Movies About Grief and Loss
Kinora's catalogue lists 160 films about grief and loss, spanning 1922–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 2017
A Fantastic Woman
Urbandir. Sebastián Lelio - 1995
A Little Princess
Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1966
A Man and a Woman
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Claude Lelouch - 2022
A Man Called Otto
Suburbandir. Marc Forster - 2015
A Man Called Ove
Suburbandir. Hannes Holm - 2018
A Quiet Place
Rural · Wildernessdir. John Krasinski - 1992
A River Runs Through It
Ruraldir. Robert Redford - 2002
About Schmidt
Suburban · Ruraldir. Alexander Payne - 1974
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1999
All About My Mother
Urbandir. Pedro Almodóvar - 2012
Amour
Urbandir. Michael Haneke - 2023
Anatomy of a Fall
Mountain · Ruraldir. Justine Triet - 2018
Annihilation
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Alex Garland - 2002
Antwone Fisher
Urbandir. Denzel Washington - 1956
Aparajito
Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2016
Arrival
Ruraldir. Denis Villeneuve - 2019
Atlantics
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Mati Diop - 1966
Au Hasard Balthazar
Ruraldir. Robert Bresson - 1942
Bambi
Wildernessdir. David Hand - 2019
Beanpole
Urbandir. Kantemir Balagov - 2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Benh Zeitlin - 2005
Brokeback Mountain
Rural · Mountaindir. Ang Lee - 2016
Captain Fantastic
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Matt Ross - 2008
Changeling
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 2022
Close
Ruraldir. Lukas Dhont - 1980
Coal Miner's Daughter
Ruraldir. Michael Apted - 1997
Contact
Desert · Off Worlddir. Robert Zemeckis - 1976
Cria!
Urbandir. Carlos Saura - 1972
Cries and Whispers
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 2000
Dancer in the Dark
Rural · Suburbandir. Lars von Trier - 2008
Departures
Ruraldir. Yojiro Takita - 1973
Don't Look Now
Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg - 2021
Drive My Car
Urbandir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi - 2005
Elizabethtown
Ruraldir. Cameron Crowe - 1994
Exotica
Urbandir. Atom Egoyan - 1997
Fireworks
Coastal Seadir. Takeshi Kitano - 2018
First Man
Suburban · Off Worlddir. Damien Chazelle - 1996
Fly Away Home
Ruraldir. Carroll Ballard - 1952
Forbidden Games
Ruraldir. René Clément - 1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ruraldir. Jon Avnet - 2004
Garden State
Suburbandir. Zach Braff - 1990
Ghost
Urbandir. Jerry Zucker - 1988
Grave of the Fireflies
Urbandir. Isao Takahata - 2013
Gravity
Off Worlddir. Alfonso Cuarón - 2022
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Mark Gustafson - 2018
Hereditary
Suburbandir. Ari Aster - 2017
Hostiles
Wildernessdir. Scott Cooper - 2007
I Am Legend
Urbandir. Francis Lawrence - 2001
In the Bedroom
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Todd Field - 2016
In This Corner of the World
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sunao Katabuchi - 2010
Inception
Urbandir. Christopher Nolan - 2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
Urbandir. Joel Coen - 2015
Inside Out
Urbandir. Pete Docter - 1994
Interview with the Vampire
Urbandir. Neil Jordan - 1990
Jacob's Ladder
Urban · Wildernessdir. Adrian Lyne - 2014
John Wick
Urbandir. Chad Stahelski - 2012
Kahaani
Urbandir. Sujoy Ghosh - 2016
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rural · Mountaindir. Travis Knight - 1954
La Strada
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini - 2021
Lamb
Rural · Mountaindir. Valdimar Jóhannsson - 2024
Late Night with the Devil
Urbandir. Cameron Cairnes - 1994
Legends of the Fall
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Edward Zwick - 1987
Lethal Weapon
Urbandir. Richard Donner - 2012
Life of Pi
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ang Lee - 2006
Little Miss Sunshine
Suburban · Desertdir. Jonathan Dayton - 1949
Little Women
Ruraldir. Mervyn LeRoy - 1995
Love Letter
Urbandir. Shunji Iwai - 1970
Love Story
Urbandir. Arthur Hiller - 2017
Loveless
Urbandir. Andrey Zvyagintsev - 2022
M3GAN
Suburban · Urbandir. Gerard Johnstone - 1979
Mad Max
Ruraldir. George Miller - 1981
Mad Max 2
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 2016
Manchester by the Sea
Coastal Sea · Suburbandir. Kenneth Lonergan - 2016
Maudie
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh - 2019
Midsommar
Ruraldir. Ari Aster - 2011
Monsieur Lazhar
Urbandir. Philippe Falardeau - 2006
Monster House
Suburbandir. Gil Kenan - 2001
Monster's Ball
Rural · Suburbandir. Marc Forster - 1991
My Girl
Suburbandir. Howard Zieff - 1985
My Life as a Dog
Ruraldir. Lasse Hallström - 2003
Mystic River
Urbandir. Clint Eastwood - 2021
Nomadland
Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao - 1922
Nosferatu
Mountain · Ruraldir. F. W. Murnau - 1957
Old Yeller
Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Stevenson - 1994
Once Were Warriors
