Here we've displayed a list of the best Self-sacrifice films : The Old Maid(1939), Violent Summer(1959), Korczak(1990), Harrison Montgomery(2008), City for Conquest(1940), March of the Wooden Soldiers(1934), The Man Who Played God(1932), Smouldering Fires(1925), Men of Boys Town(1941), Back From Eternity(1956), Jennie Gerhardt(1933), Dr. Cyclops(1940) ... ...
7.6/10
Drama
USA
1939
95 Minutes
Bette Davis Miriam Hopkins George Brent Donald Crisp Jane Bryan Louise Fazenda James Stephenson Jerome Cowan William Lundigan Cecilia Loftus
adoptive mother cousin daughter father mother emotional melodramatic united states american civil war illegitimate child mother/daughter relationship self-sacrifice sacrifice rivalry 1880s
The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.
7.5/10
Drama
Italy|France
1959
99 Minutes
Eleonora Rossi Drago Jean-Louis Trintignant Jacqueline Sassard Lilla Brignone Cathia Caro Raf Mattioli Federica Ranchi Enrico Maria Salerno
young man father widow son friend love interest engaging intense playful italy beach nightclub apartment romance world war ii father/son relationship mother/son relationship self-sacrifice ignorance discovery
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. ... See full summary »
7.5/10
Biography
Poland|Germany|UK
1990
115 Minutes
Wojciech Pszoniak Ewa Da?kowska Piotr Kozlowski Marzena Trybala Wojciech Klata Adam Siemion Karolina Czernicka Agnieszka Kruk Aleksander Bardini Robert Atzorn
pediatrician nazi orphan child friend jew bleak disheartening warsaw ghetto poland orphanage street orphans nazi occupation world war ii self-sacrifice holocaust janusz korczak rescue sacrifice
Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Jewish doctor Henryk Goldszmit, ... See full summary »
7.3/10
Drama
USA
2008
96 Minutes
Martin Landau Melora Walters Octavio Gómez Berrios Krista Ott
abusive boyfriend artist drug dealer young girl old man neighbor gritty inspiring striking san francisco tenement house street senility poverty overcoming the odds survival self-sacrifice unlikely friendship underdog temptation
In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the ... See full summary »
7.3/10
Drama
USA
1940
101 Minutes
James Cagney Ann Sheridan Frank Craven Donald Crisp Frank McHugh Arthur Kennedy
boxer dancer girlfriend younger brother truck driver composer uplifting gripping gritty melodramatic new york city lower east side carnegie hall boxing ring apartment boxing self-sacrifice aspirations corruption blindness
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
7.2/10
Fantasy, Kids & Family, Other
USA
1934
73 Minutes
Stan Laurel Charley Rogers Oliver Hardy Charlotte Henry Felix Knight Henry Brandon Jean Darling Johnny Downs Marie Wilson
toy maker girl boy villain hero toy soldier creative amusing madcap toyland cave toy shop shoe toys framed self-sacrifice romance helping others battle love
Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1932
81 Minutes
George Arliss Bette Davis Violet Heming
pianist fiancée friend love interest sister confident emotional heartwarming new york city apartment accident deafness change of heart philanthropy music self-sacrifice transformation quest love 1930s
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1925
80 Minutes
Pauline Frederick Laura La Plante Malcolm McGregor Tully Marshall Wanda Hawley Helen Lynch George Cooper
manager secretary sister friend committee member newlywed engaging moving office factory apartment park ambition marriage of convenience rumors sister relationship self-sacrifice may-december romance quest sacrifice
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1941
106 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney Bobs Watson Larry Nunn Darryl Hickman Henry O'Neill Mary Nash Lee J. Cobb Sidney Miller Addison Richards Lloyd Corrigan
priest paraplegic young man parent delinquent friend intense emotional moving boys town, neb. reform school office household gas station courtroom juvenile crime reform self-sacrifice adoption violence
Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1956
97 Minutes
Robert Ryan Anita Ekberg Rod Steiger Phyllis Kirk Keith Andes Gene Barry Fred Clark Beulah Bondi Cameron Prud'Homme Jesse White Adele Mara
veteran pilot son prostitute stewardess murderer dense moving las vegas airport airplane south america jungle airplane crash cowardice alcoholism gangsters self-sacrifice survival sacrifice
When a commercial plane force-lands in a South-American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch-up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.
6.5/10
Romance
USA
1933
85 Minutes
laundress mother father pregnant woman love interest cousin bleak disheartening emotional cincinnati chicago columbus, ohio europe death class struggle self-sacrifice lost loves accident sacrifice forbidden love
Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her.
