There are almost too many to mention. I'll see if I can take a stab at it. Some of these are safely in the open, but others are going to be hidden in spoiler tags, minor and obscure though the spoilers may be.
1) The ending scenes in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
2) The revelation scene near the end in Rosemary's Baby.
3) The pre- and post- sex scenes in Harold and Maude.
4) The ending scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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[spoiler] 5) The scene in The Unbearable Lightness of Being in which Tomas returns to virtual imprisonment to be with the woman he loves.
6) The scene in Little Fish when Tracey is trying to score a heroin hit for her father figure, resisting the temptation to relapse herself.
7) The scene near the end in Notes on a Scandal when Sheba discovers Barbara's romantic intentions and her hand in creating the public scandal from the pages of her diary.
8 ) The flashback Marion has in Another Woman when she remembers her brother resigning himself to misery as he takes a job he hates to help support her academic future, and realizes for the first time that her relationship with him was strained ever since without her ever realizing it. It's one of the first points in the story when her blinders begin to come off.
9)The scene in The Children's Hour when Martha admits with so much pain that she does in fact have more than platonic feelings for Karen.
10) The scene from Amadeus when Salieri declares war with God.
11) The closing "confessional" scene with the Priest in Amadeus -- "I will pray for you Father, I pray for all mediocrities. I am their champion. I am their patron saint."
12) The opening faux pas anthropological monologue from The Gods Must Be Crazy,which contrasts the idealic life of the Bushmen with the confusing life of modern people. It's complete and utter fiction, but the most fun and thus forgiveable kind.
13) The scene from Bagdad Cafe when Jasmin sees the solar panel reflections in the sky and interprets them as some kind of vision or sign that this area is where she is supposed to stay.
14) The deactivation of Dave in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
15) The scene from Happiness when the son realizes his father is a pedophile and child rapist, and asks him some very pointed questions. The father answers all of them honestly, leaving both father and son heartbroken and scarred.
16) The scene from Life is Sweet when Wendy confronts her daughter Nicola about her self-destructive ways, which once almost killed her.
17) The scene in Secrets and Lies when Cynthia sees Hortesnse for the first time and realizes that her daughter given long ago is black. There's a sudden realization that causes Cynthia to burst into tears, and we are left to assume that it's a realization of who the father must be.
18 ) The very ending scene of All Or Nothing. You get the feeling that while Penny and Phil may have healed their relationship for the better, Penny is still uncertain and unhappy. As with so many of Mike Leigh's movies, the resolution isn't all candles and roses -- you get the feeling that Penny is basically putting herself on the alter at this point, as if she has been a big compelled to continue in misery for the sake of the happiness of the others.
19) The scene in the present with Ricky in Career Girls. Ricky is one of my favorite Mike Leigh characters ever, and this scene is so subtly heartbreaking to me that I still tear up thinking about it.
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Yep... just too many to mention. This is the short list.
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