Best Family Movies That Will Make You Cry

Sometimes a large, cathartic cry is only what's needed to make it through a tough week. Just being a person in the world tin can be exhausting, and weeping recharges your batteries! And 1 of the best means to get the waterworks going is to watch a tear-jerkin' movie, so we've assembled some of the saddest, most romantic, cry-worthy flicks always—all to get y'all in the mood...for sobbing. You might want to invest in a good amount of tissue boxes earlier watching, though. Just saying.

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Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Reason Y'all'll Cry: This movie was fabricated to be funny, at times, and to be full of hope. But if you endeavour to tell me that you didn't weep during that Scarlett Johansson scene (IYKYK), you're a darn liar.

Weepiness Level: For the rest of the twenty-four hour period, yous won't be able to look at a pair of shoes without crying. Over again, IYKYK.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

Reason You'll Weep: It's in the title. A girl dies, and fifty-fifty though you know information technology's coming, the climactic tragedy still rips you apart.

Weepiness Level: The first time I saw this motion-picture show, I was in a room total of people, and when the lights came back on at the end, every single person quietly had tears on their face up.

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Loving Vincent (2019)

Reason You'll Weep: Van Gogh was terrible misunderstood and treated cruelly during his lifetime. And the fact that this movie was fabricated using different Van Gogh-style paintings for every single frame makes it infinitely more poignant.

Weepiness Level: Letting the credits run completely because you're too busy sobbing to end them.

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Forrest Gump (1994)

Reason You'll Weep: Exercise you know anyone who can keep from crying during this moving picture?? I sure don't. Even the characters within the film are moved to tears by Forrest and Jenny's stories.

Weepiness Level: Crying to 60s and 70s rock classics―an odd vibe.

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Reason You lot'll Weep: It's nearly 2 people who love each other simply can't be together. Need I say more?

Weepiness Level: Crying while singing in French, if yous tin can imagine such a affair.

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Utoya: July 22 (2018)

Reason You'll Cry: Information technology'south a real-time depiction of the July 2011 terrorist attack on a children's summertime camp in Norway.

Weepiness Level: I'g not going to prevarication to you: Only constant crying throughout

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Foxtrot (2018)

Reason Y'all'll Cry: This disquisitional, thought-provoking look at State of israel'south military by Israeli filmmaker Samuel Maoz starts with a family'southward reaction to their son'due south expiry―only takes several unexpected turns that somehow makes the film fifty-fifty more than gut-wrenching than expected.

Weepiness Level: Sobs interrupted past intermittent cries of, "War is pointless!"

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Revolutionary Road (2008)

Reason You'll Weep: Because of the death of these people's hopes and dreams...and also because of literal death.

Weepiness Level: Tearfully reminding your confused and concerned significant other that you love and appreciate them.

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Her (2013)

Reason You'll Weep: This motion-picture show is a unique meditation on loneliness in the age of artificial intelligence, and it will take y'all questioning the ways you use technology to cope.

Weepiness Level: Shoulder shaking quietly, staring at your smartphone suspiciously but also with a weird longing.

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Mouchette (1967)

Reason You'll Cry: Robert Bresson is known for depicting characters in impossible, dire circumstances, and the sight of this orphaned piddling girl crying correct into the camera, will absolutely set you off.

Weepiness Level: Pausing the pic because you can't hear it over your crying.

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Christine (2016)

Reason Y'all'll Cry: In Christine, we watch the title grapheme (played past Rebecca Hall) slowly succumb to loneliness until she kills herself on live television. And it's based on a true story.

Weepiness Level: Stunned silence followed past a sudden, fatigued-out sob.

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Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Reason You'll Cry:  Kids dying and lifelong guilt and lost love in common cold, coastal New England.

Weepiness Level: The type that'south accompanied by physical pain in your chest.

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The Danish Daughter (2015)

Reason You'll Cry: The injustice of transphobia + the endurance of unconditional dearest + the fact that this is a truthful story. I see no reason not to cry

Weepiness Level: Hugging your pillow to your chest, murmuring, "It'south but not off-white" over and over again.

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Happy as Lazzaro (2018)

Reason You'll Cry: Y'all'll fall in love with the innocent yet doomed Lazzaro in Alice Rohrwacher's ethereal, fable-like flick. And at the cease, you lot'll be crying non only for him, but also out of frustration that the earth is the way it is.

