Feel Good Films To Remedy 'Blue Monday'

If your Monday is feeling more downbeat than usual today, you probably aren't alone.

The start of this week sees a lurch into Blue Monday, named the most depressing day of the year by Sky Travel.

The good news is the days are getting longer and lighter, while a new season is springing ever closer.

Until then, here is one feel spirit boosting film for every day this week to tide you over!

Up (2009)

This Pixar masterpiece will lift your spirits with the story of a lonely child and a broken-hearted old man becoming friends on an up-lifting adventure.

Billy Elliot (2000)

Billy, a boy growing up in a northern mining town beset by hopelessness, decides he wants to become a dancer against the odds.

Superbad (2007)

Laugh out loud coming of age comedy, featuring a youthful Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. 

Babe (1995)

Charming adaptation of Dick King-Smith's The Sheep Pig, which sees the plucky piglet protagonist avoid becoming a farmer's feast by learning to herd sheep.
 

Big (1988)

This timeless films reminds us to enjoy life we have now and not wish it away in a rush to get to tomorrow. Best not to think in too much detail about a 12-year-old making out with an adult.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

An unhappy family embarks on a road trip to allow their socially awkward daughter to enter a beauty contest, with a flurry of family affirming lessons learned along the way.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

A tale of skiving school to spend a day living life to the fullest. Nobody wrote teenagers like John Hughes and Ferris was his zenith.