Urbandir. Lee Tamahori - 1980
Ordinary People
Suburbandir. Robert Redford - 1955
Pather Panchali
Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 1989
Pet Sematary
Rural · Wildernessdir. Mary Lambert - 2021
Petite Maman
Rural · Wildernessdir. Céline Sciamma - 2020
Pieces of a Woman
Urbandir. Kornél Mundruczó - 2021
Pig
Wilderness · Urbandir. Michael Sarnoski - 1982
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Urbandir. Alan Parker - 2013
Prisoners
Suburbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 2020
Promising Young Woman
Suburbandir. Emerald Fennell - 2020
Riders of Justice
dir. Anders Thomas Jensen - 1982
Rocky III
Urbandir. Sylvester Stallone - 1985
Rocky IV
Urban · Mountaindir. Sylvester Stallone - 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi - 1996
Scream
Suburbandir. Wes Craven - 2018
Searching
Suburbandir. Aneesh Chaganty - 1993
Short Cuts
Urban · Suburbandir. Robert Altman - 2010
Shutter Island
Islanddir. Martin Scorsese - 2002
Signs
Ruraldir. M. Night Shyamalan - 1993
Sleepless in Seattle
Urbandir. Nora Ephron - 1995
Smoke
Urbandir. Wayne Wang - 1972
Solaris
Off Worlddir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 2015
Son of Saul
Undergrounddir. László Nemes - 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Urbandir. Bob Persichetti - 1986
Stand by Me
Ruraldir. Rob Reiner - 1989
Steel Magnolias
Ruraldir. Herbert Ross - 2006
Still Life
Urbandir. Jia Zhangke - 2008
Still Walking
dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 2011
Super 8
Suburban · Undergrounddir. J.J. Abrams - 2002
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Urbandir. Park Chan-wook - 1988
The Accidental Tourist
Urbandir. Lawrence Kasdan - 2014
The Babadook
Urban · Suburbandir. Jennifer Kent - 1983
The Big Chill
Ruraldir. Lawrence Kasdan - 2023
The Boy and the Heron
Rural · Undergrounddir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1980
The Changeling
Urbandir. Peter Medak - 2005
The Constant Gardener
Urban · Wildernessdir. Fernando Meirelles - 1957
The Cranes Are Flying
Urbandir. Mikhail Kalatozov - 2023
The Creator
Urban · Rural · Off Worlddir. Gareth Edwards - 1994
The Crow
Urbandir. Alex Proyas - 1995
The Cure
Suburban · Ruraldir. Peter Horton - 2011
The Descendants
Island · Coastal Seadir. Alexander Payne - 2005
The Descent
Underground · Mountaindir. Neil Marshall - 2001
The Devil's Backbone
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 2016
The Edge of Seventeen
Suburbandir. Kelly Fremon Craig - 2020
The Father
Urbandir. Florian Zeller - 2023
The Holdovers
Rural · Urbandir. Alexander Payne - 1998
The Horse Whisperer
Rural · Mountaindir. Robert Redford - 1998
The Idiots
Suburbandir. Lars von Trier - 1988
The Land Before Time
Wilderness · Desert · Mountaindir. Don Bluth - 1991
The Man in the Moon
Ruraldir. Robert Mulligan - 1975
The Old Gun
Rural · Urbandir. Robert Enrico - 2007
The Orphanage
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. J. A. Bayona - 2001
The Others
Rural · Islanddir. Alejandro Amenábar - 2015
The Revenant
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 2009
The Road
Wilderness · Rural · Coastal Seadir. John Hillcoat - 2016
The Salesman
Urbandir. Asghar Farhadi - 1993
The Secret Garden
Ruraldir. Agnieszka Holland - 1999
The Sixth Sense
Urbandir. M. Night Shyamalan - 2003
The Station Agent
Ruraldir. Tom McCarthy - 1997
The Sweet Hereafter
Rural · Mountaindir. Atom Egoyan - 2011
The Tree of Life
Suburban · Off Worlddir. Terrence Malick - 2022
The Whale
Suburbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 1959
The World of Apu
Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Ruraldir. Martin McDonagh - 1993
Three Colors: Blue
Urbandir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1994
To Live
Ruraldir. Zhang Yimou - 1973
Turkish Delight
Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven - 1953
Ugetsu
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi - 2009
Up
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Pete Docter - 2006
Volver
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar - 2006
We Are Marshall
Urbandir. McG - 1993
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Ruraldir. Lasse Hallström - 1990
White Palace
Urbandir. Luis Mandoki - 1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
dir. Mike Nichols - 2018
Widows
Urbandir. Steve McQueen - 2017
Wind River
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Taylor Sheridan
Frequently asked
How many movies are about grief and loss?
Kinora's catalogue lists 160 films about grief and loss, spanning 1922–2024.
What are some movies about grief and loss?
Films about grief and loss in our catalogue include A Fantastic Woman (2017), A Little Princess (1995), A Man and a Woman (1966), A Man Called Otto (2022), and A Man Called Ove (2015).
What is the oldest movie about grief and loss?
Nosferatu (1922) is the earliest film about grief and loss in our catalogue; the most recent is Late Night with the Devil (2024).