When a movie is made from the heart, it can get the most hardened viewer’s eyes to well up. Grab that box of tissues and check out this list of best heartfelt movies and shows to stream now.

Be prepared to have the expectations you form after reading Scrapper’s synopsis shattered: though it is about a 12-year-old dealing…

There are three threads in Daughters that directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton weave beautifully together. The first thread follows…

A Real Pain is a deceptively simple film. There’s not a lot going on on the surface, but Eisenberg’s smart…

After more than 400 separate film adaptations, is there anything new to say about the monster that birthed the sci-fi…

Documentaries about people suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s, or other neurodegenerative diseases will always occupy a bit of an uneasy space—how…

Renowned British director Ken Loach’s signature traits are present in The Old Oak: simple, humanistic, and unapologetically hopeful. But this…

Exhibiting Forgiveness does what it says in the title. The plot moves when a repentant family member returns to the…

Saying that the program I Love Lucy paved the way for television would be an understatement. Lucille Ball inspired a…

In Suncoast, writer-director Laura Chinn takes the personal tragedy of losing her brother to cancer and weaves it into something…

Death often gets a bad rep in movies. When The Grim Reaper comes for the main character, they usually try…

Grandparents are often depicted as innately loving, especially towards their grandchildren, so it’s a delight to see someone like M’s…

Jules’ wacky premise — an extra-terrestrial crash-lands in eccentric widower Milton’s (Ben Kingsley) flowerbeds — is a bit of a…

Stills and synopses of The Summer I Turned Pretty make it seem like typical teenage fluff. It isn’t. Sure, it…

There’s a lot of good to be found in the charming, poignant, and endlessly quotable Marcel the Shell With Shoes…

The Harry Potter movies undoubtedly changed the lives of its young stars forever — but a stuntman whose future the…

Celebrities are often described as being “vulnerable” in documentaries, but it’s never been more fitting in this case. Here, Celine…

Spanning over decades and continents, The Eight Mountains depicts the kind of childhood friendship that remains central to one’s whole…

There are horrors in the world that people have faced, and if they survive, they live with the trauma for…

It’s rare now to hear the phrase “girl power” without being immediately suspicious of its intentions, reduced as it were…

There’s a lot happening in Netflix’s first Hindi survival thriller series Kaala Paani. The main plot follows the discovery of…

Just like with his mentor and contemporary, Fred Rogers, there are no dark secrets to Ernest Coombs’ earnest belief in…

Let Go follows the same structure as many modern family dramas. You can practically tell how it ends five minutes…

2023 was a great year for animation with films like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Nimona, and The Boy and the…

This slow-burning drama is set in an Indigenous reservation in South Dakota, where Johnny is a teenager who dreams of…

It may seem like it’s targeted at a specific demographic, but Spoiler Alert is actually a universal tale about love,…

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei directs his attention towards the ongoing refugee crisis, the biggest displacement of people since World War…

The Father is a compelling inner look at the ways dementia distorts memories. By occupying the unstable headspace of 80-year-old…
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