Have you ever just wanted to cry? Wanted to watch a terribly sad movie and just bawl? Sometimes you might be looking for a historical romance movie that just makes you want to cry!
Recently, somone asked on Reddit, “I have searched everywhere to find a period film that would make me cry and would highly likely leave me devastated afterward, but I haven’t seen any that catch my interest.
So if any of you know any historical romance film that has at least one really good crying and/or screaming from emotional pain scene, please do share.”
Here are some of the best recommendations:
10 Sad Historical Romance Movies
Testament of Youth
This World War I drama is about a young British woman who falls in love during a time of war. Redditor smolita_1597 said, “Had to pause the movie, I was a wreck.”
Atonement
Atonement is a 2007 romantic war drama film that follows two lovers whose lives are torn apart by a lie. Redditor thefriendlyfarter says, “One of my favorite books and movies. And the movie composition music is to die for with that typewriter work. Also convinced my husband to watch it once because of world war II scenes (that one-shot scene is everything).”
The Painted Veil (2006)
Shunned by a husband who’s more interested in his scientific research than his marriage, Kitty Fane embarks on a quest for fulfillment while they travel to China in the 1920s to fight the Cholera Pandemic.
The Duchess
The Road Dance (2021)
Little England (2013)
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
Jude (1996)
Sommersby
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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