16 Music Videos That Will Break Your Heart

Let's be real: most Coldplay videos will probably break your heart. But "The Scientist" is especially sad, thanks to a frightening car crash played in reverse as haunting lyrics like "Nobody said it was easy / It's such a shame for us to part" fill your ears.

Another short film set to music, this 10-minute clip was directed by Drew Barrymore and stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Tyler Posey, Alia Shawkat, Donald Glover, and more as the members of two feuding street gangs. The video is reminiscent of films like West Side Story and The Outsiders and features lots of things known to pull at heartstrings, like a budding romance, nasty street fights, and a surprise twist.

This video is beautifully shot and expertly executed (and we're not just saying that because it stars a nude Shia LaBeouf). It's hard not to tear up while watching this short film, which explores themes of addiction, abuse, and love. Just a heads up: this one is eight minutes long and most certainly NSFW.

Andrew Garfield is incredibly convincing as a youth struggling with gender identity in this poignant Arcade Fire clip. The Amazing Spider-Man star takes you on a heartbreaking journey of self-acceptance that's guaranteed to give you goosebumps.

Dianna Agron's performance as a wine-swilling Stepford wife being cheated on by her husband (played by the handsome Chris Messina) is rather incredible, and that goes double for Sam Smith's smooth vocals.

Even though this video was released back in 1999, the themes of body image and self-worth that TLC shed light on in "Unpretty" are still very relevant today.

You can feel the tears coming from almost the second this video starts, thanks to a gut-wrenching scene showing a young woman finding out that her high school sweetheart has died. There's really no turning back from there.

This may be one of the first music videos we ever cried to. Toni Braxton's soulful voice and Tyson Beckford on a motorcycle make for a seriously solemn four and a half minutes.

The song's melancholy lyrics and tinny, twinkly piano sounds pair perfectly with the video, which is beautiful while also being hard to watch (you can't ignore the life-imitating-art scenes showing the singer being hounded by paparazzi, and the infamous bathtub moment is pretty unsettling). "Everytime" is rumored to be a response to Justin Timberlake's 2002 hit "Cry Me a River," and despite the overt sentiments, Spears has never confirmed or denied it.

Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox and John Legend's real-life wife Chrissy Teigen star in this video, which is weirdly sad while also being really uplifting. The two ladies are joined by a cast of women — varying in ages, body types, and races — as they look at themselves in an unseen mirror.

Once you get past Katy Perry as an old woman (yes, that's her in prosthetics), the love story at the heart of this video will have you in tears.

From a suicidal teenager to a young man gunned down before a big event, nothing about this video is happy. Everything is sad. Just a warning.

The fact that this video was released just months before Cash's death in September 2003 is enough to make you sad; but the video also features his wife, June Carter Cash, who passed away not long before him. It's a video that tackles fragility and mortality in the most human way possible.

Dakota Fanning stars as a young woman with a terminal illness in this devastating video. Ellie Goulding said that the song was about "losing someone for good," and the accompanying clip is like a cross between The Fault in Our Stars and A Walk to Remember (so, you know, get ready to sob).

This video is pretty unassuming until the heart-wrenching chorus kicks in; once you see that single tear roll down lead singer Karen O's cheek, it's pretty much over for you.

The video for Amy Winehouse's 2006 single is tragic for a few reasons: first, it centers on a funeral procession; the late singer and her bandmates are dressed in black while making their way to a cemetery, and as Winehouse croons lyrics like, "And I tread a troubled track / My odds are stacked, I go back to black," she is shown throwing flowers and dirt on a small grave. In the original clip the grave is shown to read "RIP the Heart of Amy Winehouse." After the singer's tragic death in July 2011, the shot of the headstone was removed from the official video, making it only slightly less heartbreaking.