Movie scenes that sank your heart

"Vision? Yeah, hell of a vision" - Lonesome Dove

The father-son catch scene in Field of Dreams (mentioned above)

Legends of the Fall, different scene: "Brother, it would be an honor"

Cool Hand Luke: Luke playing the banjo after finding out his mother died...Luke stops playing, then starts again but faster, looks to the sky with tears in his eyes. Classic Paul Newman.
 
Man...no mention of the movie Simon Burch? The scene where the little guy hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mom, then he runs to the end of a pier crying, "I'm sorry" over and over.
 
Passion of the Christ, definitely. Many others that have been mentioned as well. In fact, I can hardly take Cinderella Man because it is so powerful. The part where he is getting in the cab and telling his kids goodbye and his son sticks out his hand. So many parts in that movie.

Another one that stands out is in The Patriot when they kill his children. Man, I hate that.

The bathroom scene in Pursuit of Happiness is definitely on the list.

One more, in The Rookie, when he calls his son and tells him he is going to the Majors.
 
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Another one that gets me is the movie Revenge with Kevin Costner and Madeline Stowe. At the end when Costner finally finds her at the convent and takes her outside.
 
In Blackhawk down where the dude dies and bleeds out while they are trying to rech out and grab his artery.


In season 4 of the wire when bodie gets shot in the head - I was like stunned for 5 minutes
 
The Last Picture ShowSonny is minding the pool hall that he inherited from Sam the Lion, when he hears the squeal of truck brakes. He glances out the window and sees the trucker and a some of the townspeople out in the street. In a classic double-take, he sees a broom lying on the pavement, dashes out into the street and cradles the lifeless form of Billy
Trucker: What was he doin' out there anyway, carryin' that broom?
Sheriff: Aw, he weren't doin' nothin'. He was just an ol' simple-minded kid - never had any sense.
Cowboy: Sorta retarded, you know. It wasn't your fault...
Another man: He was just a dumb ol' kid, never was good for much.
Cowboy: Didn't even know enough to keep his *** out of the cold, morning like this...
Trucker: I'd still like to know what he was doin' luggin' that broom around this time of day.
Sonny: He was sweepin, ya sons of b*******! He was sweeping!

The Blue Max
The General tells the newly decorated Lt. Bruno Stachel to take off in the new monoplane and "show us some real flying," knowing full well that the aircraft is dangerous. The General is OK with that, because Stachel (a) lied about the number of kills he had claimed, and (b) had been messing with the General's (trophy) wife. After a couple shots of Stachel ripping up the sky in the new aircraft, the scene shifts back to the General's office, where he starts leafing through Stachel's service folder. We hear (but don't see) the *crack* of the wing failing, the horrified gasp from the crowd, and the shriek of the airplane as it falls to earth. The General takes a rubber stamp, and (glaring daggers at his wife) stamps DECEASED (or whatever) on Bruno's service record. They then step outside, where we see Stachel's funeral pyre

Von Ryan's Express
The POW train has been switched onto tracks that will take it to Switzerland instead of Germany, and is starting to pull away. Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is running to catch up and board the train. A German solider gets off a burst that cuts Ryan down just feet from the train. From the vantage point of the departing train, we see Ryan's lifeless body prone on the tracks, slowly receding into the distance as the train heads to Switzerland.

Schindler's List
The part that literally left me choked up and speechless was at the end, when the Schindler survivors and the actors who portrayed them file past Schindler's grave in Israel and place stones on it in tribute. The credits state that the survivors and descendants of the approximately 1,100 Jews sheltered by Schindler now number over 6,000. The Jewish population of Poland, once numbering in the millions, was at the time of the film's release approximately 4,000.
 
two scenes from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - when Nurse Ratched confronts the non-stuttering Billy Bibbitt abt having a woman in his room whereupon he reverts to his insecurity and then cuts his own throat; when Chief Broom (and the audience) realize that McMurphey has been lobotomized and Broom has to suffocate him.

"Midnight Cowboy" ending when Ratso Rizzo dies on the bus after finally getting to Florida.
 
The scene in Click where Adam Sandler rewinds back to where he saw his father last and realizes how he treated him... That one hit home.

Another vote to American History X ending. The movie did a good job of making you feel like eyes had been opened and things were going to get better only to have the circle of violence come back around.

