Netflix Movies and Categories Finder: Tearjerkers
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The Shawshank Redemption
Framed for murder, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison and gradually forms a close bond with older inmate Red.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:22:33
Netflix ID: 70005379
Schindler's List
Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:15:04
Netflix ID: 60036359
Hole in the Wall
Diagnosed with colon cancer, a free-spirited man embarks on an illuminating road trip with his son through South Africa.
Released: 2020-07-10
Runtime: 01:44:04
Netflix ID: 81287882
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:22:28
Netflix ID: 60000724
Life Is Beautiful
A Jewish waiter, his wife and their son are sent to a concentration camp, where the waiter tries to protect his son's innocence by playing a game.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:17
Netflix ID: 1192333
Saving Private Ryan
Eight U.S. Army Rangers penetrate German-held territory during World War II to find and bring home a soldier whose three brothers have been killed.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:49:44
Netflix ID: 21878564
The Green Mile
When a prison guard discovers that a death row inmate possesses mysterious powers, he tries desperately to prevent the condemned man's execution.
Released: 2016-10-07
Runtime: 03:08:41
Netflix ID: 60000417
The Pianist
Famed Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman struggles to survive the onslaught of Nazi tyranny during World War II in this drama based on his memoirs.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:28:58
Netflix ID: 60025061
Cinema Paradiso
When a Sicilian boy is mesmerized by the movies at his local theater, he befriends a projectionist who tells him to leave home and pursue his dreams.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:04:10
Netflix ID: 60022965
Qismat
A young villager moves to Chandigarh and falls for his bubbly neighbor, but their love story is affected by several heartbreaking twists of fate.
Released: 2019-12-01
Runtime: 02:17:07
Netflix ID: 81217747
Your Name
A bored girl in the countryside starts sporadically waking up in the body of a city boy who's living the exciting life she'd always dreamed of.
Released: 2017-12-06
Runtime: 01:46:34
Netflix ID: 80161371
Good Will Hunting
When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:06:35
Netflix ID: 17405997
Braveheart
Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a local English lord's soldiers, which leads to an epic revolt.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:57:38
Netflix ID: 60000540
Warrior
Set in the world of mixed martial arts combat, this gritty drama follows two brothers at war with each other, both with their eyes on the same prize.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:19:52
Netflix ID: 70141653
Swades: We, the People
An Americanized NASA scientist returns to his native India on a business trip and searches for the nanny who helped raise him.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:15:18
Netflix ID: 70019491
A Beautiful Mind
This Oscar-winning drama charts the life and work of famed economist John Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant man plagued by the anguish of mental illness.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 02:15:40
Netflix ID: 60021793
A Silent Voice
A former class bully reaches out to the deaf girl he'd tormented in grade school. He feels unworthy of redemption but tries to make things right.
Released: 2018-03-01
Runtime: 02:09:32
Netflix ID: 80223226
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
When his master dies, a loyal pooch named Hachiko keeps a vigil for more than a decade at the train station where he once greeted his owner every day.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:32:58
Netflix ID: 70118677
Hotel Rwanda
Amid the holocaust of tribal fighting in Rwanda, one ordinary hotel manager musters the courage to save more than 1,000 refugees.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:01:50
Netflix ID: 70019224
Million Dollar Baby
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:12:27
Netflix ID: 70018292
12 Years a Slave
A freeborn black man is abducted from New York and sold into slavery in this historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:14:08
Netflix ID: 70284282
Wolf Children
A college student has children with a werewolf who dies soon after, leaving the mother to raise her unusual offspring in both society and the wild.
Released: 2016-09-01
Runtime: 01:57:01
Netflix ID: 80117293
Big Fish
A reporter attempts to learn more about his dying father by finding the truth behind a lifetime of his tall tales and legends of epic proportions.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:05:09
Netflix ID: 60031268
The Pursuit of Happyness
When Chris and his son are evicted, they face trying times as a desperate Chris accepts an unpaid internship at a stock brokerage firm.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:25
Netflix ID: 70044605
Rain Man
A fast-talking yuppie is forced to slow down when he meets the brother he never knew he had, an unusually gifted autistic savant named Raymond.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:13:52
Netflix ID: 60029369
Dallas Buyers Club
Refusing to accept a death sentence from his doctor after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, Ron Woodroof smuggles medications from abroad.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:54
Netflix ID: 70275751
Kal Ho Naa Ho
In this topnotch Bollywood import, a trio of friends on a shared journey of self-discovery learn to celebrate life -- no matter what it may bring.
Released: 2016-01-22
Runtime: 03:07:28
Netflix ID: 60036735
Lion
An Indian man who was separated from his mother at age 5 and adopted by an Australian couple returns home, determined to find his birth family.
