Top 20 Romance Movies with the Saddest Endings (We'll Spare You Having to Watch and Tell You)

Why is it that the most romantic movies always have the saddest endings? Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re recapping the films about love where the endings turn us into weeping wrecks. Our countdown includes "My Girl," "Ghost," "Amour," and more! Which romance movie ending had YOU in tears? Let us know in the comments.
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[@MsMojo]

Which romance movie ending had YOU in tears? Let us know below, and be sure to also check out our video of the Top 10 Saddest Scenes in Romance Movies - kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3PLeJhshsmNh8k

[@trinaq]

"My Girl" always makes me sob buckets, especially when Vada cries "His glasses, he can't see without his glasses! He was gonna be an acrobat." Even worse, she is indirectly responsible for her best friend's death, and the funeral takes place in her house. 💔😓

[@ItsJustCiCi]

Same 🥺😭

[@keirarees3179]

Due to its sadness I cannot watch My Girl, when a movie makes me cry buckets or gives me nightmares I cannot watch it again.

[@alvaroreyes4610]

Atonement made me cry for days. The most devastating end ever. A real tearjerker. Unbelievable acting, devastating yet sublime soundtrack... A real masterpiece... It changed me somehow... I have no words to explain it...

[@elenarodriguez7809]

I still haven't gotten over Atonement.

[@user-xm2dg7nb8v]

I completely agree... I cried for a week, probably every time I remembered this movie....

[@patrickdoucette9585]

A Walk To Remember turned me into Niagara Falls and had me absolutely bawling my eyes out. my uncle passed from the same sickness. ❤❤❤❤😭😭😭😭

[@natabelova6615]

"Me before you"- just heartbreaking😭

[@donnaleach8119]

@natabelova6615: this is the only movie at which I cried and cried at the end!

[@neilgerace355]

I loved this movie

[@ItzMzJulez2U]

One of my faves.❤️‍🩹 Except for her highly active eyebrows!!🤣

[@Iggystar71]

The book is a perfect double whammy of emotion. Just crawl into a ball and sob for three hours after.

[@divinelangene6813]

​@@ItzMzJulez2U😂😂😂😂

[@virgilio0616]

I can’t believe they didn’t mention “Somewhere in Time” with Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour 😢

[@taradiane]

just hearing the music makes my heart break all over again. if i'm ever in need of a good cry, the last 15min of that movie is all that's needed.

[@sigga58]

Somewhere in Time! With Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour!! 1st time travel love story from the 80s! Don't SKIP ON THIS!!❤😂

[@stacymiley9299]

I have this movie and have watched it over the yrs many times, I cry every time still

[@taradiane]

@@stacymiley9299 same.

[@IOAFan]

I kept waiting for "The Bridges Of Madison County" but it never came. That's a BIG miss.

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

“Oh wait. We read the wrong card.” Dang MsMojo! 😂

[@lindseylafferty9939]

Last Christmas and Time travelers Wife are also heartbreaking 😢

[@DrummerBoizMom]

Last Christmas is one of my favorite Christmas movies

[@calliope34]

Honorable mention for “Sweet November”

[@collywo1590]

Criminal that The Way We Were isn’t on here. The title alone tells you to prepare for an unhappy ending.

[@henryqu19]

A walk to remember breaks me every single time i watch 😢

[@indefatigablefredman1234]

Especially since it is a true story 💔

[@LadyDecember]

When Landon shows up on his dad's doorstep to thank him, my poor heart!

[@rebeccamcdermott9259]

It wasn't really a misunderstanding in Atonement. She made a false accusation cause of her jealousy.

[@angelaholmes8888]

Yes exactly

[@elenarodriguez7809]

Exactly. Because we all know if Robbie invited her to the library she would have gone!

[@Omar-wq9dz]

Ghost’s ending was great with Demi Moore saying “ditto”

[@keirarees3179]

My Mum still imagines Patrick Swayze every time she hears unchained melody.

[@angelaholmes8888]

Everytime i rewatch romeo and juliet i still cry at the end it's just so sad 😥

[@trinaq]

Ghost's ending is even more heartbreaking nowadays, knowing that Patrick Swayze is no longer with us. 💔 👻

[@jaclynsanture6643]

I stll can not watch Ghost without sobbing.

