As Nicole Kidman once famously said, heartbreak feels good at the movies.
If you’re looking to get all in your feels with a tearjerker drama guaranteed to make you cry, Amazon Prime Video is a great place to start your search.
Watch With Us has picked out three drama movies that are certain to bring a tear or two to even the driest of eyes.
Check out our list of movies, starring actors like Diane Keaton, Taraji P. Henson and Shailene Woodley below.
‘The Family Stone’ (2005)
This family drama stars Dermot Mulroney and Sarah Jessica Parker as Everett Stone and Meredith Morton, a couple spending Christmas with Everett’s tight-knit family for the first time. Everett’s mother, Sybil (Diane Keaton), is a cancer survivor, and her battle with the illness forms the root of much of the family’s drama.
Old conflicts come to the surface and relationships are tested as Meredith’s personality clashes with the bohemian and eccentric Stones — except for Ben (Luke Wilson), Everett’s brother, with whom she shares an instant chemistry. The talented cast includes Rachel McAdams, Craig T. Nelson and Claire Danes. It’s a funny and emotionally rich movie that balances intense awkwardness with stunning moments of catharsis.
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‘Hidden Figures’ (2017)
This inspirational movie is based on the true story of the Black female mathematicians who helped NASA accomplish the incredible feat of sending John Glenn into orbit around the earth. Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) face blatant racism and prejudice, but their brilliance outweighs all the obstacles ahead of them.
Henson’s monologue about the prejudice she faces from her coworkers is one of the most moving scenes of the movie, and may very well bring a tear to your eye.
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‘The Fault in Our Stars’ (2014)
Based on the heart-wrenching novel by John Green, The Fault in Our Stars follows sixteen-year-old cancer patient Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), who meets Augustus “Gus” Waters (Ansel Elgort) at a cancer support group. The teens quickly bond over books and their shared experience with cancer, leading to an epic love story.
Hazel and Gus face their mortality with a moving combination of stoicism and uncontrolled emotion, and the performances of both actors are graceful, witty and lovable. If this movie doesn’t move you to tears, nothing will.
