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Looking for a movie that will lift your spirits and make you smile? Check out this list of 50 feel-good movies from various genres and decades, rated by IMDb users and critics.
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- Working Girl. Released: 1988. Rated: R. Best for: Finding career inspiration. Before quiet quitting and rage applying, there was simple workplace revenge. In the Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford workplace comedy Working Girl, Griffith plays Tess McGill, a secretary from Staten Island whose not-so-great female boss (Sigourney Weaver) steals her brilliant idea and passes it off as her own.
- Pretty Woman. Released: 1990. Rated: PG-13. Best for: Fairy-tale endings. A rich man picking up a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard might not seem like the plot of one of the best feel-good, happy movies of the ’90s, but this Garry Marshall classic starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts is just that.
- La La Land. Released: 2016. Rated: PG-13. Best for: Those who love a good musical. This Oscar-winning romantic musical comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone took its inspiration from old-school Hollywood films like Singin’ in the Rain.
- Four Weddings and a Funeral. Released: 1994. Rated: R. Best for: Reminders that love conquers all. This laugh-out-loud rom-com was the ’90s movie that first put Hugh Grant on the map as Hollywood’s go-to charming leading man.
150 Great Feel-Good Movies to Stream Now. What defines a feel-good movie? It’s hard to say. For some, a thrilling fight sequence or a series of Michael Bay-style explosions brings joy; for...
Happy!: Created by Grant Morrison, Brian Taylor. With Christopher Meloni, Ritchie Coster, Lili Mirojnick, Patton Oswalt. An injured hitman befriends his kidnapped daughter's imaginary friend; a perky blue flying unicorn.
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Feb 11, 2012 · Happy: Directed by Roko Belic. With Marci Shimoff, Ed Diener, Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.
4 days ago · From silent-film classics to modern rom-com hits, the best feel-good movies have a timeless power to bring out smiles—and sometimes a few tears too.