what movies to watch for a good cry to get over a breakup

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (woops:') Closer Her

Forgetting Sarah Marshal

500 Days of Summer

Balto Actually, most dog movies with mild peril.

Personally watching The Breakup with Jennifer Aniston made me ugly cry. It reminded me of how painful it was for both of us but how ultimately it was the right decision.

Manchester by the Sea

I’m not kidding, the Marcell the Shell with shoes on movie. Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer were going through their divorce while working in it. The way it dealt with relationship loss (not exclusively a romantic one) is beautiful

I watched “Someone Great” a million times after my first heart break

Worst Person in The World

Lost in Translation

Castaway. "It's like I lost her all over again." 😭😭😭 OP, tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide will bring?

Swingers Casablanca High Fidelity (Note: All three of these are about a guy who's heartbroken over losing a girlfriend, dunno if they'll make you cry, but they might reverberate with you anyway).

I dunno why, but I have always watched *Babe* after a breakup. It's a good, cathartic cry that just somehow makes me feel better.

Might not be what your expecting but Inside Out feels sort of purpose built to help heal and feel for a bit

La La Land 50/50 Silver Linings Playbook

Check out Love Liza, it is a real cry type of movie. Also maybe Punch Drunk Love and or Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!

Me and earl and the dying girl. If you like indie films at all, that film will definitely do the trick. Also, while the topic is unrelated, the green mile is also a sob fest. And I would know, you could count the number of films that make me weep on one hand.

The Break Up Forgetting Sarah Marshall Under the Tuscan Sun (personal favorite)

Blue Valentine

The Father. It’s not about a breakup but I promise you’ll cry.

Piranha 3d works for me.

A bit long but the Lord of the Rings trilogy. There is a lot of love and friendship in it that must ultimately break up. But it is followed by acceptance and resolution. Take care!

Bridge to teribithia. You will cry forever

Up (disney). The rest of these recommendations did nothing for me

If you want to cry, watch Brokeback Mountain. But also be prepared to feel a kind of pain you haven’t experienced before, a new sort of gut-wrenching longing that you’ll never part with. And every time you hear the acoustic guitar strum from then on, you’re reminded instantly of that pain. Incredible film.

Beaches

La La Land. Get crushed so hard you forget the breakup that brought you here for the crushing in the first place.

If you want something astonishing and beautiful, try The Red Turtle. I put it on not realizing that I would be a puddle after watching it. It's animated (simple and gorgeous, not Pixar-type) which I also didn't realize, but it was just what I needed at the time.

Celeste and Jesse Forever with Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg. She breaks up with her loser bf but mad regrets when he begins reinventing himself into what she wanted him to be all along, full spirals. I weep every time. It's a dry black comedy but a good cry

As a counter point, Rick and Morty always helped me. He reminds you how certain things don’t matter haha

Past Lives Atonement Someone Great Everything Everywhere All at Once Good Grief The Lobster Me Earl & The Dying Girl A Star is Born (lady gaga one) Marcel the Shell w Shoes On Call Me by Your Name Moonlight Marriage Story Brokeback Mountain Me Before You Les Mis Iron Claw Train Dreams Hamnet Normal People ((this is a show)) (some of these are sad, some are relationships, some are a mix of both) ETA: i keep thinking of more to add lol

Terms of Endearment 

The Bridges of Madison County

Somewhere In Time… Ice Castles

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

May or may not make you cry, but The Breakup with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston may be cathartic.

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Collateral Beauty 100% crying. Few years ago after a kinda breakup, somehow Pretty Woman made me cry like a baby

Sixth sense, a walk to remember, interstellar, more than blue, me before you, bridge to Terabithia

50 First Dates is on Tubi free rn

Blue is the Warmest Color

Cyborg Reindeer Games Malcolm X No Retreat No Surrender  The İncredible Hulk 

500 days of summer. Its so poignant for me personally. I even watched it to prepare myself for a breakup I felt was coming one time.

