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** Specially when Patch and his girlfriend kiss and he asks her if they're a couple now or just friends who like kissing. {{spoiler|And when she's killed by a patient and he has an [[Heroic BSOD]]}}.

** The moment when Patch stands on a cliff alone, contemplating suicide, ranting angrily at God:

** And then the [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]] lands on his shoulder.

* The ending of the [[Stanley Kubrick]] movie ''[[Paths of Glory]]''. Set in [[World War I]], a young German woman is forced to sing for the soldiers in a tavern. They are are cat-calling, hooting, and laughing at her. Then she starts to sing a simple, well-known ballad about love in war, "The Faithful Soldier". The audience quiets down, and they start to hum the song along with her, as they recall their youth, their homes, and their loves in a world they may never see again.

** Oh my god yes. And also {{spoiler|Royal's death, with Chas holding his hand in his final moments, after they have finally bonded.}}

* ''[[The Rugrats]] Movie'': Near the end of the movie, Tommy Pickles had practically lost it all: he's lost in the middle of the woods with his brother, Dil, and his friends have abandoned him because he wanted to protect his brother over sticking with them. When Tommy tries to take care of Dil during the storm, Dil's newborn greediness kicks in, drinking the last bottle of milk down, then hogs a blanket Tommy was trying to share. When the two rip it and Dil finds it funny, Tommy ''snaps'', tossing away his "'Sponsertility" (a pocket watch Stu Pickles gave him), then dragging Dil out into the rain blaming him for everything wrong that's happened since they got lost. Tommy plans to dump a jar of banana baby food for the circus monkeys to come in and take Dil away, but before he does, Dil looks up at Tommy in pity and fear: his big brother was ''scaring'' him! When Tommy sees himself in a puddle, he realizes what he's become and embraces Dil, apologizing for what he was going to do. Tommy, then, takes them back to their little shelter, retrieves the pocket watch and falls asleep with Dil, singing a small version of a lullaby Stu and Didi were singing in the beginning.

* In ''[[Rumble Fish]]'' the final showdown between The Motorcycle Boy and the police, followed by Rusty James letting the titular fish free into the river... where they stop fighting, just like his big brother promised.

** The book is even sadder--Rusty James is arrested before he can release the fighting fish, and they die on the floor amid the broken glass and the shallow puddles of water.

** The biography of Oskar Schindler made me cry more than the movie...

** The gift of the ring at the end. And {{spoiler|Oskar's [[Heroic BSOD]]}} right after ''kills me.''

** The end of the movie where some of the ''actual'' people, or members of their family, Schindler was able to save file past his ''actual'' grave to give their respects. It would be over the top melodrama if it just weren't so damn painful to know that these are real, flesh and blood people, people with friends and family, none of whom would be there except for Oskar.

** And then when it tells you that the Schindler Jews and their descendants outnumber the Jewish population of Poland...drive home the scale of the tragedy, why don't you?

* In the 1970's musical ''Scrooge'', Bob visiting Tim's grave, as the beautiful song Tim sung earlier eerily plays in the background, is enough to make the strongest man tear up.

* ''[[Secondhand Lions]]''. Most of the second half of the movie is a massive [[Tear Jerker|Tear Jerking]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], but the most heartbreaking part is the speech that Uncle Hub (played by an always-terrific Robert Duvall) gives to the protagonist.

** Also, the death of Jasmine the lioness.

* Jay Chou's movie ''Secret'' IS this. {{spoiler|When Xiao Yu mistakes Xiang Lun to have moved on from her and suffers an asthma attack after returning to the past is probably just one of the movie's most heartbreaking scenes.}}

** The worst part about it, [[Foregone Conclusion|you know it was coming since it happened in REAL LIFE]] as the movie is created as a tribute for the Tejano legend.

* The end of ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' when the orphans get the letter from their parents. The music that's playing while she reads it, and the terrible burned up background doesn't help.

* Big Bird, painted blue and forced to sing for a crowd, in ''[[Sesame Street]] Presents Follow That Bird''. Surprisingly for a "Sesame Street" film, the whole movie is a colossal downer, what with Big Bird being forced to leave the family he's known his whole life to "be with other birds" (essentially, it's "Losing Isaiah" - for preschoolers.) The Blue Bird of Happiness scene itself is by far one of the most traumatic non-[[Nightmare Fuel]] moments for '80s kids.

** The "One Little Star" song. "One little star, in the darkening blue, do you long for another, just the way that I do?"

* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''

** Brook's final monologue and death. It particularly strikes hard {{spoiler|after he hangs himself and the camera pans over his carved message on the ceiling which simply reads "Brooks was here" while the old man's limp body hangs below.}}

** For tears of joy, try ''everything'' after Andy's escape from Shawshank. ''When'' he escapes from Shawshank is enough to get the eyes watering: he's just crawled through just under half a mile of raw sewage, he gets to his feet in the middle of the pouring rain, he's stumbling, dragging his pack behind him ... and then there's that fanfare of trumpets and strings as he removes his shirt and stands, arms raised, laughing, in the rain.

** When Red's letter started to [[Ironic Echo|repeat the same speech]] as Brooks', just in anticipation that he ''might'' ''[[Department of Redundancy Department|maybe]]'' meet the same end?

** The ending of ''That Yellow Bastard''. "An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade. I love you, Nancy." ''BANG!''

* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]''. The movie is practically made of Tearjerker! Especially this exchange between Cole and his mother where he explains that his dead grandmother visits him sometimes:

Lynn Sear: Do... Do I make her proud? }}

* The 2005 version of ''[[War of the Worlds]]''. The characters are making their way through a valley, along with a few hundred other refugees. A fairly substantial group of soldiers trying to hold back the tripods tripods closing in on them while the refugees pass, despite the fact that their weapons do nothing. {{spoiler|So they CHARGE}}.

