A part of a movie that makes you tear up every time you see it...

[WCGreen]

Mine, the La Marseillaise song in Casablanca....

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

[EastTennesseeDem]

1. Apart from the climaxes of Schindler's List and The Green Mile, the scene in "The Wrestler"

when the Ram's estranged daughter runs up to him and locks her arm in his.

[WCGreen]

2. Haven't seen the Wrestler yet but the other two, you bet...

[EastTennesseeDem]

3. Oh my God, I was a wreck after that scene

What comes after that is also pretty heart-melting, but I won't give it away.

I love that movie.

[salin]

4. Terms of Endearment... when the kids are brought to

see Mom (Debra Winger) in the hospital. Even the first time I saw it I felt it was a tad contrived to evoke the emotional response... but it still works.

[EastTennesseeDem]

6. Oh yeah! How could I forget?

And when she waves goodbye to her mother? (<--Posted in white due to spoilers) Definitely, heartbreaking.

[VMSMI]

8. I agree completely.

That was the first scene I thought of.

Also, the scene in "Yanks" where "mum" is dying...that kills me, too. What a gentle movie.

[salin]

11. Or in conflicted way - many scenes from Ordinary People

so much pain in that movie.

I later dated someone whose family had a very similar tragedy, and lived the north burbs of Chicago. The similarities (including painful distances within the family) were eerie. I could never bring my self to mention it to him, or to ask if perhaps the movie could have been based on their story. Its been decades since I have thought about that.

I haven't seen Yanks. Should I put on my list to find and see?

[VMSMI]

25. Yes, see "Yanks."

Richard Gere, Lisa Eichorn, Vanessa Redgrave, William DeVane.

[Forkboy]

5. The end of The Bridges Of Madison County.

I couldn't believe I watched a whole movie with a bridge in it and no one blew it up. Alec Guinness and William Holden rolled over in their graves that day.

:yoiks:

[Mike 03]

7. So many.

1. The whole movie "The Hours." I started tearing up from the first frame.
2. "Barry Lyndon", when Barry's son is dying and begging his parents to stop fighting and then that cut to the funeral procession.
3. "The Star Child" in 2001.
4. Recently, some of Clint Eastwood's movies: The third act of "Million Dollar Baby" and much of "Changeling."

Also, some pieces of film not because they are so tearjerking but because they are aesthetically beautiful:

Portions of Lawrence of Arabia, Rear Window, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Se7en, Kill Bill, Unforgiven, Sorcerer (Friedkin's), Mishima, Casino, Aviator, House of Sand and Fog, and many other works that are probably slipping my mind at the moment.

ON EDIT:

Oh hell, let's be honest: Even E.T. makes me cry.

SECOND EDIT:

How could I forget: The climax of Robert Altman's Nashville.

[WCGreen]

9. The Hours is a superb piece of art....

The book is worth reading as well.

[Mike 03]

10. I'm so glad to meet someone else who likes "The Hours." And my mother has told me

I should read the book as well.

I must. Next time I place a book order I shall.

[NewJeffCT]

12. When Jamie Lee Curtis takes her top off in "Trading Places"

just kidding.

I've gotten a bit misty eyed during a few movies, but none have made me tear up every time.

[WCGreen]

15. I have to add the last scene in Saving Private Ryan when he asks

his wife if he is a good man...

[SoxFan]

28. I saw that in a theater full of soldiers

Not a dry eye in the place.

[mix]

13. Gallipoli

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41XrRMqfsZ0&feature=related

[WCGreen]

14. Waltzing Matilda....

[mix]

36. In that mad world of death, blood and fire...

[RagAss]

16. The ending of "The Deer Hunter"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtbW-3GZCvM

[WCGreen]

17. His best work...

[Mike 03]

18. Cimino?

The only time I ever saw my father cry at a movie was "The Deer Hunter."

[RagAss]

19. When DeNiro looks into the hearse window at the casket....I lose it every time !

[LostinVA]

20. The end of "A River Runs Through It"

The voiceover at the end, especially this part:

"But when I am alone in the half light of the canyon all existence seems to fade to a being with my soul, and memories. And the sounds of the Big Black Foot River, and a four count rhythm, and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."

[mix]

49. book and movie were beautiful

stunning passage quoted

[JimWis]

21. The opening scenes of "Saving Private Ryan" - in the cemetery.

When the old man breaks down. Gets me every time.

[JonLP24]

22. Not a movie

It is towards the end of season 5 of the wire and one of the juveniles has been dropped off by his brother in an alley in which he ends up living on the street with an addict. It made me especially cry because it is something that happens alot and we don't see it. Various other scenes make me cry during the series but that one especially gets me.

[Pierre.Suave]

23. I dont cry

I have no heart, I have a black, cold lump of despair and misery and am devoid of any empathy or emotions towards others...




























:P

[mix]

29. that reminds me of a story

in college i went to a movie with someone i did not know well who lived in my quad, he was cool...we went to see this random movie based on convenience and a common desire to kill a few hours...it was this dutch film and i completely lost it...it was a beautiful film

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. The scene in "Beauty and the Beast"

Where he has collapsed, and she's leaning over him, saying "I love you, I love you..."

I wasn't sure she was in time...

I always lose it there.

[bluedigger]

26. The Jerk

"I don't need my dog."

[hellbound-liberal]

27. This scene from On Golden Pond gets me every time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4KovVUc78

[mreilly]

30. The ending of "Legends of the Fall"

When Alfred shoots the bad guys and his estranged father gives him a bear hug, all grievances discarded. I've probably seen that part a hundred times (it's always on cable somewhere) but it never fails to tear me up.

