What are some of your favorite SCENES in films?

I love the scene in "Prince of Tides" when the children jump off the dock and hold hands underwater.

My all time favorite movie scene is the long tracking shot from Pasolini's Mama Romma where Anna Magnani walks around Rome at night and meets different people along the way. That is filmmaking at its best.

I'm also a huge fan of the bus scene from Incendies, crying baby scene from Children of Men, the kiss montage from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, the witch surfing on a coffin scene from Viy and the phone scene from Mean Girls.

R2, just when I thought you couldn't be a more pretentious douche, you redeemed yourself with the last one.

SHOWGIRLS - During "Cristal's Last Dance" when a dancer (I believe it is Carrie Ann Inaba) spreads her legs as the male dancer extends his tongue and does a lick up motion. The music does a wild crescendo when this action happens.

"I will never be hungry again!"

Barbara Stanwyck returning home to the family she deserted years before in Sirk's ALL I DESIRE.

"A Soul Haunted by Painting" ("Hua Hun", Hong Kong/1994), starring Gong Li as Pan Yu Liang, an artist woman.

I saw this movie only once on tv, but its atmosphere has somehow etched into my mind.

The most touching scene was when Pan Yuliang, by then having returned to China, and a professor of art in the National Central University, has had her work discredited and the university finally raided because China "was not ready for Western art", and she sits on a window sill in the university and quietly cries.

Pan Yuliang returns to France and becomes an accomplished artist.

This is my favourite Gong Li movie.

The final few minutes of The Net when Bullock's character takes down the bad guys by crashing their network.

When Michael Corleone states to Sonny, Tessio, Clemenza and Tom Hagen that he will murder the police captain and Solozzo in the restaurant and they all start laughing. I love Tom Hagen's look of incredulity.

Completely agree, OP. The Stepford Wives has some very poignant scenes (like the two you mentioned). I was always haunted by the still frame at the end of the movie where Ross is looking out the car window. Her husband and children are smiling, but she has the most lost, defeated look on her face.

Rocky and Adrian's first kiss always pulled at my heartstrings (the Youtube clip is the best I could find). People forget that, at its core, "Rocky" is a tender love story.

The party scene in BATMAN RETURNS.

Pee Wee Herman dancing to "Tequila" in a biker bar.

Yes, R11! Good pick. Keaton and Pfieffer (especially) are so compelling in that scene.

The skinnydipping scene in "A Room with a View."

Props for mentioning the crying baby scene in "Children of Men".

Some additional favorite scenes in films: * The final scene(s) in "Big Fish" (2003, directed by Tim Burton).

Where the primary narrator's father dies, and the narrator then decides to continue his father's story the way his father told his stories.

* The final scenes in "Bicentennial Man". (Notice also the taller, original World Trade Center.)

* "A.I. Artificial Intelligence": Most of all scenes whereafter David descends into the sea; these also include the post-apocalyptic future. (This one also features the original World Trade Center, albeit in modified form.)

* The 'dream' sequence in the "25th Hour", where the protagonist's father narrates a possible alternative future. The motion picture is shot to the backdrop of the cleanup operation at WTC's Ground Zero.

The plane crash scene in "Fearless." Peter Weir is a master of imagery.

The one and only original "Carrie" prom scene when they are on the way up to the stage, with the gorgeous slow motion, the Pino Donaggio music. When I saw it in the theater the first time as a kid, the tension was unbearable. Perfection.

The no-dialogue scene between Tony Shaloub and Stanley Tucci at the end of "Big Night." Brilliantly filmed and performed.

The scene in Waking Ned Define where the two old guys go to Ned Devine's house and they start laughing hysterically because they are so disturbed by what they have to do.

I loved the scene in "Big Night" where Mark Anthony does a little dance with a broom (or mop?).

So sweet.

The last scene in "Mr. Skeffington" when Bette Davis, old and delapidated, sees her blind, estranged husband after suffering through a Nazi concentration camp. He's poor and homeless. She brings him into her home and vows to take care of him. She finally realizes she had always loved him.

Claude Rains portrayed her husband. It was one of the most touching scenes in the movies.

Interesting that R5's reference does not mention the actress, movie, or scene, yet we all know what it is and no one disagrees. Also interesting that every other scene has to be described, even in very famous movies.

"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!"

Erica pukes into a sidewalk trash receptacle in SoHo after Martin announces he's in love with another woman.

This!

Patricia Collinge making the sad little "forgetting you're you" speech to the family near the end of Shadow of a Doubt. It's a throwaway in terms of plot, but it's one of the best scenes Hitchcock ever did. Same with the scene at the Til two diner when Louise tells Charlie, "I'd just about die for a ring like that..."

The stripping scene in NASHVILLE

Angela Bassett setting the car on fire in Waiting to Exhale.

The "Gideon and Jagger" scene from "All That Jazz."

Thanks for digging me up again, R29.

In Gosford Park, the quiet scene between Anthony Meredith and Dorothy downstairs. He goes to lick his wounds and ends up in the room where the Dorothy's homemade jams are stored.

Dorothy comes upon him and they end up talking about love - and he realizes that, despite his failures, he's one of the few "upstairs" people who really loves his wife.

...yes, the last scene in Central Station.

In Body Heat, when Ned's buddies come to his apartment to tell him he should stay away from Maddy.

A cold bottle of mineral water,

suntan lotion, cigarettes, codeine tabs,

a bucket of ice, a glass, a bottle of brandy,

my newspapers;

the Paris Trib, the Rome Daily American, the Financial Times the Wall Street Journal, The Daily Express

"With A Song In My Heart" A young soldier (Robert Wagner) that Jane Froman sang to early in the war, shows up at her USO tour in shell-shocked condition. As she sings to him, he responds for the first time since he was wounded in battle.

The final scene from Black Orpheus; in one shot it goes from the tragedy of the lovers' death to the three adorable children, two of whom represent Orfeu and Eurydice "reborn", dancing an uplifting salsa.

The scene in Tropic Thunder, when Tom Cruise tells the kidnappers he's going to give them a hobo's dick cheese.

The kiss in Brokeback when Ennis and Jack first see each other, after a couple of years.

In "Tootsie," the scene at the Russian Tea Room is so perfect. Sidney Pollack's horrified reactions make me crack up every time. "Michael, I begged you to get therapy."

The family picnic in BONNIE AND CLYDE.

Wendy Hiller's last speech as Eliza Doolittle to Leslie Howard's Higgins in PYGMALION.

