Feel Good Movies: Best 50+ Feel Good Movies of All Time
Here are the top 50 feel good movies. If you're looking for best feelgood movies, but simply don't have the time to do a lot of research on which ones you should watch, this list was made just for you. Every movie on this list has the ability to make us feel and experience all the good feelings. In essence, they make us inspired and live through the stories we see on our TV screen while watching them. If you're feeling down for some reason, simply watching one of the movies on this list can make you feel happy again. If you have some of your own favourite feel good movies, remember to upvote for your favorites so that others can find them as well. To find the feel good movies that best suit your taste, we recommend starting to watch the titles from top of the list.
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Spirited Away
Ten-year-old Chihiro Ogino and her parents are traveling to their new home when her father takes a wrong turn. They unknowingly enter a magical world that Chihiro’s father insists on exploring. While Chihiro’s parents begin to devour the…
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The Goonies
Facing foreclosure of their homes in the Goon Docks area of Astoria, Oregon, to an expanding country club, a group of children who call themselves “the Goonies” gather for a final weekend together. The Goonies include…
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Ghostbusters
Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler are scientists investigating the paranormal at Columbia University. After they lose their jobs following a botched ghost investigation in the University library, they establish…
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Neal Page is an advertising executive on a business trip in New York City eager to return to his family in Chicago for Thanksgiving. After participating in a tedious meeting that ends without a decision, Neal unsuccessfully attempts to hail a cab…
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Stand by Me
Author Gordie Lachance reads in the newspaper that his childhood friend Chris Chambers has been killed. Gordie then narrates an extended flashback, later revealed to be a story he is writing. The flashback tells the story of a childhood incident…
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Uncle Buck
Bob and Cindy Russell and their three children, 15-year-old Tia, 8-year-old Miles, and 6-year-old Maizy, have recently moved from Indianapolis to the Chicago suburbs because of Bob’s promotion. Late one night, they receive…
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When Harry Met Sally…
In 1977, Harry Burns and Sally Albright graduate from the University of Chicago and share the drive to New York City, where Sally is beginning journalism school and Harry is starting a career. Harry is dating Sally’s friend…
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The Truman Show
Truman Burbank is the unsuspecting star of The Truman Show, a reality television program which is broadcast live around the clock and across the globe. His entire life has taken place within a giant arcological dome…
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The Little Mermaid
Ariel, a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with underwater life in the kingdom of Atlantica and is fascinated by the human world. While exploring a Sunken Ship with her best friend Flounder, they are chased by a shark named…
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The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy Gale lives with her Cairn Terrier dog Toto on the Kansas farm of her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. Toto bites witchy neighbor Miss Almira Gulch, who then obtains an order for Toto to…
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The Princess Bride
The film is an enactment of a book read to a sick boy from Chicago—who is initially dismissive of the story—by his grandfather, with occasional interruptions of the scenes in this frame story. A beautiful young woman named Buttercup…
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Back to the Future
In 1985 Hill Valley, California, teenager Marty McFly and his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, are chastised by the school principal for lateness. Marty auditions for the Battle of the Bands, but is rejected for being too loud.…
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The Family Man
Jack and Kate, who have been together since college, are at Kennedy airport, New York, where Jack is about to leave to take up a twelve-month internship with Barclays Bank in London. Kate says she fears the separation will be fatal for their…
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27 Dresses
Jane Nichols (Katherine Heigl) has been a bridesmaid for 27 weddings. One night when she is attending two weddings almost simultaneously, she meets Kevin Doyle (James Marsden), who helps her get home but discusses with her his cynical…
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
On Christmas Eve, in 19th Century London, Charles Dickens (played by Gonzo the Great) and his friend Rizzo act as narratorsthroughout the film. Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine), a surly money-lender,…
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A Goofy Movie
Goofy is the single father of teenager Max Goof, although the two have a tense relationship. On the last day of school before summer vacation, Max and his best friends P.J. and Robert “Bobby” Zimuruski hijack the…
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Titanic
In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett and his team aboard the research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh search the wreck of RMS Titanic for a necklace with a rare diamond, the Heart of the Ocean. They recover a safe…
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The Fifth Element
