# Youtube - best tear jerking moments in film. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282 "2010-02-17T03:10:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/41 "2010-02-18T22:19:35Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] That moment is trumped, IMO, by Suge singing that gospel song from her gut, and then hugging her daddy at the church Pulpit. “See daddy? Sinners got soul too!” [/QUOTE] [I totally agree.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZT5sajkys) And I’ve often wondered if the soloist in the church was meant to be her daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/42 "2010-02-18T23:34:36Z")
How can this be this far down and no one’s mentioned the Brian’s Song [speech](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfI_HT39eeM)? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/43 "2010-02-18T23:52:02Z")
Some scenes that made me cry: Sophie’s choice, when Sophie (Meryl Streep) has to choose between her children; Debra Winger saying good-bye to her children in the hospital in Terms of Endearment; The Elephant Man, having tea with Dr. Treves and his wife, and saying “my mother was so beautiful, I must have been such a disappointment to her, but I’ve tried so hard to be good”; The little girl going to the orphanage at the end of “Les Jeux Interdits” ( French film set in World War II ), when she is vainly looking around to find the little boy who was her only friend, and then starts crying out for her mother. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/44 "2010-02-18T23:59:20Z")
Whoops, I just noticed that this was supposed to be a “post a Youtube link to the scene thread”. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/45 "2010-02-19T01:42:23Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > No, you are all wrong. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0j1EHF8Y0&feature=fvst) is the one. > > Regards, > Shodan Yeah, this is the one. Fuck. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/46 "2010-02-19T02:33:03Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Definitely up there. But for me the original, _**[Make Way for Tomorrow](http://www.criterion.com/films/2350?utm_medium=email&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_content=218010283&utm_campaign=the_criterion_collection_newsletter-february_2010+_+ukyduu)**_, the movie Tokyo Story is based on, manages to be even more heartbreaking. I’m very much looking forward to that one - if you didn’t already know, the [Criterion collection DVD](http://www.amazon.com/Make-Way-Tomorrow-Criterion-Collection/dp/B002XUL6SA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1266546625&sr=8-1) is coming out later this month. Not a movie, but NPR’s Storycorp Podcast makes me tear up far more often than it should… ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/47 "2010-02-19T03:37:05Z")
Near the end of **The Notebook** where she starts to lose her memory again and needs to be restrained by nursing staff while James Garner breaks down crying ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/48 "2010-02-19T04:05:45Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > Oh for Og’s sake, what are you all talking about? Everyone knows the most tear-jerking scene in history is [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPQuEB6u6v8). Now if you’ll excuse me, this is quite a dusty room and I seem to have something in my eye. I won’t even watch that movie again because of that scene. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/49 "2010-02-19T04:09:06Z")
> [@Susie\_Derkins](#): > > [I totally agree.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ZT5sajkys) And I’ve often wondered if the soloist in the church was meant to be her daughter. Okay, i am obviously a huge suck, because a whole bunch of these got to me, but I LOVE this scene, it’s one of my favorites in this movie… That woman can _SING_! ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/50 "2010-02-19T04:53:25Z")
Steel Magnolias - [this scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EjNa8Ukg_0) that has you crying and laughing in a masterful explosion of emotions. The ending to The Spitfire Grill - another movie that catches you by surprise by a flood of different emotions. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/51 "2010-02-19T05:53:09Z")
I’m unable to find a video for it, but the ending scene in Pan’s Labyrinth. When Mercedes hums the lullaby while cradling Ofelia’s lifeless body, I lose it. Every single time. ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/52 "2010-02-19T08:06:57Z")
The last 10 minutes of **Blow**. 2:30-5:30 in [particular](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-bBff0wfXM&feature=PlayList&p=5CC4E51AA79529BC&index=11). ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/53 "2010-02-19T13:59:53Z")
[This scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJdmL7hZ0Hk&feature=related) from **The Five Heartbeats** after Eddie King gets clean. There’s another scene right before this where J.T. and Donald “Duck” Matthews meet up after being estranged for some years, where we find that the nephew Duck has never met is named after him. Those two scenes will get the waterworks flowing. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/54 "2010-02-19T16:00:17Z")
Casablanca, the [Marseillaise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM). When Yvonne cries, I cry…every freakin’ time. Even just now, watching the clip with no sound. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/55 "2010-02-19T16:18:25Z")
Not just tears, but the ultimate sadness: [Dr. Strangelove Final Scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gb0mxcpPOU) And this from a comedy! ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/56 "2010-02-19T22:57:07Z")
I actually found it here on this message board a few years ago. And I so wish I hadn’t. Saddest bit of audio/visual media ever made. [Click on it if you dare, because it will haunt you for the rest of your life…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX92pHpPc-k&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/57 "2010-02-19T23:03:08Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > No, you are all wrong. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0j1EHF8Y0&feature=fvst) is the one. > > Regards, > Shodan This should have won the Oscar. Instead that song from “The Wonder Twins” won. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/58 "2010-02-20T00:36:58Z")
From Saving Private Ryan: [Tell me I have lived a good life. Tell me I’m a good man.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTv9QgPrXCU) Also, I dare the manliest man to watch the Joy Luck Club and not cry like a little bitch at the end: [Our little sister…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0FRPSjxgjU). I’m afraid I can’t find it with English subtitles, and I’m afraid that studying Mandarin has only made this scene even worse for me. EDIT: It’s insane, I watched like, ten seconds of this scene just now, and I’ve got snot bubbles. Geez. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/59 "2010-02-20T03:24:02Z")
I’ve mentioned this one in a previous thread, but good luck holding it together during the final father/daughter scene in _ **In America** _. ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282/60 "2010-02-20T03:47:28Z")
The [ending to Somewhere in Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2i6uybj27E). Gets me every time. The way she screams his name is heart wrenching. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-best-tear-jerking-moments-in-film/529282.md?page=4)