The Keith Carradine song in the club in NASHVILLE where various women giddily think he's singing to them, and Lily Tomlin is abashed to realize that she's the person aimed at.

Cloris Leachman's last scene with Bottoms in LAST PICTURE SHOW.

And, if I may include television,

every scene in the MAPP AND LUCIA series, every blessed one.

West Side Story - America - just magical.

This brilliant monologue written by Paddy Chayefsky and delivered by the excellent Peter Finch...especially because of how relevant it is today. Paddy was psychic:

The scene in "Home For The Holidays" where Holly Hunter confronts uptight sister Cynthia Stevenson on her basement treadmill. Stevenson is so good in this scene - she's been insufferable the whole movie and her speech to Hunter is cruel but then she breaks down in a moment of vulnerability and you really see her unhappiness with the life she's chosen. Beautifully played.

The scene in Titanic where the ship splits in half.

The montage of all Max Fischer's extra-curricular activities in Rushmore - how it sets him up as an indomitable, energetic but misguided character. Bill Murray's speech about how he'd never dreamed he'd have kids like his awful twins is also priceless.

Oh yeah R38, that was a hell of a powerful moment. So many scenes in that movie were so moving.

R44, I have trouble with "Home for the Holidays." Both the Holly Hunter and Robert Downey characters are so annoying that I totally understand why the Stevenson character loathes them.

[quote]The AN UNMARRIED WOMAN troll

I knew you'd be here!

[quote]Erica pukes into a sidewalk trash receptacle in SoHo after Martin announces he's in love with another woman.

You're joking that that's your favorite scene! Erica throwing up?

I love the last scene of Annie Hall when they meet at O'Neill's and 'kick around old times'. Sweet and sad. They both leave the restaurant and walk in opposite directions and he tells the chicken joke.

OP, I love that scene with Ross and the shrink. I wish the rest of the movie could sustain the sense of dread and tension in that one brief exchange.

When Michael tells Sandra Bullock's character in "The Blind Side" that he has never had a bed.

[quote]You're joking that that's your favorite scene! Erica throwing up?

Well, actually, I like the last scene best. With the painting.

And the "I wish his pecker would fall off and he'd catch a permanent case of the clap" scene.

And the Swan Lake scene is good, too.

I think of the puking scene as more emblematic of the movie itself as it's the first scene after she realizes she is "an unmarried woman."

[quote]I think of the puking scene as more emblematic of the movie itself

Yes, it's the iconic scene (I'm sure there's a better word, but it will do). The one everyone remembers.

I like after fucking Charlie scene. The way the camera pans through the windows at SoHo at night. The sad music. Then we see Erica walking alone up an empty West Broadway.

Also, the 'There's a new swami in town' taxi scene. It so captures New York. The bright morning, whizzing downtown in a Checker cab.

I love that posted that #50! Thank you. Kathryn Ross was beautiful.

Just off the top of my head . . .

IT'S A WONDERFL LIFE: Harry Bailey comes home from the war and his brother George, who's all set to leave town and "lasso the world," discovers to his horror that it's Harry who gets to leave. The tight close-up on Jimmy Stewart when he realizes his dreams are forever shattered is one of the great moments in film.

BARRY LYNDON: The deathbed scene followed by the funeral, with Handel's music blaring on the soundtrack.

CITY LIGHTS: "You!"

GOODFELAS: The "you think I'm funny?!" segment is a perfect blend of creepy and funny. Also, the scene when they go to the mother's house (Scorsese's mother!)

CARRIE: The original (naturally), when Carrie comes home from the prom.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: "They're coming to get you, Barbara" (again the original)

THE TRUMAN SHOW: The end, when Carrey decides it's better to enter the door leading to an unknown future than stay behind and live the life laid out for him. (I've always wondered if screenwriter Andrew Niccol is gay because this and his other movies like Gattaca and In Time deal with characters who don't fit in the world they're forced to live in.)

The scenes in Good Will Hunting when the Robin Williams character tells Will "It's not your fault". Saying it over and over Spain until Will finally gets it and breaks down and cries

Get me right in the feels.

r25, that scene is referencing a famous scene in "Blonde Venus," also featured in the documentary "Marlene," in which Dietrich makes her entrance wearing a gorilla suit (and notably referenced in the film "Starstruck" in which the young Australian New Wave singer heroine emerges from a kangaroo costume.)

I agree with [R31] What a perfect scene. I saw that movie seven times on opening weekend. I do not know how many times I jacked off thinking of Otto and that jockstrap. And, you are right, BoB Fosse had to be perfectly confident in his heterosexuality....that sequence is a fully inclusive sexual dream.

A scene from Notting Hill that cracks me up every time: The tool/ringo starr conversation...

"Lonesome Cowboy Burt" from 200 Motels. Especially the end when Jimmy Carl Black calls "Opal, you hot little bitch!" and is answered by...Theodore Bikel.

I was rewatching r31's scene and noticed for the first time that Sandahl Bergman's panties are designed to create the illusion from the front that she's dancing bottomless. Of course these days the idea of a woman with a big black pubic patch would be so disgusting they'd be vomiting in the aisles.

Nearly every scene in Parting Glances with Steve Buscemi. I like this one most because of the "l love you" moment.

Buscemi was such a hot guy in his younger days. And frankly he ain't too bad now. Great actor.

The riverboat scene in the last part of DAYS OF HEAVEN.

The scene at Marcel's restaurant with Loretta Young, Cary Grant and the three gossipy women in THE BISHOP's WIFE.

I so wanted to have lunch at Marcel's.

The scene where Elizabeth Taylor visits ("it always seems like we are saying goodbye") Montgomery Clift on death row in A PLACE IN THE SUN.

Another Taylor scene. With Rock Hudson in GIANT. She is maid of honor at her sister's wedding and she is estranged from husband Rock Hudson. Hudson shows up during the ceremony and stands watching her from the dining room. She senses his presence and slowly turns around, faces back to the camera and has a joyful expression on her face.

The final scene in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS. Gets me every time.

I also love that scene in The Bishops Wife, r63.

Julianne Moore's pharmacy scene in Magnolia. Perfect.

The driving scene with John Travolta and Nancy Allen in Carrie.

The final scene in "Resurrection", when Ellen Burstyn has become a recluse operating a gas station in the desert, and the family with the boy dying of cancer stops for gas.

Good one, [R69]. Such an underrated movie.

