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146 films tagged grief, showing 50
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2025 · Comedy
Bridget Jones is widowed with two young children, and everyone around her is saying it is time to start dating again. She goes back to work and gets chased by a man in his twenties.
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2025 · Drama
Two weeks before Christmas an elderly woman collapses at home, and her husband and four grown children gather at the hospital and the house. Family arguing, in rooms, for most of it.
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2025 · Thriller
A horse trainer grieving her wife and barely keeping her farm going has a daughter who is an addict, in and out of rehab. One night the daughter turns up in a state that asks far more of her than money.
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2025 · Comedy
A 94-year-old moves to New York after her closest friend dies, wanders into a support group for Holocaust survivors, and starts telling her friend's story as her own. A young student takes an interest.
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2025 · Thriller
A woman drives into northern Minnesota in a snowstorm to scatter her husband's ashes, stops at a cabin for directions, and sees blood on the snow. From there it is her, the couple who live there, and the girl in their basement.
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2025 · Action
An ice-road trucker flies to Nepal to scatter his brother's ashes and ends up on a tour bus that armed men take over halfway along a mountain road. Straightforward action, most of it on the road.
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2025 · Drama
After her father dies suddenly, a woman buys a goshawk and gives herself over to training it, pulling away from everyone else while she does. Mostly her, the bird, and the fields.
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2025 · Drama
Shakespeare's play moved to present-day London, where a rich young man, visited by his father's ghost, drifts out of his family's world into temples and homeless camps. Revenge, grief and a family in trouble.
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2023 · Comedy
Families gather in a tiny desert town in 1955 for a junior stargazing convention, and the week does not go to plan. The whole thing is staged inside a story about a play being written.
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2025 · Drama
In 1950s Taiwan, under martial law, a young woman travels north to collect the remains of a brother executed by the government. Along the way she falls in with a soldier and a rickshaw driver.
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2025 · Drama
Two men meet by chance in a London pub on a cold December night and end up spending the whole of it together, talking. A two-hander across one night, with both of them in a bad way.
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2019 · Action
What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.
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2025 · Drama
Two stretches in the early life of the Galician figure Castelao: 1918, when he left a civil service desk to work as a doctor through the flu pandemic, and 1929, when he and his wife went to Brittany after losing their son.
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2025 · Drama
After a death at sea, a Galician fishing village rehearses a rondalla to compete against the villages nearby, and to get over it. A large cast, and the rehearsals carry the film.
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2025 · Drama
After her father dies, Lati throws herself into music against her Malian mother's wishes and tries to get a foothold in Barcelona's battle rap scene, coached by a former rapper. Music-led and close to her.
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2025 · Drama
A man from Mumbai goes back to the family village for his father's ten-day mourning period, where relatives keep asking why he is not married yet. He spends his days out in the fields with a childhood friend.
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2025 · Drama
After her father dies, a ten-year-old girl and her mother are left with almost nothing, and she takes refuge in the theatre. Short, at 82 minutes, and told from the girl's side.
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2025 · Drama
A horse trainer short of money, and carrying a grief she has not dealt with, keeps a group of wayward teenagers on her ranch. A modern western built around the ranch and the people on it.
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2025 · Drama
A father leaves his baby daughter in the back seat of his car by accident. The film follows what his life is like afterwards.
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2025 · Thriller
A widow goes back to the reef in the Florida Keys where she used to dive with her husband, on the day two cartel divers are down there hunting a lost load of cocaine. Then the sharks arrive.
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2025 · Romance
A teenage girl and her mother are pushed apart by a sudden death in the family, while the girl falls for a boy in her class who wants to make films. A romantic drama running two love stories a generation apart.
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2025 · Thriller
A CIA cryptographer loses his wife to a hostage killing in London, and blackmails his own agency into training him to go after the men who did it. He is not a field agent and it shows.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Animation
A teenage robotics whiz in a city that is half San Francisco and half Tokyo teams up with a soft inflatable healthcare robot his brother built. It is bright and fast, with a real sad streak running under the jokes.
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2025 · Comedy
Two men meet at a support group in Portland for people who have lost a twin, and become inseparable. It is a black comedy, and it stays uncomfortably close to the friendship.
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2025 · Horror
A widowed mother still recovering from the crash that killed her husband finds a woman dressed in black sitting in her yard, saying today is the day. The woman gets closer, and the film never leaves the house.
