Life lessons movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant life lessons movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out feel good, captivating, inspirational, emotional, psychological and educational films and TV shows about / with life lesson, friendship, coming of age, storytelling, motivation, redemption, destiny, philosophy, mentor and life changing plots mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres shot in USA, India, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as life lessons: V for Vendetta (2005), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Chip Chilla (2023), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Good Will Hunting (1997), Into the Wild (2007), Dead Poets Society (1989), Forrest Gump (1994), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Fight Club (1999).
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List of life lessons movies
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, intense, captivating, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
revolution, distopia, revenge, vengeance, fighting the system, dystopia, vigilante, freedom, anti hero, protest, society, masked man ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 2000s, distant future, near future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, big ben london, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot:
homeless, life, human spirit, rags to riches, life philosophy, success, single father, poverty, rise to the top, family drama, life is a bitch, biopic ...
Time:
80s, year 2006, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, bay area, san francisco, america
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A revelatory cup of coffee at a café leads a man to overhaul his entire life. Inspired, he sets out to learn about both coffee and people's lives.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
slice of life, coffee, cafe, coffee shop, life lesson, teacher, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, self discovery, personal growth, heartwarming, small business ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Philippines, USA
TV show
Story:
Chip Chilla is a comedic, pre-school series celebrating the day to day lessons of Chip and his homeschooling family of energetic Chinchillas.
Style:
funny, captivating, entertaining, psychological, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, preschool
Plot:
animal, life lesson, children, safe, pets, animal protagonist, adventurer, anthropomorphic animal, talking animal, family values, house, problem solving ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style:
clever, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, emotional, sentimental, intellectual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
mathematics, genius, professor, prodigy, life, life philosophy, psychology, philosophy, mentor, psychotherapy, university, life lesson ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place:
boston, harvard university, america, persia, massachusetts ...
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692K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Style:
philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, poetry, coming of age, poet, mentor, teenager, literature, teachers and students, friendship, philosophy, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1959
Place:
vermont, new england, usa, harvard university
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2.5M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Style:
breathtaking, realistic, captivating, tense, inspirational ...
Audience:
manly, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
war, world war two, military, courage, battles, self sacrifice, sniper, friendship, nazi, combat, army, machine gun ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 1998, 90s, year 2013 ...
Place:
normandy, france, germany, poland, europe ...
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2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, life philosophy, death, boy, good deed, disfigurement, addiction, abusive husband, childhood trauma, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
tibet, usa, nevada, las vegas
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sentimental, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
friendship, elderly, terminal illness, road trip, journey, unlikely friendships, human spirit, bucket list, life changing, dying, philosophy, motivation ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
cote d'azur, usa, africa, johannesburg south africa, los angeles ...
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2.8M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, cerebral, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, teamwork, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, twists and turns, fictional reality, existentialism, lucid dream ...
Time:
year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place:
japan, paris france, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Three naughty kids hailing from poor families feel earning money is more important than studying. Time makes them realize the importance of education in life.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, reflective, dramatic, learning
Plot:
education, poverty, school, life lesson, youth, coming of age, children, childhood, working class, social issues, grownups, slice of life ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Real life scenarios about how people deal with certain problems.
Style:
anthology, inspirational, realistic, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
life lesson, compassion, heartwarming, slice of life, personal growth, empathy, community, healing, redemption, intimate, small town, urban ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Auto-B-Good is an American animated series. The series features short stories set in the fictional City of Auto, in which all the citizens are cars. The program is designed to teach children lessons in moral character and values. Auto-B-Good was ...
Style:
computer animated, 3d animation, educational, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
anthropomorphic vehicle, talking car, car race, honesty, life lesson, respect, children, machine, car, lifestyle, automobile, satire ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
grownups, family drama, life lesson, coming of age, child protagonist, family bonds, working class, resilience, character study, poverty, intergenerational friendship, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Raju, an engineering student is obsessed with academics until he is thrown into the real world where he stumbles and tries to learn some very important life lessons.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, semi serious, psychological, motivational ...
Plot:
life lesson, coming of age, college, education, student life, social issues, satire, relationship problems, life, lifestyle, social problems, changing lives ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Doug is a young robot who senses there’s more to life than just the facts. While other robots plug in for their daily download, Doug unplugs and journeys into the human world with his best friend Emma to experience its wonders firsthand.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, funny, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, preschool
Plot:
robot, friendship, children, curiosity, life lesson, friends, satire, sentient robot, escapades, adventure hero, adventurer, talking robot ...
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Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Pals are neighborhood kids that become great friends and go through the ups and downs of life in the 21st Century. They learn that friendship is truly a gift.
Style:
captivating, psychological, lighthearted, feel good, educational ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot:
friendship, buddies, kindness, buddy, childhood, everyday life, children, life lesson, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, grownups, friends ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Singapore, Australia, Canada, France
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story:
Imaginative zebra Zigby has a knack for getting into trouble. Fortunately, with a little help from his two best friends - innocent meerkat McMeer and anxious guinea fowl Bertie, he always comes up with a solution and has tons of fun as they roam ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, computer animated, captivating ...
Audience:
toddlers, kids, preschool
Plot:
friendship, island, nothing goes right, adventurer, disorder, best friend, goofy hero, escapades, children, problem solving, life lesson, responsibility ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Biography, Family, History, Musical
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the popular books by Marcus Pfister, the animated series follows the adventures of a boy fish with glittering scales and his friends in the underwater Bay of Neptune.
Style:
educational, captivating, semi serious, feel good, funny
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
fish, friendship, sea adventure, ocean, children, underwater, sea, life lesson, family values, satire, friends, animal life ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt, emotional, tear jerker, uplifting ...
Plot:
friendship, paraplegic, caretaker, disability, humanity, life lesson, ex convict, redemption, class differences, second chance, compassion, resilience ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Life of Josutty narrates the story of the struggles and life lessons learned by Josutty(Dileep), a simple farmer living in a village in Kerala who migrates to New Zeland after marriage.
Style:
captivating, emotional, comedy drama, sentimental
Plot:
marriage, parent child relationship, relationships, tragic love, infidelity, language barrier, life lesson, relationship problems, family problems, troubled marriage, unrequited love, loveless marriage ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Rachit Ram, heir to a multi-billion-dollar corporate conglomerate, sets off on his journey to fulfill a daunting challenge of living like a commoner for 100 days in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no money and privileges, while his aunt and ...
Style:
emotional, feel good, touching, exciting, sentimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, life lesson, love affair, love, fall in love, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, couples, love and romance, relationships, husband wife relationship ...
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325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, philosophical, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, life changing experience, motivation, true love, sacrifice, existentialism, life & death, melancholy, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style:
touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
genius, disability, love, cambridge university, physicist, mathematics, husband wife relationship, prodigy, supportive spouse, handicapped, against the odds, relationships ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
oxford university, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, cerebral, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, home schooling, family drama, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, capitalism, parenthood, children, survivalist, socialism, precocious child, funeral ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 90s, near future, 21st century
Place:
washington state, nebraska, new mexico, xian, oregon
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