Uplifting 1833 films
The struggle is celebrated and triumph carries the weight. You leave lifted and believing. Rocky, Whiplash, Sing Street.
Haikyu!! The Movie: Battle of Concepts
2017 · ★ 8.0
The Great Escape
1963 · ★ 7.9
Freedom Writers
2007 · ★ 7.9
Mulan
1998 · ★ 7.9
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
2015 · ★ 7.9
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · ★ 7.9
A Street Cat Named Bob
2016 · ★ 7.9
Ne Zha
2019 · ★ 7.9
The Miracle Worker
1962 · ★ 7.9
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006 · ★ 7.9
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
2018 · ★ 7.9
How to Train Your Dragon
2010 · ★ 7.9
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 · ★ 7.9
Sing 2
2021 · ★ 7.8
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · ★ 7.8
Monsters, Inc.
2001 · ★ 7.8
Earth: One Amazing Day
2017 · ★ 7.8
Whiplash
2013 · ★ 7.8
The First Slam Dunk
2022 · ★ 7.8
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
2009 · ★ 7.8
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
2023 · ★ 7.8
Ip Man
2008 · ★ 7.8
Tomorrow
2015 · ★ 7.8
Rain Man
1988 · ★ 7.8
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019 · ★ 7.8
The Chorus
2004 · ★ 7.7
The Sound of Music
1965 · ★ 7.7
Hitting the Apex
2015 · ★ 7.7
The Martian
2015 · ★ 7.7
HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
2024 · ★ 7.7
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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