Film/CG/Tear Jerker

"Annie: I'd rob every penny from this calendar if it would buy me just one more hour with him."
 * Calendar Girls generally keeps an upbeat tone, despite one of the main characters having to deal with the death of her husband. Then, near the ending, comes this line.

"Casper: Kat? Kat: Mm-hm? Casper: Can I keep you? Kat: Mm-hm. Casper: -kisses Kat's cheek- Kat: Casper? Close the window. It's cold."
 * Almost all the scenes with the titular character in Carrie: especially the scene where broken down for who had tried to kill her, she uses her powers to make the house crash into the ground, killing herself, and tries to hide in the same closet her mother used to throw her in.
 * One can't help but feel choked up seeing It gets me every time. This is disregarding the fact that
 * Overlapping with Crowning Moment of Heartwarming and Crowning Moment of Awesome (for Lazlo), the famous scene in Casablanca where Victor rallies the patrons and the band to play the French National Anthem, "La Marseillaise", drowning out the Nazis' "Wacht am Rhein". During the filming, there were several actors who cried in that scene, being European refugees themselves.
 * Casino Royale: Bond's desperate, futile attempts to to rescue and revive Vesper after she's drowned and the way he cradles her in his arms when it's obvious that she's gone. Daniel Craig displays so many emotions on his face within a few minutes that your heart feels as broken as his when it's all over.
 * Quite a lot of moments in Casper can definitely qualify here, but particularly when Kat falls asleep:

"Charlotte: How very special are we...for just a moment to be...part of life's eternal rhyme..."
 * Casper then curls up at the bottom of Kat's bed and falls asleep too.
 * When, and again when Bonus points for
 * The "death" of Wilson in Cast Away, for no reason that makes sense.
 * It does when you realise that for the main character to function normally in society, Wilson had to go.
 * Even sadder was the main character's return to society, when he realizes that the love of his life married someone else. Sure, there's a happy note at the end, but that doesn't soften the blow.
 * This all qualifies as a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Tom Hanks, who not only managed to carry a movie by himself for two hours - no music, no other actors, just him - and to top it all off, he made you cry for a volleyball.
 * Chariots of Fire is a slow build, beginning with the opening credit scene on the beach and Vangelis' score, but culminates in the scene where Ian Holm' Sam Mussabini, barred from the Olympic stadium, only learns that Abrahams has won the 100m when he sees the British flag rise over the stadium from his dingy hotel room. *Hat punch!*
 * The death of Charlotte in Charlotte's Web. As the Nostalgia Critic put it in his Top 11 Saddest Nostalgic Moments, "I'll never use a can of Raid again."
 * That song is haunting.

"Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
 * Cheaper By the Dozen (the remake)
 * When Mark runs away because he feels out of place in his family - something his siblings have only made worse throughout the movie up till this point.
 * The line at the end about "There are times when l want to kill Sarah...but l'd kill for her all the time." brings on the tears.
 * The documentary Children Full of Life, about a Tokyo school teacher whose two priorities are "everyone should be happy" and that his students learn empathy because he fears "people respect life less and less every day".
 * Part one
 * Part two
 * Part three
 * Part four
 * Part five
 * Children of Men had also quite a number of tear jerkers. Particularly the scene where . Or the scene where.
 * In the first scene mentioned above.
 * Making the scene particularly memorable and heart-wrenching was the incredibly human reactions of the refugees and the soldiers. The refugees - of all races, colors, and creeds - were letting it all out, crying and rejoicing at the same time. The soldiers, meanwhile, mostly stare at the baby with silent amazement. A few get down on their knees to pray. A couple try to hide tears with sniffles. Another guy looks on completely oblivious to his commander squawking on the radio. And yet it seemed as though every one of them was saying "Oh God. Our lives were not wasted." A great performance by the movie's "extras".
 * That scene with is all the more awful because of what happens a few seconds later..
 * A sign of the significance of the birth. That rocket flew close enough to them that had there been any shrapnel, it might have killed them. The rebels didn't get any more shots off after someone fired that rocket.
 * Chinatown.
 * Chinatown.

"Susie:' Are you God? Seth: No. My name is Seth. Susie: Where are we going? Seth: Home. Susie: Can Mommy come? Seth: No. Susie: She won't understand. Seth: She will...someday."
 * The Chipettes singing "My Mother" to the baby penguin in The Chipmunk Adventure.
 * Citizen Kane. The ending of the film. It's certainly sad because it features the death of the protagonist, but it is also strangely happy because it shows that he really wasn't the heartless monster that people spoke about for most of the film; he had a sentimental side to him, after all.
 * It's even more depressing once you understand that
 * The expression on the Tramp's face, at the end of Chaplin's City Lights.
 * The first few lines in City of Angels, between Seth and the little girl, especially the "Someday she'll understand" part.

