Grab a Cozy Blanket and Some Popcorn to Cuddle Up With These 45 Fall Movies
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Okay, now that Labor Day weekend has passed, it's safe to say that summer is over and it's officially fall. You might not believe me, given that it's still like, 80 degrees outside in much of the country, but it's fall in my heart, and that's all that really matters. So bring on the cozy sweaters, pumpkin spice lattes, and fall movies.
The best fall movies range from spooky favorites to Disney classics and everything in between. Whether you're in the mood for a rom-com, a heartfelt family movie, a sports flick, or something else entirely, there's sure to be a fall movie here for you. Personally, I think a fall movie night — complete with seasonal candles and red wine — is the ideal date night. But also, these fall movies would be fun to watch during a solo chill night in or if you want to have a low-key girls' night with your besties. I'm ready to watch literally every movie written by the queen of fall Nora Ephron.
So put away your crop tops and pull out your favorite cozy loungewear. Get your snacks and drink of choice ready, and settle in with one of these movies that's perfect for fall.
Practical Magic
This heartfelt movie about two witchy sisters who must contend with a family curse that dooms anyone they fall in love with is a classic fall film. It's perfect if you want something that's Halloween-y without being scary.
Stream 'Practical Magic' on YouTube
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
This movie about Mister Rogers is basically the movie equivalent of being wrapped in a cozy sweater. Tom Hanks stars as Mister Rogers with all the warmth and heart you'd expect as he's interviewed by an Esquire journalist who's struggling with his family.
Watch 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' on Hulu
Watch 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' on Amazon Prime
The Edge of Seventeen
This coming-of-age movie about a high school student who struggles to fit in at school and resents living in her older brother's shadow will make you happy you've graduated high school. It has just the right amount of humor and serious moments to make it a great pick for your next movie night.
Watch 'The Edge of Seventeen' on Hulu
Watch 'The Edge of Seventeen' on Amazon Prime
Friendsgiving
This raunchy comedy about a low-key Friendsgiving that quickly becomes a big, chaotic event will make you grateful for your friends and family, even if they can be a bit much. Plus, it has a great cast, including Chelsea Peretti and Kat Dennings.
Watch 'Friendsgiving' on Netflix
Knives Out
This movie took home Best Chris Evans Chunky Knit at the 2020 Imaginary Academy Awards. We can’t explain it, but something about a murder mystery in a mansion is very fall.
Stream 'Knives Out' on Prime Video
The Village
One of M. Night Shyamalan’s more underrated thrillers, The Village brings a woodsy, Red Riding Hood vibe, featuring a stacked cast including Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, and Sigourney Weaver.
Stream 'The Village' on Disney+
The Goonies
We know The Goonies, we love The Goonies, we revisit The Goonies every fall. This iconic flick follows a group of kiddos who embark on a lost treasure adventure after finding a pirate's map in an attic. Use this movie to mourn the end of summer romps of years past.
Stream 'The Goonies' on HBO Max
Scent of a Woman
This movie is so unexpectedly fall that even the promotional poster features crispy, barren trees. The movie stars Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell and follows a student at a prep school who snags a Thanksgiving weekend gig working as an assistant to a blind retired veteran.
Stream 'Scent of a Woman' on Apple TV+
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Another Thanksgiving flick, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, follows a salesman and marketing executive on a three-day journey to get home in time for the holiday. The film has become a regular Thanksgiving tradition for many families, so go ahead and add this one to your list.
Stream 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' on Prime Video
Little Women
If Little Women is already your autumn go-to rewatch, give one of the other seven Little Women adaptations a try, starting with Greta Gerwig's 2019 version.
Stream 'Little Women' (2019) on YouTube
Legally Blonde
A fall semester at Harvard University is an autumn experience most of us have never experienced... first-hand, that is. Legally Blonde’s California-to-Cambridge vibe shift will send you into the new season with a laugh.
Stream 'Legally Blonde' on Prime Video
Coco
The Pixar animated film Coco involves Día de los Muertos, which falls on November 1 or 2 of each year, and it's all about a little boy Miguel who learns way more than he expected about his family history after accidentally passing into the Land of the Dead.
The Craft: Legacy
A 2020 sequel to the iconic 1996 movie, The Craft follows a group of young women trying to freeze time with magic. Add this one to your witchy movie marathon.
Stream 'The Craft: Legacy' on Hulu
Stream 'The Craft: Legacy' on Starz
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Mystic Pizza
One of Julia Roberts’s best movies, Mystic Pizza is a coming-of-age story centered around three friends working at a local pizza parlor in a seaside Connecticut town. It’s not a dedicated seasonal movie, but it checks all the boxes–a New England town and chunky sweaters included.
