re: Saddest or most tearful scene in a movie to you?

Starting with when Norman (Craig Shaffer) goes to the police station to identify his brother Paul (Brad Pitt) through the monologue at end of the of the movie in A River Runs Through It.

“I am haunted waters”.

Having lost a brother in his 20s, it gets me bad every single time.

Lot's of great answers in this thread. I've definitely found that scenes from movies can hit me a lot harder now that I have kids than they could before.

Here's an off the wall one, but still gets me. General Hughes funeral in the Original Full Metal Alchemist Anime.

His little girl saying "Why are they burying daddy? He's got a lot of work to do and he can't do it if he's buried! Wake up daddy!" Ugh, gets me every time.

Another one that messed me up was the ending of Bridge to Terebithia.

When I watch Forrest Gump I dont get upset when Hanks asks if Little Forrest is slow. I’m infuriated by Jenny. You don’t keep a man from his kid for years and years like that. If Jenny doesnt get sick and need Forrest to take on raising him does she ever even let him know he exists ? Probably not. She’s just a narcissistic , exhippie whore.

*steps off soapbox*

The end of Glory always gets me choked up

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Infinity War

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Forrest by Jenny's grave telling her about little Forrest

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Best scene of the movie and maybe the best acted scene of Hanks' career. He conveys so much emotion when he says how smart their son is and then loses it. It's like it was real. It kills me every time.

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“I am haunted waters”.

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Although I don't think it's that emotional, it is a very powerful, extremly effective, simple and incredibly well-written line. It basically says the whole movie you just watched caused irrelerable damage to the character and is nothing but a complete scar and tragedy.

Fishing, which his whole life brought joy and bonding, is now a prison of memories.

Schindler’s List when he breaks down at the end saying he could have done more. shite got me

Biggest tear jerker ever was Love Story. But that was a pre-viral, viral public reaction or fad or something. Very strange.

I agree with the ones who mention the various movies in which an animal dies. I think about Marley and Me, Old Yeller, and Hedgewig the owl in Harry Potter as examples.

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Although I don't think it's that emotional, it is a very powerful, extremly effective, simple and incredibly well-written line. It basically says the whole movie you just watched caused irrelerable damage to the character and is nothing but a complete scar and tragedy.

Fishing, which his whole life brought joy and bonding, is now a prison of memories.

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I interpreted it as you’re forever haunted by those you leave behind as you progress through life. As it says, the words and memories are beneath the rocks and waters.

When you lose someone so suddenly and so young that is close to you, you tend to do a lot of soul searching for what you could’ve done to change the potential loss. I think that’s also part of the “haunting”. It still is for me at times when I think about my brother, especially in places we went together that I still frequent.

My wife cried and I could feel an emotional twinge when Sean Penn's character in "Mystic River" goes to the scene of a murder and his daughter is missing and he wants to know if it's his daughter they just found dead.

It really was a gut wrenching scene of a father's anguish over what he felt was his daughter's death by violence.

Everything that I would say has been said , so I’ll show a little wussie emotion

I have seen Steel Magnolias probally 30 times since it first came out when I was 8

The scene after Shelby’s death when Sally Field breaks down and screams “I’m fine!!!! I could jog all the way to Texas and back , but my daughter can’t !! She never could!!”

Gets me every time.

Then a tear of joy once She says “I just want to hit something hard!!” and Olivia Dukakis pushes Shirley McClain forward and says “here! Hit this !! We’ll sell T-shirt’s that say “I slapped Ouiser Boudreaux!!”

That whole scene was amazing !