"Sandler: spoiler: Family ... comes ... first. Promise me! His son: I promise, Dad."
 * Maggie storms out on Seth, leaving him looking as shattered as a seemingly emotionless angel can. This is sad enough as is...and then they start playing "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan, with Maggie getting into her bed, asking the invisible Seth, "Let me see you...just stay...just stay until I fall asleep."
 * The Chinese film CJ7: Near the end, when Dicky and his father Chow's lives finally begin to take a turn for the better,.
 * Click: When the main character  made me blubber like a baby at a 'stay up all night' sleepover.

"So who has got away with murder? Not, of course, the British government. They merely covered up, as one does, the offensive corpses- though not literally; that was done by person or persons unknown. So who has committed murder? Not, of course, the highly respectable firm of KDH Pharmaceutical, which has enjoyed record profits this quarter, and has now licensed Zimba Med of Harare to continue testing Dypraxa in Africa. No, there are no murders in Africa. Only regrettable deaths. And from those deaths we derive the benefits of civilization, benefits we can afford so easily... because those lives were bought so cheaply."
 * The moment right before when he pretends to give his ex-wife's new husband the finger, then mimes that he's only joking, and instead changes it to a "You're OK" symbol.
 * The part of that scene that really hits me is when his son, newly married, puts his head down on the main character's chest, crying some truly gut-wrenching sobs.
 * For me, the waterworks started probably around the point where the main character realizes his father is dead and finds out what happened the last time he saw him.
 * Also, when he tries to go back to the moment of his father's death, and Walken's character tells him "you can't go back. You weren't there."
 * The main character yells at his father that he knows how you do the magic trick that the father has been so proud of throughout the film, right after the father was trying to cheer the main character up with the same magic trick.
 * Cloverfield: the Mood Whiplash at the end of the "found footage" has caused its fair shore of sniffles.
 * Cocoon:
 * The Color Purple's last act in general is both heartrending and heartwarming.
 * The Constant Gardener. Dear God, where to begin? Perhaps the Lost Love Montage where Justin remembers falling in love with Tessa while sitting alone in her garden, crying.
 * Poor old Tim Donohue trying to dissuade Justin from unearthing the conspiracy behind Tessa's death and the other related death; when Justin naturally refuses, Tim sadly remarks "We'll both be dead by Christmas. Mine's Cancer... my pain is controllable..."
 * The aftermath of the bandit attack on the village.
 * Ham's bitter speech at Justin's funeral, which also crosses over with his Crowning Moment of Awesome.


 * Say what you like about The Core, Brazzleton's death scene is wrenching. Something about a guy withstanding 400+ degrees and still pushing it for a cause he volunteered for...
 * Serge's death, as well as the picture his daughter drew for him...
 * The excellent Crash, has a few of these moments but none jerk tears more than the scene in which.
 * Crossing, a film about North Korean refugees. Its depiction of how people live in that country actually managed to get a theater crying. It definitely succeeds in portraying Kim Jong-il as an Always Chaotic Evil Overlord with 0% Approval Rating...
 * in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
 * Crow has a scene that gets me everytime. As Eric leaves Albrecht's apartment and Albrecht asks "Are you gonna disappear into thin air again?", Eric turns to him, the heartbreaking look on his face and says "I think I'll just use your front door." It told me that that he misses the simple pleasures of living.
 * The film version of The Crow is rapid-fire Mood Whiplash, alternating between tear-jerking and fist-pumping, but even if you've held it together through the whole movie, the final few minutes, in which Eric has to explain to Sarah that he can't stay and take care of her shortly before the final battle, which culminates in him finally killing Top Dollar by inflicting upon him Shelly's final "thirty hours of pain" after having been stabbed through the gut, moments before he finally collapses on top of his own grave, and Shelly appears to bring him to Heaven is impossible to keep a dry eye through.
 * This is without the Reality Subtext taken into consideration.
 * The opening music is tear jerking, particularly near the end of the piece.
 * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was full of them toward the end. For instance,.
 * The first ten minutes of the movie (i.e., the Gateau anecdote) can leave you in tears.


 * When Benjamin (appearing to be in his early 20s) walks into Daisy's dance studio and sees her again for the first time in a decade, then sees their 12-year-old daughter. Especially the part where all he can do is just shake hands with her and say hi.



