Last hour of Return of the King, end of Braveheart, end of The Last Samurai.

And a number of parts in The Green Mile, but specifically the "final scene" with Michael Jeter's character.

I agree with just about all the ones you guys picked, but lets not forget "The Shawshank Redemption"

Fight Club

Oh yeah, and Trainspotting, when the baby dies.

When Bubba dies on Forrest Gump.

It made wet stuff come out of my eyes.

This thread gave me goosebumps, is that normal?

So many good movies and great moments mentioned already...

City of God - forcing a child to murder another child in cold blood. That bit was just... brutal.

The Pianist - when the Germans pushed an eldery man in a wheelchair out of a second story window because he could not stand and salute the German soilders. Actually that whole movie was just one giant lump in my throat.

As many have said the end of ROTK...

Also: The end of the last Samurai when the chainguns tear apart the remaining Samurai and when Katsmuto dies honorably.

The last battle scene in The Patriot.

Am I the only one who found RotK not in the least inspiring or powerful, but actually kind of boring?

Battle Royale: Antagonist girl gets ambushed by the psycho who volunteered and is shot after a brief struggle. Keeps getting up and knocked down by each consecutive gunshot until she just collapses. *Cue J.S. Bach - Air on the G string*
Epitaph: "I Just didn't want to be a loser anymore". Girl #11 Mitsuko - Dead. 7 to go.

Gattaca: The very end. Cutting between the engines igniting as Vincent takes off into space, and Jerome puts on his second-place swimming medal as he climbs into the incinerator. "For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving... maybe I'm going home."

12 Monkeys: Cole is in the car and just breaks into tears upon hearing "Blueberry Hill" played on the radio as he tries to sing along. Either that, or the end.

Magnolia: The whole last hour.

Ran: (quoted from an imdb user comment) "There is one scene that struck me as remarkable, and then for the rest of the film I couldn't take my eyes off of Nakadai whenever he was on screen... It involves the first battle sequence, in which one of his son's comes to take over a castle, and killing all of Hidetora's men. Look at Nakadai in the scene where he's sitting down stone-faced amid the chaos going on outside, and then as he somehow manages to walk out, the fellow soldiers making way for him. He then sees one of his sons, the betrayer, and he doesn't say a word- he's already decided that his son Taro has gone too far with his position, as he rules over his domain and scares the peasants right out of the picture- and he simply walks away, as his family continues to crumble under corruption of the mind and heart."

Leon - The Professional: "This is... from Mathilda" *gives grenade pin to Stansfeld*

Hana-Bi: Hard to name any specific scenes. But there are many melancholic scenes related to the central shoot-out, its aftermath, and the inevitability of his wife's condition.

Some other good ones have been mentioned, like the Seven Samurai, the Shawshank Redemption (especially once the old Librarian gets paroled) or Requiem for a Dream.

Saving Private Ryan...

1. Where that guy was slowly stabbed in the heart by the Nazi.

2. Also where another guy, after getting badly wounded (cant remember the darn names) was mumbling mom...mom...mom...then he dies.

3. Where the Nazi sniper was aiming at a wounded solider, and the American sniper shot him right before the other sniper pulled the trigger.

I think the only movie to have had an emotional moment in movies was Les Miserables with Liam Neeson. Sure there's the caught up in the moment "oh my god" war scenes that do it to everyone, but in Les Mis, I was actually just struck by how the character of ValJean did a complete 180 and turned from being a loathsome criminal into a forgiving, self-sacrificing man.

It's when he says "I dont hate you. I just want to live in peace." that gets me, and ultimately, leads to Javert's death.

Thought of some more:
Hero and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon pretty much all the way.
Hana-Bi, Sonatine and Brother pretty much all the way.
The end of Samurai Fiction when Kazamatsuri dies.
Some parts in Zatoichi
Some moments in American Beauty that were awesome.
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and "Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny" (nuff said)
Ending of FotR

A lot of the ones already mentioned so I won't go into detail.

End of Braveheart (I think this might have been the first time I totally broke down and cried from a movie), End of RotK (particularily when Sam carries Frodo), most of the Passion of the Christ

Gladiator: When Maximus finally makes it home only to discover that he is too late and his wife and son have been murdered.

Edit: Nice I misspelled the spoiler tag.

I loved that film sooooo much. It really moved me.

I'm a sentimental loser, redemption scenes or father son stuff makes me tear up.

Finding Nemo made me cry when Nemo reunited with his father.

I think I teared up at the end of Hero at the sacrifice that was made, propaganda or not.

As a kid, I found the part where Goofy and Max made up in the Goofy Movie to be moving.

