27 Movies to Stream When You Need a Good Cry Screenshot: The Iron Giant/Warner Bros. (Fair Use) The past year has inundated us with so many horrors—untold lives needlessly lost to a virus allowed to proliferate unchecked, so many others forever damaged by the ongoing pandemic of racism, not to mention the ever-present specters of economic uncertainty and looming climate disaster—I won’t fault you if you’ve become numb to the horrors in your daily news feed. Some problems are so immensely sad, so seemingly unfixable, that shedding tears over them can seem fruitless. But crying is important—repressing all of our emotions is bad, actually?—which is why sometimes you need to look to the movies for an assist.