Grown men cry?

[spark20]

Just a few weeks ago I watched the Ayrton Senna film. Never would I imagine that his death affected many Brazilians and millions of other people around the world. The film's soundtrack adds to the melodrama. One of the best documentary films I've seen.

But whatever you do, don't watch The Champ...it will 100% make you cry.

[daddyrock]

The Movie Is , SONG FOR MARION

The scene is a theatre full of people and Terence Stamp, a hard hearted old man, attempts to start singing and his grand-daughter yells at him from the audience and he sings a song for his dead wife, that got me,I suddenly got something in my eye ,if you know what I mean. I am only human it's a very sentimental scene in the movie. Trust me on this.

[Jeff Vader]

This thread needs more links !!

Cinema Paradiso - Finale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EvM4EQiQco



Seriously, watch this movie - but make sure it's the directors cut, not the vastly different cinema release.

Wiki:
In Rome during the 1980s, famous Italian film director Salvatore Di Vita, returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say that someone named Alfredo has died. Salvatore obviously shies away from committed relationships, and he has not been back to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily in 30 years. As she asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood.

It is a few years after World War II. Six-year-old Salvatore is the mischievous, highly intelligent son of a war widow. Nicknamed Toto, he discovers a love for films and spends every free moment at the local movie house — Cinema Paradiso. There he develops a friendship with the fatherly projectionist, Alfredo, who takes a shine to the young boy and often lets him watch movies in the projection booth. During the movies, the audience can frequently be heard booing whenever there are missing sections, causing the films to suddenly jump, bypassing a critical romantic kiss or embrace. The local priest has ordered these sections to be "censored." The deleted scenes are piled on the projection room floor. At first, Alfredo considers Toto a pest, but eventually he teaches Salvatore how to operate the film projector. The montage ends as the movie house catches fire — highly inflammable Nitrate film was in routine use at the time. Salvatore saves Alfredo's life, but not before the film reels explode in Alfredo's face, leaving him permanently blind. The Cinema Paradiso is rebuilt by a town citizen, Ciccio, who invests his football lottery winnings in it. Salvatore, though still a child, is hired to be the new projectionist, as he is the only one who knows how to run the machines.

About a decade later, Salvatore, now in high school, is still the projectionist at the Cinema Paradiso. His relationship with the blind Alfredo has only strengthened, and Salvatore often looks to him for advice — advice that Alfredo often dispenses by quoting classic films. Salvatore has started experimenting with filmmaking, using a home movie camera, and he has met, and captured on film, a girl, Elena, daughter of a wealthy banker. Salvatore woos — and wins — Elena's heart, only to lose her owing to her father's disapproval. As Elena and her family move away, Salvatore leaves town to serve his compulsory military service. His attempts to write to Elena are fruitless; his letters are always returned as undeliverable. Upon his return from the military, Alfredo urges Salvatore to leave Giancaldo permanently, counseling that the town is too small for Salvatore to ever find his dreams. Moreover, the old man tells him that once he leaves, he must pursue his destiny wholeheartedly, never looking back and never returning, even to visit — he must never give in to nostalgia or even write or think about them.
Salvatore has obeyed Alfredo, but he returns home for the first time to attend the funeral. Though the town has changed greatly, he now understands why Alfredo thought it was so important that he leave. Alfredo's widow tells him that the old man followed Salvatore's successes with pride, and he has left him something — an unlabeled film reel and the old stool that Salvatore once stood on to operate the projector. Salvatore learns that Cinema Paradiso is to be demolished to give way to parking lots. As he looks at the proceedings, he recognizes many people who attended the cinema when he was a projectionist there.

Salvatore returns to Rome. He watches Alfredo's reel and discovers that it is a very special montage. It contains all the romantic scenes that the priest ordered to be cut from movies. Alfredo spliced all the sequences together to form a single film. Salvatore has made peace with his past.

This is the sequence at the end of the film, and I have to admit that the theme also gets me even if I don't watch it.

[scoundrel]

Those who have either read Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird or seen the film of the book will know the context of the scene and understand the tremendous revelation which is taking place. The novel has many themes, but the central theme of the progressive emtional growth and dawning wisdom of the narrator, as she learns about good and evil. In the scene where Jean Louise meets Arthur Radley, the shock lies in the great reversal of expectations. The character, Arthur Radley (lovely piece of silent acting by Robet Duvall in his film debut) has been the boogie man of Jean-Louise's childhood games, the half-playful and half-serious fear she has lived with. She feared him because he was mysterious, and yet she also pitied him because he is a prisoner of agrophobia, and was tantalised by stray hints, such as gifts left in a hole in a tree, that he might be friendly. She has never seen him before this scene.

This scene precedes. It is the climactic moment of the action, but not of the plot. Here, we see the villain, Bob Ewell, make his final play, attempting to murder Atticus Finch's children, the two apples of his eye, in order to spite him. Someone, we do not yet know who, intervenes, rescues the children from death, stabs the would-be killer with his own knife, and then carries the injured and unconscious boy to safety.

Now we get to find out who the rescuer is. He is the reclusive Arthur Radley, who has never ventured outside the boundary of his family garden since Jean Louise was born. But when a killer came for his neighbours children, who he has watched playing every day, Arthur Radley was able to leave his house at last and he came out to protect them. That is what brings the tear to my eye in this scene (that and Elmer Bernstein's superb theme music). Arthur Radley didn't just happen to accidentally notice that something bad was going on. Arthur Radley has been watching the Finch children all their lives, livng healthily as he was unable to live, and he has lived through them. In return, he has watched over and protected them from the day they were born. This is the moment when Jean-Louise Finch suddenly realises Arthur Radley has been her guardian angel all of her life and she never even knew it. It is a wonderful little scene, featuring superb acting from 10 year old Mary Badham, one of the youngest players ever nominated for an Academy Award. This scene marks the resolution of the plot. The final passage of the novel, narrated at the end of the film, just after this scene, wraps up the point of the scene where Jean Louise meets Arthur Radley at long last.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e31ClFUDwks

He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife...and our lives. One time, Atticus said that you never knew a man until you had stood in his shoes and walked around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

The summer which had begun so long ago had ended; and another summer had taken its place, and a fall; and Boo Radley had come out. I was to think of these days many times. Of Jem and Dill and Boo Radley and Tom Robinson...and Atticus. He would be in Jem's room all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

[morerules]

The movie "About Time". It is badged up as a romcom. Your woman makes you watch it. You sit there expecting to fall asleep. It gets a bit strange... you wonder what kind of stupid rom com this is... Then you start thinking... "Hang on... he's already got the girl... where is this film going?" Then you find out this film was never about a girls love for a boy... it's about [those tears streaming down your face]

[seivad]

Travis Pastrana's tribute to Colin Mcrae

https://youtu.be/yjelJeCjHKU