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To ask you for the scenes in films that always make you blub?

453 replies

MaybeIWillFuckOffThen · 09/08/2022 11:57

I've just been reduced to a puddle by the bit in Hunger Games where Katniss volunteers for Prim - you can feel both their panic for each other and it just gets me! gulp Reminds me of the bit in Empire of the Sun when Jamie is separated from his parents in the mob 😭 I feel like this sort of scene hits me harder since having my kids.

Call me bonkers but i love a good film cry, I find it really cathartic. So hit me! Any scene from any film that makes you ugly cry :)

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 09/08/2022 21:17

Has anyone mentioned ‘Oh Captain my Captain’ yet?

But even sadder was the massive shock death in the middle of the film, and when the father finds him. So terribly sad and very, very relevant to this day.

Skyellaskerry · 09/08/2022 21:17

Like a few others, Hachi, all of it
Gorillas in the Mist when Digit is killed
The cave scene in The English Patient when Almasy sees that Katherine's wearing the thimble he gave her and she says something like I always wear it, I've always loved you
The end of Cinema Paradiso
When Two Socks is killed in Dances with Wolves

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 09/08/2022 21:21

The end of Empire of the Sun. I cry from around the part where the Japanese boy is killed and Jamie tries to bring him back but am an absolute wreck by the time he is reunited with his mum.

And as per my user name I blub every time at 'I'll go home and think about it tomorrow' at the end of Gone With the Wind.

Secretstupendous · 09/08/2022 21:31

"Oh Captain my Captain".

I was an absolute wreck in the cinema. Still feel pure hatred for Neil's parents.

BeaLola · 09/08/2022 21:33

The montage at the end of Cinema Paradiso, my absolute favourite film ever, the part where he rescues Alfredo, the part when he returns ....basically lots of the film and the haunting music,

Green Mile , Shawshank, Dumbo, Paddington, and Lion - omg Lion - I cried buckets- luckily watching at home so could pause film whilst I mopped up.

Loads of things - especially since having DS - Cars when Lightning gets all cocky and forgets about Mater, Shadowlands, Philonena - so many many films - and of course It's A Wonderful Life when they all go to the bank and save George

QuietBatperson15 · 09/08/2022 21:37

Agree with so many of these and have stupidly YouTube’d some I’ve not seen 😩. A few years ago there was a mini series out called Containment, about a deadly virus outbreak i think it was in New York. There is a scene near the end where the main character, a mum/teacher, looking after her son and lots of kids in a locked down hospital finally succumbs to the virus and has to say goodbye to her son before she dies, then she is dying alone choking on her own blood then her man runs in wearing a hazard suit to hold her while she dies. I remember ugly crying at that.

midsomermurderess · 09/08/2022 21:41

The end of The Killing Fields, when Dith Pran is reunited with Sydney Schanberg. Boo bloody hoo!

ghostyslovesheets · 09/08/2022 21:48

Pride - most of it really but especially the end
Steel Magnolias - that funeral scene
Into The West - when Ozzy goes in the sea on the horse

JudgeJ · 09/08/2022 21:49

ReadtheReviews · 09/08/2022 20:28

Reminds me of that comedy skit of Hitler fast forwarding the X Factor because he 'just vants to vatch the veeping'.

Is that one of the many Hitler skits on Youtube using the film Downfall? Some of the funniest things I've ever seen, well worth a look for anyone not familiar with them.

twinmum2007 · 09/08/2022 22:01

@ClumpingBambooIsALie Not just about feeling sad. Happy endings make me cry too. I've seen It's A Wonderful Life dozens of times and still cry every time at the same bits. None of them sad, all of them happy. It's about the release of great emotion.

