Uplifting 1833 films
The struggle is celebrated and triumph carries the weight. You leave lifted and believing. Rocky, Whiplash, Sing Street.
Superman: Unbound
2013 · ★ 6.6
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000 · ★ 6.6
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
1984 · ★ 6.6
Footloose
2011 · ★ 6.6
Rustin
2023 · ★ 6.5
The Last Dragon
1985 · ★ 6.5
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012
1987 · ★ 6.4
Pathaan
2023 · ★ 6.4
The Three Musketeers: Milady
2023 · ★ 6.4
Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice
2012 · ★ 6.4
Thunderbirds Are GO
1966 · ★ 6.4
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993 · ★ 6.4
12 Strong
2018 · ★ 6.4
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
2010 · ★ 6.3
Lupin the Third: The Hemingway Papers
1990 · ★ 6.2
Youngblood
1986 · ★ 6.2
God's Not Dead 2
2016 · ★ 6.1
Heavy Metal Mater
2010 · ★ 6.1
Mafia Mamma
2023 · ★ 6.1
DIVE!!
2008 · ★ 6.0
The Marine 2
2009 · ★ 5.9
The Game of Their Lives
2005 · ★ 5.9
Bring It On Again
2004 · ★ 5.9
Catch That Kid
2004 · ★ 5.6
Blues Brothers 2000
1998 · ★ 5.3
Kickboxer: Vengeance
2016 · ★ 5.1
JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death - The Movie
2025 · ★ 8.4
Revue Starlight: Rondo Rondo Rondo
2020 · ★ 8.1
Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon
2025 · ★ 8.0
Cruella
2021 · ★ 8.0
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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