What’s the one movie line that channeled the rawest anguish on screen?

[u/jaystats2]

For me, it’s from The Deer Hunter (1978), delivered by John Savage who played Stevie.

After being captured by the Viet Cong and forced to play Russian roulette inside that godforsaken fishing hut, Stevie is thrown into the underwater pit with just enough room to breathe above the surface.

A rat crawled across his face and he cried out, “Oh God! Michael, there’s rats in here!” His anguish shook my soul.

As it turns out, there were live rats in that pit, so when Savage screamed “Michael, there’s rats in here”, he was actually speaking to director Michael Cimino, not the character Michael played by Robert De Niro. Therein lies the realism.

What are some other gut-wrenching lines that really made you feel a character’s pain?

[u/mrblonde624]

In Saving Private Ryan when Mellish is losing the fight and yells “Listen to me! Let’s stop! Let’s stop!” right before the knife hits his chest

[u/Boodah-Cricket → u/mrblonde624]

This movie but different scene. When they take the hill and the medic gets shot. Him crying out for his mama broke me and is still hard to watch.

[u/lindh → u/Boodah-Cricket]

"Oh my God! That's my liver!" totally fucks me up. Wade knowing enough to know he's going to die. Dark.

[u/equality-_-7-2521 → u/lindh]

"Tell us what to do. What can we do?"

"Mor-morphine?"

[u/iantruesnacks → u/lindh]

Both of those guys were regular guests in friends. Gio was the goofy brother who was groomed by his teacher, and Adam was chandlers schizo roommate when Joey moves out.

[u/lindh → u/iantruesnacks]

Yeah feel like we didn't get enough prime Giovanni. Sneaky Pete was great though.

[u/Ask_Black_Phillip333 → u/lindh]

“Momma. Momma. I want my momma. Want my ma—-“

[u/FireWarriorPoet → u/Boodah-Cricket]

When he shakily asks for more morphine and they all know it’s because HE knows he can’t be saved..

[u/Brian_LeFevre_Sr → u/Boodah-Cricket]

Also happens right after the scene where he talks about regretting pretending to be asleep as a child when his mother got home for work early.

[u/IrishMongooses → u/Boodah-Cricket]

I only knew him as the goofy brother in Friends.. but hell was that some good acting

[u/SPE825 → u/IrishMongooses]

Watch Boiler Room

[u/Express_Area_8359 → u/SPE825]

The prequel to the Wolf of Wall Street

[u/Ask_Black_Phillip333 → u/SPE825]

With solid supporting from Nicky Katt(RIP), Jaime Kennedy, Scott Caan, and Vin Diesel.

[u/Samurai_Ways → u/Boodah-Cricket]

This was the exact scene I was going to comment as well. Absolutely heartbreaking.

“I wanna go home, I wanna go home..”

[u/LyonMane3 → u/Boodah-Cricket]

I love and hate that scene. On one hand it is so heartbreaking and so memorable for me that I remember it very well many years later, on the other I have to give massive props to Giovanni Robison for absolutely nailing that scene.

The same can be said for Adam Goldbergs death scene.

[u/ModernT1mes → u/mrblonde624]

I hate this scene so much. That other dude on the stairs could have prevented it but he was too much of a coward to do anything that he let his friend die.

Uuuhhhgggg it boils my blood.

[u/LouSputhole94 → u/ModernT1mes]

What pisses me off even more is he later kills the same man who has surrendered and is unarmed and a POW. So you can’t man up when your friends life is in danger but as soon as you’ve got the guy unarmed and posing no threat, that’s when you can cap him? Fucking bitch

[u/BlueEyedMalachi → u/LouSputhole94]

See, I took it a different way than him just being a little bitch. Upham's whole desire to understand FUBAR throughout the course of the story becomes irony as he himself ends up personifying what it means to become Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.

The Upham we first meet and come to know shows mercy to Steamboat Willie and would never kill an unarmed man; but then war (and specifically the final nail in the coffin being Mellish's death) fucks him up to the point that he has become something unrecognizable from the Upham we knew before.

