The most tear jerking scenes in TV and film are...

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ET: The bathroom scene, where ET and Elliot are on the floor and Elliot gets taken away, with ET screaming for him to come back 😢😢 And of course when ET is found all grey and dying in the water, then when he temporarily dies and obviously the ending 😭

Forest Gump: When nobody lets young Forest sit down on the bus and then he sees Jenny for the first time 😥 When Jenny dies "Every night we read a book and he's so smart Jenny. You'd be so proud of him" 😭😭😭

Atonement: The ending, when Bryony explains the reality 😢

Theory of Everything: The croquet scene. There's no dialogue, but it's heart breaking. When Stephen has had his operation and can no longer talk. The look they give one another 💔 Also when Jane breaks up with Stephen "I have loved you. I did my best" and he just looks broken and they cry together 😢

The Reader: When Michael sees Hannah in court and realises she's actually illiterate after she refuses to give a sample of her hand writing and then her sentence. When Hannah hears Michael's voice on the recorder and of course the ending 😭😭😭

I have so many more, including Disney and Pixar but I'd be here all day!

Over to you...

It's always films with animals that get me blubbing

Project X
K9
Turner and Hooch

Oh and how I met your mother when Marshall's dad dies and he says something like 'I'm not ready for this".

The entirety of Schindler’s List
Titanic - when the ship is sinking and the Rose and Jack are running and pick up a little boy but the dad takes him back. Then the water crashes the door and they drown. When the men get trapped in the engine room.
Agree with the op and the ending of Atonement

Ending of the last Harry Potter - wed been through an entire childhood with them the good and the bad and the realisation it’s the end
Final scene of Black Adder

I’m sure I can think of more

Every single episode of DIY SOS

"Daddy, my Daddy" at the end of the Railway Children. Gets me every single time.

Me too. Every. Single.Time. That father/daughter moment gets me. The Little Princess is a good example. It works even when disguised in animated dream sequences as in Studio Ghibli's From Up on Poppy Hill.

But then I cry a LOT in films. I teared up during an episode of the original Twilight Zone TV series the other day. A grossly sentimental episode called One for the Angels.

Films:

The death scene in Romeo and Juliet. (Any and every version you care to name - apart from the 2013 one masterfully bolloxed up by Julian Fellowes and half the cast. Really not good.)

When 'Sir' dies in The Dresser and Tom Courtney's character is left alone - oh Gods! I cried for an hour solid after watching that.

When Roxane realises it was Cyrano de Bergerac she loved all along as he dies at the end of the 1990 film version.

Lot of death and unfulfilled love on that list - just to make up for it there's a moment in Powell and Pressburger's Canterbury Tale where the girl gets the telegram that's been waiting for her telling her her lover is still alive and she pulls down the curtains in the caravan. It's a weirdly wonderful moment that just makes me break up.

The endings of Transamerica, Bridge to Terabithia, More unrequited love in Gods and Monsters - Then, I have a bit of a crush on Brendon Fraser. The end of Silent Running when Lowell blows up the ship and the last of the forests drifts into the endlessness of space tended by the little robot. Last time I watched that I howled!

I just went through my film diary - It's a way of marshalling my thoughts about a film I've been keeping it for years- and it turns out I also cried after watching:
Jesus de Montreal, Pieces of April, The Dish (the Australian film about the televising of the moon landing), Charlotte's Web (but only when my daughter started crying first and then it was like a tap being turned on), The Blue Umbrella, Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I am Going - when he enters the castle to brave the curse and she comes down the road with the piper.

I'm sure there were more.

The Elephant Man. When all the people are pushing past him on steps and he says 'I am a human being'. I first watched it as a teenager and sobbed so much that I was gasping for breath.

I cry at quite a lot of films, especially if animals are involved! Like a pp, I watched Dumbo as a child and have never watched it again, just soo sad, scarred me for life. 7 pounds, I am legend, notebook, Marley &me, forest Gump, beaches, titanic all make me blub. Loads more but those are the main ones.

Derek shepherd 😳☹️

When Ennis finds his shirt in Jack's closet. Brokeback Mountain.

Oh God YES!

But it's weird what does make some people cry and others not.

Dobby dying. Heartbreaking.

Not for me. I punched the air, delighted that I'd seen the last of the obsequious little squit.

Meredith sitting with Derek as he dies. Not for him. He was a shit. But she’s so strong.

Then a later episode where you see her telling her kids that their daddy is dead.

Dumbo is the worst though. My daughter went through a phase of watching it on repeat when she was tiny. I had to leave the room when the Baby of Mine scene came on 😢

I can't believe nobody has mentioned The Fault In Our Stars! 😭😭

"The bit in Moana when her Grandmother is dying and she says something like “there’s no where you can go that I won’t be with you”. Gets me every time."

Yes! And the end of Coco.

The bit in Out of Africa when she says goodbye to her African household to return to Denmark and she says 'It will be like when we were on safari, and I went ahead of you and lit a fire for you to find me' and the man says 'you must make that fire very big.' Weep.

"Meg dying in little women"
Surely Beth?!

Years and Years in BBC (another Emma Thompson) when the gay couple get on the boat.

Yes to most eps of This Is Us

Awakenings starring Robin Williams.

most of Schindler's List, I sobbed in places. I went to the gym the following morning eyes still swollen and puffy and the receptionist said "ooh, you don't look good in the morning!"

Terms of endearment, when mum says goodbye to her boys and then says "I think that went really well, don't you?", the youngest boy acted so well in that scene.

The Green Mile - great film but I have to leave the room in that scene with the electric chair and the dry sponge.

ending of AI

Animation has to be Toy Story (3)? When his mum looks around the room when her boy is leaving for college and the memories of his childhood floods back. I watched with my sister, whose daughter had just left for Uni, and she said.. it's just like that.

Opening scenes of up, when it's time for his next adventure.

Edward Scissorhands when he leaves after everyone is so cruel to him

and The Pursuit of Happiness

Any movie which is an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks book
My Sisters Keeper- pass me the tissue from the half way mark onwards

The Killing Fields- saw it with friends aged 15. There was a lot of running blue mascara at the end .

Dead Man Walking - near the end when Matthew (Sean Penn) breaks down in his cell and finally admits to Sister Helen (Susan Sarandon) that he committed the murder.
Exceptional acting and was only shot one time apparently as took its toll on Sean Penn.

I cry at the drop of a hat so I’d be here all day! One of my classics was during a Lassie film at the cinema when Lassie had been swept away downstream, presumed drowned. I was in absolute floods & my Dad was mortified! Another vote for “ Daddy oh my Daddy” in The Railway Children. Just thinking about it sets me off! I often cry not with sadness but because something is so well done/acted. DH & I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in The West End & it was absolutely brilliant. I cried buckets at the end!
Nearly forgot “ With You” in Ghost. So emotional ❤️

Haven't RTFT as too keen to post.

The scene where they all stand up and sing the Marseillaise in Rick's (Casablanca)

When PL Travers (Emma Thompson) joins in with Let's Go Fly A Kite in Saving Mr Banks

"I don't want to go" in Infinity War

And saving the best for last, James Stewart in It's A Wonderful Life: "Lord, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way."

And loads more.

Off to read the thread now (and see that those have all already been mentioned)...

Rockingthelook I loved Allly Mcbeal, and that episode with Billy - it broke my heart.