Pandemic movie weekends

Feel-good movies (mostly) to get through a pandemic

My former roommate and I started regularly watching movies together during COVID. Each weekend, we chose a rough theme, and looked for movies to fit. (Or we worked backwards from the movies we wanted, devising a theme in retrospect.)

Given the state of the world—and our personal tastes, which heavily favoured romcoms—we tended toward feel-good films. I can recommend most of the movies we watched. Here’s the full list, in case you need a pick-me-up:

date movie
2020-03-14 Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre
2020-03-20 Mamma Mia!
2020-03-21 Mamma Mia 2
2020-03-22 Helvetica
2020-03-26 Bon cop bad cop
2020-03-28 Bon Cop Bad Cop 2
2020-04-03 Moneyball
2020-04-04 Catch Me If You Can
2020-04-10 You’ve Got Mail
2020-04-12 Terminal
2020-04-17 Love Wedding Repeat
2020-04-18 Letters to Juliet
2020-04-24 Princess Diaries
2020-04-25 Princess Diaries 2
2020-05-01 Erin Brockovich
2020-05-02 The Post
2020-05-08 Paul
2020-05-09 Hot Fuzz
2020-05-15 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2020-05-16 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
2020-05-23 Top Gun
2020-05-29 Something’s Gotta Give
2020-05-30 Parent Trap
2020-06-05 What a Girl Wants
2020-06-06 She’s the Man
2020-06-12 Runaway Bride
2020-06-13 The Wedding Planner
2020-06-19 Devil Wears Prada
2020-06-20 Brooklyn
2020-07-18 Little Miss Sunshine
2020-07-25 The Big Short
2020-07-31 Four Weddings and a Funeral
2020-08-01 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2020-08-29 A Hologram for the King
2020-09-04 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2020-09-05 Jojo Rabbit
2020-09-11 Yesterday
2020-09-12 Blinded by the Light
2020-09-18 Legally Blonde
2020-09-25 What to Expect When You’re Expecting
2020-09-26 School of Rock
2020-10-02 Miss Congeniality
2020-10-03 Best Friend’s Wedding
2020-10-09 The Switch
2020-10-10 Definitely Maybe
2020-10-16 Fisherman’s Friends
2020-11-07 It’s Complicated
2020-11-13 13 Going on 30
2020-11-14 Clueless
2020-11-20 Groundhog Day
2020-11-21 Emma
2020-11-27 Mauvaises herbes aka Bad Seeds
2020-11-28 10 jours en or
2020-12-04 Serendipity
2020-12-05 You’ve Got Mail
2020-12-11 Love Actually
2020-12-12 The Holiday
2020-12-18 Notting Hill
2021-01-15 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2021-01-16 Age of Adaline
2021-01-22 Before Sunrise
2021-01-23 Before Sunset
2021-01-29 Before Midnight
2021-01-30 One Day
2021-02-05 Ocean’s 12
2021-02-06 Ocean’s Thirteen
2021-02-12 Four Weddings and a Funeral
2021-02-13 Notting Hill
2021-02-19 Easy A
2021-02-20 Crazy Stupid Love
2021-02-26 The Backup Plan
2021-02-27 Maid in Manhattan
2021-03-05 The Italian Job
2021-03-06 Letters to Juliet
2021-03-12 Burn After Reading
2021-03-19 The Dig
2021-03-26 500 Days of Summer
2021-04-01 Falling Inn Love
2021-04-02 Gambit
2021-04-09 Spy
2021-04-10 Get Smart
2021-04-16 Sleepless in Seattle
2021-04-23 When Harry Met Sally…
2021-04-30 Footloose
2021-05-07 Life As We Know It
2021-05-28 The Holiday
2021-06-04 Notting Hill
2021-06-11 The Intern
2021-06-18 It’s Complicated
2021-06-25 Letters to Juliet
2021-07-16 You’ve Got Mail