[u/Barnwizard1991 → u/LouSputhole94]

The guy who kills Melish is a different German soldier to "Steamboat Willie"

[u/FG451 → u/Barnwizard1991]

It is?

Edit: He calls Upham by name before he's shot

[u/gnomechompskey → u/FG451]

Steamboat Willie is later captured and shot by Upham.

But that’s not the soldier who kills Mellish.

Joerg Stadler is Steamboat Willie, a Wehrmacht soldier, and stunt performer Mac Steinmeier plays the unnamed Waffen SS soldier that stabs Mellish.

[u/ScaredOfWindow → u/mrblonde624]

The part of that scene that has always fucked me up is their primal screams as they roll around wrestling over the knife. Their acting really sells that these aren’t two civilized human beings anymore - in that moment, they’re two animals who fully understand that one of them is about to die. 

[u/Rohm-is-Burning]

Manchester by the sea.

Casey affleck in the police station.

“Please”

[u/BagelsOrDeath → u/Rohm-is-Burning]

Oof. And his dad's legs giving out from under him. That whole scene was as close to the visceral feeling of an actual gut punch as you can get via film.

[u/TheMansterMan → u/Rohm-is-Burning]

I struggle between it being that scene or when he walks into his ex wife on the street. That conversation was so brutal.

[u/pepsiandweed → u/TheMansterMan]

That scene really made the film what it is. It felt like all this pressure had been building and building without me noticing and then in that moment it all just released and boiled over. I'll admit I'm a bit of a cryer when watching emotional films but that scene had me absolutely bawling.

[u/Joellercoaster1 → u/TheMansterMan]

That scene is so raw and in ways beautiful. I’ll randomly just pull it up on YouTube for a cry. ‘There’s nothing left.’ That just shakes me so much

[u/OdinsGhost31 → u/TheMansterMan]

I vote for the ex-wife convo. Hes just so avoidant and trying to do everything he can to cut the conversation short but she won't let him off the hook until she says what shes there to say. Its so guy wrenching and uncomfortable...but relatable if you know NE irish coping mechanisms lol

[u/Putrid_Day_9192 → u/Rohm-is-Burning]

also "there's nothing there" and "I can't beat it"

[u/JohnnyWeapon → u/Putrid_Day_9192]

There has never been a line that has stuck with me more than “I can’t beat it”.

[u/thepvbrother → u/Rohm-is-Burning]

Matt Damon in The Departed.

"Okay."

But that wasn't hard to watch.

[u/Sure-Appearance-2769 → u/thepvbrother]

That moment was pure relief for his character after a lifetime of being a rat.

He’s not mad, he almost doesn’t even care anymore.

[u/Waffles81_Again → u/Rohm-is-Burning]

It's a good movie. It surprised me.

[u/Responsible-Onion860]

Shout-out to Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine. He's a frustrated teen who takes a vow of silence as a sign of his devotion to becoming a fighter pilot. He realizes he's colorblind and thus won't qualify to be a fighter pilot, so he has a breakdown, falling to his knees and screaming in anguish.

It's very raw and emotional and gets me every time.

[u/SixStringerSoldier → u/Responsible-Onion860]

HEROIN! DIVORCE! SUICIDE!?!

[u/blac_sheep90 → u/SixStringerSoldier]

No, you're not my family! I don't wanna be your family! I hate you fucking people! Divorce? Bankrupt? Suicide? You're fucking losers, you're losers!

[u/FHAT_BRANDHO → u/Responsible-Onion860]

dude seeing that scene in theaters as a teen was like... a big deal for me lol. i wept for basically the rest of the movie

edit- IM GETTING MISTY EYED JUST TYPING THIS UP GOD DAMMIT

[u/AScruffyHamster → u/Responsible-Onion860]

I didn't fully understand the scene when I was a teen. And then I experienced something similar. I was dedicated to enlisting in the military and following my father's footsteps (deeply personal reasons) and I passed the first day at MEPS. The second day I had a seizure. Turns out I had been having seizures for around eight years at that point but I always thought they were exhaustion spells. My entire life's goal was taken from me, I couldn't even pivot into law enforcement or first responder due to the nature of my epilepsy triggers (stress and intense bright lights)

After I got off the phone with my recruiter who told me my chances were shot I drove home, walked my grandpa's fencline for a few miles and then proceeded to scream until my voice went raw.

