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...

YY to the start of Up.

Also I agree about Ghost but the bit that gets me is the pottery scene with Unchained Melody. I just can’t conceive of how it would feel to lose your partner and then have a few final minutes with them that way.

In Never Let Me Go when he “completes”

War horse, when the horse is stuck in No man's land between the trenches.
Mammy's grief when Melanie dies in Gone With the Wind,
Dr Greene in ER
The end of Dr Zhivago when I realised that he'll never see Lara again.

Also I don’t know if it counts as the film version was shit, but generally the end of Phantom when he says “Christine, I love you” then falls apart as she sails off with Raoul

Miss Potter when her boyfriend dies of tb (Ewan McGregor).

I am a sucker for the Killing Fields,, when Dith Pran finally made it out and met Sydney Schanberg again.

Dinner Ladies. The Christmas episode where Bren thinks Tony’s forgotten her secret Santa present and he tells her to get herself some tights, but really he’s arranged for her favourite brass band from her Christmas tape to come and play for her.

The whole thing makes me laugh and cry, but I can hardly watch this episode through the tears. Even just now, thinking about it.

Dr Who: the episode where Rose is pulled through the vortex
The one that gets me is when he leaves her forever. The look on his face as he watches the other man saying what he can never say to her, and kissing her like he can never kiss her. And then he walks away. Devastating.

@KittenMittens1 wow just watched that, got gooseumps, thanks for posting

But Blackadder, over the top and faiding to fields of poppies, is also quite a gulper.

I don’t really cry at film or tv often but I sobbed at the end of Fleabag when they revealed what happened to Boo.

The Walking Dead when they spend all season looking for Carols daughter Sophia and then she walks out of the barn as a zombie! I was distraught watching that scene 😭

@KittenMittens1 oh god I'm sobbing now😭

The scene in Brassed Off where the decision has been made to close the pit, and the band assemble late at night in full uniform and their miners' helmets under Peter Postlethwaite's character's hospital window, play Danny Boy, and then all switch off their helmet lamps one by one.

When the horse dies in the swamp of sadness in The Never Ending Story 😭

Anyone remember the Casanova tv series with David Tennant and Peter O’Toole? The end of that gets me when the maid tells him Henriette is coming back to comfort him in his dying moments even though she knows Henriette is dead already.

In Tangled when the king and queen find out that their lost daughter has been found. It's only animated so it's amazing how well they did it.

I still cry at numerous scenes from Titanic!

@DodgeRainClouds, how did I forget this?! Which leads me straight to Honey I Shrunk the Kids- Anty! 😢

What s lovely thread. I am crying after watching Will Smith, I'm just going in to pick up my daughter and have to dry my eyes! Lovely. Thank you.

Kramer vs Kramer, when the father has lost custody and his son doesn't want to leave him and he is trying to be brave, explaining to him that it will be alright.
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Out of Africa*, where she finds out his plane has gone down.

I was also coming on to say that scene on About Time and Brooks in Shawshank.

The scene in Friends where Chandler begs Erica to forgive them for lying to her gives me a lump in my throat when he says "but my wife, she's already there. She's a mother without a baby".

Most of the above. I’m bit of an emotional wreck these days.

One that hasn’t been mentioned already is Pearl Harbour, pretty much the whole film makes me cry. As with Armageddon.

Tv wise, Becks last night got me big time And I don’t normally watch Eastenders these days, just happened to see it last night.

Empire of the Sun where Jim‘s parents find him in the home for displaced children.

Loads but these 3 are guaranteed:
'Stand by Me' at the end when Will narrates what happens to River Phoenix's character. Kind of mixed up with sadness over RP's real death. Just such a beautiful movie.

As others have said, "My Daddy! My Daddy!" in the Railway Children.

'Officer and A Gentleman' when his friend kills himself.

Haachi - most of the film x