SciFi or Horror movies that choked you up. Warning! Possible spoilers!

There are plenty of dramas that have very emotional scenes. But how about science fiction or horror films? Are there any that bring tears to your eyes? Maybe just one specific scene.

One for me is Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan. When I saw it in the theater during its initial run and even today I still get choked up when Spock dies.

 

E.T. might fit that description. Pretty sad when E.T. nearly dies.

 

Yes, or when the bicycles lift off with that great musical score.

Spock's death is a good one too. I'm trying to think horror now...

 

The Sixth Sense has a pretty sad scene near the end where Haley Joel tells his mom about his gift.

 

When Luke & Han get the medals at the end of Star Wars (I always wondered why Chewbacca didn't get one )

 

Another sci-fi (T2), I laughed at myself for how moved I was at this scene:

 

My guess is he was too tall and Lea couldn't reach. I assumed he got one later.

 

Speciesism at it's worst.

 

I cried when I was a kid and the Ewok dies and the other one shakes him to try and get him to move.

Now as an adult I wish for more Ewok carnage.

 

This gets my vote still. Shatner's "acting" is awesome. The rage on his face and then the single greatest line in movie history.

 

And then Kirk's death in Generations is totally anti-climactic. Both of them.

 

Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running (1972)

It's been many years since I've seen it, but that final scene of the little robot tending to the plants with a kid's watering can gets to me every time.
The beautiful Joan Baez & Peter Schickele song that accompanies it is an added bonus.

 

Abyss when she tells him her plan through when she gets revived.
Death of Spock

 

Lucas has said it's because they didn't have time to get Princess Leia a ladder to stand on. (She's about 5'1" tall.)

 

Not a movie but a TV episode. Star Trek - The Next Generation 'The Best of Both Worlds'. When Jean Luc Picard is assimilated as Locutus of Borg and he sheds a tear.

 

That's sort of a bummer. It would be more interesting if there was some deep meaning rather than practicality.

 

When I saw this in the theater as a kid some large guy in the back of the theater unleashed what I can only describe as the most freakishly deep, dark, twisted and disturbing laughter I have ever heard in my life during that scene when E.T. appears to die. I honestly didn't know what to make of it.

 

The famous "KHAAAAAN!" scream doesn't even really make any sense in the dramatic context of the scene, since we find out later that Kirk knew all along they'd be rescued....

 

The end of Cronenberg's The Fly remake when she shoots the Brundle Fly/transporter genetic hybrid was probably one of the most choked up moments for me in a horror film.

 

I'm sure it was just to make it seem believable to Khan that he had marrooned Kirk.

 

Spock's death is one of the few times it's culturaly ok for a grown man to cry in public.

This is an unlikely one, but gets me every time. In "Galaxy Quest" when an alien is dying and Alan Rickman says his catch phrase, "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" at the alien's request.

 

Tears in rain speech, anyone?

 

Gattaca,
When Ethan Hawk's character is a little kid in the doctor's office while his parents are discussing their next kid (designed to be perfect) and the following montage about growing up in his younger brother's shadow -very touching scenes.

 

You beat me to it!

I have… 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 [small cough] tears… in... rain. Time… to die…