Playlists > Summer 2022 WatchParty (& some classics/favs)

Summer 2022 WatchParty (& some classics/favs)
Description:

This is a hard hat area - playlist still under construction hehe

Mostly all heart-warming, inspirational, wholesome, fun and creative things that I have already watched and/or want to watchparty with friends. ❤️ I have also included a few that fall into the horror or suspense genres bc they have an overall positive message or inspirational characters.

In no particular order…


Creator: PacificLilly
Posted: 1 year ago
 
Favorite

2 favorites

350 views

info
Movie: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ( 2012 )
Seven elderly Britons, for a variety of reasons, respond to an online ad and travel to Jaipur, India, where they find run-down hotel with a young, exuberant, and optimistic host. Evelyn Greenslade (Dame Judi Dench), newly widowed, wants a low-cost experience, Graham Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson) seeks a long-ago love, Douglas Ainslie (Bill Nighy) and Jean Ainslie (Dame Penelope Wilton) have lost their pension in a family investment, Muriel Donnelly (Dame Maggie Smith) needs cheap hip surgery, Madge Hardcastle (Celia Imrie) seeks a rich husband, and Norman Cousins (Ronald Pickup) is chasing women. India affects each in different ways, enchanting Douglas and Evelyn while driving Jean deeper into bitterness. Their host, young Sonny (Dev Patel), has dreams but little cash or skill; he also has a girlfriend whom his mother dismisses. Stories cross and discoveries await each one.
info
Movie: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ( 2015 )
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
info
Movie: The Young Victoria ( 2009 )
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
info
Movie: Victoria & Abdul ( 2017 )
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
info
Movie: Little Women ( 2019 )
In the years after the Civil War, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) lives in New York City and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy March (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore "Laurie" Laurence (Timothée Chalamet), a childhood crush who proposed to Jo, but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg March (Emma Watson), is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen) develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.
info
Movie: Downton Abbey ( 2019 )
The continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early twentieth century.
info
Movie: Emma. ( 2020 )
Jane Austen's beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending, is reimagined in this. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
info
Movie: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris ( 2022 )
A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.
info
Movie: Quartet ( 2013 )
At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
info
Movie: The Magic of Ordinary Days ( 2005 )
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
info
Movie: Silver Linings Playbook ( 2012 )
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a mental institution, Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) winds up living with his parents (Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver). He wants to rebuild his life and reunite with his wife, but his parents would be happy if he just shared their obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange
info
Movie: Good Will Hunting ( 1998 )
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
info
Movie: Rudy ( 1993 )
Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
info
Movie: Fly Away Home ( 1996 )
A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.
info
Movie: October Sky ( 1999 )
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
info
Movie: As Good as It Gets ( 1997 )
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
info
Movie: Powder ( 1995 )
An off the charts genius who is home schooled and shunned after his last relative dies shows the unconscious residents of his town about connection awareness and the generosity of the spirit.
info
Movie: Pay It Forward ( 2000 )
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
info
Movie: Michael ( 1996 )
Two tabloid reporters checking out a report of the Archangel Michael living with an old woman find that it's true. But that's not the only surprise.
info
Movie: I Am Sam ( 2002 )
A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
info
Movie: The Bucket List ( 2008 )
Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
info
Movie: The Terminal ( 2004 )
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
info
Movie: Patch Adams ( 1998 )
The true story of a heroic man, Hunter "Patch" Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.
info
Movie: Meet Joe Black ( 1998 )
Death, who takes the form of a young man (Brad Pitt), asks a media mogul (Sir Anthony Hopkins) to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth, and in the process, he falls in love with his guide's daughter (Claire Forlani).
info
Movie: Finding Forrester ( 2001 )
A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.
info
Movie: The Astronaut Farmer ( 2007 )
A NASA astronaut, forced to retire years earlier so he could save his family farm, has never given up his dream of space travel and looks to build his own rocket, despite the government's threats to stop him.
info
Movie: Sister Act ( 1992 )
