Glad to see I am not the only guy in the world that really liked Mallrats. I apparently am still the only guy in the world that really hated Heathers.
"Pump Up The Volume" (Christian Slater & Samantha Mathis) "What A Girl Wants" (Amanda Bynes) "Heathers" "Kuffs" I loved Mallrats, I have it on DVD. I have Clerks & Clerks II.
Breaking Away Rudy Millions The Mighty Billy Elliot Love, Actually My Favorite Year Casablanca Much Ado About Nothing The Natural About a Boy Akeelah and the Bee Radio Days
2001 is a great pick-me-up for me. Not just because of the music (some of my favorite movie-soundings of all time, that) but the visuals are absolutely breathtaking.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding Muriels Wedding (oh I see a link here) Bridget Jones Diary (ok an aquired taste) Speed Sister Act I & II X Men - The Last Stand (my fav of the three) Mean Girls and Finding Nemo Ditto for Shawshank Redemption and The Princess Bride. Surely you've now found what you're looking for
A lot of people are recommending what I would term "life-affirming" movies. To me they are totally different to "feel good" movies. I think The Shawshank Redemption is life-affirming, but I'd never think of it as feel-good.
Excellent suggestion, but don't watch yet it if you can't see it on Blu-Ray. The new Baraka release is easily the highest quality Blu-Ray release ever. The 65mm negative was scanned at 8K (2x digital cinema resolution) to create the digital intermediate source for the disc.
Excellent point. Another good life-affirming movie: Green Street Hooligans Another good feel-good movie: His Girl Friday
Love Actually is my guilty feel good movie. "love actually is really all around", corny as hell but it works on me.
I agree, I also have the Blu-Ray. It is a breathtakingly beautiful film (chickens notwithstanding). Although of the two previous standard def DVD releases, the second one was also very good. Probably my favorite part of the whole film was the scenes in the favela. Especially the music ("Wipala"). Another life-affirming film: The Pride of the Yankees
Right now, I'm thinking of Bring it on, which is my *very* guilty pleasure. Wall*E, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., The Aristocats, Happy Feet work great too. :-) And I love Hedwig, but I don't think it's a particularly feel-good movie...
I recommend The Fall for 2 hours of resplendent visuals and engrossing storytelling. It is sad, but ultimately very satisfying. It may fall into the life-affirming category rather than feel good though.