Tearjerker Alert: Top 7 Dramas to Sob Your Heart Out, Ranked by Reddit

Dramas are probably the most demanded movie genre. If your summer is not as sunny as you hoped and you feel like you need a good cry, we have a perfect list for you.

Here are 7 drama gems to make you cry your eyes out, most voiced by Redditors.

7. About Time (2013)

“This is the only movie that ever broke me,” says @DrRandomfist about this must-watch that blends drama, comedy, science fiction and romance. The movie about a young man who has the ability to time travel and to change his past is really touching.

6. What Dreams May Come (1998)

Robin Williams-starring flick offers you a heartbreaking story of grieving man who travels into the limbo of Hell to retrieve his wife who dies from suicide. By transforming a tough drama into a fantasy, this film won’t leave you indifferent at all.

5. The Iron Claw (2023)

Next is a must-see sports flick about the real-life family of wrestlers, whose road to the pedestal was full of pain and grief.

“I’m so glad I watched this in the privacy of my house and not in a theater because I was a wreck,” confesses @msangryredhead.

4. My Girl (1991)

This dramedy is guaranteed to make you ugly cry by displaying both the struggles and the tenderness of coming of age. This commercially successful flick follows the life of an 11-year-old girl during the summer of 1972, and be sure it’s emotionally horrific.

3. Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

“Its more of a kids movie but still can make me cry at 32 years old, and I cry maybe once every 5+ years,” says @GGTheEnd.

Indeed, this fantasy about two teenagers who create their own world to cope with their troubled reality will make anyone sob.

2. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Even if you know what this animated war film is about, you still won’t be prepared for it. The plot of this masterpiece revolves around siblings and war orphans struggling to make it through the final months of World War II, and it offers top-notch drama.

1. Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Last comes Casey Affleck’s emotional roller coaster 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 truly one of the best dramas of the last decade.

Source: Reddit