The Lion King, in the ravine where Mufasa dies…it never bothered me when the movie first came out, but the last few times i’ve seen it, I cried!
There are a few others, I’m sure, but that’s the first one to come to my mind.
I tend not to give in and cry during tearjerkers, because I’ll be damned if I’ll give them the satisfaction. I did cry during “Steel Magnolias,” but I resented every teardrop.
However, I sobbed like a baby from the “red coat” scene of Schindler’s List until the credits rolled, and during the last twenty or thirty minutes of Breaking the Waves.
Amadeus, when they toss his little coffin into the beggar’s grave.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. just cuz.
The English Patient - the nurse in me just sobs and sobs.
I never cried at movies when I was younger; the first one that made me tear up was the latest version of Romeo and Juliet (Yeah, go ahead and laugh …). The ending of Depardieu’s Cyrano de Bergerac also gets me sometimes (as does the original play), and just recently I found myself glad that I watched Madame Bovary for my French class at home rather than in class, because at the end I was teary not for the title character, but for her poor husband.
Life is Beautiful
Another one for Schindler’s List
“This is a list of pure good…”
“I could have done more. I could have done so much more”
“The Schindler Jews today.”
Bwaaaahhh 
Lilo and Stitch gets me every time.
The Truman show
Monsters Inc.
Titanic for the whole last hour and a half!
I’ll second Dragonblink for the final scene of Cyrano. And there’s a scene in The Sixth Sense where the kid’s mom tells him she loves him no matter what (or something like that) that had me bawling.
[sub]What? Parental issues? Me? No, what makes you think that?[/sub]
Schindler’s List is the most powerful movie that I have ever seen and it has the best ending. No one in that crowded theater moved until the lights came up. There were grown men sobbing. It was a movie that deserved the tears.
Eve, I’m glad there is another {b}Now, Voyager** fan out there!
Crown Prince of Irony, the first time that I saw Field of Dreams, I knew that my father was dying. Oh, man! He loved baseball. We used to listen to Red Barber call the games on radio and Dizzy Dean on TV. So that movie hit me hard. It allowed me to turn loose with all of the emotion inside. I went back a second time and then a third time two days before he died.
For many months after that, I carried a baseball around in my purse. A visiting minister at the church I used to attend gave a sermon based on the film. After the service was over, I walked up to him and handed him my baseball. It was a nice moment.
Moulin rouge… when nicole kidman died
i felt it was the best show that year.
I’ll throw in another vote for Schindler’s List. What made it worse, I was watching it at school (we were studying it for our film techniques text).
Isn’t that the scene where they are sitting in the car together, near where the cyclist fell off his bike? That scene gets to me too.
When I was a kid I saw Dead Poet’s Society and cried a lot
The scene where the kid shoots himself with his Dad’s pistol.
Even now when watch it I still get very… uh… “emotional”.
Steel Magnolias -
When Julia Robert’s character dies.
Trains, Planes and Automobiles-
When Steve Martin’s character goes back to the station and takes John Candy’s character home for Thanksgiving because he doesn’t have any family left to spend it with.
Pay it Forward. If you’ve seen it, you don’t have to be told which part.
Watership Down, both film and book.
When Bright Eyes plays while Fiver goes looking for Hazel.
Bigwig in the snare (My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today).
When Bigwig tells Woundwart that his chief rabbit told him to defend his warren.
When Hazel tries to bargain with Frith, his life for the warren.
And ‘All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, runner, prince with swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.’
Everyone should read this book/watch this film!
And something that made me sad, but can’t explain why- Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett, when the mob go looking for Dorfl to kill him. When they find him he has written on his slate ‘I am worth $xxx’ It seemed so desperate, I guess.
Here’s another vote for Dancer in the Dark. Cheeze! I just lose it! Also, though the purists (read: Eve) may disagree, the Barbra Streisand version of A Star Is Born. When Kris Kristofferson drives off listening to her tapes…and then when she hears his tape playing and she thinks it’s him…man, I’ve gotta excuse my self and open a vein.
Courage Under Fire: The end with Meg Ryan’s daughter.
Everybody in the theater was sniffling for that scene.
YES.
8 Seconds when
Lane and his wife finally make up, after all the hardship and heartache, and the fights and cheating. She goes to watch him ride a bull, and the bull gores him, killing him.
I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much at a movie.
Also, The Green Mile when
they electrocute John Coffey
I rarely cry at movies. As evidence of this, I usually cite my reaction to Field of Dreams, which I saw as a kid and didn’t really like. At the manic insistance of a friend, I saw it again about 6 months ago. Actually, I only saw the first part. The final scenes were obscured by a dust storm in my living room.
I also admit that my allergies tend to act up during some military dramas: Saving Private Ryan, my nose even ran a little during Black Hawk Down.
But the truly embarrassing one is . . . the Patriot. [hangs head in shame]
I went on a first date with a girl who insisted that we see that movie. I was sure it was going to be crap, but since this was our first date, I let her have her way. I was in a really snarky mood, so I took great pleasure in discovering that my evaluation of the movie was correct. The movie did nothing to draw me in, and I felt absolutely nothing for the characters. Sympathetic characters would die and I would chuckle lightly to myself. Homes would burn to the ground and I would roll my eyes. When things seemed bleakest, I yawned. Needless to say, my date was shifting uncomfortably in her seat as she realised that the guy sitting next to her was a jerk.
And then there was that damned scene when the little girl that wouldn’t talk went running after her daddy, begging him not to leave her.
I have no idea what psychological trigger that pulled, but it was like I’d been maced. My face crinkled up and my eyes started to gush. I froze and tried to hide it from my date, lest she think she was on a date with a psycho, or worse, some kind of wimp.
And that’s when I felt someone patting me on the back. It was my date, smiling and saying, “There, there. It’ll be all right.”
Oh, the humiliation.
How’s that for a first post? Now I can never show my e-face around here again.
You’re all going to think I’m weird…
2010.
The part where they need to get away from Jupiter, and the mysterious black spot that turns out to be millions of monoliths sucking up hydrogen, and the crew of the Leonov is worried that HAL is going to disobey orders again…only once Dr. Chandra, his creator, explains that if they don’t leave (leaving Discovery and HAL behind in the process) everybody in the Leonov may die:
HAL: I understand, Dr. Chandra. Thank you for telling me the truth.
Dr.C: You deserved it.(pause) Do you want me to stay with you?
HAL: No. It’s better that you go. Dr.Chandra? Will I dream?
Dr.C: (tearfully) I don’t know.
Later, when the spirit of Dave Bowman enters the abandoned Discovery and tells him to transmit a “last message”:
HAL: What’s going to happen, Dave?
Dave: Something wonderful.
HAL: I’m afraid…
Dave: Dont’ be. We’ll be together.
HAL: Where will we be?
DAve: Where I am now. Please deliver the message.
And then, as Jupiter implodes into a star, the message sent to Earth on the brink of global war:
ALL THESE WORLDS [Jupiters moons] ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.
Gets me every time.