Please list your favorite " Feel Good Movies"

[Stuart G]

Here are 4 of mine...Some Like it Hot, Blazing Saddles, It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace

I have seen enough of sad full length movies, and sad documentaries. I would like a list of "feel gooders" to watch whenever. These can be old or new, highly rated or not highly rated. I just would like a list of movies that I know have happy endings and are generally fun to watch.
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Thanks for your opinions and lists, and any movie that you are sure makes people "feel good", or "happy" qualifies..

[yellowdogintexas]

1. i have several:

Victor Victoria; Young Frankenstein; The Great Race; The Princess Bride; Better Off Dead; Bringing Up Baby; Undercover Blues;

[Stuart G]

5. Yes, Young Frankenstein should be on my list too..thank you very much for your ideas..

And I don't think I have ever seen "Bringing Up Baby." Tomorrow I will search for that at the library.

[yellowdogintexas]

72. It's a real winner. Hepburn and Grant at their best nt

[Marthe48]

84. Bringing up Baby is hilarious :)

I've seen it several times. I also liked Arsenic and Old Lace, also Cary Grant. Also Suspicion and Notorious.

[AJT]

7. "Where's my 2 dollars!!!!"

[Frances]

27. Bringing Up Baby

Is a zany, feel good movie starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Local Hero, Clue, Groundhogs Day

[Stuart G]

8. Thank You...Groughog Day is very special. It is wonderful.

[Mendocino]

21. Local Hero!

A best film that seldom have seen.

[Rhiannon12866]

74. I loved Local Hero, one of my all time favorites!

Back in the '80s when I bought my VCR, I got a free first rental, and that was my choice! Terrific film!

[Zoonart]

76. Love Local Hero

Here's a piece of Local Hero trivia. It is Al Gore's favorite film.

[CanonRay]

3. French Kiss

[AJT]

4. Young Frankenstein, What's Up Doc, Some Like it Hot,

You've Got Mail

[elleng]

6. My Cousin Vinny!!!

(Not the type you asked for, but it popped into my head!)

[Stuart G]

11. I loved "My Cousin Vinny" and it qualifies. thank you!!

Oh, I have it in my collection, and it is time to watch it again.

[elleng]

12. Glad you like it!

My daughters and I quote lines often!

[GP6971]

9. All of Mel Brooks films. n/t

[Cousin Dupree]

10. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Romance with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy

[Beringia]

13. Martin Short movies

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

Clifford

Pure Luck

He is my favorite comedian.

[a kennedy]

48. OMGOSH, I absolutely love Martin Short as Jiminy Glick.

I think one of his best interviews was with Alec Baldwin......... https://m.

. Wish Martin would still do these interviews.

[a kennedy]

50. and there's this one......tRUmps first 100 days.

https://m.

. I did laugh out loud quite a few times.

[Beringia]

62. I also think Short would do a mean trump

[GeoWilliam750]

14. "It Happened One Night"

[Frances]

23. You beat me to it

It’s a really fun movie

[Snackshack]

15. A couple.

Tequila Sunrise.
The Princess Bride.
The Shawshank Redemption.

[Lunabell]

16. Fifty First Dates is a lovely rom com.

And who doesn't love Drew Barrymore?

[Phoenix61]

17. Dirty Dancing, E.T., Toy Story, Mrs. Doubtfire nt

[Frances]

24. I really love Dirty Dancing

[Bayard]

18. Benny & Joon

Princess Bride
Galaxy Quest
Raising Arizona

[flotsam]

19. I really think that "Feel good movies" and "funny movies" are two separate things

even though a funny movie may make you feel good and a feel good movie may be funny. So I don't know why, but when you asked for a feel good movie I thought of "Fly Away Home".....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Think you should have said IT MUST BE a "feel good" movie

AND the responder had to explain why!

[SCantiGOP]

22. Pulp Fiction

maybe I don’t understand the rules

[PennyK]

25. Amelie!!!!

My absolute favorite feel-GREAT movie!

