10 best melodramas of recent years

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker has compiled a list of the best melodramas that have been released in recent years. If you want to experience the whole range of emotions from melancholic melancholy to dizzying joy in a couple of hours, be sure to watch one of these films.

La La Land

• USA, 2016.
• Duration: 128 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 7.

A love story between a talented pianist who dreams of opening his own jazz club and a young girl who is struggling to become an actress. At first, it seems to lovers that they will be together forever, but life and the success that suddenly fell on their heads make their own adjustments to their already difficult relationship.

Brooklyn

• UK, Canada, Ireland, 2015.
• Duration: 111 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 5.

Young Eilis Lacey is moving from cozy Ireland to noisy America in the hope of starting life from scratch. After some difficulties, luck finally smiles at her, but the past suddenly reminds of itself and makes her make a rather difficult choice.

Danish girl

• UK, USA, Belgium, 2015.
• Duration: 119 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 0.

The artist Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to become a model for her paintings with one interesting condition: he must pose as a woman. Not suspecting what consequences this will lead to, Einar agrees and gets used to the role so much that then he completely changes his life.

August

• USA, 2013.
• Duration: 121 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Due to the sudden disappearance of their father, the large Weston family is forced to gather in the parental home to support the inconsolable mother and decide how to live on. All family members have rather strained relations, so you won't have to be bored watching the movie: there are plenty of skeletons in the closets and piquant details.

Age of Adaline

• USA, Canada, 2015.
• Duration: 113 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Having survived a terrible accident, the main character of the film becomes immortal. She has lived in the world for a hundred years, not aging a day. Adaline, forced to hide her secret, constantly changes her job, place of residence and environment. However, one day a person appears for whom she is ready to sacrifice everything.

Stephen Hawking Universe

• UK, 2014.
• Duration: 123 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 7.

A film based on the memoirs of the wife of the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking. This is a poignant story about how the love and support of loved ones helps to overcome all difficulties and not lose heart.

Light in the ocean

• UK, New Zealand, USA, 2016.
• Duration: 130 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

The lighthouse keeper and his wife, who live on a secluded island not far from Western Australia, decide to take on the education of a baby, a boat with which lands on their shore. The consequences of this decision will come as a complete surprise to everyone.

Carol

• UK, USA, France, Australia, 2015.
• Duration: 118 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

This film received several Academy Award nominations and received many rave reviews from critics. Quite extravagant and atypical for New York in the 50s, the story of a relationship that gradually turned from a fleeting passion into a real feeling.

See you

• USA, UK, 2016.
• Duration: 110 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 5.

Will, who was hit by a car two years ago, is confined to a wheelchair. He cannot come to terms with what happened and is sure that life has lost all meaning. Hired nurse Louise Clark is trying in every possible way to dissuade him of this, but Will's stubbornness knows no bounds.

Franz

• France, Germany, 2016.
• Duration: 113 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 5.

The life of Franz, Anna's lover, was carried away by the First World War. Once at his grave, she accidentally meets a friend of Franz, who lays flowers at the tombstone. Their relationship begins to develop rapidly, until a terrible secret is suddenly revealed.