Make me cryshort films

The shorts that get past your guard. A few minutes is all it takes to leave you wrecked, in the best way.

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Drama
Penny drops

A widowed man escapes into the countryside for one last weekend away

12 min · emotional · heartwarming
Drama
Gaming for Love

A terminally ill gamer unites family and strangers worldwide

12 min · emotional · heartwarming
Comedy
And Now I Lay Me Down

A once-famous actress arranges her perfect day; it doesn't go as planned

25 min · cinematic · hilarious
Drama
Sprache ist Leben

A deaf boy flees from Syria to Switzerland and faces the challenges ahead

5 min · emotional · inspiring
Comedy
Wo Milch und Honig fliesst

A father is a real superhero for his little girls

1 min · heartwarming · meaningful
Drama
The Nightingale

A singer battles through PTSD after a sexual assault

36 min · dark · emotional
Drama
Fin

A grieving boy struggles to move forward without his best friend

7 min · emotional · intimate
Drama
Forgive Me

The ambition of a promising fighter becomes the cause of his heartbreak

7 min · emotional · intimate
Horror
Shame On You

A troubled young outcast is haunted by a tormenting doppelgänger

12 min · dark · intense
Romance
L+T

A woman makes a heart-breaking love confession to a stranger in a bar

18 min · dark · intimate
Drama
The World Beyond Me

Trapped in Mumbai’s red-light district, a woman dreams of freedom

14 min · dark · emotional
Drama
Just Another Day

In trying to outrun his grief, Rui is forced to face the one thing he can’t escape

10 min · emotional · intimate
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Make me cryshort films

The shorts that get past your guard. A few minutes is all it takes to leave you wrecked, in the best way.

Hand-picked Curated Free to watch
Filter by genre
Drama
Penny drops

A widowed man escapes into the countryside for one last weekend away

12 min · emotional · heartwarming
Drama
Gaming for Love

A terminally ill gamer unites family and strangers worldwide

12 min · emotional · heartwarming
Comedy
And Now I Lay Me Down

A once-famous actress arranges her perfect day; it doesn't go as planned

25 min · cinematic · hilarious
Drama
Sprache ist Leben

A deaf boy flees from Syria to Switzerland and faces the challenges ahead

5 min · emotional · inspiring
Comedy
Wo Milch und Honig fliesst

A father is a real superhero for his little girls

1 min · heartwarming · meaningful
Drama
The Nightingale

A singer battles through PTSD after a sexual assault

36 min · dark · emotional
Drama
Fin

A grieving boy struggles to move forward without his best friend

7 min · emotional · intimate
Drama
Forgive Me

The ambition of a promising fighter becomes the cause of his heartbreak

7 min · emotional · intimate
Horror
Shame On You

A troubled young outcast is haunted by a tormenting doppelgänger

12 min · dark · intense
Romance
L+T

A woman makes a heart-breaking love confession to a stranger in a bar

18 min · dark · intimate
Drama
The World Beyond Me

Trapped in Mumbai’s red-light district, a woman dreams of freedom

14 min · dark · emotional
Drama
Just Another Day

In trying to outrun his grief, Rui is forced to face the one thing he can’t escape

10 min · emotional · intimate
For filmmakers

Have a short film?
Share it with the world.

Klipist is where short films find their audience. Hand-curated, independently run, watched in 190 countries. If you’ve made something great, we want to see it.

Submit your film
Curator’s note

Short films that will make you cry.

Sometimes you want a film to wreck you a little. A short can do it cleaner than a feature, no slow build, just straight to the ache and out again before you can defend yourself. These films are hand-picked, complete, and free to watch. Bring tissues.

Skin casts Tom Sturridge (The Sandman) as a man undone by grief, and Requiem stars Bella Ramsey (The Last of Us, Game of Thrones) fighting for a love that cannot last. Fin sits with a grieving boy learning to move on without his best friend, while The Nightingale follows a singer fighting her way back through trauma.

The saddest short films do not manipulate; they tell the truth and let it land. The World Beyond Me finds a woman dreaming of freedom inside Mumbai's red-light district, and Lovers performs the most famous goodbye in Romeo and Juliet across seven languages. Every film here was chosen by our editors and streams free in 190 countries, with no subscription. Press play, and let yourself feel it.