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List of loss movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sad, art house ...
Plot:
miscarriage, pregnancy, rebellion, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, family relations, society, estrangement, strong female presence, stillbirth, women's issues, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
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218
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Twenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send him to his uncle Takuma in Japan.
Style:
emotional, meditative, poignant, reflective, existential ...
Plot:
grief, coming of age, self discovery, loss, bittersweet, mourning, healing, rebirth, village life, mature, uncle nephew relationship, identity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
grief, child abandonment, loss, family tragedy, single father, rescue, redemption, compassion, loneliness, character study, bittersweet, social realism ...
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
character study, grief, working class, tragedy, loss, relationship problems, relationships, filmmaking, love affair, couple relations, life is a bitch, male female relationship ...
Place:
iran
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One morning Joel finds his wife's dog Elvis half dead. This forces him out of home, something he has avoided for a long time. After forgetting his keys inside, he'll spend the day desperately trying to get back into his flat, his shelter.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mourning, realism, dog, nothing goes right, human nature, society, social misfits, disorder, misfit, pets, dealing with death, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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755
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
Loss and laughs collide in Limbo, which explores the compelling and charmingly funny story of best friends Charlie and Nate as they’re faced with how hard it is to let go of those we love - especially when they're taken too soon. And when ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, exciting, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, haunting, supernatural, grief, loss, parallel world, apparition, death, purgatory, male protagonist, relationships, family relations ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teenager struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered world in this emotional and bittersweet coming-of-age drama about those who are left behind.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, female protagonist, grief, sibling rivalry, loss, family drama, adolescence, self discovery, healing, mourning, identity, character study ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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121
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Cambodia, France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Cannes Special Screening 2016
Style:
bleak, political, emotional, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
exile, trauma, genocide, loss, political oppression, khmer rouge, haunting, mourning, memory, survival, totalitarianism, identity ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first born with his former wife Clara. Suddenly, however Perla, the new owner where the couple lived ...
Style:
suspense, emotional, melancholic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
father son relationship, domestic drama, mourning, grief, loss, family problems, confronting the past, life is a bitch, tragic past, father and son, marital problem, loss of daughter ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An American student living a privileged existence at Glasgow School of Art faces the unexpected death of her father. Consumed with her loss, she finds herself re-examining both her life and inner circle.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
bereavement, self discovery, loss, grief, female protagonist, loss of family, changing lives, life is a bitch, loss of father, dysfunctional family, family problems, lifestyle change ...
Place:
scotland
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282
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Mégantic is inspired by the events that occurred during the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy in 2013. This fiction follows the destinies of Méganticois marked by bereavement and trauma, but also by solidarity, courage and heroism.
Style:
poignant, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
heroism, small town, train, ecological disaster, tragedy, courage, loss, grief, trauma, train wreck, aftermath, real life ...
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovenia, Ireland, Finland, Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus ...
Style:
surreal, touching, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
circus, hopes, wartime life, human spirit, performer's life, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, death in the family, magic realism, grief, mourning ...
Place:
poetic realism
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Alyssa, a successful photographer, wakes one morning to find her apartment ransacked and her husband mysteriously missing. Left without even a photograph to offer the police, she turns to her colleague Eve, a talented jazz pianist with a flirtatious ...
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
lgbtq, lesbian, loss, grief, social problems, love story, relationships, female protagonist, family problems, fall in love, love and romance, love interest ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning herself to a creative process that might easily be mistaken for madness, she's soon visited by mirror images of herself, as well as her ...
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, avant garde, psychological horror, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
surrealism, loss, motherhood, grief, mourning, family tragedy, haunting, creative process, memory, obsession, ghost, female protagonist ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
canada
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512
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Colombia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sara and Óscar, a couple going through a marital crisis, decide to spend a week in a remote country cabin with their two children, Alicia and Tomás. The family tries to have a quiet time, but something strange happens there. There is a woman who ...
Style:
tense, suspense, tension, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
unhappy marriage, loss, marital crisis, cabin in the woods, dysfunctional family, dysfunctional marriage, male female relationship, family relations, supernatural horror, troubled marriage, relationship problems, marital problem ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A decade after the disappearance of his best friend and musical partner, Guille receives the offer from a label to finally release an album that never saw the light of day. His friend Pablo tries to help him overcome loss and grief, and release the ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, melancholic, emotional, romantic
Plot:
friendship, relationships, musician, missing person, disappearance, loss of friend, musician's life, music band, grief, loss, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sister finds her own way of coping with her loss. For Teresa, the eldest, it's herbal tea, ...
