455 Best Emotional Movies To Watch - A Good Movie To Watch

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Looking for a movie that will give you all the feels? If you're looking to get in touch with your emotions, here are the best movies to stream for getting those sentiments going, from sympathy tears to laugh-cries,

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

7.6

A fiancée holds onto hope over her love’s survival in this stunning historical drama

Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)

7.2

Two friends start to grow apart in this intimate coming-of-age drama

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

7.9

A Southern family faces the truth of what they’ve become in this powerfully performed timeless melodrama

Private Desert (2021)

7.0

A haunting love story that challenges repressive machismo

The Children’s Hour (1961)

7.8

Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine reckon with rumors in this tragic queer classic

Sarah’s Key (2010)

7.2

A journalist brings up the past in this absorbing, if uneven, novel adaptation

Those Who Remained (2019)

7.2

Two Holocaust survivors find each other in this complex, touching period drama

Miracle in Milan (1951)

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8.0

A surprisingly hopeful, but no less compassionate, fantastic follow-up to Bicycle Thieves

Broken Embraces (2009)

7.4

A blind man remembers his love in this melancholic, noirish romance thriller

Once Were Warriors (1994)

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8.0

A Maori family survives in an alienating Auckland in this raw, tragic drama

Three Seasons (1999)

7.2

A stunning, multifaceted portrait of post-reunification Vietnam

A Real Pain (2024)

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8.0

Two cousins bond as they trace their roots in this powerfully emotional dramedy

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