Good choice R69, that is a powerful scene. Whenever I see a sick child I think of that scene.

I will mention Jane Fonda's therapy session in Klute. Apparently, the scene was largely improvised, too.

FANTASTIC choice R69! HELLUVA CHOICE, R69! GO, R69!

(I wonder if R69 is feeling pleased with himself somewhere).

Poor old lonely R73.

Actually, I am.

The wedding ceremony in "The Ruling Class" - Alistair Sim gives one of the great comic performances of all time.

Judy steps out of the bathroom, now transformed into Madeline, she's bathed in green neon and Scotty embraces her as Bernard Herrmann's score reaches a crescendo.

Just about every scene in "The Women".

The bathroom scene in "Lady Sings the Blues" - Diana, Billy Dee, heroin, a leather strap and a straight razor...

The abduction scene in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.

Scared me when I was 12 and still gives me chills at 48.

Agree, r79! And, the scene where she performs "T'ain't nobody's business if I do"...waiting for her drug dealer Hawk, Piano man stopping her from taking heroin in her dressing room, then hearing that her mother died...all in a stunning Bob Mackie dress!

That performance should have won her the Oscar.

The last scene of Nina performing Swan Lake in Black Swan

Erica carrying the large painting in An Unmarried Woman

When Michael Sarrazzan accidentally tears Jane Fonda's stocking in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

I love, love, love the Katharine Ross at the therapist scene in THE STEPFORD WIVES! Thanks for mentioning it.

The drag musical sequence at the beginning of THE DEVILS.

The prom queen sequence from CARRIE.

The very ending of STARDUST MEMORIES with the slow blackout of the curved movie theatre's lights.

The opening titles of THE SHINING with the amazing camera work and the DIES IRAE playing on the soundtrack.

The last scene in Giant - Rock and Liz are gray-haired and keeping the grandkids after Rock defended his Mexican daughter-in-law at a Texas diner and got beat up. Rock apologizes and Liz exclaims how proud she was of Rock, "Oh, but the fight was GLORIOUS!" I just love that scene.

The last scene in Color Purple when Celie realizes it's her sister and kids. I was crying in the parking lot.

R64, Liz and Rock were supposedly very sick with hangovers when filming that scene. She said the looks were simply them trying not to throw up.

Stanwyck at the end of Stella Dallas

Stanwyck and Eric Blore at the racetrack in The Lady Eve

Stanwyck screaming at her crippled husband in Walk on the Wild Side

Stanwyck screaming at Walter Huston right after hugging Gilbert Roland in The Furies

The young Charles Foster Kane nonchalantly getting up to dance in "Citizen Kane."

Brando and Steiger in the cab in "On The Waterfront."

Willard finally reaching Kurtz's compound in "Apocalypse Now."

R Williams (I know) drawing out Ethan Hawke in "Dead Poets Society."

The last scene in "The Lives Of Others."

"A League Of Their Own"--Madge's swing dance with Eddie Mekka ("Laverne & Shirley"'s Big Ragu)

The Mao Tse Tung Hour contract negotiation scene in "Network", where the Communists haggle over money.

I can't stand the "Air-rotica" scene in "All That Jazz." I realize that technically speaking the dancing is beautiful; but the whole concept of the dance is so pretentious and cheesy (and non-erotic).

the scene in Peggy Sue Got Married when Kathleen Turner's character arrives home from school and hears the phone ring, she answers it and hears her grandmothers voice for the first time in 20 years. scene gets me every time.

Another clip from Batman Returns - Selina's transformation into Catwoman. This scene made me realize that Pfeiffer was perhaps the most talented actress working at that time. She adds so many layers to this scene: despair, dark humor, rage, madness.

When seeing BR in the theater, I remember thinking that I was seeing an artist (Pfeiffer) do something very rare and special. Her performance is even more poignant when compared to Hathaway's and Berry's attempts at the character.

The -I dink your milkshake scene- in There will be Blood.

Carey Mulligan and Fassbender sitting on a couch and having an argument while watching kids cartoons in Shame.

Gwyneth Paltrow reading a nonsensical Proof to her demented father in Proof.

Sam Bell driving back to the Lunar base after bringing back his clone to a crashed rover in Moon

Lawrence Olivier/Kenneth Branagh quoting Shakespeare while watching dailies of Marilyn Monroe in My week with Marilyn

The "Roxanne" dance number in Moulin Rouge was spectacular.

The very last scene in "The Nun's Story", when Audrey Hepburn changes from her nun's garb into commoner clothes, leaves the convent & walks down the alley, not looking back.

When she gets to the end of the street, her trip, shot from behind, shows her hesitating for a few seconds, in deciding whether to turn right or left.

Extremely moving.

In "The Godfather"..."Leave the gun, take the cannoli"....

Spoke to the ordinariness of mafia executions & the need to be pragmatic. Very chilling, even though so many thought it to be funny.

The fight scene at the end of Last of the Mohicans. Uncas fights Magua, Alice Monroe jumps off the cliff, Chingachgook kills Magua. The whole thing was taut with the music and the cinematography. It was so stunning in the early 1990s, still holds up today. Probably my all-time favorite movie scene.

r27, you have to be crazy. Whenever I regret being gay, I think of the strip scene in Nashville. Personally I love "You asked me for money," in Midnight Cowboy.

Just watched a couple:

"Some Like It Hot": Final scene."Nobody's perfect!"

"The Full Monty": The scene in the Job Club when, with the men in line, the music of "Hot Stuff" begins and they start their stripper steps.

Others:

"Hoosiers": Courtside when Coach (G. Hackman) is told, because he benched a kid, there are now only 4 team members. "My team's on the floor."

"The Godfather": The entire hospital scene, but particularly with Enzo the Baker. "If there is trouble, I stay to help you. For your father, for your father."

But my favorite scenes are in "The Heiress":

Scene 1: Catherine refuses to see her dying father. "Can you be so cruel?" "Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters."

Scene 2: Catherine refuses to see Morris. "He's grown greedier over the years. Before he only wanted my money; now he wants my love as well. Well, he came to the wrong house - and he came twice. I shall see that he does not come a third time."

"I believe in America."

[quote]The -I dink your milkshake scene- in There will be Blood.

Wow, that WOULD have been memorable! I wish the version I saw had had that in it.

The scene in the classroom in The Wicker Man when the schoolgirl opens a desk and there's a black beetle tied to a string going round and round its post.

The scene between Carrie Nye and Kathleen Widdoes in THE GROUP.