6.5/10
Sci-Fi
USA
1940
75 Minutes
Albert Van Dekker Janice Logan Thomas Coley Charles Halton Victor Kilian Frank Yaconelli Billy Wilkerson Allen Fox Paul Fix Frank Reicher
biologist scientist doctor mineralist professor servant chilling creepy amazon jungle laboratory house bedroom experiments biology madness murder self-sacrifice shrinking quest
A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.
6.4/10
Western
USA
1953
82 Minutes
Lloyd Bridges Lee J. Cobb Marie Windsor Luther Adler Samuel Herrick Syd Saylor George Steele Dean Train
convict sea captain wife trader native american sheriff gritty engaging texas covered wagon countryside burial grounds river cave greed gold false accusations deception accident self-sacrifice
A group of travelers in the Southwest band together to search for gold on Indian burial grounds. Convict Ben Trask attempts to maintain order within the group as they are faced with greed and danger.
6.2/10
Western
USA
1946
97 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Ray Milland Barry Fitzgerald George Coulouris Albert Van Dekker Anthony Quinn Frank Faylen Gavin Muir James Burke Edward Ciannelli Roman Bohnen
deserter poker player prospector saloon girl irishman landowner engaging melodramatic spirited gutsy california wagon train mining town saloon small town graveyard california gold rush self-sacrifice marriage of convenience mining
Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.
5.7/10
Western
USA
1914
78 Minutes
Cecil B. DeMille Dustin Farnum Winifred Kingston Red Wing Monroe Salisbury Billy Elmer Richard L'Estrange Foster Knox Joseph Singleton Dick La Reno Fred Montague
british officer brother wife native american woman rancher son melodramatic solemn england new york city wyoming bar mountain ranch embezzlement self-sacrifice new identity marriage tragic death family honor
A chivalrous British officer takes the blame for his cousin's embezzlement and journeys to the American West to start a new life on a cattle ranch.
3.6/10
Drama
USA
2016
127 Minutes
Amy Ferguson Morgan Spector Anna Mouglalis Fredric Lehne Raïna von Waldenburg Antonia Campbell Hughes Joan MacIntosh Sophia Oppenheim Rutanya Alda Samia Akudo Jason Alazraki
actress husband abusive husband engaging dark passionate hedonistic theater new york united states female sexuality sexual awakening sexual repression self-sacrifice affair forbidden love discovery temptation transformation sacrifice
Split is the surreal and epic journey a young woman takes to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young ... See full summary »
Adventure
1977
105 Minutes
George C. Scott David Hemmings Claire Bloom Gilbert Roland Susan Tyrrell Richard Evans Julius Harris Hart Bochner Brad Savage Michael James Wixted Charles Lampkin
man friend son wife refugee dreamy emotional inspiring melancholy moving profound sad uneasy bahamas self-discovery family relationships aging altruism self-sacrifice metamorphosis
A Hemingwayesque artist (George C. Scott) plays and drinks in the 1940s Bahamas, visited by his first wife (Claire Bloom) and three sons.
Crime, Drama
1934
93 Minutes
Clark Gable William Powell Myrna Loy Leo Carrillo Isabel Jewell Mickey Rooney Nat Pendleton
casino owner politician love interest priest engaging gripping thrilling touching melodramatic new york city casino friendship new love self-sacrifice loyalty political campaign immortality sacrifice rise growing up
A district attorney (William Powell) condemns his boyhood buddy, a racketeer (Clark Gable) whose crime saves his bid for governor.
Drama
2018
95 Minutes
Mary Kay Place Jake Lacy Estelle Parsons Andrea Martin Deirdre O'Connell Phyllis Somerville Celia Keenan-Bolger Ray Iannicelli
woman son drug addict volunteer sick person uneasy tense emotional profound amusing touching hospital house bar church homeless shelter secret past troubled past self-sacrifice drug addiction
A woman fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Sci-Fi
1958
83 Minutes
Louis Tock Ernest Navara Milo Holl
scientist assistant pirate captive amusing campy creative outlandish island volcano balloon submarine pirate ship science pirates kidnapping self-sacrifice world domination inventions escape
Pirates kidnap a bomb inventor (Ernest Navara) and his helper (Louis Tock) in a story with puppets and animation.
Fantasy, Kids & Family, Other, Animation
1999
70 Minutes
Toby Shelton Bill Speers
mickey mouse minnie mouse donald duck goofy santa claus son cheery creative endearing touching moving fictional city home neighborhood shop christmas reanimation skepticism self-sacrifice holidays
Mickey and his friends tell three stories including "A Very Goofy Christmas" and "Mickey and Minnie's Gift of the Magi."
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