Loss of loved one movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant loss of loved one movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, intense, sincere, realistic, suspense and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with loss of loved one, death, storytelling, dialogue, destiny, mentor, catastrophe, chase, vengeance and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as loss of loved one: One Day (2011), The Lovely Bones (2009), If Only (2004), The Lucky One (2012), What is Fatmagul's Fault? (2010), Remember Me (2010), The Punisher (2004), The Brave One (2007), The Notebook (2004), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002).

List of loss of loved one movies

 7.0
 179K
One Day (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, sad, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, best friends in love, love story, male female friendship, couples, friends in love, friendship, relationships, life philosophy, opposites attract, best friend ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: iran, scotland, london, paris france, england
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style: dark, emotional, psychological, suspense, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, pedophile, murder mystery, rape, loss of daughter, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, family drama, loss of family member, murderer ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, delaware
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 7.0
 35K
If Only (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), a grief-stricken British businessman, Ian Wyndham, living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, rom com ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: time loop, true love, love, relationships, power of love, changing the past or future, loss of loved one, tragic love, time travel, love and romance, hopes, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, london
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 6.4
 118K
The Lucky One (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows ...
Style: romantic, emotional, sentimental, touching, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: love story, love affair, love and romance, lovers, true love, love, veteran, single mother, soldier, destiny, obsessive quest, hopes ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, new jersey, new orleans, middle east ...
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What is Fatmagul's Fault? (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? is a Turkish television drama series produced by Ay Yapım and broadcast on Kanal D. The series is based on Vedat Türkali's novel, Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?, which was made into a film in 1986. The series is ...
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, novela, soap opera ...
Plot: court case, rape and revenge, prejudice, rape victim, relationships, rape, loss of loved one, sexualized violence, love, secret, tragic love, love and romance ...
Place: turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Style: gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, visually appealing, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, blood, barbershop, goth, dark humor, social injustice, judge, cannibalism, loss of loved one, presumed dead, murder, insanity ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2007, 2000s, edwardian era ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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 7.1
 162K
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: sad, romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love story, 9/11, relationships, death in the family, family drama, love, suicide, young love, loss of sibling, love and romance, dealing with death, death ...
Time: year 2010, september 11 2001, 2010s, 2000s, 90s ...
Place: new york, iran, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 6.4
 179K
The Punisher (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, vengeance, vigilante, lone hero, violence, vigilantism, superhero, one man army, tough guy, mafia, crime fighter, hitman ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2003
Place: florida, puerto rico, miami, virginia
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 6.7
 66K
The Brave One (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Style: suspense, detective, realistic, serious, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: vigilante, vengeance, revenge, vigilantism, woman with a gun, female vigilante, corpse, death, self defense, police station, woman kills a man, kick-butt women ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco
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 7.8
 679K
The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place: north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style: disturbing, neo noir, depressing, bloody, surprise ending ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, revenge, violence, vengeance, torture, loss of loved one, suicide, brutality, tragedy, murder, gory, organ donation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia
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The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, love story, desert, beautiful scenery, tragic love, power of love, love and romance, passion, adultery, sex scene, doomed love, life philosophy ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, africa ...
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 8.7
 244K
Downton Abbey (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Style: costume drama, captivating, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: aristocracy, estate, traditional versus modern, relatives, manners, countryside, high society, servant, country estate, butler, family life, aristocrat ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1920s, 50s ...
Place: england, britain, hawaii, europe, yorkshire ...
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 6.4
 106K
Practical Magic (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With ...
Style: sweet, feel good, sincere, sexy, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing, teens ...
Plot: witch, curses spells and rituals, magic, supernatural, sisters, supernatural ability, witchcraft, curse, love, halloween, aunt niece relationship, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998
Place: seattle, usa, arizona, massachusetts
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 8.1
 995K
The Terminator (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical ...
Style: tech noir, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cult classic, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, kids, teens, manly ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyborgs, time travel, cyberpunk, man versus machine, terminator, androids, androids and robots, dystopia, time machine, on the run, sent to the past ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, near future, year 1984 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, north america, mexico, california
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 6.5
 147K
Cliffhanger (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Japan, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot: heist, mountain climbing, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, rescue, redemption, climbing, villain, cave, chase ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s, 80s
Place: colorado, antarctic
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
Style: perverse, suspense, exciting, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: cia, one man army, special forces, terrorism, murder, diver, police, navy, warrior, prison, navy seal, rescue mission ...
