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Some have already been mentioned, but also Captain Vasily Borodin in "Hunt for Red October." When he was shot, there was a woman in the movie audience who actually cried out.
Nick (Deer Hunter)
John Coffey (The Green Mile)
Mrs. Gump
The dog, Sam, in I Am Legend
George Malley (Phenomenon)
Noah and Allie in the nursing home (The Notebook)
....and as others have mentioned Captain Miller, Bambi and Shmuel (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas)
Charlotte in Charlotte's Web
Melanie Wilkes in Gone With The Wind
Alice Munro and Uncas in Last of the Mohicans
The father in Life is Beautiful. Of course, I cried harder when the little boy was reunited with his mother.
Brian Piccolo in Brian's Song. I was about 13, and watching it with my parents and sister on the ABC Movie of the Week, trying to hide the fact that I was sobbing like the overemotional teenager that I was.
Two already mentioned -- Old Yeller, and Joy Gresham in Shadowlands.
I'm sure there are more. Heaven knows I used to sob my brains out while watching tearjerkers on the Late Late Show.
There are deaths that are sad but inevitable and provide for a satisfactory conclusion to the plot. I don't really think of those as "sad."
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