Scenes in Films or TV that still break your heart

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Muriell walking past her Mum in “Muriel’s Wedding” and then the happy photo of her her they find afterwards. Just one of many.

Oh and Saving Mr Banks when she drops the pears..
And when she's at the showing and watching Mr Banks walking alone and feed the birds music is playing.

Almost every second of I, Daniel Blake. I watched it on a plane and started ugly crying. I don't think I'll ever be able to watch it again.

The final scene of Sleepers when they all sing Walk Like a Man and it's the last time they're all together.

The opening of Saving Private Ryan is always devastating.

Isn’t there a plot line in Ally Mcbeal where a transvestite dies? God that killed me.

Dr Greene's death in ER and Goose's death in Top Gun - something about that actor dying!

The end of Gallipoli: how fast can you run?

The scene at the end of Brave when Merida cries into her bear Mum and tells her she loves her - before she then becomes human again. DD and me always cry at that bit.

When Forrest Gump first sees his son, and tearfully asks Jenny "Is he like me?"

Goose dying in top gun - it's Meg Ryan saying goose would have kept flying if Maverick had died.

"He'd have hated it but he would've done it"

Oh, remembered another one...the scene in Warrior where Tommy Conlon climbs onto the bed, pulls his alcoholic father who is having a meltdown against his chest and just holds him.

Mark Greene's death

Greg Pratt's death

Rachel Bradley's death

Avengers infinity war - Spider-Man dissolving at the end

Highginx I remember that one, he was young and gorgeous wasn't he, and he liked to make clothes. He was a prostitute and Ally got him a job at the firm...but then he was discovered dead after being battered by a customer. It was so sad where she was doing his make up as he lay in the morg

Australia- when the little boy is rescued and says 'I sing you to me Mrs boss'

When Ellie found out Joe killed Danny in Broadchurch and she goes to see him in the interview room

All the Doctor Who moments mentioned - Vincent And The Doctor, when Rose and Ten say goodbye on the beach, and then again when Rose gets to keep the Ten clone but the real Doctor is still lonely. Welling up thinking about it. I was distraught.

The end of Boy in the Striped Pyjamas when he realises.

Goodnight mr tom the ending but also when willie is found and hes craddling his sister.

About time When he has to choose between his children or his family. And realisation hits he cant change anything.

Ma vie en rose when ludovic dances with his mum.

The ending of life is beautiful when he sees his mum.

Only fools and horses when baby Joan is born and raquel tells Rodney he is too late and he panics.

titanic the old couple cuddling up when its sinking.

royle family Denises labour scene with her dad

christopher robin when he is crying for his nanny and is scared (watched this on a plane. I was bawling my eyes out. Not my best look 😂)

one foot in the grave when victor and margaret talk about their dead son stuart. Really moving as it explains so much about the charecters personality.

Oh gosh, not even pmt,and I am weeping over this thread.

YY to Terms of Endearment, and Steel Magnolias. I saw them in my 20s, and 20 odd years later with children of my own they resonate even more.

Also Billy Elliot: when the dad is cutting up piano and crying angry tears. And when he is about to break the picket line and Billy’s brother gets him. And when Billy reads his letter from his mum telling him what a privilege is was to have been his mum...

"one foot in the grave when victor and margaret talk about their dead son stuart. Really moving as it explains so much about the charecters personality." I have never seen that episode and didn't know that!

Oh god Life is Beautiful and Boy in striped pyjamas here too - brutal
And yes Madeira, Meet Joe Black - I cried for hours.
The Emma Thonpson scene in Love Actually crying in her bedroom when she realises he's having an affair.

Oh I forgot about When the Wind Blows. Not sure I can bring myself to watch it again though.

The end of the film Longtime Companion, released in 1989, about the AIDS crisis in the USA and its impact on a group of friends. It's a fantasy scene where the almost sole survivor is walking on a beach and finds all the people he's lost to the illness. I remember howling when I saw it, and I could still cry now, thinking about it.

Edward Scissorhands - where he realises he will be alone forever.

Loudly sob every time!

On the beach, the black and white old version, people queuing for their suicide pills.

Can I put one in from a book? 'A Language for Ben' is written by Lorraine Fletcher, the mother of Ben, a boy born deaf and growing up in the 1970s.

www.amazon.co.uk/Language-Ben-Deaf-Childs-Right/dp/0285650319?tag=mumsnetforum-21

There is no DDA, SENDA or Equality Act.

Children with special needs to to 'special schools'. The advice she is given is to teach him to speak and lip read. Lorraine explores other options and settleson British Sign Language.

By this time Ben is ready for nursery and Lorraine approaches the local Nursery where she keeps being fobbed off with, "well we might be able to... but we have never had a disabled child... how would we communicate?..."

After one of many meetings with the manager of the nursery and feeling properly fed up, she has been fighting for her child for years and everything seems to be against her and Ben, she arrives at the local college late for her own advanced BSL lesson.

On the way to her class the door is open to the beginners class, where the nursery manager and a few staff are learning BSL.

She knows then he has a place at nursery.

Final scenes in Shawshank, Field of Dreams, Stand By Me
Cider House Rules is a heartbreaker 😰

OMG, I've just remembered Brassed Off when the band plays outside the hospital when Pete Postlethwaite's character is in there, and then at the end when he manages to make it to the Albert Hall to hear them play., and the scenes of the pit owners arguing. Billy Elliott affects me similarly - I think it's something about having lived through the Thatcher years and remembering it so vividly.

Agree with many already mentioned but also Gavin and Stacey when Bryn and Stacey are in the car going to her wedding and Bryn reads out the letter Stacey's Dad had written to her.