Released: 2017-05-30
Runtime: 01:58:23
Netflix ID: 80108447
Wonder
After being homeschooled all his life, a boy with facial differences attends a traditional school, where he must find friends among his bullies.
Released: 2018-09-26
Runtime: 01:53:09
Netflix ID: 80147986
Dances with Wolves
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide -- and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's sent to the remote Western frontier.
Released: 2019-02-01
Runtime: 03:01:06
Netflix ID: 60028940
The Wrestler
A retired professional wrestler returns to the ring to work his way up the circuit for one last shot at defeating his longtime rival.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:24
Netflix ID: 70095145
Children of Men
In a grim future in which humans can no longer reproduce, one woman mysteriously becomes pregnant, and a conflicted bureaucrat fights to protect her.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:44:39
Netflix ID: 70044903
Awakenings
When a neurologist tests an experimental drug on a catatonic patient, he must come to grips with life as an adult as he awakens from a 30-year coma.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:00:41
Netflix ID: 268371
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
When his family moves from Berlin to Poland, a young boy befriends a boy who lives on the other side of the fence, unaware he's a Jewish prisoner.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:33
Netflix ID: 70101375
The Notebook
Two young lovers are torn apart by war and class differences in the 1940s in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's best-selling novel.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:48
Netflix ID: 60036227
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
In a backwater Iowa town, young Gilbert is torn between taking care of his troubled family and a girl who shows him new possibilities for his life.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:40
Netflix ID: 60011552
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Fincher directs this Oscar-nominated tale of Benjamin Button, a man who was born old and wrinkled but grows younger as the years go by.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:46:13
Netflix ID: 70100380
Glory
This stirring drama follows the first African-Americans to serve in combat during the Civil War -- and shows how they helped turn the tide of the war.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:12
Netflix ID: 547335
Titanic
This cinematic spectacle -- winner of 11 Oscars -- follows society girl Rose and penniless artist Jack as they fall in love just as tragedy strikes.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:14:51
Netflix ID: 1181461
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ted is a career-driven yuppie whose wife leaves him and their 6-year-old son. As he adjusts to life as a full-time dad, she comes to reclaim the boy.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 01:44:54
Netflix ID: 60010559
Cast Away
After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland's plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean, he finds himself fighting to survive on a deserted island.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 02:24:00
Netflix ID: 60020683
The Wind Rises
Animator Hayao Miyazaki spins a decades-spanning tale inspired by the life of Jirô Horikoshi, designer of the World War II fighter plane the Zero.
Released: 2016-03-01
Runtime: 02:01:31
Netflix ID: 70293674
The Color Purple
A Southern woman's correspondence with her sister in Africa and friendship with a singer help her escape an abusive husband and a hardscrabble life.
Released: 2016-06-01
Runtime: 02:33:43
Netflix ID: 60026621
In This Corner of the World
Suzu marries into a family living outside of Hiroshima and quickly settles into her new life, until World War II challenges her ability to survive.
Released: 2018-03-15
Runtime: 02:09:19
Netflix ID: 80192244
Manchester by the Sea
A guilt-ridden loner grapples with being named legal guardian of his 16-year-old nephew and returning to his hometown, which holds haunting memories.
Released: 2018-10-01
Runtime: 02:16:59
Netflix ID: 80097527
October Sky
Inspired by Soviet satellite Sputnik streaking across the heavens in 1957, a teenager builds a rocket to compete for a science fair scholarship.
Released: 2020-03-01
Runtime: 01:47:19
Netflix ID: 18957852
Boyz n the Hood
A South Central Los Angeles high schooler struggles to please his father and to stay straight in a community polluted by drugs, violence and racism.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:52:12
Netflix ID: 328438
Finding Neverland
This Oscar-winning film reveals how imaginative author J.M. Barrie envisioned a world that was at once so wondrous and perilous.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:41:12
Netflix ID: 70001999
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
When high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, he perseveres in leading his team despite becoming disabled.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:33:27
Netflix ID: 70206819
The Fault in Our Stars
Two teens meet at a cancer support group, and together they face the challenge of building a relationship under the shadow of terminal illness.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:05:54
Netflix ID: 70298734
I Am Sam
A grown man with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old raises his baby alone until child protective services deems him an unfit guardian.
Released: 2015-09-01
Runtime: 02:12:16
Netflix ID: 60021799
Billy Elliot
When a boy trades boxing school for ballet lessons, he may take his newfound talent all the way to the top - and win over his disapproving father.
Released: 2017-11-17
Runtime: 01:50:14
Netflix ID: 60003378
Fried Green Tomatoes
Flashbacks reveal the remarkable story of soul mates Idgie and Ruth, whose antics cause an uproar in their rural Southern town in the 1920s.
