Tearjerkers
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| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 |
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Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | Germany, | 1984 |
| 1228 |
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Farewell My Concubine | Chen Kaige | China, | 1993 |
| 782 |
|
The Apu Trilogy | |||
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Tori and Lokita | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, | 2022 | |
| 1181 |
|
Petite maman | Céline Sciamma | France, | 2021 |
| 764 |
|
The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | United States, | 1991 |
| 1171 |
|
Romeo and Juliet | Franco Zeffirelli | Italy, | 1968 |
| 1167 |
|
Imitation of Life | John M. Stahl | United States, | 1934 |
| 1114 |
|
Love Affair | Leo McCarey | United States, | 1939 |
| 1014 |
|
Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | United States, | 2018 |
| 76 |
|
Brief Encounter | David Lean | United Kingdom, | 1945 |
| 664 |
|
The Life of Oharu | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1952 |
| 505 |
|
Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo McCarey | United States, | 1937 |
| 221 |
|
Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, | 1952 |
| 561 |
|
Kes | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, | 1970 |
| 716 |
|
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | France, | 1964 |
| 198 |
|
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1974 |
| 363 |
|
Mouchette | Robert Bresson | France, | 1967 |
| 95 |
|
All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1955 |
| 330 |
|
Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | France, | 1987 |
| 201 |
|
Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | Italy, | 1952 |
| 217 |
|
Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan, | 1953 |
| 500 |
|
Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy | |||
| 799 |
|
The Kid | Charles Chaplin | United States, | 1921 |
| 442 |
|
Twenty-Four Eyes | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan, | 1954 |
| 403 |
|
Cría cuervos . . . | Carlos Saura | Spain, | 1976 |
| 297 |
|
Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | France, | 1966 |
| 949 |
|
A Story from Chikamatsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1954 |
| 323 |
|
The Children Are Watching Us | Vittorio De Sica | Italy, | 1944 |
| 520 |
|
Everlasting Moments | Jan Troell | Sweden, | 2008 |
| 386 |
|
Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1954 |
| 556 |
|
Senso | Luchino Visconti | Italy, | 1954 |
| 289 |
|
Hoop Dreams | Steve James | United States, | 1994 |
| 513 |
|
Summer Hours | Olivier Assayas | France, | 2008 |
| 458 |
|
El Norte | Gregory Nava | Guatemala, | 1983 |
| 331 |
|
Late Spring | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan, | 1949 |
| 446 |
|
An Autumn Afternoon | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan, | 1962 |
| 457 |
|
Magnificent Obsession | Douglas Sirk | United States, | 1954 |
| 680 |
|
City Lights | Charles Chaplin | United States, | 1931 |
| 756 |
|
Limelight | Charles Chaplin | United States, | 1952 |
| 476 |
|
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher | United States, | 2008 |
| 524 |
|
The Only Son/There Was a Father: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu | |||
| 576 |
|
Secret Sunshine | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea, | 2007 |
| 538 |
|
Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | United States, | 1957 |
| 554 |
|
Still Walking | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan, | 2008 |
| 178 |
|
My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | Sweden, | 1985 |
|
Eclipse Series 27: Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas | ||||
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One Wonderful Sunday | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, | 1947 | |
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Tokyo Twilight | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan, | 1957 | |
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Every-Night Dreams | Mikio Naruse | Japan, | 1933 | |
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Apart from You | Mikio Naruse | Japan, | 1933 | |
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Dying at Grace | Allan King | Canada, | 2003 | |
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Poil de carotte | Julien Duvivier | France, | 1932 |