Movie scenes that make you cry every time

[SwimOdin]

I’m a softie, my tears be flowing all the time. Here are just a few scenes that get me wet (with tears): SPOILERS I GUESS

Théoden‘s speech at The Battle of Pelennor Fields in The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. I have a thing for sacrificial death to save others, I guess. There actually about five scenes that get me in this film, but this one is most consistent.

Yondu’s sacrifice for Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. It would’ve gotten me just for that, but when he said “He may have been your Father, boy, but he wasn’t your Daddy” hits me so hard as a stepfather. (I may have watched this a few minutes ago and cried again).

The last ten minutes of The Iron Claw. This one is fairly recent so I won’t go into details, but if you’ve got a brother, this film will kill you.

And finally, The Wild Robot. Just puddles during this one.

 

Be vulnerable!

[André Toulon]

Fox and Hound starts off with Todd's mom getting shot...it puts a lump in my throat, but I know the mfer is coming.

Later, granny drives Todd out to the woods... he's so happy...Frolicking, but he looks at her....and she doesn't look like she's having fun 🥺..... Then..Then she reaches over and takes 😢....Takes his collar and...and he kn....knows something is wrong...then she just gets in the car and...AND 😭

[André Toulon]

Sigh, i guess it wouldn't be me if it weren't a video game...Final Fantasy 2(4). Now these aren't tears of sadness...more like overwhelming elation at a reunion that couldn't come a moment sooner

Cecil finally tracks down Golbez and prepares to enact his revenge, only to realize Golbez is far too strong for him. Golbez summons his shadow dragon and stuns everyone. Cecil then has to sit there and watch at Golbez picks his paralyzed friends off one by one...with his sights on Cecil, Golbez prepares to wipe him from existence but right then ...The Mist Dragon. Your first enemy, the mother of a small girl who watched you slay her mercilessly, comes and kills the shadow dragon....Then enters Rydia, all grown up and despite your misdeeds, knows you're not the black knight that killed her mother any longer...So she saves your life.

 

[UwPp]

Ohhh those are all good ones that I was going to say!

The wild robot got me good. I was boohooing badly.

The Avengers End Game got me too, I was sobbing in the theater and this teenage boy that was sitting next to me complained to his dad.

[SwimOdin]

5 hours ago, André Toulon said:

Sigh, i guess it wouldn't be me if it weren't a video game...Final Fantasy 2(4). Now these aren't tears of sadness...more like overwhelming elation at a reunion that couldn't come a moment sooner

Cecil finally tracks down Golbez and prepares to enact his revenge, only to realize Golbez is far too strong for him. Golbez summons his shadow dragon and stuns everyone. Cecil then has to sit there and watch at Golbez picks his paralyzed friends off one by one...with his sights on Cecil, Golbez prepares to wipe him from existence but right then ...The Mist Dragon. Your first enemy, the mother of a small girl who watched you slay her mercilessly, comes and kills the shadow dragon....Then enters Rydia, all grown up and despite your misdeeds, knows you're not the black knight that killed her mother any longer...So she saves your life.

 

…that was beautiful and touching, and now you’ve recontexualized that whole part. Those dolls right before that fight, though? Damn are they hard.

[SwimOdin]

5 hours ago, UwPp said:

Ohhh those are all good ones that I was going to say!

The wild robot got me good. I was boohooing badly.

The Avengers End Game got me too, I was sobbing in the theater and this teenage boy that was sitting next to me complained to his dad.

Wow yeah, Endgame does get me too at the end when all the resurrected characters come through the sling rings.

i think I cried for about 45 minutes straight the first time I watched The Wild Robot. It didn’t help that I ate an edible beforehand…

[André Toulon]

7 minutes ago, SwimOdin said:

…that was beautiful and touching, and now you’ve recontexualized that whole part. Those dolls right before that fight, though? Damn are they hard.

Dude, i didnt want to gush but yes...the first time I fought the Calbrena, that shit was so creepy, then i finally beat it just to get thrust into this rollercoaster of emotions.

The Calbrena's theme is one of my favorite snes tracks

Edited Sunday at 07:25 PM by André Toulon

[ghostrek]

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah and American Tail (as an adult) just because being separated from family happens to be with siblings, specifically 

[SwimOdin]

7 minutes ago, ghostrek said:

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah and American Tail (as an adult) just because being separated from family happens to be with siblings, specifically 

Somewhere Out There, yep!

What happens in the Godzilla movie that’s sad?

