Heartfelt movies and TV shows – page 2

List of heartfelt movies

Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 8.1
 438K
Stand by Me (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, feel good, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, boy, children, youth, teenager, camping, on the road, summer, friends ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1986, year 1959, 20th century
Place: oregon, usa
Is relevant ?
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all ...
Style: fairy tale, romantic, feel good, touching, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: love and romance, princess, beast, castle, beauty and the beast, power of love, imaginary, opposites attract, transformation, prince, female protagonist, disney princess ...
Time: 18th century, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: france, europe
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 457K
Big Fish (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style: surreal, sentimental, feel good, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: fish, journey, surrealism, father son relationship, fantasy world, storytelling, childhood, loneliness, mermaid, magic realism, magic, parents and children ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place: texas, usa, alabama, paris france, russia ...
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 92K
Stuck in Love. (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Style: touching, heartbreaking, sweet, independent film, romantic ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: writer's life, coming of age, teenage love, writers, casual sex, relationships, dating, youth, love, marriage, love story, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: peru, north carolina, usa
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
 8.4
 1.2M
WALL·E (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style: feel good, touching, futuristic, emotional, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: loneliness, robot, space travel, ecology, outer space, post apocalypse, love, technology, artificial intelligence, society, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 6K
Sweet Movie (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The winner (Carole Laure) of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Style: experimental, disturbing, controversial, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: decadence, erotica, orgy, extreme, male nudity, surrealism, dead children, virginity, virgin, male pubic hair, woman in a bikini, breast feeding ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, balkan, paris france, france, europe ...
Is relevant ?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
Is relevant ?
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style: erotic, controversial, disturbing, psychological, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: torture, sex, fascism, atrocity, sexual perversion, brutality, libertine, rape, world war two, kidnapping, sexual abuse, bdsm ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 47K
Roxanne (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: unrequited love, fall in love, love triangle, love story, small town, rivalry, physical appearance, wooing, dishonesty, hidden identity, happy ending, public nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 3K
City Zero (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, ...
Style: surreal, heartfelt, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: small town life, surrealism, female nudity, life changing, post soviet, town, perestroika, social satire, nudity, society, social relations, dark humor ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
Is relevant ?
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
Style: anime, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: world war two, hunger, war, orphan, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, anti war, boy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1945, post world war two
Place: japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Is relevant ?
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister ...
Style: anime, feel good, atmospheric, sweet, touching ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, toddlers, preschool
Plot: children, friendship, magical, magic, countryside, sisters, child protagonist, parents and children, young heroes, sister sister relationship, hospital, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: japan, asia
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
 7.7
 4K
Love of Siam (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy's older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gays and lesbians, gay love, lgbt, missing person, gay, gay interest, loss of child, musician, lgbtq, friendship, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 204K
The Karate Kid (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, China
Duration: 140 min.
Story: 12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship ...
Style: inspirational, uplifting, feel good, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: teachers and students, kung fu, martial arts, human spirit, boy, bullying, contests and competitions, perseverance, coach, underdog, coming of age, teacher ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: china, beijing china, america, asia, michigan ...
Is relevant ?
Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself ...
Style: emotional, touching, erotic, depressing, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: self discovery, older man young girl relationship, life is a bitch, loss of child, prostitute, family drama, depression, friendship, haunted by the past, teenage life, runaway, acceptance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, indiana, usa, indianapolis indiana, new orleans
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 97K
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style: disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, teenage boy, father son relationship, methamphetamine, teenager, boy, divorce, coming of age, stepmother stepson relationship, drug ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles, new york
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 128K
If I Stay (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock ...
Style: touching, emotional, sad, tear jerker, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: love, teenager, hospital, teenage girl, family drama, love and romance, teenage love, teenage life, youth, death in the family, out of body experience, high school ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indianapolis indiana, portland oregon
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
 8.1
 18K
Emma (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 246 min.
TV show
Story: Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit - matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, most of all Harriet Smith. Emma is desperate for ...
Style: period piece, witty, feel good, costume drama, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: marriage, aristocracy, couples, female protagonist, looking for love, love and romance, love, fall in love, friendship, love triangle, naivete, opposites attract ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1800s, georgian era, victorian era
Place: england
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 109K
Dogtooth (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family ...
Style: disturbing, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, cat, child abuse, brother sister incest, eccentric family, overprotective father, confined, sexual awakening, perversion, greek ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: greece, europe
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 155K
Remember Me (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws ...
Style: touching, sad, romantic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love story, 9/11, relationships, death in the family, suicide, family drama, teenager, young love, loss of sibling, love and romance, love, dealing with death ...
Time: year 2010, september 11 2001, 2010s, year 2001, 2000s ...
Place: new york, iran, usa, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 115K
Filth (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, cynical, black comedy, sexual ...
Plot: addiction, insanity, dark humor, drug abuse, antisocial behavior, losing-it hero, corrupt cop, hallucination, murder, self destructing, cocaine, drug ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: scotland, hamburg germany, britain, edinburgh scotland
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 53K
Soul Surfer (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton. Bethany lost her left arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.Bethany ...
Style: christian film, touching, uplifting, sentimental, motivational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: surfing, christian, disability, human spirit, shark, teenager, against the odds, surfer, shark attack, survivor, volunteer, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2011, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, thailand
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
 6.8
 204K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
Is relevant ?
Friends with Benefits (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jamie is a New York-based executive recruiter who entices Dylan, an art director from Los Angeles, to take a job at the New York office of GQ magazine. Finding that they have much in common, the two become fast friends. Feeling jaded by a number of ...
Style: romantic, sexy, sweet, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: relationships, love, best friends in love, sex scene, friendship, love and romance, sexual relations, lovers, sexual activity, sex, looking for sex, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant ?
Totally True Love (2011)
Genre: Family, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When the new boy in class, Jørgen, moves into the haunted house down the road Anne’s world turns upside-down; she falls head over heals in love with him. All the girls in Anne’s class fall for Jørgen as well, including beautiful blonde ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, touching, surreal ...
Audience: kids, horror for children
Plot: friendship, fall in love, love triangle, youth, love and romance, rivalry, child, children, girl, child romance, atmosphere, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe
Is relevant ?
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story: The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self: a woman.
Style: aesthetic, sincere, emotional, romantic, social ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, transsexuality, lgbt, impossible love, lgbtq, couple relations, transgender, follow your dream, lgbtqi, amor, lesbian, gender ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 20th century, 80s
Place: montreal, quebec
Is relevant ?
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Fortune hunter Holly Golightly finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak, who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's dime. As romance blooms between Paul and Holly, Doc Golightly shows up on the scene, revealing ...
Style: sentimental, sweet, feel good, touching, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot: fashion, love story, woman, cat, love of one's life, writers, love, love and romance, broken engagement, shopping, adultery, social climber ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, brazil, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 287K
The Graduate (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Benjamin, a recent college graduate is very worried about his future, he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Style: sexual, melancholic, atmospheric, crying, erotic ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, wedding, adultery, forbidden love, college graduate, lovers, milf, virginity, hotel, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, san francisco, bay area
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 37K
Love Story (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, fall in love, tragedy, death, college, love story, cancer, tragic love, ice hockey, graduation, young love, class differences ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, massachusetts, paris france, boston, harvard university
Is relevant ?
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Related movie lists