Touching, a list by Riz

7.9

/1279908/

78

/29869/

79

/24389/

3.8

/1325109/

88

/255/

Audience

69

/35797635/

75

/35/

4.0

age 13+

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

10

82

8.6

/1406735/

86

/25976/

85

/16720/

4.2

/550857/

79

/136/

Audience

94

/815138/

61

/36/

3.5

age 16+

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

86

7.9

/114132/

78

/3641/

78

/1243/

4.2

/876285/

95

/301/

Audience

84

/3819/

94

/52/

4.0

age 13+

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

92

9.0

/1450105/

88

/20464/

85

/15241/

4.5

/678482/

98

/137/

Audience

97

/413306/

95

/30/

4.0

age 15+

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

10

83

8.3

/1067412/

83

/20510/

81

/11617/

4.3

/1054858/

97

/91/

Audience

94

/366024/

71

/28/

3.0

age 15+

When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.

8

89

8.5

/988621/

84

/24261/

83

/14557/

4.4

/2075794/

94

/308/

Audience

94

/72529/

89

/49/

4.0

age 15+

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

86

8.8

/2255934/

86

/43255/

84

/26433/

4.1

/1732481/

76

/157/

Audience

95

/1244237/

82

/20/

4.0

age 13+

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

66

6.3

/4322/

66

/229/

65

/84/

2.9

/8235/

83

/36/

Audience

70

/98/

60

/10/

age 13+

Advocates to end homelessness, organize an annual tournament for Homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.

89

8.6

/1495952/

85

/25548/

82

/15133/

4.2

/734345/

94

/148/

Audience

95

/994874/

91

/38/

4.0

age 16+

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

83

8.0

/670977/

77

/24392/

79

/16271/

4.1

/2205741/

91

/471/

Audience

81

/5208/

94

/54/

3.5

age 13+

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

81

8.0

/824355/

77

/18331/

76

/14024/

4.1

/1432374/

85

/322/

Audience

84

/178914/

79

/42/

3.5

age 17+

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

87

8.5

/911782/

84

/12376/

83

/8818/

4.4

/572338/

95

/190/

Audience

96

/10840/

85

/40/

3.5

age 16+

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

78

8.1

/593796/

83

/30271/

81

/13202/

3.9

/488934/

84

/280/

Audience

91

/56856/

71

/47/

2.5

age 16+

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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.

10

84

7.8

/313599/

74

/11428/

75

/5637/

4.1

/489243/

96

/358/

Audience

78

/50778/

96

/53/

4.0

age 17+

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

67

7.4

/287031/

78

/15832/

79

/11891/

3.3

/368593/

54

/179/

Audience

73

/31105/

51

/36/

2.5

age 14+

A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

71

6.8

/57799/

67

/1881/

70

/1210/

3.6

/505904/

81

/286/

Audience

62

/336/

74

/54/

3.0

age 16+

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

82

8.2

/986656/

81

/17802/

78

/9826/

3.8

/335377/

74

/214/

Audience

93

/491505/

72

/33/

4.0

age 14+

In a decades-spanning biopic, brilliant mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. makes history in his field as schizophrenia sets in.

65

7.9

/592570/

81

/28632/

79

/16420/

3.4

/1062184/

60

/420/

Audience

85

/24494/

49

/50/

1.0

age 13+

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

77

8.5

/928982/

85

/19377/

82

/16670/

4.1

/378841/

76

/129/

Audience

93

/45975/

57

/31/

2.5

age 16+

A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

81

8.0

/251022/

82

/13235/

80

/6365/

3.9

/239412/

84

/270/

Audience

91

/40069/

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.

82

7.3

/27332/

72

/1216/

72

/278/

3.8

/177631/

99

/225/

Audience

95

/407/

84

/49/

3.5

age 11+

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

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.

86

8.2

/193053/

81

/5771/

81

/3007/

4.3

/287807/

98

/295/

Audience

92

/675/

88

/51/

3.5

age 14+

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

74

7.7

/246299/

79

/7539/

78

/6871/

3.6

/365406/

65

/146/

Audience

85

/114825/

55

/28/

3.5

age 14+

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

8

73

7.8

/235015/

79

/12160/

79

/6206/

3.9

/290362/

83

/229/

Audience

85

/1012/

72

/36/

1.5

age 16+

A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.

86

8.1

/741119/

81

/16567/

79

/10946/

4.1

/451429/

95

/379/

Audience

90

/141032/

96

/57/

3.5

age 15+

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

67

7.1

/274038/

74

/15727/

72

/6421/

3.2

/228858/

59

/202/

Audience

73

/45569/

51

/36/

3.0

age 14+

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

77

8.1

/311253/

82

/6871/

80

/6440/

3.8

/127057/

64

/28/

Audience

84

/15045/

age 10+

A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.

71

6.4

/23215/

68

/1553/

68

/292/

3.3

/119684/

90

/213/

Audience

82

/681/

74

/44/

2.5

age 16+

When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

78

7.9

/178306/

81

/10869/

81

/7645/

3.5

/289829/

86

/191/

Audience

88

/19358/

66

/33/

3.0

age 10+

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

76

8.0

/560521/

81

/12472/

79

/9486/

3.9

/426926/

67

/176/

Audience

87

/563912/

64

/36/

age 12+

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

63

7.3

/221329/

76

/4314/

77

/3911/

3.3

/121135/

29

/105/

Audience

78

/31402117/

35

/26/

3.0

age 11+

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

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.

78

7.1

/140211/

69

/4323/

69

/2110/

3.6

/556513/

90

/326/

Audience

66

/548/

90

/55/

4.0

age 15+

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

71

7.2

/320741/

74

/9742/

71

/6917/

3.6

/307447/

75

/211/

Audience

54

/32167884/

77

/38/

3.0

age 17+

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.

74

8.0

/585894/

78

/11215/

75

/7285/

3.7

/199337/

63

/219/

Audience

90

/569368/

64

/39/

age 17+

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

67

6.6

/5007/

70

/422/

68

/74/

3.4

/15811/

76

/97/

Audience

83

/155/

61

/23/

2.0

age 15+

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

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.

67

7.3

/98319/

74

/2248/

73

/2017/

3.1

/53180/

47

/139/

Audience

72

/365423/

51

/28/

3.5

age 15+

Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.

70

7.5

/306615/

76

/9398/

74

/4087/

3.4

/86398/

75

/227/

Audience

87

/113610/

60

/44/

2.0

age 17+

Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

71

7.6

/360398/

78

/10004/

76

/6117/

3.3

/264204/

66

/206/

Audience

85

/432222/

53

/29/

age 12+

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

75

7.7

/481943/

78

/14782/

78

/10302/

3.6

/408531/

80

/272/

Audience

84

/76324/

71

/47/

2.5

age 14+

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

10

70

7.7

/99074/

76

/2120/

76

/1571/

3.8

/96948/

59

/70/

Audience

74

/6999/

52

/20/

age 17+

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

7

72

7.3

/119548/

77

/7994/

75

/2815/

3.4

/131814/

82

/156/

Audience

83

/4047/

57

/28/

2.5

age 13+

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

66

7.2

/182694/

73

/5826/

74

/3967/

3.5

/97456/

51

/237/

Audience

70

/2596/

59

/48/

2.5

age 14+

A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

79

7.2

/117984/

74

/7381/

68

/2525/

3.6

/92988/

92

/273/

Audience

75

/36499/

79

/48/

4.0

age 14+

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

9

74

7.4

/166901/

75

/6232/

72

/3661/

3.5

/160936/

83

/169/

Audience

81

/1755/

62

/39/