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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.}}

* ''[[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:

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

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

* The death of Charlotte in ''[[Charlotte's Web]]''. As the Nostalgia Critic put it in his [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1600-nostalgia-critic-top-11-saddest-moments Top 11 Saddest Nostalgic Moments], "I'll never use a can of Raid again."

** [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''.

* ''[[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.

* 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...

** 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 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.

** 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 [[Evil Stepmother|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.

** 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.

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

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

"I may not be smart, but I know what love is."<br />

"I really miss you, Jenny."<br />

** 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]]''.

** 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.