You’ve had a hard day at work, you recently got dumped, or the news of the day is just getting you down. What do you do for self-care? Movies might not fix your problems, but watching characters on-screen who are even more miserable than you is always a good temporary solution. Here are the saddest movies you will ever see and love!!
The Notebook
Reason You’ll Cry: Look, this movie is schmaltzy as hell. But it’s also deeply romantic and tragic in the way that all love stories are tragic because they can’t possibly last forever and…I’m sorry, I just need a minute.
Call Me By Your Name
Reason You’ll Cry: The sensuous Italian scenery, the budding but shy romance between two gorgeous-in-different-ways men (Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer), the ultimately futile nature of their love…Get ready to cry along with Timmy to the dulcet tones of Sufjan Stevens.
The Way We Were
Reason You’ll Cry: Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford have undeniable chemistry in this story of two mismatched lovers who, in the end, just can’t make it work. It’s sad because it’ll remind you of your own lost loves. Also, it’s got a killer soundtrack.
Moulin Rouge
Reason You’ll Cry: A fun, gorgeous, sexy, musical romp about love that ultimately ends in tuberculosis. So unfair.
Atonement
Reason You’ll Cry: A beautiful, lush movie about a terrible mistake made by a young girl that ruins not only her life but the lives of two innocent, very attractive people? Ugh, fine, pass the tissues.
Steel Magnolias
Titanic
Reason You’ll Cry: Ummm, how about because an entire ship full of people meet their watery doom? But mostly due to the scene in which two old people lay in bed and wait for the Grim Reaper to take them.
My Dog Skip
Reason You’ll Cry: There should be a rule like Chekhov’s Gun in movies, but it’s Chekhov’s Dog: If there’s a dog in a heartwarming family film’s first ten minutes, the dog is going to die by the end of the movie. Yes, the dog dies. I told you there were spoilers.
A Song to Remember
Reason You’ll Cry: This movie was made in 1945, which means you get to tap into your love for Old Hollywood while also shake-crying. The throwback flick is about Frédéric Chopin’s relationship with French novelist George Sand. Prediction: You will be surprised by your level of sobs.
Brokeback Mountain
Reason You’ll Cry: It’s a story of strength, secrets, loss, and love in other words, a perfect storm of crying fodder. And the fact that Heath Ledger is no longer with us certainly ups the tear-jerking factor.
