Lists and Suggestions
List: Tearjerker Movies
Amour
Huppert, Isabelle, actor.
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's gre...
An affair to remember
McCarey, Leo.
A singer falls in love with a wealthy bachelor on a luxury liner bound for New York, but an accident...
Baghban
Chopra, Ravi, 1946-2014.
At retirement, a father and mother go to live, separately, with their unwilling sons and their wives...
Beaches
Marshall, Garry.
Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal diseas...
Noel Coward
Coward, Noel, 1899-1973, producer, screenwriter.
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves in...
Brokeback Mountain
Lee, Ang, 1954-
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines betw...
Camille
Cukor, George, 1899-1983.
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gamb...
Dead Poets Society
Weir, Peter, 1944-
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and...
Fruitvale Station
Coogler, Ryan, 1986- screenwriter, director.
Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and s...
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Jacobs, Arthur P.
Mr. Chips is a shy and proper classics professor who teaches at an English all-boys school. He falls...
Grave of the fireflies
Nosaka, Akiyuki, 1930- Hotaru no haka.
Two orphans in war-time Kobe, Japan, face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair as the war a...
Imitation of life
Colbert, Claudette.
The story of two women trying to find success, but end up finding that success isn't everything...
Keep the lights on
Lindhardt, Thure, 1974-
Chronicles the journey of two men in New York City as they experience love, friendship, and addictio...
Kramer vs. Kramer
Benton, Robert.
When his wife walks out, Ted Kramer and his six-year-old son have a chance to really get to know eac...
Love story
Hiller, Arthur.
A young Ivy League couple cross social barriers to marry, then must cope with untimely illness and d...
Make way for tomorrow
McCarey, Leo, director.
After losing their house to foreclosure, an elderly couple is separated when none of their five chil...
Marley and me
Netter, Gil.
John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one...
My girl
Aykroyd, Dan.
A precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death shares a poignant summer with her widowed father...
My sister
Johnson, Mark, 1945 December 27-
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl fal...
Now, voyager
Rapper, Irving, 1898-1999, director.
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through t...
Ordinary people
Guest, Judith. Ordinary people.
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of th...
Sophie
Streep, Meryl.
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survi...
A Star is born
Selznick, David O., 1902-1965.
A fading star meets an aspiring actress, falls in love with and marries her. Her career skyrockets, ...
Stepmom
Columbus, Chris.
Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents div...
Still Alice
Glatzer, Richard, 1952-2015, film director, screenwriter.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who st...
Steel magnolias
Field, Sally.
A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her life. This choice leaves her own mother...
The stoning of Soraya M
Marnò, Mozhan. 1980-
When a journalist is stranded in her remote village, Zahra takes a bold chance to reveal what the vi...
La strada
Fellini, Federico.
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus per...
Terms of endearment
Brooks, James L.
Follows the rocky and passionate relationship between a mother and daughter from birth to death. ...
Titanic
Cameron, James, 1954-
Jack and Rose find one another on the maiden voyage of the unsinkable "Titanic" but when t...
Umberto D
Rizzoli, Angelo.
Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postw...
A walk to remember
Di Novi, Denise.
Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart. Jamie is a straight-laced...