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.