Has anyone experienced a "cinegasm"?

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Yes, yes, and yes! I get this, as someone else said, not only about films but also pieces of music and a few books. The earth moved for me while watching :

American Beauty ( the plastic bag in the wind)
Braveheart ( the first huge battle after his girlfriend is killed, and the moment when realise that Robert the Bruce has betrayed him)
Mulholland Drive ( All of it, but esp. when she drops the key to the little blue box, and the song "silencio")
Dancer in the Dark
The Princess Bride ( "My name is Inigo Mantoya, You killed my father, prepare to die", obviously! )
Ladyhawke ( when he is escaping right at the start, and dodging the soldiers etc)
Desperately Seeking Susan

The Wall ( several moments)
Groundhog Day ( when he throws himself off the building as an umpteenth suicide attempt)
Les Visiteurs ( the music, and all the bourgeoise house scenes) and Clockwise, which make me laugh so much I feel almost transported, elsewhere with jubilation and lightness.
Dumb and Dumber ( when Carrey says he's had enough of "getting by")

The Prince of Darkness ( when the black guy whose throat is cut/neck is broken approaches along the corridor crying and chuckling all at once)
The War of the Worlds ( the alien vehicule emerges from the ground)
Batman Returns ( when catwoman throws out her fluffy toys)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( when he is struggling to build the shape of the mountain that he is obsessed about without realising why, and sees the mountain on the TV)

Brazil ( almost all of the first two thirds, but esp. the moment the outlaw plumber vanishes in a river of wind blown newspapers)
The Company of Wolves ( when the wolves enter the house at the end, but a few other moments too)
Peter Pan ( 2006 )

Pulp Fiction ( Uma dancing before she takes the overdose)
Gladiator
The Hours ( Julianne Moore is making the cake with her little boy. He says, "It's alright, mommy, it's not that difficult". )
"Safe" by Todd Haynes ( most of it)

Excalibur ( when the knights ride out through the apple orchard in flower after the grail is found, to Carl Orff's Carmina Burrana, and the moment that Galahad gets the grail on the drawbridge, to the music of "Faith, hope, charity" by Wagner from the Percival Overture).
The Fly ( when he is putting the sugar in his coffee. )
For a Few Dollars More
Capricorn One ( this is old. I don't remember too well, but I know I was very moved)

And there's a few others I can't remember right now.

Thought of a few more:

The Piano
The Full Monty ( when they are in the benefit office and start dancing to the music)
Subway ( when he is lying on the ground/bench near the end and starts humming) mmmmmmm
The Day After Tomorrow ( the tornados and ice funnel)

The Silence of the Lambs ( the whole thing)
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Sometimes get it in the middle of otherwise mediocre films, but where just one moment/bit is perfect or brilliant.

Ouinon!
American Beauty is my happy movie!
When I'm in a bad mood, I watch it, and I always end up feeling amazing throughout the whole thing.
And the paper bag...
Astonishing.

Cinegasm? Well, I certainly remember having one near the end of the movie "The Jackal"; the scene where Richard Gere gets stuck inside a subway tunnel with 2 trains coming at him from both directions, and had to cling onto a pole between the 2 tracks for cover, while the 2 trains WHOOOOSHED past him by barely 3 inches on each side! I was totally *rocked* by a mental orgasm I'd never felt before!

Just my contribution, heh

well, if you're going to throw out pr0n...then no.

I have had an experience of watching Independence day, and not realizing that 3 hours had passed, but that's as close as I get.

Oh, so yes. For me it was Jurassic Park. I saw that movie 20 times or so in the theatre, and every single time the music swelled when they saw the brachiosaurs for the first time, I was a mess of tears. I'd be sitting alone in the theatre trying to cry as quietly as I could. Then also the triumphant return of the T-Rex at the end when the banner falls. I don't know why that movie affected me so much. I blame John Williams.