30 Best Feel-Good Movies on Amazon Prime to Stream Now
In this post, find some of the best feel-good movies on Amazon Prime to instantly lift your mood.
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Want to escape a bad mood? Well, skip the tragic content this time!!
I am a sucker for rom-coms myself, and I can say that there is no better way than to watch some feel-good romantic comedies to snap yourself out of a bad mood quickly.
The feel-good movies on Amazon Prime mentioned in this post will definitely help you put a smile on your face. From Crazy, Stupid, Love to Sylvie's Love - there is something for everyone!
Best Feel-Good Movies on Amazon Prime
1. The Lost City (2022)
Genre: Action, Romance, Adventure, Comedy
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Director: Adam Nee, Aaron Nee
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, and a cameo appearance by Brad Pitt
Join the adventure of a not-so-adventurous romance novelist and her cover model to find the lost ancient city as she is kidnapped by a billionaire. This fun and light-hearted movie, starring the rom-com queen, will entertain you with stunning locations and great action.
2. I Want You Back (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Director: Jason Orley
Cast: Charlie Day, Jenny Slate
Two strangers who are unexpectedly dumped around the same time by their respective partners are shocked to discover that their ex-partners have moved on quickly. So they team up to ruin each of their ex's relationships!
3. The Hating Game (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Director: Peter Hutchings
Cast: Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell
Based on the novel of the same name, The Hating Game is a story about Lucy and Josh, who hate each other passionately; until things begin to change between them romantically.
4. Sylvie's Love (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Duration: 1 h 56 min
Director: Eugene Ashe
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha
This is an old-fashioned jazz romance that revolves around Sylvie, who meets an aspiring saxophonist in the summer of the 1950s. As the summer comes to an end, life takes them in different directions. However, when their paths cross again years later, they find that, while their lives have changed, their feelings for one another have not.
5. A Nice Girl Like You (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Director: Chris Riedell, Nick Riedell
Cast: Lucy Hale, Leonidas Gulaptis
After her unsatisfied boyfriend breaks up with Lucy, she creates a wild to-do list that takes her on the path of self-discovery.
6. A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Jude Law, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Diego Luna, and Liev Schreiber
It follows the story of two college students who travel to New York City, where their plans to spend a romantic weekend are dashed very soon.
7. Book Club (2018)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Director: Bill Holderman
Cast: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen
The lives of four friends begin to change when they read the infamous Fifty Shades of Grey as part of their monthly book club. It is a hilarious comedy to which the older audiences will relate better!
8. Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 2 h 0 min
Director: Jon M. Chu
Cast: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan
Based on Kevin Kwan's novel; Crazy Rich Asians. The plot revolves around a Chinese-American Professor, who accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore to attend his best friend’s wedding and meet his family for the first time (who to her surprise turns out crazy rich!!)
9. The Big Sick (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Director: Michael Showalter
Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter
This is a totally unpredictable rom-com based on the real-life romance of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon - a couple with cultural differences.
10. How To Be Single (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 49 min
Director: Christian Ditter
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, Leslie Mann
Based on the book, How to Be Single by Liz Tuccillo, follows the story of a group of women and their different approaches to love, relationships, and how to be single.
11. Love On The Sidelines (2016)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Director: Terry Ingram
Cast: Emily Kinney, John Reardon
If you like Hallmark romantic comedies, you will definitely enjoy this story about a down-on-her-luck woman who finds herself with a job as a personal assistant to a football player out on injury.
12. Aloha (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams
On a mission in Hawaii, a military contractor reconnects with his old flame while falling for his feisty guide.
13. You Cast A Spell On Me (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Director: Tosca Musk
Cast: Nikki Deloach, Ryan McPartlin, Harley Jane Kozak
Another Hallmark movie on the list is this Fantasy Rom-Com which is delightful to watch anytime. However, it makes perfect for Halloween to give you those witchy vibes.
14. Blended (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Director: Frank Coraci
Cast: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore
After a disastrous blind date with each other, two single parents agree they are better off single. However, things are about to change when they find themselves and their families stuck together at a vacation spot in the African Savanna.
