A cross-media mood guide — picked by taste.
Some emotions travel best when they have nowhere to hide. The tearjerker mood is about stories that earn their feeling — grief that arrives slowly, love that costs something, loss that reshapes a life. Across film, TV, games and books, what distinguishes the truly affecting is specificity: a relationship rendered so precisely that its unravelling lands like a punch. Whether you want to sit with sadness or let it break you open, these picks meet you where you are.
Film
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
Joe's sexually dictated life reaches its darkest chapter — unsparing and raw, tracing how she came to be in Seligman's care.
Film
Titanic
An elderly Rose recalls the love she found aboard the *Titanic*, 84 years after the ship went down.
Film
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
In a world at war between devils and hunters, Denji faces his deadliest battle yet, driven by love for Reze.
Film
Your Name.
Two complete strangers begin switching bodies at night — and must find each other before the connection slips away.
Film
"Wuthering Heights"
Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family — a love that circumstance will not allow.
Film
Hamnet
The story of love and loss that inspired Shakespeare's *Hamlet*, told as the human experience behind the masterpiece.
Film
Idol Sex: LA Korean Women
Jessica travels to LA for an idol audition and encounters a temptation that proves fateful.
Film
Scarface
Tony Montana claws his way to the top of Miami's drug trade, destroying everyone in his path — including himself.
Series
The Boys
Blue-collar vigilantes take on corrupt superheroes with grit and a willingness to fight dirty — at mounting personal cost.
Series
Breaking Bad
Diagnosed with cancer and given two years, Walter White sets out to secure his family's future — and loses himself doing it.
Series
JUJUTSU KAISEN
To save a classmate, Yuji Itadori swallows a cursed finger — taking that darkness into his own body.
Series
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
Subaru is transported to another world where he is lost, confused, and facing dangers he cannot prepare for.
Series
Better Call Saul
Jimmy McGill's slow transformation into Saul Goodman, watched with the intimacy of a family drama and the weight of tragedy.
Series
Tokyo Ghoul
A bookworm college student meets Rize, a girl who shares his interests — and everything changes from that moment.
Series
This Is Us
Three adults living separate lives share the same birthday — their stories cross time in ways that quietly devastate.
Series
Attack on Titan
The last remnants of humanity shelter behind fortress walls, sending scouts out to face the Titans beyond.
Game
A Memoir Blue
An interactive poem following superstar athlete Miriam through a magical-realist journey about the love between mother and daughter.
Game
planet of lana 2 children of the leaf
As greed and power divide their home planet's tribes, Lana and her companion Mui fight for the soul of everything they know.
Game
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
Determined to save their families from war, a group of children boards a giant tank and begins an offensive.
Book
Pretty Girls
Two estranged sisters confront the decades-old disappearance of their younger sister — and the silence that grew in its place.
Book
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
A daughter pushes back against her family's expectations of what a perfect Mexican daughter should be and do.
Book
The scar
A little boy responds to his mother's death in a moving story leavened by glimmers of humour.
Book
Grief is the thing with feathers
Two boys face the unbearable loss of their mother; their father — a Ted Hughes scholar — navigates the void alongside them.
Book
Option B
After her husband's sudden death, Sheryl Sandberg maps the void grief carves — and the slow path back through it.
Book
Ordinary Grace
Frank Drum looks back at the secrets, adultery, and betrayal that shattered his family and their 1961 Minnesota community.
Book
The Kanellis Scandal
Anton Pallis stands to inherit the Kanellis fortune — until a true heir emerges, throwing everything into dispute.
Book
Tragedies (Hamlet / King Lear / Macbeth / Othello)
*Hamlet*, *King Lear*, *Macbeth*, and *Othello* collected — four plays that defined how tragedy is written and felt.
Your Name. is a strong entry point — two strangers who inexplicably switch bodies must find each other before the connection disappears. Titanic offers a sweeping romance framed by real historical disaster, told through an elderly woman's recollection.
The best examples put real stakes on the people you care about. A Memoir Blue is an interactive poem about a mother and daughter's bond, told through a superstar athlete's memories. Fuga: Melodies of Steel opens with a village destroyed by war and follows the children who board a tank to save their families.
This Is Us follows three adults across present and past timelines, letting grief and connection accumulate slowly over multiple seasons. Better Call Saul takes a similarly long view — watching Jimmy McGill's step-by-step transformation into Saul Goodman is its own kind of slow devastation.