| Hidden Truths (2015) | 7.8 | |
| The Dark Horse (2014) | 7.4 | |
| Empathie (2025) | 8.8 | |
| Philanthropy (2002) | 8.4 | |
| The Doctors (2010) | 8.7 |
Compassion movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant compassion movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, sentimental, realistic, feel good, serious and crying films and TV shows about / with compassion, friendship, mentor, storytelling, redemption, culture clash, love, dialogue, hospital and destiny plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as compassion: The Windermere Children (2020), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Patch Adams (1998), Dandelion (2004), Anbe Sivam (2003), Standing Tall (2015), Okja (2017), Terms of Endearment (1983), Navarasa (2021), Life Is Sweet (1990).
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List of compassion movies
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of the pioneering project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere.
Style:
costume drama, rough, contemplative, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, concentration camp survivor, world war two, kindness, compassion, children in wartime, holocaust survivor, friendship, country house, refugee, fear, recovery ...
Time:
post world war two
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style:
melancholic, depressing, touching, sad, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, disability, small town, mentally challenged, mental illness, self discovery, responsibility, brothers, character study, coming of age, life philosophy, life & death ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, 70s, 60s
Place:
iowa, texas, southern usa, usa
Is relevant?
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: 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: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Nalla Sivam and Anbarasu meet under different circumstances and their lives are changed as they take the journey of their life.
Style:
serious, realistic, experimental, talky, inspirational ...
Plot:
life changing experience, atheism, communism, destiny, odd couple, accident, self discovery, introspection, social differences, tragic love, terrorism, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
social worker, juvenile delinquent, teen angst, juvenile delinquency, teenage boy, judge, pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy, juvenile detention, mother's boyfriend, truancy, nervousness ...
Time:
year 2015, 90s, year 1997
Place:
france
Is relevant?
141K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Style:
sweet, colorful, touching, compassionate, talky ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
animal lover, animal rescue, meat industry, compassion, monster, strong female lead, female protagonist, animal, animal liberation, fantasy world, zoologist, coming of age ...
Time:
2010s, future, distant future, year 2017, year 2007 ...
Place:
south korea, indiana, america, east asia, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style:
sentimental, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, death, adultery, husband wife relationship, single mother, mother daughter relationship, grief, hospital, death of daughter ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s ...
Place:
nebraska, houston texas, texas, new york, louisiana ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
From amusement to awe, the nine human emotions of Indian aesthetic theory are explored in this anthology series.
Style:
psychological, anthology, disgusting, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
compassion, love, sensuality, anger, peace, courage, fear, social problems, love affair, relationships, couple relations, male female relationship ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on ...
Style:
sentimental, sexy, sweet, independent film, compassionate ...
Plot:
working class, food, secret lover, nothing goes right, restaurant, compassion, dysfunctional family, eating disorder, midlife crisis, depression, family drama, rebellious daughter ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
John Travolta is a downtrodden single father raising his daughter under difficult circumstances in Chicago. The young girl comes upon and then nurses a wounded Doberman used for fighting, back to health. Duped by underworld types he was working as a ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, tension ...
Plot:
on the run, doberman, dog, father daughter relationship, gangster, rescue, compassion, girl, pursuit, affection, road trip, widower ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
california, chicago, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A young half-Navajo convict (Jon Seda) dying of cancer forces a yuppie (Woody Harrelson) doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
Style:
road movie, melancholic, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, desert, road trip, native american, juvenile delinquent, hostage, on the road, cancer, healing power, mysticism, spiritualism ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
arizona
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, inspirational, melancholic ...
Plot:
baseball, friendship, terminal illness, baseball player, teammate, male bonding, father son relationship, secret, death of friend, compassion, voice over narration, best friend ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, 70s
Place:
new york, minnesota, georgia, usa
Is relevant?
1K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.
Style:
black comedy, crying, sad, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, road trip, friendship between men, male bonding, cynicism, compassion, englishman abroad, affection, american abroad, depression, american football, optimism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, 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, sweet, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, toddlers, kids, preschool
Plot:
children, friendship, magic, magical, sisters, countryside, young heroes, child protagonist, teaching the ways of the world, sister sister relationship, little girl, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1950s, year 1988, 20th century, 50s
Place:
japan, asia, seattle, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Style:
suspense, road movie, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, prison, fugitives, life philosophy, moral ambiguity, on the run, boy, child abuse, road trip, small town, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, year 1993
Place:
texas, austin texas, birmingham alabama, alaska, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic at solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, talky, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
children, kidnapping, orphan, rescue, childhood, amateur detective, hospital, chase, girl, boy, school, coming of age ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1998, 50s ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
hospital, mistaken identity, medical school, pickpocket, compassion, real life father and son playing father and son, love, cancer, surgery, criminal, drinking, janitor ...
Time:
y2k, 21st century
Place:
mumbai india, middle east, asia, india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Style:
black and white, talky, emotional, touching, tension ...
Plot:
blindness, friendship, interracial relations, interracial romance, blind character, disability, racism, age difference, blind woman, tolerance, interracial friendship, compassion ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york, new york state, africa
Is relevant?
128K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips ...
Style:
parody, light, humorous, christmas horror, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
christmas, ghost, christmas eve, greed, holiday, supernatural, santa claus, xmas, happy ending, redemption, new year, christmas carol ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future, 70s, 60s ...
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, detective, crying ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
teacher, fish out of water, children, kindergarten, small town, elementary school, school, witness protection, bullying, working undercover, drug dealer, police ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
astoria oregon, california, oregon, los angeles, north america
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds ...
Style:
realistic, clever, touching, anthology, feel good ...
Plot:
unrequited love, midlife crisis, father son relationship, gang, rescue, dysfunctional family, interracial friendship, class differences, compassion, african american, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, arizona, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, detective, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
on the run, conspiracy, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, fugitives, death row, manhunt, doctor, murder, uncover truth, corruption ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
dog, mental illness, neighbor, friendship, writers, gender, artist, love story, depression, gay, single mother, waitress ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, maryland, baltimore ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, depressing ...
Plot:
chess, brother brother relationship, hopes, teenager, illness, friendship, compassion, boy, uncle nephew relationship, underdog, contests and competitions, dedicated educator ...
Time:
20th century, year 2016, future
Place:
new zealand, oceania
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Style:
sweet, colorful, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
friendship, pig, rescue, farm, children, friends who live together, misunderstanding, animal human communication, compassion, spider, rat, cat ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, new england, maine
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sad, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, love story, freak, love and romance, social misfits, teenage girl, garden, inventor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
florida, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Intending to aid her family, a beautiful young girl accepts the job in a prominent model casting agency, only to discover their girls are also hired for something else.
Style:
sexy, exciting, captivating, soap opera, erotic ...
Plot:
sexual attraction, lust, model, older man young girl relationship, fashion, female nudity, sex, virginity, addiction, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, fashion show, money ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Is relevant?
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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