Yes, +1.
Also, The Muppet Movie.
Since the news of the last week has been so good since the forces of good triumphed over evil on Tuesday, I go with “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”. One intelligent brave man(Walter Pidgeon) and his assistant (Peter Lorre) , triumphs over skeptical junk scientists (Henry Daniell), murderers/terrorists (Joan Fontaine/Michael Ansara)and a reluctant subordinate (Robert Sterling) to save the world. Sounds just like today.
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A movie that is kind of light fluff, but always makes me happy, is Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. One that may make you feel better in light of the election is 9 to 5, with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton.
Cool Runnings always lifts me up when I feel down.
Cast my votes for Love, Actually and Big Fish.
Great choices on Amelie and Tomorrowland. I’ll add It’s Kind of a Funny Story. It’s perfect for the OP as it deals directly with depression and realizing that you probably don’t have it as bad as you think you do. Also just a fantastic movie with a unifying, feel-good ending. I’m never moved by movies, but that one got me.
Is that the one with “Rainbow Connection”? I’m pretty sure hearing that song last week would have led me to jump off a roof. Something so hauntingly beautiful, yet depressing about it.
I’ve always found Playing for Time (about the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz) strangely uplifting. I guess because it demonstrates the triumph of humanity over great evil. Escape from Sorbibor is also good for the same reason.
The Edge of Tomorrow – war movie, non stop killing, yet everyone lives at the end. And Tom Cruz has a second chance at Emily Blunt.
The Lives of Others
The Karate Kid - uplifting tale of the unlikely friendship between an elderly building maintenance man from Okinawa and a young boy from New Jersey. There’s karate in it, too.
My Blue Heaven - uplifting tale of an FBI agent who falls in love with a small-town Assistant District Attorney, starring Steve Martin as neither of those characters.
As in, the German film about a surveillance agent who gets tangled up in the life of the activist he’s monitoring? I don’t recall anything about that film that was uplifting.
I’m giving another vote for Amelie. Also Chocolat.
The Age of Adaline
Sabrina - either the olden-days one with Audrey Hepburn or the remake with Harrison Ford. I named my old chinchilla after that movie.
…and of course Alice in Wonderland, any version. But not the new ones.
Since Apollo 13 and The Martian have been taken, I will add The Right Stuff (1983)
Also:
*Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Hoosiers (1986)
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Rudy (1993)
Babe (1995)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Ray (2004)*
I love this movie, but is it really uplifting? Would Tired and Cranky feel better about the world after having watched it?
Lots of good suggestions already. Here are a couple more:
The Milagro Beanfield War (Oldie but goodie!)
Far From the Madding Crowd (The new one, with Carey Mulligan, from 2015. Not the typical Thomas Hardy ending – this one is actually happy! Also, serious eye candy: Matthias Schoenaerts.)
Pride and Prejudice, the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle version.
Seabiscuit, the story of the famous race horse that almost never was.
Buck, a documentary about horse trainer Buck Brannaman, who went from abused child to advocate for horses.
Return to Me, with David Duchovney and Minnie Drive. A cheesy rom-com about a man who meets a woman who he doesn’t know was the recipient of his dead wife’s heart. Great supporting performances by Carroll O’Connor, Robert Loggia and Bonnie Hunt.
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