[@Das.Bin.1ch]

I was 100% sure that Cruel intentions will be included in the list, isn't its ending heartbreaking? And the final scene is iconic for sure

[@chynne33]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for including my fave movie Moulin Rouge. It's always left off so many lists

[@DioneN]

I was obsessed with Moulin Rouge back in the day, and so in love with Ewan McGregor!

[@MarilynMorgan]

Untamed Heart makes me cry every time I watch it, I think that should have been on the list or at least an honorable mention.

[@jazzywash1214]

Casablanca is one of my all time favorite movies. Has been since I was a Billie Holiday Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald old black and white movies obsessed teenager 😂😂 I used to keep my TV solely on TCM, just obsessed 😂😂😂😂

[@ItzMzJulez2U]

WHAAAT? How can ‘The Notebook’ not be on this list?🤦🏻‍♀️ I cried reading the book, so I knew the movie would be awesome. Honestly, any novel by Nicholas Sparks made into a movie could be on this list (glad to see A Walk to Remember made it!) Hey @MsMojo…there’s a an idea! Top 10 movies based on Nicholas Sparks novels!🤗👍 Next, ‘Benjamin Button’ is another sad ending that comes to mind. ‘A Star is Born’ is my second fave movie of all time…the 1976 version with Streisand/Kristofferson. I was obsessed! Had the t-shirt, soundtrack on 8-track, VHS & DVDs, the paperback movie book, AND ‘Evergreen’ at my wedding! But I digress. I preferred the ending that was open for interpretation, rather than the blatant ending of the GaGa/Cooper version. 🎶❤️🤷🏻‍♀️

[@collywo1590]

Is The Notebook really a sad ending? They end up together and having a family. And then they pass together. Sure her condition is sad but in the very end they have it all back.

[@ItzMzJulez2U]

@@collywo1590 Good point! It was beautifully sad that she had a moment of clarity and that they passed peacefully together hand in hand. But sad nonetheless.🙂

[@purpleroom101]

No. The Streisand/ Kristofferson version isn't open to interpretation. He is drunk, deliberatly speeding and intends to kill himself by smashing the car. But I agree. It is my favourite too, of the 3 A Star is Born films.✌️

[@ItzMzJulez2U]

@@purpleroom101 In my teenage naïveté, I honestly thought it was simply a tragic single car accident due to irresponsibility, a high rate of speed, and probably DWI. Not until watching again in my late 20s, did I consider the possibility of a suicide mission. Adulting sux!😉

[@purpleroom101]

@ItzMzJulez2U I apologise!✌️I stand corrected. I've been reading up on this for an hour now. You were right.👍 At Barbra's request, they filmed 2 endings and played the different endings in 2 theatres in 2 different towns. One showed Kris's character aiming at a cliff to crash into ( or it was rocks or something. Determined to kill himself. The other ending left it open or ambiguous like you said. You know he's going to commit suicide though as that's how they all end. Anyway they found that the audience found not seeing him do the deed but seeing him speed off in the distance with her song ending there was more of a tear jerker without showing his face aiming to crash. You just know what the next scene is going to be. I'm sad just writing about it - where she asks for a blanket for him and wipes his face.😪😪

[@MidgeyMouse]

Titanic, A Walk to Remember, Romeo and Juliet and more make me cry

[@kamsismith]

Brokeback Mountain, Titanic, Romeo and Juliet, and The Fault in Our Stars. All these movies are iconic in their rights, but the deaths in those movies will forever be ingrained in my brain.

[@trinaq]

Agreed, it's been a full decade since I cried to TFIOS in the cinema, and it still makes me emotional to this very day.

[@michael7054]

The Best of Me ?

[@kamsismith]

@@trinaqWhich movie are you talking about?

[@kamsismith]

@@michael7054I haven't seen that movie.

[@trinaq]

@@kamsismith The Fault in our Stars, sorry for having not made it clearer. It was so wonderfully acted across the board.

[@fsanders2]

Here are a few more...Call me by your Name, The Bridges of Madison County, The Way We Were, 500 Days of Summer.

[@ArtemisArrow]

Me Before You was an amazing movie. I read the book before watching it and while there were somethings I wish they kept in the movie, it still turned out great. I really wish they'd adapted the other two books in the series. And if they do I hope Emilia reprises her role and Lou

[@kyrarush9451]

Message In A Bottle anyone?😢

[@knipfers]

The Notebook, Gone with the Wind, Bridges of Madison County, A Royal Affair, Legends of the Fall

[@gingerbreadorgingerbell1045]

No, Briony. Giving them happiness in “Atonemnet” doesn’t make up for what you did. Yeah, still not over it.🤣🤣🤣

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

First ones that come to mind that I’ve seen are Titanic and Moulin Rouge 💔😭

[@juliacvitkovich]

You totally missed Somewhere in Time 😭

[@xenijagrunschnabel7766]

Thank you for showing some love for Ghost and City of Angels

[@Tinneantoo]

What about Love Story? Whenever I want a good cry, I rely on that.

