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* ''[[Walk the Line]]'' when Johnny interrupts the concert to ask June to marry him.
{{quote|Johnny: I'm asking you to marry me. I love you, June. Now I know I said and done a lotta things, that I hurt you, but I promise, I'll never do that again. I only want to take care of you. I will not leave you like that dutch boy with your finger in the dam. You're my best friend. Marry me. }}
* ''[[WALL-E]]'': WALL-E is severely damaged by Auto closing the holo-detecor on him. After the Axiom returns to Earth, EVE frantically flies back to WALL-E's home to repair and re-energize him. {{spoiler|She's successful, but WALL-E does not recognize EVE, as it seems as if his memory banks were erased. He reverts back to his original programming and starts compacting trash. EVE tries to jog his memory back by showing off the random objects that WALL-E has collected but to no avail. Believing that he's "gone", a heartbroken EVE grasps his hand and gives him a farewell kiss. As EVE lets go of WALL-E's hand, he doesn't let go..and [[He's Back]].}} It ended happily, but if you weren't at least trying to hold back tears before the end...you have no soul.
* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'': the flashback leading up to Jon's disintegration. And {{spoiler|Rorschach's death}}, obviously.
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeg78Yfp7g&feature=related death] of {{spoiler|Hollis Mason}}, shamelessly edited out of the theatrical cut but restored for the DC is absolutely heart-wrenching, even more so than in the book.
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** You know what's even worse? [[Reality Subtext|That song was originally written about the writer's father.]]
* ''[[Were the World Mine]]'': when Timothy breaks the spell and says goodbye to Jonathon. It's a combination of Timothy looking like he wants to share one last kiss but being too much an actor to break character like that on stage and Jonathon's look of confusion that does it for me. The fact that [[The Show Must Go On]], so the music plays a [[Mood Dissonance|triumphant tune]] as the spell on the lovers is broken doesn't help, either.
* Honestly, if you don't find yourself crying at least once during ''[[We Were Soldiers]]'', especially during the scene with the reinforcement charge and any of the poignant moments that underscore the horror and senselessness of war. The song ''Sgt. McKenzie''.
** Most sand-in-the-eyes moment in the film? The Taxi driver, who has just had his head proverbially bitten off by Mrs. Moore for freaking her out by coming to her door with a death notice telegram... and asking her for directions to the right house.
{{quote|Ma'am, I don't like this job. I'm just trying to do it.}}
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** The movie is absolutely beautiful. {{spoiler|He ''goes to hell'' for the sake of his wife!}} And the very end of the movie mirroring the very beginning, except that {{spoiler|it's their reincarnations meeting as children}}...*sniffle*
** And then there is the part where he realizes the woman he's been talking to all day {{spoiler|is really his daughter}}..
* Oh, my dear goodness, ''[[What's Eating Gilbert Grape]]'' is one for me. Especially during his early years, director Lasse Hallstrom had tender [[Tear Jerkers]] down in ''spades''. Just the depths of the love of this one family, that is the very definition of dysfunctional, and yet is so strong...
** The part where, on his 18th birthday, Arnie finds the mother and tells her to wake up before realizing his mother is dead. *sniff* That part made me cry uncontrollably. Leonardo DiCaprio ad-libbed that whole scene.
** Something from the special features of the dvd that caught me by surprise - and made me cry - was the woman who played Bonnie Grape remembering how Johnny Depp (who played Gilbert) coming up to her on set, shaken, to ask her forgiveness for having to say (in the movie) all these horrible things about her character's - and her - morbid obesity.
* ''[[Where the Red Fern Grows]]'' (1974) practically has you to the tearjerking point the whole time. When the ending finally arrives after what seems like years of watching, you're left sobbing.
* Renee Zellweger crying at the end of ''[[The Whole Wide World]]''.
* The last five minutes of the [[Rated "M" for Manly|manly-man's adventure]] ''[[The Wind and The Lion]]''
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** Raisuli's letter to [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
** "Is there not one thing in your life that is worth losing everything for?"
* The 2003 horror movie ''[[Willard]]'' is a combination of awkward, uncomfortable moments and a creeping sense of unease. One heavy [[Tear Jerker]] occurs, however, when Willard's first and dearest rat, Socrates, is killed by Willard's boss at work, followed by Willard's complete breakdown.
* Most of ''[[The Wind That Shakes the Barley]]''.
*** Sinéad's screaming at the end. That alone could make the movie.
* The HBO movie ''[[Wit]]'', an adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning play of the same name. It is about an English Literature professor, Vivian Bearing, portrayed by the incredible Emma Thompson, and her battle with cancer. This is a movie that hurts so much that [https://web.archive.org/web/20090417093012/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/07/when_a_movie_hurts_too_much.html Roger Ebert cannot watch it a second time.]
** The scene with Vivian's old professor visiting her and reading her the Runaway Bunny.
* ''[[Withnail and I]]'':
** "I shall miss you, Withnail."
** The fact that only a pack of wolves know just how good an actor Withnail can be. Especially that in the original ending {{spoiler|Withnail kills himself with a shotgun.}}
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** Watch Charley Grapewin as Uncle Henry while Dorothy is telling everyone what happened. He is absolutely straightfaced. ''He believes her''.
** At the end of the film, Dorothy got exactly what she wanted from Oz: A carefree, perfect world where everybody is kind and friendly, yet more than anything else, she wanted to go back home and see reunite with her aunt. As Dorothy herself said: "Toto, we're home – home! And this is my room – and you're all here – and I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And... oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home!"
* In ''[[The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm]],'' when Wilhelm is deathly ill, he has a vision of his fairy tale characters coming to tell him that if he dies now, before he has written their stories down, no one will know that they ever existed.
* ''[[The World According To Garp]]'', especially the end where {{spoiler|Garp gets shot and is taken in a helicopter to the hospital, but dies on the way, and before he dies he says "I'm flying..." (a reference to when he was a kid and obsessed with his pilot father).}} Cue "There Will Never Be Another You" by Nat King Cole
* ''[[World's Greatest Dad]]''. Yikes. {{spoiler|When he discovers his son's body?}} Holy Christ. Best performance of grief friggin' ever. And it doesn't fade to black anywhere or anything... Just the song "Love is Simple" is depressing.
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** The small wrestling function that showed various aged wrestlers selling their merchandise to a meager amount of fans.
** The steady buildup of Guns 'n Roses' "Sweet Child of Mine". It finally kicked in as Randy's entrance theme, and coupled with Rourke's little monologue to his love interest
* ''[[World Trade Center]]'', a movie about 2 Port Authority officers who fight for their lives to survive 9/11, after having survived the collapse, and it's based off of a real story? Yeah, I'll just leave you to dry your tears
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