[SwimOdin]

12 minutes ago, André Toulon said:

Dude, i didnt want to gush but yes...the first time I fought the Calbrena, that shit was so creepy, then i finally beat it just to get thrust into this rollercoaster of emotions.

The Calbrena's theme is one of my favorite snes tracks

FF4 is one of my all-time favorites. It was my first true Final Fantasy (we also had the first, but it didn’t do it for me). I have it on SNES, PSX, GBA, PSP, and DS, and at some point I will get the Pixel Remaster version too.

[ghostrek]

16 minutes ago, SwimOdin said:

Somewhere Out There, yep!

What happens in the Godzilla movie that’s sad?

Godzilla began experiencing heart issues, which was a nuclear meltdown. He ultimately died while defending his son from the monsters created by the super weapon that had killed the original Godzilla from the 1954 film, known as Gojira. Additionally, the tribute reel dedicated to the character contributed to this emotional moment. @SwimOdin

Edited Sunday at 07:54 PM by ghostrek

[mthor]

The end of The Incredible Journey, when the golden retriever finally comes running out of the woods. I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

Jurassic Bark. Not a movie, but can anybody watch that without at least sniffling a little?

 

[SwimOdin]

35 minutes ago, mthor said:

The end of The Incredible Journey, when the golden retriever finally comes running out of the woods. I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

Jurassic Bark. Not a movie, but can anybody watch that without at least sniffling a little?

 

I’ve only ever watched the first few minutes of Jurassic Bark because I’d realized it’s the cry episode and I turn it off before it can ensnare me.

[SwimOdin]

36 minutes ago, mthor said:

The end of The Incredible Journey, when the golden retriever finally comes running out of the woods. I'm tearing up just thinking about it.

Jurassic Bark. Not a movie, but can anybody watch that without at least sniffling a little?

 

And holy hell. I was today years old when I found out Homeward Bound was a remake.

[mthor]

47 minutes ago, SwimOdin said:

And holy hell. I was today years old when I found out Homeward Bound was a remake.

Sorry, I should have checked first - The Incredible Journey was the book, which I read in like 6th grade, and which did not make me cry.  Homeward Bound was the movie, which does.

[SwimOdin]

18 minutes ago, mthor said:

Sorry, I should have checked first - The Incredible Journey was the book, which I read in like 6th grade, and which did not make me cry.  Homeward Bound was the movie, which does.

The original came out in 1963 and I had no idea. I did love the 1993 remake and definitely cried when the lab limped up.

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

"Son, I'm naming you Philip J. Fry, in honor of my little brother. Who I miss every day."

"Here lies Philip J. Fry. Named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit."

[Mode 7]

Although not from a movie or tv show there is one thing that I consistantly get choked up on and that't the ending to Mega Man 2. It's the first video game I beat and I get an ending with Mega Man walking back to Dr. Light's with sad 8 bit music playing, the season changing and him just leaving his helmet on a hill. It just felt like he was on his way to funeral or something. 

[SwimOdin]

6 hours ago, Mode 7 said:

Although not from a movie or tv show there is one thing that I consistantly get choked up on and that't the ending to Mega Man 2. It's the first video game I beat and I get an ending with Mega Man walking back to Dr. Light's with sad 8 bit music playing, the season changing and him just leaving his helmet on a hill. It just felt like he was on his way to funeral or something. 

That one does have a pretty melancholic ending.

[The_annoying_one]

My Girl.

You all probably know the scene I’m referring to. Yeah.

[naraku360]

The second half of Millennium Actress. The scene that gets me varies, but there's always at least one.

[[classic swim]]

[ghostrek]

2 hours ago, naraku360 said:

The second half of Millennium Actress. The scene that gets me varies, but there's always at least one.

@naraku360 yes 

[discolé monade]

at the end of 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest' --  chief sees mcmurphy come back from the electric shock...but this time, mcmurphy isn't jumping up. that night, chief goes to mcmurphy and knows this isn't what mcmurphy would have wanted, so chief 'frees' his friend the only way he knows. then, he takes his mighty strength, pulls out the sink, and breaks through window/wall. and runs back to the safety of his people, chief is as free as mcmurphy told him he would be. 

every. single. time. 

 

 

[André Toulon]

3 hours ago, discolé monade said:

at the end of 'one flew over the cuckoo's nest' --  chief sees mcmurphy come back from the electric shock...but this time, mcmurphy isn't jumping up. that night, chief goes to mcmurphy and knows this isn't what mcmurphy would have wanted, so chief 'frees' his friend the only way he knows. then, he takes his mighty strength, pulls out the sink, and breaks through window/wall. and runs back to the safety of his people, chief is as free as mcmurphy told him he would be. 

every. single. time. 