"A Knight is sworn to Valor. His Heart knows only Virtue. His Blade Defends the Helpless. His Strength Upholds the Weak. His Word speaks only Truth. His Wrath Undoes the Wicked!"
 * The proverbial "curtain call", when we see a final zoom in to every central character.
 * The end of The Dambusters where Richard Todd, as Guy Gibson, says he has to write some letters and the scenes of the empty rooms and empty seats in the dining hall as the travel clock slowly ticks to a stop. Made even more poignant by the fact Richard Todd was an officer in the Paratroopers during World War II (he declined the offer to play himself in The Longest Day) and so had personal experience of having to write letters to the families of those that had died under his command.
 * Also Gibson's dog being hit and killed by a car and him looking at the scratch marks on the door and dropping the lead into the wastepaper basket, and knowing (perhaps from the book) that he was going to have his dog buried at the same time as he was due to be going into the attack against the dam, so that if he was shot down they would both be going into the ground at the same time.
 * The last third of Dancer in the Dark is guaranteed to bring the audience to tears as Selma is torn down in front of the audience and the movie ends with.
 * Also, this movie is so emotionally devastating that some people admit to not even being able to finish the movie because it is just that heartbreaking to watch.
 * Speaking of dancers, The Dancer Upstairs, especially the suddenness of the extremists machine-gunning the wounded schoolgirl they had seemingly left behind. They had left her so that they could take them both out when the investigator was over her. He backed up in time but felt guilty for doing so. The entire movie is principally how charismatic cult/extremist leaders recruit and target young children specifically for the things law enforcement will sometimes overlook because they're under age. The cult leader himself is a Mansonite hippy, and I'm sure we all remember what eventually happens to the Manson family members themselves...
 * The final scene of Dances with Wolves, Dunbar and Stands With A Fist leave the tribe to protect them from searching U.S. soldiers. As they depart, they hear Wind In His Hair, one of the Lakota tribe members most hostile to Dunbar when he initially made contact with the tribe, shouting proudly from a hilltop that he is Dunbar's friend and always will be. The final text doesn't help the tear flow, either.
 * The little girl in the documentary The Dark Side of Chocolate with the open wounds in her legs. Also the little trafficked boy crying. It's sad that this goes on and so many don't know about it.
 * The ending scene of Dark Water (the original Japanese version), in which.
 * The end of Das Boot, where
 * The Masterpiece Theater movie of David Copperfield: Peggotty tells David through his door that he's going to be sent away to school, but that she'll always love him.
 * Dawn of the Dead: "You're going to kill my family?!"
 * Dead Poets Society
 * Neil was bad enough.
 * The final scene, where, after Mr. Keating, they defy the authority of the dean, standing on their desks to give him a farewell. "O Captain, My Captain!"
 * Neil's mom screaming "He's okay, he's okay!". * Sniff* Intense.
 * When Neil's father has just finished chewing him out, and Neil is sitting with his mother. He has a completely spaced-out and in-the-clouds look on his face as he says, "I was really great, wasn't I?"
 * There's a relatively little-known indie film called Dear Wendy. In the last few scenes of the film, the group gets into an altercation with the law, and.
 * Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father will break your spirit, leave you without Kleenex for months and smile at the wonder of the human spirit.
 * The entirety of the Bittersweet Ending of Deep Impact.
 * Particularly the scene where Oren gets the chance to talk to his wife (and infant son Oren Jr.) for the last time, especially considering that Oren was blinded earlier in the film and it's a son he'll never see. "Be good, Oren... be good..."
 * That scene was brutal. "Look at it this way: we'll all get high schools named after us."
 * The Deer Hunter:
 * Two symbolical scenes: At first Mike shots a deer. But after the war, he's unable to kill a living being.
 * Russian roulette scene.
 * Steve (the one who lost his limbs) who doesn't want to come back home to live with his wife,
 * Nick being unable to remind his parents names.
 * An uneasy relationship between Linda and Mike (Mike loved her since the beginning, and Linda starts to love Mike in the end).
 * Mike returning to his hometown, deciding to drive to the hotel (despite everybody's waiting to invite him).
 * The apogee: Mike plays roulette with Nick after the war.
 * The ending meal, followed by credits.
 * In the 2008 movie about Jewish refugees in Belarus, Defiance, one of the four brothers learns from survivors from a neighboring town that his wife and son are dead. His reaction is heartwrenching.
 * Later in the movie, the Jews are enduring a harsh winter out in the forest where they've made their home. With no food, everyone is slowly weakening and losing hope. So Daniel Craig leads his beautiful white horse out away from the camp, pats its snout one last time, and shoots it.
 * The ending of De-Lovely when Cole and Linda Porter sing "In the Still of the Night" as the camera pulls back and they fade to black. I'm not usually the person to cry at the end of a movie.
 * Unusually for a horror movie, most of the deaths are Tear Jerkers in The Descent. Most obviously
 * Despicable Me: when Gru reads the 'Three Little Kittens' book to the girls. Especially when he reaches the end of it.
 * Dinner for Schmucks, where Tim finds the pictures of the mouse dioramas of Barry and his ex-wife.
 * "I called her Pudding..."
 * In District 9 at the end of the film, when they are talking to the main character's wife about the handcrafted stuff Wikus would make her, . This scene is just so sweet.
 * Christopher talking to his son after the fluid fiasco, showing him the District 10 brochure. "We go home now?" "No, we have to go here. See this tent? It might be ours. It will be better." "I want to go home!" He's just trying to make the best of a friggin' horrible situation. And
 * "Father!"
 * Wikus' huge Heel Face Turn itself, especially when he
 * The section in Dodgeball where Steve is told that he's not a pirate.
 * The end to Donnie Darko: (see it all here). Then, the song "Mad World" starts playing at the credits, and you really start to lose it.
 * The part that really go to me (it may have only been in the director's cut) was where Donnie gets into a debate in his English class over Watership Down, asking why the reader should care if the stupid rabbits live or die, and he sounds pretty desperate.
 * Draco's death in Dragonheart, especially when it goes quiet and the only thing you can hear is the sound of his beating heart as it slows down and stops. Set to the heartbreakingly beautiful "To The Stars" rendition of the main theme. Damn you, Randy Edelman.
 * Draco's death in Dragonheart, especially when it goes quiet and the only thing you can hear is the sound of his beating heart as it slows down and stops. Set to the heartbreakingly beautiful "To The Stars" rendition of the main theme. Damn you, Randy Edelman.

