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.

I cry at everything! And most of what's been mentioned!

But legends of the fall really gets me. It's quite hard to watch as relentlessly sad but a good one to bawl too.

I'm still not over Dr Greene's death. When he does his last shift and Al the homeless man salute s him 😭

I've just sat and watched Angela's Christmas on Netflix with ds about a little girl who takes the baby Jesus from church to warm him up. I never cry but that one had me blubbing .

Any animal film Mum and I could never watch Lassie without crying our eyes out. Robinson Crusoe - a dubbed French or French Canadian film in the 60/70s. A dog died in it and I only had to hear the signature tune to well up. Another animal film The (something) journey - about two dogs and a cat left behind when a family move. Their journey to find their people. Years ago I tried to describe it to my SIL. It took 5 goes as I was crying so much. Jeez....

I can’t watch Jack Frost! I just can’t do it.

It breaks my heart. The kids find it hilarious but I just tear up thinking about it.

It must be Micheal Keaton that does me as I also can’t watch “my life” without becoming a blubbering wreck. The bit where he goes in the garden and there is a circus

This is a bit of an odd one, but does anyone remember Rowley Birkin QC in The Fast Show reminiscing about finding and losing the love of his life as a young man? The audience laughed at first, but as the scene went on the laughter tailed off and he got a round of applause at the end. That made me fill up.

The very end of Truly, Madly, Deeply, when the (ghost) Alan Rickman is standing at the window with his ghost friends, watching Juliet Stevenson run to her new bloke - and he wipes away a tear, although he's deliberately been a PITA ghost so she'll get over him.

Not to mention the earlier scene where she's sobbing her heart out because of her intense grief - I have never seen grief portrayed so well..

Yep, the last half hour of Beaches gets me every time.

Meet Joe Black at various places which is mostly due to Thomas Newman's beautiful score

Masquerade (Rob Lowe/Meg Tilly) particularly at the end but also has a beautiful score. Currently on Netflix if interested

On The Beach (Gregory Peck/Ava Gardner) - oh the nobility and bravery shown in the face of impending doom. Book is more devastating though.

Out Of Africa - gorgeous score and a beautiful retelling of Karen Blixen's story of disaster followed by disaster punctuated by her finding love and then losing it again. I'm teary all the way through.

Dances With Wolves - again beautiful score and heart wrenching story

Shirley Valentine - particularly in the bit where she asks us the audience "why do we get so much life when we don't do anything with it?" (or words to that effect)

The Ballad of Little Jo (Suzy Amis) - rare to find film from 1993 - heart wrenching at the end when her friend realises the truth of her life

The Remains of the Day - all that pent up life just wasted. Anthony Hopkins expression at the end is a bit like Shirley's question above but he doesn't ask it - he just puts his 'duty' stiff upper lip back on.

My most blubbiest film is Untamed Heart (Christian Slater/ Marisa Tomei). On first viewing I sat speechlessly sobbing at the end and subsequently start crying from the opening credits until the very end EVERY time I've watched it since. I only watch this one when I am on my own at home and I know that no ones coming home for a few hours!

Omg Jack Frost!

Kids and i blubbed all over that.😀

Oh, has anyone seen “What Dreams May Come?” I cried all the way through it.

The Way We Were when Katie (B Streisand) asks Hubbell (R Redford) to stay for the birth of their baby, knowing he's leaving her. I cry from start to end actually

Cinema Paradiso

Not a film or tv series but this just popped up on my FB feed and I found it very moving

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Da7HVbzkohQ

The end part of Castaway when Helen Hunts character runs out in the lashing rain after Tom Hanks & says "you're the love of my life".... but then has to go back to her husband & kids.

@sashh that's made me well up just reading that!

Love actually, the gold necklace scene. I fucking hate Mia.

I'd forgotten about Billy Elliot- one of my favourite films . Agree with PP as I was a child of the eighties too and unemployment affected our family. At least there was a happy ending.

When the daughter Bonnie died after falling off the horse in Gone with the Wind.

Ghost when he enters whoopi goldberg’s Body and unchained melody plays. The lyrics are perfect for the moment - I never liked the song till I saw that scene, but now I love it.

There was a short film about a little deaf girl that won an Oscar this year. She was misunderstood and almost ignored by her own family and didn’t go to school. They finally got someone in to look after her that could speak sign language. She taught it to the little girl and they became really close and happy. Then the family decided that the little girl needed mainstream education so let the helper go. There’s a scene at the end where the lady is racing to the primary school on her bike to see the little girl. There’s a cut to a scene of the little girl in the classroom with no help and unable to hear anything go on around her or write down any of the words the teacher is calling out. Then you see them go out to play. The lady is at the fence looking in and the little girl is standing by a wall on her own, completely ostracised again. Had me in absolute floods.

When they realise Bruno has died in the gas chambers in Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Silly one but the first Ice Age where the mammoth is looking at the wall painting of the baby and mother mammoths and it's reminding him of his family.
There's an episode of Dr Who with Peter Kay as monster who absorbs people, I saw that again the other day and cried far too much at the end, again.

Imitation of Life when she runs after the hearse screaming "mama!"

Beaches, all of the ending.

Forest Gump "I'm not a smart man but I know what love is" and "is he...smart?"

There She Goes which was recently on BBC, great but every episode felt like someone was tearing my heart out of my throat.

Steel Magnolias, I can't even type about that because I can't bring myself to watch it since having a child.

Grey's Anatomy - every damn episode.

I just watched Dumplin on Netflix and cried at the meteor scene.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig Oh I remember that It was horrible to think about how kids with disabilities and additional needs can get lost in the school system without support. I think I bawled for about 20 minutes after it ended.

The last scene of artificial intelligence. I can't watch that or even talk about it without breaking down sobbing! Possibly because I've lost my mum too though and would give anything for one last day with her.

When they realise Bruno has died in the gas chambers in Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Because the scene of dozens of Jews being sent to their death just wouldn't have been harrowing enough, the little Aryan boy had to die to make it really heartwrenching.

Sorry, but the ending of that film absolutely boils my piss.