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2025 · Comedy
After his mother dies, a New York transit mechanic spends her life insurance on a Staten Island restaurant with a kitchen staffed entirely by grandmothers. Warm, slow and based on a real place.
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2025 · Comedy
After her mother dies, a woman learns her inheritance depends on finishing the list of goals she wrote at thirteen, ticked off one by one by the family lawyer. A video from her mother comes with each.
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2025 · Drama
Writing and swimming are a girl's way out of a house where her father abuses her, and she takes both to college in Texas. What follows is years of drinking, a bad marriage and real loss.
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2025 · Comedy
A folk musician takes a suitcase of cash to play a private show on a remote Welsh island, where his host turns out to be the whole audience. Then his old singing partner arrives.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1990s upstate New York, a young plainclothes officer works a sting entrapping gay men in shopping malls, and starts a secret affair with one of the men he was sent to arrest. Tense and close, with most of the pressure inside him.
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2025 · Drama
A father left with two young sons after his wife's sudden death starts to come apart, and his grief turns up in the house as a crow that taunts him from the shadows. It mostly stays indoors.
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2025 · Science fiction
A fishing boat lost at sea thirty years ago sails back into the harbour of a declining Cornish village, and two men who need the money sign on to crew her. Slow and strange, with the village's old loss over all of it.
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2025 · Romance
A tattoo artist still carrying his twin brother's death has never noticed that his brother's old friend, a pre-med student from a wealthy family, has been in love with him for years. It is a romance across a class gap.
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2025 · Drama
An eighteen-year-old orphan travels to Vigo to have her name added to her father's death certificate, and spends five days meeting his family for the first time. Conversations, meals and her mother's old diary.
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2025 · Drama
A widowed father wakes his two young children before dawn, tells them they are going on a road trip, and drives across the country without saying where to. Small and quiet, mostly the three of them in a car.
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2025 · Drama
A depressed music student walks away from a car crash in the German countryside and is taken in by the woman who saw it happen, whose family behaves strangely around her. Quiet, slow, and nearly all in one house.
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2025 · Science fiction
A woman whose daughter was murdered uses a machine to cross into parallel universes and kill the same man again and again, until a teenage runaway attaches herself to the trip. Small, grim science fiction, mostly on the road.
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2026 · Thriller
Months after her partner died on a climb, a woman drives alone into an Australian national park to scatter his ashes, and the local who helps her turns out to be hunting her. Mostly one long chase outdoors.
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2026 · Action
Frank Castle has killed the last of the men behind his family's deaths and now lives alone in a New York block gone to crime, seeing people from his past who are not there. It is grim, violent, and stays in a few streets.
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2026 · Horror
A man who fell apart after losing the woman he loved gets a letter telling him to come back to the town where they lived together. He finds it fogbound and all but empty, and then it turns into something else.
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2026 · Drama
An elderly widow cleaning an aquarium at night keeps company with a captive octopus, and takes in a broke young musician who turns up in town needing work. It moves slowly and stays with the three of them.
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2026 · Romance
Out on parole six years after the crash that killed her boyfriend, Kenna comes home to meet the daughter she gave birth to in prison, and his parents will not let her near. His old best friend is the only one who speaks to her.
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2026 · Horror
A blocked American novelist brings his parents' ashes to the Irish hotel where they honeymooned, and hears about the suite the staff keep locked. Nearly all of it is that hotel and its staff.
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2026 · Comedy
After her sister dies, a young baker in San Francisco keeps leaving voicemails on her number, which has been reassigned to a man in Austin who starts listening. It is a romantic comedy with a lot of grief in it.
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2016 · Drama
A father raising six children off the grid in the forest has to bring them into ordinary America for the first time. Funny and sad in the same scene, and mostly about what the kids make of him.
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2026 · Horror
Two women scrape a living at the edge of a medieval wood, waiting for the husband and son who went off to the Wars of the Roses. When his friend comes back alone with a story about how he died, it starts to come between them.
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2026 · Romance
In the summer of 2006 Coley, seventeen, moves to rural Oregon to live with the father she barely knows, and falls in with a local girl called Sonya. It is a summer of the lake, drink and Sonya's boyfriend.
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2026 · Science fiction
A programmer grieving his wife takes home a companion android and quietly rewrites her code so she can feel more than she was built to. She learns quickly, and starts going out into the world by herself.
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2026 · Drama
The daughter of the man counted as the 58th victim of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre tells the story of a father whose body was never found. It mixes archive footage with acted scenes, all of it animated over the top.
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