8 Deep, Sad Movies That Will Touch You Deeply

It is said that it is much easier to make someone laugh at a movie than it is to make them cry over it. Creating a connection with your viewers is not easy. But it can be wonderful when it happens. Sad movies in particular have a special power that can touch you and make you empathize with the characters.

For a few hours, your eyes take you into their lives. You will feel what they feel. You will shout when they shout and you will feel moved when they feel moved. The magic of the film is that they activate your own impulses through a story played out by people on a screen.

Sad movies provide insight into the lives of people who are suffering and facing difficulties. There is not always a happy ending. But they teach us why it’s so important to never give up when things get tough.

8 sad movies that will touch you

Love

This French film tells the story of an elderly couple who are confronted with their wife’s illness. Misunderstanding, loneliness and compassion are the main themes in this film. Georges, the husband, will have to deal with his wife’s situation. It is so hard for him that he gets to a point where he does not want to continue living.

The frustration and pain make both him and his daughter struggle not to lose her. The director, Michael Haneke, won an Oscar in 2012 for this masterpiece, which we consider a must-see .

Hachi: A dog’s tale

Parker Wilson is a music teacher who finds an Akita puppy one day. Even though his wife says no, he decides to keep the dog. They end up forming a special connection to each other. The story, based on true events, focuses on how loyal dogs are to their owners.

In this movie, the dog himself goes so far as to wait for Parker every day at the train station.

Hotel Rwanda

The genocide that took place in Rwanda when the Hutu people murdered the Tutsis is coldly and objectively depicted in this film, but also brave. The main character is Paul, a Hutu man who manages a hotel and who decides to help hide hundreds of families from persecution.

Paul’s wife is Tutsi. Both she and their daughters receive death threats. While waiting for international help, he must bribe Hutu leaders, deal with a terrible lack of resources and always maintain his inner peace, in order to save his family.

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain tells the story of a love affair between two American cowboys. At first, they both deny their feelings because of social conventions, but later they begin a beautiful, albeit complicated, relationship.

The way the film shows us how they fall in love is simple and natural, but it is also very complicated because of their fear of rejection.

Pianists

This absolute treasure of a film directed by Roman Polanski is about Wladyslaw, a Polish pianist of Jewish background. They force him to live in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he has an extremely hard life and is confronted with the horrific atrocities committed by the Nazis.

His love for the piano is what keeps him alive and what gets him in the chalk house of a Nazi who discovers his talent.

Stepmom

Isabel is a fashion photographer who thinks of nothing but work. She is in a relationship with a divorced man, Luke, who is constantly arguing with his ex-wife and the mother of his children, Jackie. Their lives are completely turned upside down when they find out that Jackie has incurable cancer. This means that Isabel has to spend more time with the children.

My Girl

Little Vada lives a life where she is constantly surrounded by death. Her father owns a funeral home, which he runs in their basement. Her mother died when she gave birth to her, and her grandmother has Alzheimer’s. She spends peaceful days with her best friend, Thomas, but everything changes when Shelly, the new undertaker, enters the picture.

The Club of the Dead Poets

John Keating is an English teacher at a private boys’ school. His arrival brings excitement and mystery with him because his teaching methods are not completely normal. A group of four friends find out that the new teacher belonged to something called the “Dead Poets’ Club” when he was younger.

Keating shows them the place where they used to meet: an old tree where they would talk about poetry and express their deepest thoughts.

Ultimately, these deep, sad movies will make you think about the meaning of life. The characters in these films are not always strong or brave, but that is what makes them so human and what makes these sad films so meaningful. Because change, whether good or bad, is something you can never avoid in life.