** The last scene, with Mark Zuckerberg sitting alone, refreshing the page while waiting for his ex-girlfriend to accept his friend request. [[The Beatles|The song]] playing over the scene made it worse -- baby, you're a rich man, but what else do you have?

** The hallway scene in the house in Palo Alto. ''That one line''. [[Award Snub|Jesse Eisenberg was robbed.]]

* ''[[Sophie's Choice]]''. Watching [[Meryl Streep]] {{spoiler|shove her daughter into the soldiers' arms and then burst into tears as her daughter screams while being carried to her death}} is one of the most haunting, horrific scenes in cinematic history. That Oscar was well-deserved.

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7U4EQXFMBE scene where Sol "goes home"] in ''[[Soylent Green]]'' is this on many levels. When Sol realizes what he must to do expose the [[It Was His Sled|terrible secret of Soylent Green]], Thorn tries to stop him but finds out too late so all he can do is watch as his closest and best friend dies. Sol is also one of the few characters old enough to remember the Earth when it was still full of natural beauty. The beautiful nature footage he is shown before his death, set to classical music, deeply moves both characters (Sol: "I told you." Thorn: "How could I know? How could I ever imagine?") and drives home the film's environmental message. Finally there's the [[Reality Subtext]] that Edward G. Robinson (Sol) was dying in real life and the only other person on the film who knew was [[Charlton Heston]] (Thorn), who cried real tears during that scene.

*** And just to make it worse: B4, trying to sing "Blue Skies" - with some help from Picard. (Brent Spiner is a freaking ''genius''.)

** ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]''. Spock's [[Heroic Sacrifice]], his moving farewell to Kirk, Kirk's eulogy at the funeral, Scotty playing Amazing Grace on the bagpipes...''James T. Kirk'' struggling to keep it together will do that to a man:

*** Kirk racing desperately through the ''Enterprise'' to get to his friend -- and then McCoy, Scotty, ''and'' someone else having to use all their strength to keep him from going in there himself.

** Or ''The Search for Spock''. "[[My God, What Have I Done?|My God, Bones, what have I done?]]"

*** McCoy's response could probably count as this, a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOA]] and a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|CMOH]] all wrapped into one.

** Kirk and Klingon Chancellor Azetbur's reconciliation at the end of ''The Undiscovered Country'':

'''Kirk''': And you've restored my son's. }}

*** The last scenes are also very sad, and much more so to those who have watched the entire original series and the rest of the films. Enterprise is about to be decommissioned, meaning that it is the final voyage of Kirk and his crew, and the end of an era. The fact that they also decide to 'take their time' in getting back to Earth also makes this a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].

*** A short shot in this scene from Papa Kirk's perspective, {{spoiler|showing red "Systems Failed" messages across the Kelvin's screen while explosions and destruction goes on around}}. All this being set to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZSQJ-XnR78 a piece of music] that is a tear jerker all on its own.

*** And the opening scene comes back later to gut-punch you with the line:

** And then later on, when {{spoiler|Vulcan is being destroyed and Chekov is beaming up the elders that Spock has gathered, his mother among them, and the ground collapses under Spock's mother, and she screams for her son}}--especially {{spoiler|Chekov's frantic repetition of "I'm losing her! I'm losing her!" and then his shell-shocked face after the remaining Vulcans appear on the pad, with Spock's arm stretched out, reaching at nothing}}.

** In a crossover with both [[Heartwarming Moments]] and an [[Awesome Moment]], {{spoiler|Leonard Nimoy's voiceover of the famed TOS narration, which then segues into a grand orchestral recapitulation of Alexander Courage's original theme}}, is wrenching.

** {{spoiler|Spock Prime: As he was helpless to save his planet, I would be helpless to save mine. *shot of him staring up into the sky with heart-broken expression* Billions of lives lost, because of me, Jim. Because, I failed.}}

** Kirk's death in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]''. In a film which missed so many chances to be one of the best Star Trek films ever, Kirk's death, set to a beautiful and touching piece of music is heartbreaking.

* The ending of ''[[Straight Story]]'' - {{spoiler|two brothers finally meet. The viewer cries.}}.

* ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]'' - for much of the movie, the driving action involves Harold Crick learning that he is a character in a book. After meeting the author and getting to read a copy of the book, he returns to her and {{spoiler|calmly accepts his own impending death because the book is just that wonderful}}.

* ''[[Super 8]]'': Joe's mother locket flies, he grabs it as the thing shows the picture inside (she with baby Joe)... and decides to let go. The locket is absorbed by an alien ship, [[Dramatic Alien VTOL|it takes off slowly]], the end. (the only thing that makes it less sad is "[[Show Within a Show|The]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Case]]" [[Mood Whiplash|playing afterwards]])

* In the DVD of the original 1978 ''[[Superman]]'', there's a restored scene where Superman talks to his dad (or rather his hologram) following his first outing as a hero. Jor-El tells him to be wary of the thrill of being a hero..

** The opening: A stage curtain parts to reveal not Superman, or a busy city, or an operatic space utopia, but a boy reading a comic. It's a really great way of saying that this mythology, for all its success and influence, started as a humble little funnybook for kids.

** The most tearjerking moment from the first Superman movie was definitely Pa Kent's death. After he tells his adopted son that he is on Earth for a special reason even if he doesn't know what that might be. Glenn Ford's acting was amazing when he just clutched his left arm and saying softly "Oh no..." and his collapse in a long shot. Then his funeral with John Williams' music plays as young Clark Kent tells his mother that even will all his powers he couldn't save his own father.