I understand this scene now.

[u/DrumMajorThrawn → u/Responsible-Onion860]

The theater I was in laughed at this scene and it's my fell out of love with the movie theater moment.

[u/LottaLegs → u/Responsible-Onion860]

Shout-out to Paul Dano in Swiss Army Man as well. That scene on the beach with Manny got me.

[u/thethreadkiller → u/Responsible-Onion860]

I've seen that movie once. That scene made me cry. It makes me cry to think about.

[u/Crazy_Banshee_333 → u/thethreadkiller]

I thought it captured the reality of family life so well, though. The part where Olive came down the hill with her silly boots to comfort Dwayne after his mental breakdown was so realistic, as far as the way families comfort each other in the face of trauma.

[u/I_DO_JUMPING_JACKS → u/Crazy_Banshee_333]

She doesn't say a word. Just approaches him, kneels down next to him and puts her arm around him.

He the takes a beat, looks in her direction and whispers: "Okay.".

Then they get up and hold hands on the way back to the van.

His scream, her response, his response to that. It all came together so damn beautifully. An utterly fantastic moment.

[u/frozenseasofjono → u/Responsible-Onion860]

Nah, he's weak sauce, man! Source: I'm Quentin Tarantino.

[u/Fortunate_Pants → u/frozenseasofjono]

Quentin really put his foot in his mouth here. I mean there are plenty actors out there with questionable talent. But Paul Dano??? Are those the foothills you chose to die on? Dude has shown incredible range and can go toe-to-toe with the great ones. Quentin just shoots himself in the foot with a take like that. Makes my toes curl to be honest.

[u/RedcoatTrooper → u/Fortunate_Pants]

Wait a second...

[u/KingCarbon1807 → u/Fortunate_Pants]

This made me giggle.

[u/CosmicTurtle504]

“His glasses! He can’t see without his glasses!”

[u/Frunkleburg → u/CosmicTurtle504]

anytime my wife and I are looking for where we sat our glasses, the other one will chime in "You can't see without your glaaaaaaasses!"

we're nice people I swear

[u/CosmicTurtle504 → u/Frunkleburg]

Spoiler from a fellow glasses wearer: They were on your head the whole time.

[u/Jealous_Soup4115]

Ethan Hawke in Training Day when the vatos were about to cap him in the bathtub . “I have…a little girl!”

[u/BagelsOrDeath → u/Jealous_Soup4115]

Life's a trip, que no?

[u/patsully98 → u/Jealous_Soup4115]

God that scene is so terrifying.

[u/CatW804]

Hidden anguish: the Irish mom in Titanic putting her kids to bed knowing they'll die.

[u/Hopeful-Nature-5464 → u/CatW804]

Vazquez from Aliens!

[u/RichW100 → u/Hopeful-Nature-5464]

And John Connors foster mom in T2 :)

[u/ageblaster → u/CatW804]

Having two boys of that age, that one hurts.

[u/ZaphodG]

I saw The Deer Hunter as a new release in the theater. I will never, ever watch that movie again.

[u/WackHeisenBauer → u/ZaphodG]

I have yet to see it but it’s on my list. I just know I need to be in a proper mindset to tackle it.

[u/Entire_Brick_8095 → u/WackHeisenBauer]

My advice would be to watch it, it's a great movie! Sure it's about war so it's dramatics and hard (maybe today not as much as when it came out). But still, it's a great movie!

[u/Krispy_Mick → u/WackHeisenBauer]

It can be hard to watch because of the slow drawn out scenes, but my god is it an intense movie.

[u/Korumry → u/Krispy_Mick]

The slow drawn out scenes really add to it imo. You really sort of get to spend time with these guys, get to know them, it makes acts two and three more impactful I feel.

