Heart-warming, a list by Riz

7.9

/137445/

77

/4785/

77

/1151/

4.2

/710480/

97

/354/

Audience

92

/1214/

82

/61/

3.5

age 15+

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

73

6.5

/2733/

69

/149/

67

/56/

3.2

/23893/

97

/34/

Audience

88

/220/

74

/5/

2.5

age 14+

A young man, plagued by the music in his head, has to come to terms with an uncertain future while balancing love, family and Brazilian culture in Newark, New Jersey.

75

7.0

/151254/

70

/7432/

68

/1808/

3.4

/323256/

87

/315/

Audience

87

/594/

68

/52/

3.5

age 15+

Creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, Nick Cage must accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous superfan. Things take a wildly unexpected turn when Cage is recruited by a CIA operative and forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones.

85

7.6

/93450/

75

/2492/

76

/1179/

4.2

/757695/

96

/243/

Audience

81

/1382/

95

/46/

4.0

age 14+

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

81

8.0

/251074/

82

/13263/

80

/6377/

3.9

/243006/

84

/270/

Audience

91

/1603/

69

/45/

3.5

age 13+

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

68

7.0

/34582/

72

/1867/

74

/1045/

3.0

/75951/

82

/72/

Audience

90

/1585/

65

/15/

1.5

age 8+

Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher.

79

7.2

/88701/

72

/4168/

69

/1537/

3.6

/122091/

95

/380/

Audience

92

/2617/

80

/50/

3.5

age 10+

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

83

7.5

/116763/

74

/3904/

76

/2103/

4.0

/431503/

92

/390/

Audience

83

/1536/

85

/65/

4.0

age 13+

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

77

7.5

/48538/

80

/3156/

79

/931/

3.9

/259559/

92

/102/

Audience

91

/3021/

75

/17/

2.0

age 11+

A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.

69

6.3

/12399/

65

/990/

66

/396/

3.1

/48248/

91

/76/

Audience

62

/447/

72

/23/

3.0

age 8+

A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night with his new friend: a giant, smiling creature named Dark.

84

7.6

/128281/

75

/4618/

74

/2601/

4.1

/538941/

96

/317/

Audience

81

/13910/

92

/44/

4.0

age 16+

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

80

7.4

/51061/

74

/832/

71

/474/

3.5

/26805/

91

/46/

Audience

88

/50853/

77

/13/

4.0

age 9+

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

76

7.2

/92295/

72

/2898/

71

/1398/

3.5

/192570/

86

/335/

Audience

92

/1105/

75

/55/

3.0

age 14+

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

65

6.8

/25931/

73

/1715/

68

/307/

3.1

/37232/

59

/128/

Audience

95

/1003/

50

/34/

2.0

age 13+

A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.

65

6.0

/23870/

61

/841/

64

/372/

2.7

/120687/

91

/78/

Audience

60

/1374/

71

/20/

2.5

age 13+

Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.

81

7.6

/126694/

78

/7458/

79

/2780/

3.9

/404277/

97

/214/

Audience

89

/2766/

81

/33/

3.0

age 8+

A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.

80

7.3

/63565/

74

/1201/

72

/1148/

3.8

/92835/

93

/43/

Audience

84

/87711/

87

/23/

3.5

age 11+

With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.

83

7.8

/141837/

79

/6521/

76

/1962/

4.1

/256551/

97

/210/

Audience

91

/25461/

81

/30/

3.5

age 12+

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

75

7.3

/21548/

75

/1231/

78

/366/

3.5

/13017/

89

/54/

Audience

95

/667/

62

/10/

2.5

age 10+

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

71

7.7

/97434/

77

/2556/

80

/2821/

3.7

/137876/

55

/77/

Audience

79

/20399/

45

/24/

3.5

age 11+

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

83

7.4

/96887/

74

/3610/

73

/1519/

4.1

/375916/

98

/325/

Audience

87

/505/

89

/49/

3.5

age 13+

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

79

7.3

/44463/

73

/1147/

73

/843/

3.6

/45373/

89

/44/

Audience

80

/195203/

74

/26/

4.0

age 8+

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

83

7.8

/93903/

78

/6428/

74

/2223/

4.2

/337668/

99

/253/

Audience

88

/9642/

88

/38/

3.0

age 6+

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

82

7.3

/52099/

74

/2128/

72

/664/

3.5

/186375/

94

/369/

Audience

94

/2836/

84

/55/

4.0

age 11+

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.

78

7.2

/32628/

72

/1080/

70

/348/

3.6

/54521/

96

/221/

Audience

91

/134/

81

/40/

3.0

age 13+

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

77

7.3

/133544/

74

/8271/

70

/3523/

3.8

/424168/

97

/164/

Audience

80

/2015/

77

/38/

3.0

age 6+

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.

75

7.0

/66355/

70

/2016/

67

/796/

3.5

/38910/

95

/194/

Audience

75

/1340/

78

/44/

3.0

age 14+

Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert — a sweet, funny and like-minded man. But things get complicated when Eva discovers that Albert is in fact the dreaded ex–husband of Marianne...

