Best Motivational/inspirational Movies That You Must Watch At least Once in Your Life

Inspiration/motivation is such a spark that can considerably boost our confidence, mirrors the truths, and make us aware of the true values of our life. We all have our own nature of thinking, the ways of living, doing certain things, and earn a livelihood. As human is to err and no one is perfect in this mortal world, motivation/inspiration through movies, books, etc. teaches us a lot and play a vital role to live a satisfying life through the right course of actions. We have collected such a list of inspirational/motivational movies that can boost your confidence to a great extent and keep motivating you. These collections written below are the cream ones that can prove a great motivation booster for you. Let’s check out the top best motivational/inspiration movies that have been ever made.

The Walk

IMDb Rating 7.3/10

You do believe that success comes at a great price and that price is nothing else but our hard work, dedication, and having a firm determination to get what we want. The same you will watch in the movie ‘The Walk’. It is a true story of a high-wire artist, Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). He has dreams of being an expert in tight rope walking since his childhood. He tries to walk on his own in papa Rudi Show. He is spotted and Papa Rudi starts teaching him tightrope walking. He has the ambition to achieve the impossible, precisely the things which have never been done by a rope walker. He makes a team and walks between two temples that have considerable heights. He succeeds and now plans to walk between the world’s highest buildings ‘World Trade Centre’. He attempts, tries to follow the plan, and ultimately he succeeds to walk between the world’s highest buildings in adverse circumstances. He creates a history of rope walking that has been never done before.

No doubt, The Walk is a masterpiece. It is an extremely realistic & immersive inspiration story. In one scene when his girlfriend tells to leave because walking between world’s two biggest building is dangerous, he says, ‘ why you are feeding death in my mind, it’s not what I think now, I am only thinking about making a plan, walking on the rope, and create a history’.  The way he tries to make a plan to sneakily enter the World Trade Centre and tie the rope between the two buildings is sensational. It gives you Goosebumps when he is narrowly saved from falling from the world’s highest building. He never gives in despite the adverse circumstance and he succeeded in the last. This definitely a must-watch movie. Even if you’re not a movie buff or you want to watch just one movie, go for ‘The Walk’.

Forrest Gump

IMDb Rating 8.8/10

Motivation doesn’t only enhance our energy but also encourages us to do the impossible. Forrest Gump, a simple man with a low I.Q. but having good intentions, does the same in the story of ‘Forrest Gump’. His leg is supported by a rod. In childhood when kids throw stones at him and his best friend Jenny encourages him to run, he starts running despite the iron rod in his leg. He runs and wins and since then he keeps running and motivating people. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. He joins the army for service in Vietnam, finds new friends, wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people on his way, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to charity, and meets the president several times. However, despite the huge success, he only thinks about his childhood friend Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life.

In his ways, Forrest motivates people to live life however they want. One of his dialog that ‘life is full of chocolate box, who take which one, nobody knows it’ will touch your heart. Ultimately, he also proves that anyone can love anyone in his/her life. 

The Pursuit of Happiness

IMDb Rating 8/10

People can make building with a strong base, but what about those who don’t have anything to make even base. The Pursuit of Happiness is a story of such a wretched man who struggles to eke out his existence. The earnest and hard-working bone-density-scanner salesman, Chris Gardner, finds himself with the back to the wall when his company bankrupt. Left with nothing when his wife abandons the family, he has to take care of his five-year-old son, Christopher, all by himself with nothing. He unexpectedly finds a job in the prestigious stock brokerage firm as an unpaid six-month internship. Now, as a stockbroker, Chris is willing to go to great lengths to succeed; however, he faces the cruelty and challenges of life.

Really, this is one of the best inspirational movies that one should watch. When Chris is left with nothing, he does the job of a painter and goes in the same paint blotted cloth in the interview although he gets selected, and he proves that he can excel everyone.

