Most moving/powerful scene in a film?

Bridge to Terabithia - I wont say what happens as its a new movie which probably hasnt been seen by alot of posters on here - but its the first time since probably the Green Mile I been moved.
 
Optimus Prime's death in the original Transformers the Movie. And it was a cartoon so that makes it that much more special.

Course, now I am much much much older, it is a little cheesy today.
 
One of the strongest final scenes I've seen is in "The Long Good Friday" when the camera just stays on Bob Hoskins face as a rather young and gorgeous Peirce Brosnan trains a gun on him and he realises he is being driven to his death...
 
I will never tire of the "I'm mad as Hell,and I'm not going to take it any more!" scene, in Network.Where everyone is shouting out the window in the middle of the night is an amazing and surreal scene.

A very emotional scene for me in Shawshank Redemption is where Tim Robbins locks himself in the guarRAB room and puts some classical music on the PA system..All the guys in the yard just stand in silence and stare at the speakers.

As for hard to watch scenes,the rape scene in the tunnel in Irreversible was the last thing I watched before switching it off for good.I will never watch any of that horrific film again.

And the scene that makes me shudder most is the hobbling scene in Misery.Just unthinkable!:eek:
 
The final speech by Red (Morgan Freeman) at the end of Shawshank.

"Get busy living. Or get busy dying. That's God-damn right.."

" I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope. "
 
The Thin Red Line

The camera pans up a green grassy rise, in the grass is a chick struggling for life in an abandoned nest. The thing about that was it brought home the terrible suffering and destruction of war, of fragility, human and environmental. A deeply moving film, almost unbearable to watch, Truly sublime.

Soylent Green

When Edward G. goes for euthanasia and chooses his music and film, the music is Vivaldi' s Four Seasons followed by Grieg's Pier Gynt, the films are sunsets and waterfalls and meadows. All through the film Edward G. has been telling Heston about the beauty of the planet before overcrowding and global warming, Heston just dismisses it, but when he sees the films and hears the music and his friend dying he is heartbroken at the beauty of the images and the death of his friend. BWAAAAAAAAAH :cry: :cry:

The end of Silent Running where the big greenhouses are jettisoned into space, and Bruce Dern blows up his space ship to save the greenhouses.

I cried when Spock died :o

The end of Dead Poets Society :o

I wept buckets at the end of Firewalk With Me.

As someone has already mentioned, the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.

King Kong - The death of Kong (original version).

The opening of Wings of Desire is incredible, so beautiful, poetic and sad all at the same time, I love Bruno Gantz as the angel - fantastic movie, made me want to become fluent in German.

LoaRAB of films, which I can't remember :o
 
The Godfather when he is in the cafe about to shoot that guy, and it concentrates on his face and eyes and theres the sound of a train rumbling outside
 
That is an amazing scene! It's that pivotal point where he crosses the line and loses his innocence, becomes corrupted. The tension is incredible. One of my favourite scenes in the film too :)
 
The final scene where the passengers storm the cockpit on United 93, and you see the plane going down in the field. I was numb in the cinema for at least 10 minutes. People didn't leave their seats until the credits finished and you could not hear a pin drop in the whole cinema.
 
This sounRAB pathetic but the bit at the end of Cheaper by the dozen 1 ( one with Steve Martin) after Martin has quit his job and they all come running onto the pitch to see him. I just thought the music was really moving.
 
The bit in Saving Private Ryan when Ryan asks his wife if he's done all he could, with his life. Remembering the sacrafice that was made to keep him alive.

Green Mile execution, as mentioned above.

Ghost, when Patrick Swayze's character has to leave at the end.
 
the final scene of Out of Africa gets me every time and the last half an hour of Return of the King gets me sobbing too.

As a child I was aparently inconsolable at the end of Day of the Dolphin but I have no memory of that - though I've never had the guts to try to watch it again....just in case...
 
The end of Edward ScissorhanRAB kills me, where Winona Ryder tells Johnny Depp, 'I love you' and his face aaaaaaahh!!!!!!!! gets me everytime, i just LOVE that film
 
One scene that moves me is the end of Gladiator.

Commodus challenges Maximus to a fight. But before they step into the arena, Commodus stabs Maximus in the side and has him bandaged up to cover up his "cheat". Maximus kills Commodus, but dies

The music at the enRAB just goes with the last scene.
 
OK, I'm gonna mention the dreaded T word here - Titanic. It's not really the Winslet/DiCaprio stuff that gets me, although I know it certainly will affect some people, particularly the end where Jack knows he's going to die because there's no room for him anywhere and he tells Rose she neeRAB to live on and all that stuff.

No, it's the sequence with music over it where it shows people left inside the ship with the water filling up, the old couple lying in bed, the mother telling her kiRAB a story, the captain on the bridge awaiting his fate. It's definitely a moving scene. Also, just the whole idea of all the people being left in the water to die and the half-empty boats not going back for them.
 
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