Oh God, I just turned it on again. Crying buckets now.
The Elephant Man did hurt me with a painful tears and lengthened depression. and Aamadeus ruined me
I remember leaving the theater after the documentary “Bully” and just feeling emotionally exhausted.
And of course I sobbed uncontrollably at Marley & Me, but luckily that was at home.
I also remember a really strong emotional reaction to How to Train Your Dragon.
That is, in fact, more or less what happened.
http://www.leftfieldcinema.com/world-cinema-masterpiece-come-and-see
But yeah, Come and See makes Saving Private Ryan look like a frigging kindergarden. 
It’s pretty well the only movie in the category of ‘truly great movies I’ve actively discouraged certain people from watching, because I knew they would not be happy afterwards’.
Most shocking moments? It’s hard to choose. It is shot more like a horror movie than a conventional war movie - at times surreal - but the true horror is the realisation that all this stuff (and worse) did in fact happen.
There was one scene though that stands out:
[spoiler]When the two kids make their way to his home and stop to eat, and are bothered by the flies … and as they are leaving, hoping to go to the island in the marsh to find the kid’s family, the girl looks back and sees a huge pile of dead naked bodies -obviously the kids whole family - piled up against the back of the house … and doesn’t tell the boy. Obviously the source of the flies …
It’s just a glimpse, but totally gut-churning in many ways. [/spoiler]
A couple movies have had an emotional impact on me:
The scene in Memorial Day when Grandpa Bud cries on the porch after telling the story of how his sergeant in WWII was shot and killed by a German boy.
The scene in The Grey Zone when the SS guards were executing the women prisoners one-by-one in an effort to get a couple other prisoners to reveal their secrets. That whole movie was disturbing. Good movie, but I don’t want to see it again. Too many horrifying scenes. :eek:
What aliens?
Blue Velvet. Intense anxiety whenever Frank Booth was on screen.
Bah, they had me at Adrian in her hospital bed, telling our hero there’s one thing he can do for her.
The scene in Sophie’ s Choice when the Nazi guard carries the little girl away.
I cry easily and often at movies, but THIS scene…holy cow…I saw it in the theater, and it’s the only time I ever heard deep, gut-wrenching sobs from all over the audience.
Zefirelli’s Romeo and Juliet when i was a teenager. I started crying uncontrollably and couldn’t stop, spent half an hour in the ladies’ room afterwards, just crying, and my friends couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me.
Truly, Madly, Deeply. Full of great scenes, a perfect movie, that triggered hours of weeping. I guess i have some conenction to love lost.
The Shining and Don’t Look Now each triggered a week of nightmares. I haven’t gone to see any horror or realistic violence for decades. I won’t go see animal stories any more, either. Scenes of bravery or self-sacrifice for the good of others always make me weep, too.
For me a movie that will make me really turn on the waterworks is
the delivery scence in She’s Having A Baby. Seeing Kevin Bacon bawl makes
me bawl for some reason.
Also Dead Poets Society I kept wondering why? and was actually depressed for a few days after watching it.
For being terrified the original Alien for takes it. Especially the face hugger. I was more scared of the face hugger than the alien.
I could hardly see to drive home after Brokeback Mountain.
Pan’s Labyrinth…Beautiful film; gut-wrenching ending. I don’t think I could take it again.
Requiem for a Dream left me in utter despair.
Grave of the Fireflies…So, so sad.
Happiness isn’t short on disturbing subject matter, but the last scene between pedophile/rapist Dylan Baker and the kid playing his son, with the son conflating love with sex, is profoundly troubling on many levels.
The end of the 1st Rocky gets me much more than any of the sequels.
I’ll bring up a few that haven’t yet been mentioned.
The end of Phenomenon.
One of the most shocking moments for me in movies was when James Cromwell shot Kevin Spacey in LA Confidential.
The movie where I actually thought I might faint for lack of air because I was laughing so hard – the remake of The Wicker Man. I don’t think it was intended to be a comedy.
