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...

Kes. When the bird is found dead, heart breaking.

There's a scene in Manchester by the Sea when the central choked-up character is giving some expression to his grief. I can't remember what he says, but it left me sobbing. My sons were in the room with me, and my husband, and I can remember feeling worried by the amount of wretchedness that was pouring out of me.

Also ... I haven't counted the number of times that the "Daddy, my Daddy" scene from the Railway Children is mentioned on this thread (), but, however many times, I doubt it as as many as the number of times I have cried at that scene despite myself, annoyed that its saccharine sentimentality is, at that point, so very effective.

There's a scene in Manchester by the Sea when the central choked-up character is giving some expression to his grief. I can't remember what he says, but it left me sobbing

Michelle williams is begging for his firgiveness and Casey Affleck says 'there's nothing there's nothing"

Thank god i didnt see it in the cinema is all i can see. I was destroyed.

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I'm another one who was destroyed by Manchester by the Sea.

Also Remains of the Day.

God its a great film. I don't think I've ever seen better acting (casey Affleck)

I cry unashamedly at everything.

‘Place where the lost things go’ in the recent Mary Poppins

And yy to DIY SOS

The Dr Who episode about Vincent Van Gogh... floods of tears.

The very last episode of Lexx, sob...

Schindlers list... what a beautiful film. The end where you know it’s the actor with the person they played and Liam Neeson just stands there alone. And when he says he should have saved more. Good god.

Another one for house in haunted hill last episode. Cried for days.

Another Dr Who one. The Vincent episode when Vincent goes to the Louvre and Bill Nighy tells him that he was 'very probably the best artist of all time'. And then he goes back to his own time and kills himself anyway. Then the Dr and Amy go back, and he's put Amy's name on the sunflowers picture.

I weep every time.

Oh and that scene in Mamma Mia when Meryl Streep is getting her daughter ready for the wedding 'slipping through my fingers'. My DD is 20 now and I feel that so acutely. Her childhood is gone and I miss it.

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness
And I have to sit down for a while
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
And without really entering her world
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter
That funny little girl
Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table
Barely awake, I let precious time go by
Then when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feeling
And a sense of guilt I can't deny
What happened to the wonderful adventures
The places I had planned for us to go
(slipping through my fingers all the time)
Well, some of that we did but most we didn't
And why I just don't know
Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingers...
Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile...

😭😭😭😭

In Friends where Rachel has the baby and Monica tells her the name she likes for a girl, Emma. Rachel gasps and says she loves that name.Monica tells her to use the name for her baby and Rachel says "no,I cant you love that name" and Monica replies "yes but I love you more"
I think its poignant because monica and Chandler were struggling to have kids and she was so selfless about it.

Agree with so many of these...but don't think anyone has mentioned
Rabbit Proof Fence yet?
Can't watch it again :(

Not a movie, but when George dies, in Grey's anatomy....

Flight/united 93 the film based on a true event, the plane in the 9/11 attacks that crashed when the passengers tried to stop the terrorists from flying the plane. The phone messages to loved ones and the way the passengers desperately fought to try to save the plane. It's so painful I can't watch it again.

The last 30 minutes of Black Beauty
The Christmas special episode of Old Jacks Boat on CBeebies

As much as I am looking forward to the BBC adaptation of Northern Lights,if they do the whole trilogy and are faithful to the books there will be a whole lot of ugly crying.

I'm a saddo who cry at all sorts in the TV.

Already mentioned the death of Billy in Ally McBeal, The Queen of Sheba episode of the Royal Family and Dot and Ethel in eastenders.

The very end of the last episode of the the first season of Cutting It (the show based around a Manchester hairdressers), where Allie chooses who she wants to be with.

There was a documentary on a few years back called something along the lines of A Letter to Zachary, that made me cry a lot. Although, admittedly I was pregnant at the time so hormones could be to blame.

One not mentioned yet is the Magdalene Sisters. Really harrowing film but the worst bit is where you find out what happened to Crispina at the end, after all she'd been through sad

Oh yes, it's tragic and unjust. Best description I've got, but those words dont even come close to describing the feeling.

The episode in ER where Kem is induced knowing her baby is dead. The grief the actors of her and Carter portrayed was overwhelming. I rarely cry but sobbed at that.

I'd echo 3 from those above - the end of Schindler's List, Dr Who and Rose's parting and "Daddy, my Daddy" but will also add one of the last scenes in Mad Men.
Don is in the therapy group and the guy talks about feeling like he's on a shelf in the fridge and every time the door closes everyone forgets he's there. Don breaks down, suddenly realising that he feels the same and goes and hugs the other guy in tears. This plus his 'phone calls to Betty and Peggy gets me every time.
Perhaps this is the closest we get to answering the question "who is Don Draper".

Also Del boy at the end of Rodney's wedding reception when he's left alone and you realise how much he loves Rodney.

Goodnight Mister Tom

The boy in the stripped pyjamas

@Trewser totally agree. I watched the scene on YouTube again yesterday and it’s still as devastatingly sad as th first time. It’s acting genius. How they managed to convey the depth of feeling but all the small subtle looks is breathtaking. I say this as someone who lost a child. I’m a big sucker for sad movies but nothing has come close to this one scene.

Milomonster

I watched it with dh and just lost it. Properly snotty, gaspy crying. It's just incredible acting.