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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.

* Almost all the scenes with the titular character in ''[[Carrie]]'': especially the scene where broken down for {{spoiler|having killed her mother}} 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.

** {{spoiler|Sue Snell's dream.}} One can't help but feel choked up seeing {{spoiler|Sue walk to where Carrie's house once stood and leave a bouquet of flowers for her.}} It gets [[Antwan|me]] every time. This is disregarding the fact that {{spoiler|Carrie's arm pops up from the rubble to grab Sue's arm, waking Sue up with screams of terror.}}

* 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYbEPZVVIA 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.

* Quite a lot of moments in ''[[Casper]]'' can definitely qualify here, but particularly when Kat falls asleep:

'''Kat:''' Casper? Close the window. It's cold. }}

** Casper then curls up at the bottom of Kat's bed and falls asleep too.

*** 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.

* ''[[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.

*** 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]]''.

* The Chipettes singing "My Mother" to the baby penguin in ''The Chipmunk Adventure''.

** It's even more depressing once you understand that {{spoiler|Kane died alone and miserable. All he ever wanted in life was to be loved. That's why Rosebud was the most important thing to him; it was the last time he was truly happy.}}

* 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.

'''Seth:''' She will...someday. }}

** 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, "[[Beautiful Dreamer|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, {{spoiler|1=Chow is killed in a construction accident, prompting Dicky's alien pet, CJ7, to try and revive him over and over again. Finally, Chow appears at his house, unaware of what has happened and he and Dicky find out CJ7 sacrificed all of its energy to revive Chow. As they attempt to save its life, CJ7 gives Dicky one final message: Continue with your school work}}.

* ''[[Click]]'': When the main character {{spoiler|died in the rain, trying in vain to tell his ex-wife he loves her after living only 3 days of his life}} made me blubber like a baby at a 'stay up all night' sleepover.

'''His son:''' I promise, Dad.]] }}

** 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 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...

* ''[[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.

** The ''first ten minutes of the movie'' (i.e., the Gateau anecdote) can leave you in tears.

** {{spoiler|Toward the end of the movie, when Daisy is walking with 80-year-old Benjamin, who now looks like a toddler and has become so young he can hardly walk.}}

** 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.

** {{spoiler|An aged Daisy reclines on the bed with Benjamin, who looks 6 and is in his pajamas, as she reads to him the same children's book that had been to read to them 60-something years earlier by Daisy's grandmother.}}

** {{spoiler|Benjamin's death scene, when he dies as an infant in Daisy's arms.}}

** 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.

** 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 end of ''[[Das Boot]]'', where {{spoiler|after surviving twice to die being depth-charged by destroyers and to be marooned in the bottom of the sea, the captain of the U-96 and some crewmen die during the Allies' bombardment of La Rochelle.}}

* ''[[Dead Poets Society]]''

** Neil {{spoiler|committing suicide because his father won't let him act}} was bad enough.

** The final scene, where, after Mr. Keating {{spoiler|gets sacked}}, they defy the authority of the dean, standing on their desks to give him a farewell. "O Captain, My Captain!"

** 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 {{spoiler|each member of the pacifist group is individually shot dead, with the exact path of each bullet being nearly scrupulously detailed, up to and including each bullet's path through the body of each victim}}.

** Two symbolical scenes: At first Mike shots a deer. But after the war, he's unable to kill a living being.

** Russian roulette scene.

** 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).

** 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 [[Shoot the Dog|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.

* ''Despicable Me'': when Gru reads the 'Three Little Kittens' book to the girls. Especially when he reaches the end of it.

** "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, {{spoiler|and she shows them a flower made of scrap metal, then it cuts to an alien (aka Wikus) crafting another for her}}. This scene is just so sweet.

** 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. {{spoiler|He is so clearly trying ''not'' to be the Messiah, to convince himself he shouldn't have to die for these foolish, ungrateful people.}}

* 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.

'''His Wrath Undoes the Wicked!''' }}

* ''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.

** 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 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.

** And then the scene where {{spoiler|Edward accidentally cuts his hands apart}} as the {{spoiler|inventor crumples to the floor}}.

** 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 {{spoiler|the silver robot's death and the gold robot's attempt(s) at suicide}} to the end credits. The whole movie's pretty sad, but those last scenes... blimey.

* Any scene in ''[[The Elephant Man]]'' that involves [[All of the Other Reindeer|people being mean to Merrick]]. Especially the stuff in Europe.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GajDw1NSFuw 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''.

** For that matter, {{spoiler|the tragedy of all the war had done to him, and how that fact is brutally driven home in that moment, because for all that they find each other again, in a very real way he isn't the kid they lost at the beginning of the war. The child they remember, the child he once was, is lost forever.}}

* At the end of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146675/ End of Days], {{spoiler|Satan possesses Jericho's body and attempts to rape Christine. With some encouragement from her and from Jericho's own looking for redemption for not protecting his wife and child, he impales himself on a sword from the statue of Saint Michael, which stops Satan long enough from consummating with Christine till after midnight. Just before he dies, Jericho sees a vision of his wife and child waiting for him on the other side.}}

* 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 {{spoiler|he and his girlfriend, both amnesiac but informed of what has happened, discuss getting back together, and the girl protests that they'll only end up breaking up again - and Jim Carrey says calmly, "Okay."}}

** 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.

** As if the look on Danielle's face isn't enough, ''seconds'' later she is {{spoiler|sold to a creepy older man who has previously implied how he'd love to spend some quality time with her}}. 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.'' {{spoiler|After suffering a heart attack on the plane home from visiting his daughter in Las Vegas, Frank (Robert [[De Niro]]) has a dream where his kids, as their younger selves, reveal their long-standing issues to him. He later wakes up with his three children he'd visited throughout the movie at his bedside and wonders where the fourth, David, is. He never answered the door to his apartment or returned Frank's phone calls, so he doesn't know why he's not there. Throughout the movie, it's made known that David has been arrested in Mexico for drug possession charges and his kids have been keeping the information from him until they know more about what's going on. Then his daughter tells him that David died of an overdose. After that, the movie is just a non-stop orgy of tears.}} 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.

