Emotional + Tear-jerker Movies
The Elephant Man (1982) RT 90% / Audience 93%
DVD release: Dec 2001
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease. (more)
GENRES: Drama • TV movie
DIRECTION: Jack Hofsiss
CAST: Kevin Conway • Penny Fuller • Richard Clarke • Glenn Close
The Impossible (2012) RT 81% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Apr 2013
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Juan Antonio Bayona
CAST: Naomi Watts • Ewan McGregor • Marta Etura • Geraldine Chaplin
Philadelphia (1993) RT 78% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Sep 1997
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Jonathan Demme
CAST: Roberta Maxwell • Buzz Kilman • Jason Robards • Antonio Banderas
Rust and Bone (2012)
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Jacques Audiard
CAST: Marion Cotillard • Matthias Schoenaerts • Bouli Lanners • Céline Sallette
The Joy Luck Club (1993) RT 85% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Jun 2002
Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Wayne Wang
CAST: Ming-Na Wen • Lauren Tom • Tamlyn Tomita • Rosalind Chao
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001)
Orthodox Indian, Raichand, would like his two sons to live together with him and his wife, and get married to girls' of his choice. One of his sons, Rahul, is adopted, while ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Karan Johar
CAST: Shahrukh Khan • Kajol • Amitabh Bachchan • Jaya Bhaduri
The Holiday (2006) RT 47% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Mar 2007
Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: Nancy Meyers
CAST: Cameron Diaz • Kate Winslet • Jude Law • Jack Black
Nowhere Boy (2009) RT 80% / Audience 74%
DVD release: Jan 2011
The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Sam Taylor-Johnson
CAST: Aaron Taylor-Johnson • Kristin Scott Thomas • David Morrissey • David Threlfall
Now Is Good (2012) RT 58% / Audience 64%
DVD release: Jan 2013
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Ol Parker
CAST: Dakota Fanning • Jeremy Irvine • Kaya Scodelario • Olivia Williams
Million Dollar Baby (2004) RT 91% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Jul 2005
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Clint Eastwood
CAST: Clint Eastwood • Hilary Swank • Morgan Freeman • Jay Baruchel
21 Grams (2003) RT 80% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Mar 2004
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Alejandro González Iñárritu
CAST: Sean Penn • Naomi Watts • Benicio del Toro • Danny Huston
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Giuseppe Tornatore
CAST: Philippe Noiret • Jacques Perrin • Marco Leonardi • Salvatore Cascio
Ghost (1990) RT 74% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Apr 2001
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Fantasy • Mystery • Romance • Thriller
DIRECTION: Jerry Zucker
CAST: Patrick Swayze • Demi Moore • Tony Goldwyn • Whoopi Goldberg
After Earth (2013) RT 11% / Audience 36%
DVD release: Oct 2013
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: M. Night Shyamalan
CAST: Jaden Smith • Will Smith • Sophie Okonedo • Zoë Kravitz
Warrior (2011)
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama
DIRECTION: Gavin O'Connor
CAST: Tom Hardy • Jennifer Morrison • Nick Nolte • Joel Edgerton
A Little Princess (1995) RT 97% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Nov 1997
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Family • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Alfonso Cuarón
CAST: Liesel Matthews • Eleanor Bron • Liam Cunningham • Rusty Schwimmer
Marley & Me (2008) RT 63% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Mar 2009
A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: David Frankel
CAST: Owen Wilson • Jennifer Aniston • Eric Dane • Kathleen Turner
Brooklyn (2015) RT 97% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Mar 2016
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: John Crowley
CAST: Saoirse Ronan • Domhnall Gleeson • Emory Cohen • Emily Bett Rickards
Seven Pounds (2008) RT 27% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Mar 2009
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Gabriele Muccino
CAST: Will Smith • Rosario Dawson • Sarah Jane Morris • Woody Harrelson
Bridge to Terabithia (2007) RT 85% / Audience 70%
DVD release: Jun 2007
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other ... (more)