5 Unexpected Comfort Movies to Watch Again and Again for a Good Mood

We all have our favorite movies that bring us comfort whenever we watch them. Usually these are rom coms and other comedies that are meant to cheer us up. But there are movies that you would never think could have such a calming effect on you, like the following five.

Rat Race (2001, 6.5 on IMDb)

Available on: Amazon Prime

When the rich customers of a Las Vegas casino get bored, the casino's owner has an unusual idea. He organizes a new game, a race for people to get from the casino to the train station of a small town in New Mexico, where a cash prize is locked in a storage locker. The first player to reach the destination gets $2 million, so many want to participate in the race, not realizing that they are just a gambling attraction for the rich.

Return to Oz (1985, 6.7 on IMDb)

Available on: Disney+, Amazon Prime

Walter Murch's fantasy film serves as an unofficial sequel to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. In the movie, Dorothy, suffering from insomnia, returns to Oz to find it has been taken over by the wicked Nome King and Princess Mombi. Together with her new friends, the chicken Billina, the robot Tik-Tok, the scarecrow Jack Pumpkinhead and a strange creature called the Gump, Dorothy must defeat the villains and restore order to the land.

Demolition Man (1993, 6.7 on IMDb)

Available on: Amazon Prime

Starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock, this sci-fi action film follows Stallone's LAPD officer John Spartan as he fails to save hostages from Snipes' crime lord Simon Phoenix, causing a lot of collateral damage in the process. The two are sentenced to be cryogenically frozen, but when Phoenix is thawed for a parole hearing in 2032, he escapes, and no cop in the future is experienced enough to take him down, so Sergeant Spartan is also thawed for help.

Jackie Brown (1997, 7.5 on IMDb)

Available on: Amazon Prime

Based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, Quentin Tarantino's crime movie tells the story of the titular flight attendant who has a side job smuggling cash for an arms dealer. One day she is caught by the police and arrested, which means that her employer will probably get rid of her to keep her from talking. Instead, he offers her to help him mislead the police, not knowing that she has also made a deal with the authorities. Now Jackie is trying to play both sides.

The Truman Show (1998, 8.2 on IMDb)

Available on: Paramount+, Hulu, Amazon Prime

In this psychological comedy-drama, Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank, a seemingly ordinary man living an ordinary life that is actually a staged reality show. Truman doesn't know that his life is a sham, that his family and friends and everyone around him are paid actors, and that he has been living his entire life on a giant soundstage under the scrutiny of millions of viewers from around the world. But one day he learns the truth, and now he has a serious choice to make.