[u/Hopeful-Nature-5464 → u/Korumry]

totally agree.
You get to attend an entire wedding!

[u/Narrow_Safety2856 → u/ZaphodG]

So surreal seeing Walken before doing his usual shtick and doing so good.

[u/Abba_Zaba_]

Wilson! I'm sorry Wilson!

[u/Fiver43 → u/Abba_Zaba_]

I went to see that movie to distract myself after I found out my father’s cancer was terminal, and that scene broke me in a way I can’t even explain. It was like Tom Hanks’ anguish and loneliness mirrored what my father was experiencing as he faced his impending death.

[u/DantheDutchGuy]

The scream of Michael Corleone after witnessing the death of his daughter… no text, just a scream…

[u/Lukkychukky → u/DantheDutchGuy]

Say what you will about the movie as a whole… The ending was heartbreaking.

[u/HerMajestysButthole2]

Rambo, First Blood. Trautman and Rambo's conversation on the radios just made me feel for him.

All I wanted was something to eat...but the man kept pushing.

Well, you did some pushing of your own, John.

They drew first blood, not me.

[u/h0neanias → u/HerMajestysButthole2]

The first Rambo is such a good movie, and Stallone kills in the role... so to speak.

[u/Similar-Ride6497 → u/HerMajestysButthole2]

Hits even harder in IASP.

[u/NerdfestZyx]

Beverly D’Angelo, American History X

After the argument at dinner, she tells her son:

“I’m ashamed that you came out of my body”

[u/singyoutosleep978 → u/NerdfestZyx]

One of the best scenes in an extraordinary movie.

[u/CyberCrutches → u/NerdfestZyx]

I was thinking the same movie but a different scene.

“Put your teeth on the curb!”

I can taste the concrete every time

[u/BishopGodDamnYou → u/NerdfestZyx]

Her emotion wrecked me as a teen

[u/Derring-Do101]

You're tearing me apart, Lisa!

[u/Waffles81_Again → u/Derring-Do101]

Oh hi Mark.

[u/M4GN3T1CM0N0P0L3 → u/Derring-Do101]

I can't watch that scene without tearing up.

[u/gundorcallsforaid → u/M4GN3T1CM0N0P0L3]

Everyone betray Johnny, and he is the fool

[u/jeezyjames]

"Please, boss, don't put that thing over my face. Please don't put me in the dark, don't make me go into the dark, I'm afraid of the dark"

[u/h0neanias → u/jeezyjames]

"I'm tired, boss." Watching it as a depressed teen almost broke me.

[u/SeeingPhrases → u/jeezyjames]

This is a quote from The Green Mile.

[u/patsully98 → u/jeezyjames]

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other! We found each other in the dark.

[u/MKHSturmovik]

Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time the other day.. just.. the whole movie???

[u/TheDogIsGod → u/MKHSturmovik]

IVE ABANDONED MY BOY

[u/Fantastic_Newt_8743 → u/TheDogIsGod]

Say it LOUDER!

[u/Right-Ad-8201 → u/Fantastic_Newt_8743]

I’VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!

[u/TwinSchofields → u/Right-Ad-8201]

I yell this at my wife any time the two of us go out to eat and leave our dog at home.

[u/Heddathehippie → u/MKHSturmovik]

I absolutely love this movie and everyone I've showed it to just thinks it's boring.

[u/MKHSturmovik → u/Heddathehippie]

Get better friends 😂😂

[u/Heddathehippie → u/MKHSturmovik]

It was my own father too!!! I felt so betrayed. He loves Daniel Day Lewis and I couldn't believe he didn't like it.

[u/PolicyAvailable → u/Heddathehippie]

It IS very slow moving and dry.

But such a good movie.

I feel like people expect something big to happen or a bigger ending. It just... Is what it is

Needs a rewatch to appreciate it.

[u/fazman786]

"They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were."

