Top 10 Movies: Tragedy
The highest-graded tragedy movies we have reviewed, best first.
Tokyo StoryThe quietest devastation in cinema: Ozu watches a family fail its parents and never once raises his voice.Read the review
IkiruKurosawa cuts from a dying bureaucrat's awakening straight to his wake, and lets the mourners' drunken arguments deliver the verdict on his life.
RanKurosawa's King Lear becomes a war of colour-coded armies and silent slaughter, as gorgeous as it is pitiless.
Once Upon a Time in AmericaLeone's last film dissolves a gangster saga into memory and regret, magnificent at 229 minutes and badly compromised by what it does to its women.
The Deer HunterCimino's Vietnam epic is overwhelming in its long wedding and its mountain silences, and far shakier on Vietnam itself.
Frankenstein (2025)Del Toro's lifelong dream project is ravishing to look at and comes fully alive only when Jacob Elordi's Creature takes over the telling.
My Father and My SonÇağan Irmak pulls every lever a family melodrama has, and Çetin Tekindor's stubborn patriarch makes most of them work.
American BeautyThe suburban satire that swept the Oscars, then spent twenty years being argued back down to size.
Wuthering HeightsFennell shoots Bronte as a perfume campaign: ravishing on the moor, strangely weightless once the corsets are off.
Hachi: A Dog's TaleAn American remake of Japan's most famous dog story that knows exactly which buttons it is pressing, and presses them with some dignity.
