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What movie scenes make you cry

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Artaylar Fri 26-Mar-21 15:19:45

I watched the movie Snow White and the Huntsman last night, over the years I've seen it around 5 times. While it's not necessarily my favourite movie, there is one scene that always brings tears to my eyest.

It's when Snow White follows the pixies and little animals through the magic forest to where a beautiful white stag is waiting for her under a magical looking tree.

I'm not sure why this scene always affects me like this, I'm thinking that maybe it is something to do from childhood.

Are there any movie scenes that always bring on the tears with you?

nanna8 Sun 11-Apr-21 06:07:51

Dr. Zhivago when Yuri thinks he sees Lara a lifetime after all their separations and the Russian Revolution have taken their toll.

Loislovesstewie Sun 11-Apr-21 05:44:29

Yes, Schindler's List gets me and I cry at the part of Love Actually when Jamie asks Aurelia to marry him.

sharon103 Sun 11-Apr-21 02:43:26

Bambi when his mother dies. sad

Mogsmaw Sun 11-Apr-21 01:33:40

Absolutely agree Silent Running, when Joan Baez sings as the tend the plants at the end. Also The ghost and Mrs Muir.

GrannyRose15 Sat 10-Apr-21 23:49:16

Gerard Depardu in Cyrano de Begerac - the last scene where the girl finally realises that it was him all along writing the letters - has me in bits.

Forestflame Sat 10-Apr-21 22:49:00

Lassie films, can't watch them. Jungle Book when Mowgli leaves the jungle for the man village

Shinamae Sat 27-Mar-21 23:03:59

I have never watched “Warhorse”because just thinking about it upsets me.”Old yeller”......”Gorillas in the mist”..?

GrandmasueUK Sat 27-Mar-21 22:44:53

In “Gone With The Wind”, when Mammy is walking up the stairs with Melanie and is explaining about Rhett and Scarlett’s grief and arguments.

Deedaa Sat 27-Mar-21 20:12:13

DD is 46 and I've never let her watch Bambi!
I'd forgotten the end of Schindler's List when the survivors came to his grave and you suddenly realised they were real people.

Chestnut Sat 27-Mar-21 11:06:31

Actually, just remembered that the 'Long Lost Relatives' programmes have me welling up, when a middle aged child is reunited with their elderly mother who gave them up at birth. Or siblings who were separated for adoption are reunited in middle age. Those are real tear jerkers!

Ro60 Sat 27-Mar-21 02:56:19

Forest Gump - practically all the way through! I was left feeling what a brilliant film, but I won't watch it again.
Bambi, Lassie, Dumbo all - all unwatchable. ?

TwiceAsNice Sat 27-Mar-21 00:00:53

When Richard Burton shoots Richard Harris in the film The Wild Geese to stop the natives capturing him and then going to the sons school to tell him his father is dead. I’m sobbing!

Gannygangan Fri 26-Mar-21 22:59:23

Not a film, but the recent advert for the 23rd. March, Day of Recollection with the chairs has me in tears

So poignant. People lost to Covid with photos of their chairs in their sitting rooms

Beautiful song by Ed Sheeran as well

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Mqsft74Dk

Anniebach Fri 26-Mar-21 22:40:59

‘We’ll always have Paris ‘ Casablanca

Truly, Madly, Deeply. When dead Alan Rickman watches Juliet
Stevenson with her new love

When William says ‘dad’ in Good Night Mr,Tom

Granny23 Fri 26-Mar-21 21:44:19

Silent running when the injured robot is still hirpling around trying to keep the craft going.

NotAGran55 Fri 26-Mar-21 21:21:40

E.T .I’ll be right here ?

ixion Fri 26-Mar-21 21:11:32

War Horse.
All.
Mesmerising!

Hellogirl1 Fri 26-Mar-21 21:06:46

I`ve seen it so many times, but the funeral of the maid in Imitation of Life gets me every time.
And in Champ, the little boy crying over his dead father, the boxer.

grandmajet Fri 26-Mar-21 20:58:47

Oh yes Foxglove. I remember that. I’m tearful thinking of it.

Foxglove77 Fri 26-Mar-21 20:56:31

The Black Beauty film, when he sees his friend Ginger dead, when he is really old at the horse auction and Joe recognises him, buys him and he lives his life in peace. The end scenes when Beauty, Ginger and Merrylegs are all galloping around happy and free in happier times, as I like to think of all beautiful horses.

Calendargirl Fri 26-Mar-21 20:44:44

ixion

Have you become more 'teary', the older you get?
I know I have, but often wonder why!

Definitely.

BladeAnnie Fri 26-Mar-21 20:31:31

A Streetcat Named Bob. The scene where James is hungry after busking and goes into a cafe for a burger. He is pennies short of the cost of the food and all the the customers look away and the staff member throws the food away. I cried buckets at that scene and at the same time it made me angry at the unfairness of it all angry

Grandmadinosaur Fri 26-Mar-21 20:21:36

The Railway Children for me too. Also the ending of The boy in the striped pyjamas. So harrowing and I totally never saw it coming.

Davida1968 Fri 26-Mar-21 18:13:58

When Jenny Agutter shouts: "Daddy, my daddy!" in the Railway Chidren. Gets me every time.....

Artaylar Fri 26-Mar-21 18:05:28

I'm with you on Bambi's mother MrsJamJam. It was the same for me too at the end of Disney's Jungle Book when Mowgli left Bagheera and Baloo to go to the human village.

I also wept buckets at the death of Aslan in The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe.

A close friend once referred to me as a sentamentalist - I can't think why.....