"Baroness: How could anyone love a pebble in their shoe?"
 * Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, right after the challenge match at the karate convention. We've been taken on a tense thrill ride, as the seconds count down to the appointed time limit ... and with only about three seconds left, Bruce Lee wins. The swell of celebratory music and the rotating pan around Lee as the crowd realises what he's done left me in tears.
 * Dreamgirls. Specifically, "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going".
 * Drop Dead Fred
 * The main character has just taken medicine to get rid of Fred, then overhears her husband on the phone, finally realizes he's cheating on her, turns away with her world spinning around her... and then Fred, on the floor and still in pain, reaches out to her with compassion on his face: "Come."
 * The whole scene where Lizzie frees her younger self from where she was tied to the bed, then Fred tells her that she has to go now and he can't go back with her now. "Look, you've got you now. You don't need me, not anymore. So... goodbye."
 * In The Duchess, when Georgiana has to give her out-of-wedlock child to her lover's family, and has to be all but dragged away by her friend - who, incidentally, became the mistress of Georgiana's husband mostly because his power enabled her to get her children back from her abusive husband.
 * Eastern Promises: Not the only moment in what was overall a very dark movie, but the contents of Tatiana's diary (both translated by various characters and in voiceovers) are wrenching.
 * Edward Scissorhands
 * The music alone is tear jerking.
 * The moment where Kim (Winona Ryder) realises the situation looks so bad that the mob of suburbanites will be too angry to reason with, and half-whispers "Run". Heartbreaking.
 * "Hold me." "... I can't."
 * The ending from Danny Elfman's Awesome Music to the final lines of dialogue.
 * The scenes with Vincent Price. This was one of his lasts performances, and though he was pretty ill and frail when filming, he gave it his all. For a guy who did mostly science fiction and horror b-movies, he was dead serious about putting everything he had into his characters, and this movie is a very dignified final appearance for him.
 * "He didn't wake up."
 * And then the scene where as the.
 * Ed Wood has many tearjerking moments focusing on Bela Lugosi's descending parable:
 * While shooting a night scene for Bride of the Monster, Bela suddenly tells Ed Wood that he turned down the role of Frankenstein that was offered him after Dracula.
 * Bela breaks into sobs while explaining to the nurse why he's checking into rehab.
 * His funeral, followed by a sequence of Ed alone watching Bela's last footage.
 * The last 10 minutes or so of Daft Punk's Electroma. Everything from to the end credits. The whole movie's pretty sad, but those last scenes... blimey.
 * Any scene in The Elephant Man that involves people being mean to Merrick. Especially the stuff in Europe.
 * "I used to read The Bible every day, I know it very well -- the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. The twenty-third psalm is very beautiful -- it's my favorite." "Why didn't you tell me you could read?" "You did not ask me... You wanted me to speak, but I was afraid."
 * Merrick's last sleep, with "Adagio for strings" and beautiful monologue (from Tennyson's poem): "Never, oh! never, nothing will die. The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats. Nothing will die.".
 * Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas has a number called "When the River Meets the Sea." It's a hymn-like song about death, which is already bad enough, but the instrumental coda is somehow even more depressing still. Which is far more powerful effect than they probably intended for the scene where Emmet puts the fateful hole in his mother's washtub, which is definitely worrysome but should not make the audience cry.
 * And then we cut straight to Emmet and his friends practicing their upbeat number for the contest. Mood Whiplash that would give that spring song from Bambi that the Nostalgia Critic joked about a run for its money.
 * The end of Empire of the Sun,
 * For that matter,
 * At the end of End of Days,
 * The bits in Equilibrium when Preston first sees the sun rise off of the medication and  can't help but force you to choke up a little bit. Obscurely contrasting with an hour and a half of Crowning Moments of Awesome makes them all the better and proves Christian Bale's versatility as an actor.
 * Preston breaking down after the latter made this editor Christian Bale fan. Well, that and his badassery throughout the rest of the movie.
 * The weeping Baby from Eraserhead is somewhere between this and Nightmare Fuel. There's also the state of Henry's apartment.
 * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which Jim Carrey signs up for a procedure to erase the memories of his former girlfriend, only to realize halfway through that he doesn't want to do it, but finds that he can't stop it now. Especially at the end, when
 * Ever After, a Cinderella movie during the Renaissance:
 * Drew Barrymore's character had to pretend to be a noblewoman to save the life of a servant. While doing this, she caught the eye of the prince. At the climax of the film, she had just escaped from the room her stepmother had locked her up in and managed to get to the ball. But just as the prince reached her and was about to introduce her to everyone as his new wife, her stepmother revealed to everyone that she was actually just a servant and not a noblewoman, horribly humiliating her in the process. The prince, shocked and angry at being deceived, publicly rejected her, humiliating her even more. Left with no choice, she quickly fled the scene in tears. It always yanked my heart during that scene because of everything that she had went through during the whole movie, fighting against the enormous odds to go to the ball and tell the prince the truth, only for all her efforts to be wasted.
 * There's also the scene right after that, when she's back to doing chores and the Baroness is taunting her. When Danielle finally snaps and screams that she is the only mother she's ever known, and asks her if she ever once loved her at all.

