Movies that cheer you up.

So masc.

Shrek for me or Point Break.

The Human Caterpillar

Cinema Paradiso

If you aren't smiling like a joy-filled idiot at the ending scene in the theater, you have no heart. Watch it but don't spoil it. It's a nice surprise.

Baby Jane, and lots of booze.

Bridesmaids

Arthur.

What's Up, Doc?

Love & Death

Auntie Mame

The World of Henry Orient

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

Wit

Depressing movies cheer me up. Sometimes I just need a good cry.

Devil wears Prada

Pillow Talk.

Another vote for 'What's up Doc?' It always makes me chuckle. One of my friends was very depressed, after breaking up with his girlfriend, and 'Young Frankenstein' and the original 'Austin Powers' lifted his spirits.

Death at a Funeral ( original British version ) Hilarious movie Thanks for the reminder . Need to laugh tonight !

Love Simon

The first couple of episodes of the new animated She-Ra were uplifting. Almost all the characters could be coded as gay. The male characters Bow and Sea Hawk are pretty hot, and a bit fem. They don't openly flirt with each other and Sea Hawk 'likes' the mermaid chick (not reciprocally) , but I like how the show doesn't automatically throw a heterosexual relationship in your face and say "Here, this is how it's going to be". This show is more for the ladies though, but that's ok, because I don't think there is any real lesbian representation out there in TV land right now.

Speaking of "Frozen", this spoof ("Let one go") always makes me smile :-)

Angela's Ashes

Mamma Mia 2 and Singin In The Rain even though it was mean of Gene Kelly to let Debbie believe she was forced to do Lena’s voice.

Muriels wedding is pretty good fun.

Clueless or Batman Returns

I'm a great fan of the Monsieur Hulot movies (Jacques Tati). The one that I enjoy the most is Mon Oncle. It's charming.

The "Brady Bunch" parody movies.

Love that one too R21.

For me it's Summer Rental, (honesty anything with John Candy.) Also Educating Rita and Weekend At Bernie's.

A Bug's Life

Space Camp

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Foul Play - one of my all time favorites.

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World - corny but I love it!

School of Rock!

Almost any Jess Franco movie. For the most part, they're so surreal and low budget to point of being home movies. They're entertaining despite themselves. I get a kick out of Franco's guts and that cheers me up.

I think the Carry On movies are great fun. Kenneth Williams always gives me a chuckle. He thought that most of them were trash.

In Carry on Cleo he's Julius Caesar " Infamy ! Infamy ! Everyone has it infamy !

The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) Zoolander (2001) Dick (1999) City Lights (1931) I Love You to Death (1990) Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Young Frankenstein (1974)

Certain Woody Allen films, especially the early ones.

Sleeper

Love & Death

Take the Money and Run

Play it Again Sam

Radio Days

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Alice

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Kristen Bjorn's Anchor Hotel

Inside Out - A great message for kids and adults alike.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

R12. well done very broad comedy is the best when in certain mind-sets.

That ass though...

La La land Amelie

Sorry- Should read: La La Land, and Amelie

When Harry met Sally

Beaches

Terms of Endearment

A Place in the Sun

Valley Girl

Hairspray (original) and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Eating Raoul.

I Want to Live!

On the Beach

Some of you are having one on. A Place In The Sun? A grisly murder melodrama!

The Snake Pit

Steel Magnolias

Notting Hill

Devil Wears Prada

Auntie Mame

The Women

Amelie

Night Must Fall

Sad movies cheer me up too. Or give me perspective - I guess that's more accurate.

If I had to pick one, probably "Death in Venice" with Dirk Bogarde and Mahler's symphonies as backdrop (I always loved the story that Hollywood folks watched the movie and thought it was dreary but they wanted to hire the guy who did the music.)

Another great tear-jerker - "To Forget Venice" featuring a brother and sister, both gay, who have troubled relationships - and they meet up at their beloved aunt's house, a former opera singer who's dying of cancer.

A Room With A View

I've already listed a few and I realize that most of the movies that cheer me up when I'm down are 80s films. Maybe I'm trying to return to my youth when I was genuinely happy.

Any Star Trek movie except 5.

Terms of Endearment, Adventures in Babysitting, 9 to 5, Death Becomes Her, Singin' in the Rain, Meet Me in St. Louis, Friday the 13th (1-8), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone 1 and 2, Night of the Creeps, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1,3, and 4), Back to the Future, Night of the Comet, Slaughter High, The Last Horror Film....there really was something about movies from the 80's. They're infectiously fun.

