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Do Tell: What Movie Moment Makes You Cry Every Time?

Sun, 08/24/2008 - 9:00am by DearSugar
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I’m a sucker for a good drama, and when the seriously sad stuff gets ramped up, I have no shame in just letting the tears dribble down my face. But lately, it’s not just the dramatic moments that get me going; it’s the funny ones too. Something about the goofy, light-hearted scenes makes me nostalgic for old friends and being a kid again. I’m sure there are a few of you out there like me, so do tell, what movie moment makes you cry each and every time?

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  • zabrow's picture
    zabrow
    1

    this isn't a light-hearted scene, but the part in "love actually" when emma thompson realizes that her husband's been cheating on her (kind of) when he gives her a joni mitchell cd at christmas instead of the necklace or whatever she found in his pocket... THAT scene makes me cry every time.

    i have no shame about crying at movies. haha

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  • bythesea's picture
    bythesea
    2

    definitely A Walk to Remember and The Notebook are guaranteed tear-jerkers for me!!!

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  • californiagirlx7's picture
    californiagirlx7
    3

    Oh my god, there are so many moments that make me cry...I love to cry at movies, it feels very therapeutic.

    - Beauty and the Beast, at the end where the Beast dies and Belle tells him that she loves him (I'm a Disney geek )
    - Casablanca, when Ilsa leaves on the plane
    - Hook, towards the end where Peter's wife is sleeping in the kids' room after they have been kidnapped and she thinks that she is still dreaming when she sees the kids are back in their beds, but then Jack & Maggie (the kids) run over to her and the mom, Moira, starts to break down and cry.
    - It's a Wonderful Life, when George Bailey realizes that he already has a wonderful life with his family and the townspeople come to their house to contribute money to prevent his bank from going under. I'm already bawling by the time they start singing "Auld Lang Syne."
    - Little Women, when Beth dies
    - Moulin Rouge, when Satine dies
    - She's Having a Baby, I cry the hardest during this movie when Kristy is going through a difficult labor and then has to have a C-section, while Jake is waiting outside and reliving their memories together as the Kate Bush song "This Woman's Work" plays in the background.
    - The Notebook, when Noah says "It's not over...it still isn't over" and then he kisses Allie in the rain.

    I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them right now.

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  • hyzenthlay20's picture
    hyzenthlay20
    4

    Mine is also in Love Actually, but it's the part at the beginning and the end that doesn't involve the characters. It's the part at the arrivals gates at Heathrow, and during 9/11 no one made calls of hate, everyone made calls of love, and there are all these real people finding each other in the crowds . . . Man, that gets me every time!

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  • syako's picture
    syako
    5

    Mine's from TV. Friends. The scene where Monica proposes to Chandler. Gets me every time.

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  • Vespa's picture
    Vespa
    6

    Totally Love Acually! But also Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

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  • catmouse's picture
    catmouse
    7

    My best friends wedding. When they are dancing on the boat and he begins to sing into her ear and just as they pass under the bridge jules wipes her tears away.

    Little Women. When laurie purposes to joe and she turns him down.

    Unrequited love sucks.....

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  • GlowingMoon's picture
    GlowingMoon
    8

    Mine is from the classic "The Sound of Music." The love scene between Maria and the Captain makes me swoon, and I tear up every time. Soooooo romantic and sweet.

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  • brittanyk's picture
    brittanyk
    9

    The Notebook, definitely, and like many have already said Little Women. I just watched it this afternoon and I cried in like 3 different parts Sticking out tongue

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  • Papaver's picture
    Papaver
    10

    Brokeback Mountain ending. "Jack, I swear..."

    Secrets and Lies final family confrontation

    Cinema Paradiso final montage

    The Lion King - when Mufasa dies

    Love Actually Emma Thompson/Joni MItchell scene

    The Pianist - Szpilman wandering through bombarded Warsaw - the World that went away

    Besides scenes from Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, Big Fish, The Elephant Man, The Hours, The Notebook, The Live of Others, Shadowlands,

    pass me some kleenex

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  • persephone76's picture
    persephone76
    11

    Definitely Anne of Green Gables. When Matthew dies, and when Gilbert proposes to Anne!

