Sad movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant sad movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out sad, touching, emotional, melancholic, realistic and dramatic films and TV shows about / with destiny, storytelling, death, love story, mentor, love, runaway, life philosophy, honest and tragedy plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sad: Million Dollar Baby (2004), My Sister's Keeper (2009), Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), The Green Mile (1999), Seven Pounds (2008), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), A Walk to Remember (2002), Marley & Me (2008), Now Is Good (2012), Still Alice (2014).
Best films
List of sad movies
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, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
athlete and trainer, sport, athlete's life, determination, underdog, follow your dream, human spirit, boxing, feminism, training, contests and competitions, ambition ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, europe, missouri, england ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style:
sentimental, sad, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
child illness, terminal illness, moral dilemma, family drama, mother daughter relationship, cancer, childhood, lawyer, parenthood, relationships, hospital, legal action ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, montana
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, dog, friends, pets, family, loyalty, loneliness, human animal relationship, death, sacrifice, loss of friend, loss of loved one ...
Time:
contemporary, 1930s
Place:
usa, japan, rhode island
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
death row, false accusation, supernatural ability, prison life, human nature, supernatural, life philosophy, death sentence, healing power, prison, confined, justice ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 30s, 1990s
Place:
usa, southern usa, louisiana
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, compassionate, sentimental ...
Plot:
redemption, life philosophy, hopes, sacrifice, suicidal, self sacrifice, tragic event, fall in love, secret, life changing experience, doctor patient relationship, depression ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Style:
sad, sincere, captivating, touching, serious ...
Plot:
jungle, extinction, gorilla, environmentalism, human spirit, obsessive quest, fighting the system, environmental, forces of nature, animals, courage, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place:
africa, congo, rwanda
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, romantic, sincere, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, opposites attract, love and romance, true love, first love, high school life, teenage life, coming of age, terminal illness, fall in love, youth, first kiss ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
north carolina
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135K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, chick flick, kids
Plot:
dog, pets, family, family relations, chaos and mayhem, journalist, parenthood, marriage, death of dog, divorce, pregnancy, couple relations ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, ireland, pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Style:
emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sad, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama, chick flick
Plot:
terminal illness, fighting illness, teenage love, last wish, love and romance, first sex, dying, teenager, cancer, youth, dealing with death, virginity ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, england
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115K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, emotional, psychological, sad ...
Plot:
memory loss, alzheimer's disease, family drama, columbia university, relationships, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, life turned upside down, unfulfillment, family bonds, parenthood, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, sad, philosophical ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, infidelity, dealing with death, couple relations, parents and children, introspection, farewell, responsibility, secret love, parent child relationship, daughter, unfulfillment ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Style:
uplifting, emotional, realistic, dramatic, bleak ...
Plot:
disability, friendship, youth, love triangle, loneliness, life, unrequited love, cerebral palsy, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, human spirit, life & death ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, bad ending, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, opposites attract, high school, adolescence, first love, youth, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, romance, high school life ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for ...
Style:
psychological, heartbreaking, sad, melancholic, depressing ...
Plot:
cloning, love and romance, friendship, boarding school, true love, love triangle, childhood, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couples, existentialism, jealousy ...
Time:
year 1994, 1990s, year 1985, year 1978
Place:
europe, england
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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, sentimental, touching, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
loneliness, social misfits, tragic hero, impossible love, human nature, fish out of water, scissors, romance, inventor, fall in love, freak, suburbs ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
florida
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424K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic, colourful, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
pianist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, music, jazz, audition, jazz club, passion, dance, bigger dreams, jazz music, jazz musician, destiny ...
Place:
los angeles, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, depressing, sad ...
Plot:
loss of child, marriage, family problems, death in the family, crumbling marriage, estrangement, grief, memory, therapy, loss of son, support group, redemption ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california
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226K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, heartbreaking, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, unfulfilled love, false accusation, life is a bitch, love and romance, siblings relations, forbidden love, tragic love, lovers apart, world war two, innocence lost, letter ...
Time:
40s, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 30s ...
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, sexy, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
gays and lesbians, homosexuality, forbidden love, tragic love, gay relationship, homosexual, cowboy, love and romance, male nudity, introspection, unlikely couple, love affair ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 80s, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
usa, wyoming, texas, mexico
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Belgium, UK, USA, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.
Style:
psychological, sad, atmospheric, psychedelic, rough
Plot:
imagination, escape from reality, teenage girl, monster, giant, death of mother, illness, school, bully, fear of death, psychologist, life & death ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, serious, clever ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, chick flick
Plot:
terminal illness, teenage love, love and romance, first love, dealing with death, fall in love, coping, youth, fighting illness, teenage life, human relationship, dying ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, indiana, amsterdam
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style:
touching, sentimental, feel good, inspirational, romantic ...
Plot:
orphan, prodigy, musician's life, music, hopes, lie, orphanage, romance, artists and showbiz, fall in love, youth, dancing ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style:
touching, sentimental, romantic, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, unfulfilled love, love and romance, lovers reunited, small town, road not taken, love affair, forbidden love, unfulfillment, young lovers, destiny, twists & turns ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, new jersey, canada
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the ...
Style:
touching, sweet, sad, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
afterlife, heaven, friendship, orphan, adventure, going straight, dog, second chance, friends, animal life, death, rescue ...
Time:
20th century, 30s, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
new orleans, usa
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55K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, sad, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids
Plot:
terminal illness, divorce, parents and children, custody, rebellious daughter, friendship, family life, step parent, human nature, remarry, ego clash, dying woman ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the ...
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
gays and lesbians, terminal illness, gay, homosexual, aids, life is a bitch, friendship, epidemic, protest, fear, prejudice, uncover truth ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1983, year 1982
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., yale university
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Poland, Kazakhstan, China, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young Asian immigrant worker in Moscow tried to track down her baby, whom she abandoned at the hospital.
Style:
melancholic, sad, rough, neurotic
Plot:
baby, female protagonist, pregnant, money problems, extortion, life is a bitch, big city, police, chicken, escape, bleeding, cleaning ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, Estonia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second ...
Style:
lyrical, sad, melancholic, rough
Plot:
cancer, village, disguise, changing lives, terminal illness, family relations, rape
Place:
siberia
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15K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Style:
factual, based on true events, realistic, compassionate, sad ...
Plot:
disability, illness, husband wife relationship, paralysis, polio, supportive spouse, adaptation, human spirit, marriage, hospital, suffocation, near death experience ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1981, year 1971, year 1958, year 1960 ...
Place:
africa, kenya, spain, england, germany
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16K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
Style:
sad, suspense, rough
Plot:
fight, sex trafficking, slave trade, death of loved one, young couple, chase, black man, escape, female journalist, gang, policewoman, corrupt cop ...
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