I totally agree. And I’ve often wondered if the soloist in the church was meant to be her daughter.
How can this be this far down and no one’s mentioned the Brian’s Song speech?
Some scenes that made me cry:
Sophie’s choice, when Sophie (Meryl Streep) has to choose between her children;
Debra Winger saying good-bye to her children in the hospital in Terms of Endearment;
The Elephant Man, having tea with Dr. Treves and his wife, and saying “my mother was so beautiful, I must have been such a disappointment to her, but I’ve tried so hard to be good”;
The little girl going to the orphanage at the end of “Les Jeux Interdits” ( French film set in World War II ), when she is vainly looking around to find the little boy who was her only friend, and then starts crying out for her mother.
Whoops, I just noticed that this was supposed to be a “post a Youtube link to the scene thread”. Never mind.
Yeah, this is the one.
Fuck. 
I’m very much looking forward to that one - if you didn’t already know, the Criterion collection DVD is coming out later this month.
Not a movie, but NPR’s Storycorp Podcast makes me tear up far more often than it should…
Near the end of The Notebook where
she starts to lose her memory again and needs to be restrained by nursing staff while James Garner breaks down crying
I won’t even watch that movie again because of that scene.
Okay, i am obviously a huge suck, because a whole bunch of these got to me, but I LOVE this scene, it’s one of my favorites in this movie…
That woman can SING!
Steel Magnolias - this scene that has you crying and laughing in a masterful explosion of emotions.
The ending to The Spitfire Grill - another movie that catches you by surprise by a flood of different emotions.
I’m unable to find a video for it, but the ending scene in Pan’s Labyrinth.
When Mercedes hums the lullaby while cradling Ofelia’s lifeless body, I lose it. Every single time.
The last 10 minutes of Blow. 2:30-5:30 in particular.
This scene from The Five Heartbeats after Eddie King gets clean. There’s another scene right before this where J.T. and Donald “Duck” Matthews meet up after being estranged for some years, where we find that the nephew Duck has never met is named after him. Those two scenes will get the waterworks flowing.
Casablanca, the Marseillaise. When Yvonne cries, I cry…every freakin’ time. Even just now, watching the clip with no sound.
Not just tears, but the ultimate sadness: Dr. Strangelove Final Scene
And this from a comedy!
I actually found it here on this message board a few years ago. And I so wish I hadn’t. Saddest bit of audio/visual media ever made.
Click on it if you dare, because it will haunt you for the rest of your life…
This should have won the Oscar.
Instead that song from “The Wonder Twins” won.
From Saving Private Ryan: Tell me I have lived a good life. Tell me I’m a good man.
Also, I dare the manliest man to watch the Joy Luck Club and not cry like a little bitch at the end: Our little sister…. I’m afraid I can’t find it with English subtitles, and I’m afraid that studying Mandarin has only made this scene even worse for me.
EDIT: It’s insane, I watched like, ten seconds of this scene just now, and I’ve got snot bubbles. Geez.
I’ve mentioned this one in a previous thread, but good luck holding it together during the final father/daughter scene in In America.
The ending to Somewhere in Time. Gets me every time. The way she screams his name is heart wrenching.