""Dear God, make me a bird so that I could fly far. Far, far away from here." *sniff* "I may not be smart, but I know what love is." "I really miss you, Jenny." Forrest: Then, Bubba said something I won't ever forget. Bubba: I wanna go home. "Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks.""
 * As if the look on Danielle's face isn't enough, seconds later she is . Her screams as she's dragged away and the other servants try to save her... its absolutely heartbreaking.
 * The last half hour of Everybody's Fine. This could fall under Narm for some.
 * The end of the second Evil Dead. After everything Ash has gone through, from being forced to kill his girlfriend, to having to cut off his own right hand, you'd think he'd get a break. Cue him being thrown into the past, wailing pitifully as he's being regaled as a savior from the sky and realizing he still hasn't escaped.
 * The breakdown of the Mickey Rourke character in The Expendables. You hear him talking about the leadup to his Heroic BSOD, and a part of you just goes numb.
 * In the Tarsem movie, The Fall, with Lee Pace, after Alexandria falls and encounters her dream sequence, she wakes up to Roy sitting by her.
 * Odious beats up . Just the way makes it so heartwrenching. He.
 * All the while, in real life, . Also, . This is quite possibly the only time the.
 * "No more fighting! He needs to go to his daughter, she's afraid!"
 * Fearless: I did not win!
 * While we're at it "It's not about me any more" and "We stand strong"... and the rest of the last 20 minutes of the movie.
 * In Felidae, there are several different tear jerking moments specifically death.
 * Fearless (and no, not the Jet Li movie): Fearless is a 1993 movie that starred Jeff Bridges playing a survivor of a horrific plane crash, and throughout the whole movie, seems to be stuck between in a state of not really feeling alive (in fact, through most of the movie, he comes off as kind of an asshole).  The final scene is one of the most emotional scenes in a movie.
 * "I'm alive! I'm alive!" For some reason, this moment overwhelmed me with both elation and gut-wrenching grief.
 * Three words: Field of Dreams.
 * "Hey Dad? You wanna have a catch? I'd like that." Brace for tears.
 * The ending of Final Fantasy the Spirits Within.
 * The English narration of past events in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children was done so beautifully and simply that it was heartbreaking in its own right, but especially this one line: "Someone I love went back to the lifestream too."
 * Also, the final moments of the movie, watching Aeris walk away, then turn so we can finally see her face, the little farewell wave from Zack, and the final lines: "See? Everything's okay." "You're right. I'm not alone." The combination of Cloud finally smiling, surrounded by the children he has helped cure, being congratulated by his team-mates and some closure on Aerith. All this happening in that god damn church. The orchestral piece Cloud Smiles that plays during the scene tops it all off, as it is just fucking beautiful.
 * Finding Neverland: Sylvia actually walks into Neverland in her home, before she . Then there was the ending scene just with James and Peter on the bench.
 * Once the situation of Robin's character in The Fisher King really sinks in, it's heartbreaking.
 * The death of in Flubber. Think the death of a  isn't heartwrenching? Think again.
 * The Fly 2: Despite being a gore-splattered sequel of Jeff Goldblum's body horrific Fly, the one scene that made me almost break down in tears was when Martin (Brundlefly's son) finds the telapod golden retriever he befriended two years earlier hideously mutated and chained in a tiny cage. Martin's employer, Bartok, kept the mutated dog alive for the past two years despite being promising Martin he had put it out of its misery a long time ago. And despite the dog being in terrible pain, it still fondly remembers Martin, who ends its misery by euthanizing it with chloroform. It's this scene that elevates Bartok's station as a smug snake into an utter and complete monster.
 * The Wikipedia article stated the mutated dog scene disturbed a lot of viewers when the movie came out in theaters.
 * The remake with Jeff Goldblum qualifies: the bit where at the end he's just desperately trying to cling to his fleeting humanity, getting a few screws loose in his head while he's at it, so he tries to absorb his wife and unborn baby into his being, ending with him a Body Horror and pulling the shotgun onto his forehead as a mutant fly creature, doesn't help there's like no epilogue and the film ends there.
 * When Amy hits Igor in Fly Away Home. The thud and the way she screams after she hits him, terrified that she's hurt him badly always makes me tear up, even after seing the film dozens of times.
 * After a brotherhood moment in Flyboys when The Squad stuck up for their friend
 * in The Forbidden Kingdom.
 * Forrest Gump:

