History TearJerker / FilmCToG

* ''Film/GhostDogTheWayOfTheSamurai'': 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.]]

** 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.

-->Archie: What are your legs? Springs. Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? As fast as a leopard! Then let's see you do it.

* ''Gentleman Jim'': After "Gentleman" Jim Corbett(Errol Flynn) defeats legendary undefeated boxer John L. Sullivan(Ward Bond) for the heavyweight title, Sullivan appears at Corbett and congratulates him and gives him his belt, in a touching and gracious show of sportsmanship and Corbett returns in kind:
-->"Thanks again John. I hope when my time comes I can go out with my head held as high as yours. There'll never another John L. Sullivan."
* ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'': After Pickett's Charge.
-->'''General Robert E. Lee''': General, you must look to your division.
-->'''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''': Would like... to see General Hancock. Can you tell me... where General Hancock may be found?
--->'''Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain''': I'm sorry, sir. The general's down, he's been hit.
--->'''Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead''': No! Not both of us! Not all of us! Please, God!
*** Added to by RealitySubtext; Richard Jordan, who played Armistead, died shortly after filming, and this is his final scene ever.

* ''Film/TheFinalGirls'' is surprisingly emotional for a slasher film. The main character Max is grieving her mother who has been dead for three years, and when Max and her friends get sucked into an {{Expy}} of ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' called "Camp Bloodbath" which just happens to star a younger version of Max's mom...lets just say that you won't be able to listen to the song "Bette Davis Eyes" again without a few small tears going down your cheek.

* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', when Sarris' minion [[KickTheDog shoots Quellek]]. For Quellek, ItHasBeenAnHonor to serve Alexander Dane, whose [[ProudWarriorRace culture and philosophy]] he had emulated for life. For Alexander, watching the only one who respected him [[ItsPersonal die in his hands]] spurs him to deliver the line he hates the most as an actor: "[[BadassCreed By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!]]"
** Before this, Jason being forced to tell Malthasar (whose race has no concept of deception) that he and the rest of the crew are just actors.
-->''Jason'': God, I am '''so sorry'''.

* ''Film/FreedomWriters'': 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]].

* ''ForrestGump'':
--> "Dear God, make me a bird so that I could fly far. Far, far away from here." [[ManlyTears *sniff* ]]
--> "I may not be smart, but I know what love is."
--> "I really miss you, Jenny."
-->'''Forrest''': Then, Bubba said something I won't ever forget.\\
'''Bubba''': [[FamousLastWords I wanna go home.]]
--> "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...?"
** Seeing Lieutenant Dan broken and legless after Forrest saves him. "I was supposed to die on the field! With honor! It was my destiny, and you...''cheated me out of it!'' I was Lieutenant...Dan Taylor..."

* ''Film/TheFlyII'': Despite being a gore-splattered sequel of a body horrific movie, the one scene that will make you almost break down in tears was when Martin (Brundlefly's son) finds the telapod golden retriever he befriended two years earlier hideously mutated and chained in a tiny cage. Martin's employer, Bartok, kept the mutated dog alive for the past two years despite being promising Martin he had put it out of its misery a long time ago. And despite the dog being in terrible pain, it still fondly remembers Martin, who ends its misery by euthanizing it with chloroform. It's this scene that elevates Bartok's station as a smug snake into an utter and complete monster. The Wikipedia article stated the mutated dog scene disturbed a lot of viewers when the movie came out in theaters.
* When Amy hits Igor in Fly Away Home. The thud and the way she screams after she hits him, terrified that she's hurt him badly always makes me tear up, even after seing the film dozens of times.

* ''Film/TheFly1986'' (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 BodyHorror 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''.

* Once the situation of Robin's character in ''Film/TheFisherKing'' really sinks in, it's heartbreaking.

* ''Film/FindingNeverland'': 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.

* The ending of ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin''. [[spoiler:Captain Grey [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices his life]] to destroy the Phantoms. In front of his love. After his squad of TrueCompanions died trying to get Aki and Dr. Sid out of New New York.]]

* In ''Film/{{Felidae}}'', there are several different tear jerking moments specifically [[spoiler:Felicity]]'s death.

* In the Tarsem movie, ''Film/TheFall'', 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]].
** All the while, in real life, [[spoiler:while Roy is going through his CreatorBreakdown, 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.]]
** After Alexandria's second accident, and the nightmarish fantasy-sequence of her going into surgery: ''"I didn't tell anybody about our secret. Even when they tortured me with needles."'' Also, [[spoiler:the scene that reveals what happened to Alexandria's father died and how their house burned down, which Alexandria can only articulate as "angry people" coming for them.]]

