- Pygmalion- considered the first full melodrama
- Shakespeare plays (especially with accompanying music) like A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Operas and TV soap operas
- A Tale of Mystery- first English truly melodramatic play
- Hispanic TV dramas (telenovelas) and Asian TV Dramas
- Moment of Truth movies (1990s), Agnes Browne (1999)
- Classic movies like The Wizard of OZ, It's a Wonderful Life, West Side Story, Field of Dreams, Forrest Gump, Dead Poets Society, Titanic
- Recent movies like The Fault in our Stars, UP, Marley & Me, The Notebook
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama
http://www.filmsite.org/melodramafilms4.html
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Melodrama
