What film scenes really make you cry?

the end of american history x. i cry every time i watch it but the first time i saw it i was blubbering for about thirty minutes after.
+ the end of requiem for a dream. not only is there crying but it puts me in a state of shock for some time thereafter >.<
+ the entire like last third of the notebook
+ a few scenes from up
+ pretty much every disney/pixar movie ever made. it’s kind of pathetic.

Films usually don’t get me to cry, but there are a few memorable ones:

Dumbo. To this day, I can’t watch it. It destroyed me as a kid.

Little Women (1994 version). When Beth dies. I can’t help myself. Even when I saw it again recently and could prepare myself, it still got me. I have no clue why.

Brokeback Mountain. The end. God.

Up. If you are able to make it through those opening ten minutes without crying, you are a robot. It’s that simple.

MAJOR POSSIBLE SPOILERS
Dan Bayer, definitely with you on Up. I got teary-eyed at least 4 times throughout the movie.
The ending of Dead Ringers.

The ending of A Tale Of Two Sisters.

The ending of City Lights (Just so overwhelmingly perfect and beautiful.)

The ending of Requiem for a Dream (Oh god, Ellen Burstyn’s face when she comes out of the hospital room after shock treatment might be the single most heartbreaking image I’ve ever seen on film.)

The last minutes/final montage of Grave of the Fireflies (I watched this for the first time a few days ago and I can’t remember the last time I cried that hard and long about anything, or was in a state of such immense physical pain during a movie. Wow. For a minute I seriously thought my heart might burst.)

The ending of Atonement (The revelation of “It never really happened”).

The ending of Brokeback Mountain (Especially when we find out how Jake really died).

The endings of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (and practically any scene that really shows Laura’s pain and abuse), Mulholland Drive and The Elephant Man. Lynch always gets to me in the worst way.

The ending of Control.

The ending of The Fly.

Sometimes, a few scenes in Vertigo can really bring out the tears (The final bell tower scene, the scene where Judy gives up and allows herself to be changed by Scottie, for example)

Okay, I’ve really gone overboard, and that’s not all either. I think I have a problem..

When Laura Dern comes into the other girl’s room in the end of INLAND EMPIRE, set to Lynch’s song “Polish Poem”.

The last scene of “Saving Private Ryan”

I fight it as much as the next macho guy, but the ending of Brokeback Mountain gets me everytime. Also being a huge dog lover, All Dogs Go To Heaven has a special place in my heart! By far my favorite Burt Reynolds and Dom Deluise film!

From Offret(The Sacrifice): When Adelaide reacts to the news about the declaration of WWIII. I cry because I can feel her pain and fear.
From Big Fish: The Last scene in which Will Bloom tells his father how he was really suppose to die.
From Lord of the Rings The Return of the King: (SPOILER…kinda) when Frodo leaves for the Undying Lands.
From Princess Mononoke: Just the fact that the film ends, I want more adventures with Ashitaka!
From Sophie Scholl: The last twenty minutes of this film are the most devastatingly sad scenes I have ever seen.

Oh god I forgot about how sad All Dogs Go To Heaven was…

All throughout 2004’s FINDING NEVERLAND… but especially the moment when they do the benefit show of PETER PAN for the poor, penniless orphans of London. (blub-blub-blub). The camera pans over the enchanted faces of these little tykes…

All throughout THE FAMILY STONE. Literally from beginning to end.

The final “rain” scene in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961). Oh. My. Flipping. God.

But my biggest tear-jerker of all-time? THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY. After switching off the movie, I proceeded to cry… at full strength, big sobbing heaves….. for the rest of the night in my bed.

the end of “in the mood for love” when tony leung visits to angkor wat

Although this isn’t technically film I still think it counts:

The final scene of Metal Gear Solid 4

The scene in MİLLİON DOLLAR BABY, when Frankie explain to Mo chuisle means i was cried. He said to Maggie " Mo chuisle.. means my darling, my blood".

No doubt for me . . . the rabies and shooting scenes in “Old Yeller.” And of course, Bambi’s mom . . .