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  • PiNkY PiNk's picture
    PiNkY PiNk
    12

    for sure the notebook towards the end when she doesn't remember him and the nurses are all trying to calm her down. and he starts crying...omg! it's sooo sad. more than anything, the pain in his face is heartbreaking. and when mufasa dies in the lion king...so sad! *tear*

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  • Noel7683's picture
    Noel7683
    14

    The scene from "crash" when the little girl gets shot. The look on the father's face is so heartbreaking, I cry buckets every time!

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  • fleurfairy's picture
    fleurfairy
    15

    persephone - yes! In Anne of Green Gables when Matthew gives her the puffed sleeved dress and she thanks him in the barn. I always cry at that scene. And of course when he dies. So much of my childhood was spent in the fictional world of Avonlea.

    I always cry when Beth dies in Little Women.

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  • ms jamerz's picture
    ms jamerz
    16

    I must have a hundred as well!

    *P.S. I love You* the first time holly recieves anything from gerry on her birthday....actually the entire movie had me in tears!

    *I Am Sam* when the foster mom brings sam's daughter back to him in the middle of the night and he asks if she'll tell on him if he tells her he can't do it alone. amongst other scenes.

    *Step-Mom* the christmas morning scene at the end of the movie as susan sarandon gives each of her children their gifts she made and has a talk with them. gets me every time

    *Ever After* when Prince Henry "rescues" her from Pierre Le Pieu's castle and says her real name for the first time as he propose's

    *The Notebook* when the elderly version of Ally and Noah are having their date and she suddenly doesnt remember him and freaks out and Noah starts to cry as she's being sedated.

    These are just a few but I could go on and on....!

    *Sisterhood of the travelling pants 1* when Tibby is at Bailey's bedside

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  • JoyceWong08's picture
    JoyceWong08
    17

    A Walk To Remember! It Made Me Cry At The End When Landon Visits Jamie's Dad And When He's Outside And He Says [[His Thought]] 'Love Is Like The Wind..You Can't See It..But You Can Feel It..' :]

    The Other Boleyn Girl - When Mary Walks In And Takes Elizabeth From Her Mother And Walks Out Of Court And Everybody Moves To Let Her Through! I Found That A Strong Moving Scene!

    And Some Other Asian Dramas..They Make Me Cry My Eyes Out!

    There's Loads More :] Ohh..I Cried Watching Gossip Girl And The OC!

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  • laluna's picture
    laluna
    18

    I'm such a crybaby when it comes to movies.

    My Girl will make me cry every damn time i watch it, before anything even happens!

    Beaches - the end
    The fox and the hound - It used to make me so sad as a kid
    Schindler's List - One part i really hate is when the boy who works for Goeth (sp?) is walking back to the camp and you just know he's going to be shot...
    The Professional - Aww i loved Leon
    Saving Private Ryan
    Ladder 49
    The War - Most things after the dad dies
    Remember the titans
    The Horse Whisperer

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  • kellys's picture
    kellys
    20

    almost any slightly angsty scene with a young girl and her dad will get me (bonus points if the girl is blonde). now that my father has passed away and i'm a mother myself, i hardly have to think too hard about a scene like this and i'm kind of gone. the one in the patriot (i think it's the patriot) when mel gibson's daughter finally speaks and says "papa don't go!" kills me dead.

    on the lighter side, i can't help but cry happy tears at the end of sense and sensibility (when edward *finally* tells elinor how he feels). (again, if i think about it too much i'll lose it).

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  • lmors's picture
    lmors
    21

    ATONEMENT.. When I first saw the previews, i thought it was going to be an uplifting film.. boy was I wrong.

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  • bellacu's picture
    bellacu
    22

    The end of "Pay It Forward" when they look outside to see all the people holding candles...

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  • jessie's picture
    jessie
    23

    i couldn't tell you a certain scene......i always get all blubbery at some point....someone dying..men crying..old people..lovers parting ways...something happening to children..you get the drift

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  • meerkat's picture
    meerkat
    24

    -The English Patient: When he carries her dead body across the desert
    -P.S. I Love You: When Holly gets the tape on her birthday
    -I Am Legend: When Sam dies
    -The Notebook: Enough said.

