Movies by Lists - The 50 most tragic movies of all time (50 [50]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 12 Years a SlaveIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. | 2013 | Steve McQueen (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.1 (676K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| AmourGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested | 2012 | Michael Haneke (*) | Drama | 7.9 (97.9K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Average Little Man, An [Un borghese piccolo piccolo]A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands. | 1977 | Mario Monicelli | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (2.7K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Bicycle Thief [Ladri di Biciclette]In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it. | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.3 (158.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| BiutifulA man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms. | 2010 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (89.3K votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Brawl in Cell Block 99A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly. | 2017 | S. Craig Zahler | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (64K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Bridges of Madison County, ThePhotographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s. | 1995 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (78.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Brokeback MountainEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends. | 2005 | Ang Lee (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (344.5K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Capernaum [Capharnaüm]While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect. | 2018 | Nadine Labaki | Drama | 8.4 (82.9K votes) | 126 | 20220315 |
| Color Purple, TheA black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. | 1985 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama | 7.8 (84K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| Dancer in the DarkAn East European girl travels to the United States with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film. | 2000 | Lars von Trier (*) | Crime, Drama, Musical | 8.0 (107.4K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| DogmanA timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood. | 2018 | Matteo Garrone | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (26.8K votes) | 103 | 20220822 |
| DogvilleA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price. | 2003 | Lars von Trier (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.0 (145.4K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| DumboRidiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential. | 1941 | Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.2 (127.9K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Edward ScissorhandsAn artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world. | 1990 | Tim Burton (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.9 (471.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Elephant Man, TheA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication. | 1980 | David Lynch (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (234.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless MindWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories. | 2004 | Michel Gondry | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (966.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Finding NeverlandThe story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan. | 2004 | Marc Forster | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.6 (203.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Grapes of Wrath, TheAn Oklahoma family driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. | 1940 | John Ford (*) | Drama | 8.1 (90.3K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Grave of the FirefliesA young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. | 1988 | Isao Takahata | Animation, Drama, War | 8.5 (260.2K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Green Mile, TheThe lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. | 1999 | Frank Darabont (*) | Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 8.6 (1.2M votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| Hachiko - A Dog's StoryA college professor bonds with an abandoned dog he takes into his home. | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | Biography, Drama, Family | 8.1 (272.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| I Am LegendYears after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. | 2007 | Francis Lawrence | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (727.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Killing of a Sacred Deer, TheSteven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister. | 2017 | Yorgos Lanthimos (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (141.8K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| La StradaA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. | 1954 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.0 (61.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Leaving Las VegasBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. | 1995 | Mike Figgis | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (120.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Life Is BeautifulWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. | 1997 | Roberto Benigni | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 8.6 (666.4K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| LionA five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. | 2016 | Garth Davis | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (228.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Lovely Bones, TheCenters on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. | 2009 | Peter Jackson (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | 6.7 (166.2K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Mamma RomaHaving renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life. Can she protect him from the same snares that wounded her youth? | 1962 | Pier Paolo Pasolini (*) | Drama | 7.8 (9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Marriage StoryNoah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together. | 2019 | Noah Baumbach | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (311.3K votes) | 137 | 20221228 |
| Mary and MaxA tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. | 2009 | Adam Elliot | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family | 8.1 (173K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| MelancholiaTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth. | 2011 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (177.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Million Dollar BabyA determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional. | 2004 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.1 (667.5K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| MommyA widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household. | 2014 | Xavier Dolan | Drama | 8.0 (56.1K votes) | 139 | 20220531 |
| Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria)A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak. | 1957 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.1 (47.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Passion of the Christ, TheDepicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. | 2004 | Mel Gibson (*) | Drama | 7.2 (225K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Paths of GloryAfter refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them. | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, War | 8.4 (190.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Pursuit of Happyness,TheA struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career. | 2006 | Gabriele Muccino | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (486.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Red Shoes, TheA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. | 1948 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama, Music, Romance | 8.1 (33.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Requiem for a DreamThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama | 8.3 (809.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Road, TheIn a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea. | 2009 | John Hillcoat | Adventure, Drama | 7.2 (233.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture. | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini (*) | Drama, Horror | 5.9 (58.1K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Schindlers ListIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. | 1993 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.9 (1.3M votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| Shoeshine [Sciuscià Ragazzi]Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship. | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.0 (7.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Still AliceA linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. | 2014 | Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Drama | 7.5 (131.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Streetcar Named Desire, ADisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. | 1951 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 8.0 (105.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| TitanicA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. | 1997 | James Cameron (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (1.1M votes) | 194 | 20211228 |
| Triplets of Belleville, TheWhen her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him. | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (53.7K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Two Women [La Ciociara]In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war. | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama, War | 7.8 (10.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |