Movie scenes that make you cry

Oh, thought of one more. The movie Men of Honor with Robert DeNiro and Cuba Gooding Jr. The scene at the end when Gooding is struggling to walk with the suit on after losing his legs. I think it's because my grandfather lost his legs in WWII and I know he still accomplished a lot after that. But boy, that scene makes me bawl.

 

The last five minutes of Neil Jordan's "Michael Collins." The ambush at beal na Blath and then the footage of the actualy funeral in Dublin. What raises the dust is Sinead O'Connor's unbelievable version of "She Came Through The Fair."

 

I have that episode on VHS somewhere. Also the "Party of Five" where Charlie and his long-suffering girlfriend, Kirsten call off their wedding. :'( :'(

 

I just thought of one from the mini-series "War and Remembrance". Heinrich Himmler visits Auschwitz to witness the new gassing process. As a group of comdemned walk toward the chamber, a German Shepherd barks at a little girl about 2-3 years old and frightens her. Her mother picks a flower off the side of the road and gives it to the child. After the gassing, a mine car is carrying the bodies away, the little girl is on top, still holding the flower. Later, at the commandant's home, his daughter hands Himmler a similar flower. Believe me, you will remember the scene.

 

When Aslan sacrificed himself in The Chronicles of Narnia.

A few different times in Eight Below

You've Got Mail when she left her shop for the last time.

The Dollmaker when they get Cassie to the hospital and her mom throws all the money she's been saving to the doctors, pleading for help. Then I cried again when they moved back home.

The Illusionist when Eisenhem makes Sophie's spirit appear on stage. It was the pain on his face that did me in.

 

Can I just say how much I love this thread? I am such a sap when it comes to movies -- I'm very emotional in general, so I guess I'm a sap when it comes to life, too.

So many great mentions here. A few more for me:

-Almost Famous - the scene where Kate Hudson finds out Billy Crudup sold her to Humble Pie for a $50 and a case of beer and also when she's slow-dancing with William and asks "Why doesn't he love me?"
-Year of the Dog - when Molly Shannon finds out her dog, Pencil, is dead.
-Lost in Translation - the end
-Brokeback Mountain - when Heather Ledger finds his shirt in Jake Gyllenhaal's room at his parents' house

 

I think I sobbed

I cried a few times in that movie.

 

Actually parts of the end of The Truman Show. When Truman hits the outer rim of the world, and he finally gets out, it can get very emotional.

 

The quote about serving in a company of heroes belonged to Major Winters. Good call though.

 

The Dorothy-leaves-Oz scene has raised some dust.

 

The entire funeral sequence at the end of "BAckdraft."

When the real owner of the basenji in "Goodbye, My Lady" arrives, and Brandon De Wilde tries to keep the dog and Wlater Brennan has to talk him out of it.

 

Another nomination:

61* when the game in - Detroit or Baltimore? - is rained out. The one reporter was supposed to meet Maris, but Maris stood him up. The reporter gets pissed and storms out, and they cut to Maris alone in the hotel room. The stress is obviously gotten to him, he misses his family, the tear-jerking song "Nobody Knows Me" is playing, and right before they cut to the next scene, they show a close-up of Maris and he's crying.

First time I saw it, boy, I lost it.