"Corn Nuts!" -- HEATHERS

I love this scene from RULES OF ATTRACTION with Swoosie Kurtz and Faye Dunaway. The movie is so-so, but it perfectly captures one of the best scenes in the book.

[quote]I like after fucking Charlie scene. The way the camera pans through the windows at SoHo at night. The sad music. Then we see Erica walking alone up an empty West Broadway.

That scene was very haunting. Isn't their a photograph of Erica walking alone in the soundtrack album?

The Wind and the Lion when the Marines and sailors are double-timing it through the city of Tangiers to capture the palace. Very intimidating. I read somewhere that that scene is shown to all Marines in boot camp.

Billy Elliot dancing through the town to the Jam's Town Called Malice. Perfectly captures his anger and frustration.

"Junior, GET THE HONEY!"

The "Chubby Checkers"scene from Anne Bancroft's "Fatso".

Brilliant.

The beginning of "The Shining" when you see the car heading for the hotel. The scenery, the music. Perfect.

Among the numerous favorites: When Doris Day approaches the sleeping Rock Hudson, in one of their movies. She pauses, then gives him a hard slap. He's awakened, and she immediately starts to console him and ask if he had a bad dream.

In "Making Love", when Michael Ontkean kisses Harry Hamlin.

When Harry Hamlin's character slays the evil monster in "Clash of the Titans".

As he remembers his mom, Cool Hand Luke sings and plays a guitar while sitting on his prison bed.

Luke talks to The Almighty in the last part of the movie.

Even tho gay, I can't forget the blonde washing the car windows in the movie.

I love the scene in M. HULOT'S HOLIDAY after he causes a horse to kick which traps a man in the rumble seat of a car parked behind it. Hulot runs off down the beach to hide from the curious crowd who gather to aid the trapped man. Among these is a taffy-seller who has abandoned a big blob of taffy on a stick in the hot sun just outside Hulot's hiding spot.

His own desperation notwithstanding, Hulot cannot resist the urge to emerge from hiding over and over again in order to prevent the sagging blob of taffy from hitting the sandy beach. It's an absurd dilemma.

I have two "favorites." Neither is obscure, and I can't possibly chose between them.

First, the long shot in Goodfellas when Henry Hill takes his girl to the nightclub on a date. Everything works perfectly in that scene.

"Then He Kissed Me" by the Ronettes is playing as they cross the street and take a "shortcut" into the club, down the stairs, thru the kitchen, etc. That scene never gets old. It's perfect.

The other is the scene when Vincent Vega & Mia Wallace win the dance contest at the 50's nightclub, to the strains of Chuck Berry singing "You Never Can Tell. "

I guess music plays a huge role in my choices. But it's fully integrated into the scenes I love best, and it's part of why they work for me.

The scene in front of the Laundrette when Johnny surreptitiously licks Omar's neck in front of the other punks in "My Beautiful Laundrette".

In the film, "Cry Not For Me", Helen Lawson's nervous breakdown scene after the murder of her husband gives me the chills every time I watch it.

[quote]The scene in Titanic where the ship splits in half.

The scene where Rose realizes Jack died.

Because he's DEAD.

Because that movie SUCKED.

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quote]"Then He Kissed Me" by the Ronettes is playing

It's by the Crystals.

r93, you have great taste. That scene is quietly exquisite. What a great movie.

Michael Ontkean skating in just a jockstrap in "Slap Shot"

The dining room scene between Patty Duke n Anne Bancroft in The miracle worker

The scene in Moulin Rouge where Kidman and McGregor are rehearsing and The Duke figures out they're lovers. To appease him, Kidman walks down to The Duke to assure him of her love. She is this stick figure descending the stairs in the center of this huge set.

Frederick March comes home from WWII and surprises his wife in The Best Years of Our Lives...reduces me to tears every time

The museum scene in "Ferris Bueller."

The opening of "Contact"

The Tina Alamo scene in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure

The scene in "Coming to America" where they interview potential brides in the nightclub.

"Pink Elephants on Parade." from Dumbo

The whole trippy party scene in "Midnight Cowboy"

The Boat ride scene in "Willy Wonka"

Matt Damon's character settling into his opulent new Rome apartment at Christmastime and playing Bac's "Italian Symphony," uninterrupted this time, in "The Talented Mr. Ripley."

*Bach's

In The Name of The Father: When Daniel Day-Lewis and his mate put 'Like A Rolling Stone' on the jukebox. DDL does a little jig with a pint of beer in each hand.

Airplane: the priceless look on Leslie Nielsen's face when he walks in on Julie Hagerty blowing up an inflatable autopilot (it looks like she's giving a BJ).

"I's gettin' real tired of this cat."

The final scene in "Field of Dreams", when Kevin Costner is reunited with the ghost of his father.

"Star Trek: First Contact" when Lily confronts Picard in his ready room. Great scene.

The scene in "The Godfather" during the christening while all of the heads of the five families are bumped off.

The final scene of "Longtime Companion."

[quote]In the film, "Cry Not For Me", Helen Lawson's nervous breakdown scene after the murder of her husband gives me the chills every time I watch it.

Are you sure you got the title of the film right?

I love the scene in Fargo where Marge has that awkward dinner with the guy from high school who had a crush on her.

The cemetery scene from "Torch Song Trilogy."

[quote]The final scene of "Longtime Companion."

I don't know how (gay) people can re-watch that film, unless they're masochists.

"I'll have what she's having . . .".

Celie and Nettie's reunion in "The Color Purple."

Although, to be fair, there are many great scenes in this film. It's actually a great film, but this scene can still make me tear up.

Here it is R135

The confrontation between Streep and Viola Davis in "Doubt."

Again, a great film, IMO.

A couple (not obscure)

Dorothy seeing the witch inside the crystal ball, while captured in the castle.

Scarlett walking through the door into Twelve Oaks - what a way establishing a scene and a lost world.

Obscure (maybe)

All of "Detour" (a Z-list noir, now cult fave), especially the hero realizing the woman is trouble while driving the car, killing her with a phone cord in a hotel room, and being picked up the cops, in such a way that you wonder whether he (the narrator) had been telling the truth all along.

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More modern - anything with the Joker in "Dark Knight."

The fight with the Agent Smiths in "Matrix Reloaded"

The scene at the ending of Woody Allen's Another Woman, when after meeting Mia Farrow, Gena Rowlands goes to her apartment and overhears Mia talking to her shrink, saying "I met a really sad woman today...".

