I personally recommend each of these movies/series and hope you will find a few that you also enjoy.

A Man on the Inside – 2024 – Netflix Series – We LOVED this new Netflix series. It’s Ted Danson’s (Cheers) best role ever. “Retired professor Charles (Ted Danson) feels life has nothing new in store for him. A year after his wife’s passing, he’s become stuck in his routine and grown distant from his daughter. But when he spies a classified ad from a private investigator, he’s inspired to roll the dice on a new adventure, going undercover to solve the mystery of a stolen family heirloom.”

Thelma – 2024 – official selection of Sundance  – I agree it is fun, sweet and relevant

Fall Guy – 2024 (Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt) – FUN OH FUN summer popcorn movie with romance and lots of action!

Twisters – 2024 (Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell) – another good popcorn thriller best viewed on the biggest screen available for great special effects.

Fly Me To The Moon – 2024 (Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum) – “a sharp, stylish comedy-drama set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s already difficult task.

Ordinary Angels – 2024 (Hilary Swank) – “Based on a remarkable true story, Sharon Stevens, a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt, a widower  whose youngest daughter is waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it.”

Cabrini – 2024 – “When Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini steps foot in America in 1889, she sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society’s most vulnerable. Despite broken English and poor health, Cabrini leverages her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.”

The Burial – 2023 (Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx) “Inspired by true events, when a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O’Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice in this inspirational, triumphant story.”  (R for language)

Love At First Sight – 2023 – “100,000 daily flights around the world. 6 million travelers. One connection.” (PG13)

Jesus Revolution – 2023 – In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie is searching for all the right things in all the wrong places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee, a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to an unexpected revival of radical and newfound love, leading to what TIME Magazine dubbed a JESUS REVOLUTION. (PG 13)

Sound of Freedom – 2023 – based on a true story. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy’s sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free her from a fate worse than death. (PG13)

A Man Called Otto – 2022 (Tom Hanks) “A Man Called Otto tells the story of a grump who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife. Otto is ready to end it all, but his plans are interrupted when a lively young family moves in next door, and he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol.” (PG13)

Jerry & Marge Go Large – 2022 (Bryan Cranston, Annette Bening) “inspired by the remarkable true story of a retiree who discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife wins millions and uses the money to revive their small Michigan town.” (PG13)

Finding You – 2021- “an inspirational romantic drama full of heart and humor about finding the strength to be true to oneself.” 

Silver Skates – 2021 Netflix Movie – “visually stunning and although the story is predictable (it’s Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending) it’s very well done. Highly recommended”

The Jesus Music – 2021 – Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, Kirk Franklin, Hillsong United, Lecrae, Steven Curtis Chapman, Bill Gaither, TobyMac and more.

Belfast– 2021 (nominated for an Oscar 2022) – “BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.”

Free Guy – 2020 (Ryan Reynolds) If you liked The Truman Show (Jim Carrey) you’ll like this!  “A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, then decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way…before it is too late.

Sing 2  – 2021 – (voiced by Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Nick Kroll, Jennings, Peter Serafinowicz, Jennifer Saunders, and Nick Offerman, Bobby Cannavale, Spike Jonze, Pharrell Williams, Halsey, Chelsea Peretti, Letitia Wright, Eric André, Adam Buxton, and Bono)

Dream Horse – 2020 – inspired by the true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites.

Enola Holmes – 2020 – When Enola Holmes—Sherlock’s teen sister—discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – 2018 – Lily James plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

The Intouchables (The MPAA rated The Intouchables R for language and some drug use)

Greater (Who knew this non-sports fan would LOVE this!

Series/Mini-series

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