21 of the Saddest Scenes Where Nobody Dies
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When was the last time a movie made you cry? Mufasa’s death? Snape’s death? The death of the shoe in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Are you sensing a pattern here? The easiest way to wring some cheap tears out of an audience is to murder a beloved character, but that’s the coward’s way out. The real masters know how to leave you staring into the abyss without anyone, even a magical Nazi, needing to die.
Redditor Ok-Impress-2222 gets this. “When talking about sad scenes in movies, the majority of what gets mentioned are scenes of a character’s death, understandably,” they recently told r/Movies. “But that exact notion makes it all the more interesting to try and name a sad scene that isn’t a death scene.” They named “the last scene of Pursuit of Happyness” and “Jessie’s backstory from Toy Story 2” as their “personal favorites” and then asked, “What’s the saddest non-death scene in a movie?”
Fair warning: A good percentage of them involve Haley Joel Osment.
The Sixth Sense
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Little Miss Sunshine
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/9/997709.jpg)
Stand By Me
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/8/997708.jpg)
Hope Floats
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/7/997707.jpg)
Les Miserables
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/6/997706.jpg)
Still Alice
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/5/997705.jpg)
Schindler’s List
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/4/997704.jpg)
Flight
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/3/997703.jpg)
Dumbo
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/2/997702.jpg)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/1/997701.jpg)
The Fox and the Hound
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/7/0/0/997700.jpg)
Coco
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/9/997699.jpg)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/8/997698.jpg)
Good Will Hunting
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/7/997697.jpg)
Friday Night Lights
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/6/997696.jpg)
Saving Private Ryan
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/5/997695.jpg)
The Royal Tenenbaums
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/4/997694.jpg)
La La Land
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/3/997693.jpg)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/2/997692.jpg)
Forrest Gump
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/1/997691.jpg)
Cast Away
![](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/9/0/997690.jpg)