31. Shane (1953)
The Moment: Wound🌱ed in a gunfight after protecting the Starrett family, Shane (Alan Ladd) rides away to an uncertain future.
Get Your Tissues Ready: The Starrett boy Joey (Brandon De Wilde) tℱries in vain to persuade Shane to stay: "Shane! Come back!"
If It Was Played For Laughs: Shane comes back, onl꧒𓂃y to find that all Joey wanted was to take his gun.
30. Gladiator (2000)
The Moment: Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) realises that not only has mad Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) murdere💖d his father to c🃏laim the Emperorship, but he has ordered the death of Maximus' entire family.
Get Your Tissues Ready: Maximus escapes but too l🎃ate to prevent 🙈his wife and son from being slain.
If It Was Played For Laughs: He realises that he'🐈s walked into the wrong villa. The Meridius house is next door.
29. Biutiful (2010)
The Moment: Uxbal (Javier Bardem) installs heaters in the warehouse to try and make the Chinese immigrants who work for him more com𓄧fortable.
Get Your Tissues Ready: He arrives to find that the heat♛ers were faulty and everybody has been gaܫssed to death.
If It Was Played For Laughs: 🧔It'd be laughing gas, and he'd turn up to fi🍎nd them all in hysterics.
28. Philadelphia (1993)
The Moment: Lawyer ൩Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) visits dying AIDS victim Andrew Beck𒀰ett (Tom Hanks) to tell him he has won his court case for wrongful dismissal.
Get Your Tissues Ready: The previously fearful,ꦉ homophobic🦩 Joe reaches out to touch Andrew.
If It Was Played For Laughs: Andrew has wired himself up with electricity so that Joe gets a shock when they t𓃲ouch.
27. American History X (1998)
The Moment: Reformed neo-Nazi Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) arrives at his skinhead brother 🉐Danny's (Edward Furlong) school🃏 only to find him shot dead by a fellow student.
Get Your Tissues Ready: Danny's school essay is heard in voiceover,🦂 revealing that Derek had persuaded Danny to mend his ways too.
If It Was Played For Laughs: Danny's essay 🔯is told entirely in the format of rap lyrics.
26. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Moment:♏ Lifer Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore) is paroled but struggles to adjust to civilian life.
Get Your Tissues Ready: Brooks hangs himself with the same methodical🅰 precision he applied to running the p▨rison library.
If It Was Played For Laughs: The rope miraculously ✨breaks in a later flashback, it is revealed that Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) provided the noose back in Shawshank, but had made sure it wouldn't work.
25. The Wrestler (2008)
The Moment: Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) insists on competing in a rematch o💦f his famous fight against The Ayatollah despite suffering a lethal heart condition.
Get Your Tissues Ready: R𒁏andy leaps to certain death in order to win the figh💦t with his signature move, the Ram Jam.
If It Was Played For Laughs: The Ayatollah, realising that the fall would kill Randy, hurriedly moves a trampoline into the ring and Randy safely bou♌nces back onto his feet.
24. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
The Moment: Fight trainer Frankie Dunn reluctantly agrees🀅 to ethuanise his disabledꦡ boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank).
Get Your Tissues Ready: As he administers the lethal dose, ꦗFrank reveals that 𓆉the nickname he's given Maggie Mo Chuisle is Gaelic for "my darling, and my blood."
If It Was Played For Laughs: The syringe breaks in Maggie's arm; she finds this so funny that she has a change of hear꧙t and decides to live.
23. The Child (2005)
The Moment:ꦿ Strapped for cash, petty🐻 criminal Bruno (Jrmie Renier) sells his baby, Jimmy, on the black market.
Get Your Tissues Ready: Bruno is shocked into sorting out the mess he's caused by the shock and anguish o🐟n the face of Jimmy's ༺mother, Sonia (Dborah Franois).
If It Was Played For Laughs: Instead of selling the child, Bruno signs a lucrative de🎐al with Disney for the kid to become a🔯 superstar.
22. About Schmidt (2002)
The Moment: Returning from his abortive trip to 💫break up his daughter's w𒀰edding, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) finds he's been sent a letter from his African penpal, Ndugu.
Get Your Tissues Ready: Schmidt is reduced to tears by Ndugu's crayo൩n drawing of the two of them holding ha🌱nds and smiling.
If It Was Played For Laughs: The letter contiꦗnues, "PS. Ndugu is coming to stay with you," and there's a knock a𒀰t the door.