** 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}}.

** All the while, in real life, {{spoiler|while Roy is going through his [[Creator Breakdown]], and Alexandria is pleading for him to stop}}. Also, {{spoiler|the moment when Darwin's monkey shows Darwin that he captured the butterfly Darwin wanted as he's dying}}. This is quite possibly the only time the {{spoiler|death of several line-less characters caused tears in many. Furthermore, the ''only'' time when learning a character dies (other than the scrappy, big bad, etc) isn't as sad as learning they didn't}}.

** "No more fighting! He needs to go to his daughter, she's afraid!" {{spoiler|As begged by a crying Alexandria. It breaks my heart, not only because she is clearly talking for herself, not the character—but also because Roy immediately has the bandit run to her to hug and comfort her as asked.}}

** 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 {{spoiler|Felicity's}} death.

* Three words: ''[[Field of Dreams]]''.

** "Hey Dad? You wanna have a catch? I'd like that." Brace for tears.

** 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 {{spoiler|dies}}. 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 {{spoiler|Weebo}} in ''[[Flubber]]''. Think the death of a {{spoiler|non-humanoid robot}} isn't heartwrenching? Think again.

** 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 [[Squick|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''.

* {{spoiler|Sparrow's death}} in ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]''.

* ''[[Forrest Gump]]'':

"Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks." }}

** When Forrest meets his son for the first time, and he asks Jenny, looking frightened, "Is he smart, or is he...?"

** The moment where the main character {{spoiler|sees the vision of his wife which has been haunting him for decades switch simultaneously with his wife's depiction of Isabella of Spain}} is particularly painful. {{spoiler|Especially the moment when he smiles and says, "I'm going to die". The little laugh at the end}}.

* [[Four Lions]], a [[Black Comedy]] about inept suicide bombers, stays upbeat until the last ten minutes. {{spoiler|Earlier in the film, ringleader Omar tells his son how martyrs die smiling. By the end, all of his friends have died for nothing, including naive [[Man Child]] Waj, who was terrified. He walks into a chemist and blows himself up, but not before saying his last words to a colleague standing nearby}}.

* ''[[Freedom Writers]]'': While the entire movie kind of gently tugs at your heartstrings, the biggest bit is {{spoiler|the 'Toast for Change' scene, when one student reads an entry from his journal, saying how when he and his mom got evicted from their house, and how worried he was about being made fun of for being homeless, when he came to his English class first hour, nothing else mattered. He was home. He reads it all on the verge of tears himself, and then the whole class--people who were formerly gang rivals who hated one another--gather around him for a group hug}}.

* 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 {{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.

* ''[[Gallipoli]]''.

** 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...

** 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'.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSC0RnAwbE\] The soundtrack really doesn't help...

* ''[[Gettysburg]]'': After Pickett's Charge.

'''Major General George E. Pickett''': General Lee... I have no division. }}

** 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.

'''Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead''': No! Not both of us! Not all of us! Please, God! }}

*** 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 {{spoiler|Louie shoots Ghost Dog as Ghost Dog pulls his gun from its holster. All the while Ghost Dog's best friend Raymond is frantically shouting in French (he only speaks French) "It's not even loaded!" and begging Louie not to shoot his friend. Louie, an Italian gangster, doesn't understand what Raymond is saying and shoots Ghost Dog twice more, killing him.}}

* ''Ghost Town''. The scene where the main character {{spoiler|finally submits to the ghosts requests and goes around telling their survivors what they wanted to say}} is surprisingly touching for what was a riotous comedy up until then.

** 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''.

** 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 end of ''[[Godzilla vs. Destoroyah]]'': {{spoiler|Godzilla dies a slow and painful death due to a nuclear meltdown}}. That and {{spoiler|when Godzilla mourns the death of his own son and cries in agony}}. It's perhaps the saddest [[Godzilla]] movie ever made.

** [[Two Words]]: "Goodbye, Yoshido." ({{spoiler|This is what Kiryu ([[Mecha Godzilla]]) says to one of the main characters right before sacrificing himself to save Japan from Godzilla at the end of Tokyo SOS.}})

*** 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 ({{spoiler|Serizawa's heroic sacrifice and last words}}).

** 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 ({{spoiler|promptly blasts the man into oblivion with his breath weapon}}).

** Why is there not even one mention of {{spoiler|Godzilla plunging into Mt. Mihara}} at the end of "Godzilla 1985," followed by Raymond Burr's ending monologue?

** {{spoiler|Melanie's}} 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.

** Alex's mother finally {{spoiler|leaves her room and walks the now-Westernised streets of what was East Berlin}}.

** And when Alex is riding home in the taxi {{spoiler|and the taxi driver is his childhood hero, the cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn}}.

** 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... {{spoiler|she knows that he has been faking these news reports for her, and she knows that it's just a sign of how much he loves her}}.

* ''[[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 [[Complete Monster|him]] and the kid who was more of a son to her than he was, then.....

* ''[[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 {{spoiler|murdering him, thus galvanizing the community into breaking their code of silence and sending the gang to jail, allowing Walt's young friends Thao and Sue to grow up properly.}}

** 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: {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster]] Wild Bill did it, and he had kidnapped them by threatening them that if one of them made a sound, then he'd kill the other one}}.

** 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 ending of ''Gwoemul''.

 

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