Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
The Moment: Genjur returns h𒅌ome, little 🥂realising that his wife Miyagi has been killed. But then something strange happens…
Wipe Away A Tear When: In a single take, a panning camera follows Genjur across his house and back… 🐬to find the ghost of his wife is patiently waiting for him where she wasn't seconds earlier.
Babe (1995)
The Moment: Backed by the secret sheep password, Babe executes a perfect sheepdog triaꦗl. As Farmer Hoggett closes the gate, the silent crowd suddenly erupts into cheers.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Farmer and pig share a quality moment as Hoggett knows exactly what to say. "That'll do, pig. That🐲'll do."
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
The Moment: As Joel Barrish frantically trie⛦s to preserve some memory of his ex Clementine Kruczynski, she tells him "Meet me in Montauk" - advice we already know his subconscious will follow.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Joel and Clementine decide to start a re🥃lationship, despite knowing that they'v💮e tried before and failed.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Moment: Chief, realising that R💃andle McMurphy has beeౠn lobotomised, suffocates his friend with a pillow.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Chief sm🐷ashes a water cooler through the window and escapes from the asylum.
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
The Moment: Jill McBain arrives in Flඣagstone, expecting to be met by her new husband but little realising he and his children have just been murdered.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Jill walks through the train station, and the camera cranes upwards and over the roof to reveal the town in all its glory - timed perfectly to match Ennio🤪 Morricone's gorgeous score.
Drive (2011)
The Moment: The Driver steps into a lift with his neighbour Irene and a hitman hired to kill him. H🌃e kisses Irene, and then head-stomps the killer to 💜death.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Irene gives him a confused, ♔horrified, what-kind-of-man-are-you? look as she leaves the bloody elevator.
Andrei Rublev (1966)
The Moment: A boy, who has persuaded a town he knows the sꦺecret of how to make a giant bell, watches on anxiously as the first test prov꧑es successful and the bell tolls.
Wipe Away A Tear When: The boy admits to painter Andrei Rublev that he🍎 didn't know how to make the bell but was working from faith alone. Rublev breaks his vow of silence to predict their future: "You’ll cast bells. I’ll paint icons."
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The Moment: German refugee Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorfওf is detained📖 at immigration and asked to explain why he's entering Britain, so he tells them in a single-take, three-minute monologue.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Theo explains, "Very foolishly I remembered the English countryside, the gardens, the green lawns, the weedy rivers and the trees she loved so much. And a great desire came over me to come back t♋o my wife's country. And this, sir, is the truth."
Donnie Darko (2001)
The Moment: As time reverses and Donnie dies, his friends and family find themselves inexplicably moved while Gary Jules' Mad World plays over the soundtrack.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Gretchen waves to Mrs Darko, the mother o🌜f the boyfriend she'll never have.
The Truman Show (1998)
The Moment: Having realised that his existence in Seahaven is a reality show sham, Truman Burbank takes to the water to escape… only to crash into the wall of🍃 his self-contained world.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Truman makes a ওstand against Christof, his creator, and walks out of the exit with one final ওflourish of his catchphrase, "In case I don't see you... good afternoon, good evening, and good night."