Weepiness Level: *sobs in Italian*

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Pilus (1979)

Reason You'll Weep: Director Milos Forman changed the ending of this classic musical to make it doubly equally upsetting. Much of the picture show is a celebration of life, rebellion, and hippie culture, so the comedown at the end will have you positively wrecked.

Weepiness Level: Sobbing every bit you pine for world peace and stick flowers in your long, untamed hair.

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Grave of the Fireflies (2011)

Reason You'll Cry: This delineation of World War II from the perspective of 2 young Japanese children absolutely gutted me. For some reason, this picture was released on a double-nib with the delightful childhood archetype My Neighbour Totoro, resulting in scores of traumatized motion picture-goers who'd been expecting a lighthearted trip to the movies.

Weepiness Level: Crying equally you request an appointment with your therapist ASAP.

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Y Tu Mama También (2001)

Reason Yous'll Cry: This movie is achingly poetic, and it touches non merely on literal decease, but also on the expiry of youth, friendship, and innocence.

Weepiness Level: Vino-drunk tears while yous stalk your long-lost childhood all-time friend on Instagram.

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5 Feet Apart (2019)

Reason Yous'll Weep:More than 30,000 Americans alive with cystic fibrosis, and we get a glimpse of how the disease takes a toll on young people.

Weepiness Level:At least one box of tissues and a call to your mom after the movie ends.

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Little Women (2019)

Reason Yous'll Cry:All we want is for Jo March to find love and live the life she deserves. There's another big reason yous'll cry, but nosotros won't spoil information technology for yous.

Weepiness Level:A couple packs of tissues are necessary.

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Pieces of a Adult female (2021)

Reason Y'all'll Weep:A devastating home nascence the main character experiences will striking habitation for a lot of women.

Weepiness Level:Quite a fleck of "ugly crying."

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The Lovely Bones (2009)

Reason You'll Cry:Grappling with the murder of a young daughter and the lack of answers her family receives almost her death throughout the moving-picture show, plus experiencing the life she had ahead of her.

Weepiness Level:Yous'll exist calling your parents at to the lowest degree three times after finishing the movie.

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The Farewell (2019)

Reason Y'all'll Cry:Because y'all'll be reminded of a unproblematic fact that we all know, but ordinarily try to ignore actively thinking virtually: Everyone we love will eventually die and all nosotros can do is make the most of the time we have with them.

Weepiness Level:At to the lowest degree half a box of tissues and a tearful telephone call abode to your grandparents and parents.

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Seven Pounds (2008)

Reason Y'all'll Cry:We'll try to be as un-spoilery equally possible here, but permit's just say that when the truth near the principal graphic symbol's random acts of kindness is revealed, crying is guaranteed.

Weepiness Level:Stunned silence and then a steady stream of quiet, trunk-shaking sobs.

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Me Earlier You lot (2015)

Reason You'll Weep:Because not all love stories have a happy ending, but it's fifty-fifty sadder when that sorry catastrophe is function of a selection and not fate stepping in.

Weepiness Level:Ugly crying into a bottle of wine and drunkard texting "I love you lot" to everyone you lot care about.

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Marriage Story (2019)

Reason Y'all'll Weep: We've all experienced the crushing loss of a relationship falling autonomously andWedlock Story reflects that hurting right back to us.

Weepiness Level:Pretending its allergies to everyone watching with you even though it is conspicuously not merely allergies.

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Inside Out (2015)

Reason Y'all'll Cry:Go out information technology to Pixar to arts and crafts a children's pic that explains something as complex every bit depression. Also, how could younon tear upward in a Pixar movie about low?

Weepiness Level:Let's put it this mode: If, like Bing Bong in the motion-picture show, you cried candy instead of tears, you'd produce an entire Halloween's supply of play a trick on-or-treat candy with every viewing.

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Dead Poets Society (1983)

Reason Y'all'll Cry:In this movie, we have: Robin Williams as the teacher effigy you e'er wanted, a group of immature men trying to find there way in this scary unknown world, overbearing parents who just won't quit meddling, and the life-altering power of literature.

Weepiness Level:The kind where you have to concord in your sobs to not draw attending.

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Marley and Me (2008)

Reason You'll Weep:It tracks the life of possibly one of the cutest and most energetic dogs on the planet. Information technology'southward promoted as a one-act, which, trust united states, does have its moments, but like we said, "tracks the life," and then uh, that also includes the end.

Weepiness Level:Clutching your furry friends coat while crying takes some serious talent.

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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Reason You'll Weep:Childhood friends turned love-struck couple struggle to movement frontwards with their life together when ane of them is arrested and put in jail for a crime they didn't commit. You'll never want to scream at your television more.