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  • Jude C's picture
    Jude C
    25

    The part where Boromir dies at the end of Fellowship of the Ring. I'm a sucker for Sean Bean.

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  • wadewifey3's picture
    wadewifey3
    26

    Gone With The Wind - when little Bonnie Blue died, heartbreaking.
    Lion King - when Mufasa dies.
    The Mummy 2- when Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) gets stabbed by Nefetiti and Rick (Brendan Fraser) is crying.
    Remember the Titans- when Gary gets into the car crash. "Don't tell me that, don't tell me that." I break a tear when he says that.
    My Girl - at the funeral for the little boy. so sad.
    Green Mile - when Percy didn't wet the guy's (can't remember his name, he had a pet rat) cloth and the guy dies a terrible death.
    Gone Baby Gone- when Amanda is sent back to her mom, Idk but i shed a tear in that scene.
    Hunchback of Notre Dame - when the hunchback leaves the tower and everybody is applauding him. Beautiful.
    Finding Nemo - when the shark, or whatever it was, eats all the eggs and kills the mommy. Tragic!
    Babel - when Cate Blanchett gets and her hubby B-Rad Pitt (in the movie of course) is trying to get her to a hospital.
    Gloryroad - when they win the championship, when bad words were spray painted on their hotel walls, and when Nell get's beat up.

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  • hills's picture
    hills
    27

    i dont think i have cried at a film since i watched gone with the wind at age 6ish and that was only because the horse died lol. o but i do love the notebook, thats a bit tearful

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  • Shopaholichunny's picture
    Shopaholichunny
    28

    Beaches-The whole movie! lol
    The Notebook-The whole movie too!
    Wicker Park-At the end when they play the Coldplay song and they finally see each other in the airport! It gets me eevry time.
    Love Actually-She watches the wedding video and realzes that he is
    in love with her.When he finally tells Kiera's character that he loves her through the cards.
    Moulin Rouge- When Satine dies. "All you need is love" *tear*
    My Girl-The Funeral
    If Only-Basically the whole movie too. haha
    My Best Friend's Wedding-When she confronts her in the bathroom at the end. ETC. Laughing out loud
    So many more..

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  • kristinmarta's picture
    kristinmarta
    29

    my girl- "where's his glasses? he can't see without his glasses!"

    little women- when beth dies.

    the shawshank redemption- when red is missing andy- "their feathers are just too bright and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. i guess i just miss my friend."

    i also have a heard time with stand by me, dogfight and the lion king.

    oh and i was bawling at the end of wall-e when wall-e had been restarted and it seemed as though he had lost his memory and personality. omg- i was a wreck! hahah.

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  • Trixie6's picture
    Trixie6
    30

    Steel Magnolias - At Shelby's funeral when M'Lynn breaks down saying "Why? Why?". I cry like a baby.

    The end of Sweet November. Keanu Reeves pulls the scarf away from his eyes & Charlize Theron isn't there.

    Stupidly enough - Sex and the City. Carrie is standing there in her beautiful wedding dress talking to Big and she realizes that he's stood her up. My heart just ached.

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  • sldc's picture
    sldc
    31

    I rarely ever cry in movies, but:

    In the cartoon, The Iron Giant (based on the book by Ted Hughes), I actually cried when the Iron Giant sacrifices himself for humans and flies at the missle, declaring himself "Superman."

    That flick was so awesome, yet so few watched it. My kiddo loves it.

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  • apma's picture
    apma
    32

    Little Women: After Beth dies, when Jo says "Will we never all be together again?"

    Beaches: When Victoria sees Hillary on the floor

    Remember the Titans: Gerry's car accident

    Crash: When the little girl gets shot

    Forrest Gump: When Bubba asks, "Why'd this happen?"

    Steel Magnolias: When they take Shelby off of life support

    And of course, the Notebook. I am such a sucker for that movie

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  • skiwi's picture
    skiwi
    33

    Schindler's List: the very final scene when the actual Jewish survivors place stones on Schindler's grave Sad

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  • dollhouse's picture
    dollhouse
    34

    My Girl - @ the funeral (that scene still breaks my heart)

    The lion King - when mufasa dies

    Somethings Gotta Give - when (diane keaton's character)is waiting on

    (jack Nicholson's charater)to i guess express his feelings for her.