[Nay]

44. That is a great feel-good movie!

[Frances]

26. Captain Ron and Captains Courageous

Captain Ron has a lot of humor and is really feel good
Captains Courageous traces the transformation of a rich spoiled brat into a good kid when he falls off a yacht and is rescued by a fishing vessel. I’m not sure but I think Spencer Tracy won an academy award for his performance which has stood the test of time IMO

[Control-Z]

28. "A Million Ways to Die in the West"

"We Bought a Zoo".

[pdxflyboy]

29. Remember The Titans

I graduated high school in 1972. I played varsity football in the fall of 71, just like in the movie. It's a Disney movie, but it still brings me back to the time and place, with all of the music that was popular in the fall of 1971, and the all of the shit we were dealing with back then.

[KT2000]

36. +1

just watched it for the umpteenth time tonight. My dinner guests had not seen it.

[Buzz cook]

30. Tortilla Soup and the film it was based on

Eat Drink Man Woman.

Never Cry Wolf.

All of these are not comedies, though they are very funny. Each is an interesting character sudy.

[Aristus]

31. Two films providing a much needed 'feel good' vibe in these awful times:

Dave and The American President.

...and...

[BlueDawn]

32. Monty Python.

Any Monty Python movie.

My personal favorite is "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Now go away, or I will taunt you a second time.

[solara]

33. Here are some movies you may not have heard of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_(1980_film)

Resurrection ( 1980) Is a little intense in places, but the ending is excellent and very moving
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Winter’s Tale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter%27s_Tale_(film)
Romantic and beautiful and quite fantastical, this a very feel good movie

I sent you the Youtube adys so you can go and give a listen without too much fuss and bother,


later,

[Olafjoy]

34. Miracle

Pitch Perfect and Secretariat 🏇

[3catwoman3]

35. The American President.

The Odd Couple.

[wryter2000]

37. Harvey

The best feel good movie ever.

[quickesst]

38. this one took me through a gamut of feelings.....

It was a roller coaster that ended up feeling pretty damn good.

WE ARE MARSHALL

https://m.

[pnwest]

39. "Running Scared". It's so very 80's, but

the fun chemistry between Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines is fun to watch. Not to mention they’re both young and good-looking, PLUS Jimmy Smits.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

40. Heart and Souls, Benny and Joon

2 of my faves.

[IADEMO2004]

41. Destination Wedding, Mr. Right, The Closer You Get, Sleeping With Other People

High Fidelity, Leap Year. Definitely Maybe, Chocolat with Juliette Binoche

Survivors of several DVR purges

[Shrek]

42. "Rudy"

Groundhog Day

Brewster's Millions

Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version)

[lillypaddle]

43. "You've Got Mail"

and "When Harry Met Sally." Guess these qualify as chick flicks - any guys out there who have seen them and liked them?

[Democrats_win]

45. "Love Actually"

This is certainly a feel good movie in a world with so many bad things being reported. The main point is, "Love is actually all around us." The movie has great music, good fun and an amazing chase scene in which the little boy is chased through the airport as the soundtrack plays us to the emotional climax. Beach Boys song, "God Only Knows" ends the movie. Ironically, the Beach Boys should be singing about "Wisconsin Girls!" Who knew?

[TexasBushwhacker]

65. Hugh Grant's little dance

to the Pointer Sister's "Jump" always cracks me up.

[blue neen]

46. Auntie Mame

with Rosalind Russell. It was shot in the 1950's, but so many of the topics are still relevant. It's funny and warm, and Russell is a terrific actress!

[Niagara]

47. My current top "feel good movies" are:

13 Going On 30

A League of Their Own

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Toy Story

Under the Tuscan Sun

The Wedding Singer

Where The Heart Is (2000)

[a kennedy]

49. There are some great feel good movies in animation....Up and Despicable Me.

[Ohiogal]

51. A League of Their Own

[PJMcK]

52. Mr. Holland's Opus (n/t)

[Va Lefty]

53. Here are a few of mine...

The Philadelphia Story
Superman 2
Hoosiers
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

[Clash City Rocker]

103. I'm glad someone mentioned the Philadelphia Story

It’s my all-time favorite. Great dialogue, outstanding cast.