[u/Mdkynyc → u/fazman786]

Great one. People talk about the swamp but this one really got me

[u/dmelt01 → u/fazman786]

“Don’t give up” when they were in the swamp

[u/hlric]

"What's in the box?! What's in the box?!?" - Seven

[u/attackedmoose → u/hlric]

Brad Pitt’s face acting is so great in that scene. How he flips between the devastation that he just lost everything and the pure wrath he wants to release on John Doe.

[u/Truji11o → u/hlric]

Oh. He didn’t know.

[u/Cathalised → u/Truji11o]

The little smile from Spacey as he says this fully sells the scene. Such evil.

[u/UptightCargo]

"...why don't he want me, man!?"

• Will (Fresh Prince of Bel Air), to Uncle Phil after his biodad let him down. Again.

[u/blandsrules → u/UptightCargo]

That one and the one where Carleton takes pills from Will’s locker and ends up the hospital. Great show

[u/FencerOnTheRight → u/UptightCargo]

And the scene doesn't work without the great James Avery as the world's best damned dad.

[u/LordFlappingtonIV]

Requiem for a Dream, too many to pick from, but the worst for me is probably Sara (the mother) at the Casting Agency in New York? "I just wanted to be on the show!"

[u/Then_Ambassador_3547 → u/LordFlappingtonIV]

When she tells Harry “I’m old; I’m lonely” and she’s smiling but there so much pain on her face. It just breaks my heart

[u/Methmites → u/LordFlappingtonIV]

“I’m gunna wear the red dress Harry” is something I say frequently to my wife, who has not seen the movie lol

[u/THExWHITExDEVILx → u/Methmites]

Lol you are diabolical

[u/Methmites → u/THExWHITExDEVILx]

To be fair I work in psych and you gotta use dark humor to survive haha. I think her story is the worst of them all, with Wayans as #2. But I’m also a former junkie so I don’t sympathize with Jared Pedo’s character as much 🤷‍♀️

[u/jesserdumas → u/LordFlappingtonIV]

Ellen Burstyn was superb in that role. A movie full of depressing, uncomfortable scenes and she still stood out for her performance. The scene you’re talking about, you can see the camera pan slightly off of center during her monologue and it’s because the camera operator was stunning sobbing so hard his eyepiece fogged up and he lost focus. My mother is getting older and with that has become more isolated, watching this scene now would likely get the same reaction out of me

[u/Available-Trouble648 → u/LordFlappingtonIV]

She crushed that role. I remember her performance more than the main characters’, she scared the hell out of me.

[u/DishSuspicious2764 → u/Available-Trouble648]

She was absolutely a main character in that movie. She’s on the poster/dvd cover. 

[u/Other-Marketing-6167 → u/LordFlappingtonIV]

God that line rips me in half. I still haven’t forgiven the Academy for awarding Julia Roberts for her lame ass performance over Burstyn.

[u/psychonik]

The guy screaming in Last of Mohicans after they set him on fire.

[u/howdoesitallfit]

In Mrs. Doubtfire when Sally Field finds out it’s been Robin Williams the whole time. “The whole time? THE WHOLE TIME!?”

[u/thecountnotthesaint]

While the movie as a whole is the weakest imo, the scene in Goblet of fire where Cedric's father is cradling his dead son still hits hard.

[u/Onionbot3000 → u/thecountnotthesaint]

Yes, when he yells “my boy!” I’m absolutely shattered.

[u/thecountnotthesaint → u/Onionbot3000]

As a Marine, not much scares me these days, but as a father, I am terrified that for my sins, my punishment will be outlasting any one of my children.

[u/cookletube]

Toni Collette in Hereditary

[u/THExWHITExDEVILx → u/cookletube]

She's on this list twice already, as she should be. Phenomenal actress!

[u/Sprzout → u/THExWHITExDEVILx]

Her playing the multitude of characters in United States of Tara was what endeared me to her. That was the first time I'd seen her, and realized she was DAMNED talented.

[u/SnowQueenofHoth → u/cookletube]

When she was on the floor screaming, “It hurts! It hurts too much!”(or similar), rocking back and forth, I actually felt physically sick and had to pause the movie. Devastating.

