I read "Into the Wilderness" by Sara Donati.
The protagonist, a well-bred woman from England seems to be an HSP, especially in the beginning. Yet she accomplishes some amazing things in this rough & realistic fiction story on the settlement of the US from the people and family perspective rather than the adventurer / military view.

I might also recommend "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse quite an adventure with a deep and tragic historical importance, but stay away from "Soul" by Tobsha Learner. Souls seems to copy the idea of Labyrinth - both are tragic, but it Soul truly miserable. STOP if you don't want my spoiler for the ending. Learner decided to take the heroine of the story and make her murder her husband for which "she is hanged by the neck until dead." I didn't think the book could get anymore miserable - until it ended.

OK, moving on...

Female authors tend to feature more HSP characters.
But Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" is a really deep book with a male HSP as the main character.

I can handle violence in books better than in movies. As for movies, violence sells, so I find I can't watch most of them. Most of these are on Netflix. I did see "Amelie", it was one of my favorite movies. If you liked Amelie, check out "The Red Balloon", short and silly, but certainly the boy is an HSP. A Netflix film documentary "Becoming Santa" is all about HSP guys. You might also want to check out "The Magic of Belle Isle", "Safety not guaranteed", "Shun Li and the Poet" (in Chinese with subtitles), and a new film "Camille" a bit bizzare but deep and bittersweet - with emphasis on the sweet.

I saw "Stuck in Love" yesterday, which is all about sensitivity and a good film.

Netflix is good because I can fast forward and check out a few random scenes, so I can decide whether or not to sensor it - for myself.

Thanks for starting this discussion. I've been thinking that this would be a good place to share and discuss books and movies.

Happy reading and viewing!

One other suggestion "WWW: Wake" by Robert L. Sawyer. It is a modern Science Fiction book with a very sensitive touch. It's about a young blind girl who is presented with the opportunity to see.

Little Women - Beth seems HS to me. In Harry Potter, I think Sybil may be HS. Barkley in Star Trek The Next Generation. I think there are a lot of us in literature too because so many HG's are readers.

From the book/film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer: Oscar is to me very clearly HSP, though he also suffers from some anxiety and PTSD like symptoms as well. He is overwhelmed by the big city, talking to people, other people's sadness, and all of the things that he perceives a lot more vividly than others. He has a very vivid internal life and a huge capacity for compassion but is often overwhelmed very easily by the world.
This is a really beautiful book and I would recommend it to anyone that is HSP. It's one of my favorites. There is also a film, but I would recommend the book first and foremost, I read it long before there was a movie out and thought the movie was okay but it did not resonate as strongly with me as the book did. The writing is brilliant and moving and hooks you, and seeing the eyes through a child who is, in my opinion, HSP is very cathartic and has some really strong lessons in it about overcoming your personal set backs. it's also great for anyone overcoming a traumatic event or life change.

Another book I would possibly recommend is "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" by Aimee Bender. I was not a fan of the writing style in the book, but loved the concept and story. It's very modern and has an interesting run-on sort of dialog that I personally recognized as poor grammar rather than stylistic. But if you are not too picky about writing style or you enjoy new takes on writing, I would recommend it because the concept and story, combined with the character's insight, are very interesting. The girl in this book has a special gift where she can feel people's emotions and sense their reactions through the food that she eats and it becomes a burden to her which she must learn to identify as a gift. It resonated strongly with me as a HSP because I can identify with the feeling of sensing feelings and emotions others do not as easily sense and learning to look upon that sensitivity as a gift. It's a good read for sensitives and empaths because it's something we can easily identify with but it is fantastical and surreal at the same time.
It may be just me, but I feel like the song "I Feel It All" by Fiest is a song about being sensitive and being overwhelmed by feelings during a relationship conflict. At least it is to me, the simple phrase "I Feel It All" makes it seem to me like the songs is about feeling every possible conceivable thing in a given situation and that's what being highly sensitive does for me in highly emotional situations.
This was fun to think about. I think i am going to pay more attention now to characters and song lyrics and check out some of the other suggestions on here.

I have gotten some good ideas so far from the comments. I think I will check out some of the books and songs mentioned.