While enjoying my daily scroll on Reddit, I encountered the question, “What movies will make me smile-cry at the end? They further clarified, “Films that are very sad at times but ultimately show the beauty in that tragedy.”
ABOUT TIME (2013)
Tim Lake’s family is unique, and he learns the secret when he turns 21. His dad tells him that the men in his family can travel through time, although they can’t change history.
LIFE ITSELF (2018)
College sweethearts Will and Abby (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) fall in love and get married. When they are expecting their first child, fate links them to a group of people.
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)
They meet each other on a train journey and start seeing each other. But after a painful breakup, Clementine undergoes a memory-erasing procedure.
KODACHROME (2018)
Matt, a struggling executive, finds his life flipped upside-down when he learns his father is terminally ill. Matt’s father is a famous photojournalist, and his dying wish is for his son to accompany him on a road trip.
YOUR NAME (2016)
Several Redditors agreed that the Japanese animated romantic fantasy Your Name is incredible. It shows two teenagers who discover that they are swapping bodies.
THE ORPHANAGE (2008)
Laura convinces her husband to buy the orphanage she grew up in. She has happy memories of that place, and they turn it into a home for sick children. Later she adopts a boy, Simon, and one day he goes missing.
Edward, a journalist, comes home to be with his father, who gets ill. His father has always told him fantastic stories about his life that Edward never believed.