In 1914, aliens known as Mondoshawans arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple to collect, for safekeeping from World War I, the only weapon capable of defeating a great evil that appears every 5,000 years. The weapon consists of…
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Silver Linings Playbook
After eight months of treatment in a mental health facility for bipolar disorder, Patrizio “Pat” Solitano, Jr. (Bradley Cooper) is released into the care of his father Patrizio, Sr. (Robert De Niro) and mother Dolores (Jacki Weaver)…
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Ella Enchanted
Within the kingdom of Lamia, in the town of Frell, a baby girl named Ella is born to Sir Peter and his wife Lady Eleanor. She is given the “gift of obedience” by a misguided and obnoxious fairy called Lucinda. This turns out to be more…
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Rise of the Guardians
Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia. Upon realizing no one can see or hear him, he disappears. Three hundred years later, Jack, as the young Spirit of Winter, enjoys delivering snow days to school kids, but resents that they…
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Annie
In 1933 during the Great Depression, a young orphan named Annie is living in the Hudson Street Orphanage in New York City which is run by Miss Hannigan, a cruel alcoholic who forces the orphans to clean the building daily. With half…
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Peter Pan
In London, circa 1900, George and Mary Darling’s preparations to attend a party are disrupted by the antics of their boys, John and Michael, acting out a story about Peter Pan and the pirates, told to them by their older…
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We Bought a Zoo
Benjamin Mee is still grieving the loss of his wife Katherine and dealing with the expulsion of his 14-year-old son, Dylan, from school, and decides to make a fresh start by buying a new house. He tours many houses with his 7-year-old daughter,…
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Dumb and Dumber
Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two kindly but dimwitted men, are best friends and roommates living in Providence, Rhode Island. Lloyd, a chip-toothed limousine driver, immediately falls in love when he meets Mary Swanson, a woman he is…
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The Holiday
Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet), a wedding columnist for The Daily Telegraph in London, is still in love with her co-worker Jasper Bloom (Rufus Sewell) for over three years, even though he cheated on her and they have broken up. When she…
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The Devil Wears Prada
Andy is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite her ridicule for the shallowness of the fashion industry, she lands a job as junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the…
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A League of Their Own
In 1988, Dottie Hinson (Lynn Cartwright) attends the opening of the new All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. She sees many of her former teammates and friends, prompting a…
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Mean Girls
Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron and her zoologist parents Betsy and Chip Heron return to the United States after a twelve-year research trip in Africa, settling in Evanston, Illinois. On her first day of attending a…
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Miami, gathering at Peter and Kate’s home outside of Chicago. Peter and Kate’s youngest son, Kevin, sees Florida as contradictory to Christmas, due to the lack of…
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The Iron Giant
Shortly after the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 in October 1957, an object from space crashes in the ocean just off the coast of Maine, then enters the forest near the town of Rockwell. Nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes investigates and finds…
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You’ve Got Mail
Kathleen Kelly is involved with Frank Navasky, a leftist newspaper writer for The New York Observer who is always in search of an opportunity to root for the underdog. While Frank is devoted to his typewriter, Kathleen prefers her laptop…
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Cinderella
Cinderella is living a dissatisfying life, having lost both parents at a young age, and being forced to work as a scullery maid in her own château for her cruel stepmother, Lady Tremaine, who is jealous of Cinderella’s…
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Holes
Teenager Stanley Yelnats IV lives in Texas with his family, who have been cursed to be unlucky – a misfortune they blame on their ancestor Elya’s failure to keep a promise to fortune teller Madame Zeroni centuries ago in Latvia. One day,…
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Toy Story 3
Now 17, Andy is headed to college, and his toys have not been played with for years. He has sold most of them except Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie, Bullseye, Rex, Slinky, Hamm, Mr. and Mrs. Potato…
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Hidden Figures
In 1961, mathematician Katherine Goble works as a human computer in the gender and racially segregated division West Area Computers of the Langley Research Center in Hampton,…
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Halloween Town is a fantasy world filled with monsters, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, zombies, demons, mummies, vampires, werewolves, and witches. Jack Skellington, the “Pumpkin…
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Kung Fu Panda
In the Valley of Peace, a land in ancient China inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, Po Ping the giant panda is a kung fu fanatic who idolizes the Furious Five – Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Viper, and Crane – a quintet of kung…
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Pitch Perfect