I know, I'm pathetic.

The only movie that ever made me cry was "White Fang" when the kid is making White Fang go away, and that moment when he picks up a large stick, reminding White Fang of his old "masters" who used to prod and beat him with the stick, so White Fang runs away. I was about 6.

Vanishing Point. The very end.
When he crashes, it just opens many questions of why... after everything he's been through I was literally shocked the first time I saw the film. It seems to be such an anticlimax but when you watch the film again you realise that he never intended to complete his goal which is why he set such an impossible target in the first place. At least thats the way I interpreted it. There are so many ways to interpret all the different themes running through that film. The first scene also throws you off (since its also the last scene but he doest crash.) The whole film is i guess is meant to ask "what if" "what if he had just pulled over when the first cop asked him to" "what if he saw the bulldozers?" "What if he hadnt taken the drugs, maybe he'd have seen the bulldozers."

Eurgh i really didn't like that film, i wouldn't really think of it as being a powerful moment or anything, it was pretty sickening imo.

A couple that haven't been mentioned:

The ending to Carlito's Way - Possibly Pacino's most likeable character. He came so close to achieving his dream, he didn't see the end coming.

The ending to Alien3 - The third movie in the Alien series, whilst a tad underrated, is a weak film. Much of the strength to this powerful ending is drawn more from the two previous films. But aside from that, it's still a stunning combination of cinematography and music.

I quite liked Battle Royale, but I wouldn't consider any of it at all powerful, quite surprised to see it listed here.

Bah. Well, it doesn't have to have Mel Gibson bellowing at the camera or waving a flag to be "powerful". Though, yes it probably isn't "powerful" in the traditional sense, I just thought it was memorable to see the two main antagonists unexpectedly have an all too brief clash, with what has apparently been a heartless manipulative character actually managing to remark something poignant posthomously. As a mild redemption of sorts, I found it surprising and moving. Hmh. There's no pleasing some people :p

The Right Stuff Y'know, the poster shot. The slow-mo team of astronauts walking across the gantry is the one that usually gets referenced or mimicked. But there's also Chuck Yeager surviving the test-flight crash, a column of smoke rising in the background, walking towards the viewer across the flat open shimmering heat of the desert in a metallic pressure suit with a shattered visor and a bloody blackened face.

I started to cry when the mother wolf died.

Animated Disney's Robin Hood, when the little boy has to use the dollar he got for his birthday for taxes. That STILL, to this DAY, is the ONLY movie that ever makes me cry. The ONLY one. I've seen a LOT of sad stuff.

Any of the old-dudes scenes in BoB. Seriously, they go from perfectly calm, to breaking down and crying in moments. VERY sad.

RotK: When everyone bows down to the hobits.

The Butterfly Effect: So many, but mostly, the childhood robinhood perverted dad scenes. .

Forest Gump. Period. Probably, even though it's cliche to say this, the best movie ever made.

Preacher. I think that's what it's called, a movie where [actor who I can't remember his name but is really well known for his western roles] has a young girl fall in love with him as he saves a gold town from the opressive government. When the old guy gets shot out in the street just because he's got his gold nugget and is yelling and stuff.

Fight Club, both when he tells his boss not to bring him every piece of trash he finds, and when Bob gets shot.

Luci Lu's character-anime stuff in KB.

The final scene with Big Boss in MGS3.

That's all for now.

One thing about Fight Club that made me realize Palahniuk's genius (I hear this is straight from the book, and knowing Palahniuk, wouldn't doubt it):

Worker bees are free
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave

"Suu...per...maaaan."

Totally forgot that one. Nice, Thrawn42689.

Yeah, but Battle Royale tries to be "shocking" as opposed to "powerful", which it actually does very well. At least that's how I see it.

Bah. I spent so much time looking for inconsistencies between the book and the movie in ROTK the moving scenes didn't really move me.

I really, really, liked Band of Brothers.

Pretty much all of Equilibrium. Wait...never mind. That movie sucked.

Lies! For being a near-total F451 rip-off plotwise, the movie was lusciously sexy i thought. The action sequences and kata [being a slightly modified Tenshyo with an adapted nikita] and so forth were delicious, even my sanjuriu karate sensei thought it was incredibly well done and realistic in terms of movements. The final fights were just pure nonstop joy.

I can think of two:

Mufasa's death in The Lion King, and the escape scene in Shawshank's Redemption, as previously mentioned.

Parts of The Straight Story were quite moving. Mostly the part where an old soldier tells a story of a friendly fire incident.

I know there are some other movies where I've sat quite sombrely, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.