What are some 'life' movies akin to 'Big Fish', 'The Truman Show' or

'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'? (self.movies)

submitted 11 rja * by ScienceGuyChris221B

I want movies that tend to follow a single character, have deep

themes while simultaneously being 'feel good' in nature. Basically,
films that give off the same vibes that the films I've just mentioned
do.
Thanks.
Edit: Thanks guys. Have watched about 50% of these recs before
and they're definitely monumental films. Going through the other
ImDB pages one by one. Here's one most of you may not have come
across, one that I forgot to mention above: The Young and
Prodigious T.S. Spivet.
Edit2: List so far:
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Pleasantville
What Dreams May Come
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Forrest Gump
Submarine
Into The Wild
The Way Way Back
The World According to Garp
Sing Street
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Stranger Than Fiction
About Time
What's Eating GIlbert Grape
Memories of Matsuko
Inside Llewyn Davis
Harvey
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Life as a House
Finding Neverland

The Martian
Tata's Pizza Adventures
The Weather Man
To Kill a Mockingbird
Stand By Me
Yes Man
American Beauty
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
The 25th Hour
Joe vs The Volcano
Blast From The Past
The Fisher King
Tree of Life

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[]Herbie555 16 pontok 11 rja

Hector and the Search for Happiness Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike

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[]Neosantana 4 pontok 5 rja

Well, I'm sold based on the casting alone.

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rokon

[]W-A-D-E 19 pontok 11 rja

Forrest gump

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[]missmediajunkier/Movies Veteran 10 pontok 10 rja

Pleasantville and What Dreams May Come.

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[]firebadtreepretty 10 pontok 8 rja

Stranger Than Fiction, I would say.

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[]CKaufmanRLinklater 7 pontok 11 rja

Submarine
Into the wild (except for the ending)
The way way back

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[]rtsplya 6 pontok 11 rja

About Time, What's Eating Gilbert Grape,

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[]panda388 4 pontok 8 rja

Seconding About Time. What a fantastic emotional journey.

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rokon

[]squeakyL 3 pontok 5 rja

Watched it with my dad, was dehydrated and hyponatremic after.

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rokon

[]rtsplya 2 pontok 6 rja

Exactly. Also, I forgot to mention August Rush.

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rokon

[]MiguelitoSanchez 1 pont 4 rja

Fun fact: Darlene Cates the morbidly obese mother in the movie is
still alive to this day.

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rokon

[]azumah1 5 pontok 11 rja

The World According to Garp

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[]1541drive 6 pontok 10 rja

Also lessons on where not to give/receive BJs

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rokon

[]swordsandspikes 1 pont 3 rja

I read the book for a high school English class and had to make a
presentation about it...yikes.

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rokon

[]W-A-D-E 11 pontok 11 rja

Benjamin button

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[]FakkoPrime 4 pontok 9 rja

Joe vs The Volcano

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[]TheDarkNightwing 6 pontok 10 rja

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

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[]jediwario 3 pontok 11 rja

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

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[]ScienceGuyChris221B[S] 1 pont 11 rja

I've heard so much about this film, is it truly that good? I mean, is it
memorable, or more of a 'Birdman' type of movie?

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rokon

[]Zeno84 4 pontok 10 rja

LOL. What do you mean?

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[]mkjones 1 pont 9 rja

LOL indeed, what does he mean?

PS - Birdman and Llewyn Davis are quite different.

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[]Zeno84 1 pont 9 rja

Yeah, I can imagine. I've only seen the former.

It seemed like he was saying Birdman's not a movie about life and
therefore is not good. Or it's good in a different way.
Idfk.

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[]jediwario 3 pontok 7 rja

I personally wouldn't watch it again. It's not bad, but it kind of

doesn't go anywhere, but that's common for Coen films.

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[]beamdriver 1 pont 5 rja

Yeah, but...that's kinda the point.

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[]beamdriver 2 pontok 5 rja

I finally got around to watching it last week and it's been in my head
every day since then.

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[]tggoulart 1 pont 10 rja

It's Top 5 Coen easily

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[]Moronoo 2 pontok 9 rja

what would be your order?

mine is this I think:
1 A Serious Man
2 The Big Lebowski
3 The Man Who Wasn't There
4 No Country for Old Men
5 Raising Arizona

6 Fargo
7 Inside Llewyn Davis
8 Burn After Reading
9 O Brother Where Art Thou
10 Blood Simple
11 Hail Caesar
12 True Grit
13 Intolerable Cruelty
14 Hudsucker Proxy
15 Miller's Crossing
16 Ladykillers
I haven't seen Barton Fink.

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[]Sakattack98765 2 pontok 7 rja

It's funny going down your list. I'm like "oh no way, I don't agree
with this being here or above that! Let me switch this... K shit now
that doesn't make sense... Hmm okay maybe he had it right the first
time."

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[]Moronoo 1 pont 7 rja

haha that was my exact process, it was a lot harder than I thought.

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[]2OP4me 1 pont 4 rja

My exact same reaction :)

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[]eatingsolids 1 pont 6 rja

wow, a serious man is their least favorite of mine with miller's

crossing way up on top. I'd just assumed all Coen brothers fans liked
them in roughly same order as me

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[]Tubmas 1 pont 5 rja

Gotta see Barton Fink man, its one of their best.

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[]tggoulart 1 pont 22 perce

Ranking them all is kinda hard but my top 5 would be

No Country For Old Men
Raising Arizona
Inside Llewyn Davis
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink

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[]ks4269 3 pontok 11 rja

Harvey

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[]mkjones 3 pontok 9 rja

Try The Weather Man with Nic Cage. Same writer as Walter Mitty,
similar vibe but total different subjects.

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[]nammertl 3 pontok 9 rja

Stand By Me