The final confrontation between Liv Ulmann and Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata.

Michelle Pfeiffer in The Age of Innocence saying "I am enduring it" and her final scene in Batman Returns when she strikes Batman, saying "I would love to live with you in your castle, Bruce, just like in a fairy tale, I just couldnt live with myself. So lets not pretend this is a happy ending".

The final scene in Notes on a Scandal ("You don't even like me!!")

This one is from "A Separation" (aka "The Separation of Nader from Simin"), an acclaimed 2011 Iranian film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and numerous other awards.

So, Nader and Simin's marriage is on the rocks and I think it was during a time in the film when Nader was temporarily locked up for an alleged homicide, and Simin has to run the errands for Nader.

The scene that I remember so vividly is Simin (Leila Hatami) driving her car with Nader's ill father (who is also her father-in-law) on the front passenger side.

As Simin drives the car throughout Tehran, she tearfully confides to her good-natured, but very demented father-in-law how many years she has given to Nader, sort of lamenting the failure of the marriage.

The scene is so powerful because it shows that a great deal of Nader and Simin's marriage was based on the rapport between Simin and her father-in-law, who, as it's probably implied, kept his son in check and the marriage intact.

final scene of cries and whispers, final scene of Central Station, final scene of Au hasard Balthazar

The scene in Terms of Endearment when Debra Winger's character was in the hospital, near death, and she told her oldest son that she knew that he loved her and not to regret not telling her so himself.

The scene in "It's a Wonderful Life" after Clarence has granted George Bailey's wish and George goes looking for someone who recognizes him; he goes to see his mother (Beulah Bondi) and she doesn't know him.

Beulah Bondi is almost unrecognizable from what we have already seen of Mrs. Bailey.

Jimmy Stewart is so good in this movie. He has a lot of small moments that break your heart. But this scene with his mother as she rejects him just tears me up.

The Suo Gan scene in Empire of the Sun. Very sentimental but it always sticks in my mind. Also a scene from The Railway Children where Bobby, Phyllis and Peter run to the railway to send their love to their father. I love that film.

r93 completely agree - I'm a puddle each time I watch it.

agree with the poster who mentioned The Goodfellas (Henry taking Karen to the Copa) long shot. Perfect!!

also a fan of Age of Innocence when Madame Olenska is on the dock and the water is shimmering and Archer seals his fate by hesitating.

A little Romance: the final scene - LOVE.

Say Anything: Joe Lies, Joe Lies, Joe Lies when he cries, when he cries...

Obscure: Rocket Gibralter two scenes: 1. where Burt Lancaster is listemning to Billie Holiday in his bed and they thin he's dead

2. When the children make his final wishes a reality.

The final confrontation between Lakey (Candice Bergen) and Harald (Larry Hagman) after Kay's funeral in THE GROUP.

A few more from the 60's (yes, I am an elder)

The opening credits from Otto Preminger's THE CARDINAL where Tom Tryon is walking through the Vatican courtyards and that beautiful theme music by Jerome Moross is in the background.

Eva Marie Saint watching the races in GRAND PRIX and she has a dream like moment when the cars are in slow motion and Maurice Jarre's love theme is heard.

PICNIC -The dance between William Holden and Kim Novak. The theme from PICNIC slowly creeps in as counterpoint to the classic "Moonglow."

The black cat credits sequence in WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

When Grace Kelly finally gets (you can see it in her face) what James Stewart has said all along regarding his suspicions that Raymond Burr murdered his wife in REAR WINDOW.

The Big Chill.

My Girl - "He can't see without his glasses!"

Carrie - Margaret's confession before she stabs her daughter. Piper Laurie sells the shit outta that monologue.

Starting over - Candice Bergen's "Better Than Ever" song slays me.

Flowers in the Attic - After Cory dies, they cut to a handyman outside burying his body and the camera shows there are 3 other graves next to that - one for each remaining kid. Chilling.

Truly Madly Deeply - "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" scene. Warms my heart and makes me smile every time.

Suspiria- The first 15 minutes. Damn!

Scream- The opening with Drew Barrymore. So intense and scary.

Halloween - Laurie walking across the street, finding the bodies, and running back, desperate to get back in as the killer chases after her. So freakin' scary!

Candyman - Helen's funeral always makes me cry when the Cabrini Green people come up the hill and towards her coffin.

Thanks R119. It's that Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" thing. They sure reminded me of the Ronettes.

I get goosebumps watching this. Scorcese always makes sure he has the right music. Really captures the era.

The scene in Cat on a hot tin roof when Brick unintentionally lets Big Daddy know that he, Big daddy, is dying.

The scene in who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, where we the audience realize George and Martha's son is a not real.

The scene near the and of ordinary people where Mary Tyler Moore's character Beth loses it on the golf course.

The end scene of On her Majesty's Secret Service where Tracy Bond is shot and killed while she and James Bond are riding away to their honeymoon.

Elizabeth Taylor's bloodcurdling scream near the end of Suddenly, Last Summer when she is watching her cousin Sebastian Venable being eaten alive by the young men and boys whose sexual favors he had bought.

The death of Spock at the end of Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan.

The last scene of the silence of the lambs.

[R150], nice to see I'm not the only fan of THE GROUP.

Pretty much that whole movie is a "favorite scene".

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The scene in Resurrection when she hugs the little boy.

The psychiatrist's office scene where Timothy Hutton has a breakthrough in Ordinary People

The end of Black Orpheus, so beautiful

Jimmy Stewart extending his arms slightly when Kim Novak has fallen in Vertigo

The scene in Rebecca where Mrs Dewinter says their marriage is a great success, and he says, "If you say we're happy, let's leave it at that. Happiness is something I know nothing about."

When Frances McDormand interviews Bill Macy in Fargo and he leaves.

Christian Bale coming home after he's taken a ride with that mobster in American Hustle and telling his wife what happened.

Kevin Kline dancing to I Will Survive.

The final scene of Running On Empty.

The scene in Running on Empty when Christine Lahti goes to the restaurant to see her father.

Toni Collette's audition in The Last Shot

Maggie Smith-Michael Caine scene in the hotel room before the Oscars in California Suite

so many more, can't think

When Hannibal is handing the file through the bars to Clarice and glides his finger down her hand.

At the end of "Woman under the influence" when Gena is being totally assailed by her family, so bombarded with sensations her face is like a 3 ring circus and begs her father "won't you stand up for me"?

