# Movies that will make you cry

Keep the tissues handy: the saddest films according to Psicología y Mente, Lifeder and The Hollywood Reporter en Español, from Neorealism to Pixar.

- 78 votes · 15 items
- Jan 27, 2026 · devoralibros_salta
- https://even.best/en/l/3844/movies-that-will-make-you-cry

## Top 15

1. **Bicycle Thieves (1948)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — A father and son search postwar Rome for a stolen bicycle.
2. **Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — A dog's loyalty, waiting for his owner at the station.
3. **Grave of the Fireflies (1988)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Two siblings try to survive in 1945 Japan; Studio Ghibli animation.
4. **Schindler's List (1993)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Spielberg and the businessman who saved over a thousand Jews.
5. **Life Is Beautiful (1997)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Roberto Benigni shields his son in a concentration camp.
6. **Dancer in the Dark (2000)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Björk as a mother going blind; Palme d'Or.
7. **I Am Sam (2001)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Sean Penn fights for custody of his daughter.
8. **The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Will Smith and his son, homeless, chase a chance.
9. **Manchester by the Sea (2016)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Casey Affleck and a grief that won't close.
10. **The Fault in Our Stars (2014)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Two teenagers with cancer fall in love.
11. **The Pianist (2002)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Władysław Szpilman in the Warsaw Ghetto.
12. **Incendies (2010)** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Twins trace their mother's story in the Middle East.
13. **La La Land (2016)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A pianist and an actress in Los Angeles; recent cinema's most elegant heartbreak.
14. **Lilya 4-ever (2002)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — An abandoned teenager in a former Soviet republic.
15. **Cinema Paradiso (1988)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — A filmmaker remembers his childhood in a Sicilian cinema.

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