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Film scenes that touched your heart!

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runningonemptyfulloflove · 28/09/2020 11:58

Just that! Any scene in a film that even the thought of can send a wave of emotions over you?

For me, toy story 2, Jessies song, "when she loved you" 😭

I cry everytime. It makes me think of my little girl (age 2) she needs me now and I'll wipe away her tears and make her giggle, but one day I'll not be her whole world like I am now 🌍

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AdoreTheBeach · 28/09/2020 22:21

My other long time tear jerk scene is Sally Field at the cemetery for her daughter’s funeral

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZx1W6cHw-g

fewming · 28/09/2020 22:22

@AdoreTheBeach Jesus I've never seen that film, nor do I even know the plot, but just the preview image on your link of that little boy has made me well up!! I defo couldn't watch the actual scene, I can tell it would ruin my night! Lol

Bexily · 28/09/2020 22:22

A Star is Born when he gives the dog some meat and the garage door closes. Sobbed.

Candleabra · 28/09/2020 22:23

@Ginger1982

The end of 'A League of Their Own' when Madonna's 'This Used To Be My Playground' is playing and all the real women baseball players are playing again. Not quite sure why it makes me cry but it always does!
Me too! I love that film. I find that watching lot of films made around that time make me very emotional, just that feeling of being about 16 and so young and hopeful. Makes me sad.
MintyYogaTea · 28/09/2020 22:31

The scene in Wit, when Emma Thompson is dying of.cancer and Eileen Atkins reads to her the story about the bunny

Lots of.scenes in Forrest.Gump especially.the protest.scene by the Washington memorial and when his soldier comrade dies in Vietnam

That scene in Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams tells Matt Damon that his childhood wasnt his fault. I am a.child.abuse.survivor myself and trying to make sense of it all

The ending of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, although horrifying as well as sad

Titanic when Rose and Jack are on the door and then Jack is dying but trying to.sing to Rose. And a lifeboat comes near and Rose is like "Jack, Jack, there's a boat"

The big in RainMan where Tom Cruise discovers why his brother was taken away from him as a child

The end of Schindler's List

myusernamewastakenbyme · 28/09/2020 22:37

I was caught out recently watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....the scene where Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) goes back to see his dad (Christopher Lee)....Lee recognises Depps teeth and they embrace.

grenlei · 28/09/2020 22:46

A Star is Born. I started crying before the scene with the dog above, because I knew what was coming, and I didn't stop crying until about 2 hours after. I thought it was a brilliant film but I'm not sure I can ever watch it again due to the emotional effect it had on me!

The ending of Moulin Rouge too.

Oh and Book of Life...when Manolo dies and is reunited with his mum and family. But then when he's brought back to life to be reunited with his true love, but can't be with his mum any more (having lost my mum at a young age anything like that upsets me Sad)

And one which isn't sad, it's actually happy but always used to make me cry...in the 1990s version of the Secret Garden the bit where they first take Colin and show him the garden, I used to watch the film regularly with my children when they were young and it made me cry every time.

I do cry at a lot of things though Blush

Letsnotargue · 28/09/2020 22:49

The last episode of the Good Place. It did go wayward in the last season but the mere concept of the last episode has me in tears. Having had so long in your good place with your soul mate that you choose to end it. I cried for hours.

redgin · 28/09/2020 22:52

@Purplekitchen

The end of The Bridges of Madison County where she has her hand on the car door handle but doesn't get out.

This. Every time

TweetUsOnFacebook · 28/09/2020 22:52

Bridge to Terabithia. The scene where he finds out his lovely friend had died in an accident. The first time I saw it I was so shocked and cried my eyes out.
Such a beautiful film about friendship.

bottlenose301 · 28/09/2020 22:55

Oh dear I've got loads

Notebook - the ending when he's reading the book to her and they dance when she briefly remembers him

Coco - I saw this with my DD and was in complete bits. Probably the bit when you see the grand mother has died a year on

Beaches - when Barbara Hershey dies and that song!

Colour Purple - whole film really but yes to when the sisters were reunited

12 Year a slave - when Lupita N'yongo was being whipped

Marley and Me - when the dog got sicker and sicker and then died. I was on a plane watching and literally bawled

Animal farm - when the horse was taken away to be killed

Never ending story - when the horse drowned in the mud

Philadelphia - when Tom Hanks died

Letssee100 · 28/09/2020 22:57

Awakenings - loads of moving scenes but where Robert De Niro's characters condition is getting worse, so he tells his female friend not to visit him anymore. She just takes his hand and dances with him.

Neighbours- yep ole Aussie soap classic, still do emotional deaths (35 years after Daphnes death) Sonia died last year and even though I didn't like her as a character I sobbed all through the episode as she died watching her children play on the beach. Sad

vampirethriller · 28/09/2020 23:09

The bit in Muriel's Wedding where she tries on a wedding dress for the first time always makes me cry. I don't like weddings, don't want to get married, so I don't know why.
The end of A League of Their Own makes me sad too.
In Fievel Goes West there's a bit with a cat talking about how much she misses someone and that gets me every time.