77

7.8

/58564/

79

/1317/

76

/690/

3.6

/9445/

82

/143/

Audience

89

/35850/

68

/32/

3.0

age 14+

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

72

7.1

/12045/

73

/448/

69

/62/

3.1

/11673/

86

/36/

Audience

87

/176/

60

/5/

age 13+

The true story of how Dave Fishwick, a working class man and self-made millionaire, fought to set up a community bank so that he could help the local businesses of Burnley not only survive, but thrive. In his bid to help his beloved community, he has to take on the elitist financial institutions of London and fight to receive the first, new banking license to be issued in over 100 years.

72

6.9

/16132/

68

/602/

66

/132/

3.8

/199862/

86

/171/

Audience

79

/780/

70

/41/

2.5

age 13+

After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.

73

7.2

/99457/

74

/2372/

69

/1281/

3.4

/27178/

78

/168/

Audience

78

/72265/

62

/35/

3.5

age 13+

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.

77

7.1

/26271/

74

/1010/

70

/302/

3.5

/50211/

94

/178/

Audience

93

/1297/

70

/37/

3.0

age 10+

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

82

7.3

/15615/

74

/717/

76

/337/

3.7

/105878/

97

/30/

Audience

94

/167/

3.5

Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.

82

7.3

/95897/

73

/1692/

70

/929/

3.6

/77936/

98

/49/

Audience

85

/138870/

86

/19/

4.0

age 15+

Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about everyone-including himself-when she returns the sentiment. But Diane's over-possessive, divorced Dad disapproves and it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.

8

82

7.5

/143554/

75

/8364/

73

/2326/

3.8

/214107/

98

/307/

Audience

88

/33289/

86

/47/

3.5

age 15+

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

70

6.5

/2299/

71

/225/

78

/121/

3.2

/5193/

54

/35/

Audience

70

/128/

62

/11/

4.0

age 14+

The inspiring origin story of a basketball superhero, revealing how LeBron James and his childhood friends become the #1 high school team in the country, launching James's breathtaking career as a four-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and the NBA's all-time leading scorer.

69

6.8

/90771/

70

/2671/

64

/868/

3.3

/40099/

81

/106/

Audience

71

/22896/

64

/24/

3.0

age 17+

Doug Glatt, a slacker who discovers he has a talent for brawling, is approached by a minor league hockey coach and invited to join the team as the "muscle." Despite the fact that Glatt can't skate, his best friend, Pat, convinces him to give it a shot, and Glatt becomes a hero to the team and their fans, until the league's reigning goon becomes threatened by Glatt's success and decides to even the score.

64

6.8

/10032/

73

/548/

69

/195/

3.1

/9365/

75

/20/

Audience

72

/213/

50

/6/

2.0

age 10+

When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is determined to accomplish what was thought to be impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean over the course of 210 days.

71

7.1

/23488/

75

/1524/

71

/299/

3.1

/17193/

76

/70/

Audience

98

/1614/

53

/14/

2.5

age 10+

The true story of Kurt Warner, who went from a stockboy at a grocery store to a two-time NFL MVP, Super Bowl champion, and Hall of Fame quarterback.

74

6.9

/2238/

64

/75/

62

/30/

3.6

/12258/

97

/75/

Audience

85

/80/

72

/21/

3.0

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

82

7.4

/38889/

74

/1044/

72

/631/

4.1

/163168/

94

/213/

Audience

78

/202/

82

/43/

4.0

age 14+

Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.

69

64

6.7

/5644/

67

/190/

66

/98/

3.0

/3054/

67

/6/

Audience

90

/139/

age 15+

Zeynap Altin is at the end of her tether: she works far too much and is not valued at all by her husband, daughter and father. To make matters worse, the funeral home dressed her beloved late mother in a man's suit instead of her favorite dress. Enough is enough: Zeynep flees from Munich to the previously unknown holiday home on a Croatian island that her mother secretly bought years ago - with the hope of finding quiet, peace and herself there. If only the previous owner Josip, a rough islander, didn't still live on the same property and annoy her with his views and wisdom.

82

55

7.7

/1300/

82

/21/

71

/16/

4.2

/2746/

100

/10/

Audience

82

/1290/

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.

68

7.3

/100195/

77

/6490/

71

/2036/

3.5

/78096/

82

/204/

Audience

82

/23018/

54

/34/

1.5

age 12+

The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

73

7.0

/12641/

70

/560/

69

/131/

3.4

/23171/

93

/156/

Audience

83

/314/

76

/32/

2.5

age 15+

Single mom Flora is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Her efforts to keep him out of trouble lead to a beat-up acoustic guitar, a washed-up LA musician, and harmony for this frayed Dublin family.

79

7.6

/44522/

73

/580/

71

/417/

3.7

/10255/

90

/124/

Audience

84

/127108/

79

/29/

3.5

age 13+

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

70

6.8

/4957/

67

/243/

64

/44/

3.4

/6979/

90

/60/

Audience

92

/205/

61

/16/

2.0

age 16+

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

82

60

7.7

/1771/

75

/66/

73

/33/

4.1

/11804/