Maybe it's because these are all movies where I can remember exactly where I was when I first saw them. To me, those are the best and most memorable movies.

The Trouble With Angels. Perfection.

Sound of Music - beacause I can singalong.

SUPERSTAR - Mary Katherine Gallagher

[quote]Maybe it's because these are all movies where I can remember exactly where I was when I first saw them.

In a movie theater?

Summertime. Something about the light that David Lean used makes the Venetian backdrops shimmer.

More feel good Frozen:

No, not always in a movie theater. Sometimes, on TV or on VHS. And I'm talking more about how old I was, who I was with, what I ate before/after, how the movie made me feel, etc. All the things going on in my life at the time.

THE PARENT TRAP with Hayley Mills! I love the scenes at the camp, that California ranch, and of course, "Let's Get Together!"

The In-Laws (1979 version)

The Out Of Towners (1970 version)

I love seeing 1970s New York.

This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and Fargo.

"All About Eve." I never tire of the witty dialogue.

High quality Disney gay softcore movies would totally fit the bill for sad days.

I'm not very emotional while watching a movie, but I laughed out loud during The Gold Rush - I recall with particular delight the scene where Charlie eats his boots.

What happened to Bjorn ? He made the best porn with very good looking models. Now not so much.

I can watch Zootopia over and over. Not too crazy about the sloths. Harold and Maude.

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Nights of Cabaria. I don’t think it is considered one of Fellini’s best but Ginger and Fred always breaks my heart. Crying can make you feel good.

Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion.

Also, it needs to be said: OP is a MEGA-FRAU!

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I'm going to follow this up with a specific title - Venus in Furs.

A ghost story jazz musical by Jess Franco.

Music by Manfred Mann and others not listed.

And what a great unusual cast: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski, Dennis Price, Margaret Lee, and Paul Mueller.

Franco wanted this story to feature a black male white female love relationship, but was blocked by the studio on grounds it would be protested strongly in the U.S. particularly in the south. He managed to get a compromise with the James Darren/Barbara McNair pairing.

Requiem for a Dream

Panic in Needle Park

Star 80

the bear rape scene in The Revenant is so funny

Sweet Home Alabama

'Night, Mother

“Plan B” from Argentina. Lost count of how many times I’ve watched that one.

Ed Wood, (the only Johnny Depp movie I like.)

Yeah Ed Wood made some low budget bad movies, but he loved film making and was passionate about it, so I love that.

Chopping Mall. That shit is fun.

Chopping Mall is good. I've seen it since it came out.

Jaws. I root for the shark.

Goodfellas, The Godfather I and II.

I'll Cry Tomorrow

The Lost Weekend

Nightmare Alley

Red Dirt. This little Southern Gothic gem is a DL trifecta with Karen Black as a reclusive aunt with a secret rambling around a huge empty house; a charming handsome drifta Walter Googins with plans of seeing the world; and a humble farmer who gets a stirring in his loins.

Karen's scenes are riveting, of course.

Bagdad Cafe.

Starts off depressing but then gets happy towards the end.

Friendship can be found anywhere.

We were discussing Fried Green Tomatoes in another thread and I was wondering if there are any other good but lesser known female friendship films out there. It always seems to be male buddy movies.

Auntie Mame Mixed Nuts (totally insane, and packed with stars) Victor Victoria Arsenic and Old Lace Harvey

Edward Scissorhands!

Edward Scissorhands cheers you up, R91? I'm always crushed at the end!

A Christmas Story...."sons of bitches....Bumpus's"

Galaxy Quest

This one

Scary Movie.

Many already mentionned, plus Sister Act 1&2 (especially the closing credits number of the second one).

Mixed Nuts is such a good one. I'll never understand the hate that movie received when it first came out. Maybe people weren't expecting such a cynical Christmas movie? Madeline Kahn trapped in the elevator alone is worth the price of admission.

maybe this is a lot frau-ish, but Bridget Jones's Diary helped lift my mood a couple times in the past.

GO (1999) dir. Doug Liman, with Sarah Polley & Katie Holmes

We’re having a lively thread about it here rn. It’s actually an Xmas movie, just with raves and a hit-n-run and gay philandering.

The Fifth Element! I have a five-language DVD and know it so well I can laugh at the lines in Spanish, French and Italian!

