Plus shedding emotional tears isscientifically provento release oxytocin and endorphins.

(Thats why you sometimes feel refreshed or calmer after a good cry.)

The sequence in which she and her young children celebrate his birthday is sure to leave you weeping.

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Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in 2004’sThe Notebook.

Its excruciating to see it play outbut also imperative that we dont look away.

Mescals tremendous performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor.

But without giving awaytoomany spoilers, theres also a metric ton of heartbreak and pain to contend with.

(I am, once again, thinking about Jos speech on loneliness.)

A star-crossed romance ensues.

The humiliations they endure, big and small, make for painful viewing, but watchable under Jenkinss direction.

Damn you, John Green!

Are we just supposed to get through that scene without weeping?

The seeming smallness of the story does nothing to diminish the films bleakness nor blunt its ultimately devastating impact.

We will always love you, Angel!

(No spoilers, but that particular plotline is guaranteed to make you cry.)

A Walk to Remember(2002)

Is this rom-com extremely early aughts?

Terms of Endearment(1983)

What is it with80s moviesand tearjerking plots?

The Way We Were(1973)

Five words: Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.

Do you really need to hear anything more to burst into tears?

Yes, he makes forest friends, but that scene with the hunter traumatized generations of kids.