The Most Uplifting Movies

Love, Simon

"Melvin & Howard"

Just thinking about it can sometimes cheer me up.

The Greatest Musical of all Time: Singin' in the Rain

Even tho the injustices are pretty appalling in Shawshank Redemption, the ending is pretty uplifting, with the bad guys all getting their comeauppance and the reunion shot in the end.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. Wonderful coming of age story.

mel brooks comedies

laughter is the best medicine.

R5 Great choice: cosmically uplifting!

Thank you, Op. I was about to start a similar thread for the same reason. Here's my entry for this thread: "Mad Hot Ballroom" (2005).

Expertly dancing "The Rumba" in competition, a then 10-year-old NYC street kid Wilson Castillo breaks my heart at 1:58 in this clip -

Young Girls of Rochefort

Most Judy Holliday movies (except "The Marrying Kind" which has a sad part to it). "Born Yesterday", "Bells Are Ringing", "Solid Gold Cadillac", and "It Should Happen to You"especially are great fun.

Jaques Tati films.

The Life of Brian never fails a re-watch.

I love the classical cinematic beauty and themes of Ozu films too for a more poignant, bittersweet sort of 'uplift' too.

All the Aardman Studios films, however 'First Man' was hack-like and even the jokey details didn't hearten me the way those flicks usually do.

Groundhog Day

If this was a straight male board there'd be a thousand answers and they'd all be Field of Dreams.

R13 Or "Rambo:First Blood Part II"

R13 beat me to it!

Amelie.

Planes Trains and Automobiles.

Cinema Paradiso and Amelie are hope personified.

Fletch

Its not a movie, but the first segment of Rachel Maddow's show tonight detailed Paul Manafort's hearing. It ended with him being stripped of his expensive clothes in exchange for an orange jumpsuit, and being carted off to jail. That was very uplifting!!

Junebug

Billy Elliot

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Breaking Away

The first 1.5 minutes of Midnight In Paris

Bill Cunningham New York

The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller version)

Random Harvest

Fahrenheit 11/9: didn't do well at the box office, but its focus on all the anti-Trump citizens working hard for change helped convince me that the mid-terms would be a turning point for the better.

"Resurrection." I heart that Burstyn gal.

Always my two faves: Auntie Mame and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

R30: was the survival of George and Martha's marriage what made Who's Afraid uplifting for you? Or just the spirited display of over-the-top arguing and lust for life?

Pride Harold and Maude Breaking Away Sing Street Singing in the Rain

^^^^Apologies for the formatting there, I don't know what happened.

R32 Maude Breaking Away: it is uplifting to picture Bea Arthur racing to the finish line in a bike race.

Bagdad Cafe

Greatest feel-good ending to a movie ever.

[quote] [R32] Maude Breaking Away: it is uplifting to picture Bea Arthur racing to the finish line in a bike race.

God'll get you for that, r34.

About Schmidt

9 to 5

Murder By Death

The Goodbye Girl

Midnight In Paris

Mel Brook's High Anxiety

Julia and Julia

On Golden Pond

Grease, Death Becomes Her, The Brady Bunch Movie, 9 to 5, Adventures in Babysitting, Kindergarten Cop, Scrooged, Father of the Bride. Weirdly enough, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 as well.

All so fun and happy. I can never be in a bad mood when they're on.

Sing Street.

Toy Story 1 and 2

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GI JANE

Schindler's List

R31-it,s just that I find Mame and Virginia Woolf to be whole, uplifting family holiday movies in general -appropriate for ANY PUBLIC OF PERSONAL SPECIAL FAMILY-warmth event - niche war?-then add in the child and -🚿well, who could argue othwise......

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