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

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nobigotsallowed · 04/10/2019 15:21

SPOILER ALERT

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 Blush but I'd be here all day!

Over to you...

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Contraceptionismyfriend · 04/10/2019 19:29

Avengers Endgame - When Natasha sacrifices herself and When Tony does the Snap "I am Iron Man" 😭😭

morrisseysquif · 04/10/2019 19:34

@TheFaerieQueene Flowers sorry for your loss. Been there too and that scene gets me very time as well.

PettyPrincess · 04/10/2019 19:35

The Boy in the striped pyjamas SadSadSad

Hoolihan · 04/10/2019 19:36

Brokeback Mountain.

Inside No 9, the Christmas episode starring Sheridan Smith. My god.

Ethel's last scene in Eastenders, with Dot - "you're the best friend I ever had" 😭😭😭😭

Gallipoli, Mel Gibson running at the end. Unbearable.

Liverpool52 · 04/10/2019 19:40

Black Hawk Down: Sgt Eversman talking to the corpse of Smithy "I'll talk to your parents when I get home". And then the credits roll with the voiceover of (I think) Ruiz sending a message to his wife. I'm normally crying long before it starts.

We Were Soldiers - any scene with a wife getting a note that bee husband is dead.

Atonement - just a lot of crying.

Opening of Saving Private Ryan up until the beach landing.

AlliPalli13 · 04/10/2019 19:45

Greys Anatomy just after the airplane crash. And the song comes on and they're all saying the words as the camera pans round what's happening on the operating trolley.

FoldenHoard · 04/10/2019 19:50

Big Fish, when Jessica Lange tells Albert Finney "I don't think I'll ever dry out".

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fgTSa9ViWY

SnugglySnerd · 04/10/2019 19:56

Oh yes Kes gets me every time too.

Mablethorpe · 04/10/2019 19:56

The ending of Ashes to Ashes when Alex realises that she can never be with a Gene after they kiss and walks off into the pub with the others.

secretrugbyfan · 04/10/2019 19:56

The end of Schindler's List, when the families of the survivors place stones on Schindler's grave...…..

The last episode of After Life when, just for a fleeting second, Ricky Gervais's dad remembers who he is...….

Any episode of Long Lost Family when the family members are reunited.....

When any dog has to be put to sleep on Paul O'Grady's For the Love of Dogs...….

hsegfiugseskufh · 04/10/2019 19:58

Barbara dying in call the midwife. I watched it again yesterday, i knew what the outcome was going to be and i still cried like a baby.

Quaffy · 04/10/2019 20:05

There are loads of moments in Game of Thrones but the one that gets me is Myrcella dying because Jaime is one of the more interesting characters in it for me, and his reaction really got me.

Also Podrick singing Jenny of Oldstones in the final series as they all sat around waiting for the white walkers to attack, assuming they were going to die. I agree with the criticisms of the final series but I found that really emotional.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 04/10/2019 20:08

Also the end of Haunting of Hill house... Where the old couple go back to the house and she passes and sees her daughter again.

birdsdestiny · 04/10/2019 20:09

The scene in the car in Bridges of Madison County when Meryl Streep watches Clint Eastwood drive away.

DoctorTwo · 04/10/2019 20:11

When Ratso dies in Midnight Cowboy

@InTheShadowOfMushroomClouds This gets me too. usually not until John Barry's sublime end theme kicks in.

The first 8 minutes of Up is possibly the best written love story ever. The scene where Carl awards Russell the Ellie badge makes me cry too.

Ilovechocolate01 · 04/10/2019 20:11

First Man - the first half an hour is awful but does get easier to watch later in the film. I was pregnant and also had a toddler so it was a hard watch.

Haven't been able to watch Lion or Boy in the striped pyjamas as I know roughly what happens.

I used to be able to watch films without crying but since having children I can't watch a lot of sad films.

Trewser · 04/10/2019 20:13

Inside No 9, the Christmas episode starring Sheridan Smith. My god

Oh. My. God. That episode broke me.

Trewser · 04/10/2019 20:14

The twelve days of Christine.

DoctorTwo · 04/10/2019 20:15

Also, Feed The Birds and Let's Go Fly A Kite from the original Mary Poppins.

Graphista · 04/10/2019 20:18

Recent posts have reminded me of others

Dirty dancing - when she says to her dad "you lied to me too" heartbreaking that we've now lost both swayze and Jerry Orbach

Officer and a gentleman when he's on punishment and the drill sergeant is trying to get him to quit and he's refusing "I got nowhere else to go" he knows if he doesn't make it here he'll just self destruct. As someone from a military family and raised around army I absolutely believe many of them join up as an "escape" from something - sometimes trying to escape themselves. Sometimes things as mundane as unemployment.

Echobelly · 04/10/2019 20:20

I was crying almost the whole way through Dunkirk because they were all so young and it was heartbreaking

The scene in The Pianist where he is hiding from the Nazis in an apartment with a piano that he can't touch or he'll give himself away, so he just has to imagine playing it

End of Edward Scissorhands

End of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet because it uses the 'Liebestod' music from Wagner's Tristan & Isolde

aspiringnurse · 04/10/2019 20:21

I can't think of many that I have actually cried at but a fair few I've been tearful at.

Definitely the end of Armageddon, I cannot watch it again it makes me too emotional..

Up is definitely another but more sad not crying..

There's also a part in seven pounds that's rather sad but been so long since I've seen it I can't fully remember

Click was also quite sad more so the raining scene

MsLumley · 04/10/2019 20:22

Many, many of the above. Also, Rachel's death in Cold Feet had me sobbing for hours. Days actually.

twirlgirl · 04/10/2019 20:22

Lion - broke my heart.

The Champ - when he's telling his dad to wake up.

The Notebook - the ending, love that film

Life is beautiful.

Feeling all weepy now Sad

MissRabbitNeedsAHoliday · 04/10/2019 20:23

The end of Les Miserable makes me sob so much!
Beaches is my go to "need a cry" film, or me before you.
For some reason what to expect when your expecting made me cry lots Blush could have been the pregnancy hormones though!