Hear My Song (1991), Forrest Gump (1994), A Peck on the Cheek (2002), Angels in the Outfield (1951), My Online Valentine (2019), Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003), Barfi! (2012), Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sentimental movies.
Storyline: Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, classic, song and dance, love, retro ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. However, he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail; he also ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background), they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, christmas, courtroom, crime, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942.
Plot Keywords: nostalgic, comedy, coming of age, family, 1940s, new york, memories ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy womanizer, until a former fling, a young American named Julie, leaves a baby on his doorstep and takes off without a trace. Leaving Mexico for Los Angeles to find the baby's mother, Valentin ends up finding a new home for himself and his newfound daughter, Maggie. An unlikely father figure, Valentin raises Maggie for six years, while also establishing himself as one of Hollywood's top stuntmen to pay the bills, with Maggie acting as his on-set coach. As Valentin raises Maggie, she forces him to grow up too. But their unique and offbeat family is threatened when Maggie's birth mom, Julie, shows up out of the blue after six years after turning her own life around and wants full custody of Maggie, and Valentin realizes he's in danger of losing his daughter - and his best friend.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, father-daughter relationship, heartwarming, humorous, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this romantic drama, Zachary Morgan (Joseph Cotten) and Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers) meet on a train and immediately sense a mutual attraction. However, both Zach and Mary are shouldering significant secrets: he is a traumatized war vet on leave from a military hospital, and she is a convict who has been temporarily released from prison for the Christmas holiday. As the attractive young couple spends time together, their secrets threaten their budding relationship.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, love, world war ii, christmas, holiday, soldier ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ireland, early-1950s. Eilis Lacey is a young woman working in a grocery shop. She has greater ambitions and moves to Brooklyn, New York, leaving her mother and sister, Rose, behind. She is terribly homesick but eventually settles down, finding a job, studying to be a bookkeeper and meeting a nice young Italian man, Tony. Things are going well but then she learns that Rose has died, and decides to return to Ireland, temporarily. She and Tony hastily get married and then she sets off back to Ireland, alone. Life is about to get complicated...
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, historical, immigration, coming of age, family, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her indominatable will to see the good side of even the worst situations and bring it out for the betterment of all.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: optimism, orphan, classic film, disney, family, hope, joy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Duncan (Liam James) is not a popular kid and it doesn't look like the summer is going to offer anything better for him. His mother's boyfriend has invited them to his beach house where Duncan is expected to improve his personality and physical appearance, and meet girls. But his would-be step-sister doesn't want anything to do with him and his shy demeanor makes it difficult for him to meet anybody new. When Duncan wanders into the Water Wizz, the local water park, he meets adult employees who are just having fun. Owen (Sam Rockwell) lets Duncan work with him and their new-found bond will help each other mature and find their place in life. Which for Duncan means standing up to his would-be step-father, having a conversation with the girl next door and being more comfortable with who he is.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, youth, family, comedy, drama, summer, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets. Much later in life, he seeks to repeat his romance by marrying Mathilde - also voluptuous and also a hairdresser - with whom he forms an intimate and consuming relationship in an attempt to blot out the miseries of this world from their lives.—Jasha
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, french film, romantic comedy, marriage, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: children's film, musical, family film, comedy, drama, classic film, black and white film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Beginning - At first they seem very, awkward and of course they have nothing to say to each other, it's been years. They go out to get some coffee and they bond for a while, you start to see their friendship, Amanda seems reserved whilst Jim seems more forward and more talkative. It just happens that they both left their hometown, sort of symbolizes their fear of having to confront their past for years to come. But they both come back and happen to run into each other, just coincidental.—Isabel Aghahowa
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, independent film, reunion, nostalgia, emotion, dialogue-driven ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Despondent over his breakup with Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists and goes to an afterlife peopled by suicides, a high-desert landscape dotted by old tires, burned-out cars, and abandoned sofas. He gets a job in a pizza joint. By chance, Zia learns that Desiree offed herself a few months after he did, and she's looking for him. He sets off with Eugene (an electrocuted Russian rocker) to find her, and they pick up a hitchhiker, Mikal, who's looking for the People in Charge, believing she's there by mistake. They're soon at the camp of Kneller, where casual miracles proliferate. They hear rumors of a miraculous king. Can Zia find Desiree? Then what? Where there's death there's hope.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, romance, comedy, black comedy, surreal, indie film, road movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's turn of the century America when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies when, later on, Andrew is forced to hire Veronica as a saleslady at Oberkugen's music store. What the two don't know is that while they may argue and fight constantly throughout the day, they are actually engaged in an innocent, romantic and completely anonymous relationship by night, through the post office.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, classic, vintage, love, song and dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, nostalgia, teacher, memory, teacher-student relationship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.—Bob Dawson <dawsonb@lfs.loral.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, romance, nostalgia, teen, love, innocence ...
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