Technically two scenes but the part in "Muriel's Wedding" when Rachel Griffiths tells off the bitchy clique and then she and Toni Collette lip sync "Waterloo." Never fails to make me smile.

In "Kinsey", where Lynn Redgrave tells Liam Neeson how much his work has mattered.

r97 I was going to say the same thing! The pacing and composition of that scene are marvelous.

A great scene in a terrible movie would have to be the scene where Leslie Caron goes to the rail yard in Is Paris Burning? The hope and then desperation in that is just unbearable. Similarly the scene where the resistance is tricked into meeting with the Nazis is also pretty devastating.

Its a pity the rest of that movie is dullsville.

The scene in Thelma and Louise where they both realize that they can't "go back".

Charlottes Web the cartoon version where Charlotte says "goodbye" to Wilbur.

It made me realize that friendships don't last forever, let alone life. All is fleeting and will be eventually gone/done.

The scene with Helen Mirren and the little girl with the flowers at the gates of Buckingham Palace in "The Queen": "No... They're for you." Perfectly acted, perfectly timed.

The final sequence of Dr. Aziz writing the letter to Adela in "A Passage to India," intercut with Judy Davis's unforgettable facial expression as she reads the letter in England

Holy shit, the end of Invasion of the body snatchers with the Sutherland guy. Oh snap!!!!

I love the murder scene at the amusement park in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. It is a study in ever-increasing cynicism. Farley Granger's faithless wife is on an adulterous spree in the slightly wicked glow of a fairground all lit up at night. At one point she and her suitors disappear into a tunnel of love. We hear a shriek and suspect the worst. Then they come into view and we can guess that she has just been groped.

But we know that she is being stalked by Robert Walker. He plays a perfect stranger who intends to murder her in order to force her husband (Farley G.) to kill for him in return. Walker corners the woman alone in the dark on an island in "Loveland" and strangles her in cold blood as seen reflected in the lens of her fallen eyeglasses.

[quote]Its a pity the rest of that movie is dullsville

I agree, it is dullsville. However the theme music, especially at the end with the color shots of 1966 Paris, is lovely.

R156- R150 here. THE GROUP has always been one of my favorites.. have a copy on one of those made to order DVD's too. Great acting from all the ladies.

Simon and Garfunkel's "April Come She Will" montage from THE GRADUATE.

The scene in The Way We Were when Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand are arguing and they're breaking up, and he's really exasperated, and explodes,saying, "You always expect too much!" and she very quietly looks at him, and says, "Ahh, but look what I have." meaning him. Like buttah.

The scene in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Elizabeth Taylor (Martha) and George Segal (Nick) were sparring in the kitchen after his failure to "rise to the occasion." Martha tells Nick that the only man she ever loved was George (Richard Burton.) The scene is so tender and heartfelt and one of the finest ever recorded on film. She said "George and Martha sad, sad, sad….who made this hideous, hurting mistake of loving me" as she looks out the screen door into the dark night, searching for George. Edward Albee, the playwright, is a genius and Miss Taylor was superb. God, I miss her.

Two from My Own Private Idaho. First the campfire scene where Mike tells Scott he loves him. "I love you and you don't pay me."

Been there, done that, more than once, and that's why this touches me a lot.

The second from My Own Private Idaho. Scott has left Mike and the hustling and Mike's alone now. He scores a married john, an old customer. He watches Simpsons like a little kid while waiting the john to get ready in the bathroom, and when he comes out Mike crash lands back to reality, back to the sex part. They hug and john starts taking clothes off Mike who suddenly is reluctant.

I remember this scene showing that now that Mike's alone he only gets love from the customers. I remember seeing that he enjoys the intimacy of the hug, because this is only as good as it gets now for him, but now that I see that scene I'm getting that feeling only vaguely, but I think it is there. Mainly I see Mike's reluctance when the john starts taking his clothes off. But the scene is still beautiful as hell. It shows the weirdness of the life Mike's living now.

Well, the time part of the Youtube link seemed to not work. The scene starts at 7.05 in the video.

The Pianist - Thomas Kretschmann's Nazi goes back to his office after meeting the starving Spielmann and pockets a heavy tchochke from his desk to sell so he can buy food.

Frequency - at the end when the house changes its decor and family destiny after the rapist is shot in the hand and Dennis Quaid a) didn't die of lung cancer and b) saved his son's life. Very underrated film.

Someone said it earlier - the abduction of the little boy in Close Encounters.

Aliens - Newt & Ripley trapped in that room with the 2 aliens and no weapon, surviving until the marines crash through the window to save them - perfect action, music, editing

The War of the Worlds - remake - the aliens erupt from under the street - that whole scene and Cruise getting home to his kids

Silas Marner (Ben Kingsley) - daughter Patsy Kensit refuses to leave Marner after she finds out that the rich and kindly Squire is her real father and her disinterest in living a privileged life. The grief of the Squire, his wife's understanding and quiet relief, Marner's tears and the love between the true father and daughter get me every time.

The Godfather 2 - the sequence in Havana when Michael realizes that Fredo betrayed him - the music, his overhearing that conversation about his brother knowing Johnny Ola. Michael passes his hand over his eyes and the pain and shock are mesmerizing. A remarkable piece of acting and expressiveness.

The Little Foxes - the very end when Teresa Wright asks her mother Bette Davis if she is afraid

Wolf - Jack Nicholson's character (after being bitten) turns crafty and organizes his plan to start his own agency and poach writers, with Eileen Atkins and David Hyde-Pierce ("you are my GOD") in awe. "Has the worm finally turned?" And Prunella Scales goes with them.

Also in Wolf - the scene between Jack and that Indian writer, who asks if jack will bite him

R172, great scene, one of my favourites too, of a film filled with great scenes

Another vote for R 133's choice - the final scene of LONGTIME COMPANION.

And a 1983 movie titled INDEPENDENCE DAY...not the big war blockbuster....

Supporting player Dianne Wiest plays a battered wife who finally has had enough. She's sitting in her kitchen and has turned on the gas stove without lighting it. The bully husband - Cliff De Young - walks in and says "What the hell are you doing?" And she looks him in the eye and calmly strikes a match....

The Bruce Davison/Mark Lamos scenes in LONGTIME COMPANION blow me away every time

"Ain't you tired? Ain't you tired?"

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I love the scene where the whole family pushes the van and jumps one by one in Little Miss Sunshine,such a great movie...

Also the hospital scene where Marie-Anne kills herself in Devil's Advocate, Charlize was just amazing!

