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

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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 :)

Me too!

If you're interested you might like a recent book called 'The Premonition Bureau'. It's not about Aberfan specifically but it forms a large part of what led to the setting up of the Premonitions Bureau, and is incredibly poignant.

The end of the film About Time where Tim and his dad get one last run on the beach together. Gets me full on sobbing every time!! I think it hits even harder if you are lucky enough to have a close relationship with your parents.

The beginning of Up
'Daddy, my daddy' in the original Railway Children

The pursuit of happyness - where will smith and his kid are sleeping in a public toilet
Blood diamond - pretty much all of it

Arrival, the scene at the end of the montage of her daughter. I sob every time.

The final scenes in Cinema Paradiso. I cry loudly, with snots.

When Elliot says goodbye to E.T. - it get me now still, at the age of 51 🙈

Yes! I visited Bletchley park last week and then watched The Imitation Game afterwards. So tragic.

I cry at everything but Fly Away Home and Dumbo are especially bad.

Seven Pounds. When the penny dropped and I realised what he was doing.

The Martian. When Mark finally made contact with Earth and read the first message and broke down.

A Monster Calls. All of it, really.

Mr Holland's Opus. "We are the notes of your symphony..."

And I totally agree with whoever said "About Time". That last walk on the beach had me howling.

@HaalandisaDon That was the first film I properly cried at. All of it is pretty weepy but the bit at the end where the red head child is brought home by the policeman and his dad says that he can go thieving and do whatever he wants but he would still love him and that would never change.

@NancyJoan OMG, when the buses turn up at the end I can’t stop myself, I pretty much cry through until the credits. I think for some of it I was crying because I actually felt so proud of the characters.

Arrival - basically from the opening credits onwards! (Watching it while pregnant was an error.)

Made me tearful just reading your first sentence

Stepmom. All of it.

Yes both of these

Running On Empty with River Phoenix. Would have had me in the edge already but the addition of Fire and Rain finished the job.

Oh and ditto for Philadelphia/Neil Young

This thread has made me realise that I don’t get particularly emotional at films generally, but for some reason kids’ films absolutely kill me!

Dumbo’s mum singing Baby Mine, Coco singing her dad’s song as she fades away, all of them holding hands in the incinerator in Toy Story 3 - it doesn’t matter how many times I watch them, I’m in bits every time.

But I have another one that I’m pretty sure is just me … the scene in Nanny McPhee where Evangeline’s clothes turn into a beautiful wedding gown as snow begins to swirl around her. It’s supposed to be an uplifting scene, so god knows what it triggers in me, but it has me bloody bawling, even if I’ve just walked into the room and haven’t seen any of the rest of it!

Another here who still can’t help but get emotional over “Daddy, my daddy” at the end of The Railway Children. Many of the others mentioned here resonate with me.

I remember watching “Hachi: a Dog’s Tale” one Christmas and just sobbing. Fortunately the kids were upstairs and I was able to compose myself before they came downstairs again

Anthony Hopkins in The Father.

Sophie's Choice.

Another but I can't really remember...recent film where everything has gone to shit so maybe post apocalyptic. Woman has recently given birth. She and her injured boyfriend make it to the docks to get baby to safety on a boat. The moment they are told there is only room for the baby. So they have to let the baby go without them. It's heartbreaking to watch the mother weep as her baby is taken.

Not a movie, but Only Fools Abd Horses, when Cassandra has a miscarriage. And Rodney says it’s not her fault. I love how the show mixes in the tragedy, and poignant moments, with the comedy. It’s real life

Only Fools was sublime writing all the way through. Genius

In the parent trap when Hallie gets to London and meets her mum for the first time. I've seen it hundreds of times and that slow mo hug gets me crying every time

Oh god I forgot about Haachi!

I watched it with a friend, we were both sobbing and then weirdly, half way through the film, her mum rang her to say her (the mum’s) puppy had been run over by a car! We couldn’t believe it, and it set us off again. By the time her DH came home he didn’t know what the fuck was going on why we were crying hysterically!

I've just rewatched Pride and there are SO MANY blub-worthy scenes.
The Bread and Roses scene.

The bit in that scene where Paddy Considene and his wife give each other a wordless but absolutely searing look of love. It just blazes from both their faces.

The scene where Gethin finally goes back to see his estranged mum.

And of course the end.

The acting in it from everyone is just superlative.

Not to be an Uber geek but that was the opening to Star Trek, not Into Darkness.

And the only reliable one to set me off isn't a film, but Anya's speech in "The Body" episode of Buffy