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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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risefromyourgrave · 09/08/2022 12:11

drawacircleroundit · 09/08/2022 12:06

The court room scene in “Philadelphia” when Tom Hanks’s character collapses.

I have only just got over my hate of Mary Steenburgen because of how mean she is to Tom Hanks in that film! I suppose it shows what a good actor she is.

girlmom21 · 09/08/2022 12:12

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.

"My boy" is heart wrenching. Fantastic acting.

And obviously when Dumbledore dies and when Snape dies. I'm a wreck.

Soubriquet · 09/08/2022 12:15

So many make me cry but I automatically thought of when Mrs Jumbo rocks Dumbo through the bars of her cage whilst baby mine is
being sung.

I’m crying now!

Twins3007 · 09/08/2022 12:16

Saving Private Ryan, when the young soldier has been shot and is dying and cries for his mum, I could never watch it again got me so bad

Starlight86 · 09/08/2022 12:16

Creepymanonagoatfarm · 09/08/2022 12:06

The Green Mile when Tom Hanks realises John is innocent.

Came on here to say this

and also when John says he doesnt want the hood because hes scared of the dark.

😥

IneffableGenderFairy · 09/08/2022 12:18

So many of these, plus...

The bit in Coco where the grandma is fading, but then he sings 'Remember Me' to her, and she starts joining in. Makes me gulp cry.

Cornishmumofone · 09/08/2022 12:19

The end of American History X

TheDogsMother · 09/08/2022 12:20

The funeral scene in Four Weddings.

KatherineJaneway · 09/08/2022 12:21

The ending of Ghost: It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.

FadedRed · 09/08/2022 12:21

The last few scenes in The Memphis Belle, where they are coming into land with one side of the landing gear undescended, with the background music of ‘Danny Boy’.
In Apollo 13, the scenes where Mission Control and the families are waiting for the astronauts to come out of radio blackout on the descent through the atmosphere.

WorriedMillie · 09/08/2022 12:22

The end of the railway children 😭😭

Dumbo gets me too- apparently my mum took me to the cinema to see it and I sobbed so loudly that she had to take me out 🙈🙈

ShinyMe · 09/08/2022 12:23

The bit in the English Patient where Ralph Fiennes pushes over the box of morphine capsules and just keeps staring at Juliette Binoche until she picks one up and starts getting it ready. I have a good old sob every single time.

Justcashnosweets · 09/08/2022 12:23

@Soubriquet that scene makes me cry every time aswell 😭

Justleaveitblankthen · 09/08/2022 12:24

Oh, I'm about to break down just writing this.. The scene in Ghost when Sam manages to make the penny slide up the door 🥲

Tumbleweed101 · 09/08/2022 12:24

2ndMrsdeWinter · 09/08/2022 12:08

Homeward Bound: the part where Peter has accepted Shadow’s death. Moments later, Shadow comes hobbling over the hill and into his human’s arms.

It has me sobbing every time.

My daughter watched this nearly everyday when she was about 4yr and sobbed everytime at that bit. She confessed the other day that that bit still makes her cry - she's 22yo now.

Yorkshireteaalwayswins · 09/08/2022 12:24

In Up Close and Personal, where Tally sees the red-laced boots on the news and breaks down because she knows he's dead :( Gets me every time.

ReindeerGames · 09/08/2022 12:26

Also the end of the Railway Children. Plus when they sing the French national anthem in Casablanca.

Theanswersarewithin · 09/08/2022 12:27

The end of the last of the mohicans where Alice jumps off the cliff.

The end of cloud atlas where the stories come together and the souls are reunited in the different stories.

The beginning of UP.

BrimFullOfAsher · 09/08/2022 12:29

@SurpriseSurprise I came to say My Girl/that bit too lol

lemons44 · 09/08/2022 12:33

The bit in castaway where Tom Hanks loses Wilson in the ocean.

'WILLLLLSOOOOOONNNNN'

Also the Dumbo scene mentioned aboveSad

Phos · 09/08/2022 12:35

Soubriquet · 09/08/2022 12:15

So many make me cry but I automatically thought of when Mrs Jumbo rocks Dumbo through the bars of her cage whilst baby mine is
being sung.

I’m crying now!

This one! Worse since I had my daughter. Plus Bambi "Your mother cannot be with you anymore"

Also, not so well known anymore, but Mrs Miniver at the end where they're in the bombed out church and Vin Miniver leaves his family pew to go stand with his wife's grandmother.

playinthedarkness · 09/08/2022 12:37

When the plant starts dying in ET
when memories starts playing at the end of the way we were.
most of what dreams may come- beautiful film

Phos · 09/08/2022 12:38

When Old Jack and Dewey die in Eight Below.
Hooch taking a bullet for his master in Turner and Hooch.

I'm more likely to cry over a dog than human death when it comes to films.

Purpleavocado · 09/08/2022 12:39

Muriel's Mum at Muriel's Wedding when no one sees her at the service
The last scene of Gladiator in the wheat field
The cliff scene in Last of the Mohicans
All of Twelve Years a Slave and Schindler's List
I never cried as a child, I remember my Mum asking why I wasn't upset in Bambi. I cry all the time now!

MsTSwift · 09/08/2022 12:42

The end of Billy Elliott when he comes on stage and the brother and dad are in the audience.

Remains of the day with Anthony Hopkins is a repressed c s Lewis and his young wife dies and him and her young son just sob.

Also Beaches know it’s schlocky but the end gets me every time

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