25 melancholic movies to cry non-stop

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

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 moving films that explore various situations in which dignity flourishes the resilience facing difficult moments in life.

1. dance in the dark

In this film the artist Björk embodies an emigrant from Eastern Europe who during the 60s, he is going to live in the United States with his son. There she will try to stay positive imagining that her misadventures, related to the lack of resources, the illness and the difficulties of raising her son, are part of musicals in which she has the role major.

2. bike thief

One of the great classics of cinema that is, at the same time, one of the saddest films 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 be able to improve the living conditions of his home somewhat after meet, but that changes when on his first day his bicycle is stolen, essential to keep his job. At that moment, Antonio and his son begin a search with the intention of recovering it.

3. set fire

Two brothers go to the Near East to investigate their family roots and fulfill their mother's last wishes. in lebanon they will find traces of a past sunk in the war between religions but also in a series of secrets.

4. lilya forever

This film talks about the life of a young woman who, to try to escape 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 make her come into contact with trafficking in whites and drug addiction..

5. schindler's list

One of Steven Spielberg's most famous films is the tragic schindler's list, set during the Second World War. In her the story is told of a man who, earning the trust of the Nazis, manages to save the lives of a group of Jews turning 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, news appears that changes everything: the first love of her husband, something that is already far away in time, has turned up frozen to death in the Swiss Alps.

7. I am Sam

In this moving and sad film, Sean Penn plays a man with an intellectual disability who fights to keep custody of his daughter.. His lawyer, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, will defend her case at the beginning with strict professionalism and maintaining a clear distancing, but this changes when he sees the determination with which his client tries to avoid being separated from his daughter.

8. away from her

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

9. The fireflies's grave

Animated cinema is also capable of offering very sad films, and Grave of the Fireflies is the paradigmatic example of this. It is about the life of a young Japanese man who, during World War II, he fails to reach the shelter where his mother is waiting for him while a bombardment falls. 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 from the neighborhood knows each other and gathers to attend the screening of films. The protagonist evokes childhood memories of him, when helped the cinema operator to handle the projection tapes.

other sad movies

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

11. The rules of the Cider House

Tobey Maguire plays a young man who, after passing through the orphanage, decides to leave it to see the world.

12. The pianist

Another of the great movie classics, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody, who plays a Jew who tries to live with dignity in Nazi-occupied Poland. Essential.

13. toy Story 3

Curiously, the last film in a saga focused on children's audiences is also, one of the saddest movies about growing up and moving into adolescence (although, yes, keeping a positive message).

14. Dead poets society

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

15. Death penalty

Sean Penn plays a man who awaits the execution of the death sentence for a week before he kills him. by lethal injection, he talks to a nun (Susan Sarandon) who will try to make the young man find peace in his last years. moments.

16. american beauty

Kevin Spacey stars as a family man going through a major life crisis, monotonously experiencing both his marriage and his work life. The fact that he begins to feel a strong attraction to his daughter's friend shakes his life.

17. Atonement

One of the saddest movies made in the UK, Atonement talks about the stormy relationship between a young woman and the man her sister is attracted to.

18. hachiko

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

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 in the Rwandan civil war. The manager of a hotel 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 who, around 50 years old, is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. At that moment, she begins her struggle to manage this situation, with a routine of questions that 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 that intertwine to form a melting pot of examples of honesty, improvement and forgiveness.