When a worldly singer witnesses a mob crime, the police hide her as a nun in a traditional convent where she has trouble fitting in.
info
Movie: Phenomenon ( 1996 )
John Travolta plays George Malley, who owns the local auto repair shop in a small California town. After celebrating his birthday with friends at the local bar/hang-out, George heads for home. He pauses to watch a strange light in the sky, then collapses for a few seconds in the middle of the deserted street. In the days and weeks that follow, George finds his IQ and consciousness expanding dramatically, and develops telekinetic abilities. Despite his attempts to explain what has happened to him, with just a very few exceptions, most of the local townspeople treat the "new" George as a freak. His state of isolation becomes even more pronounced when his new-found abilities allow him to correctly predict an earthquake, and outside authorities become interested in what's happened to him.
info
Movie: Waterworld ( 1995 )
In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.
info
Movie: The Fifth Element ( 1997 )
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
info
Movie: Chocolat ( 2001 )
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
info
Movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 )
In Britain, slightly bumbling and always tardy Charles (Hugh Grant) and his closest group of friends seem always to be attending weddings, but are never the bride nor groom, and as such, each, with the exception of gay couple Gareth (Simon Callow) and Matthew (John Hannah), is looking for love. At the wedding of their friends, Angus (Timothy Walker) and Laura (Sara Crowe), where Charles is acting as best man, Charles meets an American woman named Carrie (Andie MacDowell). For him, it's love at first sight. She too is attracted to him. Although they spend a memorable evening together, that's all it ends up being. Over three more successive weddings - some of the brides and grooms who are very near and dear to Charles' heart - and one unfortunate funeral, Charles runs into Carrie, but something always seems to prevent the two of them from getting together. He also runs into a plethora of old girlfriends, one of whom he may believe is really the one he was meant to end up with, especially if Carrie seems to remain unobtainable. Will Charles settle for who in his heart is second best, or will fate finally bring Charles and Carrie together?
info
Movie: The Family Stone ( 2005 )
An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
info
Movie: Cool Runnings ( 1993 )
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
info
Movie: The Blues Brothers ( 1980 )
Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
info
Movie: Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1992 )
A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.
info
Movie: Last Chance Harvey ( 2009 )
In London for his daughter's wedding, a rumpled man finds his romantic spirits lifted by a new woman in his life.
info
Movie: The Birdcage ( 1996 )
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
info
Movie: Hidden Figures ( 2017 )
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
info
Movie: The Breakfast Club ( 1985 )
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
info
Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 )
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
info
Movie: The Money Pit ( 1986 )
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
info
Movie: Harriet ( 2019 )
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
info
Movie: Driving Miss Daisy ( 1990 )
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
info
Movie: Pride & Prejudice ( 2005 )
Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
info
Movie: Eat Pray Love ( 2010 )
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".
info
Movie: We Bought a Zoo ( 2011 )
Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.
info
Movie: Pearl Harbor ( 2001 )
A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.
info
Movie: The Martian ( 2015 )
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
info
Movie: The Cat from Outer Space ( 1978 )
Three scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
info
Movie: Return from Witch Mountain ( 1978 )
Tia and her brother Tony have supernatural powers, can communicate and moving things with the power of their minds. While in Los Angeles for a visit. Tony uses his powers to prevent an accident, and the ruthless scientist, iDr. Gannon, who's looking to control the world, finds out and takes Tony into his clutches. Gannon implants a device near Tony's brain which enables him to control Tony's will. its up to Tia Anna a group of kids to free Tony and save the Earth.
info
Movie: Escape to Witch Mountain ( 1975 )
Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?
info
Movie: I Am Legend ( 2007 )
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
info
Movie: Interstellar ( 2014 )
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
info
Movie: Gravity ( 2013 )
Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.
info
Movie: The Da Vinci Code ( 2006 )
A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
info
Movie: Signs ( 2002 )
Preacher Graham Hess loses his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He lives with his children and brother in a farmhouse. Crop circles start to appear in their cornfields; Graham dismisses them as mischief by miscreants. After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together as a family and believe, to survive and escape the ordeal.
info
