Capsizing ships and star-crossed lovers. Terminal ailments and heroic endings. There’s something weirdly cathartic about watching something that makes you have a good cry in between a difficult week. We aren’t talking about a dainty sniff or a stray tear either, but the kind of ugly crying that helps you air out all those pent-up feelings inside. On those nights when you are looking to get the waterworks started, here are all the movies and shows you’ll want to add to your watchlist. For best results, team your marathon with an endless supply of ice cream and Kleenex. You’ll thank us later.
Titanic (1997)
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In one of cinemaland’s highest grossing movies of all time, the eponymous cruise liner plays host to both, the most-loved onscreen romance as well as the most heart-wrenching tragedy. Starring a young Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio with electrifying chemistry, by the time you get to the tragic ending of their ill-fated romance, there won’t be a dry eye in the house.
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Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)
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The big list of feel-good features under his banner would lead you to think that nothing bad ever happens in a Karan Johar movie. Sure, there might be some ups and downs and maybe a decades-long estrangement, but by the time the end credits roll around, everyone is cosied up together and happy. Kal Ho Naa Ho, however, chose to swim against the tide when its lead actor loses his life to a heart condition, leaving behind a heartbroken Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan. Such was the heartbreak inspired by the movie’s climax that Johar has since said that he wishes he’d have changed the ending, while Shah Rukh Khan himself has claimed to have never shown the actual ending of the movie to his kids.