Happiness
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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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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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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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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 Family Man
2000, in 0 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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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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Toni Erdmann
2016, in 13 top lists Check
Last updated on Sep 7, 2021 by Armoreska;