Lying on the sofa while watching movies is one of the most relaxing things to do, both alone and in good company. But it is even better when the movie you watch is full of life truths and therefore a huge inspiration for life. For your next movie night, choose one from our list of movies that will make you laugh and cry at the same time.
These movies will definitely put you in a good mood, and because of them, you will more easily take steps towards new personal victories.
1. Dead Poets Society (Dead Poets Society, 1989)
"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."
Robin Williams as English teacher John Keating inspires his young students with poetry and teaches them what it means to live life to the full and according to the saying carpe diem.
2. Schindler's List (Schindler's List, 1993)
"Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't."
A film based on the true story of the greedy German businessman Oskar Schindler, who, because of World War II, turns into a person who saves more than a thousand Jews from Auschwitz.
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3. Forrest Gump (1994)
"Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.”
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump may not have the highest IQ, but he certainly has good intentions. Life takes him along an interesting path full of turning events, and his heart has belonged to the beautiful Jenny since childhood.
4. Good Will Hunting (1997)
"Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself."
Matt Damon is a young Will Hunting - a boy who can solve even the most difficult math problems, but cannot solve himself. His story takes a turn when he meets a psychologist, played by the late Robin Williams.
5. Life is beautiful (La vita e bella, 1997)
"Buon giorno, princessa!"
The story of the love between a Jew and his beautiful wife, who, during the Second World War, have to go to a camp with their son in Italy, where the father does not give up and believes to the end in the power of humor and the beauty of life.
6. Fight Club (1999)
"You're not your job. You don't know how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”
An office worker haunted by insomnia meets the owner of a soap factory. Together they form the illegal Bare Fists Club, which surpasses all their plans.
7. The Green Mile (1999)
"People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.”
The prison guards find themselves in a moral dilemma when they realize that one of their inmates (accused of child murder and rape) has a mysterious gift.
8. Billy Elliot (2000)
"Just because I like ballet doesn't mean I'm a poof, you know."
In Britain at the end of the 20th century, a boy named Billy is torn between his dreams of becoming a ballet dancer and his backward mining family.
9. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."
On his way to the Nobel Prize, the brilliant mathematician not only struggles with cryptography's biggest puzzles, but also with insidious schizophrenia.
10. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
"You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period.”
A film based on a true story in which Will Smith and Chris Gardener lose everything due to a business failure: both their wife and house and everything in their bank account, and they find themselves on the road with their son.
11. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
"Money and women. The reasons for most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both.”
A Mumbai teenager takes part in the "It's nice to be a millionaire" quiz, but because he knows all the answers, the police arrest him on suspicion of cheating.
12. Friend (Untouchable, 2011)
"My true disability is not having to be in a wheelchair. It's having to be without her.”
A wheelchair-bound aristocrat hires a most unsuitable person as his personal carer: the black criminal Driss.