[@collywo1590]

Love means never having to say you’re sorry

[@CMUBruin]

@@collywo1590most inaccurate line of all time

[@petrilio]

I was gonna comments about that. The soundtrack makes the story even more heartbreaking. It should be in the top #5.

[@samuelcollantes1175]

It was definitely Titanic. Happy wednesday afternoon, Kirsten. Take care and God bless you, greetings from Colombia to you as well.

[@angelaholmes8888]

City of angels is such a heartbreaking movie 😢

[@donaldmartindale9222]

I laughed at the end of City of Angel's. One of the best endings to a movie

[@yenziwemamba5930]

will forever love titanic ❤

[@chamlo11]

Titantic had me in tears...angry tears. Rose! Move aside. There is enough room on the door for Jack!

[@salindrab4493]

Titanic, broke my heart many times.

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

Well good job MsMojo you succeeded with this video. I teared up and she’s tears multiple times watching it 😭💔

[@LoversLane16]

Tristan and Isolde ripped me to shreds. I’m still not over it. So did Legends of the Fall.

[@JonathanLasry]

The fault in our stars scarred me for life

[@savannahblair8434]

One of the saddest endings Probably was in a movie called Best of Me and I encourage y’all to watch it

[@DrummerBoizMom]

My favorite of heartbreaking movies! It wrecks me every time!

[@chrissyfriarson9563]

What?? The Notebook didn't make your list??? That's crazy!

[@nataliaalfonso2662]

The notebook has the happiest ending of all love stories ever. Don’t they literally die together in old age holding each other?

[@chrissyfriarson9563]

@@nataliaalfonso2662 that's sad.

[@HorrorandScience]

My father has Alzheimer’s disease so my mom and I were a mess watching Amour. I highly recommend watching that movie. Just make sure you have loads of tissues, especially if someone more elderly is ill in your family.

[@purpleroom101]

My gosh. I blubbering my eyes out in that one! Good choice!!✌️❤🇦🇺

[@denisefreitas6727]

Great list. I think Love Story should be on the list.

[@neilgerace355]

There was room on that door!!

[@shreetaashley7514]

HER makes me sob every time I watch it

[@mihaelaplacinta3548]

The Notebook, duuuh! Why isn’t it here!?

[@yenziwemamba5930]

don’t get me started on la la land 😭😭

[@BraeGrensky-wb7jx]

Blue Valentine crushed my soul. So well acted.

[@kimwaddell4218]

Some I haven't heard of or seen. I ❤ City Of Angeles, Ghost

[@alicjakic3104]

the fact that gone with the wind is not on the list-

[@hip2besquare1972]

Yeah, Gone With the Wind should not be part of this list. Everything that Scarlett O' Hara did was for selfish reasons and she never really cared or loved Rhett Butler, and besides, it wasn't a very good ending, sad yes but he basically said that he no longer cared what happened to her.

[@Serai3]

How the hell is "Somewhere in Time" not on here??? For gods' sakes, he DIES FROM THE LOSS OF HER.

[@dianakirsch8029]

Love Story and Gone with the Wind should also be in this list

[@redgirl2010x2]

the movie Keith with Jesse McCartney makes me cry every time. so heartbreaking that it should have been on the list

[@nyheimette]

Bridges of Madison county and Love story!

[@monikas.3914]

Nr. 1 should be "Love Story"

[@petrilio]

Totally agree 👍

[@purpleroom101]

An Affair to Remember is so sad.😢

[@joeljoel2543]

500 days of Summer

[@XoxoButterfly-sl1jb]

Five feet apart & The fault in our stars are guaranteed to live you sobbing. There's something just unsettling and beautiful about how they meet, fall in love, and depart.

[@MyahUnleashed]

What about The best of me?

[@Spikesjade]

Forgot the time traveler's wife

[@valeriamoreno8317]

Blue Valentine leaved me with a week long depression. I had to watch many rom coms after that to recover. I am not joking 😖

[@rebekahwalmer4107]

Leo DiCaprio was the leading male in two of the top 4! That’s pretty baller!