    Titanic - its pretty obvious

    Their eyes where watching God - when halle berry's character had to shoot tea cake (thats scene breaks my heart)

    I am Sam - Sad

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  • californiagirlx7's picture
    californiagirlx7
    36

    Wadewifey, I thought that I was the only one who cried at this scene: The Mummy 2- when Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) gets stabbed by Nefetiti and Rick (Brendan Fraser) is crying.
    Brendan and Rachel had such amazing chemistry as a married couple, I cried so hard at the scene and I was thinking "She can't be dead!" Thank God she wasn't...

    I also forgot to include...

    A Walk to Remember - when Jamie tells Landon that she has leukemia
    Big Fish - when Sandra is told that Edward died in the war (even though he didn't), and when Edward dies at the end surrounded by people from his stories
    Steel Magnolias - when M'Lynn cries after Shelby's death
    Stepmom - when Susan Sarandon gives her children their Christmas presents at the end of the movie and has a talk with them, knowing that her breast cancer is incurable and that she will die soon
    Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1 - when Tibby comes to see Bailey in the hospital
    Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 - when Bridget blames herself for her mother's suicide and her grandmother comforts her, and when Lena says that Kostos "broke her heart"
    Titanic - when Jack dies, and when Jack & Rose are reunited on the ship at the end in "heaven"
    My Girl - The funeral scene and "He can't see without his glasses!"
    Lion King - when Mufasa dies

    I included The Notebook in my first post, but i forgot to add the scenes where the elderly Allie forgets who Noah is and she starts freaking out, and then the scene at the end where they die in each other's arms

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  • pippins_halfling's picture
    pippins_halfling
    37

    I can't actually cry in movies... But if I get a little teary, then you know it's sad! The movies I get slightly teary over are:

    -Titanic (typical)
    -Sisterhood of the traveling pants (the part where America gets upset because she's fat or something)
    -Atonement (after the guy dies)

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  • wadewifey3's picture
    wadewifey3
    38

    I forgot about sisterhood of the traveling pants when Amber Tamblyn is in the hospital with Bailey, I turned toward the sofa so nobody would know my eyes were watery!

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  • californiagirlx7's picture
    californiagirlx7
    39

    I also forgot...

    A Mighty Heart - when Marianne (Angelina Jolie) learns about Daniel's death and gives out a heartbreaking scream & cries and cries...so sad
    Wall-E - when Wall-E forgets Eve after he has been restarted, and then he remembers her when she holds his hand.

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  • cheer4veggies's picture
    cheer4veggies
    40

    all the aforementioned romantic heartache/love and people dying but also the scene in the last samurai where katsumoto is dying but he finishes his poem about the cherry blossoms.
    not a movie but the episode in nip tuck where megan decides to take her own life. and sean holds her hand til she goes.
    ...reading all these is making me cry.

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  • kia's picture
    kia
    41

    Legends of the Fall... Samuel getting shot up during the war while caught in the wire as his brother watches

    Lion King... When Simba goes to Mufasa after he dies and tries to get him to wake up then crawls under his paw & arm

    The Fox and the Hound... I can't stand how the fox and the hound grip that they can't be friends since they are so different. It is not fair.

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  • quietriott's picture
    quietriott
    43

    i just cried during "harry potter and the goblet of fire" when cedric diggory dies and harry is transported back with the port key and cedric's body and is sobbing on top of him and cedric's father comes running down screaming "THAT'S MY BOY! THAT'S MY BOY!"

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    misscgo0711
    44

    I Am Sam- Where Lucy get taken away from her father and she is screaming to him.
    The Pursuit of Happyness- when Will Smith’s character get the job and he starts to cry
    Sex and the City- when Carrie is left standing at the altar and of course the end!
    Steel Magnolia- at the funeral and Sally Field’s character starts to cry. You can really feel her pain.
    27 Dress- the part when “Like A Star” starts playing, can’t remember the scene..
    Meet the Browns- where Angela Basset’s son gets shot and he is in the hospital
    The Notebook
    Remember the Titans

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