25 melancholic movies to make you cry non-stop

Cinema that will bring tears to your eyes: here is the best compilation.

Cinema is also capable of touching our emotional fiber through sad and melancholic films.

Using them to reflect or simply to bring out feelings that need to be expressed is as healthy as it is stimulating.

The best sad and touching movies

Below you can find a selection of poignant films that explore various situations in which dignity and resilience emerge in the face of difficult moments in life.

1. Dancing in the Dark

In this film the artist Björk plays the role of an Eastern European immigrant who, during the 1960s, goes to live in the United States.She goes to live in the United States with her son. There she will try to stay positive by imagining that her misfortunes, related to lack of resources, illness and the difficulties of raising her child, are part of musicals in which she plays the leading role.

2. Bicycle Thief

One of the great classics of cinema that is, at the same time, one of the saddest movies ever made.. It narrates the life of Antonio, a worker who lives with his family in miserable conditions in post-war Italy. A precarious job pasting posters helps him to improve the living conditions of his home after finding himself, but that changes when on his first day his bicycle, essential to keep his job, is stolen. At that moment, Antonio and his son start a search with the intention of recovering it.

3. Incendies

Two brothers go to the Near East to investigate their family roots and complete their mother's last wishes. In Lebanon you will find traces of a past plunged in the war between religions, but also in a series of secrets. but also in a series of secrets.

4. Lilya forever

This film is about the life of a young woman who, in an attempt to escape from the misery that prevails in her city with the disappearance of the Soviet Union, tries to start a new life in Sweden. This trip will bring her into contact with white slavery and drug addiction..

5. Schindler's List

One of Steven Spielberg's most famous films is the tragic Schindler's Listset during the Second World War. It tells the story of a man who tells the story of a man who, gaining the trust of the Nazis, manages to save the lives of a group of Jews by turning his factory into a shelter. by converting his factory into a shelter.

6. 45 Years

A melancholic and moving film. The story is about a married couple preparing to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. However, during this transit, a piece of news appears that changes everything: the husband's first love, something that is already far away in time, has been found frozen to death in the Swiss Alps.

7. I am Sam

In this touching and sad film, Sean Penn plays an intellectually disabled man who fights to keep custody of his daughter.. His lawyer, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, will at first defend his case from the strict professionalism and keeping a clear distance, but this changes as she sees the determination with which her client tries to avoid being separated from his daughter.

8. Away from her

A married couple entering retirement age is ready to enjoy the moments of rest and intimacy that their new life offers. However, these prospects change when the wife begins to experience the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease..

9. The Grave of the Fireflies

Animated films are also capable of offering very sad movies, and The Grave of the Fireflies is the paradigmatic example of this. It is about the life of a young Japanese boy who, during the Second World War, fails to reach the shelter in which he lives.It is about the life of a young Japanese boy who, during the Second World War, fails to reach the shelter where his mother is waiting for him while a bombing raid is falling. With his little sister he will try to survive in a region where food is scarce.

10. Cinema Paradiso

A tribute both to old cinema and to life in an Italy where everyone in the neighborhood knows each other and gathers to attend movie screenings. The protagonist evokes the memories of his childhood, when he used to help the helping the cinema operator to handle the projection tapes..

Other sad movies

If you still have tears left to shed, here are some other sad movies that you might really like.

11. The Cider House Rules

Tobey Maguire plays a young boy who, after his time at the orphanage, decides to leave it to see the world.

12. The Pianist

Another of the great classics of cinema, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody, who plays a Jew trying to live with dignity in Nazi-occupied Poland. A must-see.

13. Toy Story 3

Curiously, the last film in a saga focused on children's audiences is also one of the saddest films of all.one of the saddest films about growing up and the transition to adolescence. (although it still has a positive message).

14. The Dead Poets Club

One of the films for which the actor Robin Williams is most remembered, playing a teacher who changes the lives of his students through poetry.

15. Death Penalty

Sean Penn plays a man awaiting execution who, over the course of a week before he is killed by lethal injection, converses with a nun (Susan Sarandon) who will try to help the young man find peace in his final moments.

16. American Beauty

Kevin Spacey plays a family man who is going through a major life crisis, experiencing monotony in both his marriage and his work life. The fact that he begins to feel a strong attraction for his daughter's friend shakes his life.

17. Atonement

One of the saddest films ever made in the United Kingdom, Atonement is about the stormy relationship between a young girl and the man her sister is attracted to.

18. Hachiko

American remake of the Japanese film about the famous dog that went every day to a train station to wait for his keeper.

19. The Bridges of Madison

A well-known film that is worth revisiting from time to time. One of the few love stories starring people of mature age.

20. Hotel Rwanda

A film set during the civil war in Rwanda. A hotel manager decides to use the place where he works to shelter both his Hutu family and several Tutsi neighbors. Based on a true story.

21. Still Alice

The story of a woman in her 50s who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. At that moment she begins her struggle to manage this situation, with a routine of questions she must ask herself every day, and combine it with the changes she has to make in her relationship with her children.

22. The Green Mile

A well-known film about the death penalty, forgiveness and acceptance, with some of the most moving scenes in cinema.

23. Big Fish

A film that mixes large doses of fantasy with a dramatic tone towards the end.

24. The Elephant Man

This film shows the life of a man with an extremely disfigured head who tries to live with dignity in 19th century London.

25. Magnolia

Several stories intertwine to form a melting pot of examples of honesty, self-improvement and forgiveness.