The Shawshank redemption

IMDb Rating 9.3/10

What a man can think when he is prisoned in heavily forted jail for a double life sentence. Let us guess, jump out from the wall, kill the warden and run, or make a master plan to escape? Let us tell you, these are farfetched imaginations that one can think of to run out from Shawshank State Prison as it is heavily guarded. But Andy Dufresne (Robbins), a banker who is sentenced to two life sentences at Shawshank State Prison for apparently murdering his wife and her lover, succeeds to escape from that prison.

The Shawshank Redemption is written and directed by Frank Darabont. It is based on Stephen King’s novel Shawshank Redemption. Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, the film portrays the story of Andy Dufresne (Robbins), a banker who is given two life sentences at Shawshank State Prison for apparently murdering his wife and her lover. At first, he finds it difficult to cope with physical environment of the prison but soon he finds solace in the friendship he forms with fellow inmate Ellis “Red” Redding (Freeman). While things move forwards, the warden finds Andy a prison job more befitting his talents as a banker. However, Andy uses that to set up all involved in the Kid’s murder and escape from jail.

Life of PI

IMDb Rating 7.9/10

After a huge loss in business, Santosh and Gita decided to sell their zoo in India and move to Canada with their sons and a few remaining animals on the freight. On their way to Canada, there are massive storms in the sea that sink the ship and leave the Patels’ teenage son, Pi (Suraj Sharma), as the only human survivor on a lifeboat. Eventually, Pi comes to know that he is not alone; a fearsome Bengal tiger is also on the lifeboat. As days pass in the middle of the sea, PI and the tiger must learn to live together, arrange food, and survive till the boat touches the seashore.

Life of PI is an amazing inspirational movie directed by Ang Lee. It portrays how even fierce animals can be taught when the circumstances are not in our favor. It portrays the amazing survival skill of the teenager who got stuck in the middle of the sea on a lifeboat, facing a tiger, sea storm, and hunger. This is certainly a great inspirational movie you must watch. 

Theory of Everything

IMDb Rating 7.7/10

We all know the story of the great scientist Steven Hawking. The movie ‘Theory of Everything’ is based on Steven Hawking’s life and his ground-breaking work ‘a brief History of Time’. He had a rare disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also called Motor Neuron disease when he is in his early 20s. His disease is gradually increasing which makes his personal life too complex. Despite that, he continues his research and gives several theories. He also wrote the best-selling book the Brief history of time. This movie is all about his life and his accomplishments. 

Indeed, this movie is a wonderful production of James Marsh, well-scripted to portray the vital anomaly in Hawking’s life. Eddie Redmayne (acting as a Stephen hawking) and other co-stars have given breath-taking performances that simply blasted this film to an extraordinary level. Watching this movie, you can sense the profound emotions and inner suffering that Hawking must have experienced in his agonizing journey. Undoubtedly, watching the greatest scientist accomplishing things despite his incurable illness will leave you speechless.

Three Idiots

IMDb Rating 8.4/10

Farhan and Raju unexpectedly get to know from their biggest college rival Chatur that their missing friend Ranchoddas (Rancho) is about to come on the terrace. The duo managed to go on the terrace where they meet Chatur and get to know Rancho’s whereabouts. The trio starts their journey to find him where flashback portrays the story of Rancho, Raju, and Farhan when they were engineering students. Rancho always believed that a person should be capable rather than being a bookworm, and he wants everyone to understand this. He challenges the education system, the way of teaching, and studying, and the social traditions and customs at every step. Doing so. He often gets in a tiff with Chatur and college director Viru Sahastrabuddhe (Virus) but fell in love with his daughter Pia. Rancho motivates Raju to be a better engineer, encourages Raju to be a wildlife photographer what he wants. Raju tries to hang himself but the duo saves them, and the times come when Rancho is about to be expelled from the college but he somehow proves himself and finishes his engineering.

The story is all about what is right and wrong, precisely what success is and how should we achieve it. Indeed, it is a great motivation for students, society, parents who want to see their children succeed.  Conclusively, everyone should watch this movie once in his life. We are quite sure that you would like to watch this more than once or whenever you get depressed and want some motivational boost.