“City Lights” always makes me cry. Jesus, that final scene gets to me. It’s a bloodbath of sentimentality, but it works. “It’s a Wonderful Life” can do that to me, too; when he is in the bar, so desperate, so suicidal, it’s a powerful piece of acting. Then, of course, the outpouring of love to George at the end is just overwhelming. It’s corny, but somehow it hits me.

I cried, like five minutes into “Up”, and I remember thinking, “What the fuck is wrong with you?” but Pixar are experts at making me lose it, I don’t know why.

Finally, at the end of “The Royal Tennenbaums” when Chas is petting the dalmation and he simply, heartbreakingly says “I’ve had a rough year, Dad” and Royal says “I know you have, Chazzie”…..man, I’ll tear up every single time. Every crappy Ben Stiller movie is redeemed by how simple and vulnerable he is there.

I haven’t cried watching a film in a loooooong time but watching Ali: Fear Eats The Soul a few days ago brought me pretty close several times. The characters affected me in a way very few do. Hearing about ben Salem’s end yesterday made everything even more poignant.

the ending of The Name of the Rose

I have to say that some scenes from Goodwill Hunting also made me cry.

Real men don’t cry, but I have to admit the last scene in Rosetta gets to me. Like the OP did, I have watched it over and over, but I just can’t get around it.

The final sequence of LAST OF THE MOHICANS (dir. Michael Mann) when that awfully manipulative music is playing. It gets me every time.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Sixth-Sense-Coles-conversation-with-his-mother-in-the-car

i cried as i posted this

ORDET MADE ME CRY. That scene in the end gives me the goosebumps.

I am ashamed to say this but I did cry at the scene in The Sixth Sense with his mother in the car (but I wouldn’t have cried if it weren’t for Toni Collette, the ending of It’s a Wonderful Life, and the ending of Lost and Delirious. Gosh, I am such a sap.

And yes Lars von Trier is so manipulative that he made me cry like a baby in the end of Dancer in the Dark. Although Bjork’s character is so stubborn and sometimes stupid, I just love that film. Oh, and when the iron giant decides to sacrifice himself and tells the boy to stay there in The Iron Giant too. Who would have thought I would cry over a metal-eating iron giant?

Other honorable mentions: the ending of Au Revoir les Enfants, the Row row row your boat scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the “I wanted to see if you were going to break down into molecules” scene in Before Sunset.

I cant believe nobody mentioned ARMAGEDDON!
harrys goodbye scene

! with music from trevor rabin.

Amazing movie!

In the name of the father,
shine,
Kolja,

Oh and ofcourse The Gladiator!

-End scene when he dies and comes back to his wife an daughter who were brutally murdered..

-Music – gortoz a ran..

The last half hour or so of IMITATION OF LIFE has me weeping like a baby. I swear, I go through 296,359 tissues. Damn you, Sirk.

“We split up on April Fool’s Day. So I decided to let the joke run for a month. Every day I buy a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1. May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. If May hasn’t changed her mind by the time I’ve bought thirty cans, then our love will also expire.” Chungking Express

I cry every time I watch Wings of Desire. It is during the scene when the elderly man is trying to find his old home, the “Potsdamer Platz” and he is just wandering in an old decrepit field looking for his misplaced childhood. It just gets to me every time, the little lost old man. I am not even sure why.

I posted this in another thread, but the “Let It Be” scene in Across the Universe.

and some parts of The Sixth Sense, especially when he gets locked in the attic.

I would have to go with the ending of It’s A Wonderful Life. It usually gets me every time they show it around Christmas time. And there was a film that came out I believe it was last year. It was a documentary called Young At Heart and it was about these senior citizens singing rock songs. There’s a scene where the senior citizens are going to sing at a prison and one of their singing members has died and they dedicate the song Forever Young to him. The prisoners are crying and I could hear a lot of sniffling in the theatre.

I just saw on this page that someone mentioned Up. I didn’t cry at the theatre, but I found it very emotional and I came close to tears. Not only does it affect you during the sad scenes, but with the more upbeat scenes as well.