Stream 'Mystic Pizza' on Paramount+
Stream 'Mystic Pizza' on Prime Video
A Ghost Story
This drama is the perfect film for someone who wants to feel the fall vibes but isn't quite ready for the horror of Halloween. A Ghost Story stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck (kinda) and is a spooky, thoughtful story about grief.
Stream 'A Ghost Story' on Hulu
Stream 'A Ghost Story' on Prime Video
Stream 'A Ghost Story' on Roku
Good Will Hunting
The movie that put our guys Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on the map! Watch a genius MIT janitor with a complicated upbringing shine, plus see Robin Williams in one of his greatest roles of all time. How do you like them apples?
Stream 'Good Will Hunting' on Apple TV+
Hocus Pocus
Witches are wild. Before the long-awaited sequel makes its debut this fall, rewatch the original classic. Everyone knows it's not Halloween until you've watched this one at least once.
Stream 'Hocus Pocus' on Disney+
Friday Night Lights
Calling all members of the Tim Riggins Fan Club! Guilty of bingeing the show but not watching the movie? You MUST watch one of the best football—nay!—sports movies evs. Full disclosure: The key players are different (sorry, no Timmy), but you’re going to love ’em. Billy Bob Thornton and all.
Stream 'Friday Night Lights' on Hulu
Stream 'Friday Night Lights' on Roku
Dead Poets Society
The last time you watched this was likely in middle school, yes? Tragic. Time to fire up another of Robin Williams’s finest performances in the touching tale of an English teacher who inspires prep school boys via poetry (swoon). P.S. Dead Poets Society is set during fall in Vermont—aka every fashion influencer’s location tag September through November.
Stream 'Dead Poets Society' on Hulu
Garden State
Zach Braff out of his scrubs in a rom-com he wrote and co-starring with Natalie Portman. Garden State is the award-winning film about a ~troubled~ guy who returns to New Jersey after his mom passes away. Come for the aesthetic, stay for the soundtrack.
Stream 'Garden State' on Prime Video
Stream 'Garden State' on Disney+
Halloweentown
Time to create another email address for your 15th Disney+ trial!
Stream 'Halloweentown' on Disney+
You’ve Got Mail
Screeeeeeccchh beee boooo beeep. That’s the sound of AOL booting up, remember? You’ve Got Mail is your mom’s rom-com starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, who form a mYsTeRy romance over email. (Go away, Nev! This isn’t a story about catfishing.)
Stream 'You've Got Mail' on Netflix
Stream 'You've Got Mail' on HBO Max
Stream 'You've Got Mail' on Prime Video
A Beautiful Mind
Russell Crowe stars in the critically acclaimed movie about John Nash: a brilliant mathematician battling paranoid schizophrenia. One of the best films of our time, A Beautiful Mind is accompanied by stunning scenes of autumn on America’s breathtaking Ivy League campuses.
Stream 'A Beautiful Mind' on Hulu
Rudy
The ultimate underdog story. Watch Rudy try to overcome hella obstacles to reach his dream of attending Notre Dame and playing football for the Fighting Irish, eh?
Stepmom
Take off your mascara for this one (or just use waterproof, k?). Susan Sarandon plays a terminally ill woman also dealing with the fact that her ex’s girlfriend, played by Julia Roberts (can you imagine?), will be their new stepmom.
Stream 'Stepmom' on Prime Video
October Sky
Jake Gyllenhaal. Is. Rocket Man! Okay, not quite. Watch bb Jake play high schooler Homer Hickam on a journey to build a rocket in his traditional coal-mining town. FYI: You’re just going to have to get over all the fake Southern accents in this one, lol.
Stream 'October Sky' on Prime Video
Election
Tracy Flick walked so Leslie Knope could run. In Election, Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy, a *quintessential* overachiever in her frustrating (albeit hilarious) quest to become student body president. (FWIW, Barack Obama said this is his favorite political movie.)
Stream 'Election' on Prime Video
When Harry Met Sally
So, Meg Ryan is evidently the Queen of the Leaves because here’s another rom-com she stars in that is (you guessed it!) set in ze beauty of an NYC fall. Watch Meg and Billy Crystal in what is basically the OG Friends With Benefits. Behold, the *iconic* “I’ll have what she’s having” moment.
