Feel-Good Movies Worth Watching
Friend-recommended list of movies to watch. The movies on this list make us feel good and have hope. Bolded movie titles are the films that I’ve watched so far.
List started in August 2020 and are listed in alphabetical order:
1. 42, 2013 American biographical sports film
2. A Beautiful Mind, 2001 American biographical drama
3. A Fish Called Wanda, 1988 heist comedy
4. A Knight's Tale, 2001 American medieval adventure-comedy
5. All Is Lost, 2013 survival drama
6. Always, 1989 American romantic comedy-drama
7. A River Runs Through It, 1992 American drama
8. Being There, 1979 American comedy-drama
9. Big, 1988 American fantasy comedy-drama
10. Billy Elliot, 2000 British dance drama
11. Breaking Away, 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama
12. Cast Away, 2000 American survival drama
13. Collateral Beauty, 2016 American fantasy drama
14. Dead Poets Society, 1989 American teen drama
15. Disobedience, 2017 romantic drama
16. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 2002 American comedy-drama
17. Dogma, 1999 American fantasy comedy
18. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, 2020 slapstick comedy
19. Forrest Gump, 1994 American comedy-drama
20. Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991 American comedy-drama
21. Glory, 1989 American war drama film
22. Good Will Hunting, 1997 American drama
23. Gladiator, 2000 British-American epic historical drama
24. Gran Torino, 2008 American drama
25. Green Book, 2018 American biographical comedy-drama road film
26. Hidden Figures, 2016 American biographical drama
27. I Am Sam, 2001 American drama
28. I Walk the Line, 1970 American neo-noir drama
29. Invincible, 2006 American sports drama
30. Jerry Maguire, 1996 American romantic comedy-drama sports film
31. Jojo Rabbit, 2019 comedy-drama
32. Julie & Julia, 2009 American comedy-drama
33. Just Mercy, 2019 American biographical legal drama
34. Legally Blonde, 2001 American comedy
35. Legends of the Fall, 1994 American epic historical drama Western
36. Little Miss Sunshine, 2006 American comedy-drama
37. Local Hero, 1983 Scottish comedy-drama
38. Lone Star, 1996 American neo-Western mystery
39. Luce, 2019 American social thriller drama
40. Marshall, 2017 American biographical legal drama
41. Midnight in Paris, 2011 fantasy comedy-drama
42. Moonstruck, 1987 American romantic comedy
43. My Cousin Vinny, 1992 American comedy
44. Notting Hill, 1999 romantic comedy
45. Pay It Forward, 2000 American drama
46. Practical Magic, 1998 American romantic comedy fantasy film based on novel by Alice Hoffman
47. P.S. I Love You, 2007 American romantic drama based on the 2004 novel by Cecelia Ahern
48. Roxanne, 1987 American romantic comedy
49. Say Anything, 1989 American teen romantic comedy-drama
50. Seabiscuit, 2003 American sports film
51. Secondhand Lions, 2003 American comedy-drama
52. Secretariat, 2010 American biographical sports drama
53. Seven Pounds, 2008 American drama
54. Silver Linings Playbook, 2012 American romantic comedy-drama
55. Stardust, 2007 romantic fantasy adventure
56. State of Play, 2009 political thriller
57. Sweet Home Alabama, 2002 American romantic comedy
58. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, 2013 Swedish comedy
59. The Art of Racing in the Rain, 2019 American comedy-drama
60. The Blind Side, 2009 American biographical sports drama
61. The Cider House Rules, 1999 American drama
62. The Fault in Our Stars, 2014 American romantic tragedy film
63. The Firm, 1993 American legal thriller
64. The Founder, 2016 American biographical drama
65. The Intouchables, 2011 French buddy comedy-drama
66. The Games Maker, 2014 Argentine-Canadian adventure film
67. The Greatest Showman, 2017 American musical drama
68. The King's Speech, 2010 British historical drama
69. The Life of David Gale, 2003 drama
70. The Lincoln Lawyer, 2011 American legal thriller
71. The Notebook, 2004 American romantic drama based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks
72. The Peanut Butter Falcon, 2019 American comedy-drama
73. The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006 American biographical drama
74. The Search for Bobby Fischer, 1993 American docu-drama
75. The Visitor, 2007 American drama
76. The Upside, 2017 American comedy-drama (English language version of the Intouchables)
77. There's Something About Mary, 1998 American comedy
78. This Beautiful Fantastic, 2016 British romantic drama (gardening!)
79. Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003 American romantic comedy-drama
80. View from the Top, 2003 American romantic comedy
81. Woman in Gold, 2015 biographical drama
82. Yesterday, 2019 romantic comedy
2020’s top 50 movies
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/01/the-50-best-films-of-2020-in-the-us-50-41
https://www.vulture.com/article/best-movies-on-netflix-right-now.html May 2021