Most emotional scene you've seen in a film

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For me it has to be the ending to United 93 (not to be confused with Flight 93), Greengrass did a fantastic job in directing this.



Such a tragic scene, Even though you know how it ends you still have that glimour of hope that they take the plane back :(
 
When Mufasa dies in the Lion King
 
Oh and when Apollo dies in Rocky 4. I still find that hard to watch. He comes out all dancing and singing with James Brown only to be brutally beaten to a pulp by the 'Siberian Express' Ivan Drago.

I think it's the switch from the first scene of total joy and revelry to such utter despair that pulls the emotions all over the shop.

It was only supposed to be an exhibition bout. :(
 
I thought that one scene in Click was quite emotional.

Also, that one scene in I Am Legend.
 
I watched a third of film the other night called City of Life and Death about the Rape of Nanking by Japanese forces in China in 1937 when they committed terrible atrocities against the locals.
Anyway, one of the main characters was this Chinese delegate who was 'protected' in a safe-zone as he worked for a prominent Nazi party member in Nanking, and the Japanese had a treaty with Germany. As the Japanese soldiers became more brazen, they entered his house where his extended-family were gathered in a loft and announced they needed three girls for dancing and entertainment, obviously sexual.
They grabbed hold of the Chinaman's wife and sister-in-law and he began to argue as politely as he could fearing their wrath. His little daughter stepped forward and began vainly trying to hit the Japanese solider trying to drag her mum away. Another Japanese soldier saw this and laughed, then picked her up and took her to the window and threw her out of it to her death, to which the Chinaman ran over to screaming. The camera stayed on his face for about twenty seconds whilst he's stood there screaming calling out his daughter's name...it was horrific, an amazing movie visually but not one to watch with the missus lads.
 
Gladiator, there is a bit of dust in my eye, honest!

Edit: Feck, Sw33t bet me to it.

Morgan Freeman dying in Unforgiven.
 
No doubt many more will come to me but what I thought of first was the end of The Dambusters Raid, for me it is the greatest British war film ever made because it was so real to the events as they happened. Like such films of the era it wasn't embellished with overdramatic buffoonish characters, hollywood storylines or love triangles - it was a docu-dramas that presented the facts in an honest manner.

The whole film is a story about survival, about achieving ridiculous odds and pushing the boundaries and the laws of physics as far as they could possibly be taken, and selflessly sacrificing to cause a pinprick in the cause of a total six year war to make sure that we won and the others couldn't.

The film ends with one of the most ingenious innovators of the war, the man who devised and built the bouncing bomb and spent the film fighting through the bureaucracy of Whitehall and struggling to convert theory into practical use see the end results. He doesn't see that the raid on the dams of West Germany were a great success causing extensive damage and created what would be an immense propaganda story that would go around the world and would help convince Stalin that he could trust Britain to use all means necessary. Instead he saw the lives of the pilots lost on what was a horrendously risky one-of-a-kind mission, only for the leader of the mission (Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who flew 200 bomber missions in the war and died doing so - American pilots flew 25) to tell him all the crews knew exactly what they were getting into and would have gone anyway and basically let him know that he should in no way feel sorry or ashamed for his role in it all.

However you need to watch the full film to appreciate the final scenes though.

 
When Richter brutally gunned down the hog with three tits in The Last Resort.
 
For pure horror and shock. It's got to be Nicky Santoro's and his brothers death scene in Casino.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Oh and when Apollo dies in Rocky 4. I still find that hard to watch. He comes out all dancing and singing with James Brown only to be brutally beaten to a pulp by the 'Siberian Express' Ivan Drago.

I think it's the switch from the first scene of total joy and revelry to such utter despair that pulls the emotions all over the shop.

It was only supposed to be an exhibition bout. :(
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That killed me when I first watched it. I was only 10, I was absolutely devastated.
 
Shoah. The whole damn thing even though I've only seen about a third of it. :(
 
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