Men Don't Leave (1990), Maborosi (1995), The Land Before Time (1988), The Big Chill (1983), Holiday Affair (1949), Crime and Punishment (1983), Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002), Orphans (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mourning movies.
Storyline: After her husband's death, Beth Macauley (Jessica Lange) moves into an inexpensive Baltimore apartment with her two sons, Chris (Chris O'Donnell) and Matt (Charlie Korsmo). When Beth accepts a job at a local grocery store, Chris grows bitter and falls for an older woman (Joan Cusack), while 9-year-old Matt hides his grief behind a new interest in burglary. As the Macauleys adjust to their new life, they learn that sticking together is the only way to overcome their loss.
Plot Keywords: mother, son, nurse, musician, brother, amusing, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, son, widower, daughter, dark, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to work together in order to survive.
Plot Keywords: dinosaur, orphan, killer, friend, mother, charming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A seminal Thirty-Something movie in which a group of old college friends who are now older and experienced come together for the funeral of Alex, who was at one time the brightest and the best of them at college and yet who never managed to find his way. The friends use the occasion to reacquaint themselves with each other, discuss where their lives have led and speculate on what happened to their idealism which had been abundant when they were younger.
Plot Keywords: businessman, journalist, actor, rebel, doctor, veteran, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, really a commercial spy. He unmasks her but lets her go, which gets him fired. They end up on a date, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, but delights her son Timmy, who doesn't want Carl for a step-dad. Standard (if sweet) romantic complications follow.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: clerk, widow, single mother, son, lawyer, homeless person, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: young man, witness, driver, police detective, fiancée, bleak, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long business trip he promises his son that he'll be back in time to watch the moon landing on TV together, but he is killed in a car accident. While Elias' mother and his elder brother deal with the loss in their own way, Elias refuses to accept his father's death. He creates an imaginary world, in which his father is alive. He shares fictitious stories with his friends, he sends letters to his grandmother on behalf of his father and he dreams of places like he did with him. Elias' mother and his godfather, who do everything to bring him back to reality, take him to a summer house. On the night of the moon landing Elias meets his father in his own way and comes to terms with his loss.—Alkistis Zografou
Plot Keywords: salesman, young boy, brother, wife, grandmother, father, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four siblings gathered together for their mother's funeral in Glasgow face individual torments over night during a tumultuous storm that rips the roof off the church.
Plot Keywords: orphan, brother, sister, mother, waitress, bartender, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.—Markku Kuoppamäki
Plot Keywords: actor, director, grandson, actress, agent, nanny, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: widow, major, boyfriend, son, love interest, moving, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day. With a little help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another young woman calling herself Lisa whom, unknown to Matthew, is an actress named Alex and may hold the key to Lisa's disappearance, and discovery.
Plot Keywords: lover, neighbor, roommate, missing girl, fiancée, girlfriend, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man in his early 30s (Keane) struggles with the supposed loss of his daughter from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, while fighting serious battles with schizophrenia. We can never be sure if the loss is real or imaginary; or whether his overt interest in helping young girls is innocent and of a fatherly nature, or is of a darker, scarier motive.—Heidi Levitt
Plot Keywords: mentally impaired person, father, single mother, daughter, bleak, dark, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a strange outgoing woman, who seems to bring him back down to earth. After starting a relationship with the outgoing woman, Macon's wife seems to think that their marriage is still worth a try. Macon is then forced to deal many decisions
Plot Keywords: wife, writer, son, dog trainer, brother, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A whimsical comedy about three women who cry at funerals, professionally.
Plot Keywords: mourner, adulterer, actress, hustler, child, amusing, positive ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie is a portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a portrait of the First Lady as she fights to establish her husband's legacy and the world of "Camelot" that she created and loved so well.
Plot Keywords: john f. kennedy, lyndon baines johnson, president, husband, brooding, dreamy, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!