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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?

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.

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

War Horse.
All.
Mesmerising!

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

E.T .I’ll be right here ?

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

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

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

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

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!

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. ?

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!

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.

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.

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”..?

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

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.

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.

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

Bambi when his mother dies. sad

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.

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.

amymorris01 Sun 11-Apr-21 06:28:09

Million Dollar Baby. The end when she is in bed dying and Clint Eastwood is crying because he really loved her like a daughter and her family were so horrible. Such a good film but so heart tugging.

dragonfly46 Sun 11-Apr-21 07:09:15

The Railway Children and An Affair to Remember when Cary Grant finally gets together with Deborah Kerr.

DanniRae Sun 11-Apr-21 07:52:54

The end of "A Town Like Alice" and "Sense and Sensability"....both endings get me every time.
Mr R rarely gets affected by films but when Emma Thomson straightens out the bed cover and then, bravely, returns to her family in "Love Actually" I know he is struggling to keep his emotions in check.

Calendargirl Sun 11-Apr-21 07:53:23

The “I’m Spartacus!” bit in ‘Spartacus’.

Lovetopaint037 Sun 11-Apr-21 09:04:18

When Glen Miller died and June Allyson was listening to Little Brown Jug on the radio.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Sun 11-Apr-21 09:17:01

Random Harvest at the end when the hero turns up at the little cottage, the key fits the lock, he turns as the heroine joins him, "Smithy, Smithy!" Get the tissues ready.

Redhead56 Sun 11-Apr-21 09:45:27

My son was telling me about a book they were reading for English literature class. He was overwhelmed with it Mr Tom we bought the video what a wonderful film. I loved Warhorse and Dr Zhivago Billy Elliot and lots more it doesn’t take much for me to shed tears.