Stream 'When Harry Met Sally' on Netflix
Stream 'When Harry Met Sally' on HBO Max
Silver Linings Playbook
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence: one of the best onscreen duos. In this one, Bradley plays Pat, a man who has lost it all and returns home after a brief stint in a mental institution. Expect Bradley Cooper in a groutfit, Philadelphia Eagles mentions, frank discussions about mental health, and that Brad-Jen chemistry that keeps us going.
Stream 'Silver Linings Playbook' on Prime Video
A Knight’s Tale
Current status: missing Heath Ledger and yearning for the days of elementary school field trips to the Renaissance Fair.
Stream 'A Knight's Tale' on Hulu
Stream 'A Knight's Tale' on Prime Video
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Is this a Christmas movie or a Halloween movie? Yes. Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated flick, The Nightmare Before Christmas, tells the story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who stumbles through a portal to Christmas Town. A monstrous mashup ensues!
Stream 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' on Disney+
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
The Netflix smash hit To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is set around any teenage girl’s worst nightmare…at first. Watch Lana Condor play a high school gal whose love letters have (without consent!) been released to all her crushes, including Peter aka ~heartthrob~ Noah Centineo.
Stream 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' on Netflix
Remember the Titans
Use football season as an excuse (not that you need one) to play this true 1970s story of a white and African American team integrated for the first time under Coach Herman Boone, played by Denzel Washington. (And yes, a v cute, v baby Hayden Panettiere is in it.)
Stream 'Remember the Titans' on Disney+
Stream 'Remember the Titans' on Apple TV+
The Blind Side
Cool temps call for a heart-warmer. Sandra Bullock stars as the HBIC of a family who takes in Michael Oher, a homeless, traumatized young man who goes on to be a badass football star. (Speaking of heartwarming, Tim McGraw helps bring the heat too.)
Stream 'The Blind Side' on Netflix
Sleepy Hollow
Another light fall spooker from Tim Burton! Watch an adaptation of the tale of the headless horseman.
Stream 'Sleepy Hollow' on Roku
Stream 'Sleepy Hollow' on Hulu
St. Elmo’s Fire
Young Demi Moore. Young Rob Lowe. An old coming-of-age classic!
Stream 'St. Elmo's Fire' on Prime Video
Stream 'St. Elmo's Fire' on HBO Max
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Yer a wizard, Harry. And the first flick of the Harry Potter series is the perfect recipe for yer fall needs because: first-day-of-school feels at Hogwarts, the ~Forbidden~ Forest, scarf inspo, and He Who Must Not Be Named.
Stream 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' on Peacock
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Big Daddy
Bebe Sprouses costar with Adam Sandler in this wild comedy about a bachelor who tries to prove he can take on more responsibility by adopting a child. Bold strategy, Cotton! (Also, when you’re enjoying your fall strolls in Central Park, please don’t throw sticks at rollerbladers.)
Matilda
OMG, Danny DeVito, I love your work! Really though. Matilda is the ~whimsical~ tale of a gifted gal who uses her powers to fight the evils that be, aka Mom, Dad, and (gasp!) Miss Trunchbull. Chocolate cake, anyone?
Stream 'Matilda' on Prime Video
Dan in Real Life
Our fave funnyman Steve Carell plays a newspaper-advice columnist and widowed father of three daughters. They head to Rhode Island for their annual family gathering, and he takes a liking to a woman he later learns is his brother’s GF. Expect a com-dram set in a crisp Rhode Island fall, flannels, and all.
Stream 'Dan in Real Life' on Disney+
The Princess Bride
It’s a cult favorite for a reason! Tune in whether it’s your first or thousandth time watching this quirky damsel-in-distress ~fairy tale~.
Stream 'The Princess Bride' on Disney+
Twilight
Say what you will about Twilight, but when you pair rainy Washington forests with vampires and other pale peeps, ya get the perfect fall flick.
Stream 'Twilight' on Prime Video
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Gorge autumnal colors serve as the backdrop for this Wes Anderson animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox: the story of a fox who must steal to feed his fam. Prettttty fitting that silver fox George Clooney voices Mr. Fox.
Stream 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' on Disney+
Stream 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' on Prime Video
Shawshank Redemption
One of the top-rated movies of all time needs no season, but fall is a damn good time to bust it out. God himself (JK, it’s Morgan Freeman) stars in a film focused on the friendships and hardships (and hope!) two men experience in prison.
Stream 'Shawshank Redemption' on HBO Max
Pocahontas
*Delicately places leaves in hair* *sharp inhale* CAN YOU PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE WIIIIIND?!!!
Stream 'Pocahontas' on Disney+
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