Movie scenes that sank your heart

I watched a movie on DVD this past summer called 'Bloody Sunday' about a massacre of Irish teenagers in the 70's by UK soldiers. The movie is shot in a fast-paced, stream-of-consciousness style that leaves you little time to think, until the final scene in the hospital when the organizers of the protest march-turned massacre are trying to come to grips with the death tally and their own failure to bring about peace and the realization that the violence of that day will only beget more violence. The screen fades to black as a live, slow version of U2's 'Bloody Sunday' plays. Bono's voice cracks with emotion several times. The girlfriend and I literally sat on the couch for 15 minutes...long after the last credits had rolled....crying our asses off.

There's lots of movies with great emotional scenes in them like the ones mentioned in this thread but I've Never been hit in the gut quite like that before.
 
Top Gun -When Goose dies
WWS-Burnt guy at the end talking to photographer
Saving Private Ryan- Ending with Old Ryan at cemetary
Crash - When little girl almost gets blown away
 
Pursuit of Happyness, when Will Smith and his son sleep on the floor of the bathroom in a subway station. Absolutely breaks me down, as a father you can feel the total emotional pain Will Smith is having in that scene. This is just ahead of the scene when they offer him a permanent job, I'm a weeping sissy during those scenes.
 
Knoxville-Horn, enjoy.
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Greatness put to Requiem.
 
Lonesome Dove:
Call - "Au gus tus"
Gus - "By God Woodrow, it's been quite a party."

And about ten other scenes in Lonesome Dove that make me cry every time I see them.

Also the village scene in Platoon where Barnes ***** *** shoots the village mom, and her daughter is just balling and the day is too.

Glory - about then different scenes including the one where Denzel Washington's character gets whipped, where the white soldier they had gotten into a scuffle with ealier yells, "give 'em hell 54th!" and the last scene where Col Shaw leads the charge and is immediately shot dead.
 
so many, but recently..Munich directed by Spielburg

About 4/5th into the movie, when Eric Bana's character is so strung out and emotionally at edge about all that he has seen and had to do. (tracking down, one by one, the terrorists responsible for the Munich Olympics massacre)

and he calls his wife from so hotel and his daughter gets on the phone and says "hi Daddy", and he just starts bawling. It's like the only good and truly innocent thing he has heard in months. It just kills me.
 
Whale Rider -

The scene where the little girl gives her speech. The speech is all about her grandfather, whom she admires. And she tries to struggle through the speech in tears, as his seat remains empty.

That scene ripped me up.
 
Nice trifecta, DryCreek (Platoon, Lonesome Dove, Glory).

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I have a 5 yr old German Shepherd (Caesar) that I've had since he was 8 weeks old. A bunch of my friends pitched in and bought it for me the birthday after I put my 11 yr old Shepherd down. After watching the last scene involving the dog in the movie, I couldn't wait to get home and get Caesar in a bear hug.
 
Lots of good choices on this thread. Cinderella Man, SPR, Lonesome Dove, Pursuit of Happyness -- all those scenes get me.

And Gallipoli -- wow, good one, haven't seen that in years.

Someone above mentioned Glory -- I'd add the final scene where the black Union soldiers' bodies are being dumped into a big grave in the sand and Matthew Broderick's lifeless body falls on top of them. Very moving.
 
different part of trainspoitting for me....

when he has to make sure the heroin is okay, after he had been clean for so long.
 
"Dad, wanna have a catch?"

What I wouldn't do to have one of those times I said "No, not today" to my Dad when he asked me to go fishing before he died.
 
Green Berets at the end when Hamchunk goes from Huey to Huey looking for "Petersahn."

The Great Santini has quite a few.
 
Brian's Song has to be up there for me, when Sayers accepts the award:

" I'd like to say a few words about a guy I know, a friend of mine, his name is Brian Piccolo, and he has a heart of a giant, and that rare form of courage, that allows him to kid himself, and his opponent, cancer. He has the mental attitude which makes me proud to have a friend who spells out 'courage' twenty four hours a day, every day of his life. Now you flatter me, by giving me this award, but I say to you here and now, that Brian Piccolo is the man of courage who should receive the George S. Halas award. It is mine tonight, it is Brian Piccolo's tomorrow. I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him too. And tonight, when you hit your knees, please ask God to love him"
 
The scene in "Life as a House" just before Kevin Kline dies of cancer and he is laying in the hospital bed with his ex-wife as she is showing him old home movies of him and his son at the beach.
 
Heath Ledger holding the shirt, alone, at the end of Brokeback Mountain.

Terms of Endearment when the boys say goodbye to Mom in the hospital.
 
There's a lot on here that I totally agree with from that part in The Dirty Dozen to the concentration camp in Band of Brothers, etc.

My Girl...both the funeral and final poetry class scenes to this day make me want to ball my eyes out.

When Apollonia is killed in The Godfather always gets to me.

Also, I second My Dog Skip. I could never watch that movie again because it made me so sad and depressed at the end.

And to this day Where the Red Fern Grows makes me sad every time I think about it.
 
Great ones listed!!


For me:
Glory - the look on Col. Shaw's face as he's overlooking the ocean, coming to grips with what he's about to do

Saving Private Ryan - "Tell me I'm a good man"

Legends of the Fall - when Tristan returns home and all the colonel can do is scribble "Am Happy"


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thought of another. The scene in Dumbo where the mom is chained in that cart thing and she's rocking Dumbo in her trunk.

Tell you what, with that music playing and being a little kid at the time. I cried so hard. It still makes me get a little wispy.
 
If you are talking seriously made your heart sink..


"Where the Red Fren Grows"..one dog keeps going to the grave then dying as well. I cried !

"Brian's Song" when Brian is having is last chat with Gale Sayers.. cry every time with that part and when Gale tells the players in the locker room.
 
I'm with TornACL - The scene in Whale Rider with the little girl giving her speech about her grandad but he doesn't show up is the only movie scene that has ever reduced me to snot bubbles. Saw it at the Dobie with my wife and had to excuse myself to go get myself together in the restroom. Highly embarrassing.

Many of the war movies mentioned above also get me. Since my son went to Iraq, I can't watch them any more. I tear up during the National Guard ads that they show during the previews.
 
All of these are great, but I've got some that ya'll might find obscure.

Phenomenon-Robert Duvall goes into John Travolta's hospital room with Forrest Whitaker behind him, to tell Travolta's that the cause of his "powers" actually stem from some super-tumor. What gets me, is the way that Whitaker, in the background, quickly looks up, and away, obviously crying, when Travolta says, "and it's killing me isn't it?"

Empire of the Sun-Christian Bale's young Japanese friend can't get his plane started, Bale calms him down, and they're about to split an orange, gunshot rings out, and it's Malcovich, thinking the Japanese kid is trying to kill Bale.

Casualties of War-Honestly, there are too many scenes in that movie that made my heart sink to name them all.

SPR-They're in the church, trying to get a little sleep, and evrything is quiet. Wade is transcribing Caparzo's letter onto clean paper due to all the blood on the original. When the murmur of voices dies down a little, Wade starts talking about his mom coming home from work late at night, standing in his doorway to see if he was awake, but he'd pretend to be asleep. "All she really wanted, was to find out how my day was, or what I did in school....but...I'd just lie there. I never understood why I did that".
 
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