During the 2011 ICCA Finals at Lincoln Center, Barden University’s all-female a cappella group, the Barden Bellas, lose to their all-male rival group the Barden University Treblemakers, due to junior member Aubrey…
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Pride & Prejudice
During the 19th century, the Bennet family, consisting of Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters—Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia—live in comparative financial independence as gentry at…
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The Green Mile
In a Louisiana assisted-living home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb begins to cry while watching the film Top Hat. His companion Elaine becomes concerned, and Paul explains to her that the film reminded him of the events of 1935, which took…
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Despicable Me
A supervillain named Gru has his pride injured when an unknown villain steals the Great Pyramid of Giza. With the assistance of his sidekick Dr. Nefario and his Minions, Gru resolves to one-up his mysterious rival by shrinking and stealing the…
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The Sound of Music
In 1938, Maria is a free-spirited young Austrian woman studying to become a nun at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg. Her love of music and the mountains, her youthful enthusiasm and imagination, and her lack of discipline cause some concern…
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Love Actually
The film begins with a voiceover from David (Hugh Grant) commenting that whenever he gets gloomy about the state of the world he thinks about the arrivals terminal at Heathrow Airport, and the pure uncomplicated love felt as friends and…
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Singin’ in the Rain
Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer, and stuntman. Don barely tolerates his vain, cunning, conniving, and shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), though their studio, Monumental…
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Coming to America
In the fictional wealthy African nation of Zamunda, crown prince Akeem Joffer grows weary of his pampered lifestyle on his 21st birthday and wishes to do more for himself. When his parents, King Jaffe and Queen Aeoleon, present him…
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101 Dalmations
Songwriter Roger Radcliffe lives in a bachelor flat in London, along with his Dalmatian, Pongo. Bored with bachelor life, Pongo decides to find a wife for Roger and a mate for himself. While watching various female dog-human pairs out the…
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A Bug’s Life
Ant Island is a colony of ants led by the Queen and her daughter, Princess Atta. Every season, they are forced to give food to a gang of marauding grasshoppers led by Hopper. One day, when Flik, an individualist and would-be inventor, inadvertently…
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Matilda (1996 film)
Matilda Wormwood is a genius, but her parents, Harry and Zinnia, and her brother Michael ignore and mistreat her. Since babyhood, Matilda has displayed incredible learning ability and develops a strong sense of independence due to her often…
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Edward Scissorhands
An elderly woman tells her granddaughter the story of a young man named Edward who has scissor blades for hands. As the creation of an old Inventor, Edward is an artificially created human who is almost completed. The Inventor homeschools…
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Howl’s Moving Castle
Sophie, a young milliner, encounters a wizard named Howl on her way to visit her sister Lettie. Upon returning home, she meets the Witch of the Waste, who transforms her into a ninety-year-old woman. Seeking to break the curse, Sophie leaves…
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It’s a Wonderful Life
On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. Prayers for him reach heaven, where Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd class, is assigned to save George, in return for which he will earn…
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How to Train Your Dragon
On Berk, a Viking village located on a remote island from which dragons periodically steal livestock, Hiccup, the awkward fifteen-year-old son of the village chieftain, Stoick the Vast, works as a blacksmith’s apprentice. As he…
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Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is 32 years old, single, very accident-prone, and worried about her weight. She works in publicity at a book publishing company in London where her main focus is fantasising about her boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh…
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Sleepless in Seattle
After Chicago architect Sam Baldwin loses his wife Maggie to cancer, he and his eight-year-old son Jonah start a new life in Seattle, but they continue to grieve. A year and a half later on Christmas Eve, Jonah calls in to a radio talk show. Jonah…
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Beauty and the Beast
One winter’s night, an enchantress disguised as a beggar offers a cold-hearted prince a rose in exchange for shelter. When he refuses, she transforms him into a beast and his servants into household objects. She bestows the Beast with a magic…
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Inside Out
Riley Andersen is born in Minnesota. Within her mind’s Headquarters, five personifications of her basic emotions — Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger — come to life and influence her actions via a control console. As she…
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Mulan
The Huns, who are led by the ruthless Shan Yu, invade Han China by breaching the Great Wall. The Chinese emperor orders a general mobilization, with conscription notices requiring one man from each family to…
