Do you feel like watching something sentimental? This overview contains all Netflix movies and series in the sentimental genre and is updated with new releases daily. Currently, the best rated title in this category, with a rating of 4.41, is Forrest Gump.
When a colleague's mother dies, a man who has been avoiding his own intrusive mother travels home for a visit that changes their relationship forever.
21 September 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 101 minutes
3.98
An unconventional teacher inspires students through poetry -- and when the school fires him, his devastated students rally behind him.
7 September 2017 | Movie | 1989 | 128 minutes
Actors:
Lara Flynn Boyle,
John Cunningham,
Ethan Hawke,
Robert Sean Leonard,
Kurtwood Smith,
Peter Weir,
Robin Williams,
Josh Charles,
George Martin,
Alexandra Powers,
Melora Walters,
Norman Lloyd,
James Waterston,
Kevin Cooney,
Leon Pownall,
Craig Johnson,
Keith Snyder,
Allelon Ruggiero,
Gale Hansen,
Alan Pottinger,
Debra Mooney,
Joe Aufiery,
Welker White,
Dylan Kussman,
James J. Christy,
Jane Moore,
Kurt Leitner,
Andrew Hill
Ace news producer Amy is called back to her Louisiana hometown where memories of what used to be -- and what might have been -- come flooding back.
10 August 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 88 minutes
Orphaned at age 5, curly-haired Heidi is sent to live with her gruff recluse of a grandfather in the Swiss Alps and soon thaws his frozen heart.
10 August 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 111 minutes
Actors:
Bruno Ganz,
Peter Lohmeyer,
Hannelore Hoger,
Katharina Schüttler,
Maxim Mehmet,
Alain Gsponer,
Jella Haase,
Isabelle Ottmann,
Quirin Agrippi,
Anuk Steffen,
Anna Schinz
Hoping to refocus while her parents are deployed in Afghanistan, a tenacious teen forms a horse-riding squad with her rebellious new school friends.
20 July 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 98 minutes
Actors:
Pat Boone,
Alicia Coppola,
Bailee Madison,
James C. Victor,
Aedin Mincks,
Aidan Alexander,
Timothy Armstrong,
Chloe Lukasiak,
Carly Peeters,
Froy Gutierrez,
Kai Thomas
3.20
A NASA astronaut in training must shelve his dream to save his family's farm -- until one day, he decides to build a homegrown rocket in his barn.
13 July 2017 | Movie | 2006 | 104 minutes
Actors:
Bruce Dern,
Richard Edson,
Virginia Madsen,
Billy Bob Thornton,
Jon Gries,
Mark Polish,
Michael Polish,
Sal Lopez,
Tim Blake Nelson,
J.K. Simmons,
Max Thieriot
A city girl falls for a country boy who follows her to New York, but their romance may be over when she must choose between love and a music career.
29 June 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 96 minutes
3.70
Two terminally ill men bust out of the cancer ward with a plan to experience life to the fullest before they kick the bucket.
2 June 2017 | Movie | 2007 | 97 minutes
Actors:
Rob Morrow,
Jack Nicholson,
Rob Reiner,
Beverly Todd,
Sean Hayes,
Morgan Freeman,
Richard McGonagle,
Rowena King,
Alfonso Freeman,
Ian Anthony Dale,
Christopher Stapleton
3.61
A lovable golden retriever, a sassy cat and a feisty bulldog pup mistakenly believe their owners have abandoned them in this lighthearted adventure.
20 April 2017 | Movie | 1993 | 84 minutes
Actors:
Don Ameche,
Duwayne Dunham,
Sally Field,
Michael J. Fox,
Kim Greist,
Robert Hays,
Jean Smart,
William Phipps,
Gary Taylor,
Benj Thall,
Veronica Lauren,
Kevin Chevalia
Fleeing advancing Nazi forces in May 1940, a group of French villagers are trailed by a Scottish soldier and a German dissenter searching for his son.
13 April 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 113 minutes
4.00
Follow the day-to-day banalities of the Royles, a motley crew of lazies who spend their days smoking, squabbling and sequestered in front of the TV.
4 April 2017 | Show | 2006
Fievel, a young Russian mouse, immigrates to America and must make his own way in the strange and sometimes perilous new world.