[demmiblue]

54. A few:

[Glorfindel]

55. As Good as It Gets - truly a feel-good movie

Shakespeare in Love
A Pocketful of Miracles (Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, and Ann-Margret's movie debut!)
The Long, Hot Summer (Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Lee Remick, Orson Welles, Angela Lansbury)
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music

[marked50]

56. It's a Wonderful Life-n/t

[Botany]

57. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Over the top but every shot is like a perfect picture.

[sakabatou]

58. Films by the Marx Brothers

[CTyankee]

59. I agree on "Some Like it Hot." It's a fun movie.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

60. Being There, Sorcerer

[Callalily]

61. Short list:

Short list: It's a Wonderful Life, The Princess Bride, Bringing Up Baby, any Thin Man movies (Nick and Nora Charles), The Odd Couple (original with Walter Mathhau and Jack Lemmon).

[aquamarina]

63. Roman Holiday

sigh...

[Frances]

71. Roman Holiday is on my list too

Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn in her first film, Rome!

[Kurt V.]

102. any movie with audrey hepburn

[Stuart G]

64. I thought of one, but can't remember the name. These two people are part of some experiment,

and sleep for 500 years. When they wake up the two of them are the smartest people in the entire world, because the world had dummied down completely due to whatever. And these two, a man and a woman. try to fix the world that had been dummied down so bad that the current occupants didn't know how to grow food. Or something like that...Real strange but lots of fun. What is the name????

[Niagara]

67. is it the movie Idiocracy? n/t

[Stuart G]

68. Yes, You got it. I had forgot the name, and thank you for helping me remember..and,

Idiocracy is a feel good movie that does indeed end happy. I would encourage anyone to see it if they haven't.

[Niagara]

82. You're welcome

I did a google search to see if I could find the title and...ta da, I found it.

I have never heard of it and I will definitely put this movie on my bucket list.

[TexasBushwhacker]

66. When Harry Met Sally

Big
That Thing You Do
Sense and Sensibility

[CottonBear]

69. Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou, Sound of Music and...

The Princess Bride, Dirty Dancing, Animal House, and, finally, The Great Escape.

[yellowdogintexas]

73. I love this silly movie! nt

[Number9Dream]

75. Miracle On 34th Street; Play It Again Sam; Inherit the Wind; A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story - A funny trip back in time for some of us.

Play It Again Sam - Woody Allen meets Humphrey Bogart.

Inherit the Wind (1960) - Thought provoking.

Captain Blood - Swashbuckling at its best.

A Hard Days Night - The Beatles.

Miracle On 34th Street (1947) - Great happy ending.

[dewsgirl]

77. Dirty Dancing, Bridget Jones Diary, Pretty Woman, ....I could go on and and on.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

78. Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Lilies of the Field, The Desk Set, Bachelor Mother

(Thank you, TCM, for recently showing all of these!)

[Paladin]

79. "Waking Ned Devine"

If you don't feel great at that beautiful little movie's conclusion, check to see if you still have a pulse.

[smirkymonkey]

81. I love that movie!

[OregonBlue]

80. Raising Arizona, What About Bob, Forrest Gump,

Zorba the Greek.

[LanternWaste]

83. The Boy Who Could Fly, Schindler's List (I know, I know) and Mr Blanding Builds His Dream Home

Schindler's List may seem odd, but the last three scenes fills me with hope that we can be the people we're supposed to be.

[Marthe48]

85. The Firemen's Ball

This is a Czechoslovakian film, but it is hilarious anyway. You don't even need subtitles. Maybe a couple of beers.

Waking Ned Devine is another dry humor sort of film.

