Where are the tissues?
The first part of the film "Pieces of a Woman" is the strongest – it is harrowing, heartbreaking and really pulls the viewer along. There are many films seen women giving birth, but never have I seen a birth scene that was so visceral and intense. This movie is difficult and will likely be a movie you only watch once, so be aware of that if you ever decide to take a peek at one of the saddest movies on Netflix. | © Netflix
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a broken marriage and a family trying to stay together. The film is funny and sad, sometimes within a single scene. Marriage Story weaves a plot from the chaotic breakdown of a shared reality. | © Netflix
Calm, pleasantly unagitated and therefore highly emotional and touching, The Notebook, tells of the immortality of a great love that fights against forgetting and lives in the past because there is no present and certainly no future. Poetic and deeply sad romance that tears your heart out and leaves you emotionally naked. | © Netflix
Everything is perfect - until one day it isn't: because Abbie is unexpectedly diagnosed with end-stage cancer. The couple tries to come to terms with a future in which only one thing seems certain: their limitation. "Irreplaceable you" is a heartbreaking elegy of life - and was rightly voted the saddest film on the streaming service by Netflix users in a survey. | © Netflix
This moving documentary about the orca Tilikum shows once again that living creatures are not in the world for our entertainment. It also provides a behind-the-scenes look at parks like Sea World. Never capture what you can’t control. | © Netflix
Violet and Theodore are two teenagers who go to the same school in Indiana. Although they don't know each other, they have one thing in common, for both young people have experienced bad things in their past and lost the meaning in life. As a coming-of-age film, it deals with youth, life and death. Heart-touching and beautiful to cry about. | © Netflix
Chiron lives in difficult conditions. His mother is a drug addict. Only the drug dealer Juan seems to be a friend for Chiron. When the boy falls in love with his classmate Kevin, his life becomes even more complicated. "Moonlight" is not a casual watch over dinner. Especially the conflict of the main characters is thrilling and moves the audience to tears more than once. | © Netflix
The film tells the story of Loung Ung, who was trained as a child soldier in Cambodia at the age of five while her siblings were sent to labor camps during the Khmer Rouge regime. | © Netflix
The funny moments and the intimacy of the relationship of the main characters, as well as the personal experiences on which the film is based, make it all the more authentic and a beautiful film about the love for the family we have. | © Netflix
The film sheds light on the lives of teenagers, which are not nearly as great as they are always portrayed in most teen movies. Experiencing school days as an outsider is no bed of roses. The film deals with topics like psychological problems, sexual abuse or first love in an incredibly realistic way, so it's hard to hold back the tears. | © Netflix
Sad movies are a guilty pleasure... they help us to distance ourselves from the inner tension and to let the crushing feelings run free. This has an insanely liberating and soul-cleansing effect.
The films in the gallery are prime examples of works that illuminate the sad side of life. If you feel like crying again, you will definitely get your money's worth!
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