"Omar: Now, you stay here. And you tell them I was smiling."
 * When Forrest meets his son for the first time, and he asks Jenny, looking frightened, "Is he smart, or is he...?"
 * Seeing Lieutenant Dan broken and legless after Forrest saves him. "I was supposed to die on the field! With honor! It was my destiny, and you...cheated me out of it! I was Lieutenant...Dan Taylor..."
 * The Fountain. After, and he's sitting in his bedroom . Actually, the whole ending of that movie too. Heartbreaking.
 * The moment where the main character is particularly painful..
 * Four Lions, a Black Comedy about inept suicide bombers, stays upbeat until the last ten minutes..

"Archie: What are your legs? Springs. Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? As fast as a leopard! Then let's see you do it."
 * Freedom Writers: While the entire movie kind of gently tugs at your heartstrings, the biggest bit is.
 * Idgie telling Ruth one last story in Fried Green Tomatoes.
 * And oddly (or perhaps not, all things considered), that final shot of the Whistle Stop Cafe, dilapidated and weathered and abandoned, with the whole town gone. It just seemed to encapsulate everything Idgie lost, everything we loved about her town.
 * An old Spencer Tracy movie called Fury. His character had been arrested in a case of mistaken identity and a lynch mob stormed the town jail and set it on fire, killing his dog and narrowly missing killing him as well. Then again at the end, when his girlfriend talked him out of  and he gave an impassioned-but-bitter speech about how he'd always thought of America as a place where you could find justice.
 * Galaxy Quest, when Sarris' minion shoots Quellek. For Quellek, It Has Been an Honor to serve Alexander Dane, whose culture and philosophy he had emulated for life. For Alexander, watching the only one who respected him die in his hands spurs him to deliver the line he hates the most as an actor: "By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!"
 * Gallipoli.
 * Frank (Mel Gibson) just can't quite run fast enough to get back to the trench with the order to stop the attack, and has to watch all his mates going over the top to their doom.
 * He doesn't see it, but instead hears the whistle blown by the Major to start the attack, causing him to collapse howling in despair. Who would've thought the sound of a tin whistle could be so traumatic.
 * Also during that scene, the soldiers awaiting the order to go, all writing last letters to loved ones and fixing them to the sandbags with their bayonets, then hanging their valuables - rings, watches, lockets - on the bayonet handles. Wordless and quite beautiful.
 * Just...

