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Best Drama Movies Alone On A Rainy Night From The 2010S That Will Make You Cry

These drama picks were hand-selected for a rainy night in, not pulled from a popularity chart. Every pick is chosen for emotional and situational fit, not streaming popularity or critic scores.

The best drama movies alone on a rainy night from the 2010s that will make you cry. Includes Parasite, Your Name., Interstellar and more - curated by Moviepiq.

A rainy night alone is one of the few situations that genuinely calls for a great film. No interruptions, no compromises on what to watch, no one talking over the quiet moments.

The 2010s produced a generation of films that refused to be just one thing. Smarter than they needed to be. Better than expected.

A great drama earns every emotion it asks of you. Nothing is unearned. Nothing is manipulated. You feel it because the film has made you care.

Parasite movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★½ 8.5/10

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Your Name. movie poster
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2016 · ★★★★½ 8.5/10

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

Interstellar movie poster
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2014 · ★★★★½ 8.5/10

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Hope movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.4/10

After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.

A Silent Voice: The Movie movie poster
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2016 · ★★★★☆ 8.4/10

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

What makes these films exceptional is their patience. They trust that the slow accumulation of small moments can be more devastating than any single event.

Whiplash movie poster
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2014 · ★★★★☆ 8.4/10

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

Dedicated to my ex movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get money to save their relationship and reunite with his ex-girlfriend, which breaks due to the trip she must make to Finland for an internship. Ariel with her friend Ortega, decides to make a casting to find the other members of the band, although they do not know nothing about music, thus forming a band with members that have diverse and opposite personalities.

The Intouchables movie poster
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2011 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A true story of two men who should never have met - a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.

Miracle in Cell No. 7 movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

A film earns your tears by making you believe in its characters first. These films do that work thoroughly, then use it.

The best dramas don't tell you how to feel. They create conditions in which you can't help feeling — deeply, and without warning.

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