Tragic event movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant tragic event movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out sad, disturbing, emotional, suspense, psychological and serious films and TV shows about / with tragic event, death, blood, friendship, murder, grief, family relations, flashback, love and tragedy plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, Spain, UK and other countries.
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tragic event movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as tragic event: The Lovely Bones (2009), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Impossible (2012), The Goldfinch (2019), The Orphanage (2007), Containment (2016), Shutter Island (2010), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Mystic River (2003), Jane Eyre (2011).

List of tragic event movies

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The Lovely Bones (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
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: emotional, dark, suspense, psychological, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, family drama, murderer, rape, loss of daughter, murder mystery, pedophile, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, delaware
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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 7.5
 242K
The Impossible (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style: emotional, suspense, heartbreaking, motivational, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, tsunami, ocean, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, vacation, family in danger ...
Time: year 2004, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
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 6.4
 27K
The Goldfinch (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
Style: atmospheric, non-linear, psychological, enigmatic, sad ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: tragic event, friendship, painting, adaptation, museum, teenage boy, art, teenager, parent child relationship, gay, lgbt, bombing ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: amsterdam, manhattan new york city, new york
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 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
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 7.1
 11K
Containment (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An epidemic breaks out in Atlanta leaving the large city quarantined and those stuck on the inside fighting for their lives. This is the story of loved ones torn apart, and how the society that grows inside the quarantine reveals both the devolution ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, serious, horrifying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: epidemic, virus, quarantine, society, death, tragic event, doctor, infection, conspiracy theory, murder, blood, end of the world ...
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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 7.6
 291K
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
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 7.3
 93K
Jane Eyre (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style: romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, social differences, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, family secret, older man younger woman relationship, master and servant, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire
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 6.9
 24K
Life Itself (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Style: sad, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: pregnancy, tragic event, estranged couple, marriage proposal, jealousy, suicide, relationships, love story, love triangle, dead mother, orphan, death of mother ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, andalusia
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I'm Not Ashamed (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott- the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.
Style: christian film, disturbing, suspense, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: high school, christian, youth, death, plan, tragic event, notebook, prom, murder, group of friends, friendship, school ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, colorado
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 7.9
 16K
The Class (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style: serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, vengeance, humiliation, society, youth, friendship, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, high school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, europe
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 7.6
 24K
Mildred Pierce (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 336 min.
TV show
Story: A newly divorced, uniquely independent woman struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family in Depression-era California.
Style: emotional, serious, costume drama, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: housewife, single parent, tragic event, struggle, divorce, depression, friendship, ambitious, family relations, social differences, heroine, suffering ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, glendale california
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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, touching, sad, depressing, bad ending ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: boxing, underdog, female boxer, female protagonist, determination, mentor protege relationship, athlete's life, human spirit, female athlete, euthanasia, boxing trainer, strong female lead ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, europe, las vegas, london ...
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot: psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, depression, mental illness, sociopath, teenager, antisocial behavior, childhood, mother son relationship, boy ...
Time: year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, united kingdom, connecticut, usa, new york
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 8.1
 44K
Dead Like Me (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dead Like Me follows a group of undead grim reapers tasked with shepherding the recently departed into the afterlife.
Style: witty, sentimental, black comedy, cynical, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, dealing with death, double life, family problems, dark humor, unfulfillment, young man, loser, workplace, tragic event, parents and children ...
Place: seattle
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 7.7
 59K
Doom Patrol (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: superhero, superhero team, outcast, tragedy, talking robot, tragic event, villain, androids and robots, split personality, multiverse, supernatural, wheelchair bound ...
Time: 80s, 2020s, 2010s, 1950s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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 6.2
 350K
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: world war two, war, love, military, combat, airplane, love triangle, navy, fighter pilot, wartime, aviation, love and romance ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, 50s, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place: hawaii, pearl harbor, japan, asia, america ...
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The Seven Deadly Sins (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The “Seven Deadly Sins”—a group of evil knights who conspired to overthrow the kingdom of Britannia—were said to have been eradicated by the Holy Knights, although some claim that they still live. Ten years later, the Holy Knights have ...
Style: anime, exciting, entertaining, touching, humorous ...
Plot: seven deadly sins, friendship, deity, giant, demon, battles, immortality, sin, supernatural, fight, betrayal, supernatural ability ...
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 6.4
 24K
Hell House LLC (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
Style: dark, spooky, disturbing, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, haunted house, halloween, dark secret, supernatural, house, hanging, basement, mysterious death, group of friends, abandoned hotel, investigation ...
Time: 2000s
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 601K
It (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, spooky, slasher ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: killer clown, supernatural horror, clown, evil clown, small town, stephen king, fear, monster, coming of age, child, missing person, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1989, 2010s, year 2017, 80s, year 1988
Place: maine
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 7.0
 33K
The Fallout (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
Style: suspense, emotional, disturbing, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: lgbt, school shooting, lesbian love, high school student, teenage life, teenage crush, psychological trauma, tragic event, post traumatic stress, social problems, family problems, love ...
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 8.5
 11K
Healer (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kim Moon Ho is a successful reporter at a mainstream news station, but when he stumbles upon a 10-year-old mystery, he's forced to dive into a subversive underground news agency. On his journey to break open the case, Moon Ho teams up with Chae ...
Style: exciting, dorama, romantic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: reporter, hidden identity, investigation, hacker, false accusation, masked hero, rescue, dating, lost child, tragic event, journalist, self sacrifice ...
Place: thailand, seoul
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The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's ...
Style: touching, emotional, lyrical, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot: immigrant, tragic event, prostitute, student, loss of daughter, multiple storylines, rebelliousness, lgbt, coincidence, prison, migration, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: germany, turkey, hamburg germany, middle east, balkan ...
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 7.9
 117K
Talk to Her (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Style: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere ...
Plot: rape, tragic love, friendship, suicide, loneliness, female nudity, obsession, impossible love, tragic event, hospital, sex, women ...
Time: near future, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, jordan
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 7.5
 316K
Babel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style: non-linear, bleak, sincere, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: multiple storylines, redemption, desert, woman urinating, deaf girl, mexican border, society, guilt, parenthood, depression, tragic event, immigrant ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
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 8.5
 1.1M
The Lion King (1994)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young lion cub named Simba can't wait to be king. But his uncle craves the title for himself and will stop at nothing to get it.
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: lion, jungle, friendship, betrayal, love, good versus evil, tragedy, pride and honor, exile, hyena, uncle, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: africa, south africa
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 7.8
 153K
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style: disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
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