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Therapeutic Flicks…

For a variety of reasons, I have found the following films helpful, challenging, playful, intriguing, grief-provoking, inspirational, life-affirming, awakening, correcting, and sometimes triggering in my own healing journey (they are not in any kind of order):

• The Mirror Has Two Faces
• Freedom Fighters
• The Other Sister
• Real Women Have Curves
• Amazing Grace
• The Joy Luck Club
• Ordinary People
• The Kid (Bruce Willis)
  
• Billy Elliot
• Bend it Like Beckham
• Braveheart
• I Am Sam
• Mind the Gap
• Finding Nemo
• Spanglish
• Mostly Martha (the German version)
• End of the Spear
• 28 Days
• Horse Whisperer
• Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
• The Proposal (Sandra Bullock)
• What About Bob
• October Sky
• Losing Isaiah
• The Secret Garden (1997)
• Runaway Bride
• Message in a Bottle
• Equilibrium (Christian Bale)
• Les Miserables (1998)
• Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Ferris Beuler’s Day Off
• Mr. Holland’s Opus
• Matrix
• Lord of the Rings
• Whale Rider
• Dream Team
• Always
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Dead Poet’s Society
• Nowhere in Africa
• The Phantom of the Opera
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
• The Holiday (newer version, Kate Winslet)
• Remains of the Day
• Crash
• The Lion King
• Hook
• Enchanted April
• The Breakfast Club
• Remember the Titans
• Cast Away
• Bruce Almighty
• You’ve Got Mail
• Wall-E
• Finding Neverland
• The Little Mermaid
• Titanic
• Must Love Dogs
• Dances with Wolves
• Truman
• Short Time
• The Jungle Book
• Benny & Joon
• Pursuit of Happyness
• Gaslight (1944)
• The Story of Us
• Chariots of Fire
• Babett’s Feast
• Gladiator (Russell Crowe)
• Short Circuit
• Kramer vs Kramer
• Amadeus
• Mary Poppins