Powder - 1995. Not a break up type of movie, but definitely has its moments with being alone and wanting companionship.

Waiting to exhale, someone great, the boy downstairs. Not a movie but love life on hbo is a great series

The Butterfly Effect

Before Sunrise

We Exist in Time

Dear Zachary

If you are up for series/kdrama, may I suggest Daily Dose of Sunshine or Move To Heaven. Both are on Netflix afaik. Sending you healing and warm things.

Schindler's List.

Magnolia

City Lights

High Fidelity

Swingers

Tenet, after you finish it I’ll give you the information if it isn’t clued in why it’s a heart breaking story

Blue Valentine

How about 500 Days of Summer? Thats a lighthearted movie, but then its probably not what you're looking for. Is Blade Runner 2049 a suitable movie for grief? It was for me, I saw myself as Joe. And the movie and internet edits really drove the grief home

Paris, Texas

Chasing Amy

The Worst Person in the World

The last seduction. Makes me happy to be single.

Sweet November Arrival Benji: The Hunted

The Boy and The Heron 

The Fountain does it for me, and The Notebook

High Fidelity

It might not make you cry, but if you want to watch something really sad and good watch Manchester by the Sea. If you want to watch something uplifting, watch Good Will Hunting.

Swingers is the best breakup movie ever

Someone Great will do the trick

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For a cathartic breakup cry, 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (2004) is the gold standard for processing love and loss. '500 Days of Summer' (2009) is great for perspective, and 'Manchester by the Sea' (2016) if you just want to feel the weight of it all. Hang in there!

Lars And The Real Girl made me sob like nothing else.

Blue Valentine

Deep Impact. Super underrated early film of Mimi Leder

Past Lives 🥺

You might want to try the series on Hulu called Paradise. There is a huge thread, because the season finale just aired. I have balled my eyes out twice, and through the entire season finale. Season 2 is even better than season one.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Crush with Andie MacDowell - that was the first movie I ever cried over. Stepmom also does the trick for me (With Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon).

Aftersun. I think its most realistic movie I ever seen.

This became my specialist subject after my last breakup. Her, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (the most brutal, be careful, La La Land, 500 Days of Summer.

Cinema Paradiso (Italian movie) Cyrano de Bergerac with Gerard Depardieu (French Movie) Great Expectations with Gwyneth Paltrow

Shakespeare in Love

Sideways

Something Great

Episode 3 of season 1 of The Last of Us. Not a movie, but a beautiful episode on love and loss, and it’s made me cry twice.

Ham Net 

The Way We Were Normal People (Series) Simple Passion (Based on an Annie Ernaux book-she won recently the Nobel Prize for Literature) (These are all break up parting ways movies/series, and the two books-especially Normal People, Simple Passion, will also be great reads.) The Piano Teacher made me cry. It’s a very deep psychological intense story, but the acting is superb. This one has a happy conclusion, but I liked this old 80s movie called Until September which is set in Paris. The woman is a strong character but she goes through the ups a downs of an affair with a beautiful French man. If you need some cheering up I recommend It Happened One Night (classic with Clark Gable).

500 DAYS OF SUMMER FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL THE LONGEST WEEK KINGS OF SUMMER DISTURBIA

Roman Holiday Cairo Time The English Patient (not a breakup per se, but fitting) La La Land

Big Fish A.I. The Cure Boy in Striped Pajamas

Another Round It's a great movie with Mads Mikkelsen, and part of what makes it so sad is how fun it is too. It's amazing! TW if you've dealt with addiction because it f****** nails it, without being gross about it.

umbrellas of cherbourg, banshees of inisherin, requiem for a dream

The answer to every question is Die Hard

You need great sex. Instead of sulking, take charge and go out and get some.

How is getting sad gonna make you less sad

It might get you through the day, but no movie or media is going to get you through a breakup. Focus on your personal growth one day at a time and keep it in focus.