It is actually a Masterpiece Theater/BBC mini-series, but my favorite is “A Town Like Alice”, from the Nevil Shute book of the same name.
The book reviewer of the Guardian had this to say about the novel.
“Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language.”
They are very sweet tears, though. It is a wonderful story about three very good people, folks you feel like you know, and wish that you had actually spent time with them in person.
Here is the last page (the movie is exactly the same)
“I suppose it is because I have lived rather a restricted life myself that I have found so much enjoyment in remembering what I have learned in these last years about brave people and strange scenes. I have sat here day after day this winter, sleeping a good deal in my chair, hardly knowing if I was in London or the Gulf country, dreaming of the blazing sunshine, of poddy-dodging and black stockmen, of Cairns and of Green Island. Of a girl that I met forty years too late, and of her life in that small town that I shall never see again, that holds so much of my affection.”
“I suppose it is because I have lived rather a restricted life myself that I have found so much enjoyment in remembering what I have learned in these last years about brave people and strange scenes. I have sat here day after day this winter, sleeping a good deal in my chair, hardly knowing if I was in London or the Gulf country, dreaming of the blazing sunshine, of poddy-dodging and black stockmen, of Cairns and of Green Island. Of a girl that I met forty years too late, and of her life in that small town that I shall never see again, that holds so much of my affection.”
Good quote.