* The breakdown of the Creator/MickeyRourke character in ''Film/TheExpendables''. You hear him talking about the leadup to his HeroicBSOD, and a part of you just goes numb.

* ''Film/EverAfter'', a Cinderella movie during the Renaissance:
** 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 [[WickedStepmother 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.
--->'''Baroness:''' How could anyone love a pebble in their shoe?
** 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.
** Not to mention Danielle's father's death at the beginning of the film--sort of a ForegoneConclusion for anyone vaguely familiar with the Cinderella story, but still, her weeping and holding his hand to her cheek as she dies is tragic.

* ''Film/EdWood'' has many tearjerking moments focusing on Creator/BelaLugosi's [[WhiteDwarfStarlet descending parable]]:
** While shooting a night scene for ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'', Bela suddenly tells Creator/EdWood that he turned down the role of Frankenstein that was offered him after ''Dracula''.
** 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 end to ''DonnieDarko'': [[spoiler:Donnie lets himself get crushed to death by the airplane, because if he doesn't, the world will end on Halloween night]] (see it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK66-K9ROMM all here]]). Then, the song "Mad World" starts playing at the credits, and you [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR91Rj1ZN1M really start to lose it]].
** 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.]]

* ''{{Theatre/Dreamgirls}}''. Specifically, "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going".

** Two symbolical scenes: At first Mike shots a deer. But after the war, he's unable to kill a living being.
** Russian roulette scene.
** Steve (the one who lost his limbs) who doesn't want to come back home to live with his wife,
** 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).
** Mike returning to his hometown, deciding to drive to the hotel (despite everybody's waiting to invite him).

* Unusually for a horror movie, ''most'' of the deaths are {{Tear Jerker}}s in ''Film/TheDescent''. Most obviously [[spoiler:Beth's well-acted ICannotSelfTerminate scene, but the sisters [one of whom was TheCutie] trying so hard to protect each other, one throughout the film and one TakingALevelInBadass just before she died, and both failing, is pretty upsetting too.]]

* The entirety of the BittersweetEnding of ''Film/DeepImpact''.
** Particularly the scene where Oren gets the chance to talk to his wife (and infant son Oren Jr.) for the last time, especially considering that Oren was blinded earlier in the film and it's a son he'll never see. "Be good, Oren... be good..."
*** That scene was brutal. "Look at it this way: we'll all get high schools named after us."

* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety''
** 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!"
** Neil's mom screaming "He's okay, he's okay!". * Sniff* Intense.
** 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?"

* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'': "You're going to kill my family?!"

* The ending scene of ''Film/DarkWater'' (the original Japanese version), in which [[spoiler:Yoshimi sacrifices herself to save her daughter]].

* ''Film/TheCrow'' 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 ''Film/TheCrow'' is rapid-fire MoodWhiplash, 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.
** This is ''without'' the RealitySubtext taken into consideration.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrj2qvd5j7o opening music]] is tear jerking, particularly near the end of the piece.
** Sarah's voiceover at the end is particularly tearjerking for anyone who has ever lost someone close to them.
-->''Sarah'': If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

* [[spoiler: Li Mubai and Shu Lien's LastKiss, followed by Mubai's FamousLastWords and his death in Shu-Lien's arms]] in ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''.

* The excellent ''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.]]

* Say what you like about ''Film/TheCore'', Brazzleton's death scene is wrenching. Something about a guy withstanding 4000+ degrees and still pushing it for a cause he ''volunteered'' for...
** Serge's death, as well as the picture his daughter drew for him...

* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'': the MoodWhiplash at the end of the "found footage" has caused its fair shore of sniffles.

* ''Film/{{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 some viewers blubber like babies.
-->'''Michael:''' [[spoiler:Family ... comes ... first. '''Promise me!'''\\
'''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 part of that scene that really hits me is when his son, newly married, puts his head down on the main character's chest, crying some truly gut-wrenching sobs.
** For me, the waterworks started probably around the point where the main character realizes his father is dead and finds out what happened the last time he saw him.
** Also, when he tries to go back to the moment of his father's death, and Walken's character tells him "you can't go back. ''You weren't there.''"
** The main character yells at his father that he knows how you do the magic trick that the father has been so proud of throughout the film, right after the father was trying to cheer the main character up with the same magic trick.