Feelgood movies

I don't like rom-com cheese, but there are some films that I like that can, if the concept is strained a bit, be labelled as "feelgood movies".

1. Little Miss Sunshine

Dysfunctional families - yeah, that's a familiar theme - but something about this film makes it deep, fun and heartbreaking.

2. Babettes Gaestebud

A fun and sad film about food and belief.

3. Billy Elliott

4. Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
Roadmovie about Aussie dragqueens. If you don't like ABBA already, after watching this movie, you will.

5. Être et avoir
French documentary about a village school.

6. Les Triplettes de Belleville
A film about cycle-racing and more...

7. Wonder Boys
Michael Dougles as a world-weary college professor.

8. Pieces of April
Music by the 6ths.

9. The Wind Will Carry Us
One hell of a movie by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. A movie about small things and big things. Human beings, a turtle and a cell phone. Great dialogue.

10. The Straight Story
David Lynch's film about forgiving.

bubbling under: Hotel Paradiso, Skenbart: en film om tåg, Mies Vailla Menneisyyttä, Delicatessen, But I'm a Cheerleader!, Wilde.

In my list, only Priscilla remotly resembles the rom-com genre. But that's not, of course, romance in the WASP kind of way.