"General Robert E. Lee: General, you must look to your division. Major General George E. Pickett: General Lee... I have no division."
 * C. E. W Bean's accounts of Gallipoli were polished up to publish and might not have been a completely accurate and impartial reflection of events...but that bit? Completely true - there was a young Australian soldier (Wilfred Harper) who was last seen running for the trenches without a rifle, like 'a schoolboy in a foot-race'.
 * The soundtrack really doesn't help...
 * Gettysburg: After Pickett's Charge.

"Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead: Would like... to see General Hancock. Can you tell me... where General Hancock may be found? Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain: I'm sorry, sir. The general's down, he's been hit. Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead: No! Not both of us! Not all of us! Please, God!"
 * What gets me is when the officer on the horse during Pickett's charge is shot by the cannon right as the music turns tragic, and then it cuts to Lee pulling his binoculars away from his face with this sad expression...
 * It's made even more poignant when you realise that this is Pickeet's first time in an actual battle, He'd previously always arrived after the fact, and him realising just how brutal warfare just hammers it in.
 * Also, after Armistead has been shot, and is looking for his best friend, who was on the opposing side and whom he hasn't seen since before the war started.


 * Added to by Reality Subtext; Richard Jordan, who played Armistead, died shortly after filming, and this is his final scene ever.
 * Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai: During the final shootout when
 * Ghost Town. The scene where the main character is surprisingly touching for what was a riotous comedy up until then.
 * The final scenes of Gladiator, particularly.
 * And within that scene, the wheat field. Coupled with "Now We Are Free".
 * Glory, Denzel Washington's character violates orders and Colonel Shaw, played by Matthew Broderick is forced to have him whipped... in front of the whole regiment.
 * Moreso because when Pvt. Trip's shirt is ripped off, it's revealed his back is already a mess of scars from having been whipped as a slave. Shaw watches every moment, trying to keep a professional face but obviously hurting.
 * And then there's the Colonel's death in battle. And Washington picking up the flag for the first time. And the regiment seemingly being so close to victory but being slaughtered. And finally, the sad music playing as all the bodies, black and white, are set into the pit together.
 * Or even better, when the regiment is still in training, they receive news that the Confederate army had declared that any Black man found in uniform will be hanged, as will any White man found in command, there'll be no prisoners. Colonel Shaw says the Army will allow a discharge for anyone who wants it. The next morning he asks his friend, "How many are left?" When he doesn't answer, the camera pulls back to show that NOT ONE Black or White soldier has left. A choked up Shaw can only say "Glory Hallelujah". Damn straight.
 * And the fact that almost all of it is true! Studied this film as part of a 6th Form coursework on the modern media portrayal of the Civil War, and almost every part of this film is accurate, including all the above facts. Glory Hallelujah indeed.
 * One detail of the movie disagrees with historical sources. They say that Col. Shaw actually fell inside the fort upon being shot and that his entire regiment attempted entry to be with their Colonel, only to be slaughtered to a man. Probably a more powerful statement than even the movie made.
 * The Battle of Fredricksburg, as depicted in the film Gods and Generals, when the Irish Bridgade of the Union army encounters an Irish regiment of the Confederate army. Ordered into an impossible meat-grinder of a charge, the Union brigade is cut down in swathes. At the height of the slaughter, the Confederate commander, overwhelmed by the sight of so many of his countrymen dead by his own hand, breaks down into Manly Tears. When one learns that some of the officers on either side had formerly fought together in the Rebellion of 1848, having fled to America to escape British reprisals, it becomes almost heartbreaking.
 * There's a few similar scenes in the sequel, Gettysburg, in which the officers discuss those on the opposing side with whom they had previously served, some even being close friends, which are very moving.
 * The river scene where Union and Confederate soldiers trade coffee and tobacco elicited this so subtly, words cannot describe it.
 * The film version of Godspell: As with the play, it ends the morning after the crucifixion of Christ as his disciples (some crying) carry him away, leading into a reprise of "Day By Day". They round a corner of a building, and the camera then rounds it as well—and other people of New York City are walking past, a huge crowd of them, as the song continues in voiceover (we hadn't seen anyone but Jesus and his disciples in the city since the long prologue); the last shot is a freeze-frame of ordinary people going about ordinary lives. After the intensity of the crucifixion sequence, this ending is a punch to the gut.
