Optimism movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant optimism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out feel good, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious and serious films and TV shows about / with optimism, hopes, friendship, youth, family relations, love, friends, love and romance, couples and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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optimism movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as optimism: Yes Man (2008), American Housewife (2016), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), God Is Brazilian (2003), Amelie (2001), New Girl (2011), The Red Band Society (2011), The House Bunny (2008), Like Stars on Earth (2007), Pollyanna (2003).

List of optimism movies

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 6.8
 381K
Yes Man (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.
Style: feel good, funny, light, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, family friendly, kids, teens ...
Plot: life, life changing experience, lifestyle change, love and romance, change of heart, life philosophy, character change, optimism, motivational speaker, self esteem, transformation, love affair ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, nebraska
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American Housewife (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, light ...
Plot: optimism, housewife, marriage, woman, humour, lifestyle, life, family life, social problems, province, women, nerd ...
Place: connecticut
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 7.0
 41K
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Style: feel good, emotional, light, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, teacher, optimism, homeless, looking for love, character study, elementary school, working class, social worker, roommate, love and romance, goodhearted ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: london, europe, miami
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God Is Brazilian (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: God decides to take a vacation, but first He has to find a saint who can rule the universe while He's away. For that, He goes to Brazil's northeast, where He believes there's a very good man for the job, however, during His mission, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, road movie ...
Plot: optimism, human spirit, society, miraculous event, hopes, human nature, chosen one, faith, religion, god, communication, religions or cults ...
Place: brazil, latin america
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 8.3
 791K
Amelie (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: loneliness, love, magic realism, fall in love, imagination, female protagonist, cafe, love and romance, optimism, lifestyle change, surrealism, life ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 90s, year 1974, 20th century ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris, quebec
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 7.8
 244K
New Girl (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's ...
Style: feel good, light, sitcom, buddy comedy, captivating ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: roommate, couples, friends, group of friends, couple relations, lifestyle, optimism, ex couple relations, singleness, love and romance, naivete, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, california, usa, los angeles
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The Red Band Society (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a ...
Style: serious, touching, humorous, medical drama, rough ...
Plot: cancer, illness, terminal illness, fighting illness, overcoming, child cancer, youth, teenage life, anorexia, patient, friendship, doctors and patients ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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The House Bunny (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women ...
Style: feel good, teen, funny, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot: sorority, college, college life, youth, friendship, personality change, makeover, women, campus, rivalry, female friendship, friends ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and ...
Style: motivational, touching, inspirational, captivating, educational ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dyslexia, teachers and students, teacher, teaching the ways of the world, childhood, self discovery, dedicated educator, young heroes, coming of age, shyness, school, learning disability ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2010s, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, asia, mumbai india
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 7.6
 1K
Pollyanna (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest ...
Style: touching, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, optimism, teaching the ways of the world, small town life, countryside, young heroes, small town, hopes, orphan, friends, change of heart, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 1910s
Place: england, europe
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LOL (Laughing Out Loud) (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lola, a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood, who longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
Style: touching, realistic, sexy, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: teenage life, youth, high school, teenage love, high school life, teenage girl, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, love and romance, teenager, self discovery ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, london
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 8.0
 2K
Candy Candy (1976)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Candy Candy is a Japanese novel, manga, and anime series. The main character, Candice "Candy" White Ardlay is a blonde girl with freckles, large emerald green eyes and long, curly hair, worn in pigtails with bows. Candy Candy first ...
Style: anime, touching, uplifting, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: kids
Plot: friendship, optimism, goodhearted, kindness, orphan, follow your dream, tragic love, loss of loved one, good versus evil, first love, teenage love, opposites attract ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, mexico, london, america, chicago
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 7.5
 7K
100 Meters (2016)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Esclorosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot: multiple sclerosis, swimming, optimism, love, suicide attempt, disability, marriage, husband wife relationship, treatment, prank, diagnosis, memories ...
Place: iberian peninsula
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Love's Long Journey (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband, Willie, have headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, emotional, saga ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: newlyweds, ranch, farm, pregnancy, settler, starting over, friendship, family relations, couples, danger, love, christian ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: usa
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Wander Over Yonder (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of Wander, an eternally-optimistic intergalactic traveler and constant do-gooder, and his quick-tempered but loyal steed and best friend, Sylvia. The friendliest face in outer space, Wander journeys across the galaxies to spread ...
Style: feel good, exciting, humorous, semi serious, anime ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: optimism, best friend, friends, adventurer, space travel, space and aliens, hopes, intergalactic, alien, pacifism, villain, escapades ...