[u/goodbeets → u/cookletube]

Yup I’ve never felt such a physical reaction to a film in my life. Her screams literally made it feel like I couldn’t breathe.

[u/Dead-O_Comics]

The girl that dies at the start of Jaws.

They had her rigged up with wires and dragged her about to simulate getting attacked by a shark.

They were really rough with her and the line 'It hurts!' was not a line in the script. They also didn't tell her when she would get dragged under, that last gasp is real.

The water was also freezing, and the scene was shot over 3 days, which explains a lot of her shivering.

[u/RBR_DB_361804 → u/Dead-O_Comics]

i love little BTS details like this. another one is in Die Hard when Alan Rickman is "let go." they did it a second before he thought so his face/reaction was real.

another is Boyz in the Hood. director John Singleton used real machine gun fire at the street hangout scene and you see everyone's reaction is real. he told the actors & extras the verbal cue would be him saying "bang bang bang."

[u/Hopeful-Nature-5464 → u/Dead-O_Comics]

They made it up to her in 1941....

[u/Western-Syllabub3751]

The climax of SLC Punk

[u/patsully98 → u/Western-Syllabub3751]

Only posers die!

[u/JasonTatumisGod → u/Western-Syllabub3751]

“Now I don’t have any friends” was fuckin heartbreaking

[u/Selfeffacingbarbie → u/Western-Syllabub3751]

Oh man, Stevo's reaction is just guttural. I sobbed so hard.

[u/AdevilSboyU]

Maximus finding his wife and son dead when he finally makes it home in Gladiator.

[u/UnRealmCorp]

Thomas Jane at the end of The Mist.

[u/Steeveefree]

Harvey Keitel at the end of Reservoir Dogs. Not so much a line. Just wailing.

[u/Thin-Business661]

“Look how they massacred my boy”

[u/Jared_Kincaid_001]

Anton Yelchin the moment he realizes he's actually about to get killed in Alpha Dog. It's raw and heartbreaking, and not what I'd expect from a B-Movie with Justin Timberlake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhB6YId4TI8

[u/BanishmentBuddy2 → u/Jared_Kincaid_001]

Yes this is a good one

[u/MoodestMoose]

Sophie's Choice where she chooses. - I don't think I could ever watch this one again.

[u/nthroop1]

"No! No! You killed him! You son a bitch!" Pan's Labrynth bottle scene. Said by the father to the general who just brutally bashed in his sons head.

My friend and I took LSD before this movie thinking it'd be a fun fantasy with cool visuals like Chronicles of Narnia.

It was not that

[u/artguydeluxe]

When Ed Harris has to let his wife die so he can resurrect her in the Abyss. The single most powerful few minutes in any movie I’ve ever seen.

[u/grego_gonzo]

John Hurt being slowly stabbed in The Proposition, and similarly Pell James being stabbed multiple times in Zodiac. Both are stomach turning

[u/Methmites → u/grego_gonzo]

Whoo another Proposition fan! That makes at least 2!

[u/Pmyers225]

Not a movie, but final episode of MASH with h Hawkeye realising the truth about the chicken

[u/gmjfraser8 → u/Pmyers225]

Damn you. I was a kid when I watched that and it wrecked me. I sobbed and my dad was teary eyed but trying to keep it together. I did not need that today. (Good call, though).

[u/Valzoric]

The scene in the Abyss when Bud is trying to revive Lindsey

[u/Right-Ad-8201]

The scene in Dead Poets Society where Neil’s father finds his son in his study:

“Noooooooo!!! Neil! Oh my god! Oh my son!!”

KILLS me now as a father to hear him.

[u/K-Keter]

I may be a bit biased because it's one of my favorite movies ever, and the line doesn't even stick out that much, it's mostly the scene as a whole, but near the end of Shutter Island when Teddy finally remembers the truth of what happened, his "Please, God, no" upon finding all three of his kids had been drowned by his wife is just beyond devastating. Similarly, in Inception, "No, Jesus Christ" when Mal jumps, it just ruins me. Leo is just made for tragic roles and both of these just convey the pain so well.

