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 :)

Slipping through my fingers in Mamma Mia. The sentiment in it 😭😭😭I remember watching it when DD was small and being emotional knowing that day would come, now she’s grown up it’s even more poignant.
The scene in A star is born with the dog waiting outside the garage 😭
My sisters keeper- throughout

It's the music, too. I remember going to see Interstellar at the cinema and I came out and sobbed for almost an hour. I couldn't explain why I was sobbing. Even now it makes me feel so unsettled.

The scene in 'Lonely are the Brave', where Kirk Douglas's horse, Whisky is put of of his misery on the highway and what the sheriff says.

Yup. Joni Mitchell CD scene. Breaks my heart every time.

When the dog dies in "I Am Legend".
Emma Thompson crying in Love Actually.
Life is Beautiful - all of it.

Carousel the musical. The ending is a killer

and obviously Black Beauty

Yes to all those mentioned. I am a big cryer, as is DH.

I don't think anyone's mentioned Testament of Youth....

The one thing I absolutely cannot rewatch though..... and I have just tried on youtube, and couldn't watch it..... Sophie's Choice "the choice". Absolutely breaks me.

-when Julia Roberts character dies in Steel Magnolias
-the opening credits to UP
-as a poster above mentioned when Cedric Diggory's Dad sees he is dead
-that scene in Tangled where the girls parents light a lantern for their missing child
-that scene in Empire of the Sun where the kid finds his parents

@ClumpingBambooIsALie I've always thought the reason people 'enjoy' the sadness that comes from crying over the emotional bits in movies and TV programmes (and also books, too, I guess) is sort of related to the same reasons some people enjoy being frightened shitless by scary horror/supernatural movies - it's a 'safe' way to get an emotional fix.

We're emotional creatures, but a lot about modern life - and most especially in developed countries, where we don't have to try to hard for anything related to basic survival - has sort of done away with the dramas, stresses, frights and upheavals of daily life. I suppose it's the same sort of reason, albeit it in a slightly less physical way - of bungee jumping or white water rafting. We're seeking something that's going to remind us of a pretty basic element of being human - the ability to feel sadness, pain, fear or some other 'negative' emotion because our daily lives are, by and large, free of those things.

I think it's an indication that many of us need a bit of balance in the things we feel - maybe we get twitchy if we feel 'too happy' or even just on a even keel, with no real ups and downs - for too long. So many people say a good ol' cry is cathartic, so I think, perhaps, watching a movie that makes us blub is one way of getting a cathartic fix, in a controlled and measureable way.

For my money, the ending of 'Bridges of Madison County' made me wail like a baby. So beautifully, perfectly restrained - flawlessly acted by the irreplaceable Meryl Streep. The fluttering of her hand to the car door handle and the wavering moment between one life and another - a precipice of choice. I got goose bumps and a welling feeling in my chest just typing that!

The scene in 'Twelve Years a Slave' where the slaves gather for the funeral of the eldest among their number after he dies on the cotton field affected me more than anything else I've seen, cinematically-speaking. I wrote a blog post about it and thought of it for days and days after seeing the movie for the first time. Chiwetel Ejiofor did something truly incredible there - and he didn't even need any dialogue to do it.

Most films with Tom Hanks in. Now I’ve had children, I cry even thinking about some of the scenes. For some reason, he is so vulnerable and just seems like a lovely man in real life.

• Forest Gump: When he rescues Bubba, his love for Jenny, losing his Momma
• Captain Phillips: When he thinks he’s about to get shot and starts begging and describing his family, when he gets examined by the army doctors after getting rescued
• Castaway: When he loses Wilson, when he gets rescued and goes to see his wife
• All of the mentioned bits in Green Mile
• All of the mentioned bits in Toy Stories
• Sully: When he makes sure everyone gets off the plane first
• Philadelphia: I have hardly watched it because just the thought of it makes me cry
• Saving Private Ryan: When the bomb hits and he is deafened and confused, and then dies

Oh lordy I’m actually tearing up thinking about these now!

