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47 Movies That Helped People Cope During Their Depression

"It's my happy place – I'm seven again and nothing is wrong with the world."

We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the movie that helped them during their depression. Here are their answers.

1. Life of Pi

2. Amélie

3. Silver Linings Playbook

4. Lost in Translation

5. Lilo and Stitch

6. Synecdoche, New York

7. Pride & Prejudice (2005)

8. Legally Blonde

9. The Harry Potter series

10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

11. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

12. Cool Runnings

13. 127 Hours

14. About Time

15. The original Star Wars trilogy

16. The Lego Movie

17. It's A Wonderful Life

18. Austenland

19. The Perks of Being A Wallflower

20. Lars and the Real Girl

21. (500) Days Of Summer

22. The Princess and The Frog

23. It's Kind of a Funny Story

24. Alice in Wonderland (2010)

25. Pan's Labyrinth

26. The Birdcage

27. Almost Famous

28. Donnie Darko

29. Ghost World

30. Into the Wild

31. When Harry Met Sally...

32. Garden State

33. Spirited Away

34. Evil Dead II

35. Where The Wild Things Are

36. 2001: A Space Odyssey

37. The Royal Tenenbaums

38. The Lord of the Rings trilogy

39. Grease

40. Stand By Me

41. Inside Out

42. Man on Wire

43. Pitch Perfect

44. The Producers (1968)

45. Girl, Interrupted

46. Les Misérables

47. Back to the Future

Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.

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