40 Fall Movies to Watch This Year
If you’re looking for some good fall movies to add to your watch list this year, look no further!
We created this list of 40 of the BEST fall movies to binge all throughout the season. We know you’ll fall for at least one of these movies! 😉
Cozy Up With the Best Fall Movies
When you hear the word “fall,” what comes to mind?
A few things come to mind for us, Divas! Such as fallen leaves, caramel apples, sweater weather, pumpkins, and Halloween!
With these words in mind, we wanted to create a list of fall movies to watch when you’re ready to jump into the season like a pile of leaves! You’ll find movies that give us a glimpse of Halloween, football season, Thanksgiving Day, and all things FALL.
So, while the air is turning crisp outside… Make yourself some hot cocoa, pop a bag of popcorn, and cozy up with your favorite fuzzy blanket. It’s time for a fall movies marathon!
40 Fall Movies to Celebrate the Season
1. The Blind Side – The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. CREDIT
2. Matilda – A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress. CREDIT
3. Autumn in the City – Piper moves to New York for a fresh start and meets Austin, a jaded writer. Together, they experience autumn in the city and try to figure out who they’re truly meant to be. CREDIT
4. Pumpkin Everything – Amy, a novelist, returns to her hometown to look after her stubborn grandfather, Tom, and his pumpkin-themed store. While staying there, she crosses paths with a man from her past. CREDIT
5. Falling for You – Radio host Lacey is hosting a bachelor bake-off to raise money to save her radio station. When her star bachelor backs out, she enlists Zac, a visiting businessman, to fill the spot. CREDIT
6. Knives Out – A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family. CREDIT
7. October Sky – The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father’s wishes. CREDIT
8. Autumn in New York – Romantic drama about an aging playboy who falls for a sweet but terminally ill young woman. CREDIT
9. The Goonies – A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate’s long-lost treasure. CREDIT
10. Dead Poets Society – Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys’ boarding school, where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression. CREDIT
11. Chocolat – A French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. CREDIT
12. Sweet November – A workaholic executive and an unconventional woman agree to a personal relationship for a short period. In this short period, she changes his life. CREDIT
13. Spookley the Square Pumpkin – Poor Spookley is a pumpkin whose shape is square rather than round. He’s teased and taunted by other mean round pumpkins. But he receives help from a Scarecrow, his 2 bat side-kicks, and 3 very funny spiders. CREDIT
14. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet. CREDIT
15. Babe – Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett wins a piglet Babe at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly and discovers that he, too, can herd sheep. But will the other animals accept him? CREDIT
16. The Lake House – A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside house begins to exchange love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it’s too late. CREDIT
17. Remember the Titans – In 1971, Virginia high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the school board was forced to integrate an all-black school with an all-white one, the very foundation of football’s tradition was put to the test. CREDIT
18. Casper Meets Wendy – Casper, a ghost, teams up with Wendy, a witch, against an evil warlock. CREDIT
19. The Addams Family – Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle. CREDIT
20. Hocus Pocus – A teenage boy named Max and his little sister move to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches who were executed in the 17th century. CREDIT
21. Coco – Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer. CREDIT
22. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown – The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin. CREDIT
23. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown’s for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner. CREDIT
24. Practical Magic – Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse that threatens to prevent them from ever finding lasting love. CREDIT
25. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (or any Harry Potter film!) – An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family, and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. CREDIT
26. Radio – The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing. CREDIT
27. Twilight – When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. CREDIT
28. Haunted Mansion – A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest, and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts. CREDIT
29. Dan in Real Life – A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother’s girlfriend. CREDIT
30. Coraline – Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, an 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice. CREDIT
31. Halloweentown – When a young girl living with her secret witch mother learns she too is a witch, she must help her witch grandmother save Halloweentown from evil forces. CREDIT
32. Clue – Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up. CREDIT
33. Rudy – Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame. CREDIT
34. The Nightmare Before Christmas – Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion. CREDIT
35. Sweet Home Alabama – A young woman who has reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband after seven years of separation. CREDIT
36. Ghostbusters – Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers. CREDIT
37. Fantastic Mr. Fox – An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm-raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers’ retaliation. CREDIT
38. Edward Scissorhands – The solitary life of an artificial man—who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands—is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family. CREDIT
39. Friday Night Lights – Based on H.G. Bissinger’s book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas, and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers. CREDIT
40. Little Women – Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters—four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms. CREDIT
Happy fall, y’all! 🍂
