Best Tearjerkers on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Tearjerkers on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 6384. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Rated 9.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1994, 2h 22m. Framed for murder, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison and gradually forms a close bond with older inmate Red.
2. Schindler's List (1993)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1993, 3h 15m. Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
3. Hole in the Wall (2016)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 1h 44m. Diagnosed with colon cancer, a free-spirited man embarks on an illuminating road trip with his son through South Africa.
4. Forrest Gump (1994)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1994, 2h 22m. Forrest Gump, a friendly, simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s.
5. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1997, 1h 56m. A Jewish waiter, his wife and their son are sent to a concentration camp, where the waiter tries to protect his son's innocence by playing a game.
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1998, 2h 49m. Eight U.S.
7. The Green Mile (1999)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1999, 3h 08m. When a prison guard discovers that a death row inmate possesses mysterious powers, he tries desperately to prevent the condemned man's execution.
8. The Pianist (2002)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2002, 2h 28m. Famed Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman struggles to survive the onslaught of Nazi tyranny during World War II in this drama based on his memoirs.
9. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1988, 2h 04m. When a Sicilian boy is mesmerized by the movies at his local theater, he befriends a projectionist who tells him to leave home and pursue his dreams.
10. Qismat (2018)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2018, 2h 17m. A young villager moves to Chandigarh and falls for his bubbly neighbor, but their love story is affected by several heartbreaking twists of fate.