Released: 2018-04-10
Runtime: 02:10:13
Netflix ID: 525209
The Official Story
As the military junta ruling Argentina fails, a history teacher begins to suspect that her worst fears about her country and her husband are true.
Released: 2018-09-01
Runtime: 01:55:20
Netflix ID: 80245563
A Star Is Born
When an aspiring singer develops a passionate relationship with a seasoned musician, her career begins to soar as his vices trigger a downward spiral.
Released: 2019-08-03
Runtime: 02:15:42
Netflix ID: 80221908
Rocks
Following her mother's abrupt departure, a dynamic and determined teen goes to extraordinary lengths to protect and provide for her younger brother.
Released: 2020-10-01
Runtime: 01:33:11
Netflix ID: 81040791
Seven Pounds
Weighed down by a dark secret, IRS agent Ben Thomas tries to improve the lives of seven strangers in need of a second chance.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:03:13
Netflix ID: 70104313
Legends of the Fall
The Ludlow clan -- father William and brothers Alfred, Tristan and Sam -- splinters when Sam leaves to fight in World War I against his dad's wishes.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:12:52
Netflix ID: 693960
The Impossible
Tracking one family's harrowing experiences, this gripping drama depicts the chaos generated by the massive 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:53:40
Netflix ID: 70251895
Les Miserables
The musical version of Victor Hugo's epic tale of love and sacrifice, first produced for the stage in 1985, now receives the big-screen treatment.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:37:47
Netflix ID: 70244167
50/50
An otherwise healthy twentysomething has a comically early midlife crisis when he gets slapped with a cancer diagnosis and a 50-50 chance of survival.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:54
Netflix ID: 70202141
Philomena
An aging Irishwoman teams with a floundering journalist to find the son she was forced to give up for adoption 50 years ago.
Released: 2015-09-22
Runtime: 01:38:03
Netflix ID: 70293789
The Bridges of Madison County
When a vaguely discontented Iowa housewife meets a National Geographic shutterbug, what begins as a guarded friendship erupts into an intense affair.
Released: 2018-02-26
Runtime: 02:14:34
Netflix ID: 70150462
Maudie
Despite severe arthritis and a challenging marriage, an amateur painter defies the odds to become a beloved folk artist in this unconventional biopic.
Released: 2019-02-03
Runtime: 01:56:09
Netflix ID: 80156208
Instructions Not Included
Unable to locate the elusive mother of a baby girl left on his doorstep, an Acapulco playboy unexpectedly begins to develop feelings for the tot.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:01:56
Netflix ID: 70284281
United 93
Re-creating the harrowing events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 in real time, Paul Greengrass presents the devastating drama of Sept. 11, 2001.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:46:41
Netflix ID: 70048592
Rudy
Scrawny Rudy dreams of playing football at Notre Dame. Undaunted, Rudy works assisting the groundskeeper and joins the school's practice squad.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:53:57
Netflix ID: 60002332
Fruitvale Station
This dramatic rendering of a real-life tragedy recounts the final hours of Oscar Grant, shot by San Francisco transit police on New Year's Day, 2009.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:25:00
Netflix ID: 70267488
My Life Without Me
When a young mother of two stuck in a dead-end job learns she's dying, she makes a list of important things she wants to accomplish in her short life.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:46:00
Netflix ID: 60031223
No Game No Life: Zero
In ancient Disboard, a young warrior befriends an ex machina and embarks on a harrowing mission to stop a global war and save humanity from extinction.
Released: 2019-12-06
Runtime: 01:46:19
Netflix ID: 81068687
The Sky Is Pink
After succumbing to her terminal illness, a teenager posthumously narrates her parents’ tenacious relationship in this drama based on a true story.