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Mary Poppins
In Edwardian London, 1910, Bert entertains a crowd as a one-man band when he senses a change in the wind. Afterwards, he directly addresses the audience, and gives them a tour of Cherry Tree Lane, stopping outside the Banks…
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty is a negative assets manager at Life magazine who daydreams of adventures and has a crush on a coworker named Cheryl. Mitty works with photojournalist Sean O’Connell, whose images are highly regarded.…
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School of Rock
No Vacancy, a rock band, performs at a nightclub three weeks before auditioning for a Battle of the Bands competition. Guitarist Dewey Finn performs on-stage antics, including a failed stage dive that abruptly ends the…
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Lady and the Tramp
On Christmas morning, 1910, in a quaint Midwestern town, Jim Dear gives his wife Darling an American Cocker Spaniel puppy that she names Lady. Lady enjoys a happy life with the couple and befriends two local neighborhood dogs, Jock,…
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Cool Runnings
Derice Bannock, a top 100m runner, fails to qualify at the Olympic Trial for the 1988 Summer Olympics when fellow runner Junior Bevil trips and falls, taking Derice and another runner, Yul Brenner, with him. To compete in the…
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Jumanji
In 1869, near Brantford, New Hampshire, two brothers bury a chest, hoping that no one will ever find it. In 1969, Alan Parrish flees a gang of bullies and retreats to a shoe factory owned by his father, Sam. An employee, Carl Bentley, shows…
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Toy Story 2
Andy prepares to go to cowboy camp with Woody, but while playing with Woody and Buzz Lightyear, he accidentally tears Woody’s arm. Andy’s mom puts Woody on a shelf, and Andy leaves without Woody. The next day, after having a…
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Sister Act
In the film’s prologue, Deloris Wilson is a young student at a Catholic school; she seems more focused on music groups and being the class clown than her studies. As an adult, she is a lounge singer at a nightclub…
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Grease
In the summer of 1958, greaser Danny Zuko and sweet Australian girl Sandy Olsson meet at the beach and fall in love. When the summer comes to an end, Sandy, whose family is returning to Australia, worries that they might never meet again,…
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A group of alien botanists secretly visit Earth under cover of night to gather plant specimens in a California forest. When government agents appear on the scene, the aliens flee in their spaceship, but in their haste, one of them is left behind.…
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The Notebook
At a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man, Duke, reads a romantic story from his notebook to a fellow patient. In 1940, Seabrook Island, South Carolina, poor quarry worker Noah Calhoun sees 17-year-old heiress Allison “Allie”…
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Aladdin
In the fictional city of Agrabah (which Disney places near the Jordan river), Jafar, the Grand vizier of the Sultan, and his parrot Iago, seek the lamp hidden within the Cave of Wonders, but are told that only a…
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As Good as It Gets
Melvin Udall is a misanthrope who works at home as a best-selling novelist in New York City. He has obsessive–compulsive disorderwhich, paired with his misanthropy, alienates nearly everyone with whom he interacts. He avoids…
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
In suburban Chicago, Illinois, near the end of the school year, high school senior Ferris Bueller fakes being sick to stay home. Throughout the film, Ferris frequently breaks the fourth wall to talk about his…
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The Proposal
Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is a Canadian, who is executive editor in chief of a New York book publishing company. After learning she is about to be deported back to Canada because she violated the terms of her work visa, she…
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
In a small town in 1970, Charlie Bucket, a poor paperboy, watches a group of children visit a candy shop. Walking home, he passes Willy Wonka‘s chocolate factory. A mysterious tinker recites the first lines of William…
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Clueless
Cher Horowitz is a well-intentioned but superficial girl, who is attractive, popular and extremely wealthy. A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, she has risen to the top of her high school social scene. She lives in a Beverly Hills mansion…
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Night at the Museum
Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is a divorced man who has been unable to keep a stable job and has failed at many business ventures. His ex-wife (Kim Raver) believes that he is a bad example to their ten-year-old son Nick (Jake Cherry), and Larry fears…
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Legally Blonde
Elle Woods, an attractive, wealthy and popular fashion merchandising student and president of her Delta Nu sorority, is crushed when her boyfriend Warner Huntington III breaks up with her over a romantic dinner rather than proposing to her, as she…
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Groundhog Day
Weatherman Phil Connors reassures Pittsburgh viewers that an approaching blizzard will miss western Pennsylvania. He goes with news producer Rita Hanson and cameraman Larry to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the Groundhog…
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The Princess Diaries
Teenager Mia Thermopolis lives with her artist mother, Helen, and her cat, Fat Louie in a remodeled San Francisco firehouse. A somewhat awkward and unpopular girl, Mia has a fear of public speaking, and often wishes to be…