My Best Friends Wedding

Sleeping With The Enemy

The Wedding Planner

Monster-In-Law

The Devil Wears Prada

Clueless

Scary Movie 1&2

Scream (1-4)

The X-Men movies

Dirty Dancing

Adventures In Babysitting

Ghost

Pillow Talk

Selena

Steel Magnolias

Pretty in Pink

The Breakfast Club

Sixteen Candles

Love Simon

The Duff

High School Musical 1-3

Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates

Ingrid Goes West

Oh...

The Pierce Brosnan 007 movies

Star Trek and Into Darkness

EdTV

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Mamma Mia 2

UP-Disney

The Heat with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock.

Mullins...Mullins...Mullins....

I like the Bridget Jones movies, too. They are cute and I love Hugh and Colin!!

Bohemian Rhapsody.

They Made Me a Criminal

Gun Crazy

The Big House

I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

Soap dish

Showgirls

Night of the demons

Night of the comet

Death becomes her

She devil

Earth girls are easy

Throw mama from the train

Captain Ron

Jewel of the Nile

Romancing the stone

Wild things

Party girl

Troop Beverly Hills

Point break

Demolition man

Nowhere

Nothing but trouble

Men at work

Ladybugs

To die for

A Japanese movie called "Fish Story" from 2009. Punk can save the world!

R112 that looks like my kind of movie, might check it out next time I get chance to sit down with a new foreign film.

I love KISARAZU CATS EYE: WORLD SERIES (2006) for very similar reasons. It’s just very fun, batshit comedy about delinquent smalltown punk idiots who mean well. The KISARAZU CATS EYE tv series from 2002 was excellent feel-good television, too.

I love Christmas movies made in the 40's and 50's. Miracle On 34th Street, Holiday Affair, Christmas in Connecticut, It Happened on Fifth Avenue, It's A Wonderful Life. Also musicals like Sound Of Music and Singing In The Rain. And anything with a high camp value like Mildred Pierce and All About Eve. The remake of The Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo is one I can never pass by. Moonstruck, Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally. And on the cheesier side I love Failure To Launch. And anything starring Paul Newman. The most beautiful man who ever lived.

R113 That looks great, thanks for sharing! Another good Japanese band movie is "Beck". Not as good as Fish Story, but a good comedy, definitely a feel good movie, although there is some dopey acting.

Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the best films I’ve seen in years.

Chu Chu and The Philly Flash for the movie title, if for nothing else. This is apparently Carol Burnett's big screen debut also starring Alan Arkin, featuring Jack Warden, Adam Arkin, Danny Aiello, and Ruth Buzzi. There is so much scenery chewing you'll wind up ducking the splinters. But you will chuckle. And it's free!

Ironweed

Oh, my sides !!!!

Jules and Jim

81/2

The Lion in Winter

Fanny and Alexander (mini-series version)

One From the Heart

Smiles of a Summer Night

Chimes at Midnight

Duck Soup

Scrooge with Albert Finney.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"My Favorite Year"

Peter O'Toole was robbed! (ROBBED, I tell you!)

Peter O'Toole / Alan Swan: As Benjie's dream girl dodges Benjie's pursuit of her, "Alan Swan" stops Benjie in his tracks and whispers: "Give her a head start. There's nothing more exciting than the illusion of being chased . . . "

Enjoy!

Space Camp

Bump for Christmas-based depression

Xanadu, Grease II, Can't Stop The Music and Two of A Kind

r125

Oh cheer up, at least you aren't wearing an eye patch

127 posts and no one mentions Priscilla Queen of the Dessert

The Parent Trap, 1961 version.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

R127, I'll have you know I'm currently wearing TWO eye patches!

Funny Face & Bagdad Cafe

Barbershop (2002)

I Know Where I'm Going

The Greatest Showman

Powertool

Never Say Die. Deeply silly film with Bob Hope and Martha Raye. Screenplay by Preston Sturges.

How Do You Know

As Good as It Gets

Only You

Moonstruck

Terms of Endearment (even though she dies)

R138, I love Moonstruck! Cher's just so graceful and a natural

Most Hayley Mills movies.

Inspirational sports movies like "Rudy", "The Blind Side", or "The Might Macs"

Most Sandra Bullock comedies

Any movie with funny nuns, Mary Wickes, or Mary Wickes playing a funny nun (The Troubles With Angels, Sister Act 1 and 2)

Riot in Cell Block 13

'Night, Mother

Who Slew Auntie Roo?

Soylent Green

Little Caesar

Breaking Away (1979)