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!

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Goose dies in Topgun.

Omg yes! Was first film I saw at the cinema without my parents and with fiends and was desperately trying to conceal my tears, then I looked at the strapping 15 year old boy next to me (a friends boyfriend and supposed a "hard ass") blubbing his eyes out and stopped worrying about it.

Glad to see inside number 9s the 12 days of Christine got a mention. DH and I were both sat sobbing. So clever and so perfectly pitched.

I also did proper ugly crying all the way home from the cinema when I saw the English patient!

Am rewatching Handmaids Tale and the scene with Alexis Bledel and her Martha lover in the back of the van had me sobbing.

Officer and a Gentleman where he finds his best friend has hung himself

In the film Kajacki when they guy just has to try and get to his mate in the minefield

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Derek. I cried at every episode.

Definitely the last episode of season 3 of stranger things. I cried so much!

@Whatthefunk yes!!!! that was so totally heartbreaking! A good guy, who died saving someone, and whose body esp face was so destroyed

The dutchess, when she gives away her baby.

Duchess, I mean!

Oh yes, I only have to say ‘Daddy, my daddy’ and I cry.

Many of the ones already mentioned but puff the magic dragon always made me cry and now can't hear the song without welling up.

@Eastisup yes! Rabbit proof fence. I remember watching this a few years back, I'd not heard of it but it was just starting so thought I'd give it a watch. So sad.

The end of billy Elliott when they watching his performance

Know it’s schlocky but Beaches. Saw as a teen and sobbed watched again and 45 same reaction!

Watched ghost recently as a family dh sobbing at ending but he was horrified that our kids were unmoved!

Walked out of Schindler’s list literally could not bear it

Oh god yes the duchess baby scene. That was our first night out after having dd2 we were both in tears!

I remember going to the pictures with DP to see American sniper and didn't know not was a true story. As soon as the final scenes with his real life funeral procession came on I stood up sheepish because I knew the tears would be coming, DP just sat there and I turned around and he had tears full on streaming down his face. It was the first time I'd seen him cry at something that wasnt related to family and real life. I sat back down and we had a good old cry together. Not watched it since because I know it will set me off.

The song telling the story of Jessie's abandonment in Toy Story 2.

In one of the early episodes of Call the Midwife, there is a lady whose pelvis was deformed by polio as a child. She had had several healthy, viable pregnancies and all her babies had died in childbirth because of the shape of her pelvis. In this episode she delivered a healthy child by C section on the “newly formed NHS, a procedure that would have saved all her previous children but that she had never bern able to afford”. Both my dc were born by CS, one emergency (footling breech) and one crash (uterine rupture). DC2 was only a few weeks old when that episode aired, and it really touched me. I cried my heart out that night. 7 years later I still remember it vividly.

The Railway Children.
"Daddy, my daddy!"

I’m amused by how many of these leave me cold, or strike me as sickly and sentimental. I find Ghost hilarious, and can’t quite get beyond the imagine of Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg getting reluctantly intimate so that Patrick Swayze can ‘return’ temporarily at the end.

And I thought Life is Beautiful was offensively terrible, and reduced the Holocaust to a deniable backdrop to a cutesy slapstick father-son drama.

Then again, what other people find sad is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Half the adult English males I know find the end of Winnie the Pooh unbearably sad.

Seven pounds, when will Smith phones the blind man and berates him on the phone to see if he will crack.

All of war horse and black beauty.

The Virtues on Channel 4. Cried in every single episode. Incredible drama.

Hollyoaks when Jade dies from cancer. The fantasy scene before :-(

The new Cinderella. Happy tears.. Sad tears. Pretty much was teary the whole way through.

The Bradford City fire documentary . The man who was saying about being alone on the pitch and just wanted to find his nan. Another who had to leave his dad but managed to find someone to help him. Except when he turned around realised it was to late.

Also the Aberfan documentary.. So many stories :-(

When the social services take the kids from their mother in Cathy Come Home.
Every time.

Love Actually.
Emma Thompson discovering the affair