Remona · 28/09/2020 23:14

A Star Is Born
I’d echo comments above. I’d never seen previous versions and decided to watch the most recent Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper film on a long haul flight about two and a half years ago. I sobbed and sobbed. I don’t recall any film having such a profound effect on me. It almost haunted me for weeks. It was an amazing film yet so desperately sad. I’ve not been able to bring myself to watch it again. I don’t think I could bear it.

Edie
A little known film from a couple of years ago. An old lady has spent her life in an abusive marriage. When her husband dies she finds an old postcard of a mountain in the Scottish highlands. Her father had sent her the postcard saying let’s climb this together but of course those days have long gone. She takes herself off to Scotland and despite everything climbs Suilven. There’s a bit where she’s about to give up and she says “I’ve wasted my whole life doing nothing” and it makes me sob. She’s had such a lonely life and it’s so sad that she’s in her 80s but feels she’s wasted her life. It’s a fabulous film, very moving and heartwarming, and I’d thoroughly recommend it.

toiletpaper · 28/09/2020 23:19

@Graphista yes! And that episode where Brennan and Hodgins are in the car that the grave digger set up for them and they're running out of oxygen. Kills me.

Movie wise, definitely Coco of recent times, when he's singing remember me and his abuela joins in and you know at that moment she remembers her dad.

I know it's films (we need a tv thread too!) but in Buffy where she has to kill Angel just after he gets his soul back. The Sarah McLachlan song coming on when she starts crying is absolute perfection. I can barely listen to that song now without welling up.

Stinkyguineapig · 28/09/2020 23:31

Also, in la vita e bella when the little boy thinks he won a tank.
This was the first one I thought of

Stinkyguineapig · 28/09/2020 23:33

And the funeral scene in 4 weddings and a funeral.

RainingDogs · 28/09/2020 23:39

Bridges of Madison County as some others mentioned. JUST GET OUT THE DAMN CAR 😭😭😭😭😭😭

SayWhatTheWhatNow · 28/09/2020 23:42

The Notebook - proper ugly cried at that
The 2nd Nanny McPhee when the presumed dead dad comes home from war
Any Lassie film ever made

cherrytree63 · 28/09/2020 23:47

A lot of scenes in Cargo, but especially when Thoomi sprays Kay's perfume in front of Andy to calm him.

Bloodylovecheese · 29/09/2020 00:00

Stand By Me..just the voice over at the end, and letting us know what happened to everyone. I properly sobbed as it felt like my lost youth and all the fun I used to have with my friends and I'll never get that back.

Gladiator when he discovers his murdered wife and child

Green Mile...just the injustice of it all

Shawshank..the end beach scene

My sisters keeper...everything

YorkshirePud1 · 29/09/2020 00:11

The end of Goodnight Mr Tom when William cycles down the hill and calls him dad. I blubber every single time.

Also the scene in the Notebook when Allie's memory comes back briefly. A really close relative had just died after years of dementia when I first watched that film and there's just no way I'll ever be able to watch it without crying.

Life is Beautiful. I've only watched it once and not sure I can do it again.

Graphista · 29/09/2020 00:20

@myotherusernameisonholiday yes LOVE Morgan Freeman

@fewming meh, can take or leave Ross and Rachel, they married (referenced in "joey") but I reckon they'll be divorced by now. Hopefully Rachel is with the delicious gavin. Meanwhile chandler and Monica celebrate their 20th anniversary next year and the twins are 16, yes I'm a geek!

If it's "terms of endearment" you haven't seen then I highly recommend.

Animal farm - when the horse was taken away to be killed i didn't even make it as far as the film! We read that part in school and I was an embarrassing mess! - note to teachers let them read that part at home.

adarkwhisperinthewoodwasheard · 29/09/2020 00:22

So many already mentioned here: the end of Coco, Dumbo (cried the first time I saw it at aged 3, still bawled the last time about 3 months ago), Wit, Bridges of Madison County, Up...

But want to add to the Shadowlands to the mix. The scene when Jack goes to sit with Douglas and starts to cry for the first time. In fact, pretty much from when he sees Debra Winger's character in hospital (before they get married) until the end. So sad and beautiful

And for no apparent reason, because it's not a great film, but the final scene of A Field of Dreams where Kevin Costner plays catch with his father as a young man. Watched it on Saturday night and found myself in tears. Was ruined by the last shot of the stream of cars/tourists coming to the farm at night. Too implausible. Daytime, maybe. But night? Nah

Graphista · 29/09/2020 00:24

@toiletpaper ahh a fellow bones fan! Yay!

That episode - aliens in a spaceship - has imo one of the most romantic scenes in tv when he sees the puff of smoke and races to save her! Plus the other romantic sub plot

One of my favourite episodes

Others inc

The man in the fallout shelter - the 1st season Xmas episode when they end up quarantined and get to know each other

Any episodes featuring max or other family members of the main characters, Avalon (Cyndi Lauper), or my fave serial killers on the show - epps, Broadsky or pelant.

Must stop now! Could go on all night

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