F2Rs 100 Movies... 100 Cheers

Here I bring my personal version of AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers list. This list is for the 100 most inspiring films I've ever seen. This includes the sincere feeling of profound happiness they instill, inspiring one with a sense of magic or imagination, or one man or underdog up against and overcoming great obstacles.


  1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  3. Schindler's List (1993)
  4. Rocky (1976)
  5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  6. Good Will Hunting (1997)
  7. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  8. Forrest Gump (1994)
  9. E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  10. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  11. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
  12. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
  13. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
  14. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  15. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  16. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  17. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  18. Star Wars IV: a New Hope (1977)
  19. City Lights (1931)
  20. WALL-E (2008)
  21. The Truman Show (1998)
  22. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  23. Breaking Away (1979)
  24. Field of Dreams (1989)
  25. High Noon (1952)
  26. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  27. On the Waterfront (1954)
  28. Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) (2005)
  29. Rocky Balboa (2006)
  30. Finding Nemo (2003)
  31. Hoosiers (1986)
  32. Glory (1989)
  33. Jurassic Park (1993)
  34. Holiday Inn (1942)
  35. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  36. Frost/Nixon (2008)
  37. Juno (2007)
  38. Up (2009)
  39. Marty (1955)
  40. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
  41. Auntie Mame (1958)
  42. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
  43. The Lion King (1994)
  44. Spartacus (1960)
  45. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  46. Shane (1953)
  47. Milk (2008)
  48. On Golden Pond (1981)
  49. American Graffiti (1973)
  50. A Christmas Story (1983)
  51. 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968)
  52. The Apartment (1960)
  53. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  54. The Breakfast Club (1985)
  55. Cool Runnings (1993)
  56. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  57. The Iron Giant (1999)
  58. Roman Holiday (1953)
  59. Apollo 13 (1995)
  60. Rocky III (1982)
  61. Harold and Maude (1971)
  62. Dead Poets Society (1989)
  63. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
  64. The Incredibles (2005)
  65. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  66. Dan in Real Life (2007)
  67. Monsters Inc. (2001)
  68. Knocked Up (2007)
  69. All of Me (1984)
  70. The Sandlot (1993)
  71. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
  72. Rocky II (1979)
  73. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  74. Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
  75. Shrek (2001)
  76. Ray (2004)
  77. An American in Paris (1951)
  78. Casablanca (1941)
  79. Ratatouille (2007)
  80. Accepted (2006)
  81. A Christmas Carol (1951)
  82. Philadelphia (1993)
  83. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  84. Star Wars I: the Phantom Menace (1999)
  85. The Killing Fields (1984)
  86. Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
  87. Rain Man (1988)
  88. Picnic (1955)
  89. Babe (1995)
  90. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
  91. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  92. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
  93. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  94. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  95. Titan A.E. (2000)
  96. Antz (1998)
  97. Rocky IV (1985)
  98. It Happened One Night (1934)
  99. Hitch (2005)
  100. Boys Town (1938)
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