23 Best Tear-jerker Movies to Watch

Aiming straight for the heart while punching you in the guts, Mommy is a crazy chamber piece about a widowed mother and her next-door neighbor bringing up a savage teenager.

A quiet Polish masterpiece with ravishing music and dazzling visuals .

A star-studded, dark, but tender look at a victim of conversion therapy. .

Women’s rights and class collide in Mike Leigh’s immaculate period piece.

A spectacularily acted story about dealing with racism as an indigenous teenager.

An immigrant mother's first summer in New York.

Realistic, intimate, and compelling, Elena is a movie that makes you think a lot after you finish watching it. It is an inherently Russian movie, however there is something about how the story is told that makes it a universal family drama. A woman from a modest background to which she still has a lot of attachement is married to an old wealthy business man. Upon learning that the man might write her off his will, she feels pushed to get her hands dirty to honor her responsibilities towards her original family. The question of right and wrong when faced with extreme situations is at the heart of this aesthetically slow-burning family drama.