Highest-Rated Movies about 'Tragic Death', Sort by Popularity

Foxtrot (2017), Regret to Inform (1999), In the Shadow of the Moon (2006), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Bloody Sunday (2002), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Badlapur (2015), Shadowlands (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Tragic Death movies.

#2. Regret to Inform (1999)

Storyline: At the age of 24, American director Barbara Sonneborn lost her husband in the Vietnam War. Twenty years after his death, Sonneborn sets out to interview other American and Vietnamese women whose spouses died in the conflict. Along the way she meets a Vietnamese woman who was forced into prostitution during the war, an American woman whose husband died of chemical poisoning years after the conflict ended and a woman who worked as a North Vietnamese spy.

Plot Keywords: widow, soldier, filmmaker, vietnam vet, vietnamese woman, moving, dark ...

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#3. In the Shadow of the Moon (2006)

Storyline: In the 1960s, US President John F Kennedy proposed landing a man on the moon before the decade was finished. This film has interviews with most of the surviving astronauts of the Apollo program who were making ready to make that great voyage with an army of experts determined to make the endeavor possible. Through training, tragedy and triumph, we follow the greatest moments of one of Humanity's great achievements.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

Plot Keywords: astronaut, john f. kennedy, interviewee, neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, uplifting, spectacular ...

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#4. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Storyline: Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) makes his way west after the Civil War, determined to live a useful and helpful life. He joins up with a group of settlers who need the protection that a man as tough and experienced as he is can provide. Unfortunately, the past has a way of catching up with you, and Josey is a wanted man.

Plot Keywords: gunslinger, native american, grandchild, grandmother, captain, settler, brooding ...

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#5. Bloody Sunday (2002)

Storyline: Documentary-style drama showing the events that led up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more.

Plot Keywords: activist, major, colonel, innocent man, soldier, protester, tense ...

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#6. House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Storyline: An emotionally broken woman, Kathy, suddenly finds herself homeless after her house is wrongly repossessed and auctioned. Seeking respite from his marriage, Lester, a sympathetic sheriff's deputy comes to the aid of Kathy and becomes intimately involved in her situation. Soon, Behrani, a proud emigrant Iranian and his family move into the house only to find their new lives burdened by harassment from Lester and Kathy as they attempt to reclaim her former home. The once prosperous colonel denies Kathy's pleas for he knows his recent purchase promises a profitable return and a better future for his adolescent son and his wife. But latent consequences lie beneath Behrani's well intentioned plan as Kathy's emotions spiral out of control and her actions spark a tragic chain of events that will leave no resident unscathed in the House of Sand and Fog.

Plot Keywords: addict, immigrant, wife, son, police officer, lawyer, tense ...

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#7. Badlapur (2015)

Storyline: A young man (Raghu) wants revenge from the people who killed his wife and son in a bank robbery.There are two suspects in this case ,one escapes with the money and the other gets caught by the cops and is sentenced 20 years in jail. Fifteen years later he is suffering from cancer and he has only a year to live, so he requests Raghu to forgive his rest of the sentenced and let him get out from the jail. Raghu accepts his apology only on one condition that he names his partner. So after 15 years will Raghu be able to find the other suspect who destroyed his life? Will he punish him and take his 15 years old revenge?—Deepika Mallar

Plot Keywords: mother, son, father, partner, wife, robber, brash ...

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#8. Shadowlands (1993)

Storyline: C.S. Lewis (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is the author of the "Chronicles of Narnia" books. Known as Jack, he teaches at Oxford during the 1950s. An American fan, Joy Gresham (Debra Winger), arrives to meet him for tea in Oxford. It is the beginning of a love affair. Tragically, Joy becomes terminally ill and their lives become complicated.

Plot Keywords: writer, poet, son, professor, wife, tender, endearing ...

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#9. Bright Eyes (1934)

Storyline: When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple she used to work for. A custody battle soon ensues between an aviator who adores the little girl and the couple's crotchety Uncle Ned.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>

Plot Keywords: orphan, maid, pilot, family patriarch, dog, young girl, charming ...

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#11. The Descent (2005)

Storyline: A woman goes on vacation with her friends after her husband and daughter encounter a tragic accident. One year later she goes hiking with her friends and they get trapped in the cave. With a lack of supply, they struggle to survive and they meet strange blood thirsty creatures.

Plot Keywords: widow, daughter, husband, friend, monster, tense, gory ...

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#12. The Buddy Holly Story (1978)

Storyline: The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled, from the days when "Peggy Sue" was "Cindy Lou", a song about his first girlfriend, to the meteoric run of "That'll Be the Day" up the charts, to his marriage, breakup with the Crickets, reunion with the Crickets, and untimely death.—Jason A. Cormier <wildrose@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: performer, band member, wife, rock star, engaging, frenetic, rousing ...

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#13. 11:14 (2003)

Storyline: A few incidents that happen at 11:14 p.m. in the town of Middleton are seen from five different perspectives, each of the players who generally works toward self interest, not caring about the consequence to other people, and in the process exacerbating the situations by his or her actions. Jack, in town to meet someone, is a chronic drinker and driver, he still doing so despite having his license temporarily suspended. Teens Mark, Eddie, and Tim are out for a joyride in Mark's van, they generally causing havoc all in the name of having fun, that is until something goes wrong. Frank, out for a walk with his dog, stumbles across something which makes him jump to a conclusion about his daughter, to whom he is both overprotective and overly trusting. Duffy, who works as a clerk at Lloyd's EZZZ Stop convenience store, goes to the store just as it is closing to ask his friend, the clerk on duty, Buzzy, for a favor, which may be difficult for her to grant based on her own needs, and Cheri ...

Plot Keywords: teen girl, police officer, drunk, paramedic, mother, daughter, tense ...

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#14. First Reformed (2017)

Storyline: Forty-six year old Reverend Ernst Toller is the pastor at the historic First Reformed Church in upstate New York. It is seen as the "tourist" church or the "souvenir shop" (its historical significance partly it being a stop on the underground railroad before the slaves crossed into Canada) by Abundant Life, which owns the church and which operates a modern self-named five thousand seat church overseen by Reverend Joel Jeffers. First Reformed is celebrating its two hundred fiftieth anniversary this year, for which a major event is planned, modest in size only at First Reformed itself although the dignitaries like the governor and mayor will be at attendance there, while the event will be simulcast at Abundant Life. Most of the speech-making will be done by local industrialist Ed Balq, a major benefactor of Abundant Life and who is the major donor for the necessary upgrades at First Reformed to be able to hold the event there, and for the event itself, while Toller's participation will ...

Plot Keywords: reverend, pregnant woman, husband, wife, suicidal person, activist, bleak ...

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#15. Cowboys Don't Cry (1988)

Storyline: As long as Shane Morgan can remember, he has lived on the road with his mother and father, a rodeo performer. Their dreams of making enough money to settle down happily in one place are shattered when a traffic accident kills his mother, and his father takes so badly to drink that Shane becomes the de facto head of the household. When his grandfather dies, leaving Shane a small ranch in his will, he hopes that his dream might come true at last. But how can a 14-year-old boy turn the run-down place around and keep the banker from seizing it, while attending school and looking after a father who is usually in the liability column?—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>

Plot Keywords: rodeo rider, mother, teenager, grandfather, banker, wife, melodramatic ...

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