What movie scenes make you cry

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

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!

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

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

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

Love Story when Ali McGraw died.

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

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

Everyday love not live

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

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

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.

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)

Yes when Tony does in West side Story indeed.

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.

E.T. (the end bit)?

The end of The Way We Were (my favourite film). They were in love but couldn't agree. Then she sees him with his new girl and he comes over to talk to her!

The end of bridges of Madison county. Not a dry eye in the house

Yes, the railway children

Not love story, to me it tried too hard to wring a tear !

The scene in Out of Africa where Karen has lost everything and she and Denys have a final meal together as she’s going back to Denmark. And then Denys dies in a plane crash.
I’ve a slight lump now thinking about it.

Calendargirl I’m a huge Laurence of Arabia fan. Don’t know how many times I’ve watched it.

Kate1949
How could I forget that scene ?

Yes, Emma Thompson's scene in Love Actually and The Railway Children. I would add then end of The Incredible Journey when the old bull terrier comes waddling into sight and the little boy has been so brave while thinking he was dead.

I'm the same as you Deedaa! Especially the Railway Children. Never can understand why people adore Love Actually.

ET going home. ?