Uplifting 945 films
The struggle is celebrated and triumph carries the weight. You leave lifted and believing. Rocky, Whiplash, Sing Street.
Heart and Yummie
2010 · ★ 8.0
Front of the Class
2008 · ★ 7.9
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
2004 · ★ 7.8
The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967 · ★ 7.7
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 Bad Guys
2022 · ★ 7.5
The Croods: A New Age
2020 · ★ 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
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011 · ★ 7.3
Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
2001 · ★ 7.2
Enola Holmes
2020 · ★ 7.2
42
2013 · ★ 7.2
We Were Soldiers
2002 · ★ 7.1
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018 · ★ 7.1
An Officer and a Gentleman
1982 · ★ 7.0
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
2004 · ★ 7.0
Monsters University
2013 · ★ 7.0
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
1998 · ★ 6.9
A Christmas Carol
2009 · ★ 6.9
Holes
2003 · ★ 6.9
That Thing You Do!
1996 · ★ 6.9
Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies
1986 · ★ 6.9
Dreamgirls
2006 · ★ 6.7
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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