Tuco (the Ugly) running through Sad Hill Cemetery like a rat in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to the score "The Ecstacy of Gold."

Love that Breaking Bad named a character after him.

In "Where The Boys Are," the scene where Connie Francis and Dolores Hart, as two college students on a tight budget during Spring Break, order two cups of hot water at the Elbo Room snack bar.

Last ten minutes of THE ICE STORM kills me everytime.

'Drum Boogie' number from BALL OF FIRE. Damn, Gene Krupa was sexy.

YOUNG ADULT: Charlize Theron goes to see her old flame's wife's band and the band is playing 'their' song.

Opening credits to THE SWINGER.

Boardroom scene from MOMMIE DEAREST will always make me laugh.

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN: Gene Tierney gives her brother-in-law a swimming lesson.

CHILDREN OF MEN: From the moment the baby shows up, I'm a weeping mess.

Ellen Burstyn reading "Good Night Moon" to her dying son (Jay Mohr) in "Playing by Heart."

Pig feets scene from Precious.

Another vote for the last scene of Central Station. It's up there with the moments of Cries and Whispers for me.

Blue Jasmine- at the end when she completely loses it and sits on the bench all wet from a shower.

The elepant love medley from Moulin Rouge

When Jason calls Pamela Landy from the roof in "The Bourne Supremacy."

Cagney going to the electric chair screaming and crying in ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES

Lana Turner going down the long staircase as a former ZIEGFELD GIRL

THE BOYS IN THE BAND dancing to "Heat Wave"

And...(drumroll....) Susan Kohner throwing herself on her mother's casket in IMITATION OF LIFE!!!!!!

The scene in "Godfather II" when young Vito Corleone (DeNiro) follows Don Fanucci across the rooftops during the Festa, on his way to kill him. And when he makes his way back thru the crowd after he's killed him, thru all the celebration. Beautifully filmed.

And for fun, because I just watched it, the scenes and music from Vroman's in "48 Hours"

When Elliot and ET take flight.

Divine walks the dog in "Pink Flamingoes"

"I didn't ask for the anal probe" - Passion Fish

In " Maurice" the young lovers romance is starting to blossom while at a player piano, the orchestra starts to swell and they are sharing an apple.

The scene in "Overboard" when Joanna is being interviewed in a hospital bed and she goes off on the reporter... "Uuuh, what a horrible wig."

The Asteroid scene in "Empire Strikes Back"

Galaxy Quest - when Alexander [Alan Rickman] comforts a dying Thermian, he recites the "By Grabthar's Hammer" phrase that he's always hated.

Rosemary's Baby - Rosemary is sitting in the doctor's office and his secretary casually drops a clue that Saperstein is a witch.

Suspicion - Cary Grant walking up the stairs with a glass of milk.

Notorious - Cary Grant helping Ingrid Bergman down the stairs and Claude Rains following them in a panic.

Another vote for Nicole and Euan singing atop that huge elephant in Moulin Rouge.

Naomi Watts' audition scene in Mulholland Drive.

And a second vote for the final scene in Central Station.

Lastly, I think the escape scene in Room will become famous. It's the best directed scene in a movie in a long time.

Squeal like a pig

Matt Latanzi stripping in RICH AND FAMOUS.

"He is The One" - The Matrix

The reveal scene

I love Katharine Ross in Stepford Wives.

Why no nomination talk at the time?

That was the year they really struggled to find 5 Best Actress candidates and some actresses wanted to eliminate the category as a protest.

I love how Ross says "Oh No!" when she sees the robot.

In "Female Trouble" when Divine holds a press conference to formally charge her neighbors with "Assholism"

The final scene in The Seventh Veil when she runs to James Mason. Gets me every time, although I haven't seen that movie in years.

I love the entire wedding scene that opens THE DEER HUNTER. Especially when that tiny drop of wine falls on the bride's gown.

Also love Slim Pickens in DR. STRANGELOVE describing the contents of the "survival kit."

Love Jason Robards and Barbara Harris riding a bicycle around NYC to "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" in A THOUSAND CLOWNS.

Love Tommy Lee Jones pacing around the hall while Sissy Spacek is singing in public for the first time in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER.

Absolutely love the opening scenes of Woody Allen's MANHATTAN and MIDNIGHT IN PARIS.

Love the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman in THE MASTER singing "Slow Boat to China" to Joaquin Phoenix at the end.

Love the nude wrestling scene in front of the fireplace in WOMEN IN LOVE.

And I love the scene in MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS where the school is giving him his going away party and the doors bang open and Governor Joanna Gleason comes barreling in. Also, in the same film, the earlier scene at the Gershwin talent show where wife Glenne Headley realizes who "Rowena" is...

Love the speech Marie Dressler as Carlotta Banks gives to Lionel Barrymore in DINNER AT EIGHT: "I belong to the Delmonico period..."

Many, many more, but don't want to monopolize the thread...

Love Bridget Fonda as "Kelly Porter" who belts out "My Secret Love" to her gf in GRACE OF MY HEART

Love Ricki Lake and the kids doing the "Madison" in the original HAIRSPRAY

Love the Swedish family dancing through the rooms of their opulent home at Christmas in FANNY AND ALEXANDER

Love James Dean's oil well hitting in GIANT

Love the great Charles Durning as the Louisiana governor prancing delicately onto the stage to join the Soggy Bottom Boys in O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

The pie eating contest in Stand by Me.

The single-take opening of "Touch of Evil"

Andre The Giant's character feeding & dunking Mandy's character in "The Princess Bride."

Also when Andre put his huge hand on Cary's head & spun it back & forth,

Campus Man

Steve Lyon in his jean jacket.

Steve Lyon wrapped in his towel in the locker room.

Steve Lyon in his tight speedos jumping off the diving board.

Whatever happened to his acting career anyway?

Has anyone on here met him?

Paths of Glory: of course the final scene where the soldiers tear up, Kirk Douglas peeks in and says ,"let the men have a little more time."

Five Easy Pieces: family having a cocktail party. A snooty lady starts putting down Karen Black and Nicholson rips her to shreds.

West Side Story final scene. Maria picks up the gun" you killed him. You all killed him. But not with find and knives , but with hate .how many of you can I shoot with this gun and still have one bullet left for me."

