Netflix is undoubtedly the best film streaming service out there. However, the list of movies on Netflix India might seem limited or at least somewhat different from other countries.
Trying to find a good movie to watch on Netflix is hard enough, but trying to find, specifically, a happy movie to watch on Netflix can be extra difficult.
Sometimes you just need a pick-me-up, and the right film at the right time can do wonders to improve your mood.
Below, we’ve assembled a curated list of the very best happy movies to watch on Netflix, from comedies to blockbusters to little-seen indies.
1. Title: The Forty-Year-Old Version
Release Year: 2020
Director: Radha Blank
Runtime: 2h 4m
This fun comedy-drama is about a New York playwright called Radha who never hit big. When she turns 40, she decides to reinvent herself as RadhaMUSPrime, a rapper.
2. Title: Ordinary People
Release Year: 2016
Director: Eduardo Roy Jr.
Runtime: 1h 47m
Ordinary People tells the harrowing story of Jane and Aries, two teenage parents struggling to survive the streets of Manila. At the mercy of limited welfare, the two resort to criminal activity to get by. When a woman offers to help them financially (on loan), Jane eventually relents—but is shocked to discover that her baby’s been kidnapped.
3. Title: A Sun
Release Year: 2019
Director: Chung Mong-hong, Mong-Hong Chung
Runtime: 2h 36m
In The Sun, a family of four is dealt with tragedy after tragedy, beginning with the younger sun A-ho’s sudden incarceration. The mother is sympathetic but the father all but shuns him as he chooses to throw all his affection to A-hao, the older brother, and his med school pursuits instead.
4. Title: Inside Job
Release Year: 2010
Director: Charles Ferguson
Runtime: 1h 48m
Inside Job is a great and complete technical overview of the financial meltdown. The movie is simple, uses charts and colors for all of us who once thought figures and formulas were too complicated to understand — it even makes you go, “hey, this is not so difficult to understand.
5. Title: A Tourist’s Guide to Love
Release Year: 2023
Director: Steven Tsuchida
Runtime: 1h 36m
A Tourist’s Guide to Love follows as Cook’s Amanda handles heartbreak while embarking on her journey towards resilience and a second chance at love. Written by Eirene Donohue, A Tourist’s Guide to Love also Missi Pyle and Ben Feldman, along with Scott Lý as Sinh Thach, a charmingly charismatic tour guide in Vietnam.
6. Title: Look Both Ways
Release Year: 2022
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Runtime: 1h 50m
One moment can change your life forever, and Look Both Ways explores this concept in a fun and charming way. The movie revolves around Natalie (Lili Reinhart), who spontaneously has sex with her best friend Gabe (Danny Ramirez). A few weeks later, on graduation night, she takes a pregnancy test.
7. Title: The Half of It
Release Year: 2020
Director: Alice Wu
Runtime: 1h 44m
In the small town of Squahamish, Ellie (Leah Lewis) lives with her father, who hasn’t been the same since her mother passed away. Ellie doesn’t have many friends but uses her skills as a writer to do homework assignments for her peers in exchange for money.
8. Title: Let It Snow
Release Year: 2019
Director: Luke Snellin
Runtime: 1h 33m
If you’re in the mood for a feel-good movie that’s also a Christmas movie, Netflix delivered its own twist on Love Actually for the teen set with Let It Snow, a breezy holiday rom-com that finds a series of overlapping love stories on one fateful Christmas season snow day.
9. Title: Look Both Ways
Release Year: 2022
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Runtime: 1h 50m
One moment can change your life forever, and Look Both Ways explores this concept in a fun and charming way. The movie revolves around Natalie (Lili Reinhart), who spontaneously has sex with her best friend Gabe (Danny Ramirez). A few weeks later, on graduation night, she takes a pregnancy test.
10. Title: Yes Day
Release Year: 2021
Director: Miguel Arteta
Runtime: 1h 29m
Yes Day follows the Torres family as they try to bring a little spontaneity and fun back into their lives. Parents Allison and Carlos (Jennifer Garner and Édgar Ramírez) used to be adventurous and fun until they had their three kids, Katie, Evan, and Ellie. Once Allison realizes that her children see her as more of a dictator than a mother, she agrees to a “Yes Day.”
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