One movie which gets the waterworks going is 'Monster' with Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci.
The scene which gets me is the one where Selby (Christina Ricci) is leaving on the bus and you see that Lee is left on her own and that from that point forward there's not going to be a way out and her life is over.
Another isn't actually a movie but it's a screenplay which was a spin off from the Alan Bleasdale movie 'From The Black Stuff' which is about a gang of Liverpool unemployed men working as a gang to lay tarmac in the early days of Thatcherism.
The tearjerker is 'George's Last Ride' and is about the final days of George, the oldest member of the gang. played by Peter Kerrigan. George was previously a well known Liverpool union leader and shop steward for the dockers before he was blackballed, became unemployed, and started working on the gang. It was written and directed by Alan Bleasdale.
The scene which gets the waterworks going is when another member of the gang Chrissy takes George, who is dying and in poor health, out for a walk from his home in Dingle to the docks where, alone with Chrissy he dies.
Then just as you're wiping away the tears there's the funeral scenes and you see all the people coming out onto the streets to pay their last respects.
The series established a whole host of Liverpool actors such as Jean Boht, Julie Walters, Bernard Hill, Ricky Tomlinson, Gilly Coman and Paul Barber and if you have a spare couple of hours is well worth watching.
