Movies and TvShows featuring "tear-jerker" theme.

Glitter is a story of a young singer named Billie Frank who rises to stardom in the music industry but faces challenges along the way, including a troublesome relationship and the murder of her lover. Despite the obstacles, Billie finds success and love on her journey.

Brian's Song tells the true story of the friendship between Brian Piccolo, a white player, and Gale Sayers, a black player, on the Chicago Bears football team. Their bond strengthens as they face personal challenges and racial tensions in the 1960s. However, their inspiring friendship is tested when Brian is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

In Dangerous, a theater producer falls in love with an actress, putting his engagement in jeopardy. As their love affair intensifies, they both face self-destruction and the consequences of their actions. Can they overcome their selfishness and find redemption?

Captain January is a comedy family musical about a lighthouse-keeper's daughter who lives with her guardian. However, their peaceful lives are disrupted when a government agent arrives, claiming that Captain January is not a suitable guardian for the girl. The film follows their journey in proving the agent wrong and securing their happiness.

After a career-ending injury, Dan Greentree and his wife find themselves at odds over their future. As tensions rise and painful truths surface, their love is tested like never before. But beneath the anger and uncertainty, one thing remains clear—they can’t bear to lose each other.

Set in the backdrop of New York City, the movie explores the journey of a talented composer as he overcomes various obstacles to achieve success in the music industry. It portrays his relationships, musical achievements, and personal challenges.

Little Blond Death is a heart-wrenching drama that follows a father's struggle to cope with the loss of his son. Based on a novel, the story delves into the emotional journey of the protagonist as he navigates through grief and finds solace in unexpected places. From the initial diagnosis of his son's brain tumor to his eventual death, the film explores themes of family, love, and the enduring impact of loss. With powerful performances and poignant moments, Little Blond Death is a tear-jerker that leaves a lasting impression.

Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.

Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

Alex Montoya is a man who has fallen away from the Christian faith. He finds himself in a destructive relationship and in financial debt which causes him to become involved in various con jobs. Jacob, a wise and loving Christian man, offers Alex a better way to live his life in hopes of allowing Alex to change his ways and reconnect with God.

Story about the relationship between 3 generations of one family. A son and a young woman, father and his dead friend's wife, grandfather and his new love interest who looks like his granddaughter. It may seem that all of them already found their real happiness outside of their family. But, is it the true happiness?

In The Seventh Commandment, a man disguises himself as a woman as he gets involved in a web of deceit, violence, and heartbreak. Set in the poverty-stricken 1930s, the film explores themes of infidelity, abuse, and social issues. With its pre-code era elements, this forgotten gem serves as a tear-jerker and a powerful commentary on the dark aspects of human nature.

Tells the autobiographical story of the director, Dylan Reid, testing positive for Huntington's Disease. The film follows Dylan as he discloses his diagnosis to his close friends but omits the information from his new girlfriend, Lizzie.

Following a reversal in the Graham family fortune, a childhood love affair between Gordon Graham and Marjorie Miller is frustrated by the socially ambitious Mrs. Miller.

With her father presumed dead during the German occupation in Athens and with an ailing mother, a poor secretary faces incarceration after a treasonous theft at the office. Only a kind friend can help her; however, is she truly guilty?