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Movies that deal explicitly with happiness in their narrative - fundamentally stories about people who explicitly pursue or live a happy life. These movies are not necessarily about happy characters nor they are comedies. Overall this list is about movies that discuss the nature of happiness, its representation in cinema or present us with the problem of how to live a more fulfilling and happy life.

Many movies present us with a happy ending, specially in Hollywood, but the happiness that interests me here is the happiness that do not depend on the resolution of an objective dramatic conflict (family conciliation, love affair, revenge, achievements, etc), but the happiness that springs from an existential, spiritual, philosophical or intimate resolution.

Another cluster of movies are those that deal ironically with happiness, as Agnès Varda's Le bonheur.

For the purpose of size, this list does not consider formulaic comedy movies about "life lessons", like Yes with Jim Carry or Click with Adam Sandler.

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    You Can't Take It with You

    1938, in 8 top lists Check
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    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
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    Scrooge

    1951 — a.k.a. A Christmas Carol, in 4 top lists Check
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    Ikiru

    1952, in 25 top lists Check
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    Le bonheur

    1965 — a.k.a. Happiness, in 8 top lists Check
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    What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    Tichá radost

    1986 — a.k.a. Quiet Happiness, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Accidental Tourist

    1988, in 4 top lists Check
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    Regarding Henry

    1991, in 0 top lists Check
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    Groundhog Day

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
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    Little Buddha

    1993, in 1 top list Check
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    Forrest Gump

    1994, in 25 top lists Check
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    Muriel's Wedding

    1994, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Truman Show

    1998, in 14 top lists Check
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    Happiness

    1998, in 8 top lists Check
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    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Family Man

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
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    Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
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    Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

    2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Pursuit of Happyness

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
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    Happy-Go-Lucky

    2008, in 1 top list Check
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    Intouchables

    2011 — a.k.a. The Intouchables, in 7 top lists Check
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    Happy

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
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    Life of Pi

    2012, in 5 top lists Check
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    Make Me Happy: A Monkey's Search for Happiness

    2012, in 0 top lists Check
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    Happiness

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hector and the Search for Happiness

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
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    Happiness at Work

    2014, in 0 top lists
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    Kindness Is Contagious

    2014, in 0 top lists
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    Umimachi Diary

    2015 — a.k.a. Our Little Sister, in 3 top lists Check
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    Toni Erdmann

    2016, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Happy Film

    2016, in 0 top lists Check
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    Expedition Happiness

    2017, in 0 top lists
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    Unicorn Store

    2017, in 0 top lists
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    Índice Médio de Felicidade

    2017, in 0 top lists
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    Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    2018, in 2 top lists
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    Lazzaro felice

    2018 — a.k.a. Happy as Lazzaro, in 4 top lists
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    Tiempo Compartido

    2018 — a.k.a. Time Share, in 0 top lists
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    The Happiest Guy in the World

    2018, in 0 top lists
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    Joker

    2019, in 12 top lists
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    A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

    2019, in 0 top lists
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    Little Women

    2019, in 5 top lists
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    Felicità

    2020, in 0 top lists
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    Druk

    2020 — a.k.a. Another Round, in 7 top lists
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    Some Kind of Heaven

    2020, in 0 top lists
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Last updated on Sep 7, 2021 by Armoreska;