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The Breakfast Club
On a Saturday (March 24, 1984) five high school students report for all-day detention. Each comes from a different clique: pampered Claire Standish, state champion wrestler Andrew Clark, geek Brian Johnson, outcast Allison Reynolds, and…
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The Help
In 1963, Aibileen Clark is an African-American maid in Jackson, Mississippi. Utilizing intermittent first person voiceover, Aibileen’s perspective is shared directly with viewers and with aspiring writer Eugenia “Skeeter”…
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Toy Story
The movie depicts a world where toys are living things but pretend to be lifeless when humans are present. A group of toys, owned by six-year-old Andy Davis, are caught off-guard when Andy’s birthday party is moved up a week, as his family…
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Elf
At the North Pole, Papa Elf recounts how a baby boy crawled into Santa Claus‘s sack at an orphanage one Christmas Eve and was unwittingly transported back to the North Pole. When discovered at the workshop,…
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WALL-E
In the 29th century, Earth has been abandoned and covered in garbage, its population having been evacuated by the megacorporation Buy-N-Large (BnL) on giant starliners seven centures earlier after decades of…
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Ratatouille
Remy is an idealistic and ambitious young rat with highly developed senses of taste and smell who dreams of becoming a chef like his idol, the recently deceased Auguste Gusteau. When his family are forced to flee their home he becomes…
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Good Will Hunting
Twenty-year-old Will Hunting of South Boston is a self-taught genius, though he works as a janitor at MIT and spends his free time drinking with his friends, Chuckie, Billy, and Morgan. When Professor Gerald Lambeau posts a…
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The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
The Lord of the Rings is a film series consisting of three epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson. They are based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The…
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Remember the Titans
In the autumn of 1981, a group of former football coaches and players attend a funeral. Ten years earlier in July 1971, at the desegregated T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, a black head coach, Herman Boone, is…
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The Karate Kid
In 1984, 17-year-old Daniel LaRusso moves with his mother Lucille from Newark, New Jersey to Reseda, Los Angeles, California. Their apartment’s handyman is an eccentric but kindly and humble Okinawan immigrant…
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Mrs. Doubtfire
Daniel Hillard is a freelance voice actor in San Francisco. Even though he is a devoted father to his three children, Lydia, Chris, and Natalie, his wife Miranda considers him unreliable. One day, Daniel quits his job after a…
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Rocky
In late 1975, the heavyweight boxing world champion, Apollo Creed, announces plans to hold a title bout in Philadelphia during the upcoming United States Bicentennial. However, he is informed five weeks from…
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The Blind Side
The film opens with seventeen-year-old Michael (“Big Mike”) Oher talking to an NCAA investigator. Then a flashback ensues. Michael has been in foster care with different families in Memphis, Tennessee, due to his…
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Star Wars
The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war. Rebel spies have stolen plans to the Galactic Empire‘s Death Star, a colossal space station capable of destroying an entire planet. The Princess Leia, one of…
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The Incredibles
Public opinion turns against superheroes—also called “Supers”—due to the collateral damage caused by their crime-fighting. After several lawsuits, the government initiates the Superhero Relocation Program, which forces Supers to…
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UP
Nine-year-old Carl Fredricksen idolizes famous explorer Charles F. Muntz. When Muntz is accused of fabricating the skeleton of a giant exotic bird he says he discovered at Paradise Falls, he vows not to return until he captures one alive. One day,…
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Finding Nemo
A clownfish couple, Marlin and Coral, are admiring their new home in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and their clutch of hundreds of eggs, when a barracuda attacks. Marlin is knocked unconscious, and wakes up to find…
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Big
Twelve-year-old Josh Baskin, who lives with his parents and infant sister in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, is told he is too short for a carnival ride called the Super Loops, while attempting to impress Cynthia Benson, an older girl. He puts…
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Home Alone
The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Peter and Kate’s home outside of Chicago on the night before their departure. Peter and Kate’s youngest son, Kevin, is being scorned by his…
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Forrest Gump
In 1981, Forrest Gump recounts his life story to strangers who sit next to him on a bench at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. On his first day of school in Greenbow, Alabama in 1954, Forrest meets a girl named Jenny Curran who, unlike…
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The Shawshank Redemption
In 1947 Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the Shawshank State Penitentiary. He is befriended by Ellis “Red” Redding,…