Breaking Away

Rupert the Great (Jimmy Durante)

[IcyPeas]

86. Chef (2014 film)

[IcyPeas]

87. The Full Monty

[smirkymonkey]

91. Another one of my faves!

There are so many English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh films that I just love. A lot of them never hit it big at the box office, but I have seen some great sleeper films that were just charming. The Brits have such great characters - they are never one dimensional or boring.

[IcyPeas]

88. Secrets and Lies with Brenda Blethyn

...Hortense Cumberbatch, who Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) bore out of wedlock at 16 and gave up for adoption without ever seeing her. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a black woman, now in her late 20s, an optometrist. After the death of her mother, she decides to seek her birth mother, and the long-held secret of Cynthia's first child is threatened.

[Skittles]

89. Doc Hollywood

it's just....funny and sweet

[smirkymonkey]

90. My picks...

"Saving Grace" w/ Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Grace_(2000_film)

"A Bear Named Winnie" w/ Michael Fassbender and a real bear! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bear_Named_Winnie

"Big Business" w/ Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Business_(1988_film)

"Dave" w/ Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_(film)

"Harold and Maude" w/ Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_Maude

"A Room with a View" w/ Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_with_a_View_(1985_film)

"Greenfingers" w/ Clive Owen and Helen Mirren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfingers

And many others mentioned above, and probably some I can't think of right now.

[zanana1]

92. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

That is all.

[Ron Obvious]

93. Did we get all this way without mentioning Back to the Future?

That's probably my favourite.

[Ron Obvious]

94. Oh, and The Wanderers (1979)

The music alone...

[NNadir]

95. Groundhog Day.

[Alpeduez21]

96. Letters to God

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Pay it Forward
Every Which Way but Loose
Come Home Snoopy

[Iggo]

97. Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood.

[Laffy Kat]

98. Several different genres:

Amelie, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Love in the Afternoon.

[Grammy23]

99. One of my all time favorites

that stars Marsha Mason and Richard Dryfuss is The Goodbye Girl. It is funny, sappy, sweet, sentimental and has a very happy ending.

City Slickers is another one that is funny and sweet, but all ends up in the good column.

The Four Seasons is a lot of fun, although it has been a bazillion years since I saw it so maybe I’m Forgetting some parts?? LOL

[DFW]

100. Fame, The Russians Are Coming

And about thirty others, of course

[Stuart G]

106. I am glad you mentioned those two. They are really great films. Thank You

[DFW]

107. Sentimental favorites for personal reasons

My wife (back then „to-be“) and I were taking off in mid-winter from JFK to Barbados. It was to be our first Caribbean vacation and it started out like a mess. It was so cold, the jetway froze, and our airplane had to be towed to another gate. The heaters in the terminal were overtaxed and we were all freezing.

We finally took off, and then they served a fabulous creole meal (BIWI Airlines) and we started to feel a little better. Then came the film. FAME with all of its great music and dancing. When the film was over, we pulled up the window shades. Gone were the icy suburbs of the Northeast. Instead, there was azure blue sea dotted with green islands. Talk about feel good!

As for The Russians Are Coming, the whole thing just captivated me. I loved the music, the sound of the language—so what if they weren‘t all native speakers? I hadn’t learned any Russian yet, so I didn’t notice their accents. The man who played the Russian submarine captain later (40 years later!) became a friend of mine. That film inspired me to learn Russian, and to learn how to play the balalaika. E-german-cy! Everybody to get from street.

[mainstreetonce]

101. Moulin Rouge

Just beautiful

[DFW]

104. Two more oddball films

Ghost and Revenge Of The Nerds

[Stuart G]

105. Feel Good Movies??. Ok, I will add a few more... , OK here are more:

Yes, these will make you feel good too. No one said we couldn't list animated films. Why Not?

Fantasia, Titan AE, Toy Story I, Snow White & 7 Dwarfs, The Iron Giant. Beauty and the Beast, Land Before Time, Zootopia..I guess I will come up with more later...No limits here. Just want to feel happy. Escape for 90 minutes or more, and have a nice happy time for a while