SEL doesn't work as a worksheet exercise, it works when students see a character actually feel something and have to decide what to do about it. Every movie on this list hands students a specific emotional situation, moving to a new place, losing someone, being seen as different, and lets them sit inside it for two hours before anyone asks them to talk about it. That's the difference between telling a student what empathy is and watching a student build it while they watch Riley try to text her old friends, or Auggie walk into a lunchroom.
These ten movies cover a wide emotional range on purpose, joy and grief, identity and belonging, kindness and loss, because SEL isn't one feeling, it's the whole toolkit. They're ranked by what teachers are actually using in their own classrooms, so this isn't a guess at what might resonate, it's a record of what already has. Find the movie that matches what your class needs to talk about, and let the story do the first part of the work.