The last scene in Immortal Beloved got me, when you’re hearing this divine music, the Ninth, and the horrible irony that the man who wrote it never heard it.
Schindler’s List, of course. I want to slap people who are immune to that last scene. The whole last half-hour of Spielberg’s The Color Purple does that to me also.
And an odd one, that moment towards the end of Band of Brothers, when David Schwimmer’s Captain Sobel must salute Major Dick Winters (whose career he tried to ruin) always gets me emotionally. “We salute the rank, not the man.”
IIRC, from the book, MAJ Winters was on R&R in Paris when he got to call out CPT Sobel right there. He apparently did it with no small amount of satisfaction (I don't blame him one bit--I can think of a few officers I'd like to do that to as well).
Still, Sobel's post-war life was quite tragic. He was very bitter for pretty much the rest of his life over being relieved of his company. I believe he ended up killing himself. Not even his own son went to the funeral.
Immortal Beloved really was an underrated movie. Gary Oldman was brilliant. The “Ode to Joy” scene with the stars and the lake always thrills me.
Another puddle-up moment: In Memphis Belle, when Col. Harriman, played by David Straithairn, when challenged by the reporter, pulls out the letters from KIA airmen’s families, thanking him for his compassion.