Movie: 2012 ( 2009 )
A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
info
Movie: Inception ( 2010 )
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
info
Movie: Stardust ( 2007 )
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
info
Movie: Seventh Son ( 2014 )
When Mother Malkin, the queen of evil witches, escapes the pit she was imprisoned in by professional monster hunter Spook decades ago and kills his apprentice, he recruits young Tom, the seventh son of the seventh son, to help him.
info
Movie: FernGully: The Last Rainforest ( 1992 )
The magical inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus.
info
Movie: Jumanji ( 1995 )
When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
info
Movie: The Secret Garden ( 1993 )
A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings -- and its secrets.
info
Movie: Iron Jawed Angels ( 2004 )
A little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.
info
Movie: A Royal Night Out ( 2015 )
On V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.
info
Movie: A Knight's Tale ( 2001 )
Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," as well as the early life of William Marshall (later First Earl of Pembroke), this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.
info
Movie: I Am Number Four ( 2011 )
Aliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. This is his story.
info
Movie: Mac and Me ( 1988 )
An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.
info
Movie: Harry and the Hendersons ( 1987 )
The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of 'Bigfoot' a secret.
info
Movie: Field of Dreams ( 1989 )
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.
info
Movie: A League of Their Own ( 1992 )
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
info
Movie: Green Book ( 2018 )
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
info
Movie: Matilda ( 1996 )
Story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable.
info
Movie: While You Were Sleeping ( 1995 )
A hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient.
info
Movie: *batteries not included ( 1987 )
Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.
info
Movie: Like Stars on Earth ( 2007 )
An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.
info
Movie: Scent of a Woman ( 1993 )
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
info
Movie: Men of Honor ( 2000 )
The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.
info
Movie: Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium ( 2007 )
Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the strangest, most fantastic, most wonderful toy store in the world. But when Mr. Magorium, the 243-year-old eccentric who owns the store, bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once-remarkable Emporium.
info
Movie: Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story ( 2005 )
Cale Crane catalyzes the rescue and rehabilitation of Sonador, a race horse with a broken leg.
info
Movie: Little Women ( 1994 )
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.
info
Movie: Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 )
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.
info
Movie: The Fall ( 2008 )
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances.
info
Movie: Howards End ( 1993 )
Encounter of three social classes of England at the beginning of the twentieth century: the Victorian capitalists (the Wilcoxes) considering themselves as aristocrats, whose only god is money; the enlightened bourgeois (the Schlegels), humanistic and philanthropic; and the workers (the Basts), fighting to survive. The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts.
info
Movie: Robin Hood: Men in Tights ( 1993 )
A spoof of Robin Hood in general, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.
info
Movie: Down Periscope ( 1996 )
Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days.
info
Movie: The Princess Bride ( 1987 )
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
info
Movie: Lucy ( 2014 )
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
info
Movie: Avatar ( 2009 )
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
info
Movie: Something the Lord Made ( 2004 )
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
info
Movie: Flora & Ulysses ( 2021 )
When Flora rescues a squirrel she names Ulysses, she is amazed to discover he possesses unique superhero powers, which take them on an adventure of humorous complications that ultimately change Flora's life and her outlook forever.
info
Movie: The Bookshop ( 2017 )
England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
info
Movie: The Station Agent ( 2003 )
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
info
Movie: Garden State ( 2004 )
A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
info
Movie: Pirate Radio ( 2009 )
A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.
info
Movie: Ammonite ( 2020 )
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
info
Movie: Last Christmas ( 2019 )
A selfish woman meets a mysterious young man during the Christmas season who brings out the best in her. But is he too good to be true? From the director of Bridesmaids and A Simple Favor, starring Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding, with music from the legendary George Michael.
info
Movie: Brain on Fire ( 2018 )
A young, capable professional cannot explain her newly erratic behavior.
info
Movie: Contact ( 1997 )
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.