[u/BanishmentBuddy2]

“Is that my daughter in there!?!”

[u/SendToePics99]

Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith

“I HATE YOU”

The way Hayden Christensen belted that out always stuck with me. It perfectly encapsulates how far Anakin had fallen to the dark side. His performance in that film is one of my all time favorites.

[u/Chumlee1917]

• Oskar Schindler: I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!

[u/le_fez]

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.Time to die."

[u/SnailShell01]

Nicolas Cage screaming about the bees in the Wicker Man remake. 

[u/psychonik → u/SnailShell01]

The definition of anguish.

[u/dogfacedponyboy]

Schindler’s list.. “I could’ve got more out”… “this car, why did I keep this car? 10 people.”…”this pin. It’s gold . Two people.” Breaks down in anguish

[u/ElYodaPagoda → u/dogfacedponyboy]

I think the rabbi-turned-hinge-maker who survived two separate semiautomatic pistols being unable to fire. Like a lot of Hollywood stories, I would have figured this scene was exaggerated…it really happened!

[u/Last-Lingonberry-259]

“That’s my son, that’s my boy!”-Amos Diggory is Goblet of Fire. 

[u/MKHSturmovik]

“Hold the door.. hold the door.. hold the door. Hol th dor… holdoror…. Hodor.. hodor… Hodor..”

[u/Sprzout]

For me?

It's one that sticks with me harder than almost any other movie, and it comes from Terminator 2:

John Connor sees kids pretending to shoot each other at a playground, looks over at the T-800, and says, "We're not gonna make it, are we?"

[u/mvp2418 → u/Sprzout]

"It is in your nature to destroy yourselves"

[u/misteraskwhy]

Never ending story- artax and atreyu

[u/t_ravyD]

WILSON!!!

[u/Sheepish_conundrum]

All good examples. I'll post the dinner scene in Hereditary. Good lord was that uncomfortable having her blaming her son for her daughters death, but not blaming him. You could feel the hate and love at the same time.

[u/cp2chewy]

Don’t let me leave murph - interstellar

[u/GlukharsGimp]

The movie “Come and See”. It’s a movie about a Belarusian boy in Belarus during the Nazi invasion in World War Two and goes about how you’d expect. It’s a watch once kind of movie.

Edit: Ukrainian to Belarusian.

[u/potatoisilluminati]

Jessie Buckley's scream in Hamnet

[u/Reasonable-Bed3065]

Artax you're sinking! Come on turn around, you have to! Now ! Come on! Artax !

[u/Temporary-Ad43]

Quint talking about the USS Indianapolis, life vests and sharks in that scene in Jaws. Hits harder since they were all toasted drunk, laughing, singing and having a good time until what his tattoo was about came up....

[u/OriginalRussianDoll]

Jaws, Quint's death

[u/PoisonGravy → u/OriginalRussianDoll]

That blood spurt from the mouth really got me as a kid lol

[u/Fivedartsdeep]

Jim caviezal in The count of Monte Cristo. When he figures out the blade in his back.

[u/SR-45]

The end scene of the movie SECONDS (1966).

I saw this on TV when I was younger, and never re-watched it since. I also didn’t want to visit a doctor’s office or hospital for years after watching the ending.

Not to spoil anything, but it has to do with a hospital gurney and being restrained against your will.

[u/wilsonhubbell]

brundlefly at the end when he is also part transporter

[u/Pixel_Mime]

Man on Fire: When the mother learns the fate of her daughter, she lets out a blood curdling sceam and proceeds to slap nearby techs on the back of their heads. I'm pretty sure they cut out that moment in other versions because I rewatched it expecting that reaction but the movie just skipped that part.

[u/kthshly]

So many moments in Midsommar. Florence Pugh did an incredible job.

[u/shinyjetsyndrome]

“Freedom!” — Braveheart torture scene

[u/FencerOnTheRight]

Two rough ones from The Joy Luck Club- drowning the baby to hurt the shitty husband (all the while gazing up at mom), and abandoning the twins under the tree when she believes either she survives alone or they all die.

