10 Movies So Sad You Can Only Watch Them Once

You always hurt the ones you love. Or so says Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine, a film which makes you believe in true love and happily ever after only to systematically destroy whatever happy ending its audience was hoping for.

Told through a dual narrative which depicts Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) both at the beginning of their relationship and its heartbreaking end, Blue Valentine manages to tell a beautiful love story whilst offering the most harrowing portrayal of a doomed relationship at the same time.

Raw, personal, explosive and powerfully acted by two stars at the top of their game, the drama is both twisting, unpredictable, and soul-destroying.

Perhaps the most powerful cinematic depiction of a breakup ever, Blue Valentine will make you trust in the concept of true love and curse it all at once. Its hopeless ending is just the final nail in the coffin.