I can't watch this scene any more! I initially loved the movie, now I think it's irritating k problematic & the plot device doesn't work BUT that scene ... I get really really upset and think of all those moments in the past with my DC that I can't have again... I'm emotional just typing it!

Obviously 'Daddy, my daddy' in The Railway Children.

The Fox and the Hound when either the pup or cub says 'We'll always be friends, won't we?'

Truly, Madly, Deeply, when the pest control man is round and sees Nina talking to Jamie. He mentions his wife and she says 'I'm so sorry George, I thought your wife died?' and he says '1974. Still talk to her though, tell her my day. "And death shall have no dominion." We know that, don't we, me and you?'
He looks at her so kindly. It's such a tender scene.

Oh God yes. That film. It's unbelievably heartbreaking.

I wished I'd stopped watching but I believed there was going to be some plot twist about the daughter ... it's amazingly done in terms of giving us (the audience) an insight into dementia.

@Notsoyummymummy2 You missed:

Bridge of Spies... right at the very end, where the daughter says "i thought Daddy went fishing... For Salmon?"

Hanks wife was angry at him for not getting the Marmalade from Scotland, turns out he was in East Germany getting Powers & a student released.

No matter how many times i see that film, i end up tearful at the end.

The kissing montage in 'Cinema Paradiso' made me sob for hours.

Emma Thompson's character is so bloody annoying in that movie that while the scene is excellently done, I don't get upset for her.

The scene that gets me is when Laura Linney's character is finally getting together with the gorgeous guy from work. It's such a lovely scene then her brother rings & that's it. It's so sad knowing it doesn't work out for them. It always irritated me that Curtis chose that couple to have the dad ending instead of any of the others.

@Amber2384 · Today 15:44

When the dog dies in "I Am Legend".

Oh goodness yes! Awful!
And i don't know if it's just me, but all through the film he's been calling the dog Sam.
Sam this Sam that.
And then that scene when the dog is fatally hurt and he calls out Samantha! And we find out for the first time that the loyal brave dog is a female.
Really jerks those tears for me 😮😥

@ClumpingBambooIsALie I've realised with the answers you've been given about this that I actively avoid watching Mama Mia because the emotions it evokes are too strong, and they are just painful rather than cathartic, the songs remind me very strongly of the deaths of my best friend and my mother.
But there is other stuff that doesn't connect at such a deep level that I can safely watch for a bit of a cry. Music does this for me too, during lockdown being particularly bad for music hitting the spot and usually when I was driving!

"Interstellar when he's watching back the messages from his family who have all grown up as he was away for 30 years or something in their time"

^^yes - I found the whole film haunting tbh

Paddington 2, when he's trapped in the railway carriage and desperately trying to escape. I always shed a tear when he and Mary are looking at each other through the bars of the carriage speaking with their eyes about the inevitable.
Field of Dreams, at the end when when Kevin Costner says, 'Hey dad, wanna have a catch'. I'm usually a right blubbering mess at this point, probably moreso since my own dad passed away and I'd give anything to have a catch myself.
Sally Field in Steel Magnolias when her daughter dies. Her emotions are so raw and credible She’s an excellent actor.

Hachi a dogs tale - couldn't stop, just grabbed a whole roll of tissue in the end!

Bridge to terabithia 😭

Ps I love you (only since I met my husband mind you, didn't find it that sad before and then went to watch it again recently and had to turn it off!)

Stepmom

Opening scene of Up

Legends of the Fall

Beaches

I love a good tearjerker! I agree, it's very cathartic! So many of the ones already listed too especially Green Mile.

All of Hachi: A Dogs Take, cried so much my throat hurt for hours afterwards.

Also the end of The Return of The King when they are at the Grey Havens. This scene in the film and the book always gets me, so sad.

Pride. In the miners’ club when a woman starts singing a traditional song, and all the women join in. And at the end when all the buses of miners turn up for the Pride March. Makes me absolutely howl.

That seems to make sense — thanks for taking the time to explain so clearly.

Another for “Daddy, my daddy” ☹️Railway Children… had a tear just typing that !

all the way through Whistle down the Wind