4 April 2017 | Movie | 1986 | 80 minutes
Actors:
Don Bluth,
Madeline Kahn,
Christopher Plummer,
Erica Yohn,
Dom DeLuise,
Nehemiah Persoff,
Phillip Glasser,
Hal Smith,
Will Ryan,
John Finnegan,
Amy Green
Rebellious Gilly Hopkins has been in and out of a slew of foster homes. But when she moves in with Maime Trotter, Gilly may have met her match.
9 March 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 97 minutes
Actors:
Kathy Bates,
Glenn Close,
Bill Cobbs,
Stephen Herek,
Julia Stiles,
Octavia Spencer,
Billy Magnussen,
Clare Foley,
Sophie Nélisse,
Zachary Hernandez,
Sammy Pignalosa
After completing a world tour, a teen pop star spends the summer at an Italian villa to recover from heartbreak and grow into a mature artist.
23 February 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 99 minutes
An aging jazz musician learns after his wife's death that she may have been unfaithful to him decades before.
26 January 2017 | Movie | 2013 | 83 minutes
With only a strong will and a cheap horse, a former agent of the Dutch underground in World War II sets out to become a champion show jumper.
20 January 2017 | Documentaries | 2015 | 82 minutes
Two renowned culinary families led by legendary food icons battle for the position of greatest chef, while protecting their secret kimchee recipes.
22 December 2016 | Show | 2012
Widowed and impoverished, a single mother desperately trying to raise the money her child needs for cancer treatment receives a life-changing offer.
15 December 2016 | Show | 2006
Wayward teen Ashley discovers a fresh direction in her life when a handyman persuades her to organize a holiday pageant for underprivileged kids.
8 December 2016 | Movie | 2013 | 114 minutes
3.40
Julia, a foster child, finds a wounded rabbit on Christmas Eve and takes it to the Bunny Lady, a lonely woman who runs an animal shelter on her farm.
21 November 2016 | Movie | 2010 | 99 minutes
With his town steadily being submerged, a widower keeps adding levels on the top of his house. Losing his pipe brings back memories.
8 November 2016 | Movie | 2008 | 12 minutes
After her fiancé is abducted by the Grim Reaper, a young maiden strikes a bargain with Death in an effort to bring back her beloved.
1 September 2016 | Movie | 1921 | 98 minutes
The ups and downs of mother-daughter relationships are shown in several interwoven stories documented by a pregnant single photographer.
9 August 2016 | Movie | 2016 | 91 minutes
Young siblings learn about country life and surviving Nazi occupation when World War II breaks out while they're visiting grandparents in Normandy.
9 August 2016 | Show | 2015
Falling desperately in love, brother and sister Marguerite and Julien spurn society's restraints but soon find that taboos are not so easily broken.
15 July 2016 | Movie | 2015 | 103 minutes
Actors:
Geraldine Chaplin,
Frédéric Pierrot,
Sami Frey,
Jérémie Elkaïm,
Catherine Mouchet,
Aurélia Petit,
Alice de Lencquesaing,
Bastien Bouillon,
Esther Garrel,
Anaïs Demoustier,
Raoul Fernandez
This film takes a loving look at traditional Irish pubs and the people who run them, highlighting the friendships they share with loyal customers.
4 July 2016 | Documentaries | 2013 | 74 minutes
This documentary chronicles the history and legacy of the Carter Family, a Virginia folk band that made a seismic impact on the music of America.
29 June 2016 | Documentaries | 2014 | 90 minutes
When an overscheduled girl befriends an eccentric aviator, he regales her with tales about the adventures of an unusual boy who lives on an asteroid.
26 May 2016 | Movie | 2015 | 106 minutes
Actors:
Jeff Bridges,
Albert Brooks,
Benicio Del Toro,
Paul Giamatti,
Paul Rudd,
Bud Cort,
James Franco,
Marion Cotillard,
Rachel McAdams,
Ricky Gervais,
Mackenzie Foy,
Riley Osborne
When his father is diagnosed with cancer, a young boy asks his famous uncle to partner with him in a bowling tournament, opening up old wounds.
18 April 2016 | Movie | 2015 | 96 minutes
Ben Sherwood's intriguing novel is the basis of this ghost story about Charlie, who is devoted to his brother, Sam, even after Sam's death.