 

 

I saw this movie when i was...i wont say little, but definitely before i fully paid attention to shit of this nature, so i dont remember much about it ...but i do remember it tugging at my heart strings for some reason.

Probably need to do a grown up rewatching 

 

Edited Tuesday at 06:31 AM by André Toulon

[MasqueradeOverture]

That one scene from Blue Is The Warmest Color makes me cry out my penis.

[SwimOdin]

5 hours ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

That one scene from Blue Is The Warmest Color makes me cry out my penis.

That’s called urine you need to see a dr 

[MasqueradeOverture]

11 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

That’s called urine you need to see a dr 

Precum actually

[discolé monade]

On 6/17/2025 at 12:26 AM, André Toulon said:

I saw this movie when i was...i wont say little, but definitely before i fully paid attention to shit of this nature, so i dont remember much about it ...but i do remember it tugging at my heart strings for some reason.

Probably need to do a grown up rewatching 

 

you will not regret. one of those movies that hit every time. 

 

 

[Raptorpat]

 

[SwimOdin]

4 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

 

Oh noooooo, I forgot about Toy Story 3, the last movie in that series. I’m glad they never made another. 

When they all grasp hands when they’re going towards the incinerator; buckets, and obviously when Andy gives them away.

[Raptorpat]

3 seemed like a good place to hang it up, and only do the shorts and seasonals after that 

to their credit though, the fourth one did continue to progress the existential "Woody's Life Lessons" to a reasonable next level

[SwimOdin]

2 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

3 seemed like a good place to hang it up, and only do the shorts and seasonals after that 

to their credit though, the fourth one did continue to progress the existential "Woody's Life Lessons" to a reasonable next level

I haven’t seen the 4th, I’m sure it’s quite good, but 3 was such a perfect movie and ending that I’m being intentionally ignorant.

[Raptorpat]

Woody's Life Lessons:

• Toy Story 1: it is ok to not always be the center of attention 
• Toy Story 2: love will always end, but it's preferable to emotionally sterile immortality 
• Toy Story 3: it's ok to let them go when they move on
• Toy Story 4: it's ok to let yourself move on
• Toy Story 5: ... it's... ok to die...?

Edited yesterday at 12:13 AM by Raptorpat

[discolé monade]

'amistad' - right off the rip, when the mama can not let this be for her and her infant, so she jumps in the storming atlantic ocean. the visual of underbelly of the slave ship. tears for days. 

'orca' - again...right from jump. the mama orca is caught and they gut her and a calf comes out, which is what papa sees and hunts the murdering human. 

'mama' -the end scene when the youngest runs to mama, in reality it's over the cliff...but it's ok, because now mama and baby are together. 

 

[mthor]

Ok, now everything is going to get all blurry and spinny because granny mthor is having a flashback...

It's the summer of 1982. Ronald Reagan is in the White House, Dexy's Midnight Runners is on the radio, and I am in a theater with my two hometown besties. We plan on watching the early showing of ET, then perhaps heading out for a few cocktails. I have dressed accordingly, including putting on what my brothers used to refer to my "Bride of Dracula" eye makeup. Lots of shadow, lots of liner (inside the lash line, of course), lots of mascara...

It gets to the point where ET and Eliot are both in the oxygen tents, and it looks like they're both going to die, and I start to sob. Not a little tearing up and a few discreet sniffles. Full on shuddering sobs. I know what's happening to my face and I dig around in my purse for a kleenex. None. I ask my friends, who are trying to pretend that they don't know me, and neither of them have any, either. Now the kid in front  of us has turned around and is  watching my face melt. Apparently,  he finds it more engaging than the movie, because he turns fully around, kind of kneeling on his seat, and stares.

I cried until the end of that goddamn movie, and when I got to the ladies room, most of my eyeshadow was around my jawline, mascara was trickling down my neck, and I couldn't even address it until I spent about ten minutes blowing my nose.

I have not watched ET from that day to this. I don't not know if it would still make me cry, or just cringe with embarrassment at the memory, but either way, it's just not worth it.

 

[Raptorpat]

also (if you haven't seen Coco, don't spoil yourself - go watch the full movie right now)

 

[discolé monade]

OMG

how could i forget???

sophie's choice.