FastFood · 09/08/2022 22:03

The last scene of Jurassic Bark, the Futurama episode. I cant even think about it without getting emotional.

twinmum2007 · 09/08/2022 22:04

@BeaLola Mary Bailey: 'I have money. How much do you need- wail!!! Every time.

hollyivysaurus · 09/08/2022 22:05

Embarrassingly, Tangled (the Disney film) - I get emotional and wipe away a tear when they let off the lanterns celebrating their missing daughter, I full on bawl my eyes out at the end when they finally find her. I've got misty eyed just writing this!

YellowPlumbob · 09/08/2022 22:06

A few bits of I Am Legend - a film I’ve watched many times over the years, but only really felt the isolation during the lockdowns (single, three DC, no family or friends for miles around, stuck studying from home in the final year of my degree.

I’d not seen another adult for about 9 weeks when DD2 wanted to watch a “horror” film (she was 12 at the time), so I stuck that on.

Mistake.

anxiouslyanxious · 09/08/2022 22:06

At the end of The Blindside when they show the real photos of the family together. It just hits home that it was a true story and there are some amazingly kind people in this world.

CounsellorTroi · 09/08/2022 22:07

Watership Down at the end when Fiver dies and then his soul goes gambolling around the woods.

ClumpingBambooIsALie · 09/08/2022 22:09

twinmum2007 · 09/08/2022 22:01

@ClumpingBambooIsALie Not just about feeling sad. Happy endings make me cry too. I've seen It's A Wonderful Life dozens of times and still cry every time at the same bits. None of them sad, all of them happy. It's about the release of great emotion.

Yes I tried to specify the sadness crying but maybe it wasn't clear.

Bonjovispjs · 09/08/2022 22:10

The Champ when Ricky Schroder was the cutest kid ever, begging his dad to wake up when he's laying dead after the fight😭

greyradiation · 09/08/2022 22:10

Not a film but the scene in Its a Sin where Gill sits with the dying patient. It was shown again on goggle box and my partner had to leave the room for a second time. Bravo to Russel T Davis

greyradiation · 09/08/2022 22:11

@YellowPlumbob agreed. Especially where he had to end Samantha's life

noideawhatsuits · 09/08/2022 22:17

Quite a few of the ones mentioned already, but one I haven't seen mentioned yet that really gets me is 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' many parts of it make me cry! I almost didn't watch it as I'm not a Jim Carey fan, but loved it.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 09/08/2022 22:19

Oh as mentioned also Lion. Saw the film..scenes where he finds home on Google maps and then when he sees his mum again! The reaction,the music ahh! And finding out what happened to his brother and the last scene of them two walking along the rail track.

Then read the book and even though I knew what happened still managed to cry again!

Georgeandzippyzoo · 09/08/2022 22:21

FilePhoto · 09/08/2022 12:07

Most of the ones already mentioned.

Plus
Harry Potter and TGOF when Cedrics Dad realises he's dead. "My boy"
And
Harry Potter and TDH when Dobby dies.

Oh God ! Cedric's dad and my boy! You can literally feel his pain! 😭

AliTheMinx · 09/08/2022 22:22

Almost the entirety of Schindler's List - especially the little girl in the red coat on the mass grave. Heart-wrenching :-(

Georgeandzippyzoo · 09/08/2022 22:26

Laiste · 09/08/2022 13:05

The whole of The Green bloody Mile 😭

  • I read it when the book was published 26 years ago. SOBBED so hard through the ending i couldn't see to read. Swore I'd have nothing more to do with it.
  • Couple of years later Dfriend purseded me to go and see it at cinema when it came out 🙄 I SOBBED through the second half of it so hard that i made funny noises and made the neck of my top wet. I swore never again.
  • Years later DH wants to watch it on TV one night. I'm like .... oh ok, i'll try. Well i started to cry as soon as Tom Hanks goes out to visit the bloomin' mouse right at the start and we had to turn it off 🙄
No more! No more Green Mile in this house!

I was so traumatised and amazed by the book I've never watched the film because it 'cant be as good, it must miss out bits, I'll regret watching it!'

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