6 Reddit-Approved Dramas to Make You Ugly Cry For a Week (Hachi Didn’t Make the List)

If you seek for emotional relief and want to have a good cry, don’t hurry to rewatch Richard Gere’s Hachi for the 100th time. Reddit has already picked 6 other tear-jerking dramas for you – some of them hit even harder than the iconic movie about the most loyal dog ever.

1. Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)

First comes an animated war drama that will leave you sobbing the whole night after watching it. The plot of this heart-wrenching masterpiece revolves around the siblings and war orphans who struggle to make it through the final months of World War II.

2. Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Directed by the arthouse master Lars von Trier, this sophisticated musical is probably the most tragic movie ever made. It stars Bjork as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye disease and tries to prevent her son from becoming blind too.

3. The Green Mile (1999)

We bet you’ve heard about this drama adapted from Stephen King ’s brilliant novel. Yes, this emotional roller coaster of a movie can make you ugly cry while telling the story of a prison guard and a convict who possesses a supernatural ability to heal others.

4. Brokeback Mountain (2005)

By blending Western, romance and drama elements, this flick centers on two cowboys who fall for each other in the homophobic West of the 1960s. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal ’s performances are so convincing here that their drama feels genuinely real.

5. The Fox and the Hound (1981)

Another animated film is in the list, and be sure the tale about the unlikely friendship between a red fox and a hound won’t leave you indifferent. The more the two struggle against their instincts, the more you start to understand it’s not about animals at all.

6. Manchester By The Sea (2016)

Last is Casey Affleck-starring tear-jerker of a movie that focuses on a depressed and asocial man who becomes the legal guardian of his teenage nephew after the sudden death of his brother. It’s certainly one of the best dramas of the last decade.

Source: Reddit