20 Movies That Let You Avoid Your Problems But Still Get Your Feelings Out

Hey, we get it. Sometimes, you just don’t want to deal with your problems. Your job sucks, your spouse has been real irritable lately, your aging parents are only getting agier. All of that is dumb, hard to fix, and at least a little true for everyone almost all of the time.

Still, when you’ve got the big sad, you need to let it out. Don’t let emotional immaturity get in the way of good catharsis. Do what generations of avoidant babies have done before: pop in a thought- and feeling-provoking movie to feel pretend emotions in a safe place. 

That’s apparently what user InfiniteThugnificent planned to do after asking r/AskReddit, “Reddit, what is a good movie for when you need to escape from reality and maybe cry a little?”