You instantly cry

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Just listening to Abbas slipping through my fingers'and can't avoid crying much to the kids amusement.

Also for me nannas speech to Barbara in the 'Royal family'when she says she just wished to be with her family and not in a home.

Also Daddy my Daddy in the railway children.

Also opening sequence of up

What's your weak point?

Births, deaths, marriages

The bit in Saving Private Ryan when the officers go and inform Ryan's mother that her sons have dies. She goes out on the porch and then crumples to the ground as they approach because she knows what is coming

The memorial for executed consciencious objectors which I have to pass at least twice a day.

'The Letter' from Billy Elliot. Every. Time.

Why do I have it on my car playlist?

'She must've been really special Billy.'

'No, she was just me Mam!'

Who will love my children and terms of endearment always has me in floods and butch dingles funeral in emmerdale I even cried telling my sister about it later.

I can bring myself to tears just by thinking this.

"The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

The Harry Potter books were such a big part of my childhood, and the last film came out just as I finished uni and met the man I'm about to marry. I was an absolute wreck going around the Harry Potter studio tour!

Ehric - so glad it's not just me with the children singing.

Just for good measure, at the last school concert, two angelic 13yo's singing "slipping through my fingers"

When I sing "puff the magic dragon " to my little boy. His nickname is Jackie like the boy in the song....I become quite hysterical and explain to him that if he has a special dragon he must never,ever leave him. He is 17 weeks old LOL

Kato

Have you seen the stage play? That's more of a tearjerker than the film!

Newt yes the private Ryan scene. I have to leave the room.

Emilie Sande too abide with me so beautiful.

I seem to be ridiculously affected by comic book adaptations

Watchmen, the last conversation between Rorschach and Dr Manhattan. Jackie Earle Haley nails it perfectly and as soon as his bottom lip starts wobbling I'm gone.

Thor 2, Loki being heroic and the scene between him and Thor afterwards. Wasn't expecting it at all and blubbed in the cinema.

Hellboy II, the death of the forest god. It's just so sad

Newt I have indeed, it's the song that KILLS me! But I still insist on listening to it in the car and go to pieces!

This was ages ago in the thread, Lulu and Exitpursued but yes to the ambulances thing! I never met heard of anyone else who does this!

Bloody hell. I'm BAWLING at this thread. Lots of the above, clearly, especially 'Daddy, my Daddy.'
My husband was in Afghanistan for four months just before my daughter turned 4, and when he finally came home it was a surprise (the day before my 30th and three days before DD was 4). He knocked the door, and when I opened it she shouted exactly that. 'Daddy. MY DADDY.' At the time I was too surprised to cry, but now I can't even think about it without sobbing.

The end of Winnie the Pooh. Beaches. Marley and Me. Any children singing any song. The end of Ashes to Ashes when she realises she's dead and is clutching her daughter's scarf. Sophie's Choice - fuck me the little girl screaming will never leave me.

Like others have said, I'm nails with RL stuff.

Oh God, loads but here's some snippets.

Massed voices: choirs, opera choruses. I find it spine-tingling.

Aretha Franklin singing Natural Woman.

Just thinking about Dolly Parton singing Little Sparrow live, a capella.

The end of a play/dance thing/any live performance when the audience applauds, and especially if there's lots of shouting, whooping, whistling etc.

The end of Winnie the Pooh. Christ. Welling up now.

As a kid, the end of every episode of The Littlest Hobo when the people realised he was going and not coming back. And the theme tune.

Truly Madly Deeply when George the pest-control man says he talks to his dead wife every day and 'tells her his day', then looks kindly at Nina and says 'And death shall have no dominion. We know that, don't we, me and you?'

Songs. Always songs for me.

Puff the Magic Dragon

Cats in the Cradle - hellfire I can't even listen to it without getting all chokey-faced and incoherent, and it's the best reminder I ever need to be an attentive Dad

Can't listen to Tears in Heaven but have to say that Clapton released another song about the death of his son that is like a weaponised version of "Tears-" and is about the outing he had with his son the day before the poor child died. It's called "Circus" and I don't dare listen to it anymore.

The scene in Dumbo, when the Mum is locked up and she puts her trunk out of the window and holds Dumbo - "sweet baby of mine"... since I had my son (now 15!) I always shed a tear...

Oh yes, and War Horse (the play). I was in bits as soon as Joey came on as a foal at the beginning.

I almost forgot my guilty pleasure film, Secretariat.

It's the last race, especially the bit where the music cuts out.

Kato. I have seen it 3 times now . The last time was with my 11 year old DS, planning on seeing it with the 14 year old. Desperately self-indulgent of me but it's a great play.

Fooso Oh yes! Me too

Recently, I read Good Wives with DD1. If you don't know it, it's the follow-on to Little Women. There's a chapter when Meg's husband dies, and the whole chapter talks about how good a man he was, so loving a father and husband etc. I've always got through it OK, but DD1 just dissolved into a soggy heap halfway through (it led to a thread on here, asking for help in answering her question 'Why do books have sad bits in them?' ). Now, I cannot read that bit of the book without getting all teary, thinking about my lovely daughter and her so far charmed life, and how I wish with all my heart that I could make John Brooks' death the worst thing she ever has to go through. And knowing that I can't.

Beth Neilson Chapman 'Sand and Water'

All alone I heal this heart of sorrow
All alone I raise this child
Flesh and bone, he's just bursting towards tomorrow
And his laughter fills my world and wears your smile

After the death of her husband. Leaves me in floods every time.

Also yes to Dumbo and Beth dying in Little Women, am putting off reading it to DD's cos I don't think I can!

That advert where that baby boy is lying in a cot and the Dr says this is child abuse and then they say William will survive this time is it save the children first time I saw it ds1 no seven was a baby always makes me well up.

Oh yes lots of these!!

And Harry Connick Jnr doing "drifting"

I see your eyes drifting, drifting
I'm really not that naive
You wear a smile but it's drifting, drifting
While I wear my heart on my sleeve
I feel your coldness against my skin
I know what follows the autumn wind
And though you say your heart isn't drifting, drifting
The words simply don't ring true
You're drifting and I'm losing you

So many.....I'm going to see if this outs me: -

Theme from Champions - also used as Grand National music. Cannot hear it without welling up.

YY to the bits in Railway Children, Toy Story, Love Actually. Also the bit in Tangled where they've found Rapunzel - where the guard gives the imperceptible nod.

Aragorn's speech outside Helm's Deep - it is NOT this day.

Many bits of Harry Potter

"Will you stay with me?" "to the end"
"even after all this time?" "always"

Anything involving pomp, the Remebrance Service. Sporting events.

I also cannot cope when you're watching something involving performing children, and the audience starts clapping along with the music and you just get this overwhelming sense of enjoyment and how much each person in the room is so invested in supporting these children doing well. I help out with drama and dance groups and I'm frequently red eyed.