Admit it: we’ve all cried at a movie here and there. My personal experiences usually have to do with animals in sad movie scenes. People…not so much.
A Reddit user asked, “Which movie scene brought you to tears?” and here are the moving responses.
Get ready for the waterworks!
1. Coco
“The ending of Coco, when Mama Coco recognizes the song that Miguel is singing despite her dementia because her father used to play it when she was a kid.
Wow okay, I’m getting emotional just thinking about it.”
2. Gladiator
“The whole last five minutes of Gladiator: “I will see you again my friend, but not yet… not yet.”
3. 12 Years a Slave
“12 Years A Slave, seeing his grown children after he escapes back to the north.
Seeing his granddaughter brought me to tears like a blubbering idiot.”
4. Guardians of the Galaxy 2
“I don’t do crying, especially movies.
They’re not real people.
But when the Ravagers showed up for Yondu’s funeral, someone was cutting a helluva lot of onions in the theatre…”
5. The Truman Show
“Final scene in The Truman Show where he turns to the camera and says, ‘In case I don’t see ya! Good afternoon, good evening and goodnight.'”
6. Good Will Hunting
“I feel like this movie has lost its hype but re-watching it last week and seeing Robin Williams breaking Matt Damon down into tears is just such a powerful scene.
10/10 movie would and will watch again.”
7. Up
“My grandmother had just passed away after an emotional week of ups and downs in the hospital.
My wife and I decided to go to the movies just to take our minds off from recent events.
Up was the movie we went to see.
Other than the not having kids part, it was like watching my grandparents on screen.
I doubt there will ever be a scene in a movie that will hit me harder than that.”
8. The Green Mile
“The execution scene from The Green Mile, Michael Duncan Clarke was the first actor that ever made me cry.”
9. 50/50
“50/50 going into surgery.
This movie is so looked-over, but it’s honestly probably the best performances of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen.”
10. Schindler’s List
“At the end of Schindler’s List, when he’s looking at his few possessions left, and thinks of how many more people he could have saved if he sold the car, or whatever.”
11. Toy Story 3
“Toy Story 3 when the gang accepts their presumed fate in the incinerator and all reach out for one another, the worst being when Woody finally gives in and takes Buzz’s hand.
I always thought this part hit harder than Andy leaving after giving the toys to Bonnie, that always felt more bittersweet than anything.”
12. Interstellar
“Interstellar when he watches the videos of his kids aging 25 years in front of his eyes.”
13. The Land Before Time
“In the movie The Land Before Time…..
…When Little Foot’s mom dies
…made me cry as a kid when It first came out in 1988
…makes me cry now.”
14. Inside Out
“I watched that when I was 38 years old, and I cried like a little girl with a skinned knee. Like straight up ugly-face, snot-bubble, breath-hitching sobbed.
The lady I was seeing at the time not only didn’t cry, but didn’t understand why I did. I’m not saying that’s the reason we’re not together, but I’m not denying that it was a factor.”
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
“The beach running scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. After what that movie put me through, I just lost it then.”
16. Ghost
“At the end of Ghost, as I was wiping away tears, I saw my-brother-in-law hand my husband a dollar bill. ‘Told you she would be in tears by the end.'”
17. The Pursuit of Happyness
“The ending of The Pursuit of Happyness got me.
When he got the job, I had held it together up until then but I just let it out.
It just resonated so much with me because my parents really struggled as immigrants and worked very hard to give my siblings and me a better life.
Great movie.”
18. Pan’s Labyrinth
“The ending of Pan’s Labyrinth made me ugly cry for about an hour.
Then I was irrationally angry at Guillermo del Toro for years after.
He wrote and directed it and it destroyed me.
Damn it, I’m starting to cry just thinking about it.”
19. Titanic
“That scene in Titanic where the old couple is lying on their bed holding each other, they’ve lived a long life and have accepted that it’s now the end.
Idk it gets me every time.”
20. My Girl
“The funeral scene from My Girl.
Doesn’t matter what part of the movie I walk in on, it’ll always make me start bawling.”
Ack, there are so many great movies and scenes out there, I could never pick just one!
So… what about you? What movie scene makes you cry? Share in the comments!