15. Big Stone Gap (2014)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Director: Adriana Trigiani
Cast: Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg
The story is based on Trigiani's novel Big Stone Gap about a middle-aged woman in Virginia whose life turns upside down after she learns a long-buried family secret.
16. Begin Again (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Duration: 1 h 44 min
Director: John Carney
Cast: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo
A chance meeting between a young songwriter and a disgraced record-label executive leads to a collaboration changing their lives altogether.
17. The Other Woman (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 49 min
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton
When three women discover that the man they are romantically involved with is three-timing them, they team up to plot revenge.
18. Two Night Stand (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Director: Max Nichols
Cast: Miles Teller, Analeigh Tipton, Jessica Szohr
The story revolves around two people whose casual online hook-up turns into something more when they are unavoidably trapped in one apartment after a snowstorm.
19. The Love Punch (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Action
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Director: Joel Hopkins
Cast: Emma Thompson, Pierce Brosnan
Divorcees Richard and Kate, plot together to get back their retirement money stolen from them by a French businessman.
20. What If? (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Director: Michael Dowse
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Megan Park
A med-school dropout who has given up on love finds himself falling for a woman who lives with her long-time boyfriend.
21. Austenland (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Director: Jerusha Hess
Cast: Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie
For all you hopeless romantics, here is a fun movie based on Shannon Hale's novel Austenland. The protagonist, who is obsessed with Jane Austen's works, leaves for a trip to Austenland (a Jane Austen theme park) to find her own Mr. Darcy!
22. About Time (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Duration: 2 h 3 min
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy
The story revolves around a young man who, at the age of 21, discovers a family secret that he can travel through time. Following his father's guidance, he uses his special ability to improve his life.
23. Bridesmaids (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 2 h 5 min
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne
Annie, whose own life is a shambles, learns that her best friend Lillian is engaged. So, she has to serve as the maid of honor and lead Lillian and the other wild bridesmaids down the road to the wedding.
24. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Duration: 1 h 58 min
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Cast: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone
Cal's life turns upside down when he learns his wife has been unfaithful and wants to divorce him. He seeks to rediscover his manhood and learn how to be a hit with the ladies with the help of a newfound friend.
25. From Prada to Nada (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Director: Angel Gracia
Cast: Camilla Belle, Alexa Vega, Wilmer Valderrama
Partly based on Jane Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility, this Latino version revolves around two spoiled sisters, who are left penniless after their father's sudden death. And now they have to move in with their aunt in East L. A.
26. Just Go With It (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 56 min
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson
In this one, a plastic surgeon persuades his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon-to-be ex-wife, to cover up a lie he told his younger girlfriend.
27. You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Action, Romance
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Director: Rob Hedden
Cast: Katharine McPhee, Dave Annable, Kathy Bates, Rob Schneider
The story is about an ordinary photographer who has to forcefully marry the daughter of a Croatian mobster. However, things get complicated when he loses his new bride to kidnappers on their honeymoon.
28. What's Your Number? (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Director: Mark Mylod
Cast: Anna Faris, Chris Evans
Based on Karyn Bosnak's novel, 20 Times a Lady, a thirty-something woman who is struggling to make better choices in life, looks back at the numerous men she has dated so far and wonders if one of them might be her Mr. right?!
29. Letters to Juliet (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Vanessa Redgrave
Inspired by the book Letters to Juliet by Lise Friedman and Ceil Friedman. When Sophie visits Italy, she finds a place where people write letters to Juliet (Shakespeare's heroine) and meets the "Secretaries of Juliet" who actually write back to those letters. After discovering a 50-year-old letter, Sophie decides to write back to its elderly author - which eventually alters her own life.
30. Leap Year (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode
A real estate worker plans to travel to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend on a leap day when tradition holds that men cannot refuse a woman's marriage proposal. Her plans are, however, interrupted on her way to Dublin.
This concludes the list of best feel-good movies on Amazon Prime.
Furthermore, I did not include older movies (released before 2010) in the list above, assuming you have already seen them numerous times. But if you still want to revisit the oldies, here's a list:
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