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* ''[[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.

{{quote|''Annie'': I'd rob every penny from this calendar if it would buy me just one more hour with him.}}

*** 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!*

** [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=cfU75KEPV_U That song] is haunting.

{{quote|'''Charlotte''': ''How very special are we...for just a moment to be...part of life's eternal rhyme...''}}

** Serge's death, as well as the picture his daughter drew for him...

* The excellent ''[[Crash (film)|Crash]]'', has a few of these moments but none jerk tears more than the scene in which {{spoiler|the locksmith's 5-year-old daughter, believing herself to be wearing an invincible armour cloak, runs in front of her daddy as he's being held up by an angry, disillusioned gunman. The handgun accidentally discharges just as the girl leaps up to hug the father. Cue horrific closeup of the father's face after he realises that he made his daughter think she was impervious to bullets}}. {{spoiler|''Crowning Moment of Heartwarming'' occurs when you realize the ammo in the pistol was craftily loaded by the gunman's daughter with blanks, knowing her father would get into a situation like this.}}

* {{spoiler|Li Mubai and Shu Lien's [[Last Kiss]], followed by Mubai's [[Famous Last Words]] and his death in Shu-Lien's arms}} 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 proverbial "curtain call", when we see a final zoom in to every central character.

** {{spoiler|The deaths of Benjamin's crewmates after their battle at sea. Captain Clark's death is especially hard-hitting, as well as Pleasant's.}}

* 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 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. {{spoiler|Also, just how damn pitiful Kirill is when he's about to drown his baby half-sister. It's at first kind of [[Narm]] seeing him break down, but-- damn.}}

* ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]''

* 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 (film)|The Fall]]'', with Lee Pace, after Alexandria falls and encounters her dream sequence, she wakes up to Roy sitting by her.

** Odious beats up {{spoiler|the Masked Bandit/Roy, shoving him in the water repeatedly, all while doing this in front of the Bandit's ''daughter''}}. Just the way {{spoiler|Alexandria was repeatedly screaming for him to get up, as tears streamed down her face}} makes it so heartwrenching. He {{spoiler|lives, though}}.

** 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 {{spoiler|framing them for his "death"}} 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 [[Kick the Dog|shoots Quellek]]. For Quellek, [[It Has Been an Honor]] to serve Alexander Dane, whose [[Proud Warrior Race|culture and philosophy]] he had emulated for life. For Alexander, watching the only one who respected him [[It's Personal|die in his hands]] spurs him to deliver the line he hates the most as an actor: "[[Badass Creed|By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!]]"

* ''[[Gallipoli]]''.

* The ending of ''Gwoemul''.

 

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