🏷 Best Lighthearted Movies & TV Shows - Page 2 - Full Archive

100 titles with this tag

Perfect Days
Cast
Koji Yakusho Koji Yakusho
Tokio Emoto Tokio Emoto
Arisa Nakano Arisa Nakano
Aoi Yamada Aoi Yamada
7.8 2.0K votes
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  tree, routine, slice of life, janitor, working class, tokyo, japan, character study, ...
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Thanmathra
Cast
Mohanlal Mohanlal
Meera Vasudevan Meera Vasudevan
Arjun Lal Arjun Lal
Nedumudi Venu Nedumudi Venu
7.8 35 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:  A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  alzheimer's disease, family, ias, sentimental
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Ponyo
Cast
Yuria Kozuki Yuria Kozuki
Hiroki Doi Hiroki Doi
George Tokoro George Tokoro
Tomoko Yamaguchi Tomoko Yamaguchi
7.8 4.9K votes
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Audience: G
Story:  When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.
Plot:  princess, fish, fairy tale, cliff, mermaid, heart warming, quest, anime, ...
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Back to the Future Part II
Cast
Michael J. Fox Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson Lea Thompson
Thomas F. Wilson Thomas F. Wilson
7.8 14.0K votes
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Duration: 108 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  flying car, skateboarding, car race, lightning, guitar, inventor, time travel, diner, ...
Time:  2010s
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Duncanville
Cast
Amy Poehler Amy Poehler
Riki Lindhome Riki Lindhome
Joy Osmanski Joy Osmanski
Ty Burrell Ty Burrell
7.7 278 votes
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 33
Audience: TV-14
Story:  Like most 15-year-olds, Duncan can see adulthood on the horizon: money, freedom, cars and girls; but the reality is more like: always being broke, driving with one's mom sitting shotgun and babysitting one's sister. He's not exceptional, but he has a wild imagination in which he's never anything less than amazing.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  high school, family, adult animation, sitcom, calm, casual, hilarious
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
Cast
Dylan Sprouse Dylan Sprouse
Cole Sprouse Cole Sprouse
Ashley French Ashley French
Brenda Song Brenda Song
7.6 703 votes
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 87
Audience: TV-G
Story:  Meet Zack and Cody, 11 year-old identical twins and the newest residents of Boston's swanky Tipton Hotel. Living in a suite with their mom Carey, the boys treat the Tipton like their own personal playground.
Style:  lighthearted, witty
Plot:  hotel, twin brother, single mother, teen comedy, hotel manager, sitcom, troublemaker, identical twins, ...
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Rugrats
Cast
E. G. Daily E. G. Daily
Kath Soucie Kath Soucie
Cheryl Chase Cheryl Chase
Dionne Quan Dionne Quan
7.6 760 votes
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 9
Episodes: 322
Audience: TV-Y7
Story:  Focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become adventures in the babies' imaginations. Adults in the series are almost always unaware of what the children are up to; however, this only provides more room for the babies to explore and discover their surroundings.
Style:  nostalgic, lighthearted
Plot:  baby, friendship, toddler, playful
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10 Things I Hate About You
Cast
Heath Ledger Heath Ledger
Julia Stiles Julia Stiles
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Larisa Oleynik Larisa Oleynik
7.6 9.0K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: United States of America
Duration: 97 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  high school, seattle, washington, deception, based on play or musical, coming of age, teen movie, shrew, ...
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Elemental
Cast
Leah Lewis Leah Lewis
Mamoudou Athie Mamoudou Athie
Ronnie del Carmen Ronnie del Carmen
Shila Ommi Shila Ommi
7.6 5.4K votes
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: United States of America
Duration: 102 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.
Style:  lighthearted, romantic, whimsical
Plot:  fire, earth, computer animation, duringcreditsstinger, elements, water, 3d animation, city, ...
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The Emperor's New Groove
Cast
David Spade David Spade
John Goodman John Goodman
Eartha Kitt Eartha Kitt
Patrick Warburton Patrick Warburton
7.6 7.4K votes
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 78 min.
Audience: G
Story:  When the self‑absorbed Emperor Kuzco is accidentally transformed into a llama, he must rely on a humble villager to survive the jungle and reclaim his throne.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  central and south america, emperor, cartoon, incan empire, kids, animation, comedy, cartoons, ...
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Magnum P.I.
7.6 339 votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 96
Audience: TV-14
Story:  Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL, returns home from Afghanistan and applies his military skills to become a private investigator in Hawaii taking jobs no one else will—with the help of fellow vets T.C. Calvin and Rick Wright, and former MI:6 agent, Juliet Higgins.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  remake, private investigator, reboot, military veteran, calm, admiring, adoring, appreciative, ...
Place:  hawaii
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HIP - High Intellectual Potential
7.6 135 votes
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: France
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 40
Story:  Morgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner is turned upside-down when her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant.
Plot:  intellectually gifted, fish out of water, single mother, thirty something, police investigation, energetic, sitcom, socially awkward, ...
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Mary Poppins
Cast
Julie Andrews Julie Andrews
Dick Van Dyke Dick Van Dyke
David Tomlinson David Tomlinson
Glynis Johns Glynis Johns
7.5 5.0K votes
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 139 min.
Audience: G
Story:  In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  banker, london, england, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, magic, nanny, ...
Time:  1910s
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Voyagers!
7.5 94 votes
Genre: Science Fiction
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 20
Story:  A member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  time travel, time machine, alternate history, speculative, grand
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The Wrestler
7.5 4.1K votes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United States of America, France
Duration: 109 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.
Style:  shocking, absurd
Plot:  daughter, new jersey, supermarket, heart attack, redemption, ambition, barbed wire, stripper, ...
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Bob Hearts Abishola
7.5 71 votes
Genre: Comedy
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 5
Episodes: 95
Audience: TV-14
Story:  A love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while recovering from a heart attack and sets his sights on winning her over.
Plot:  nurse, bus, heart attack, immigrant, interracial relationship, interracial marriage, interracial romance, cultural difference, ...
Place:  nigeria
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Night on Earth
Cast
Winona Ryder Winona Ryder
Gena Rowlands Gena Rowlands
Giancarlo Esposito Giancarlo Esposito
Armin Mueller-Stahl Armin Mueller-Stahl
7.5 1.1K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: United States of America, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Plot:  helsinki, finland, new york city, taxi, metropolis, paris, france, rome, ...
Place:  finland
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Rivals
Cast
David Tennant David Tennant
Aidan Turner Aidan Turner
Danny Dyer Danny Dyer
Alex Hassell Alex Hassell
7.5 84 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 14
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?
Style:  lighthearted, romantic
Plot:  based on novel or book, rivalry, television producer, polo, member of parliament, thatcherism, television, dramatic, ...
Time:  1980s
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Forbidden Fairytale
Cast
Park Ji-hyun Park Ji-hyun
Choi Si-won Choi Si-won
Sung Dong-il Sung Dong-il
Park Geon-il Park Geon-il
7.5 21 votes
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:  An aspiring children's book writer agrees to write erotic web novels to pay her car repair debt – with unintended consequences for her coworker.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  sex comedy
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Back to the Future Part III
Cast
Michael J. Fox Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd Christopher Lloyd
Mary Steenburgen Mary Steenburgen
Thomas F. Wilson Thomas F. Wilson
7.5 11.6K votes
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Duration: 119 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Style:  lighthearted
Plot:  saloon, sports car, inventor, horseback riding, indian territory, locomotive, time travel, native american, ...
Time:  1950s
Place:  california
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