Sad Cancer Try Not to Cru Funny Potatoes
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Based on the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, this film stars Andrew Garfield as Larson. The movie is framed by the fact Larson, who would go on to write Rent, died at age 35—on the day of the first Off-Broadway preview performance of Rent .
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In rural Montana in the early 1900s, two brothers (Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer) take different paths to try and live up to their minister father's (Tom Skerritt) standards.
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This film depicts the heartbreaking grief one woman (Vanessa Kirby) is left with after a homebirth ends in devastation. Pieces of a Woman depicts the aftermath and the impact on her relationships with her family and partner, played by Shia LaBeouf.
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Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation follows a young West African boy, Agu, who is forced become a child soldier when civil war breaks out in his country. The film is based on a novel of the same name by Uzodinma Iweala, and stars Idris Elba and Abraham Attah.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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This true story is as heartbreaking as it is terrifying. After a motorcycle accident, Alex's memory is erased. His twin brother Marcus becomes a historian of sorts, telling Alex the story of their lives. The film depicts Marcus grappling with whether his brother is better off not remembering certain details of his past.
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Starring a young Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky, My Girl is the story of an 11-year-old girl growing up in Pennsylvania in 1972 who deals with a tragic loss.
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As the era of Kodachrome film processing comes to an end, a man must reunite with his estranged father on a roadtrip to develop his final rolls of Kodachrome film. Kodachrome stars Jason Sudeikis, Ed Harris, and Elizabeth Olsen.
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Abbie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Sam (Michiel Huisman) have been best friends since childhood, and are now engaged to be married. When Abbie is diagnosed with a terminal cancer, she decides to find a new love for Sam before she dies. Along the way, she makes friends with other cancer patients, including one played by Christopher Walken.
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Amber Appleton (Auli'i Cravalho) is invited to audition for the drama program at Carnegie Mellon University, but her life is falling apart and she and her mother are temporarily homeless. She tries to navigate all the obstacles in her path—to varying degrees of success.
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Two teens with cystic fibrosis (Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse) fall in love.
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Based on the best-selling novel by Jennifer Niven, this 2020 movie explores how a budding romance between two teenagers is impacted by both of their traumas and mental health.
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Awakenings, based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir of the same name, stars Robin Williams as neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (a fictional version of Dr. Sacks). The movie tells the tale of catatonic patients who had "sleeping sickness," but Dr. Sayer awakens them with an experimental drug.
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Holly Burns (Julia Roberts) desperately tries to help her son Ben (Lucas Hedges) deal with his drug addiction.
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This Colin Firth film is based on the true story of Eric Lomax, a British soldier who was a prisoner of war during World War II and forced to help build the Thai–Burma Railway for the Japanese military. Thirty years later, still struggling with the trauma of his capture, Lomax returns to Thailand to confront one of his captors.
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In Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks stars in the titular role (in a performance that won him an Oscar). Forrest is a well-meaning man who stumbles into several of the biggest historical events of the 20th century and remains in love with his childhood friend Jenny (Robin Curran).
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Set during World War II, The Zookeeper's Wife follows Warsaw Zoo caretakers who attempt to save Jews from the Nazis.
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Two terminally ill men (Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) break out of a hospital to complete a bucket list before they die.
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Attorney Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) is put in charge of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. A heartbreaking tale of grief and love, it's based on the true story of the fund, as told in Feinberg's memoir What Is Life Worth?
The Fundamentals of Caring
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A comedy starring Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, and Selena Gomez, The Fundamentals of Caring features Ben (Rudd) who takes a job as a caregiver for an 18-year-old (Roberts) with muscular dystrophy. The two set out on a road trip—and meet unexpected people on the way. While it's meant to be a comedy, there are some tearjerker moments throughout.
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This coming-of-age film tells the tale of four boys who find the dead body of a missing boy while on a hike. The story ends with the line: "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" A moving story of friendship.
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Tim Burton's Big Fish is about a son (Billy Crudup) who tries to understand the truth about the life of his dying father (played by Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney.)
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AnnaSophia Robb stars as surfer Bethany Hamilton, who loses her left arm in a shark attack. An inspiring movie that will make you cry tears of happiness.
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Netflix describes this film as an intimate, emotional hidden gem, and we are inclined to agree. Blue Jay follows two former high-school sweethearts (Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson) as they unexpectedly reunite in their California hometown.
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Based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was the last movie actor Chadwick Boseman made before his death. That fact alone is enough of a tearjerker—but the story, of a recording session in 1927 Chicago, is also heartbreakingly tragic.
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The 1994 version of Little Women is on Netflix, and the Louisa May Alcott story is always guaranteed to provoke tears (especially that Beth scene).
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Classics are classics for a reason. Through different adaptations and iterations, the Les Mis storyline has been bringing people to tears since its inception. Set in France in 1832, this musical illustrates the lives of those living in a time of poverty and rebellion. The 2012 film boasts an all-star cast of Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, and Russell Crowe.
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Abbi Jacobson and Dave Franco play siblings in this dark film, the bulk of the plot transpires over the course of one night. Jacobson's character drives her little brother (Franco) to a detox center in hopes he can survive his heroin addiction. Meanwhile, Franco's onscreen two-year-old daughter, to be cared for by Jacobson, is in the backseat.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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Believe it or not, this one might garner happy tears. It's based on the true story of on 13-year-old boy with a knack for science who sets out to end the famine afflicting his Malawi village. It's a redemptive, hopeful tale
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With a breakup, struggling career, unsupportive father, and a sick mother, Other People pretty much covers all the bases. Molly Shannon gives a compelling performance as a dying woman whose son moves back home to help look after her.
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Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale play parents to a teenage son who goes missing under suspicious circumstances pointing to police involvement. All too relevant in modern America, this movie explores race relations and police brutality from the perspective of two terrified individuals who try to set aside their differences for the sake of finding their son.
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Jenny, a music journalist who's only days away from moving across the country for a job at Rolling Stone, gets surprise-dumped by her long-term boyfriend, prompting a weekend of adventure, healing, and a lot of tears.
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Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story doesn't rely on intense dramatics or divorce cliches to bring tears to your eyes; it's his ability to tell the story of love and loss in real terms that makes this movie so powerful.
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After her own daughter goes missing, a woman takes investigations into her own hands, leading police to unsolved cases of murdered sex workers.
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This Alfonso Cuarón film details the life of an indigenous woman who works as a live-in maid for a middle-class family over the course of a year, through domestic and political unrest.
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When two soldiers return home from World War II, they form a bond over their wartime experiences that supersedes the bred prejudice in their small town in Mississippi. But when their friendship contrasts with the strict segregation laws they are hit with the stark reality of the Jim Crow south.
The Lighthouse of the Orcas
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The Spanish film shows the boundless limits of a mother's love when a desperate mother travels to Argentina with her autistic son to see a pod of orcas —the only thing he's expressed emotion towards.
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A young woman is struggling to deal with her anorexia until she is transferred to a group home where an unconventional doctor challenges her to overcome her disease by facing the true force within herself.
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Based on the Jack London novel, White Fang follows a curious wolf dog who encounters three very different masters throughout his lifetime.
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