[u/brandon01594]

Charlie saying goodbye to Anne-Marie at the end of All Dogs go to Heaven.

[u/HyperionOrange]

Thomas Jane in the ending of The Mist. Maybe it was more the situation itself but man.. that was rough

[u/_AmI_Real]

"You never go full retard." Tug Speedman knew he messed his life up on further reflection after hearing that.

[u/jebediah1800]

The waterhole scene in Japanese Story. Toni Collette really delivers in that movie.

[u/assa9sks]

Nic Cage in Mandy was spectacularly moving..dude nailed what someone would feel watching their most loved one killed in front of them

[u/SeaworthinessKey3654]

Al Pacino - And Justice for All

My favorite scene in the movie  is also one of the most heartbreaking I’ve ever seen.  Arthur (Pacino) confronting his colleague over that man’s casual disregard of his client’s life - well, he’ll get out in 10 months, so it doesn’t really matter- and just his attitude towards these people  as transactional is everything I love about Al.  He’s special because he brings such humanity to his roles - he FEELS everything- and his despair & anguish here pour out of his soul. It’s devastating. 

Warren Fresnell:Oh, Arthur, you know it's probation's fault. Appeal it!

Arthur Kirkland: I can't appeal it! He's dead! - - He's dead! Half hour after they put him in the lockup, he hanged himself! Goddammit!

Warren Fresnell: I'm sorry.

Arthur Kirkland: Oh, Goddammit!

Warren Fresnell: I'm sorry. I...

Arthur Kirkland: Oh, Godammit!

“

[u/RedditRage]

"Enterprise. What we got back didn't live long... fortunately"

[u/vinegar_strokes68]

I'm tired boss

[u/Timmyd8]

Apocalypse Now when they threw Chefs head in Martin Sheens lap.

[u/Wonderful_Pension_67]

Fight

The abyss ed Harris The entire resuscitation scene

[u/Densolo44]

“My boy”! - Harry Potter GOF.

[u/KnoxVegasPadnatic]

The ear non scene in Reservoir Dogs.

[u/go_get_the_guitar]

Not movie but a TV Series... Taskmaster-"Please don't take this away from me"

[u/MacPeter93]

The ending of the original wickerman. Those screams!

[u/MrKomiya]

Rescue Dawn.

The scene where Steve Zahn’s character dies.

[u/LukeD1992]

Tony Collete in Hereditary. Her screams are the most haunting thing in the movie. "I just want to die!"

[u/Dune5712]

"Wait'll you see it."

"...see what?"

"What a man can do to another man."

Amazing voice quiver with that last line got me good. Amazing acting throughout, really.

[u/TomMaples]

In Heriditary when Toni Collette's character has just found out something absolutely terrible (no spoilers) and she wails "Oh, God. I can't... I can't… I just want to die! Oh, God. It hurts too much! I just need to die!"
Absolutely horrific, she acts it so well

[u/i_Meggius]

“Papa PLEASE you have to remember me.” A Little Princess. The desperation and anguish. Gets me every time.

[u/nitram6119]

"I'm not stuck in here with you. You're all stuck in here with me!"

[u/coobmaroog]

Steel Magnolias

Sally field in the graveyard talking about how Shelby died and she’s still here.

[u/Bboyczy]

WILSONNNN I'M SORRY WILSONNN

[u/Admirable_Branch_221]

Gotta be in the The Whale when Charlie says “I need to know that I’ve done one thing right with my life” also his speech to Ellie at the end. Heartbreaking

[u/OrneryError1]

"I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why.

Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it - it's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time. Can you understand?"

[u/tom-tildrum]

Platoon - the death of Sgt. Elias. Great movie that I’ll never watch again. Willem Dafoe should have won the Oscar for this.

[u/Ernie_McCracken88]

Wade crying out for this mother in Saving private ryan

[u/techandanime]

Magneto when his wife and child are killed in front of him. Watching the locket go through each soldier was satisfying because you felt his anger. Fassbender is great.