[@ffionlewis5394]

Ghost and titanic always break my heart 😢 I'm surprised last Christmas isn't on the list. That ending is really heartbreaking despite the very end

[@stinky60096]

Somersby with Richard Gere and Jodie Foster. Hurt so bad I only watched it once.

[@Barb929]

Forgot Sweet November..

[@amythompson2893]

How did "Here on Earth" not make the list. SOOO sad.

[@mariaklahre7790]

Shadowlands

[@michaelmonthey5974]

Sad ending aside, Me Before You is an awful movie. Revolving a plot around a romantic lead who wants to end his life for no apparent reason and kinda treats his romantic partner poorly is not worth watching.

[@hb85338]

Titanic for sure! There was enough room for Jack!😢

[@DaughterofGod986]

Premonition with Sandra Bullock. And a film titled Camille, from the 1930's/40's

[@donaldmartindale9222]

The movie that made me tear up at the end was Odd Thomas

[@artemisday]

Portrait of a Lady on Fire would've been a good pick

[@batgurrl]

City Of Angels, Brokeback Mountain, The Fault in Our Stars. James Cameron has said, more than once, regarding Titanic. Jack MUST die. IMHO, it is what helps drive the narrative.

[@eugeniapatroncosta920]

Titanic's ending hit me really hard.

[@thefamouspeople1960]

Each story stays with us long after the credits roll.

[@lauradarnall227]

I cried at the end of my girl.....and at the end of Titanic to ... and Ghost to

[@cameronjr8]

Jack sacrificing his life to save his lover from coldness and death literally shattered my heart 💔💔💔

[@peggylamere2893]

What about "The Notebook"?

[@purpleroom101]

Passengers, with Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson had me in shock then blubbering... SPOILER when she realises herself and everyone else is dead.

[@mmarston332]

Allie sang the song that Jack wrote for her.

[@bheast86]

Focus really wrong by picking TITANIC; romance sort of incidental to the shipful of people sinking. You don't pick SOPHIE'S CHOICE, but the same objection would apply: The romance is not the big business. Going for the obvious CASABLANCA highlights the failure to notice countless older movies: WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939), MADAME DE..., BRIEF ENCOUNTER, LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, THE CHILDREN'S HOUR A STAR IS BORN is Judy & Co. CYRANO DE BERGERAC (especially 1990), SHADOWLANDS, ANNIE HALL, THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO

[@deathstar71]

Gone with the wind??

[@NickCC23]

Another MsMojo movie list, another Titanic #1.

[@doorattachment6926]

The Fault in our Stars Best of me Last Christmas City of Angels There is to many to name

[@grammilynn233]

I know they are “old”movie, but where are Love is a Many Splendard Thing and Lonely are the Brave ?

[@purpleroom101]

Oldies but goodies too is The Glen Miller Story and An Affair To Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr😢

[@shelleymckay8080]

The note book should have made the list

[@llindsay97]

where hands touch should be on this list

[@georgiewatson8688]

What! Where's The Notebook!!!! I've never cried so much when watching a film. Titanic pales in comparison

[@precious_muse]

It is not as tragic as most of the movies on this list, but one of the saddest romantic movies to me is “Adam,” because it suggests that a romantic relationship with a neurodiverse person, particularly with a neurotypical, is problematic and unrealistic.

[@amandasoarespaivaazambuja7985]

♥️♥️♥️🎉♥️♥️♥️😘🥰😍😢😢😢♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@MrTBoner1]

Really? The Notebook isn't in this, nor is Somewhere In Time.

[@kiaporter2146]

No notebook?

[@sigga58]

The Notebook Didnt make it??

[@LaurenKaminski]

Me Before You disappointed me,it’s not very good!

[@lucythleader]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@petrilio]

I'm sorry, but where is Love Story? The ending is way more devastating than La La Land. Seriously?

[@guyinazo]

How could you not mention one (well Star in Born in a way) Barbra Streisand movie? Hello, The Way We Were...The Prince of Tides...Mirror has Two Faces... etc etc etc

[@IOAFan]

The Mirror Has Two Faces has a happy ending.

[@josephtanner4594]

I Am Not Surprised That "Titanic [1997] Would Be Number 01 In MsMojo's - Top 20 Romance Movies With The Saddest Endings [We'll Spare You Having To Watch & Tell You]!