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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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Fuuuuuckit · 10/08/2022 22:22

I saw the railway children for the first time just asy parent were divorcing, the daddy oh my daddy gets me every time. I saw the new film recently, proper snotty sobbing just from the music in the first part of the film. Dd was mortified.

SATC Big dying. Also when Miranda and Steve broke up. And 'go get our girl'. Buckets of tears.

Steel magnolias. Ghost. My girl.

I need a good sob. I'll be looking on sky tomorrow for something.

SheeplessAndCounting · 10/08/2022 22:25

Bingbong fading away in Inside Out.

SheeplessAndCounting · 10/08/2022 22:26

Oh, and when The Snowman melts and the boy goes into the garden and finds him.

strawberry2017 · 10/08/2022 22:29

In Jack when he graduates and says "I did it mom "

SheeplessAndCounting · 10/08/2022 22:41

Also Hiroshima. When the little girl is trapped by fire and begging for her mother to save her but she can't. The girl is screaming and her mother is saying sorry that she isn't brave enough to run through the flames. It was so harrowing I had to turn it off and it still haunts me.

Northernlurker · 10/08/2022 22:41

Lorenzos oil. Susan Sarandon tells her son that if this is too much he should just fly away and mummy and daddy will be ok.......ugly crying ensues!

Black beauty. Saw it as a child, I was distraught.

Needhelp101 · 10/08/2022 22:47

I've just thought of a Sex and the City one,the episode where Miranda's mum dies and they go to support her at the funeral. Very moving, especially when Miranda's walking back down the aisle and Carrie jumps up and hugs her and kisses her hand and holds it to her heart.

SheeplessAndCounting · 10/08/2022 22:47

Also The Impossible when the mother is trying to keep hold of her child in the tsunami waters.

DancinOnTheCeiling · 10/08/2022 22:50

TheDogsMother · 10/08/2022 22:20

Yes @DancinOnTheCeiling. I can't even read that poem without blubbing. Matthew saying Gareth's recipe for Duck a'la Banana will go with him to the grave 😢🤣

@TheDogsMother I just watched the scene… 😭😭😭

Rolypolyfishheads · 10/08/2022 22:50

Titanic. The moment when the ship is sinking and the mom with 2 children in steerage knows that they have no chance of getting to safety. So, she just tucks them up in bed and reads them a story while the ship goes down. Oh god, it really breaks my heart.

Teaandtoastedbiscuits · 10/08/2022 22:51

HaalandisaDon · 09/08/2022 16:38

A film called After the Promise with Mark Harmon. Set in the 40's. He and his wife have six sons. The wife dies and the authorities take all the kids into care. They are treated badly in care and he fights to get them all back but it takes ages and the scene at the end when he finally gets them all back has me bawling every time.

@HaalandisaDon did one of his sons end up with a lame leg from being in some sort of institution. I think I might have rented this from the video shop and cried my eyes out, I could never remember the name of it

DancinOnTheCeiling · 10/08/2022 22:53

Anyone seen ‘Manchester by the sea’? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

DancinOnTheCeiling · 10/08/2022 22:54

Rolypolyfishheads · 10/08/2022 22:50

Titanic. The moment when the ship is sinking and the mom with 2 children in steerage knows that they have no chance of getting to safety. So, she just tucks them up in bed and reads them a story while the ship goes down. Oh god, it really breaks my heart.

Oh yes I remember… 😭😭😭😭

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 10/08/2022 22:54

DancinOnTheCeiling · 10/08/2022 22:53

Anyone seen ‘Manchester by the sea’? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Yes, the scene where he returns from the shop is heartbreaking. If the rest of the film wasn’t so painfully boring I think I’d have been more upset 🙊

JumpingFrogs · 10/08/2022 23:01

Lost in Translation - the last scene between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanssen when they finally embrace and then go their separate ways. So much remains unsaid in that film, it really is beautiful.
The food bank scene in I, Daniel Blake, where Katie is completely overwhelmed with hunger.
I'd agree with previous posters who mention Brokeback Mountain and Pride too.

itsnotmeitsu · 10/08/2022 23:09

I've never been able to watch 'Ring of Bright Water' again after seeing the scene when I was a child where the otter got killed. What makes it worse is that, although the film was fictional, it was based on an autobiographical book.

MaybeIWillFuckOffThen · 10/08/2022 23:15

Two bits in Room absolutely kill me. When the little boy discovers his mum in the middle of her suicide attempt - oh god the screams of terror and fury 😭 And later on when she's back from the hospital and he wants to bf and her milk has dried up, then she says "I'm not a good enough ma" and I just lose it 😭

Huge amounts of Saving Mr Banks, esp the bit where her mum is walking into the river because she just can't cope any more.

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 10/08/2022 23:25

Talking of Saving Mr Banks - the let’s go fly a kite scene. Just Beautiful

Craftgirlx · 10/08/2022 23:31

So many already mentioned!
Also, Pearl Harbour makes me WEEP. Especially when Danny is dying and Rafe tells him he’s going to be a father but Danny, knowing he’s not going to make it says, ‘no, you are’. Oh my god, the TEARS.

Dita73 · 10/08/2022 23:38

It’s weird,I rarely cry in real life but cry at films at the drop of a hat. The most ridiculous one is probably the end of Crocodile Dundee when he’s in the subway and walks on the crowds heads to get to her. Pathetic I know

Soproudoflionesses · 10/08/2022 23:42

Dita73 · 10/08/2022 23:38

It’s weird,I rarely cry in real life but cry at films at the drop of a hat. The most ridiculous one is probably the end of Crocodile Dundee when he’s in the subway and walks on the crowds heads to get to her. Pathetic I know

Oh l love that scene!!

Mookie81 · 10/08/2022 23:50

rightonthyme · 09/08/2022 13:26

We had to watch the opening as part of a war poetry unit in sixth form - the gore aside, this bit made me excuse myself and go and sit outside. It's the fact he's holding onto his spilling guts at the same time, ugh.

Funnily enough I've watched it since and it didn't affect me nearly as badly either time. Still bloody sad though.

I was fine all the way through, then as I went to bed after turning it off I sobbed like a baby!

YoniHuman · 11/08/2022 00:18

I absolutely bawled it when the ant died in “Honey I shrunk the kids”
Anything where a Mum or mother figure dies sets me off these days.

Furries · 11/08/2022 00:29

Marley & Me - the final walk and the burial

Haachi A Dog’s Tale - waiting at the train station

ET - when he’s dying

Beaches / Steel Magnolias - total blubfest

Generally, I try to avoid films with animals as central characters - as I know I’m likely to end up in tears!

Bibonelove · 11/08/2022 01:01

Beaches when she starts singing did you ever know youre my hero.. cry everytime!