12 Romance Movies On Netflix, Because You Need A Good Cry

A young woman is diagnosed with cancer and decides to find a new match for her fiance. They have been best friends since childhood so their bond is extremely strong. Watch as she deals with the trials and tribulations of treatment and how she copes with her diagnosis.

If you’re already crying, chances are you need to see this movie. Someone Great follows a group of millennial women who set off on a mission to cheer up their broken-hearted bestie played by Gina Rodriguez. It’s full of laughs, tears and tequila so you know it’s the perfect combination for a girls night in.

Just hearing the concept alone will probably evoke a tear or two. Hilary Swank’s character is a young widow who is guided by 10 messages her late husband left her in order to help ease the pain of her loss. He guides her on this journey to explore things she has never done before after he passes.

If Rachel McAdams is in the movie, be sure to have a tissue box close at hand. About Time follows a young man as he uses his ability to travel back in time to the moments in his life that he wants to redo. He meets McAdams’ character and life couldn’t be better until he’s faced with more than a few challenges.

Have you ever felt like there was the one that got away? Every year on the same date, two friends always seem to come together. Over 20 years, you see how their complicated relationship grows in different ways, and Anne Hathaway’s character is just all too relatable.

Sandra Bullock plays a transit worker who saves her crush from an oncoming train. Now he's in a coma and his family thinks Bullock is his fiancée. Things get a little messy — or perhaps more entertaining, depending how you look at it — when Bullock's character falls in love with the comatose man's hot brother.

When racial biases test their relationship, Lee and Jordan struggle to figure out how to build a future for themselves despite the negativity from society. This movie shows the pressures of being a biracial couple in a small town. It also unravels an issue not many movies cover.

Ryan Gosling. Reason #1 as to why this movie is the perfect tearjerker. Blue Valentine follows a married couple’s relationship as it continually deteriorates. As the movie cross-cuts between two time periods, you get a glance of how everything used to be and then how it fell apart.

Will Smith’s character is on a mission to donate his vital organs in order to save multiple lives. His past seems to be driving him to make up and repent for something he’s done. Things get even more complicated when he falls for a woman with a fatal heart condition.

Carly is a young and talented figure skater who is diagnosed with an extremely rare sarcoma. Based on a true story, this romantic movie follows a woman who made medical history. With the help of her family and her boyfriend, Carly goes through treatment trying to live her life as she usually would.

Rachel McAdams should get an award for her ability to make us cry time after time. She’s a true talent. When her character falls in love with a man who involuntarily time travels, she has to face a lifetime of waiting for him to come around and doesn’t know when he’ll come back next.

Kiera Knightly also joins the ranks when it comes to the most notable women in romance movies. Her character encounters her old flame while her husband is away on a business trip with someone he’s attracted to. The two are both tested in their marriage.