20 movies that will make you cry

We all love cinema for the storm of feelings and emotions that it is able to awaken in us. One movie makes you want to laugh, another makes you want to embrace the whole world, and the third one can make you sob with empathy for the heroes.

Here is a selection of twenty films that will surely make you cry. Of course, there are a great many such films, among them there are very worthy ones, but it is impossible to list them all.

A young girl who was separated from her lover by the war decides to change her life.

A difficult child has to summon all his courage to help a friendly alien leave Earth and return to his home planet.

Sophie, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, finds a reason to move on — the brilliant and fickle Nathan, an American Jew obsessed with thoughts of the Holocaust. They meet and become friends with the narrator of the film, a young American writer Stingo, a newcomer to New York. However, Sophie and Nathan's happiness is threatened by her ghosts and his obsessions.

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to love poetry and enjoy today.

Victims of a long-standing epidemic of encephalitis remained paralyzed for many years, but suddenly a new drug opens up the prospect of their return to life.

Bob Jones has a life like a fairy tale — a great job, a beautiful loving wife expecting a child. And then he finds out that he has kidney cancer, from which he is destined to die within a few months. He decides to make a video recording in order to convey to the future child the acquired wisdom and life experience, and this venture turns into a journey of self-discovery and reconciliation for him.

When a person with AIDS is fired from his job at a law firm because of his condition, he hires the only one who agreed to defend him - a little—known homophobic lawyer.

Maggie, a thirty-year-old girl with a difficult fate, with her stubbornness and unwillingness to retreat, forces the boxing coach to take up her training. At first, he does not believe in her success, but perseverance and the will to win prevail, and Maggie becomes a champion.

Overcoming all the hardships of the struggle together, the athlete and the coach understand who is a real family for them, able to share joy and support in trouble.

A black death row inmate accused of raping and murdering children changes the guards' lives forever when they learn about his mysterious gift.

1964. Selma moves with her son to America from Central Europe. A woman works day and night to save her son from the same disease that she suffers from, and which will inevitably deprive her of sight. Selma's secret gives her the strength to fight — she loves musicals. When life seems cruel, she imagines that she is in the wonderful world of musicals... at least for a brief moment. Here she finds all the happiness that she lacks in real life.

A passionate but poor young man falls in love with a girl from a rich family and gives her a sense of freedom. However, they are soon separated by social inequality.

The film tells the story of the life of the author of "Peter Pan" James Matthew Barry, who led to the writing of this classic children's story. He met four children who didn't have a father. Impressed by the time spent with these kids, he writes a story about children who do not want to grow up.

The non-fictional story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabajina, who sheltered more than a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

Full of naked truth, a strong story of two young people, a farm worker and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 while grazing sheep in the harsh alpine meadows of modern Wyoming. The result of this acquaintance becomes, though not accepted by society, but a lifelong connection.

Aspiring writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old girl, irrevocably changed the course of several lives when she accused her older sister's lover of a crime that he did not commit. The film is based on the eponymous love novel by British writer Ian McEwan.

A young widow discovers that her late husband left her 10 messages designed to ease her pain and help her start a new life.

The film is set during the Second World War. We see the story through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of a concentration camp commandant, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence turned into startling and unexpected consequences.

Professor Parker Wilson finds an abandoned dog at a train station in the city of Badridge and takes it home with the intention of returning the animal to its owner. He finds out that this dog is an Akita breed, and gives him a name — Hachiko. However, no one comes for the dog, and the professor's family decides to keep Hachiko.

The film tells a touching story of the life of a modern married couple.

The father of narcissistic yuppie Charlie Babbitt dies and leaves his entire fortune not to him, but to his brother, whose existence Charlie did not even know. The autistic genius Raymond is in a psychiatric hospital, and Charlie decides to take him away from there in the hope of somehow getting his inheritance. The brothers embark on a journey across America full of adventures and discoveries.