Most emotional ending to a film you've seen?

the killing fielRAB when imagine kicks in....

and dead man walking, when he confesses at the end, powerful performances from penn and sarandon, shocking as well as you are almost convinced of his innocence.
 
Wow! So many great choices here, but I'm gonna plump for Meet Joe Black.

I know, I know it's a crappy film but the ending.....Anthony Hopkins is excellent as always and the music is awesome. It almost makes the rest of the film bearable.

And whilst I'm at it another Hopkins/Pitt movie LegenRAB of the Fall has a good sad ending also.
 
Oh, god yes. I'm not sure if the makers were aiming for it but the ending is just the topper on a whole cake made of downers. Heart breaking stuff.

And I would have agreed with The Green Mile, except the real tear jerking part, John's execution, isn't the ending. They felt the need to tack on the part about the immortal mouse and Tom Hanks's extended life span, and that takes away from the other bits for me.
 
Squishy! I completely agree! I was ranting at the TV when they showed the advert for the DVD giveaway with one of the papers.

It is a lovely family film - up to the last few minutes when well,you know so I won't say - especially as I don't know how to do spoiler tags yet.

I'd love "The most evil film ever made" to be on the DVD cover just under the title!
 
Hope all you fellow blubbers and weepers :cry::cry::cry: watched 4 on sky last night. The top 100 film tearjerkers of all time.
I was an emotional wreck at the end-won't spoil it by telling you the result, it was a surprise though.
 
long thread to read through, but i thought

Australia (as mentioned above)

Elf (When James Caan Cracks!)

Frequency

Bridge of Terabithia
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just flicked through the thread and found this reference - not so much a weepy for me, but I thought all the way through the girl wasnt dead, and she would be in Terabithia)

Working Girl
Pacific Heights

I get a kick out of seeing the baddies get their comeuppance! - not quite tearjerkers though

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just read this thread again - for a lot of these, the emotional bit is the happy ending just when you think it isn't gonna happen, or maybe instead how the happy ending is arranged.

Having said that some of them do seem to end on a sad note - I thought studios tried to avoid those, though.
 
Oh God, I remember Philadelphia.

I started crying at the scene where they're listening to opera, and never stopped crying until the end.

I thought I'd kept it quiet, so I asked my friend if she'd heard me crying - to which she replied ' The whole bloody cinema heard you crying!' :D:o
 
Titanic - not for Kate and Leo but the old lady does it for me...
Brief Encounter
Green Card
Shawshank and The Green Mile

I cried buckets at the end of The Sound of Music when I saw it at the pictures as a child. They had to tell me that it was OK - Maria and the children had to return for the evening performance. :D
 
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