Uplifting 1833 films
The struggle is celebrated and triumph carries the weight. You leave lifted and believing. Rocky, Whiplash, Sing Street.
Front of the Class
2008 · ★ 7.9
The General
1926 · ★ 7.9
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · ★ 7.9
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
2004 · ★ 7.8
The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967 · ★ 7.7
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · ★ 7.6
Kingsman: The Secret Service
2015 · ★ 7.6
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017 · ★ 7.6
They Call Me Trinity
1970 · ★ 7.6
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · ★ 7.5
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016 · ★ 7.5
The Bad Guys
2022 · ★ 7.5
Patton
1970 · ★ 7.5
The Croods: A New Age
2020 · ★ 7.4
Barbie and the Diamond Castle
2008 · ★ 7.4
Sullivan's Travels
1941 · ★ 7.4
The African Queen
1952 · ★ 7.4
The Fighter
2010 · ★ 7.4
Selma
2014 · ★ 7.4
Miracle on 34th Street
1947 · ★ 7.4
Goldfinger
1964 · ★ 7.4
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023 · ★ 7.3
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 · ★ 7.3
Rocketman
2019 · ★ 7.3
The Little Mermaid
1989 · ★ 7.3
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011 · ★ 7.3
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994 · ★ 7.3
Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
2001 · ★ 7.2
Trolls Band Together
2023 · ★ 7.2
The Lego Batman Movie
2017 · ★ 7.2
Questions about this film
What does "Uplifting" mean in our catalog?
The struggle is celebrated and triumph carries the weight. You leave lifted and believing. Rocky, Whiplash, Sing Street.
How are these films tagged "uplifting"?
We infer mood tags from TMDB keywords, runtime, year, genre, and language using rule-based heuristics. A film gets the uplifting tag when at least one of those rules fires with weight ≥ 0.5. The catalog refreshes the inference every time new films enter.
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