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Movies by Lists - Feel-Good Comedies (64 [64])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
127 HoursA mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.2010Danny Boyle (*)Biography, Drama7.5 (366.4K votes)9420211228
A.I. Artificial IntelligenceA highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.2001Steven Spielberg (*)Drama, Sci-Fi7.2 (301.7K votes)14620211228
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.2001Jean-Pierre JeunetComedy, Romance8.3 (735.1K votes)12220211228
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.1997James L. Brooks (*)Comedy, Drama, Romance7.7 (291.7K votes)13920211228
August RushAn orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift to try to find his birth parents.2007Kirsten SheridanDrama, Music7.5 (106.4K votes)11420211228
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.1990Penny Marshall (*)Biography, Drama7.8 (135.9K votes)12120211228
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 frie2009Sam MendesAdventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance7.0 (53.1K votes)9820211228
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.2012Benh ZeitlinAdventure, Drama, Fantasy7.3 (82.6K votes)9320211228
Billy ElliotA talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.2000Stephen DaldryDrama, Music7.7 (132.3K votes)11020211228
BoyhoodThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.2014Richard Linklater (*)Drama7.9 (347.8K votes)16520211228
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.2007Rob Reiner (*)Adventure, Comedy, Drama7.4 (240.6K votes)9720211228
Calendar GirlsA Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.2003Nigel ColeComedy, Drama6.9 (27.5K votes)10820230830
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.2000Lasse HallströmDrama, Romance7.2 (187.2K votes)12120211228
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.1988Giuseppe Tornatore (*)Drama, Romance8.5 (250.8K votes)15520211228
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.2013Jean-Marc ValléeBiography, Drama8.0 (470.6K votes)11720211228
Dangerous MindsAn ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.1995John N. SmithBiography, Drama6.5 (55.5K votes)9920230830
Dead Poets SocietyMaverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.1989Peter Weir (*)Comedy, Drama8.1 (461.9K votes)12820211228
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.2007Julian SchnabelBiography, Drama8.0 (106.5K votes)11220211228
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...2018Anne FletcherComedy, Drama6.5 (33.9K votes)11020220822
Empire of the SunA young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.1987Steven Spielberg (*)Drama, History, War7.7 (122.4K votes)15320211228
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 sweeth1994Robert Zemeckis (*)Drama, Romance8.8 (2M votes)14220211228
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.1993Simon WincerAdventure, Drama, Family6.0 (80.7K votes)11220230830
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.1997Gus Van Sant (*)Drama, Romance8.3 (922.1K votes)12620211228
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.2006Ridley Scott (*)Comedy, Drama, Romance7.0 (93.7K votes)11720211228
GravityTwo astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.2013Alfonso CuarónDrama, Sci-Fi, Thriller7.7 (803.2K votes)9120211228
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.2018Peter FarrellyBiography, Comedy, Drama, Music8.2 (442K votes)13020211228
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.1999Frank Darabont (*)Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery8.6 (1.2M votes)18920211228
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.2001Jessie NelsonDrama7.6 (150.2K votes)220220912
IntouchablesAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.2011Olivier Nakache, Éric ToledanoBiography, Comedy, Drama8.5 (816.4K votes)11220211228
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.1946Frank Capra (*)Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy8.6 (438.9K votes)13020211228
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.1996Cameron CroweComedy, Drama, Romance, Sport7.3 (256.9K votes)13920211228
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.2009Nora EphronBiography, Drama, Romance7.0 (125.7K votes)12320230830
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.2010Tom HooperBiography, Drama, History8.0 (664.6K votes)11820211228
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.1996Jan SverákComedy, Drama, Music7.8 (15.3K votes)10520211228
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.2001UnknownDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi7.4 (180.6K votes)12020211228
Lion King, TheLion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.1994Roger Allers, Rob MinkoffAnimation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical8.5 (1M votes)8820211228
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.2006Jonathan Dayton, Valerie FarisComedy, Drama7.8 (462.3K votes)10120211228
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 pageant2018Anne FletcherComedy, Drama6.6 (31.9K votes)11020211228
My Left FootChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.1989Jim Sheridan (*)Biography, Drama7.9 (72.5K votes)10320211228
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.2013Alexander PayneAdventure, Comedy, Drama7.7 (116.3K votes)11520211228
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.1975Milos Forman (*)Drama8.7 (970.7K votes)13320211228
Pay It ForwardA young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.2000Mimi LederDrama7.2 (117.5K votes)12320211228
Perks of Being a Wallflower, TheAn introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.2012Stephen ChboskyDrama, Romance7.9 (491.2K votes)10320211228
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.1993Jonathan Demme (*)Drama7.7 (235.6K votes)12520211228
PleasantvilleTwo 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom, where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.1998Gary RossComedy, Drama, Fantasy7.5 (126.8K votes)12420211228
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.2009Lee DanielsDrama7.3 (109.2K votes)11020211228
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 inheritan1988Barry Levinson (*)Drama8.0 (497.3K votes)13320211228
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.2011Gus Van Sant (*)Drama, Romance6.7 (17.8K votes)9120211228
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.1976John G. Avildsen (*)Drama, Sport8.1 (551.3K votes)12020211228
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.2007David SchwimmerComedy, Romance, Sport6.6 (67K votes)10020211228
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.2013Ben StillerAdventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance7.3 (307.8K votes)11420211228
Shawshank Redemption, TheTwo imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.1994Frank Darabont (*)Drama9.3 (2.5M votes)14220211228
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.2013Destin Daniel CrettonDrama8.0 (86K votes)9620211228
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.2004Alexander PayneComedy, Drama, Romance7.5 (187.5K votes)12720211228
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 identi1992Emile ArdolinoComedy, Family, Music6.5 (95.6K votes)10020211228
Still AliceA linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.2014Richard Glatzer, Wash WestmorelandDrama7.5 (131.5K votes)10120211228
Straight Story, TheAn old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.1999David Lynch (*)Biography, Drama8.0 (88.3K votes)11220211228
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.2006Marc ForsterComedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance7.5 (225.7K votes)11320211228
Truman Show, TheAn insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.1998Peter Weir (*)Comedy, Drama8.1 (1M votes)10320211228
Up78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.2009Pete Docter, Bob PetersonAnimation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family8.2 (997K votes)9620211228
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.2011Gavin O'ConnorAction, Drama, Sport8.1 (456.7K votes)14020211228
We Bought a ZooSet in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.2011Cameron CroweComedy, Drama, Family7.1 (141K votes)12420211228
While You Were SleepingA hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient.1995Jon TurteltaubComedy, Drama, Romance6.7 (99.5K votes)10320211228
Yes ManA man challenges himself to say "yes" to everything.2008Peyton ReedComedy, Romance6.8 (354.9K votes)10420220414