Weepiness Level:A jumbo box of tissues' worth.

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A Star is Born (2018)

Reason You'll Weep:Two musicians come up together to create arguably one of the best songs of all time *coughing* "Shallow" *cough* and autumn in love. If this was a perfect world, the motion picture would end there, just because it'southward a motion-picture show, Bradley Cooper's character is a pill-popping alcoholic who desperately needs to be saved.

Weepiness Level: When you call up yous're done crying, it'll make you weep again.

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Sophie's Choice (1982)

Reason You'll Cry:The titular choice in this motion-picture show is synonymous with devastating, no-win situations. That choice, if y'all haven't seen the flick, is the moment when Holocaust survivor Sophie (played by Meryl Streep) was forced to choose which of her children to send to their death.

Weepiness Level:Existential crisis-induced sobs and a lingering sadness that will hit you again, without warning, for the rest of your life.

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Toy Story (2010)

Reason You lot'll Cry:When Andy'southward toys come up face to face up with their own, horrifying demise and and so merelyaccept that they're going to burn to decease in an incinerator, you lot'll feel the called-for hurting of your own childhood dying a lilliputian. Don't worry, they get in out (is that even a spoiler, since there's now aToy Story 4?), butnonetheless.

Weepiness Level:The always-jarring feeling of being forced to admit your ain mortality, paired with a setting that makes yous consider that through the lens of childhood. BRB, dying inside a little (/a lot).

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Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Reason You'll Weep:Even though we all know how this i ends, the look of daze and devastation on Leo's face when he realizes his Juliet is actually alive and he's about to definitely non be is tragic.

Weepiness Level:Classic cries. Throwback, Shakespearean cries.

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Mary and Max (2009)

Reason You'll Cry:This movie captures the essence of intense loneliness, isolation, suicidal depression, and the power of a single, human connection in a way that no movie with live-activity actors ever has.

Weepiness Level:More crying than you always expected to exercise for claymation characters, that's for sure.

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AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Reason You'll Cry:If you tin watch the scene where Haley Joel Osment, playing a robot who believes he's a real boy, begs his homo mother not to carelessness him equally she drives away and leaves him to mourn her love for all eternity, theny'all might be the robot.

Weepiness Level: Moderate weeping, every bit this list goes. Luckily, there are less sob-fest parts of the moving-picture show, too.

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1 Day (2011)

Reason You'll Weep:Described past several people on the MarieClaire.com staff as "ane of the most manipulative movies of all time" (in a good-cry way), this story that follows Anne Hathaway (with an emphasis) and Jim Sturgess every bit two people who meet in college and see up once again on the same day each year for two decades. At that place is more death than at that place probably needs to be for something that's such a dull burn. Even telling you the plot might make you lot tear upwards.

Weepiness Level:Tears over how unfair life (and this flick) tin can sometimes exist.

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Never Allow Me Go (2010)

Reason You'll Cry: Swelling orchestral soundtrack? Check. Romantic, forbidden dearest triangle? Cheque. Doomed loves? Bank check. Postmodern fable virtually clones based on a (genius) book past Kishuo Ishiguro? Um, also check.

Weepiness Level: A good, transfixed cry.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Heed (2004)

Reason You lot'll Cry:Michel Gondry makes movies that are thoughtfully quirky and and so punch yous correct in the gut. This one stars Jim Carey every bit a human being reeling from a crappy breakup who decides to use new applied science to have all memories of his ex, Kate Winslet, wiped from his memory. Simply as the foreign, surreal erasure process starts to take him through every retentivity he has with her, he realizes that perhaps relationships are filled with expert and bad—and that'south sort of the point of everything.

Weepiness Level:More like Eternal Sadness of the Sad Heed.

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Finding Neverland (2004)

Reason You'll Weep: The true-ish story ofPeter Pan creator J.M. Barrie and his friendship with a widow (Kate Winslet, again! She'due south on this list a lot.) and her four sons, who inspired the tale of the picayune boy who never grew up.

Weepiness Level:Lovely, nostalgic little tears.

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My Sister's Keeper (2009)

Reason You'll Weep:Abigail Breslin stars in this Nicholas Sparks movie based on a Jodi Picoult bestselling volume. She plays a young woman genetically engineered from nascence to provide bone marrow and various other donations for her terminally ill older sister, just who decides to legally emancipate herself from her parents and cull her own destiny—even at the take chances of letting her sister die.

