Compassionate movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant compassionate movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out compassionate, touching, sentimental, emotional, sad and realistic films and TV shows about / with death, mentor, storytelling, loneliness, redemption, destiny, friendship, life & death, runaway and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as compassionate: The Light Between Oceans (2016), A Man Called Ove (2015), Seven Pounds (2008), My Sister's Keeper (2009), The Sessions (2012), Short Term 12 (2013), The Snow Walker (2003), A Monster Calls (2016), My Life as a Zucchini (2016), The Gromovs (2006).
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New films
| Train Dreams (2025) | 7.5 | |
| Ricky Stanicky (2024) | 6.2 | |
| T・P BON (2024) | 6.7 | |
| Reagan (2024) | 6.2 | |
| Adults (2025) | 7.4 |
List of compassionate movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style:
touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, love, island, husband wife relationship, isolation, trying to get pregnant, missing child, adoption, miscarriage, motherhood, marriage ...
Time:
1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
australia, new zealand
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she ...
Style:
touching, ironic, feel good, compassionate, scenic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
love, loneliness, suicide attempt, swedish, destiny, unlikely friendships, elderly man, friendship, mentor, pregnant woman, neighbor neighbor relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place:
spain, scandinavia, eastern europe
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325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, philosophical, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, life changing experience, motivation, true love, sacrifice, existentialism, life & death, melancholy, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style:
touching, sad, sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, family drama, sisters, parenthood, lawyer, relationships, mother daughter relationship, sick child, life is a bitch, hospital, leukemia ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, los angeles, montana
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, touching, erotic, compassionate ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
near death experience, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, sexual activity, female nudity, disabled, male virgin, nudity, woman on top, oral sex, therapist, sexual awakening ...
Time:
year 2012, 20th century, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, boston
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style:
compassionate, sad, sweet, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, social worker, depression, troubled teen, teenager, foster child, adolescence, suicide attempt, coming of age, mental illness, problem child, self harm ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, nature, arctic, isolation, rescue, human spirit, stranded, hopes, airplane, winter, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Style:
touching, dark fantasy, emotional, psychotronic, compassionate ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot:
bullying, childhood, loneliness, cancer, monster, imagination, terminal illness, boy, single mother, courage, teenager, depression ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Giuseppe Moscati, Doctor saint of Naples, was a doctor of the early twentieth century, from an aristocratic family devoted his career to serving the poor. The film focuses on the human side, partially leaving aside the spiritual part.
Style:
touching, sincere, inspirational, uplifting, sentimental ...
Plot:
belief in god, redemption, life & death, compassion, catholic, unconventional method, hospital, saint, doctor, life philosophy, faith, doctors and patients ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and ...
Style:
touching, compassionate, sincere, romantic, psychological ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
adoption, children, loneliness, alcoholic, orphan, introvert, friendship, orphanage, children's home, accidental killing, tragedy, alone ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
At the end of 70s in little miner's town lives Gromovs family: Mary, Feyodor and their children - Nastya, Sasha, Sava and little Nick. Feyodor works at mine, Mary - the teacher. Their measured life full of daily cares, troubles and pleasures. ...
Style:
touching, compassionate, disturbing, rough, tear jerker ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
life is a bitch, orphan, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, single mother, family relations, family history, destiny, loneliness, society, poverty, relatives ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
soviet union
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129K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, uplifting, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
medical school, hospital, human spirit, doctors and patients, life philosophy, compassion, medical profession, friendship, dealing with death, doctor, happy ending, stereotypes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s, year 1998, 60s ...
Place:
usa, virginia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, family friendly, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, poverty, loneliness, courage, survival, childhood, mother son reunion, foster child, foster home, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place:
india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, compassionate, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
autism, teacher, female protagonist, human spirit, disability, genius, against the odds, inventor, biopic, asperger's syndrome, slaughterhouse, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, 60s, year 1951, 70s ...
Place:
arizona, boston, new hampshire, texas, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style:
compassionate, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, orphan, teenage life, small town, coming of age, feminism, child's point of view, family relations, children's home, society, school, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Style:
sentimental, compassionate, surreal, stylized, parody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doctor, redemption, dark humor, life philosophy, depression, family drama, hospital, alter ego, introspection, parents and children, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.
Style:
heartbreaking, touching, compassionate, teen, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, star crossed lovers, dying, dealing with death, love and romance, hopes, dream, follow your dream, life is a bitch, first love ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
minnesota
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, poignant ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, nazi, concentration camp, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, self sacrifice, nazism, life lesson, destiny, ss ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 1930s ...
Place:
italy, poland, europe, tuscany
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329K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, caregiver, quadriplegic, death, enemies to lovers, euthanasia, handicapped, relationships ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, usa, paris france, switzerland, mallorca ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style:
touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
genius, disability, love, cambridge university, physicist, mathematics, husband wife relationship, prodigy, supportive spouse, handicapped, against the odds, relationships ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
oxford university, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
emotional, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, gothic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, manly, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, racism, small town, legal, single father, coming of age, rape, justice, childhood ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
alabama, usa, southern usa, america, africa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style:
touching, sentimental, surreal, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transvestism, transgender, gay, lgbtq, adoption, homosexual, gay slur, gender bending, coming of age, priest, friendship, ira ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place:
ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, sweet, sad, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, friendship, christmas, wedding, small town, southern belle, halloween, family relations, best friend, strong female character, life philosophy, wedding ceremony ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, cinema, nostalgia, filmmaking, love story, flashback, haunted by the past, philosophy, friendship, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe, corsica
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48K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style:
disturbing, talky, philosophical, black comedy, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
existentialism, sexual abuse, nihilism, humiliation, voyeurism, alienation, drifter, character study, sex scene, rape, cruelty, rapist ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, manchester, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi, wartime, war, concentration camp, storytelling, holocaust survivor, anti semitism, nazism, against humanity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, ancient times, year 1943 ...
Place:
poland, germany, iran, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Style:
touching, emotional, uplifting, dramatic, sad ...
Plot:
disability, friendship, cerebral palsy, life, youth, character study, life philosophy, loneliness, human spirit, friends, disabled, mental disorder ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, dublin ireland, ireland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Style:
cerebral, compassionate, melancholic, disturbing, philosophical ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, genocide, nazi concentration camp, tragedy, nazi, death, prison, shoah, courage, concentration camp, life & death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 90s, year 2015
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, california
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA, Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, reflective, compassionate, sentimental ...
Plot:
world war one, redemption, war, missing person, courage, greco turkish war, family drama, parents and children, family relations, escapades, turkish history, wartime ...
Time:
year 1919, 1910s, 2010s, year 2014, year 1915 ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, australia, gallipoli, ottoman empire ...
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