Released: 2019-12-11
Runtime: 02:23:20
Netflix ID: 81037373
A Walk to Remember
When bad boy Landon is cast opposite the campus bookworm in a school play, romance blooms -- but ultimately, tragedy tears them apart.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:41:59
Netflix ID: 60022589
My Sister's Keeper
A former defense attorney finds herself back in court when she and her husband are sued for medical emancipation by their 11-year-old daughter.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:17
Netflix ID: 70113003
Babel
When an American couple vacationing in Morocco falls victim to a random act of violence, a series of events unfolds across four countries.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:23:29
Netflix ID: 70045866
The Land Before Time
When an earth-shattering quake kills both of his parents, a young brontosaurus named Littlefoot teams up with other orphaned dinosaurs to survive.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:08:41
Netflix ID: 683101
The Terminal
After a coup d'etat explodes in his homeland, Viktor Navorski is stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:08:43
Netflix ID: 60034584
The Bucket List
Two terminally ill men bust out of the cancer ward with a plan to experience life to the fullest before they kick the bucket.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:37:04
Netflix ID: 70077542
Cafe de Flore
Set decades apart in Paris and in Montreal, two dramatic narratives share subtle yet profound links, weaving together in a meditation on human love.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:00:34
Netflix ID: 70209141
Guzaarish
After an onstage disaster leaves an illusionist paralyzed, he channels his magic into a hit radio show. Years later, he fights for the right to die.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:06:12
Netflix ID: 70139074
Adam: His Song Continues
After their child was abducted and murdered, John and Reve Walsh fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:35:37
Netflix ID: 70206816
Triumph of the Heart
This drama tells the tale of Ricky Bell, a pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who died of a muscle disease in the prime of his career.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:32:46
Netflix ID: 70206824
The Ryan White Story
After contracting HIV from a tainted blood treatment, teenaged hemophiliac Ryan White is forced to fight for his right to attend public school.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:16
Netflix ID: 70206820
Me Before You
Vivacious, unassuming Lou faces pointed questions of the heart when she takes a job caring for a wealthy, cynical bachelor paralyzed in an accident.
Released: 2017-03-13
Runtime: 01:50:10
Netflix ID: 80043744
Jerry Maguire
Sports agent Jerry Maguire experiences a crisis of conscience and leaves his high-powered job behind, with only one client and a co-worker in tow.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:18:33
Netflix ID: 60022922
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Visciously abused by her parents, Harlem teen Precious has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:47
Netflix ID: 70112456
Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts earned an Oscar in this emotional drama for her portrayal of a twice-divorced mother who sees an injustice and takes on the bad guys.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:11:10
Netflix ID: 60000165
Revolutionary Road
April and Frank's marriage unravels when a plan to change their 'perfect' lives becomes their last hope to escape lives engulfed in emptiness.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:59:05
Netflix ID: 70100383
Jane Eyre
Driven from her post at Thornfield House, young governess Jane Eyre reflects on her youth and the events that led her to misty moors.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:55:10
Netflix ID: 70142825
Steel Magnolias
In this bittersweet drama, five tight-knit women congregate at a beauty parlor in a small Louisiana town to laugh, cry and discuss their lives.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:58:12
Netflix ID: 60001533
Little Women
Four sisters and their mother battle life's vicissitudes in Civil War-era America after their father leaves to join the conflict.
Released: 2017-04-01
Runtime: 01:58:29
Netflix ID: 707114
Lorenzo's Oil
Not satisfied with modern medicine, a married couple researches their son's terminal disease and turns to a controversial remedy for help.
Released: 2018-02-10
Runtime: 02:15:10
Netflix ID: 60010609
Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever
A series of coincidences brings two star-crossed lovers together, but fate pulls them apart until they encounter each other again in Istanbul.
Released: 2018-04-04
Runtime: 02:02:18
Netflix ID: 80227118
The Nightingale
An imprisoned Irish woman teams up with an Indigenous tracker in 19th-century Tasmania to exact revenge on a sadistic British lieutenant and his troops.
Released: 2020-08-01
Runtime: 02:16:18
Netflix ID: 80202703
Meet Joe Black
When the grim reaper comes for a megamogul, he offers a proposition: Host him for a 'vacation' among the living in trade for a few more days of life.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 03:00:14
Netflix ID: 5670418
Out of Africa
A Denmark native shares a marriage of convenience with a womanizing baron. But when they move to Nairobi, she falls for a free-spirited hunter.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:40:54
Netflix ID: 60000019
Tsotsi
After shooting a woman and driving off in her car, a ruthless thug is surprised to discover a crying infant in the back seat.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:34:24
Netflix ID: 70041142
Lee Daniels' The Butler
The life of a White House butler who served under eight presidents unfolds against a backdrop of unparalleled change in American history.
Released: 2015-06-17
Runtime: 02:12:06
Netflix ID: 70266686
Pay It Forward
A young, thoughtful boy responds to a school assignment with a plan to help three people who will, in turn, help three more, and so on.
Released: 2015-06-24
Runtime: 02:03:21
Netflix ID: 60002965
A River Runs Through It
Director Robert Redford's Oscar-winning, nostalgic meditation about the bonds that unite and divide families is set in Montana in the early 1900s.
Released: 2015-07-02
Runtime: 02:03:35
Netflix ID: 911839
The Age of Adaline
When a beautiful 29-year-old woman -- who has lived for more than a century but hasn't aged -- falls in love, the secrets of her past unravel.
Released: 2015-09-08
Runtime: 01:52:43
Netflix ID: 80014426