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 :)

'All of You' ruins me every time! Just thinking of it has me filling up! "What's that sound? I think it's everyone in town..." Dear Lord!

Such intelligent songwriting in Encanto - catchy, clever, beautifully textured, genuinely emotional music. The whole thing overwhelms me often (like Hamilton really). Lin-Manuel is a genius.

@Teaandtoastedbiscuits Yes his limp was caused when they broke his leg at the children's home when he tried to protect his brothers.

And then later when he went into the institution, they performed a vasectomy without telling him.

It's such a sad film, I don't know why I bought it years ago on DVD- it's too hard to watch sometimes, especially knowing that it's partly true.

The end o f Betty Blue. I've only watched it once, but I was in bits. Also Once Were Warriors. I came out of that film weeping and shaking.

This will only work for the Star Trek Voyager fans here. In Pathfinder when Voyager finally makes contact with Earth. "Keep a docking bay open for us"

Gets me every time.

I’ve just remembered another one, ‘life is beautiful’ (a subtitled Italian film). Omg it’s so amazing and so 😭😭😭😭😭

This gets me every time

also It’s a Wonderful Life, where the pharmacist starts hitting him round the ear when he’s trying to stop him
makibg a mistake. I cry even thinking about that.

Yes!!!!

I got a lump in my throat just reading this post.

The bit in Awakenings when they realise the medicine has stopped working.

End of each school year the last afternoon a film was put on and the whole school watched-one year they put on "ring of bright water". Cue half the school in floods (including me) when midge gets done for. Mind, the previous year they showed "puppet on a chain". Alistair McLean action spy thriller which climaxes with a bad guy getting shot in the back with a whaling harpoon gun. Some very strange people ran that school

We watched a film on Netflix about a young American gymnast (true story) who became an Olympian. She was from a modest background with a single mum. Her siblings all gave up their extra curricular activities so she could keep doing her gym. Dh I and both dc in tears.

When the black rabbit comes at the end in Watership Down is the first time I remember being an absolute mess over a film. I’ve always really enjoyed a good cry over a movie but I’m much worse since having kids and also I think since the pandemic when my faith in life carrying on as normal has been shaken a bit I’m more emotionally affected by some films, anything end of the world related like The Road is hard to watch now. I’ve been weighing up whether to watch Schindler’s List as I’ve never seen it, I know it’s supposed to be an amazing film, I wish I’d watched it when I was young and less emotional.. I think it would haunt me now.

Any kind of montage looking back at someone’s life always has me in bits - Titanic, League of Their Own, American Beauty and recently Soul. Similarly Interstellar, missing all of Murphs life like that.. so sad. It’s an amazing film, very haunting as others have said.

Oh, and how could I forget—the ending of Terminator 2: "I know now why you cry… but it's something I can never do", and then giving the thumbs up as he's lowered into the vat of acid.

@Apollonia1 If you haven't seen it, I recommend an old film called "How Green Was My Valley" about a Welsh mining village.

The dog gets me too!!

Having just RTFT I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Sophie's Choice. I saw this 30 years ago and I think it's the only film that I loved but also could never ever watch again.

Drop Dead Fred. When the mum locks away Fred. And the little girl
is crying dont take him away from me

Oh, are you a fan?
I can't remember if it made me cry but the episode I found really sad was Oblivion.

Most of my faves are mentioned here.

I am proper blubbing now.

Lion, all of it. Incredible story. I find the scene where the boy has travelled on the train for hours and hours and is still looking for his brother traumatising.

First 10 minutes of Up.

Original West Side Story when Tony dies.

Oh, and the BBC documentary about the pride of lions where new males chased off the dominant lion and then killed all the cubs while the lionesses watched… and shortly thereafter mated with the murderous males.
I know "it's only nature" but I never liked lions as much after that!

The end of born free.

The scene in Mama Mia where Meryl Streep sings "Slipping Through My Fingers" on her daughter's wedding day. Her daughter has grown up and she is thinking back to when she was a child. It gets me every time.

Many moments in "Princess Cut" even though it's such an overt propaganda piece for the born again.

Film wise, it has to be Cedric Diggory's death. Jeff Rawle acted that scene fantastically and I cry with him every single time.

I have 2 worse ones, both from historical fiction dramas. The first is the execution of Thomas Cromwell in the Tudors (played by James Frain) and the other one is when Richard III (Aneurin Barnard) dies on the battlefield in The White Queen. I watched both of those scenes once and I've never watched them again, even though I've gone through both series many times since