Film Tone: Sentimental

1.

The Last Song

2010 American film

Overview: The Last Song is a 2010 American coming-of-age teen romantic drama film developed alongside Nicholas Sparks' 2009 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Julie Anne Robinson in her feature film ...

Release date: 31 March 2010

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Julie Anne Robinson

Cast: Miley Cyrus, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Coleman, Liam Hemsworth, Hallock Beals, Kelly Preston

Producer: Tish Cyrus, Jennifer Gibgot

Writer: Nicholas Sparks, Jeff Van Wie

A rebellious girl is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn ...

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Films shot in Savannah, Georgia 50T

Films scored by Aaron Zigman 60T

2010 romantic drama films 65T

2.

Little House on the Prairie

American western drama television series

Overview: Little House on the Prairie (later known as Little House: A New Beginning in its final season) is an American Western historical drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen ...

Release date: 11 September 1974

Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western

Director: Michael Landon, William F. Claxton

Cast: Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Rachel Lindsay Greenbush, Sidney Greenbush, Melissa Sue Anderson

Producer: Michael Landon, Kent McCray

Writer: Blanche Hanalis, Laura Ingalls Wilder

The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the 19th century American West.

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1970s Western (genre) television series 32T

1980s Western (genre) television series 32T

1970s American drama television series 108T

3.

7th Heaven

American drama television series

Overview: 7th Heaven is an American family drama television series created and produced by Brenda Hampton that centers on the Camden family and their lives in the fictional town of Glenoak, California. The series ...

Release date: 26 August 1996

Genre: Drama, Family

Director: Joel J. Feigenbaum, Harry Harris

Cast: Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Beverley Mitchell, Happy, Mackenzie Rosman, David Gallagher

Producer: Brenda Hampton, Aaron Spelling

Writer: Brenda Hampton, Sue Tenney

This weekly television series follows the Camden family as the minister father and stay-at-home mother deal with the drama of having seven children, ranging ...

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American primetime television soap operas 48T

American primetime television dramas 15T

Religious drama television series 45T

4.

White Christmas

1954 film directed by Michael Curtiz

Overview: White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving ...

Release date: 14 October 1954

Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director: Michael Curtiz

Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes

Producer: Robert Emmett Dolan

Writer: Norman Krasna, Norman Panama

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding ...

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1950s American films 3,290T

1930s English-language films 6,428T

1950s English-language films 4,735T

5.

Titanic

1997 American romantic disaster film directed by James Cameron

Overview: Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of ...

Release date: 1 November 1997

Genre: Drama, Romance, Adventure, History

Director: James Cameron

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart

Producer: James Cameron, Pamela Easley

Writer: James Cameron

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

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Romantic drama films based on actual events 9T

1990s American films 4,704T

1990s English-language films 6,298T

6.

Gone with the Wind

1939 film by Victor Fleming

Overview: Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and d ...

Release date: 15 December 1939

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor

Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, George Reeves

Producer: David O. Selznick

Writer: Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of ...

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Films shot at Culver Studios 11T

Films about Lost Cause of the Confederacy 6T

1930s American films 5,554T

7.

Big Fish

2003 film by Tim Burton

Overview: Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy drama film directed by Tim Burton, and based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace. Starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange ...

Release date: 10 December 2003

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Director: Tim Burton

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman

Producer: Bruce Cohen, Katterli Frauenfelder

Writer: Daniel Wallace, John August

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.

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Films produced by Bruce Cohen 12T

American werewolf films 108T

2000s English-language films 4,277T

8.

Good Times

American television show

Overview: Good Times is an American television sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS, from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans and developed by executive producer Norman ...

Release date: 8 February 1974

Genre: Comedy

Director: Gerren Keith, Herbert Kenwith

Cast: Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter, BernNadette Stanis, Jimmie Walker, Esther Rolle, John Amos

Producer: Allan Manings, Norman Paul

Writer: Mike Evans, Norman Lear

A poor Afro-American family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.

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All in the Family 9T

1970s American black sitcoms 14T

American television spin-offs 399T

9.

To Sir, with Love

1967 British drama film

Overview: To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall and singer ...

Release date: 14 June 1967

Genre: Drama

Director: James Clavell

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Ann Bell, Geoffrey Bayldon

Producer: James Clavell, John R. Sloan

Writer: E.R. Braithwaite, James Clavell

Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

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1960s English-language films 3,111T

British coming-of-age drama films 63T

1960s coming-of-age drama films 21T

10.

The Sound of Music

1965 film by Robert Wise

Overview: The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor ...

Release date: 2 March 1965

Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance

Director: Robert Wise

Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr

Producer: Saul Chaplin, Robert Wise

Writer: Georg Hurdalek, Howard Lindsay

A young novitiate is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.

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1960s English-language films 3,114T

1965 musical films 14T

1965 drama films 238T

11.

The Notebook

2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes

Overview: The Notebook is a 2004 American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, written by Jeremy Leven and Jan Sardi, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan ...