 * The end of Godzilla vs. Destoroyah: . That and . It's perhaps the saddest Godzilla movie ever made.
 * Two Words: "Goodbye, Yoshido."
 * Try watching the original Gojira and not crying after learning that it's inspired by two horrific tragedies in Japan's history (the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the Lucky Dragon 5 incident). Go ahead, try.
 * The makers of the film painstakingly made the scenes of Godzilla's attack on Tokyo so eerily similar to how Hiroshima and Nagasaki looked after being bombed.
 * A good portion of the the original Gojira can bring you to tears. The children crying in the hospital, the leveled landscape of Tokyo, the mother and her children on the side of the street, the school children singing 'Oh Peace Oh Light Return', and finally.
 * One scene in Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah (1992): A Japanese WWII veteran turned mega business mogul comes face to face with Godzilla, who had saved his troops from an American Attack during WWII before he was even Godzilla. As the sad music starts to swell, you can see the recognition in Godzilla's Eyes amid the flashbacks to said time in the past. It looked as if Godzilla was cherishing said memories. And then, after the businessman nods, as if saying "yes, it's me", Godzilla roars (mournfully?) and.
 * Rebirth of Mothra trilogy: The death of Mothra Leo's mother is very tear-inducing. What gets me is Mothra Leo putting his head under her wing, crooning for her not to leave him and trying to prevent him from drowning. He fails and she sinks into the ocean with very sad music. Every a reviewer who picked on the film at Million Monkey's Theator said it was an emotionally draining scene for two models made out of rubber and styrofoam.
 * Why is there not even one mention of  at the end of "Godzilla 1985," followed by Raymond Burr's ending monologue?
 * The death of in Gone with the Wind, made all the more tragic by the fact that it could have been prevented entirely had Scarlett remembered an event from the beginning of the movie before the last second.
 * death scene, and the one immediately afterward, when Scarlett, the Aspie Poster-Girl, finally realizes that Ashley loves his wife more than he ever will her.
 * The German film Goodbye Lenin
 * Alex's mother finally.
 * And when Alex is riding home in the taxi.
 * At the end, Alex is showing his mother another fake news tape, and she says it's wonderful, but she's looking at her son, not the TV....
 * Goodbye, Mr. Chips. "I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys."
 * Good Morning Vietnam: The What A Wonderful World scene. Those shots of Vietnam's lush jungle and rice paddies and villages, and then shots of said peaceful villages being blown to bits. The shot of the lone bloody sandal sitting on the ground among the wreckage.
 * The Good Son with the crazy kid played by Culkin...Would any mother make that same decision?!
 * What, let him die? Seeing as it was a choice between him and the kid who was more of a son to her than he was, then.....
 * One of the more memorable scenes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is when The Good, Blondie, comes across a dying Confederate soldier  Manly Tears big time.
 * Good Will Hunting: "It's not your fault."
 * Gorillas in The Mist - After watching Diane Fossey (brilliantly played Sigourney Weaver) gradually gain the trust of the mountain gorillas, to see her sobbing over the decapitated corpse of her favorite gorilla Digit is heartwrenching. "They took his hands... they took his head... They took his HEAD!" Tears everytime.
 * Gran Torino, when Walt (Clint Eastwood) tricks the gang members who have terrorized the neighbourhood into
 * The end, in which the Gran Torino is willed to
 * No love for Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator? Charlie Chaplin plays a man who gets at the end. Becasue of that, he ends up having to give a speech in front of everyone who followed the dictator. His speech is so amazing, and so beautiful... And then you remember what the real Hitler did.
 * The final scene in The Great Ziegfeld, when Ziegfeld's stage extravaganzas flash before his eyes before he expires.
 * The Green Mile
 * The end . Especially during the death of John Coffey.
 * Paul's final monologue: "We each owe a death - there are no exceptions - but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile seems so long."
 * The revelation of how the two little girls Coffey supposedly raped and murdered really died:.
 * When Coffey walked into the execution chamber singing "Cheek to Cheek."
 * The whole movie is just one long blur of tears.
 * When Paul says, "On the day of my judgement, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That is was my job? My job?"
 * The cruelty of the witnesses at Coffey's execution, hurling epithets at him, none of them knowing that John is anything but a "monster."
 * Coffey begging Paul not to put the shroud over his head: "Please boss, don't put that thing over my face. Don't put me in the dark. I's afraid of the dark." The stricken expressions on the guard's faces when he says that crushes my heart.
 * Grumpier Old Men: "Looks like God remembered you, "
 * Guess Who's Coming For Dinner. Especially when you know the backstory behind the relationship of Ms. Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
 * The ending of Gwoemul.