Movies by Lists - Feel-Good Comedies (64 [64]) 
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| 127 HoursA mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive. | 2010 | Danny Boyle (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (366.4K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| A.I. Artificial IntelligenceA highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother. | 2001 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (301.7K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| AmelieAmélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love. | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Comedy, Romance | 8.3 (735.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| As Good as It GetsA single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery. | 1997 | James L. Brooks (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (291.7K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| August RushAn orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift to try to find his birth parents. | 2007 | Kirsten Sheridan | Drama, Music | 7.5 (106.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| AwakeningsThe victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. | 1990 | Penny Marshall (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.8 (135.9K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Away We GoA couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old frie | 2009 | Sam Mendes | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (53.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Beasts Of The Southern WildFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love. | 2012 | Benh Zeitlin | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 7.3 (82.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Billy ElliotA talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | Drama, Music | 7.7 (132.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| BoyhoodThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college. | 2014 | Richard Linklater (*) | Drama | 7.9 (347.8K votes) | 165 | 20211228 |
| Bucket List, TheTwo terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die. | 2007 | Rob Reiner (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (240.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Calendar GirlsA Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation. | 2003 | Nigel Cole | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (27.5K votes) | 108 | 20230830 |
| ChocolatA French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. | 2000 | Lasse Hallström | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (187.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Cinema ParadisoA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist. | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.5 (250.8K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Dallas Buyers ClubIn 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease. | 2013 | Jean-Marc Vallée | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (470.6K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous MindsAn ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school. | 1995 | John N. Smith | Biography, Drama | 6.5 (55.5K votes) | 99 | 20230830 |
| Dead Poets SocietyMaverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression. | 1989 | Peter Weir (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (461.9K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Diving Bell and the Butterfly, TheThe true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (106.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Dumplin'Willowdean ('Dumplin'), the plus-size teenage daughter of a former beauty queen, signs up for her mom's Miss Teen Bluebonnet pageant as a protest that escalates when other contestants follow her footsteps, revolutionizing the page... | 2018 | Anne Fletcher | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (33.9K votes) | 110 | 20220822 |
| Empire of the SunA young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II. | 1987 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.7 (122.4K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Forrest GumpThe presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweeth | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.8 (2M votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Free WillyWhen a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale. | 1993 | Simon Wincer | Adventure, Drama, Family | 6.0 (80.7K votes) | 112 | 20230830 |
| Good Will HuntingWill Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life. | 1997 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.3 (922.1K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Good Year, AA British investment broker inherits his uncle's chateau and vineyard in Provence, where he spent much of his childhood. He discovers a new laid-back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold. | 2006 | Ridley Scott (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (93.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| GravityTwo astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space. | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.7 (803.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Green BookA working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music | 8.2 (442K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Green Mile, TheThe lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. | 1999 | Frank Darabont (*) | Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 8.6 (1.2M votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| I Am SamA mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family. | 2001 | Jessie Nelson | Drama | 7.6 (150.2K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| IntouchablesAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver. | 2011 | Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 8.5 (816.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| It's a Wonderful LifeAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. | 1946 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy | 8.6 (438.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Jerry MaguireWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague. | 1996 | Cameron Crowe | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.3 (256.9K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Julie & JuliaJulia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. | 2009 | Nora Ephron | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (125.7K votes) | 123 | 20230830 |
| Kings Speech, TheThe story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer. | 2010 | Tom Hooper | Biography, Drama, History | 8.0 (664.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| KolyaA confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate. | 1996 | Jan Sverák | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.8 (15.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| K-PAXPROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. | 2001 | Unknown | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (180.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Lion King, TheLion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself. | 1994 | Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical | 8.5 (1M votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Little Miss SunshineA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. | 2006 | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (462.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Miss DalíWillowdean ('Dumplin'), the plus-size teenage daughter of a former beauty queen, signs up for her mom's Miss Teen Bluebonnet pageant as a protest that escalates when other contestants follow her footsteps, revolutionizing the pageant | 2018 | Anne Fletcher | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (31.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| My Left FootChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. | 1989 | Jim Sheridan (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.9 (72.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| NebraskaAn aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. | 2013 | Alexander Payne | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (116.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | 1975 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 8.7 (970.7K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Pay It ForwardA young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance. | 2000 | Mimi Leder | Drama | 7.2 (117.5K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Perks of Being a Wallflower, TheAn introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world. | 2012 | Stephen Chbosky | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (491.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| PhiladelphiaWhen a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. | 1993 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Drama | 7.7 (235.6K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| PleasantvilleTwo 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom, where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world. | 1998 | Gary Ross | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 (126.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| PreciousIn New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. | 2009 | Lee Daniels | Drama | 7.3 (109.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Rain ManAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritan | 1988 | Barry Levinson (*) | Drama | 8.0 (497.3K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| RestlessThe story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII. | 2011 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (17.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| RockyA small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. | 1976 | John G. Avildsen (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.1 (551.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Run Fatboy RunFive years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back. | 2007 | David Schwimmer | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 6.6 (67K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Secret Life of Walter MittyTheWhen both he and a colleague are about to lose their job, Walter takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. | 2013 | Ben Stiller | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.3 (307.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Shawshank Redemption, TheTwo imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. | 1994 | Frank Darabont (*) | Drama | 9.3 (2.5M votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Short Term 12A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend. | 2013 | Destin Daniel Cretton | Drama | 8.0 (86K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| SidewaysTwo men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle. | 2004 | Alexander Payne | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (187.5K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Sister ActWhen a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identi | 1992 | Emile Ardolino | Comedy, Family, Music | 6.5 (95.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Still AliceA linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. | 2014 | Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Drama | 7.5 (131.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Straight Story, TheAn old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother. | 1999 | David Lynch (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Stranger Than FictionI.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death. | 2006 | Marc Forster | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.5 (225.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Truman Show, TheAn insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show. | 1998 | Peter Weir (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (1M votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Up78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. | 2009 | Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family | 8.2 (997K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| WarriorThe youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother. | 2011 | Gavin O'Connor | Action, Drama, Sport | 8.1 (456.7K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| We Bought a ZooSet in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo. | 2011 | Cameron Crowe | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.1 (141K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| While You Were SleepingA hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient. | 1995 | Jon Turteltaub | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (99.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Yes ManA man challenges himself to say "yes" to everything. | 2008 | Peyton Reed | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (354.9K votes) | 104 | 20220414 |