Funny, Happy, Delightful, Mood Lifting Movies. (list as many as you like, we need them these days)

[Stuart G]

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1. Arsenic and Old Lace
2. Star Wars, A New Hope
3. Spiderman
4. The Polar Express
5. Animaniacs...Volume One
6. It's A Wonderful Life.
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More coming later....I got to look around, I hid the videos everywhere. (As I said, ... ."As many as you like." )
.....Yes, We Need Them These Days"

[NCIndie]

1. Leaving Las Vegas followed by Dead Man Walking

That was an actual "double feature" we put ourselves through while these were in the theaters.

That effort wasn't exactly fun, but the resulting depression kept my mind off other matters for a good 72 hours.

[Glorfindel]

2. Sleepless in Seattle

You've Got Mail
Rat Race

[yellowdogintexas]

3. Arsenic and Old Lace is always a good start

Bringing Up Baby
Joe Vs The Volcano
Victor, Victoria
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Producers (original movie with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel)
The Great Race
9 to 5
Back to the Future (all 3)
The Princess Bride
Ducktales the original TV Series)

These are just the ones which popped up instantly - of course there are more

[Laffy Kat]

34. Our lists are almost identical.

I would add:

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

And for romance:

Love in the Afternoon (sigh)

[Stuart G]

4. Here is one I forgot: "Some Like It Hot"....1959

It stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. ..............more to come....

[Walleye]

11. I missed yours somehow, I just put that one in. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen

[happybird]

5. The Holy Grail still makes me laugh like a darn hyena

And Life of Brian. Nothing beats the Pythons for mood lifting, imho.

[Basic LA]

6. A Shot in the Dark

With Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau!

[Stuart G]

7. OOPs, I Forgot Another One, "The Producers"...from:"yellowdogintexas."

Thanks to "yellowdogintexas"........(post number 3)... (original movie with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel)

[Niagara]

8. Here's a few:

1. A League of Their Own



2.Field of Dreams



3. The Birdcage

[ailsagirl]

9. The Graduate

[Walleye]

10. Some Like it Hot

[Coventina]

12. An American in Paris

Beauty and the Beast

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

[Lochloosa]

13. Big - Tom Hanks

[ZoltarSpeaks]

43. Obviously I would agree with this one...

Zoltar Replica:

[Lochloosa]

45. 😂

[ggma]

14. Rustlers Rhapsody stars Tom Berenger and Andy Griffith

High Spirits stars Peter O'Toole and a young Liam Neeson

Anything by Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, History of the World, Dracula-Dead and Loving It, etc)

I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka is a Wayan Brothers movie starring a couple of them, Bernie Casey and a host of Black actors from the Blacksploitation movies of the Seventies

Harlem Nights with Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx, and Richard Pryor and Della Reese

More later?

gg

[nocoincidences]

15. Harold and Maude

There is no movie more uplifting.

Just to get a bigger Ruth Gordon fix, also watch Where's Pappa?

[JoseBalow]

20. "Don't get officious. You're not yourself when you're officious. That is the curse of a government job."

[bedazzled]

26. Loved her in Rosemary's Baby

She was terrific!

[mockmonkey]

30. I saw "Where's Poppa" about a year ago.

I was disappointed when I streamed it off of Prime and the ending was changed, not as shocking as the original but definitely more upbeat.
I love Ruth Gordon in "Lord Love a Duck" also.

[happybird]

16. Watched Signs the other day with a friend who had never seen it before

Had forgotten how good that movie is, and very funny and heartwarming for an alien invasion movie.

Speaking of which: Mars Attacks! is a gem.

[ms liberty]

17. Gross Point Blank. The Ref

[red dog 1]

18. Some Like It Hot ....The Birdcage....The Producers....Blazing Saddles....Young Frankenstein

The Big Lebowski and a little known but very funny Irish comedy called "The Commitments"

[wnylib]

19. The first Pink Panther film.

This scene still breaks me up.

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[JoseBalow]

21. Being There

[Mr.Bill]

22. Dazed and Confused.

[Xipe Totec]

23. The Fisher King

As Good as it Gets
Doctor Strange
Mr Nobody

[First Speaker]

24. Lots of musicals...

...Top Hat, Swing Time, Singin' in the Rain, On the Town, The Band Wagon, a zillion others. Screwball comedies. The Marx Brothers. They'll do for a start...

[bedazzled]

25. Harvey! Groundhog day!

So many good ones mentioned already...

Mad mad mad mad world
Bedazzled
Buster Keaton
Trading places
Fish called Wanda
Thor ragnarok
Slap shot
Galaxy quest
S.o.b.
Princess bride
The 'burbs

Harvey and groundhog day make me feel better about things...

[captain queeg]

27. Father Goose. Old Cary Grant movie.

[lapfog_1]

31. Operation Petticoat

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

[Phoenix61]

28. Overboard. nt

[bottomofthehill]

29. My cousin vinnie

I laugh every time I see it

[Permanut]

33. What's a yute?

Cracks me up.

[Permanut]

32. Airplane..

"...we have clearance, Clarence".

"Roger, Roger."

And The Music Box - Laurel and Hardy

[ificandream]

35. Move Over, Darling with Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen

Not a huge DD fan, but I love this movie.

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[mockmonkey]

36. Richard Dreyfuss starring in...

Tin Men: Competing Aluminum Siding Salesmen Richard Dreyfuss vs. Danny DeVito, not to be confused with "Tin Man"

Let It Ride: A silly little movie. It reminds me of the times my Dad would take us to the Horse Racing Track when I was a kid.

Once Around: Uplifting? I'm not sure but I enjoyed it.

