Filmsky can you please recommend your favourite happy, upbeat, optimistic, beautiful films? It can have darker content but I want the themes to be one of hope. 📽️ #Filmsky
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The Russia House—great romance, & one of Jerry Goldsmith's most beautiful scores.
Lil Miss Sunshine
Some Like It Hot
Young Frankenstein
The Bird Cage
School of Rock
Roman Holiday
Lilo & Stitch
Emperor's New Groove
5000 Fingers of Dr. T
bit darker:
Mulan
Sexy Beast
Master & Commander
Charade
more of the older fantasy/scifi:
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Jason & the Argonauts
Journey to the Center of the Earth
First Men in the Moon
Miracle on 34th Street
Harvey
Superman (70s)
Flash (ah-aah!) Gordon
Tremors
MI: Fallout maybe? It's certainly exhilarating.
The Mask of Zorro
Hopscotch
My second favourite feel good movie after Hairspray. It's very funny and warm. I'm surprised you've never heard of it but I think I forget not everyone was a gay teenager in the 90s 😂😭
If you’re into Bollywood movies, try the following:
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
3 Idiots
PK
Dear Zindagi
Jawan (definitely has some dark moments but the ending definitely counts as a good one for the heroes)
Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani
Chennai Express
Gallivant, Andrew Kötting
Miracolo a Milano, Vittorio De Sica
Caro diario, Nanni Moretti
Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg
Tampopo, Jūzō Itami
Wagon Master, John Ford
The Shop Around the Corner, Ernst Lubitsch
there are a lot of absolute bangers, mononoke is still my favourite. I only stopped collecting the dvds when I realised I'd probably get them on br one day
Paddington 1 & 2
Singin’ in the Rain
Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood
Joe vs the Volcano
Edward Scissorhands
The General
Top Gun: Maverick
(👆🏻seriously it’s so good)
Safety Last!
City Lights
Raising Arizona
Princess Bride
-Any Miyazaki esp. Kiki’s Delivery Service and Totoro
-Field of Dreams
-Any Chaplin esp. City Lights, Modern Times, Great Dictator.
-The Martian
-Everybody Wants Some!
-Groundhog Day
-Paterson
-Happy-go-lucky
-Planes, Trains and Automobiles
-Little Women (1994 or 2019)
-It’s a Wonderful Life
Safety Not Guaranteed
Little Women (Gerwig version)
Whip It
The Big Lebowski
Attack the Block
The Final Girls
Arrival (uplifting, but maybe not upbeat?)
Station Eleven (a series, but it’s a really humanistic, uplifting work)
Hot Fuzz
It’s a Wonderful Life
EEAO
Poor Things
Casablanca
My Old Ass
I definitely veer toward the darker stuff, but I got room for the lighter hopeful stuff:
In America (ironic, I know)
Life Is Beautiful
Cinema Paradiso
Coco
Searching for Sugarman
Red Balloon
Tick, Tick… Boom! (Went in not looking to like it, ended up really liking it)
No films jump to mind (which I’ll be having a good think on latter to figure out why that is) but tv has great ones. Netflix’s She-Ra is my go-to for pure hope-ium with candy coated visuals seasoned with serious, even dark, themes…
Disney’s The Owl House is similar, aimed, maybe, just a bit younger. And Steven Universe is… difficult to describe. Watch most episodes alone and you might think it’s empty and ridiculous, even senseless, but taken as a whole it is a work of staggering beauty.
Oh my god… you’ve hit on two of my daughter’s favorites and, as she’s forced me to sit and watch them too, I can second this. Must also add Amphibia and the Netflix Carmen Sandiego to this list.
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Apollo 13
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan
The Russia House—great romance, & one of Jerry Goldsmith's most beautiful scores.
Lil Miss Sunshine
Some Like It Hot
Young Frankenstein
The Bird Cage
School of Rock
Roman Holiday
Lilo & Stitch
Emperor's New Groove
5000 Fingers of Dr. T
bit darker:
Mulan
Sexy Beast
Master & Commander
Charade
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Jason & the Argonauts
Journey to the Center of the Earth
First Men in the Moon
Miracle on 34th Street
Harvey
Superman (70s)
Flash (ah-aah!) Gordon
Tremors
MI: Fallout maybe? It's certainly exhilarating.
The Mask of Zorro
Hopscotch
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
3 Idiots
PK
Dear Zindagi
Jawan (definitely has some dark moments but the ending definitely counts as a good one for the heroes)
Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani
Chennai Express
Gallivant, Andrew Kötting
Miracolo a Milano, Vittorio De Sica
Caro diario, Nanni Moretti
Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg
Tampopo, Jūzō Itami
Wagon Master, John Ford
The Shop Around the Corner, Ernst Lubitsch
After Life, Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Only Angels Have Wings, Hawks
Drifting Clouds, Kaurismaki
Amelie, but also the (darker) A Very Long Engagement.
Studio Ghibli: Whisper of the Heart, Only Yesterday.
We're no Angels (the essential Bogart Christmas movie).
Big Fish
The Bad News Bears
The Journey of Natty Gann
Oh, God
The Rocketter
The Book of Life
Bowfinger
Singin’ in the Rain
Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood
Joe vs the Volcano
Edward Scissorhands
The General
Top Gun: Maverick
(👆🏻seriously it’s so good)
Safety Last!
City Lights
Raising Arizona
Princess Bride
Kneecap
Lisa Frankenstein
The King Of Staten Island
-Field of Dreams
-Any Chaplin esp. City Lights, Modern Times, Great Dictator.
-The Martian
-Everybody Wants Some!
-Groundhog Day
-Paterson
-Happy-go-lucky
-Planes, Trains and Automobiles
-Little Women (1994 or 2019)
-It’s a Wonderful Life
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002fc4
Little Women (Gerwig version)
Whip It
The Big Lebowski
Attack the Block
The Final Girls
Arrival (uplifting, but maybe not upbeat?)
Station Eleven (a series, but it’s a really humanistic, uplifting work)
Hot Fuzz
It’s a Wonderful Life
EEAO
Poor Things
Casablanca
My Old Ass
In America (ironic, I know)
Life Is Beautiful
Cinema Paradiso
Coco
Searching for Sugarman
Red Balloon
Tick, Tick… Boom! (Went in not looking to like it, ended up really liking it)