From '90s classics like The Shawshank Redemption to recent hits like Marriage Story, here are the best sad movies you can stream on Netflix tonight. No matter which movie you pick, you’re gonna be clutching your heart (and your ice cream) reaaaaaaal tight. But if you’re the type of robot human who needs something REALLY sad to get the water works flowing, I found some options to split open your ice cold heart, too. If you’re the type to start tearing up from just a sad movie trailer (hi, guilty), then you should be warned that every single one of the movies on this list will have you destroying an entire box of tissues. Amelie meets Nymphomaniac is one way to describe Wetlands, a German film available on Netflix US which is already reaching something of a cult status on account of its visually. Curling up on the couch in your coziest jammies with a pint of your favorite ice cream and letting your feels hang all the way out while streaming a sad movie is like the lazy, free version of a private therapy sesh.
These days, that 'sometimes' is more like 'all the time' because we are alive during a pandemic! Ha ha ha. The movie that vaulted Lana Condor into the halls of teen rom-com royalty was this 2018 Netflix original based on Jenny Han's book of the same name, and follows a high schooler, Lara Jean (Condor. Thrillers and rom-coms are great and all, but sometimes you're just in the mood for a good cry.
