears!

@Beta_Orionis Well, I guess I’m a pansy.

yeah @jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities grow up already.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities No worries! I was just curious. Some little kids are just sensitive. When my husband was little, he cried about all the ice cream wasted over the years by ice cream stores because the scoop missed a small layer at the bottom.

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities I still cry when I watch it and I’m 20 now that is embarrassing

The movie that got my brother and I was a Disney movie called Tru Confessions with Shia Labeouf. It hit us hard because it is about twins. I have a twin, and both of us cried every time we watched it. I think I was 14 when it came out.

@brinibear I forgot about that movie! My sister is disabled, so I really connected with Tru. That did have some intense moments in it.

@rangerr I agree. My brother was having a tough time due to our situation, and the movie was just a tear jerker. The scene in the library is what really made me cry, cause something like that happened to him.

@brinibear That was the hardest for me too, followed by the part where he tells her that they weren’t twins anymore because she never played with him.

Wow! I guess that movie really an impact on me, because I have never forgotten it since I saw it. To anyone who really wants to see a emotional Disney movie, more so than Bambi, see Tru Confessions. Then you will see what @rangerr and I are talking about.

It’s on Youtube. I’m rewatching it now.

@rangerr the whole movie or just scenes?

@brinibear The entire movie. It’s split into about 8 different videos.
Most of the older disney movies are there too.

@rangerr thanks :)

last episode of wolfs rain

The new King Kong movie also makes me cry. Everytime I watch it, even though I know what’s going to happen I cry like a baby. It’s so sad. Sometimes I watch it just for that.

@brinibear The movie was called Tru Confessions with Shia Labeouf?
That makes me cry just thinking what it could be…

The ending of “The Notebook”! Ohh my GOODDD
I’m just kidding, I slept through the whole thing.
I would say “Old Boy”. I don’t know why, but I had tears in my eyes, but I was too much of a man to cry. Also the end of the Man V Food episode where Adam couldn’t finish the big pancake in Hawaii.
OH THE HUMANITY!

Brian’s Song.

@PretentiousArtist – If you are going to watch Adam’s show, you just have to brace yourself because sometimes food wins.

The beginning of Saving Private Ryan.

The end of E.T. .................get’s me every time.
and when Roy batty saves Deckard in Bladerunner then does his “I’ve seen things” speech, then dies…..........quite profound.