Down and Out in Beverly Hills: Bum Nick Nolte upends a rich Beverly Hills Family.

Always: I like Planes and the movie is fun.

[ificandream]

37. No "The Goodbye Girl"?

That's one my wife and I watched at least a dozen times.

[mockmonkey]

49. I haven't seen that in a long time.

I have to see where it's streaming.

[barbtries]

38. Moonstruck

Housesitter
Overboard

[spooky3]

40. Loved Moonstruck. Also Hidden Figures and King Richard. Nt

[madamesilverspurs]

39. "Murder by Death"

And for pure gooeyness, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" with Doris Day and Gordon McRae.

For the holidays, "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven.

[jls4561]

41. The Princess Bride

[PlutosHeart]

42. Last Holiday

Beauty Shop
The Holiday

[ZoltarSpeaks]

44. The Dish (2000), and more favorites

The Dish is a comedy starring Sam Neill that looks at the real events surrounding Australia's participation in relaying the video transmissions from the Apollo 11 moon landing. It sounds obscure, but it's a delightful feel-good movie, and one of my favorites.

Also:
Box of Moonlight (1997)
Danny Deckchair (2003)
Mrs. Brown (1997)
Nobody's Fool (1994) - The one with Paul Newman, not the other one by the same name
Notting Hill (1999)
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill... (1995)
The Natural (1984)
The Shipping News (2001)
The Shawshank Redemption (1984)
World's Fastest Indian (2005)

[watrwefitinfor]

46. Second Hand Lions

Duval and Caine were at the top of their game, and you could tell they were having the time of their life.

Watched it with my great grandson who was re-living the story. At the time he was about
the age of Osment in the movie.

Wat

[Doc Sportello]

47. Some lesser known ones I didn't see listed

That I rewatched recently:

The Flim Flam Man

Lost in America

Smoke Signals

Friendly Persuasion

Innerspace

Hearts of the West

And, a couple of classics:

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Harvey

[Wounded Bear]

48. Waking Ned Devine...

surprised it hasn't come up yet.

[ZoltarSpeaks]

51. Probably my favorite, and I forgot all about it. n/t

[Paladin]

50. "You Can't Take It With You" (nt)

[Bayard]

52. Benny and Joon,

Don Juan de Marco.

Added to ones already mentioned, The Princess Bride, Galaxy Quest, and anything Monty Python.

[Diamond_Dog]

53. "Tootsie"

with Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, and Jessica Lange.

[Mad_Dem_X]

61. Yes! I could watch that anytime.

Terrific cast. Teri Garr is my favorite; she's hysterical (literally - LOL).

[Lunabell]

54. Fifty First Dates

There's Something About Mary and the classic, Blind Date.

[Jrose]

55. 'The Seven Year Itch' with Marilyn Monroe... Tom Ewell was hilarious!

Also...
- another Monroe movie, 'Some Like it Hot', especially
Lemmon
- 'The Odd Couple' - Lemmon and Matthau
- 'Arthur'
-'The Pink Panther' - original, with Peter Sellers

[Glorfindel]

56. Some more...

Galaxy Quest
Napoleon Dynamite

[k55f5r]

57. No one has mentioned my favorite yet

Time Bandits.

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[Alpeduez21]

58. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

It never fails to put me in a better mood

[lastlib]

59. "Blazing Saddles"!

Cannot watch that one (ncensored) without laughing my head off!
"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"!
"Airplane" -- ("Excuse me, stewardess, I speak jive..." - - - coming from Barbara Billingsley, that is one of the funniest movie lines ever delivered!)
"Billy Jack" (kind of a sad ending, but always inspires me to keep fighting the good fight.)

[Stuart G]

63. I agree totally. I should have put that in the Original Post. One of the funniest movies ...."EVER"

If you haven't seen it, watch it. Has parts that are so funny, that you will remember them for ever.

[debm55]

71. I agree with Blazing Saddles. It is so funny. Thank you Stuart for posting this thread.

[Sanity Claws]

60. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

I looked through the earlier responses and didn't see this one listed.

[Emile]

62. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Stuart G]

64. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.......Please add "MORE MOVIES"...Very important to help us get through ...whatever

we have trouble getting through......Funny, Happy, Delightful, Mood Lifting Movies.

[Stuart G]

65. I FORGOT ANOTHER.... "WILLEY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY"

[Stuart G]

66. Singin' in the Rain... perhaps the happiest movie of: "ALL TIME".TOTALLY WONDERFUL & GREAT!

If you haven't seen ..."Singin in the Rain"..you are in for a wonderful treat.
..
. It is at the library, Net Flicks, and I guess it is somewhere on the internet. (for free)

[Stuart G]

67. I've Added Another to my Original List..."It's A Wonderful Life." (number 6) A GREAT & HAPPY MOVIE...

ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE. (AND EVERYONE AGREES TO THAT)

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS ONE, IT IS AT THE VERY TOP OF THE LIST

[IcyPeas]

68. Nice post. Heres a few more:

Chef (2014) - A head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.

Brassed Off (1996) - The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

Local Hero (1983) - An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.

Garden State (2012) - Delivering a quirky spin on familiar twentysomething tropes -- with a cannily-placed soundtrack -- Garden State has enough charm to mark a winning debut for first-time director Zach Braff.

Perks of Being a Wallflower - Socially awkward teen Charlie (Logan Lerman) is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two charismatic students become his mentors.

[SharonClark]

69. When Harry Met Sally

Big
Local Hero
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Tootsie
The Princess Bride

[LeftInTX]

70. Blues Brothers

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[Stuart G]

72. An old one I really enjoyed, "Around The World in 80 Days"