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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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Needhelp101 · 09/08/2022 13:12

Ihaveoflate · 09/08/2022 13:07

The whole of Truly, Madly, Deeply from beginning to end, but especially when Juliet Stevenson turns round from the piano to see Alan Rickman playing the cello in the flesh. She sobs and I sob!

This!
And the end, when he recites the poem.

LondonWolf · 09/08/2022 13:13

Last of the Mohicans, when Magua kills Uncas and Alice just turns away and steps quietly off the cliff to be with him. Oh I fill up just writing that Sad

RiverSkater · 09/08/2022 13:13

Beth dying in little women, DD and I in floods every time. 😔

Likewise Matthew in Anne of Green Gables. 😔

Purpleavocado · 09/08/2022 13:13

The whole third act of Million Dollar Baby after the accident. I was in bits.

NancyPickford · 09/08/2022 13:17

Another vote for 'Baby Mine' scene from Dumbo, Jessie's song in Toy Story 2, Bambi's mother shouting 'Run Bambi, run!' and then you hear the bang of the gun and Bambi cries 'Mother!' Oh god what am I doing to myself typing these.

The last scene in 'The Way We Were' when they unexpectedly meet up again after all those years, and they have both moved on - but all that history between them, and what might have been.

Too many blubbing moments. I cry at the drop of a hat now, never used to.

Laiste · 09/08/2022 13:17

LondonWolf · 09/08/2022 13:13

Last of the Mohicans, when Magua kills Uncas and Alice just turns away and steps quietly off the cliff to be with him. Oh I fill up just writing that Sad

Yes. And strangely the way that Magua holds his hand out to her for a moment, but she turns away from it. The music is so beautiful.

AND the fact that one of my DDS is an Alice and looks similar! 😭

Vampirethriller · 09/08/2022 13:19

Mother Long Neck dying in the Land Before Time, and when Muriel tries on the first dress in Muriel's Wedding.

PeloAddict · 09/08/2022 13:20

The whole of hachi a dogs tale
Sobbed uncontrollably

RuthBrenner · 09/08/2022 13:20

The scene in Wrath of Khan where Mr Spock dies, gets me every single time.

Laiste · 09/08/2022 13:20

The Last Samurai.

The end. When all the last Samurai knowingly ride straight into the hail of machine gun fire ...

Dogscanbefallguysforallmannerofthings · 09/08/2022 13:24

The ending of Lion, where the actual man, not actor, is filmed finding his birth mother. In fact just about the whole film.

Just about all of ‘For Sama’ but that’s non-fiction.

Laiste · 09/08/2022 13:24

@RuthBrenner Oh! Yes! When he's in that glass holding tank thing? And they call Kirk to come because he's going to die?

The way Spock struggles to stand and tries to neaten his uniform when he sees the captain coming ..... <wail>

mumda · 09/08/2022 13:24

I think I cried badly during "About Time" but I can't remember why. I remember thinking it was lovely but too sad to watch again.

rightonthyme · 09/08/2022 13:25

catwomando · 09/08/2022 12:52

The bit in mamma Mia when she's doing her daughter's hair before the wedding 'slipping through my fingers' , knowing that her little girl is all grown up and in a moment her childhood is over.

Every time.

This is mine and my mum's!

Laiste · 09/08/2022 13:26

I'm just thinking - this thread is one big spoiler! 😂

rightonthyme · 09/08/2022 13:26

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

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.

Dogscanbefallguysforallmannerofthings · 09/08/2022 13:27

An oldie called Splendour In the Grass - wept for what might have been.

For some reason The Sound of Music makes me cry in crying-in-the-Sistine-chapel kind of way.

littlepeas · 09/08/2022 13:28

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 quite often shed a few tears, but the Green Mile is the only film that has made me properly sob.

FeedMeTiramisu · 09/08/2022 13:29

Only time I have proper ugly snot cried whilst watching something was with Coco.

Disneyblueeyes · 09/08/2022 13:30

DillonPanthersTexas · 09/08/2022 13:07

I founds the end of Captain Phillips unexpectedly moving. He has been rescued from his kidnap and is undergoing a medical by the Navy doctor and she is asking him various questions and each of his answers is getting progressively more emotional as he is holding back the tears as the gravity of his ordeal begins to sink in.

One of the reasons Tom Hanks has to be my favourite actor of all time.
The nurse in that is an actual nurse specialising in trauma as well. It didn't surprise me hearing that.

SaltedCaramelPopcorn · 09/08/2022 13:31

The end of Schindler's List where some of the real people appear with the actors who played them, then the camera pans out to the hundreds of descendants of those he saved. Sobbing mess every time!

Dogscanbefallguysforallmannerofthings · 09/08/2022 13:31

It certainly is Laiste I thought about that when writing about the ending of Lion —but did it anyway— 😳

Dogscanbefallguysforallmannerofthings · 09/08/2022 13:32

Strike through fail

littlepeas · 09/08/2022 13:32

I can’t bear Dumbo, the whole thing is so horrible - he is treated so appallingly. It doesn’t make me cry though. The other thing I found horribly distressing is the end of the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - but again, no tears. I cry really easily usually - they almost push me past the point of tears. Most crying ever is the Green Mile.

GiveMyHeadPeaceffs · 09/08/2022 13:33

The Green Mile...I've never watched the film on the basis of how much I sobbed at the book. My eyes were actually sore the next day from crying.

Million Dollar Baby...blubbed like an eejit at the end of it.

Also the films District 9 and Chappie about how outsiders are treated.

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