Norman Wisdom in the ballroom scene at the end of A Stitch In Time(1963).
The final scene where Oskar is changing into the camp clothes and breaks down, how his Nazi badge ‘2 more, maybe 3’’…
I remember at the cinema, when it ended, no one moved… just silence as folks watched the credits to the end… almost as if everyone just needed a bit of time, or that leaving would be disrespectful…a cinematic masterpiece that should be part of everyone’s education
When Bambi’s mother got shot.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas.
Saving Private Ryan - the beach landing scene and the scene with the knife fight where the guy gets slowly skewered.
Saying about people not leaving at the end of a film, I remember that happening when I saw Philadelphia. Along with the ones mentioned above, that has to be one of the most moving films I’ve seen.
That film makes me very angry, brilliant film and very moving,
It’s very easy to understand why it never features in anyone’s list of favourite movies. Maybe there should be a category for most “profoundly moving movie”
I’ve read a lot of reviews of the movie over the years and still find it offensive that there are people who nit-pick over aspects of accuracy, performance, continuity…everything really that I take little notice of.
I know I’m a movie-makers dream…someone who sits in the cinema and is totally taken-in by the story but IMO it’s Speilberg’s crowning glory…beyond criticism.
Second this, along with when he is offered the job .
To go from tears of sadness to tears of joy in a film is pretty rare.
Armageddon.
When Paris gets wiped out. Oh the Karma
Think Schindlers List is moving? go to his factory in Krakow.
Aye, have been there and Auschwitz. Will never forget either.
Agree, it’s a great film.
Pixar do it loads. Wall-e, the bit with EVA. Also Toy Story 3, the incinerator and ending.
Though have to say, not many films have gotten me in the state Still Alice did. That was brutal.
The final scene of Brokeback Mountain.
Sergeant Elias getting gunned down from behind after being stitched up by that bastard Sergeant Barnes, as their helicopter flies away to safety, leaving poor Elias to die (in Platoon).
Fuck you Barnes. Fuck you!!!
Eternal Sunshine …
A Christmas Carol
When those awful Christian Fundementalists bully and terrorise that poor old Jewish man into celebrating Christmas it makes me v.sad RIP
Room (2016)
I love romantic comedies. This one is v.sadness tho because ur hoping for the man+woman to get back together but it does not happen RIP
Edit: Spoilers soz
Not as powerful in isolation of the other 3 hours of the film that precede it, but John Coffey’s execution in The Green Mile…
I still think he Done It and I’m glad he got The Chair
Brando reaches for the butter
Last of the Mohicans - when the woman steps off the cliff shortly before the nasty bloke gets his come uppance on the wrong end of a hatchet.
Something for everyone in three minutes - with a good atmospheric soundtrack.