I'm depressed, recommend a film to cheer me up

Sad Professor

I'm having a really bad month. What do you watch when you're feeling crap? It doesn't have to be cloyingly happy or optimistic, just something that gives you comfort and lifts your mood.

TheValeyard

Stardust


Big Fish

Doodoo

Sad Professor wrote: »

I'm having a really bad month. What do you watch when you're feeling crap? It doesn't have to cloyingly happy or optimistic, just something that gives you comfort and lifts your mood.

We're the Millers

ForestFire

Nutty professor

spurious

Harold and Maude.

brevity

When I’m miserable I tend to re-watch movies. I love movies where the characters are at their best, at the top of their game.

Margin Call or Zodiac are two that spring to mind. Michael Clayton too.

For something a bit different I might want Constantine or The Incredibles.

Hedgelayer

Anything with James Stewart in it or know as Jimmy Stewart.

He's really upbeat and even since I was a kid I loved his movies.

Pa8301

Don't watch Requiem for a Dream anyway.

briany

A Prairie Home Companion. A great comfort film, especially if you like American folk music.

Alone in the Wilderness. In the 60s, outdoorsman Dick Prenneke took a super-8 camera with him to Alaska and documented the process of building a homestead.

Prince Avalanche. Two guys working way out in the countryside, marking a stretch of road in the aftermath of a California wildfire.

The Station Agent. A man (played by Peter Dinklage) is bequeathed a disused train station shed in rural New Jersey. He goes to live there and becomes involved in the lives of the locals.

These are all quite slow, gentle films.

Thomhic312

Shawshank redemption is a good one, if you've not seen it before.

johnny_ultimate

Jacques Tati’s Playtime. The way it gradually, carefully builds from a grey, deadpan critique of modernisation to a glorious explosion of technicolour anarchy never fails to put a smile on my face. Its joyous final hour is perfection.

Also: Buster Keaton. Just in general

Lisha

School of rock

splinter65

Jaws

Flashdan

Hangover Part 1

Liar Liar.

Sleeper12

spurious wrote:

Harold and Maude.

Brilliant soundtrack to this movie

Kristopherus

Try a "Carry on..." film. They're old but a lot of them are stiil funny.

angel eyes 2012

Happy Gilmore

Coming to America

Office Space

dartboardio

This is 40

Hacksaw ridge simply because of how generous and kind the main character is and how even though they are fighting a war against the japanese he still stops and helps their men live.

smurf492

Barfly
Girl interrupted
Clean and sober
The bridge

blade1

Apocalypto.
It has it all really.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gkyVpVuBo4

This is a cute film, really good.

Eire392

Seven pounds

Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Saw it for the first time recently, loved it for all it's funny little moments as well as it's big funny moments.

Suckit

Fool's gold.
Very light hearted and lots of sunshine

BorneTobyWilde

blade1 wrote: »

Apocalypto.
It has it all really.

How is this a feel good movie, so much death and torture right to the end.

whomitconcerns

Ferris buellers day off or blazing saddles

punisher5112

Weekend at Bernie's......

I laugh so hard it hurts.

Lefty Bicek

Cannery Row

blade1

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

How is this a feel good movie, so much death and torture right to the end.

Makes me feel good anyway!!:D

Mam of 4

Little Miss Sunshine !

cmac2009

Green book

Tom Mann Centuria

Amelie.

Most Pixar films.

aligator_am

Watch some Laurel & Hardy / Marx Brothers / Three Stooges.

They still absolutely crack me up and I've been watching them since I'm a kid.

They're good silly fun

MAJJ

The Princess Bride

Mehaffey1

The History Boys was a good quiet movie with some great humour.

Tar.Aldarion

Brigsby Bear
Fantastic Mr Fox!
I don't belong in this world any more
What We do in the Shadows

Sunrise_Sunset

I tend to re-watch 80s movies. It's nostalgic and reminds me of simpler times in my life.
Jim Carrey movies in general will usually cheer me up too.

The first three Indiana Jones movies or the BTTF movies.

kazamo

clerks 2

WhiteMemento9

I am generally not one for the blockbuster type films but whenever I am trying to forget about things for a while and just get absorbed into another world I always end up watching . . . . Jurassic Park.

Makes me feel like a kid again. Watching as the helicopter flies towards the island with the iconic music playing in the background never fails to bring a smile.

THH

briany wrote: »

Alone in the Wilderness. In the 60s, outdoorsman Dick Prenneke took a super-8 camera with him to Alaska and documented the process of building a homestead.

Really a great film

BorneTobyWilde

blade1 wrote: »

Makes me feel good anyway!!:D

I do love the film though.

Lorelli!

How about The Birdcage op? Its so funny. I love that film.

BorneTobyWilde

Feel good movie I liked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LQa_ibYe8

Lorelli!

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

I do love the film though.

It's not a feel good film but it definitely makes you feel something. I remember saying to my oh after watching it that I felt strange and different after. It's not a light film!

eagle eye

Thinking of just for somebody in bad form.

Into the Wild
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Forrest Gump

LollipopJimmy

The Big Lebowski, it's on Netflix at the mo

Red Lightning

If you're depressed, a movie won't help. Have you went to the doctor?

punisher5112

Drink

ewc78

Rocky III

Lefty Bicek

Withnail and I