Short Sad Movies — Emotional Dramas Under 100 Minutes
Short dramas and romances rated 3.8 or higher, none longer than 100 minutes — for evenings when feeling something is the point.
20 films, drawn from a catalog of 3,647 — every title rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members, with at least 5,000 ratings, and no longer than 110 minutes.
- 12 Angry Men — 1h 37m · 1957 · Sidney Lumet · 4.6/5
- Grave of the Fireflies — 1h 29m · 1988 · Isao Takahata · 4.5/5
- La Haine — 1h 38m · 1995 · Mathieu Kassovitz · 4.5/5
- Paths of Glory — 1h 28m · 1957 · Stanley Kubrick · 4.5/5
- In the Mood for Love — 1h 39m · 2000 · Wong Kar-Wai · 4.4/5
- Before Sunset — 1h 20m · 2004 · Richard Linklater · 4.3/5
- Persona — 1h 25m · 1966 · Ingmar Bergman · 4.4/5
- The Seventh Seal — 1h 36m · 1957 · Ingmar Bergman · 4.3/5
- The Father — 1h 37m · 2020 · Florian Zeller · 4.3/5
- The Lion King — 1h 29m · 1994 · Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff · 4.2/5
- The 400 Blows — 1h 39m · 1959 · François Truffaut · 4.3/5
- Bicycle Thieves — 1h 29m · 1948 · Vittorio De Sica · 4.3/5
- Wild Strawberries — 1h 31m · 1957 · Ingmar Bergman · 4.3/5
- The Passion of Joan of Arc — 1h 21m · 1928 · Carl Theodor Dreyer · 4.4/5
- Persepolis — 1h 35m · 2007 · Vincent Paronnaud · 4.2/5
- Autumn Sonata — 1h 33m · 1978 · Ingmar Bergman · 4.5/5
- La Jetée — 29 min · 1962 · Chris Marker · 4.3/5
- Millennium Actress — 1h 27m · 2002 · Satoshi Kon · 4.2/5
- Three Colors: Blue — 1h 38m · 1993 · Krzysztof Kieślowski · 4.1/5
- Mustang — 1h 37m · 2015 · Deniz Gamze Ergüven · 4.2/5