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Scenes that always make you cry on tv, no matter how many times you see it.

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Soubriquet · 30/10/2022 08:33

The 100, when the adults are volunteering to die to help save the rest of the ark.

Guardians of the galaxy 2, when the ravagers come out to give Yondu a proper send off.

Every time I see it. Every time I tear up a little

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Wheresmysewjo · 30/10/2022 12:04

Artex dying in the neverending story was my first and still gets me now.

Ditto to marley dying, ET in love actually, gladiator.

Also the snow dog, when the dog turns into a real dog.

I'm sure I will think of loads more.

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 30/10/2022 12:04

Narwhaleahoy · 30/10/2022 09:06

The end of Gladiator where Russell Crowe walks towards his wife and son. I always have to have a box of tissues near.

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notmyrealmoniker · 30/10/2022 12:06

I love and cry at so many of these!

I also love when the Terminator is being lowered into the flames to be destroyed

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BaggieMaggie · 30/10/2022 12:24

Lady the Direwolf dying in Games of Thrones. Of all the deaths on that show, this is one the gets me the most.

DizzyR · 30/10/2022 12:27

In Anthony (BBC dramatisation of what might have been if Anthony Walker was not murderer) there is a scene where his mother kisses his feet after he’s passed away. My god DH and I were in floods of tears. It was devastating 😔

OvaryActions · 30/10/2022 12:31

Delilahonabike · 30/10/2022 10:32

Weirdly it's an episode of 2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps! Blush The one where Gaz has to choose between Janet and Donna and gets hit by a van on his way to tell them. Donna is by his bedside in hospital and when he wakes up he says 'it's always been you' and she does this sort of snotty sob, it undoes me every single time although I've no idea why! Lots of others, Royle Family ('am I a burden Barbara?'), This is England (various scenes) but the 2 pints one really gets to me for some reason.

Aw that episode of the Royle family (queen of Sheba?) has some really touching moments especially between Barbara and Nana. When Nana stopped talking and thanked Barbara I really choked up, it was so beautifully acted.

maddiemookins16mum · 30/10/2022 12:50

CatServant2020 · 30/10/2022 10:55

Showing my age here but the Starmaker scene in the TV series Fame.

In the story Mr Crandall played by Michael Croma is being forced out of the school and this is the schools tribute to him.

In real life Michael Croma was leaving the series as he was dying and this is a tribute to him by the cast so any emotions you see are for real.

Oh wow, haven’t seen this in about 40 years (showing my age too 🤣🤣🤣). Loved Fame.

AmeliaEarhart · 30/10/2022 12:57

Oh my god, the Terminator sacrificing himself while little John Conner sobs “I order you not to go!” 😭

Also that bit at the ends of Storks where they deliver all the babies to families who’ve been waiting for them. It makes me think of holding newborn DS for the first time after everything we’d been through to get there.

Ashard20 · 30/10/2022 13:01

The scene in Quantum Leap when Sam calls his father during the base ball game.

The end of Castaway when Tom Hanks turns up at her house in the pouring rain.

Meet Joe Black - the whole of the birthday ball scene onwards. Should I be afraid? Not a man like you...

And "Daddy. My Daddy!" in bucketfuls.

TheTantrumoftheToddlerIsThere · 30/10/2022 13:10

Nell’s ghost (bent neck lady) standing next to her own coffin at the end of the ‘Two Storms’ episode of Haunting of Hill House. She looks so sad and lonely. She’s been shown to be in the room throughout the whole episode yet no one but the audience can see her. And as the scene ends, young Nell’s voice over about how she was stood right there but no one could see her 😩

Anne Boleyn (in The Tudors) waving to her father from the Tower. He has just been released but she is still locked up. As he walks across the courtyard, he looks up to her window and her face lights up, she smiles and gives him a little wave, but her dad remains emotionless, turns his back and walks away. Her face drops as she realises he’s abandoning her to her fate and cutting all emotional ties with her. It’s made worse when later in the episode she dreams of happier days when she was a child and playing with her father 😢