Weepiness Level: Come on, this matter was genetically engineered from birth to make you WEEP.

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Lion (2016)

Reason Y'all'll Cry: The story of a little Indian boy who gets separated from his family unit, adopted by an Australian couple, and so who goes in search of his birth family. Ugh, it'sso sad!

Weepiness Level:Some of the heaviest crying you lot'll do in a film, guaranteed.

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The Notebook (2004)

Reason You'll Cry:Look, this movie is schmaltzy equally hell. But it's also securely romantic and tragic in the way that all beloved stories are tragic because they can't possibly last forever and...I'grand distressing, I just demand a minute.

Weepiness Level: Ugly-crying.

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Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Reason You'll Cry:The sensuous Italian scenery, the budding only shy romance between two gorgeous-in-different-means men (Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer), the ultimately futile nature of their honey...Get ready to cry forth with Timmy to the dulcet tones of Sufjan Stevens.

Weepiness Level: The exact same level that Timmy stoically, beautifully cries at the end of the movie—no more or less.

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The Way We Were (1973)

Reason You'll Weep: Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford accept undeniable chemical science in this story of ii mismatched lovers who, in the finish, just can't arrive work. It's sad because it'll remind you of your own lost loves. Also, it'due south got a killer soundtrack.

Weepiness Level: Sobs that won't stop because, honestly, they're not really about the motion picture, are they?

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Moulin Rouge (2001)

Reason Y'all'll Cry: A fun, gorgeous, sexy, musical romp virtually beloved that ultimately ends in tuberculosis. And then unfair.

Weepiness Level:Lip-quivering with perhaps a contemplative tear.

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Atonement (2007)

Reason You'll Cry:A beautiful, lush picture show about a terrible error made by a young daughter that ruins non only her life but the lives of two innocent, very bonny people? Ugh, fine, laissez passer the tissues.

Weepiness Level: Horrified tears.

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Steel Magnolias (1989)

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Reason You'll Weep: Information technology's a movie nigh a group of sis-friends, one of whom dies tragically after having a kid against medico's orders. If you take a pulse, you will cry. Also, Dolly Parton is in information technology. That's not a reason to weep but it's good to know.

Weepiness Level:Snotty nose-blowing.

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Titanic (1997)

Reason You'll Cry: Ummm, how about considering an entire ship full of people come across their watery doom? But mostly due to the scene in which two old people lay in bed and expect for the Grim Reaper to take them.

Weepiness Level:Several fully-formed tears.

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Upward (2009)

Reason You'll Cry:Honestly, yous can watch this picture show and not weep, only it would require skipping the first 10 minutes. The gist is: Adult female meets man, woman marries man, woman lives a perfect life with human being, adult female dies, man has to proceed on going somehow. Fifty-fifty typing that made me well up.

Weepiness Level:Repose, heaving sobs for two minutes.

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My Dog Skip (2000)

Reason Y'all'll Cry:There should be a rule like Chekhov'south Gun in movies, merely it's Chekhov's Canis familiaris: If there's a dog in a heartwarming family moving-picture show's first ten minutes, the domestic dog is going to die past the stop of the film. Yes, the dog dies. I told you there were spoilers.

Weepiness Level:Full-on heaving sobs.

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Brokeback Mount (2005)

Reason You'll Cry:It'south a story of strength, secrets, loss, and honey—in other words, a perfect tempest of crying provender. And the fact that Heath Ledger is no longer with us certainly ups the tear-jerking factor.

Weepiness Level:Deplorable sighing with i really good tear.

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My Girl (1991)

Reason You'll Cry:Even if you're not a chid of the '90s, Macauley Culkin as an adorably sweetness dweeb with a fatal bee allergy volition ruin you.

Weepiness Level:A few minutes of tearful.

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The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

Reason You'll Cry: Information technology'south a love story that heavily involves cancer. Gee, wonder if yous'll be sad nearly that?

Weepiness Level:Choke-crying.

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Reason You'll Weep:Legends of the Autumnis an epic of gargantuan proportions, full of tender moments, broken hearts, unexpected deaths, and Brad Pitt's costless-flowing mane of blonde pilus. Its beauty alone will get you.

Weepiness Level:Hard sobs, but silent ones.

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Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Reason Y'all'll Cry: If you tin brand it through the last twenty minutes of this film with your tear ducts nevertheless in tact, y'all're a hero. But that also means you're the kind of person who's able to sit through at least three traumatizing and highly unexpected character deaths, and so...

Weepiness Level:Shock, then crying.

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