When looking up Melodramatic I found a website with a huge list of films that were considered to be "melodramatic films".  I found that some really populars movies were on here.  The definition of melodramatic is "a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions."  Movies like Bambi and Titanic were on here and I think that they actually do give an example of the definition.  Everyone always talks about the beginning of Bambi and how sad it is and I think that that does give it a melodramatic effect.  Titanic's ending scene of Jack drowning is also a good example of the strong emotions that a melodramatic movie makes you feel.


http://www.filmsite.org/melodramafilms.html