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What movie scenes make you cry

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ixion Fri 26-Mar-21 16:21:16

E.T. (the end bit)?

Polarbear2 Fri 26-Mar-21 16:19:56

grannygingey absolutely that Emma Thompson scene in Love Actually. It does for me every time. Also ET. Sorry but I always blub from about 20 mins from the end.

LullyDully Fri 26-Mar-21 16:18:52

Yes when Tony does in West side Story indeed.

suziewoozie Fri 26-Mar-21 16:18:18

Thanks for this thread - it was good thinking about my choices. I’m going to watch Sometimes Always Never again ( which is unheard of for me)

Artaylar Fri 26-Mar-21 16:15:32

Thanks for sharing everyone, its so lovely to read what has touched your hearts.

And, OMG kittylester, yes the death of Tony scene in West Side Story gets me every time too.

DiscoGran Fri 26-Mar-21 16:01:57

Truly Madly Deeply. One of my favourite films and I sobbed. Juliet Stevenson is amazing in it. Recommended ?

kittylester Fri 26-Mar-21 16:01:23

When Tony dies in West Side Story! I have a tear or two - DD3 sobs every single time!

suziewoozie Fri 26-Mar-21 15:54:43

Everyday love not live

suziewoozie Fri 26-Mar-21 15:54:18

Should add - the first one because it’s reaffirming of every day live, the second because of ineffable, irredeemable sadness of regret and the third because of the hope of forgiveness and new if limited beginnings after terrible tragedy

suziewoozie Fri 26-Mar-21 15:51:30

The scrabble scene in Sometimes, Always, Never
The end scene in Remains of the Day
The scene in Manchester By Sea where the parents meet up - she’s pushing the pram I think of the child she had with her new partner

Gwyneth Fri 26-Mar-21 15:41:00

Love Story when Ali McGraw died.

Calendargirl Fri 26-Mar-21 15:37:03

Richard Gere sweeping Debra Winger up in his arms after striding through the factory where she works, wearing his officer whites. envy

EllanVannin Fri 26-Mar-21 15:33:35

When the boy inadvertantly said " dad " in Goodnight Mr Tom.

LadyGracie Fri 26-Mar-21 15:31:13

Shenandoah was the first, when I was about 14 or 15, I sobbed my heart out.

Calendargirl Fri 26-Mar-21 15:31:08

Several really.

One that comes to mind is the one in Lawrence of Arabia where a man gets left behind as they trek through the scorching desert. The others want to abandon him, but our hero goes back alone to search for him.

Time passes, a young lad is keeping watch, everyone else has given them up for dead, and suddenly Lawrence appears with the half-dead missing man on the back of his camel. They all rush round to help, typical, when it’s all over.

I’m sure at this point there is swelling music, and Lawrence says “Nothing is written”, as earlier he was told that things like this were written and would happen.

Sounds daft, but it chokes me up.

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Gannygangan Fri 26-Mar-21 15:29:16

I'm not much of a crier at films

However there is one that always gets me

A Night to Remember. Probably made in the 1950s. Black and white

Titanic film. As the ship is obviously going down there's mayhem and chaos. A little boy is crying on his own, he can't find his mother. An elderly man picks him up and he calms the little chap by holding him tight and saying they'll look for his Mummy together.

Good grief, I'm almost crying just thinking about it!

Grannygingey Fri 26-Mar-21 15:26:51

Love Actually - Emma Thomson - when she straightens the bedcover before going back down to the family. And The Railway Children - "Daddy, oh my Daddy"..

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?