Time: 2010s
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan, a midwestern housewife who managed to rescue her family from debt by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies.
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: advertising, optimism, underdog, prize, creativity, courage, eviction, small town, contests and competitions, ambition, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 2005
Place: ohio, usa
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 7.7
 54K
Adam's Apples (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, humorous, black comedy, psychological ...
Plot: church, priest, religion, funeral, skinhead, racial slur, belief, cynic, prejudice, disability, existentialism, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, saudi arabia, indonesia
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Like a Star Shining in the Night (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young couple finds out what love truly means when one of them has a brush with death. When Anne and Marc met, it was love at first sight, and the longer they were together, the more they realized they never wanted to be apart. But not long after ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, emotional
Plot: optimism, radiation, terminal illness, couples, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, couple relations, male female relationship, family relations, family reunited, love, wedding planning ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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 7.8
 8K
Arya (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Arya (Allu Arjun) is a happy-go-lucky, college-going youth with an attitude. He falls in love with Geeta (Anuradha Mehta) at first sight. He proposes to her in front of her boyfriend Siva. She bluntly refuses. The theme of the film is Arya's ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, telegu
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, college life, wooing, optimism, fall in love, couples, couple relations, peer pressure, love, fashion, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Harishchandrachi Factory (2009)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The movie depicts efforts and struggle by Dadasaheb Falke for creating first motion picture in India - Raja Harishchandra.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: optimism, filmmaking, against the odds, showbiz, ambition, artists and showbiz, friendship, passion, husband wife relationship, visionary, biopic, hindu ...
Time: 1910s
Place: india, asia, london, bombay india
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 6.4
 90K
The Grinch (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration.
Style: light, 3d animation, touching, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: christmas, snow, holiday, regret, dog, thief, winter, best friend, christmas season, optimism, small town, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s
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Fergus McPhail (2004)
Genre: Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Fergus McPhail is an Australian children's comedy series that was released on Network Ten in 2004.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: optimism, teenage love, teenage life, eccentric family, friendship, high school, family relations, family life, moral dilemma, parents and children, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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 5.5
 515
Miracle Dogs (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The family friendly animal movie Miracle Dogs concerns a boy who befriends a three-legged dog. Soon his relationship with the canine deepens to the point that the boy is attempting to find new homes for a variety of homeless animals.
Style: serious, feel good, touching, cute
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, against the odds, young heroes, human spirit, optimism, friendship, terminal illness, hopes, miraculous event, heroes, pets, cancer ...
Place: usa
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 7.0
 4K
Black Jesus (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: A TV series finds Jesus living in present day Compton, CA on a daily mission to spread love and kindness throughout the neighborhood with the help of his small but loyal group of downtrodden followers.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, feel good ...
Audience: adult
Plot: peaceful mission, optimism, supernatural ability, society, nothing goes right, hopes, religions or cults, clergy, social relations, small town, religion, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 7.5
 535
The C Word (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The C Word is an adaptation of Lisa Lynch's inspiring and candid book, based on her blog, about her battle with cancer.
Style: uplifting, sincere, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: family relations, optimism, human spirit, life turned upside down, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, terminal illness, journalism, hopes, cancer, blogger ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: spain
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 5.9
 258
Pepperminta (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman's best friends and strawberries are her pets. She knows the most amazing remedies to free people ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, surreal, inspirational, offbeat ...
Plot: against the rules, peaceful mission, idealism, optimism, rebelliousness, rebellion, fall in love, youth, hopes, human spirit, society, friendship ...
Place: switzerland, europe
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Jimmy Two-Shoes (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Jimmy Two-Shoes is a Canadian animated television series that aired on Disney XD in the United Kingdom and in the USA, and Teletoon in Canada. The series were centered around the exploits of the happy-go-lucky titular character Jimmy, who lives in ...
Style: humorous, feel good, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: optimism, friendship, best friend, escapades, youth, mischievous children, imaginary, rivalry, disorder, small town life, small town, imaginary kingdom ...
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You Can't Write a Letter (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance?
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, offbeat
Plot: terminal illness, optimism, life is a bitch, hopes, couple relations, couples, sister sister relationship, love, death, unfulfillment, flashback, train ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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 6.8
 294
Choco (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: optimism, family relations, family problems, hopes, society, parents and children, unemployment, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, colombia, latin america
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Letters to Elena (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since ...
Style: captivating, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, protecting from truth, optimism, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, human spirit, love and romance, fall in love, village, letter, dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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