“I love Brian Piccolo…and I hope you do, too.”
And when Hooch buys it in Turner and Hooch it always makes me tear up.
My Girl when Macauley Culkin’s character dies. That made me sad when I was a kid.
In the movie Awakenings when Robert De Niro greets his Mom as she comes to see him in the hospital, when he first wakes up. It got me.
The reveal scene of all the kisses spliced together, from Cinema Paradiso.
The last ten minutes of October Sky, which had me weeping so hard in the theatre that my kids were worried about me.
The end of E.T.
The last ten minutes of Coming Home ( Hey, I’m old. So sue me. 
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I cried bitterly as a child, at a re-run of Gigot, which I saw when I was about 8, on television. Funny story about that. My brother and I were alone for a few hours, the parents were right across the street at a party. The parents walk in JUST as the movie is finishing, and I’m just bawling my EYES out. They demand to know what my older brother did to me, did he beat me up? What? Why was I sobbing? I explained to them the reasons, they were pretty bemused. Oh, I wept for that man. Brilliant performance, beyond anything I ever saw him do.
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For me, it’s the reunion at the end. Just thinking about that scene - Celie looking over the fields, and seeing her sister and children standing there…okay, now I’m sniffly.
The last couple minutes of Bicentennial Man when they are both laying in their bed always winds up turning me into a bawling mess. There are a couple others, but that one is the worst.
In ET I always hurt, not when he dies, but when the kids reveal him to their mother. She is terrified and forces them out of the room. He’s sick and dying far from home, and now he’s being “abandoned” by the only people on the planet he knows. That wailing sound makes me sniffle just thinking about it.
Also, two scenes in Schindler’s List, the one where he cries because he thinks he could have done more, and the scene just a little later when the black and white segues into color and we see the real people who were saved.
I second, or is it third, several scenes in Chariots of Fire
There are so many it’s hard to choose. Just one more, from A Man For All Seasons. Well, most of the execution scene, but when More says “The king has commanded me to be brief, so brief I shall be. I die the king’s good servant, but God’s first.” He’s all the people who have made gut-wrenchingly hard choices, against every survival instinct, in order to stay true to their conscience.
Iron Giant was the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread.
The end of Lilo and Stitch gets me, too, for some reason.
Others:
The closing scene of Miller’s Crossing, as Tom watches Leo walk away.
The scene in Magnolia when they cut from character to character, each of whom is singing the same Aimee Mann song, softly.
I second the vote for the moment in Sophie’s Choice when you find out just what her choice is. That scene is absolutely gut-wrenching for me to watch because I always wonder what I would do if I were in that situation. Reduces me to a pile of quivering jello every time I watch it.
And, dare I say it… the end of Titanic. Yes, I’m serious. I sobbed in the theater the first time I saw it and each time I watched it after that. No, I won’t say how many times I’ve seen it.
I fear I may be pelted by rotten fruit now. 
Scupper- Lilo and Stitch gets me also… when Stitch says the family motto (something to the effect) “Family means no one gets left behind”.
Also, the scene in Powder where he is being taunted in the lunchroom. OK, many scenes in that movie “get” me.
Am I the only person who has never seen Titanic? I have never had any desire to see it.
There’s quite a bit of overlap between this thread and the “movies that make men cry” thread.
That being the case…I’ll re-iterate:
- the scene in Erin Brokovitch where she gets the bonus check
- the last scene in Billy Elliot (not going to spoil it here)
Also - for sheer “feel good” watch-it-over-and-over-again, the “New Attitude” scene in Office Space - “Damn it feels good to be a gangster!” where Pete turns up at Initech and doesn’t give a <bleep> about anything…pure mana.
I dont know about you guys, but P.T. Anderson’s “Magnolia” gives me the sniffles every time. Wish I knew how to do that spoiler thing too… grr. I hate being a n00b.
No matter how many times I see this movie, that scene always makes me cry. That, and the part when she says good-bye to her mother backstage in the dressing room.
The scene in “Apocalypse Now” when Robert Duval’s character realizes that someday the war will end.
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Gets me every time…
And for something a little different than the “emotional == weeping” idea:
In My Neighbor Totoro, there’s a scene where the girls are given a packet of seeds, as sort of an exchange for an umbrella. They plant them in the garden; the littlest watches hopefully over them for days. There’s a sequence where they wake to find the totoros circling the garden plot, and join in the dance–it’s lightly goofy and non-cloyingly sweet (as pretty much the entire film is)–and then the seeds sprout, then surge skywards, the saplings fusing into a massive grove. There was something about that scene that had my jaw drop–more wonder packed into a few seconds than most movies attain with fx and score overkill.
When Forest Gump is talking to Jenny at her grave.
My Dog Skip…the last voice over when the Dad called the boy/Man in England.
Yes, My Dog Skip. Near the end, when the boy has grown up and is talking about what the dog meant to him I had to stifle sobs.
Just checking in to second that. The whole movie seems eerie and odd and is the decors are dirty, so you don’t expect to be emotionally touched, and then suddenly… Even gets me just to think of it.
I second the graveside scene in Forest Gump, but personally I’d have to say the whole last half of On the Beach (No, not that DiCaprio film). As I recal, the movie itself wasn’t all that good, but just so incredibly sad.
So many of the good ones are already mentioned…let’s see…
Two Drew Barrymore moments (believe it or not):
Ever After, when Drew Barrymore (Cinderella) asks Anjelica Huston (wicked stepmom) if there had ever been a moment, however brief, in which she had felt love for her; and, from many years ago,
Irreconcilable Differences, when she summarizes to the judge why she wants to live as a member of the housekeeper’s family instead of either of her parents.
Hmm, what else? OK, in The Karate Kid, in the tournament, when the boy goes into the “pelican” stance after getting kneecapped twice in a row by his opponent. I don’t know why, and it isn’t a “crying” sort of emotional moment, but it has strength nevertheless.