Sentimental movies and TV shows – page 5

List of sentimental movies

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The Cider House Rules (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life ...
Style: touching, heartbreaking, sentimental, visually stunning, sad ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids
Plot: abortion, coming of age, orphan, adoption, childhood, mentor protege relationship, storytelling, justice, love triangle, sexual attraction, unwanted pregnancy, sick child ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, year 1999, 90s, year 1943 ...
Place: maine, usa, new england, atlantic ocean, north america ...
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
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 7.7
 106K
Flipped (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot: first love, fall in love, childhood, childhood sweetheart, teenage love, love and romance, adolescence, teen romance, young love, love story, teenage life, love ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 1957, 2010s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, michigan
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Life or Something Like It (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: journalism, career woman, meaning of life, homeless man, happy ending, prophecy, life & death, life philosophy, love and romance, rise to the top, oracle, family relations ...
Time: future
Place: seattle, new york, washington state, usa, san francisco ...
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 6.5
 68K
Cry-Baby (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style: humorous, sentimental, satirical, light, parody ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: rock and roll, gang, forbidden love, youth, satire, music, couples, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, biker, juvenile delinquent, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1954, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa
Is relevant?
 7.2
 172K
War Horse (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, epic, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: world war one, horse, war, friendship, animal training, animal, battles, human animal relationship, wartime, cavalry charge, human spirit, danger ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2011, 1920s ...
Place: england, america, britain, belgium, europe ...
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 5.7
 51K
Fred Claus (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, melancholic, light, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: holiday, christmas, santa claus, snow, toys, husky dog, christmas time, happy ending, sibling relationship, imaginary, bodyguard, xmas ...
Time: year 1993, future, year 2007, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: chicago, nova scotia, sydney australia, london, paris france ...
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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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 7.3
 271K
The Bucket List (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, sentimental, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: friendship, elderly, terminal illness, road trip, journey, unlikely friendships, human spirit, bucket list, life changing, dying, philosophy, motivation ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: cote d'azur, usa, africa, johannesburg south africa, los angeles ...
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: sentimental, feel good, visually stunning, christian film, retro ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, toddlers, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: love story, love, love and romance, convent, nanny, catholic, single father, nazi, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, world war two, stepmother ...
Time: 1930s, ancient times, 50s, 20th century, year 1938 ...
Place: austria, alps, europe, germany
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 7.0
 135K
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Style: feel good, touching, teen, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, teenage life, high school life, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, self discovery, female nudity, wedding, first love ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, california, seattle
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500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: breakup, love, relationships, couples, love story, unrequited love, love and romance, couple relations, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, life philosophy, heartache ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
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Close to the Horizon (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: young couple, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, youth, illness, childhood trauma, tragic romance, young adult, lovers, attraction, obstacle ...
Time: 2000s, year 1999, 90s
Place: germany
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Midnight in Paris (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Style: feel good, melancholic, romantic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: time travel, painter, literature, artist, bohemian life, magic realism, love and romance, love story, writers, nostalgia, writer's life, art ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: paris france, france, versailles, europe, montmartre paris ...
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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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 7.1
 278K
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style: feel good, romantic, sexy, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids ...
Plot: dancing, coming of age, love story, summer romance, forbidden love, couples, dancer, fall in love, love and romance, unlikely couple, abortion, dance ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963, 90s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, new york state, new york
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and ...
Style: gothic, stylized, gothic horror, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: opera, obsession, disfigurement, musician's life, theater, destructive relationship, loneliness, disguise, dangerous attraction, prodigy, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1910s, year 2004, 2000s ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, london
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 7.5
 147K
The Book Thief (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, family outing, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, childhood, nazi, adoption, nazi germany, war, human spirit, against humanity, death, youth, nazism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, ancient times, year 1941, 2010s ...
Place: germany, europe
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Bicentennial Man (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, kids, date night
Plot: robot, androids and robots, androids, life philosophy, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopic future, love story, cyborgs, death, utopia, consciousness ...
Time: future, 90s, 23rd century, 2040s, 22nd century ...
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, indiana, utah ...
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 6.5
 250K
Big Daddy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Style: sentimental, funny, feel good, light, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: adoption, child's point of view, immaturity, parenthood, single father, childhood, responsibility, orphan, adolescence, slacker, children, mentor ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
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 6.3
 47K
Sabrina (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
Style: romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, age difference, love story, workaholic, love, cinderella story, love and romance, millionaire, couple relations, cinderella, sibling relationship, transformation ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, long island, new york
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: male female friendship, friendship, fall in love, autumn, love and romance, love, love story, unlikely couple, initially antagonists, best friends in love, friends, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, chicago, seattle, usa
Is relevant?
 7.7
 11K
Being Erica (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Being Erica is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that aired on CBC from January 5, 2009 to December 12, 2011. Created by Jana Sinyor, the series was originally announced by the CBC as The Session, but was retitled Being Erica before ...
Style: sentimental, witty, captivating, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: time travel, therapy, self discovery, thirtysomething life, destiny, haunted by the past, changing the past or future, road not taken, therapist, lifestyle, psychology, loss of sibling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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A Dog's Purpose (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, sad, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, adult
Plot: dog, animal, human animal relationship, life & death, happy ending, reincarnation, transformation, police dog, life philosophy, love, death, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 70s, 80s ...
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The Story of Us (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: happy ending, divorce, marriage, relationships, writers, long term relationship, bittersweet, family drama, husband wife relationship, breakup, fall in love, grief ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: italy, venice
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 7.6
 352K
50/50 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style: touching, inspirational, tragicomedy, independent film, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: cancer, friendship, terminal illness, happy ending, relationships, chemotherapy, meaning of life, doctor, hopes, buddies, patient, coming of age ...
Time: year 2011, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state, iran, washington d.c. ...
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Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: farm, parents and children, family life, pioneer, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, rural setting, optimism ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1870s, 1880s ...
Place: minnesota, kansas
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 7.4
 228K
Garden State (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from ...
Style: sentimental, funny, indie film, sweet, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: depression, self discovery, melancholy, coming of age, female nudity, paraplegic, love story, love, family relations, relationships, drug, dealing with death ...
Time: year 2004, near future, medieval times, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, los angeles, new york, usa, seattle
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, futuristic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, androids, distopia, adoption, robot, imagination, boy, destiny, machine, child abuse ...
Time: future, year 2001, 2000s, near future, distant future ...
Place: new york, persia, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: 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 and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Style: emotional, depressing, touching, sad, bad ending ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: boxing, underdog, female boxer, female protagonist, determination, mentor protege relationship, athlete's life, female athlete, boxing trainer, strong female character, euthanasia, athlete and trainer ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, europe, london, las vegas ...
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