Highest-Rated Movies about 'Emotional', Sort by Popularity

Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017), Sister (2012), Amanda (2018), Love Letter (1995), Sound and Fury (2000), Up the Yangtze (2007), Amy (2015), Wild Strawberries (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Emotional movies.

#4. Love Letter (1995)

Storyline: Despite the years that have passed, Hiroko Watanabe (Miho Nakayama) is still grieving the death of her fiancé, who died unexpectedly while climbing a mountain. When Hiroko discovers her deceased lover's childhood address, she impulsively writes to him, and is shocked to receive a letter in reply. However, the note's author is Itsuki Fujii (also Nakayama), a young woman who shares the same name as Hiroko's late boyfriend. As the two women exchange letters, they begin an unusual relationship.

Plot Keywords: young woman, fiancé, stranger, emotional, touching, japan, mountain ...

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#5. Sound and Fury (2000)

Storyline: Cousins Heather and Peter Artinian -- ages 6 and almost 2, respectively -- are deaf. Their condition could be changed by a cochlear implant, a device that stimulates hearing. The benefits are obvious, but this documentary focuses on why the children's families face a tough decision. There are concerns about how the device will change the recipient's relationship with deaf culture and whether there can ever be a true connection between those who hear sounds and those who hear only silence.

Plot Keywords: child, doctor, family member, cousin, deaf child, emotional, gripping ...

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#6. Up the Yangtze (2007)

Storyline: This documentary examine China's rapidly changing economy by focusing on the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. For the government, the dam stands as a symbol of progress; but it displaces hundreds of families during its creation. Following local teenagers Chen Bo Yu and Yu Shi, who work on one of the Western cruise lines that sails up the Yangtze near the dam, the film details the friction in Chinese society as its citizens struggle with the realities of its new consumer capitalism.

Plot Keywords: cruise employee, tourist, mother, father, teenager, intense, emotional ...

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#11. My Father My Lord (2007)

Storyline: The leader of a small ultra-orthodox community in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Abraham Edelman (Assi Dayan) is absolutely inflexible about doctrine. It's a trait that has won him no shortage of respect from his peers, but it's beginning to cause conflict with his son (Ilan Griff). Little Menahem has a growing fascination with the natural world, and simply can't understand why his father must shoo a mother bird from her nest, or insist that dogs have no souls.

Plot Keywords: rabbi, wife, son, student, emotional, intense, sad ...

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#12. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2004)

Storyline: A homeless musician's life is transformed after he discovers a flock of wild South American parrots living in San Francisco. How they got there is a mystery, but Mark Bittner forms a bond with the exotic birds through his music and his patient, attentive care. Over time he comes to appreciate their individual identities and makes a case for humans to reevaluate their relationship to animals. When he is forced to leave them, he despairs over the birds' fate.

Plot Keywords: musician, homeless person, parrot, neighbor, charming, uplifting, emotional ...

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#13. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (2016)

Storyline: Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" opened in November 1981 to scathing reviews and closed after just 16 performances. Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the musical's score has grown to become one of the composer's most beloved. Archival footage of the rehearsals along with interviews with the cast -- as well as Sondheim himself and director Harold Prince -- tell the tale of this infamous production.

Plot Keywords: actor, actress, musician, director, critic, casting director, brooding ...

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