Films about grief

Baramulla is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language supernatural horror thriller film directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale and produced under Jio Studios and B62 Studios. It stars Manav Kaul and Bhasha Sumbli in the lead roles. The film was released on 7 November 2025 on Netflix. It received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics with praise for the performances and cinematography.

2009 animated film directed by Pete Docter

1999 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

2022 film directed by Sam Raimi

2014 film directed by Wes Anderson

1990 film directed by Jerry Zucker

2017 film directed by Martin McDonagh

2022 film directed by Ryan Coogler

1972 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

2006 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

2021 film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to drift around the United States in her van. A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role.

Avatar: Fire and Ash is a 2025 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment, it is the third installment in the Avatar film series and the sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The film features Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet reprising their roles from previous films. The story follows the human-turned-Na'vi Jake Sully and his family on the habitable moon Pandora, as they face the combined threat of the human RDA forces and the Mangkwan, a ruthless Na'vi clan.

2003 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

1993 film directed by Lasse Hallström

1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks

1980 film by Robert Redford

2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan

1985 film directed by Peter Weir

2023 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

2018 film directed by Damien Chazelle

2011 film directed by Stephen Daldry

1993 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski

2001 film by Wes Anderson

2009 film directed by Peter Jackson

2007 film by Richard LaGravenese

2007 film by Ben Affleck

1998 film by Vincent Ward

Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. It stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as an American couple who are drawn into a violent cult in rural Sweden. Supporting actors include William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter.

Train Dreams is a 2025 American period drama film directed by Clint Bentley, who co-wrote the screenplay with Greg Kwedar, based on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson. The film stars Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy, with narration from Will Patton.

2024 superhero film by J. C. Chandor

2013 film by Joseph Gordon-Levitt

2016 film directed by Tate Taylor

1973 film by Nicolas Roeg

2011 film directed by Cameron Crowe

2009 film directed by Lars von Trier

Hamnet is a 2025 historical drama film directed by Chloé Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O'Farrell, based on the 2020 novel by O'Farrell. The film dramatises the family life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes Hathaway as they cope with the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet. It stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and William, alongside Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, and Jacobi Jupe in supporting roles.

The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut. Set in 1970, it tells the story of a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students who have nowhere to go during the school's Christmas holiday break. Filming took place from January to March 2022 in Massachusetts. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023.

2023 film directed by Wes Anderson

2019 film directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer

2016 film directed by Pablo Larraín

Hereditary is a 2018 American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, the film follows Annie Graham, a grieving miniature artist who uncovers disturbing secrets about her recently deceased mother. She, along with her husband Steve and their children, Peter and Charlie, are subsequently tormented by sinister occurrences.

2011 film by Lynne Ramsay

2009 film by Tom Ford

2001 film by Marc Forster

1998 film by Wes Anderson

2003 film by Rob Minkoff

2021 film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi

1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2024 film by Jesse Eisenberg

2010 film by John Cameron Mitchell

2001 film by Todd Field

1954 film by George Seaton

2010 film by Burr Steers

2008 computer-animated film directed by Sam Fell

2023 film by Ari Aster

2007 film directed by Scott Hicks

2014 film directed by Jennifer Kent

2000 film by Stephen Kay

2007 film by Mike Binder