Style:
touching, black comedy, f word
Audience:
adult
Plot:
funeral, memory, mourning, loss, moving, grief, family drama, sisters, mother and daughter, sibling rivalry, family secret, heartwarming ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When his estranged daughter Miranda tragically dies, a retired musician sets out to complete the last song she wrote.
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
musician's life, daughter, tragedy, musician, father, ghost, loss, grief, bereavement, life is a bitch, problem, loss of daughter ...
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Muhammad returns home to Detroit to bury his stepfather and is thrust into settling his accounts, but Muhammad’s struggles with depression and addiction may finish him before he finishes the task.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, dramatic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
grief, addiction, depression, mental health, loss, substance abuse, life & death, life, death, fight, depressed man, stepfather ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
detroit
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise loved Adam. Adam loved Louise. That is how it used to be. But a child has disappeared. Their child. The police said it was a drowning accident. Yet the truth is that their little boy’s body was never found. Lucas, ten years old. How easy it ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
grief, bereavement, family tragedy, missing child, loss, relationship problems, family relations, disappearance, relationships, life is a bitch, family problems, loss of child ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Twenty-six-year-old Hiroto Suwa; his wife, Naho; and their old high school classmates—Takako Chino, Azusa Murasaka, and Saku Hagita—visit Mt. Koubou to view the cherry blossoms together. While watching the setting sun, they reminisce about ...
Style:
anime, emotional, heartfelt, poignant, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
love triangle, school, high school life, bittersweet, friendship, loss, mourning, grief, relationships, teenager, teenage life, lifestyle ...
Time:
2010s, future
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Azerbaijan, Mexico, Switzerland, UK, Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Davud returns from war to find everyone in his village has succumbed to a strange illness and has decomposed. His sister, the only survivor, is slowly rotting away herself. Davud is troubled by his memories as a soldier, as he confronts the only ...
Style:
existential, bleak, reflective, grim, atmospheric ...
Plot:
isolation, loneliness, survivor, trauma, loss, grief, moral ambiguity, mourning, war veteran, post war, post apocalyptic, moral dilemma ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ya'ara, a blind PhD candidate in Mathematics at Princeton University, hears of her cousin Talia's suicide. Ya'ara rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them, and was always the one ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, intense, suspenseful, art house
Plot:
grief, bereavement, loss, family secret, sisterhood, independent woman, investigation, female friendship, getting home, mature, identity, small town ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Still reeling from the loss of his wife, a grieving man goes to great lengths to see her again. But their reunion comes at a stunning cost.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, twist ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
bereavement, grief, loss of loved one, loss, mourning, time travel, tragic love, moral dilemma, obsession, guilt, desperation, accident ...
Place:
argentina
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220
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Ja-hyun receives a message from his deceased wife inviting him to reunite with her in a place called 'Yonder'.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, emotional, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
bereavement, virtual reality, grief, death, loss, mourning, life & death, grieving widower, relationships, family relations, widower, relationship problems ...
Time:
future, near future, 2040s
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. Eventually, she loses her mental balance.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, intense, family saga ...
Plot:
mother, wrongful conviction, grief, tragedy, female protagonist, loss, motherhood, family tragedy, mother son relationship, mourning, insanity, mental breakdown ...
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227
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young widower sidesteps grief, loss, and familial dysfunction when he steals his wife's ashes and sets off on an impulsive odyssey through America's heartland to find something he'd lost long before her death.
Style:
road movie, psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, widower, ashes, travel, grieving widower, grieving, mourning, grief, loss, loss of father, life, satire ...
Place:
colorado
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
Style:
psychological horror, supernatural thriller, suspense, sinister, tension ...
Plot:
ritual, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, loss, grief, resurrection, desperation, occult, trauma, mourning, family drama, mysterious stranger ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, poignant, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
childhood, autism, 9/11, asperger's syndrome, boy, child protagonist, orphan, acceptance, disability, coming of age, bereavement, single mother ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2001, 2000s, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
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