I would also add Gus's death scene in "Lonesome Dove" (the miniseries with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones) where Woodrow Call says "Augustus...." very softly knowing his friend has died.

[madeline_con]

31. When Bonnie dies in "Gone With the Wind".

:cry:

[Lyric]

32. Shit, I cry at almost every movie.

The worst one for me is "Rent," though. My god--I start weeping uncontrollably at the Life Support meeting ("Look, I find some of what you teach suspect, because I'm used to relying on intellect. But I'll try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died three years ago...") and I pretty much keep at it with the waterworks, with a final burst of hard sobbing at the end, when Roger is singing over Mimi's dying body.

Life Support Crying-Commencement Scence: http://videos.sapo.pt/TJm7HF7Z2NzkTFbRVckd

:cry:

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. 'Hey... Dad?

Wanna have a catch?"



Among many others. :)

[elshiva]

39. Is that from "Walk Hard?"

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

44. "Field of Dreams"

[elshiva]

46. Thank you.

[kwassa]

34. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jim Carrey frantically trying to chase down the vanishing memories of his relationship in that whole long surreal sequence, just amazing film-making.

I don't know that I cried, but I was pretty moved.

[eyesroll]

53. The very last memory scene (at the falling-apart beach house)...

Very, very hard to watch. In a good way.

[mentalsolstice]

35. Sophie's Choice

Where she has to make a choice.

[Lyric]

40. Oh gods yes.

We saw that for the first time a couple of years ago, and had no idea what it was going to be about. We'd just heard it vaguely recommended by someone else, and we knew it involved Meryl Streep. Neither of us knew the story, and neither of us had read the book at that point.

When we watched that scene, we had to stop the movie and just cry for the horror and agony of it. We then went to our son's school a little early, signed him out, and brought him home just to have him close because we were so damned thankful to HAVE our little one.

That is every mother's worst nightmare come to life on the screen.

[mentalsolstice]

45. Yeppers, it was the epitome of depressing for me!

Hold tight to your son! :hug:

[jobycom]

51. I'm going to have to disallow that response.

No fair mentioning possibly the single most powerful scene and acting performance in film history. If you don't cry at that one, something's busted somewhere.

[elshiva]

37. Serenity (Major Spoiler)

When Hoban "Wash" Washburne dies. "I am a leaf on the wind." And then suddenly stabbed through the heart. :cry:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PuZoLkvmBbc/SXEJrNjn7nI/AAAAAAAACKg/RXMdglkbjdE/s320/Hoban+Washburne.jpg

[realisticphish]

38. Gettysburg

When Armistead is talking about leaving California, and saying goodbye to people (like Hooker) who he would soon be fighting. Gets me every time

[EastTennesseeDem]

43. Yeah that's pretty sad.

I actually used to have that monologue down.

"Towards the end of the evening, things got a little rough, and we all began to...well, there were a lot of tears. I went over to Hancock. I took him by the shoulder and I said 'Winn, so help me, should I ever raise my hand against you, may God strike me dead.' Ain't seen him since. He was at Malvern Hill, Wide Oak Swamp, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg."

That's only a small part of it, but two things add to the poignancy: the fact that he would be standing against him in less than 24 hours, and the fact that Richard Jordan (who played him) was dying also.

[Zavulon]

41. The opening scene in The Breakfast Club,

when I realize I've let my girlfriend talk me into watching that overrated, contrived piece of crap again. As if the script weren't stupid enough, only the guy who played the principal and Ally Sheedy were convincing in their roles. It makes a week of celibacy and crashing on the living room couch very tempting.

As for the original spirit of your question, I can't think of one. I overwhelmingly prefer TV to movies.

[UndertheOcean]

42. When the soldiers shoot the wolf befriended by Costner in "Dances with Wolves"

[KittyWampus]

47. Cinema Paradiso, when the final reel is played at the end. You laugh and cry.

[donheld]

48. many different parts of Brokeback Mountain

[jobycom]

50. Finding Nemo and Lilo and Stitch

In Finding Nemo, it's the scene where Marlin thinks Nemo is dead and is leaving Dory, and she gives her "When I look at you, I'm home" speech. I've tried to not cry, but... Ah hell, hang on, I can't see the keyboard now...

Lilo and Stitch does it to me twice, mainly because I have a daughter who acts a lot like Lilo. The opening scene, where she screws up her dance rehearsal and has to leave, and she keeps pleading "But I practiced" gets me, but the scene where her sisten Nani is trying to say goodbye breaks me up, too.

Yeah, there are grown-up films that get me, but there's something so basic and simple about a well-done kids' film that they are the ones that get me every time I watch.

[5thGenDemocrat]

52. The final scene in "The Right Stuff," when they finally launch Gordo

And the narrator says "The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American - 22 complete orbits around the world; he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."
Cue Gordo's capsule heading into space like a bat out of hell. Fin. Roll the credits.
I don't know if I "tear up" when I see it, exactly, but it's still one of my favorite movie moments ever.
John
Wanted to be an astronaut myself in 1963, but I was only seven.

ON EDIT (and to finally answer your question): For pure tearing-up value, ya still can't beat "Old Yeller." Poor doggie.

[gmoney]

54. The end of "It's a Wonderful Life" is about as close as I get...

usually about the time Harry toasts his big brother George, the richest man in town.

it's weird though, since the whole emotional catharsis is so money driven.