12 Super Sad Movies
11. E.T The Extra-Terrestrial
There was a time in my house when my mother couldn’t even watch the trailer for this movie without blubbing, and she wasn’t the only one who found Spielberg’s sci-fi weepy moving. Henry Thomas stars as the lonely earthling child who comes to adopt and look after ET, a little lost alien from another world. While the central story is enchanting-and lays out some of the most iconic images in the whole of Spielberg’s career-the end never fails to have even the sturdiest of constitutions reaching for that hanky.