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93 Best Emotional Movies To Watch

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Find the best emotional movies to watch, from our mood category. Like everything on agoodmovietowatch, these emotional movies are highly-rated by both viewers and critics.

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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

7.2

Emotional

A winning outsider tale set in the Deep South

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This Much I Know to Be True (2022)

8.1

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An ethereal and healing concert film, and a personal journal for Australian musician Nick Cave

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Paris, 13th District (2021)

7.0

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A sensuous drama following the love and sex lives of three young Parisians

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Days of Being Wild (1990)

8.1

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A dreamy rumination on the beauty of unattainable romance

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Asako I & II (2018)

8.0

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A quietly surreal meditation on love and the people it transforms us into

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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

8.5

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An excellent two-hander about sex work and aging

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Summer Hours (2008)

8.0

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An affecting family drama that also asks questions about art, home, and mortality

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Dear Ex (2018)

7.4

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A heart-wrenching tale of love and hate

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Mass (2021)

8.5

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A microscopic and unrelenting look at grief and healing

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Children of Heaven (1997)

8.8

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A heartwarming, Oscar-nominated family drama set in 1990s Iran

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A Silent Voice (2016)

8.7

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A coming-of-age movie that circles around friendship and the atonement of a boy

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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

8.9

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Three separate stories intertwined with themes of love and fate

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