Best Feel Good Movies

[RyoHazuki]

What movies really put you in a good mood?

[DVD.guy]

Rudy :thumbsup:

[Darkfriend]

Dead Poets Society.

I remember coming out of the movie theatre and going "YEAH!! Seize the day!! I'm gonna reach the top and make something out of my life!!"

2 days later I was still working at my stupid job and sitting on my sofa at home channel surfing -smile-

[inVectiVe]

Bring It On was tons-o-fun. :)

"In cheerleading we throw people into the air, and fat people don't go as high!"

[Lastblade]

Good Will Hunting
As Good As It Gets
Amelie
There's Something About Mary
Billy Elliot

[greatjedi]

I second Amelie
I also secondBring it On (a guilty pleasure)

[Tarantino]

About a Boy
Spiderman
Jerry Maguire

[tsohg]

Phenomenon

[Kal-El]

Another for Bring It On
That Thing You Do! is a personal favorite of mine

[Ginwen]

I agree with Bring It On.

Also:
The Graduate
High Fidelity
About a Boy
Grosse Pointe Blank

They don't necessarily have me happy all the way through, but leave me happy at the end.

[Hiro11]

Blue Crush
Big Lebowski
Kiki's Delivery Service
Stop Making Sense

[RalphWiggum]

Requiem for a Dream

[eedoon]

I second Amelie and Blue Crush.
Also, Driving Miss Daisy, Forrest Gump, Rain Man, Groundhog Day and Almost Famous.

[MurraySiskind]

Most Cameron Crowe movies, for me anyway:

Jerry Maguire
Almost Famous
Say Anything

[Goat3001]

Originally posted by MurraySiskind
Most Cameron Crowe movies, for me anyway:

Jerry Maguire
Almost Famous
Say Anything

:up: Agreed. Especially Almost Famous

[jfoobar]

The rarely mentioned Creator with Peter O'Toole.

[sundog]

Any Ernst Lubitsch film will do, specifically my favorites: Trouble in Paradise (1932), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Cluny Brown (1946), and even the black comedy To Be or Not to Be (1942) set in Nazi occupied Poland.

Last year though, I saw Abbas Kiarostami's Where is the Friend's House? (1987) and the film's final shot was just so perfect, encompassing everything that came before without bogged down symbolism. I guess I can say it was effortless. I left the theater in a damned glad mood.

And a few more recent ones:
Read My Lips (2001)
Eureka (2000)
Lakeboat (2001)
Secretary (2002)
What Time is it There? (2001)
Diamond Men (2000)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
The American Astronaut (2000)

[Robert]

<b>Forrest Gump
Field of Dreams
Shawshank Redemption
The Majestic
Three Kings

[davidlynchfan]

8 Mile
Wild Style
Krush Groove
Beat Street
Breakin'



*NO one mentioned pR0N Yet!??

[Pants]

Anal Destroyers 9

Feels sooooo good :)

[Bill Chance]

I second Amelie (http://www.dailyepiphany.net/2003/feb/9.htm), and add a semi-guilty pleasure, Field of Dreams.

Bill Chance
The Daily Epiphany (http://www.dailyepiphany.net)

[Mittman]

Alien 3

[Rizor]

Amelie, Shawshank Redemptiom, and Forrest Gump all do it for me.

[costanza187]

American Pie 1 and 2

[GatorDeb]

Searching for Bobby Fischer.

[rfduncan]

While on Cameron Crowe - Singles but make SURE you watch the French segment too ;)
Beatiful Thing
Mary Poppins

[fallow]

Amelie and Shrek.

[Todd Gaines]

Natural Born Killers

[smirnoff]

Endless Summer 2

Scary Movie 2

Rush Hour 1 & 2

[taa455]

Agree w/ alot of what's already been mentioned (esp. Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption and Rudy)

Here are a few of mine:
Singin' in the Rain
The Karate Kid
The Goonies
Stand and Deliver
Home Alone
E.T.
The Family Man
Hoosiers
Father of the Bride
Remember the Titans
The Princess Bride

And from the Kiddie vault:
The Iron Giant
Emperor's New Groove

And one I just saw recently for the 1st time:
The Count of Monte Cristo

[danol]

Watching Hackers 1995 for the hundreds of times, I have watched that too cute Angelina Jolie. Burn she can do a face lock on me anytime as long as it's kates pool on her roof, not the nonexistant pool on the roof at the high school. "Razor and Blade they're flakes, their elite says Kate"

Too cute with that hairstyle. Gets me feeling young and full energy, while trying not to be a pediophile LOL. :)

[eedoon]

Just watched Far From Heaven last night after picked up a fight with my sister. I felt much better afterwards.

[schizopak]

Opportunity Knocks (i know it sucks but i love it)
Amelie
Almost Famous
Good Will Hunting
Joe vs. the Volcano

[dtcarson]

I'd second--or fifth, whatever-- Amelie, and also The Full Monty. That movie had such a feeling of never-say-die.

[LostHiWay]

People may think I'm strange but Secretary was a real feel good movie for me. I'm not into S&M or anthing like that, but the movie proves that there really is a special person for everyone.