Online Movies Rent - Movie Genres :Tearjerkers , House Of D , Life Is Beautiful , L.I.E. , The Passion Of Joan Of Arc , Miracle On 34th Street: B&W Version , P.S. I Love You , I Am Sam , I Dreamed Of Africa , Shadowlands , A.I. Artificial Intelligence

House of D

Rated: 0 | 217 Views Released Year: 2004

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: Set in New York, House of D is the multilayered story of a man (David Duchovny) coming to terms with his past and present and resolving his relationships with the people who helped make him the man he's become. Along the way, he recalls the special bond he shared with a retarded janitor (Robin Williams) who worked at the elementary school he attended. Co-stars Tea Leoni and Anton Yelchin. Duchovny also directed and wrote the screenplay.
URL: House of D

Life Is Beautiful

Rated: 0 | 231 Views Released Year: 1997

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: In this poignant tragicomedy, a clever Jewish-Italian waiter named Guido (Roberto Benigni, who won an Oscar for his role) is sent to a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, along with his wife (Nicoletta Braschi) and their young son (Giorgio Cantarini). Refusing to give up hope, Guido tries to protect his son's innocence by pretending that their imprisonment is an elaborate game, with the grand prize being a tank. Benigni also directed.
URL: Life Is Beautiful

L.I.E.

Rated: 0 | 168 Views Released Year: 2001

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: A biting and disturbing coming-of-age story. Life is bittersweet along the L.I.E. -- also known as the Long Island Expressway -- as suburban teenager Howie Blitzer (Paul Franklin Dano) learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, Howie loses nearly everything and everyone he knows and is left to navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Brian Cox co-stars as an older man who befriends the troubled youth.
URL: L.I.E.

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Rated: 0 | 202 Views Released Year: 1928

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: Widely considered director Carl Theodor Dreyer's finest achievement and one of the greatest movies of all time, this stunning emotional drama recounts the events surrounding Joan of Arc's 1431 heresy trial, burning at the stake and subsequent martyrdom. Maria Falconetti turns in a haunting performance as the young French saint. The film's original version, thought to have been lost to fire, was miraculously found in perfect condition in 1981.
URL: The Passion of Joan of Arc

Miracle on 34th Street: B&W Version

Rated: 0 | 160 Views Released Year: 1947

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: When Santa falls down drunk in the Thanksgiving Day Parade, reluctant Macy's supervisor Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara) offers the job to a bearded Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar) purporting to be the real Santa! During the Christmas season, he shares a flat with Doris's neighbor (John Payne), who has eyes for Doris. Kris hopes to unite the two while winning over Doris's skeptical 6-year-old daughter (Natalie Wood).
URL: Miracle on 34th Street: B&W Version

P.S. I Love You

Rated: 0 | 174 Views Released Year: 2007

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank), a young widow living in New York, has just lost her beloved husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) to a brain tumor. Inconsolable, Holly finds that Gerry left for her a series of letters to help cope with the grief. As months pass, Holly discovers new messages from Gerry encouraging her to go on living. And while Holly's friends fear the letters will mire her in the past, they, in fact, give her strength for the future.
URL: P.S. I Love You

I Am Sam

Rated: 0 | 151 Views Released Year: 2001

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: Sam (Sean Penn) is a grown man with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. After fathering a child with a homeless woman, Sam raises the baby himself until an incident at a birthday party finds the Child Protective Services deeming him an unfit guardian. With the help of yuppie lawyer Michelle Pfeiffer, Sam attempts to regain custody of his daughter and prove that, despite his handicap, he's a truly loving father.
URL: I Am Sam

I Dreamed of Africa

Rated: 0 | 133 Views Released Year: 2000

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: After socialite Kuki Gallmann (Kim Basinger) nearly dies in a car accident, she resolves to live a more meaningful existence. Kuki and new husband Paolo (Vincent Perez) move to Kenya, where they struggle to build a nature conservancy. Kenyan vistas and thrilling natural set pieces sweepingly capture the joy and heartache of this true-life adventure based on Gallmann's memoir.
URL: I Dreamed of Africa

Shadowlands

Rated: 0 | 186 Views Released Year: 1985

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: This winner of two British Academy Awards is based on the life of renowned Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis (Joss Ackland), author of the classic The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Vivacious American poet and recent divorcee Joy Gresham (Claire Bloom) travels to England to seek out Lewis, with whom she's had years of correspondence. The two become an unlikely pair, despite their culture clash, but the most difficult obstacle is yet to come.
URL: Shadowlands

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Rated: 0 | 296 Views Released Year: 2001

Genre: Tearjerkers
About: Director Steven Spielberg's A.I. propels you into a futuristic world where humans share every aspect of their lives with sophisticated companion robots called Mechas. When an advanced prototype robot child named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed to show unconditional love, his human family isn't prepared for the consequences. David soon embarks on a spectacular quest to discover the startling secret of his own identity.
URL: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Online movies rent: Most wanted movie genries