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Ikiru (1952)
Butch Cassidy And the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Moment: "For a moment there I thought we were in trouble." Sadly, the outlaws are in trouble - and it's probably not the best time to make a run for it when the Bolivian Army is waiting outside.
Wipe Away A Tear When: The film ends on a sepia-tinted freeze frame of Butch and Sundance going out in a blaze of glory.
Casablanca (1942)
The Moment: Should Ilsa Lund stay (with old flame Rick Blaine) or go (with hubby Victor Laszlo)? With time running out, Rick makes the decision for her.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Rick forces Isla to meet his gaze. "Here's looking at you, kid."
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Moment: Thud. "You feel that?" Thud. Water ripples in a glass. Thud.
Wipe Away A Tear When: The T-Rex shows up, and it looks more astounding than you had imagined would be possible.
Back To The Future (1985)
The Moment: With lightning about to strike the courthouse clock, Marty McFly only has one shot at firing up the flux capacitor. And then a tree branch pulls out the plug.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Doc Brown slides down a cable to repair the line manually, risking electrocution as Marty is sent back to the future.
Singin' In The Rain (1952)
The Moment: It's raining, but Don Lockwood is so elated after spending the night reimaging likely flop movie The Duelling Cavalier as a musical with new flame Kathy Selden, he turns down a cab to walk home.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Lockwood starts "Singin' in the Rain," while he twirls his umbrella and splashes about.
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Moment: Falling snow - and the safe return of Zuzu's petals to his pockets - confirms that George Bailey has been restored to life after his trip to a nightmarish parallel universe.
Wipe Away A Tear When: George runs the length of Bedford Falls high street, shouting an exhilarated hello to everybody he passes.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Moment: Homicidal computer HAL 9000 'begs' for its life as Dave Bowman takes drastic action to shut it down. "I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it."
Wipe Away A Tear When: HAL starts singing Victorian music hall ballad Daisy Bell and the electronic voice gradually falters and stops as he's shut down.
Gladiator (2000)
The Moment: Emperor Commodus demands that a masked Maximus reveal his identity.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Maximus tells him. That speech in full: "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
Planet Of The Apes (1968)
The Moment: George Taylor thinks he's got away… only to discover where he's going, in the form of the Statue of Liberty rising from the shoreline.
Wipe Away A Tear When: Taylor breaks down in fury - "You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!"
