25 Emotional Breakup Movies That Had Everyone Ugly Crying
It's hard to make love last: the best breakup movies, from Marriage Story to Brokeback Mountain, bring that message to life on the silver screen.
One of the powers of good storytelling paired with solid filmmaking is invoking the ugly cry from viewers. The ugly cry is the uncontrollable stream of tears you, as the audience member, engage in as you feel all the characters' emotions and stories playing out across the screen. We've ugly cried to movies with animals, iconic deaths, endings of franchise films, and The Notebook. The genres that really indulge the ugly cry are romance and breakup stories.