I was cheering for Truman’s escape in The Truman Show. It is almost the only thing I’ve ever liked Jim Carrey in.
The conclusion of The African Queen.
I thought of another one–and it was pretty much completely unexpected.
I avoided seeing Life of Pi until I could get a definitive answer on whether the tiger was harmed–I have a thing for big cats (little cats, too) and hate seeing them harmed. I asked here on the Dope and was told he makes it through the movie alive, so off I went.
Loved the movie. Beautiful graphics, great story. But the one scene where Richard Parker jumps off the boat after a fish and then Pi debates whether to let him back on (he can’t get back in the boat by himself) was just agonizing for me. I’m glad it was a dark theater, because I was just sitting there all stressed out with tears running down my face, even though I knew that (a) he would be okay and (b) he’s a damn CGI tiger! Watching him struggle to climb back in, the look on his face, the look on Pi’s face…I lost it.
I guess that means it’s good filmmaking. But I’m not sure I could watch that scene again. My reaction to it caught me totally by surprise.
The scene in Rocky that gets me is when Mickey comes to Rocky’s apartment and asks to manage him. Rocky first says no and sends Mickey away, but then has a change of heart and runs down to the street to catch him. Beautiful scene.
The subtext which makes the scene so moving is that each character sees something of himself in the other. “Here is what I might have been.” “Here is what I might become.”
I feel like I was one of the few to “get” Tree of Life. I knew what Mallick was shooting for the whole time I was watching it, so it connected with me even more than most people. I was ready to go deep with the film and it delivered to the utmost, especially since I saw it on the big screen. So yea, there’s this little moment at then end of the film where it just ENDS…no one knows what the fuck to do. For a moment in time, lasting no longer than 5 seconds, everyone sits there. There’s an even shorter time that I think is magnificent that some critic pointed out where RIGHT when “Director: Terrence Mallick” pops up, no one thinks ANYTHING. Your mind is literally, absolutely blank for a second. So I always thought that was a really cool film.
I also really connected and cried at Dear Zachary. Just watch it. You’ll cry. Don’t google it because it’ll ruin the ended. Just watch it and cry.
Grave of the Fireflies is another one of the 5 films I have cried at in my life.
Toy Story III made me start to well up as I started to see my childhood friends and heros go towards the incinerator.
Its not a film but Last Moments With Oden had be bawlin within 6 minutes. Watch it. I’m sorry.
I sobbed start-to-finish through “The Passion of the Christ”. I think even if I wasn’t a Christian I still would have been horrified to tears - knowing that level of violence and brutality actually happened in history, if not to Jesus himself then to others. What the hell is wrong with people.
I agree with many already mentioned, but there’s a few more that really got me.
Life is Beautiful– Maybe it’s a dad thing.
The Killer Inside Me– Great cast, classic story, and I know it was just a good actor turning in a solid performance, but if I ever meet Casey Affleck… I will have to kick him in the balls 'til he dies.
That was my very favorite scene in the whole trilogy so I was waiting for three years to see it. It was at the midnight showing, opening day, so the whole packed theater was Tolkien fanatics and, yeah, pandemonium ensued.
At the other end of the spectrum, Schindler’s List was very moving for the usual reasons – the pin, the sniping, the girl in the red coat – but for me, Shoah had much more impact. I had to watch it in segments, not just because of the 9+ hour length but also because it got to be too much. A documentary, it contains no archival footage, but rather a few contemporary shots of the camps, and people talking. People who were there, inmates, guards, and neighbors. One interview I had to stop immediately after was a barber, living in France. In the camp he’d been one of the ones cutting the hair of those passing through to the “showers” – it’s how he survived. Then one day came his sister and his mother . . .
My Girl, MaCauley dieing and the girl’s tearful speech.
Dark Crystal messed me up for a while afterward when the podling was getting its essence sucked out.
Full Metal Alchemist, what was done to the doctor’s daughter and dog…
I have dim memories of a nightmare involving seeing a Highlander sequel in the theater, it must have been quite a horrible dream, thank og I woke up.