Another vote for the dog scene in I am Legend. I have a Siberian Husky that is that loyal and obedient. He never leaves my side (which I have to admit gets frustrating in a one bedroom apartment)

When Han gives Chewie the speech before being encased in carbonite (if people can reference Disney, give me my Star Wars)
 
Multiple scenes in Babe (Babe being separated from his mom, Fly "adopting" Babe, Maa dying, Baby triumphing in the end).

One of my all time favorite movies.
 
All Dogs Go to Heaven. Still gets me.

Grumpier Old Men. When Jack Lemmon and Burgess Meredith are sitting by the lake and BM just passes on.
 
"The Cowboys"...when they shoot and have to bury John Wayne.


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"Hanging Up" with Walter Matthau, Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow. The scene where he passes. The whole movie overall reminded me of my 2 sisters and I with our Dad. We went through the same thing pretty much. Sad.
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Finding Nemo - Marlin picks up Nemo as an egg (the only survivor from the barracuda attack)

Armageddon - Bruce Willis saying goodbye to his daughter before sacraficing himself to save Earth
 
it's not a movie, but the dog episode of futurama. if you've seen it, there is no worse stomach punch. i'm like a ******* water works at the end of that episode, when the dog keeps waiting for fry. gah.

the scene in shawshank when brooks gets out. the whole letter being narrated by him. where it really starts for me, and i don't know why, is when he's sitting on the bus, with his hands on the rail and his suitcase in his lap. he's completely lost.
 
Reminded of another one:

Cinderella Man - the scene where Braddock has to swallow his pride and ask for handouts to all the big suits, even after going to the welfare office....just to get the heat turned back on.
Many scenes in that movie get the lump in my throat, but that's the only one where i shed a tear.
 
The Lives of Others when he buys the book.

Five Easy Pieces when Nicholson talks to his dad.

Ikiru when the bureaucrat confronts the yakuza.

Emma's Shadow when the girl rubs heads with the lice infested outcast.

Chinatown when Huston tries to comfort his grand/daughter.
 
When the kiddo gets trampled in the stampete in the Duke's The Cowboys.

When the bad guy who has been a bad *** the entire movie does something stupid at the end and the good guys win and the director ties everything up nicely with a pretty pink bow. But that's just me.
 
The American Presdent:
The president is mullling over a decision to bomb a Lybian Ministry in retaliation for an American facility being attacked by the Lybians. A cabinet officer says to the President of the retaliation "It will appear very presidential". The president replies "there is a janitor in the buliding right now just sweeping up, trying to feed his family. He has no idea that about an hour from now he is going to die in a massive explosion, because a hour before, I gave an order to have him killed....you've just seen me do the least preidential thing I do........attack". Gets me every time
 
West Side Story -- after Chino shoots Tony and Tony dies in Maria's arms. Maria takes Chino's gun but collapses in her grief. The Jets and Sharks carry Tony's body away.

There were a lot of good suggestions earlier in the thread but WSS is probably my favorite movie.
 
Possible vague The Wire" spoiler.................





I was sadder than hell from watching "next weeks" episode. I think it will get worse later in the season.
 
When Moonlight Graham steps across the foul line and turns into Doc Graham, so he can save the annoying little girl choking on the hotdog.
 
I'd also like to add the end of Big Fish.

As well as the end of Places in the Heart. There is some sort of cosmic force that connects me to that movie. I guess it's because my grandmother was Possum's age during the depression. She told me lots of stories about it. Also, I spent a good deal of my childhood at my grandparent's house in Brownwood. They took me to a church very similar to the one in the movie.

When I was young, I saw a movie (possibly a made-for-TV movie) in which these 7 or so children lost their parents. Can't remember what happened to the father but I'm pretty sure the mother died or ran away. Anyway, there was this one scene in which child services comes to pick the kids up and, basically, split them up to different homes. The youngest kid wore glasses. That was the first time I ever cried watching a movie. Anyone know what it could have been?
 
Is this movie scenes that depress you (i.e. the inevitibllness of life, etc) or movie scenes that make you cry / sad? Sometimes they overlap, but sometimes they don't.

Depressing - most of the war movies. I don't like or understand senseless acts.

Make me cry, but not necessarily sad - The Rookie came immediately to mind. "apparently, there's a dress code in the major leagues" (****, I'm tearing up now!). I actually saw that movie three times, in the theatre, on opening day.

Sad - most have been mentioned. Field of Dreams (yeah, he gets a catch, but it's a statement on lost time). Whale Rider (although the scene was vital to telling the remainder of the story, it stiill sucks big time).

You want the worst (best) one? And yes, I'm a huge baby - my wedding video. Just the perfect day ever.
 
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