Heart-wrenching scenes

I love heart wrenching scenes, the kind where you can feel the tears well up and the sadness at the bottom of your heart; where you can truely sympatise with the characters.

There haven't been too many in movies lately, but I've always found that my favourite is:

The Red Dress monologue from Requiem for a Dream - always makes me feel so sad anytime I watch it. Always think its sickening that she didn't win an oscar for her performance.

How important are these scenes to a movie? I always find that you remember them more than any others.

The Artist

my one is after watching Platoon
Made me think it was all real.
Loved that film and a few tears certainally!
The soundtrack is fab to it.

JangoFett

In I Am Legend

when he has to kill his dog. I welled up big time during that scene, I'm a dog person and it got to me.

Will Smith was brilliant!

Black Swan

Last 5 minutes of screen time in "Atonement," when

the part played by Redgrave relates that the happy ending in her novel was a fiction used to resolve her guilt about destroying the romantic couple's relationship.

passive

The scene in Children of Men with the crying baby is really powerful.

Or, also, there's one particular scene in Bridge to Terabithia that may or may not have made me cry...

vasch_ro

The scene in Superman 1, when a young Clark Kent cannot do anything for his father when he gets a heart attack, absolutely heart wrenching ....

L31mr0d

not really a movie, more a feature length documentary, but Earthlings pretty much put a lump in my throat from the moment they started showing dogs being euthenised in Kennels to the scenes of animals being skinned alive in China and then being left to walk around skinless and the seals being clubbed to death in Canada.

The documentary has an eerie score by Moby coupled with Joaquin Phoenix's solemn narration it really makes these acts seem as vicious as they really are.

humanji

davey180 wrote: »

my one is after watching Platoon
Made me think it was all real.
Loved that film and a few tears certainally!
The soundtrack is fab to it.

That's the exact scene that popped into my head when I saw the thread title.

Latchy

The part in the more recent King Kong film were he falls to his death from the empire state building . The sadness in his eyes when he looks at the love of his life for the last time. Could relly feel for the poor guy .

Also the scenes in Titanic were all the people are lifeless in the ocean, including the one of the mother and baby together .That really choked me up

the merchant

The death scene in The Champ. Devastating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhrqKqK_cA

The Artist

the merchant wrote: »

The death scene in The Champ. Devastating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhrqKqK_cA

forgot about that one too
yes a good one to mention!

Karl Hungus

Guys, consider this a warning, use spoiler tags. Nobody wants movies spoiled for them, so I will be handing out infractions if you're not considerate of other posters here.

Basq

Didn't we have this topic recently?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055286424

Pugsley

The Last Samurai always makes me choke up:

The last charge where Katsumoto dies, and when Algren is talking to the Emperor shortly after

The scene thats hit me hardest of anything though isnt in a film, its from babylon 5 when:

Ivanova is talking to Franklin in Medlab after Marcus dies to save her

Dudess

The very last scene in Brokeback Mountain - just when you're thinking "meh it was fairly sad but I've seen far sadder and it looks like things will work out ok" and then there's this lingering of the camera for a few seconds and it's as if Ang Lee has kicked you in the stomach and reached in and absolutely ripped your heart out. Then the credits roll and the unbearably sad instrumental kicks in... Getting all out of breath just thinking about it.

mewso

Promises. The scene when the jewish and palestinian kids are about to go their seperate ways is truly heartbreaking. Possibly one of the greatest documentaries ever made imo.

Beanstalk

Braveheart: End scene: 'You bled with Wallace, now bleed with me....'

(Really sad, bear in mind i was only ten at the time!)

Pigman II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9VtNBroFVE

faceman

Best of the Best: the whole

"i offer myself as your brother.."

scene. Gets me everytime!

Never Ending Story: when the

horse dies

. It was very traumatic when i was a child.

The English Patient: When Fiennes

carries her out of the cave and she's dead

. The camera angle, his face, the music, it all adds up!

Q_Ball

The king kong and I am legend ones mentioned earlier were the most recent ones, but the first tear jerker I can remember was not actually from a film. It was from final fantasy VII where

Cloud walks out to the water with aeries in his arms and drops her into the depths

It was the first time i connected to a game and made me realise the potential of video games as a viable story telling media.

Indie18

when i was a young kid i remember getting upset in the end of jaws when they killed the shark. you have to look back and laugh at these things.

Mark Hamill

The end of the Iron Giant has the saddest scene I've ever seen.

Key-Connors

cant believe noones mentioned the end of schindlers list watched it yesterday for the first time and its the only time ive ever welled up with tears.apart from when i was a kid and

mufasa died

CliffHuxtabel

The last couple of scenes in 'Missing' where Jack Lemmon finds out about what happened to his son are devastating

Inglorious

The Pianist -

The family splitting the toffee 6 ways.

Cinema Paradiso -

The final scene with the omitted kisses.

The Lives of Others -

"No, it's for me"

zod

last scene in "about schmidt" a wholly under estimated film in my opinion

spoiler http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=qfcjyXmSqOs&watch_response

GAAman

Key-Connors wrote: »

cant believe noones mentioned the end of schindlers list

The whole film doesnt get to me its just one bit, the little girl in the red coat. Kills me every time

L31mr0d

Mark Hamill wrote: »

The end of the Iron Giant has the saddest scene I've ever seen.

I thought the Iron Giant had a happy ending?

Crumbs

passive wrote: »

Or, also, there's one particular scene in Bridge to Terabithia that may or may not have made me cry...

I still get teary-eyed just thinking about that one. Only film that's ever done that to me.

Rineanna

The funeral scene from Veronica Guerin had nearly the entire cinema roaring crying when I went to see it. Sinéad O' Connor's excellent rendition of 'One more day' was really perfect for the scene. One of my favourite films of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yUTqqSE7Kw

Mark Hamill

L31mr0d wrote: »

I thought the Iron Giant had a happy ending?

well. the bit right before the end

uskidsgo

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest:

when Chief suffocates McMurphy, one of the saddest scenes I've ever seen