Time: 2020s, 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: syria, usa, washington d.c., atlanta georgia, north carolina ...
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The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, steampunk, dystopic future, apocalypse, escapades, changing the past or future, utopia, destiny, chase, time warp, post apocalypse ...
Time: future, distant future, 2030s, victorian era, near future ...
Place: usa, new york, egypt
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 7.1
 257K
The Fountain (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Style: surreal, melancholic, atmospheric, philosophical, artsy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: afterlife, surrealism, metaphysics, buddhism, cancer, spirituality, immortality, multiple storylines, death, love, alternate reality, obsession ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 16th century, 21st century
Place: spain, tibet, latin america, europe, guatemala ...
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 7.2
 163K
Cold Mountain (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania
Duration: 154 min.
Story: In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style: romantic, sincere, epic, sexy, period piece ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: american civil war, love story, survival, civil war, tragic love, lovers reunited, slavery, tragic romance, loss of family member, star crossed lovers, getting home, loss of loved one ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, year 2003 ...
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina, appalachia, charleston south carolina ...
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 6.4
 35K
Always (1989)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, romantic, intense ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, airplane, aviation, rescue, guardian angel, love, supernatural, ghost, grief, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loss of loved one, love at first sight ...
Place: usa, colorado, montana
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Tom at the Farm (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
Style: psychological, serious, sexy, sexual, gloomy ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, male homosexuality, lgbtq, loneliness, lgbt teen, family problems, closeted homosexual, brother brother relationship, threat, farm, gay son ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2013, year 1997, 70s ...
Place: quebec, canada, montreal
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 7.2
 7K
Lilting (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: lgbtq, gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, retirement home, male homosexuality, language barrier, homosexual, mourning, mother love, loss of lover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The thrilling second chapter of the epic How To Train Your Dragon trilogy brings back the fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless five years later. While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, computer animated, 3d animation, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: dragon, viking, legends and myths, rescue, imaginary kingdom, warrior, death, good versus evil, loss of loved one, self sacrifice, friendship, save the day ...
Time: year 2014, middle ages, 2010s, 20th century, medieval times
Place: fictional island
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 6.6
 14K
Delicacy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, sensual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, cafe, unlikely couple, love triangle, loss of loved one, office romance, love affair, bereavement, grief, death of husband, employer employee relationship, elevator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 6.2
 23K
Dagon (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style: suspense, lovecraft, surprise ending, atmospheric, satanic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nightmare, cthulhu, body horror, small town, curses spells and rituals, chase, monster, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, supernatural, ritual, sea, sacrifice ...
Place: spain, galicia, europe
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Style: gothic, scary, gothic horror, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, monster, goth, dangerous attraction, dracula, victorian england, legends and myths, bloodsucker, death, blood, vampire bite ...
Time: middle ages, victorian era, 90s, 15th century, 1800s ...
Place: london, transylvania, england, britain, ottoman empire ...
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 7.6
 90K
Only the Brave (2017)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Style: exciting, emotional, tense, dramatic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: natural disaster, forest fire, firefighter, heroism, tragedy, rescue, danger, friends, mentor, firefighting, fire department, male camaraderie ...
Time: year 2007, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s, year 2013 ...
Place: arizona, usa
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 7.4
 72K
Ghajini (2008)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Sanjay a rich tycoon suffering from short term memory loss due to being hit by a metal pole when trying to intervene on his girlfriend's murder. Because of this his memory can only last for 15 minutes and he doesn't remember events or ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Plot: memory loss, diary, loss of loved one, fall in love, revenge, businessman, tragic romance, death of lover, rage, murder, vengeance, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: india, asia, mumbai india
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
Style: scary, creepy, cult classic, sexy, bloody ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, living dead, post apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, infected, zombie outbreak, blood, zombie attack, terror ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, year 2000, year 2003 ...
Place: usa, midwest, wisconsin
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