Release date: 20 May 2004

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Cast: Tim Ivey, Gena Rowlands, Starletta DuPois, James Garner, Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas, Ed Grady

Producer: Toby Emmerich, Lynn Harris

Writer: Jeremy Leven, Jan Sardi

A poor yet passionate young man (Ryan Gosling) falls in love with a rich young woman (Rachel McAdams), giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon ...

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2000s coming-of-age drama films 121T

Films scored by Aaron Zigman 60T

Films about interclass romance 14T

12.

The Green Mile

1999 American fantasy drama film by Frank Darabont

Overview: The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and based on Stephen King's 1996 novel of the same name. It stars Tom Hanks as a death row corrections officer ...

Release date: 6 December 1999

Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Director: Frank Darabont

Cast: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter

Producer: Frank Darabont, David Valdes

Writer: Stephen King, Frank Darabont

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.

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1990s English-language films 3,887T

Films produced by David Valdes 15T

1990s prison drama films 12T

13.

The Five Heartbeats

1991 film by Robert Townsend

Overview: The Five Heartbeats is a 1991 musical drama film directed by Robert Townsend, who co-wrote the script with Keenen Ivory Wayans. Produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film's main cast includes ...

Release date: 29 March 1991

Genre: Drama, Music

Director: Robert Townsend

Cast: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry Lennix, Tico Wells, Diahann Carroll

Producer: Kokayi Ampah, Loretha C. Jones

Writer: Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans

The story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group.

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1991 drama films 355T

1990s musical drama films 54T

Film scores by Stanley Clarke 37T

14.

Steel Magnolias

1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross

Overview: Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Academy Award winners Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, and Olympia Dukakis with Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah, and ...

Release date: 5 November 1989

Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Director: Herbert Ross

Cast: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts

Producer: Ray Stark, Andrew Stone

Writer: Robert Harling

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship ...

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Films produced by Ray Stark 28T

1980s American films 3,406T

1980s buddy comedy-drama films 19T

15.

Sixteen Candles

1984 film by John Hughes

Overview: Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. It was written and directed by John Hughes in his directorial debut ...

Release date: 4 May 1984

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: John Hughes

Cast: Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling, Haviland Morris, Gedde Watanabe, Anthony Michael Hall

Producer: John Hughes, Hilton A. Green

A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.

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American coming-of-age comedy films 106T

1984 romantic comedy films 30T

1980s coming-of-age comedy films 20T

16.

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

1993 American film directed by Bill Duke

Overview: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is a 1993 American musical comedy film, directed by Bill Duke, and released by Touchstone Pictures. It is the sequel to the 1992 film Sister Act, and is loosely based on ...

Release date: 10 December 1993

Genre: Comedy, Music, Family

Director: Bill Duke

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Barnard Hughes, Mary Wickes, James Coburn, Michael Jeter

Producer: Mario Iscovich, Laurence Mark

Writer: James Orr, Jim Cruickshank

Showgirl Deloris Van Cartier returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of Catholic students whose run-down school is slated for closure ...

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Films with screenplays by James Orr (filmmaker) 9T

1993 children's films 16T

1990s American films 4,832T

17.

Roll Bounce

2005 American comedy-drama film by Norman Vance Jr.

Overview: Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago ...

Release date: 20 September 2005

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

Director: Malcolm D. Lee

Cast: Shad Moss, Brandon T. Jackson, Chi McBride, Marcus T. Paulk, Rick Gonzalez, Khleo Thomas

Producer: Tyrone D. Dixon, Dana Reid

Writer: Norman Vance Jr.

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit ...

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2000s English-language films 4,269T

2000s sports comedy-drama films 36T

2005 comedy films 382T

18.

Remember the Titans

2000 film by Boaz Yakin

Overview: Remember the Titans is a 2000 American biographical sports film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin. The screenplay, written by Gregory Allen Howard, is based on the true story of ...

Release date: 23 September 2000

Genre: Drama, Sport, Biography

Director: Boaz Yakin

Cast: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Donald Faison, Craig Kirkwood

Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Flynn

Writer: Gregory Allen Howard

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

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2000 biographical drama films 22T

2000s sports drama films 96T

2000 drama films 433T

19.

Pearl Harbor

2001 film by Michael Bay

Overview: Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett ...

Release date: 21 May 2001

Genre: Action, Romance, War, Drama, History

Director: Michael Bay

Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, William Lee Scott, Greg Zola, Ewen Bremner

Producer: Kenny Bates, Michael Bay

Writer: Randall Wallace

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous ...

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2000s English-language films 4,356T

Films set on aircraft carriers 20T

Films about the Doolittle Raid 6T

20.

Love Actually

2003 British film directed by Richard Curtis

Overview: Love Actually is a 2003 Christmas-themed romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. It features an ensemble cast, composed predominantly of British actors, many of whom had worked with ...

Release date: 7 September 2003