History TearJerker / FilmNToS

* ''Film/ThePatriot'':

* The movie version of ''The Painted Veil''. How Walter and Kitty were really just getting to know each other after TWO YEARS of being unhappily married and finding out that they really, truly could be happy together. ''Film/TheNotebook'' is slightly more cheerful by comparison (because at least Ali and Noah got to spend their lives together).

* In the DVD of the original 1978 ''Film/{{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..

* ''Film/SympathyForLadyVengeance'', when miss Geum-Ja starts scoffing cake. This does not sound like a tear jerking moment, but with that plot, and that shot, and that music... Oh dear.
** While we're talking of Park Chan-Wook's films, the final scene in ''ImACyborg''.

* The whole ending scene in ''Film/SwingKids''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX8cm5ww0Yg&fmt=18 The ending]] to ''Film/SynecdocheNewYork''.

* ''Film/SoundOfFreedom'':
** Basically the entire first half of the movie. It opens with several children being kidnapped and shows a desperate father running down the road trying to find them. It just gets more heartwrenching from there.
** Seeing just how scared, timid and broken Miguel is when Ballard rescues him. The poor boy can't even bring himself to tell his rescuers his real name at first, offering them the "model" name he's been assigned.
** Later, when Miguel gives Ballard his sister's necklace as a way of begging him to find her.
** There's a nauseating scene where Rocío is shown being advanced on by a client. Later, we see her weeping in the bathtub and can't help but weep with her.
** Ballard is forced to watch a video of Miguel being raped so he can transcribe it as part of his job. You can see his soul being absolutely crushed with each frame.
** Vampiro's backstory, particularly his plunge into suicidal ideation after learning he was part of the child sex trafficking problem.
** The doctor confirming Miguel's history of sexual abuse.
** Miguel tells Ballard he [[ABirthdayNotABreak missed his eighth birthday while trapped.]]
** All of the kids are stripped of their identities and given "model" names that will be used to sell them to clients. Miguel's is Teddy Bear, as he's the youngest child in his group (seven and a half at the time of his kidnapping). The only Afro-Latino boy in the group is renamed [[Franchise/TheLionKing Simba]], a name he objects to. He's firmly told that it's going to be his name now and he can just deal with it.
** The kids are branded with tattoos that show who owns them.
** The papá later explaining to Ballard that it's still too much for him to bear seeing his daughter's bed empty.
** After Rocío is rescued, she wakes up in the hospital to her papá. You can see on her face that she doesn't believe for a second that what she's seeing is real. It takes her several moments to accept that her family really is there.
** Rocío trying and failing to protect Miguel when they're first kidnapped.

* ''[[Film/SoundOfFreedom]]'':

** [[spoiler:Erica's final narration, commenting that she never saw the brothers again but that she at least survived the war and keeps the memory of her fallen comrades alive, the US eventually winning the conflict.

** [[spoiler:Erica's death scene, where she asks Jed to kill her so she won't be interrogated, and he breaks down]]

* ''Film/{{The Chronicles of Narnia}}'':
** Aslan's death scene in ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe''. The [[Literature/TheBible parallel too]].

* The film of ''Film/NeverLetMeGo'' is, like the book it's based on, one TearJerker after another. Particularly tragic moments include Tommy's utter breakdown in the road after he and Kathy find out that "deferrals" are a myth (bravo, Andrew Garfield, bravo) and Kathy watching Tommy be prepped for his final donation.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePlagueDogs''. Just the entire freaking film. It was made for people who want to commit suicide but just lack the courage to pull the trigger.

** The part with Tesla talking about obsessions can be really jarring for who suffers from [[SuperOCD obsessive compulsive disorder]].

** Meta example: Angus Scrimm (the actor that played The Tall Man) passed away on 2016. ''Phantasm V: Ravager'' is his final film.

* Towards the end of ''Film/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter'', after Mattis has repeated [[spoiler:"''I have no child''"]] as a mantra during the summer and he is finally [[spoiler:reunited with Ronja]], he [[spoiler:holds her in his arms and cries: "''I have my child''!"]]

* The 2005 version of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. 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]].

* ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'' has the scene where Frank, upon realizing that his time was coming because of Trioxin, walks to a burning oven, kisses his wedding ring, hangs it on a switch, offers a final prayer to the Lord for forgiveness for what he's about to do, climbs into the oven, and shuts himself in. The scene makes even the background music (titled "Burn the Flames", for those wondering) sound poignant.

* ''[[Film/TheArkOfTruth Stargate: The Ark of Truth]]''. Daniel, lying on the floor of his cell in agony from recent torture, ''begs'' Morgan to help them, practically breaking down.

* The scenes in the film ''Film/TheOthers2001'' with the father of the family, played by Creator/ChristopherEccleston. ALL of them.

* The scenes in the film ''Film/TheOthers'' with the father of the family, played by Christopher Eccleston. ALL of them.

* ''Film/{{Paulie}}'', right when the titular parrot is being taken away and the little girl chases after his shouting "Paulie, come back to me! Come back to me Paulie!". It was heartbreaking.

* The BBC documentary ''The Music/PinkFloyd And Music/SydBarrett Story'', of all movies. When they played "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond" at the end they very nearly had me in tears...

* A documentary called ''Promises''. It was about a group of Palestinian and Israeli children, who are brought together and become friends through the film. Many of them change their entire views on the whole situation. At the end, the filmmakers bring them back together many years later, as young adults. [[spoiler: One of the Israeli boys was in the military and wasn't allowed to participate. A few other children from different sides refused. One girl expressed interest in becoming a suicide bomber. Many of them think it was all a mistake.]] There's a scene where one kid, who really misses having been friends with the others, dissolves into tears. Many of my classmates did, too.

* ''Return to Paradise'' has you root for one character's salvation throughout the whole movie, [[spoiler: just to see him get hanged in the end.]] It is a very emotional, brutal and intense scene, that makes my waterworks overflow by just thinking of it.

* For me there's a real tearjerker scene towards the end of ''Film/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter''. After Mattis has repeated [[spoiler:"''I have no child''"]] as a mantra during the summer and he is finally [[spoiler:reunited with Ronja]], he [[spoiler:holds her in his arms and cries: "''I have my child''!"]]
* [[spoiler: Richie's suicide attempt]] in ''Film/TheRoyalTenenbaums'' always leads to tears. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyBB7y8fDU Beautifully shot,]] and especially painful considering the haunting Elliott Smith song (and the implications that go along with it).
** Oh my god yes. And also [[spoiler: Royal's death, with Chas holding his hand in his final moments, after they have finally bonded.]]

** When Red's letter started to [[IronicEcho repeat the same speech]] as Brooks', just in anticipation that he ''might'' ''[[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment maybe]]'' meet the same end?

* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'' I always nearly cry when the man Blackwood has set on fire yells "HELP ME!". It's something about the way he says it. Might not be shared by everyone, but okay...

** "He will know who his father is. Because I'll tell him!" (You know it's a good movie when a YaoiFangirl cries for the straight couple).

* ''Film/StandByMe''. All their backgrounds were depressing, and Chris's death at the end was the most heart-wrenching scene. Why do people grow apart?

** Just before that scene, the bit where [[spoiler:Capa is in the space suit trying to get to the payload chamber and he falls over in the suit. He's struggling to get up and you can tell how frustrated and angry with himself he is. Always gets me]]

*** [[spoiler: Mace's death. Don't know why, but that scene really got to me.]]