Grand Weepers: Rip Your Heart Out Moments in Film

Love Me if You Dare is a French film that came out a few years ago. I saw it recently on DVD. It's a good film, one of the better ones I saw in 2006. There's a scene about an hour in that features one the the cruelest things I've ever seen in film. I'm not going to spoil it since it's unlikely that a lot of people have seen the film. Suffice to say, the scene is heartbreaking.
What are your moments?

Crash:

I bawl like a fucking baby every single time.

That scene killed me.

The worst one for me would be a tossup between the last scene in "The Color Purple" (happy tears, but I'm distraught nonetheless), and "Joy Luck Club"

. Either of those are my top.

the end of life is beautiful

The end of Saving Private Ryan. I can't help it, I just sob like a bastard. "Why we fight" in Band of Brothers does it too.

There is just something about melodramatic war movies that totally gets me.

when Bjork's glasses fall to the ground at the end of Dancer In The Dark. i turn into an inconsolable sobbing mess for a good while afterwards...

The end of Pete's Dragon

He turns into a big pile of German Shepherd feces?

The end of Immortal Beloved

the end of Dead Ringers

the end of Spider

the end of A History of Violence

(funny how those 3 are all Cronenberg films)

Tim Roth's final monologue in The Legend of 1900, where he talks about pianos.

The Green Mile

Anthony Hopkins' farewell to Debra Winger in Shadowlands. Lord, that had me sobbing for the better part of an hour,

The final scene of The Color Purple, and the "GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!" scene in Terms of Endearment. Sigh.

the end of Braveheart, of course

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Oh definitely. That movie has reduced me to tears on many occasions.

The end of The Shawshank Redemption has a similar affect. I always lose it when Andy and Ellis and reunited on the beach.

Iron Giant.

Cassiel said:
the end of Dead Ringers

the end of Spider

the end of A History of Violence

CRONENBERG RULEZ

The final scene of Dirty Pretty Things really got me. So romantic, so sad. The finale of A Simple Plan also got me emotionally when I wasn't prepared. Iron Giant, as said. Along similar lines, a bizarre moment for me when I suddenly found myself choking back a sob is when Violet apologized to her mother for not being able to create a forcefield around the plane in The Incredibles. I still have no idea why I had that strong a reaction to it; it struck some sort of emotional nerve. Oh, and as long as we're going with animation, Grave of the Fireflies. A whole lot of that movie. Holy fuck. That's probably the best entry for this type of a thing.

I've not heard of that movie, I'll check it out.

almost all of the color purple.. especially the "i may even be ugly...but dear god im here." line. and the end of hope floats where the little girl tries to leave with her dad. and beaches
and the end of boys on the side
and the end of dogs in space
most of simon birch

im a sucker for a tear jerker.

+1

Several depressing scenes in Grave Of The Fireflies. Also, when I was 17, Edward Scissorhands' aborted romance would make me cry into my pretzels, making them intolerably salty, which made me cry even more.

+1

Also, Sin City

Also, Being John Malkovich, anyone?

I love you for even being familiar with that movie. The end of that one makes me cry too.

The scene in "The Joy Luck Club" where the half-crazy (or really full crazy, but that doesn't have the same ring to it) wife of the abusive/philandering husband drowns her own baby in order to get revenge on and therefore break free of the man who had imprisoned her. First of all, someone's killing a baby. A baby dying is just always sad. Secondly, as soon as she realizes she's killed the only person in the world that she truly loves, you realllllllly feel her pain as you look at her horrified face.