[quote] Love Bridget Fonda as "Kelly Porter" who belts out "My Secret Love" to her gf in GRACE OF MY HEART

Titanic, when the grand dome shatters and the First Class hallway, with the fresh paint, flood. The entire world that was built is being washed away, along with the wealthiest man on the ship, next to some 3rd or 2nd class passengers (based on their dress). The entire sinking after Jack and Rose are freed from the locked gate is beautiful. People that shit on Titanic are crazy. What a feat from the late 90s.

Not many directors would have given us that drama from this scene. I LOVED it as a child and even as an adult today!

The cemetery scene in Torch Song Trilogy with Harvey Fierstein and Anne Bancroft arguing and he reveals his boyfriend was murdered.

The long wordless museum scene in Dressed to Kill where Angie Dickinson is being cruised (is it called cruising if they're straight?)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Liz Taylor "I'm loud, and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in this house because somebody's got to. But I am not a monster! I'm not!"

The scene at the end of "The Hours" when Julianne Moore sits down with Meryl Streep and explains to her why she abandoned her son all those years ago. So beautiful, so heartbreaking.

So many! Great topic for a thread, OP. I've been watching La Baie des Anges recently (Bay of Angels, with Jeanne Moreau), and loved the whole movie, so no scene in particular.

I'll try and look for others.

I love that scene in Central Station.

The “Get in my bed” speech that Nicolas Cage gives in Moonstruck- it starts at 2:30 and I don’t think that truer words about love were ever written.

The opening sequence from Vivement Dimanche! with Fanny Ardant (1983).

Rutger Hauer's death scene in BLADE RUNNER. Oh and, same movie, the scene where the little puppet maker man comes back home, which is shot in that fabulous old abandoned L.A. hotel, to all his creations, and he greets them.

Great thread, thanks for bumping.

Omar Sharif's entrance in 'Lawrence of Arabia'. The long shimmering tracking shot as he approaches the well on his camel. He shoots Lawrence's guide. 'This is my well.' 'I have drunk from it.' 'You are welcome.'

m bomer with cig in his mouth in TBITB

Kathleen Turner's entrance in Body Heat, where her character stands and walks toward William Hurt at the outdoor concert. So very sexy . . .

Cher’s scene with Vincent Gardenia in “Moonstruck” when Loretta sits down with Cosmo to announce her wedding plans.

The ending of JoJo Rabbit is a most recent one. I thought it was fucking perfect dancing to Bowie at the end. Incredible

The Monique and MAriah scene in Precious. The movie itself was whatever but that scene deserved her an Oscar. Period. I’ve rewatched it a few times. She is conveying so many emotions, trauma, pity, shame, mental illness, all over the map. And it’s real and it’s raw. You can tell she’s pulling from something very close to home. Mariahs reaction is also real. Could care less if either makes a movie again. It was amazing.

The beginning of Dark Knight bank robbery with the ominous music when Heath reveals himself as joker after the heist. Saw it in Chicago opening night shoulder to shoulder crowd. Distinctively remember feeling a chill and an electric type of energy thru my body.

A random one is Caddy Shack 2. Someone pushes the rich bitch down the golf hill and she yells “you bitch!” And somersault falls down the hill and keeps falling and falling like the scene in Hot Rod with Andy Samberg in the woods if you know what I’m talking about. They definitely stole that scene from caddy shack 2. I would watch it over and over on vhs. Lol

R214 Whoever the OP was made the thread more than six years ago.

The scene that breaks my heart is in "I am Legend" When Robert realizes Samantha his dog is infected and has to kill her.

Marion Cotillard's breakdown - LA VIE EN ROSE. Bette Davis running into the theatre late for Anne Baxter's understudy audition - ALL ABOUT EVE Shirley MacLaine and Kathy Bates confrontation - USED PEOPLE Heath Ledger going into the tent after the relationship has started - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

Great thread--I've been scribbling down names of films I'd forgotten about.

[quote] The Monique and MAriah scene in Precious. The movie itself was whatever but that scene deserved her an Oscar. Period. I’ve rewatched it a few times. She is conveying so many emotions, trauma, pity, shame, mental illness, all over the map. And it’s real and it’s raw. You can tell she’s pulling from something very close to home. Mariahs reaction is also real. Could care less if either makes a movie again. It was amazing.

Yes. Mariah did very little, but the way she watched and reacted was so in the moment and so natural to what she was hearing from Mo’Nique that it made the movie.

So often a character parachuted into the last act to stand in for the audience fails, but in Precious it was a success.

'GOTTA GRAB EM BY THE PUSSY'.....

I wish you posters would also post links to the scenes.

The squirrel scene in Christmas Vacation. Makes me laugh every time I see it- especially when Clark turns around and the squirrel is on his sweater. Gold.

When Celie finds all of her sister's letters that have been hidden from her by her husband in The Color Purple.

When Christy writes his first word in My Left Foot. This is when the father realizes that there’s nothing wrong with the kid’s brain, just his body. Before this he thought Christy was mentally challenged.

This scene makes me tear up.

This from The Sixth Sense. The kid and the mom nailed this scene.

Thanks, R16. for the sobfest I'm going through.

R234 Such a great scene. Toni Collette is perefection.

Here's the final scene with Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep in "The Hours." It's like a gut punch.

"No one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life."

"Elevator to the Gallows" - I love this scene with Jeanne Moreau wandering the streets of Paris, waiting for her lover who will never arrive, as Miles Davis' music plays in the background.

Wow R35, I've never heard of that movie before, but what a beautiful scene! Will have to watch it. For me:

The final scene in "Picnic at Hanging Rock" where the distressed gardener bursts into the office, gasping: "Sarah!" and Rachel Roberts, all dressed up to leave the school, just turns to look at him. Chilling.

The scene of Tippi Hedren sitting outside the schoolhouse in "The Birds".

The scene in "The Hours" where Ed Harris is sitting on the window sill and Meryl Streep realises what he is about to do.

The end of "Lore" where the grandmother tells off the young boy for bad table manners, and the oldest sister angrily spills her milk on the table on purpose and then laps it up out of her hands, before retiring to the bedroom to smash her mother's porcelain figurines.

The double murder of the lesbian couple in "Tenebre". Manages to be both beautifully shot and still with that kinda cheesy, Eurohorror vibe - but in a good way.

The Verdict. Paul Newman walks into a bar and decks Charlotte Rampling after finding out how she betrayed him. Bitch got off easy.

R240 That was a great scene!

I saw Let the Right One In for the first time a week ago, and I think the swimming pool scene at the end is great. I could guess how it was going to pan out, but still thought it was so well done.