Princess Shireen’s death in Game of Thrones. Her pleas for help, the crowd looking on sad but resigned, how even her stone hearted mother changes her mind and tries to intervene but is prevented from helping. And then the screams, my God the screams still haunt me 😭

Theeyeballsinthesky · 30/10/2022 13:27

not a TV show but Derek Redmond Olympics 1992. He was a brilliant but injury dogged runner but in 1992 he was finally fit for the Olympic 400m. He started the race but his hamstring went & he had to pull up. He collapsed down into the track as the others finished but then got up & began to limp around the track determined to finish. The officials tried to stop him so his dad ran into the track to help him & together they finished the race. I bawl every single time I see it

Sarahcoggles · 30/10/2022 13:36

Terms Of Endearment, when Debra Winger tells her kids she's going to die of cancer, and the youngest one is crying. I challenge any mother of young children to watch this without crying.

Namechangedforthisonetoday · 30/10/2022 14:51

Hope Floats where Sandra Bullock is dancing with her Dad who has dementia. I’m a sobbing mess everytime.

Princecharlesfirstwife · 30/10/2022 14:53

In the film About Time - the beach scene with his son as a little boy.

Namechangedforthisonetoday · 30/10/2022 14:57

Oh yes notacooldad! I forgot about 12 days of Christine. That was such a well written piece of TV.

darisdet · 30/10/2022 15:00

Anne Boleyn (in The Tudors) waving to her father from the Tower. He has just been released but she is still locked up. As he walks across the courtyard, he looks up to her window and her face lights up, she smiles and gives him a little wave, but her dad remains emotionless, turns his back and walks away. Her face drops as she realises he’s abandoning her to her fate and cutting all emotional ties with her. It’s made worse when later in the episode she dreams of happier days when she was a child and playing with her father

I should come up with some of my own examples but I remember this scene well. It was so well done.

NancyPickford · 30/10/2022 15:25

Jessie's Song in Toy Story 2.

stopitstopitnow · 30/10/2022 15:32

The scene in "Anne" when Kevin tells her he has tickets for the Leppings Lane end at Hillsbourough. He is so excited and I'm sat there with tears in my eyes thinking...."please don't let him go", knowing full well what happened to him there.

EsmaCannonball · 30/10/2022 17:02

Inside No.9, The Twelve Days of Christine.

The Railway Children.

The end of Cinema Paradiso. But it has to be the Director's Cut version.

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Soubriquet · 30/10/2022 17:13

Dd (9) has a bloody heart of stone.

We are binge watching Harry Potter as she recently got into the books…

So we’ve just seen Dobby die. Did she shed a tear? Not a drop

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GorgeousLadyofWrestling · 30/10/2022 18:28

In Shooting the Past when Lindsay Duncan is showing the American developer the pictures of the little German girl, and telling him the story through the photographs.

KindleBlanketsandmugoftea · 30/10/2022 18:31

The land before time 🥺 if you know you know 😓

keeprunningupthathill · 30/10/2022 19:05

Dogtooth · 30/10/2022 10:17

The bit in empire of the sun where the boy is separated from his mother in a crowd as people flee the city when the Japanese invade - they're holding hands but get pulled apart and he's alone in refugee camps etc for the rest of the film. Horrified me as a kid (you can be separated from your parents and they can't find you) now horrifies me afresh as a mother.

The whole of grave of the fireflies. I can't even start explaining the plot without crying.

Grave of the fireflies, omg. Watched it once years ago now and never again! I always sob at Arrival when her daughter dies from cancer at the start and it's sort of a montage where she's walking the hospital corridors. And then (spoiler alert) ...when she says who is this child and you realise it hasn't happened yet. Awful. I cry even just hearing the music. Since I had my first anything related to children sets me off so the Railway Children gets me every time too.

Lotsofpots · 30/10/2022 19:35

I defy anyone to watch this scene in The Big C and not weep. Context: Adam has just found out his mum has terminal cancer.

ureterr1blemuriel · 30/10/2022 20:05

The Royle Family - Queen of Sheba episode.

Its the one where nana dies - so realistic, moving and is all about love. I’m welling up just thinking about it. Such a good show