“Life is like a movie. Be the hero in your own life story by finding the silver lining in the cloud you are under.”
Emmanuel Lopez
Motivatorman
The Washington Post has featured Emmanuel’s blog, Movies That Motivate: The Adventures of Motivatorman, as a recommended resource for motivational tips and inspiring movie examples.
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INTRODUCTION
I have had many great successes in my career as an illustrator, recording artist, entrepreneur and speaker. I’ve also had many challenges and painful experiences with unexpected crisis and change. Through it all it was the power of movies that brought out the best in me and kept my optimism alive.
HOW TO ACCESS TIPS
These movie tips come from the first 200 tips of my internationally successful blog, Movies That Motivate: The Adventures of Motivatorman that documents my struggles and the movies that fueled my spirit to help me persevere. Click on each tip number and they will take you to the full blog entry of the movie discussed. I hope the cinematic role models of these films help bring out the best in you. Enjoy!
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TOP 10 MOTIVATIONAL THEMES:
1) The Power of Your Passions click here
2) Believe In Synchronicity click here
3) Recognize The Support Around You click here
4) What Can’t You Live Without? click here
5) What Makes You Laugh? click here
6) Resilience Is Your Hidden Super Power click here
7) Activate The Power of Your Mind click here
8 Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining click here
9) Favourite Stories Energize click here
10) How To Build Indestructible Optimism click here
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MOVIE LIST A to Z:
A
A Beautiful Mind #47
The American President #131
An Inconvenient Truth #45
Antitrust #56
As Good As It Gets #41 #45 #122 #137 #200
August Rush #141
Austin Powers Goldmember #46
B
Back To The Future #37
Back To The Future Part III #171
Be Kind Rewind #168
Ben Hur #146
Batman Begins #68
Bicentennial Man #48 #79 #87 #96
Big Night #111
The Black Stallion #103
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan #58
Boundin’ #134
The Bourne Identity #85
The Bourne Supremacy #85
The Bourne Ultimatum #85
Boys and Girls #4
Brainstorm #161
Bridge To Terabithia #132
Bridget Jones’s Diary #47
C
Casino Royale #19
Cast Away #42 #45 #47 #86 #96 #103 #123 #143 #200
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory #28
Cinderella Man #3 #41 #47 #54 #122 #147 #175
Citizen Kane #100
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind #35 #163
The Contender #47
Conversations With God #47
Count of Monte Cristo #47 #62 #91
Crocodile Dundee #90
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon #103
D
The Day After Tomorrow #133 #136
Deep Impact #133
Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo #46
Dor #49
E
F
The Fall #189
The Family Man #11 #51 #75 #92 #113
The Family Stone #113
Finding Forrester #41
The Fly #112
Forbidden Kingdom #151
Frequency #115
G
Ghost #145
The Golden Compass #120
Great Expectations #65
Grizzly Man #177
Groundhog Day #24 #54 #77 #81 #96 #127 #130 #200
H
Hancock #174
The Happening #174
High Fidelity #43
Hitch #108
I
I Heart Huckabees #57 #66 #135
In America #41
The Incredible Hulk #165
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull #104
Iron Man #154
It’s A Wonderful Life #6 #7 #10 #51 #73 #92 #131
The Italian Job #118
J
Jerry Maguire #96 #97 #122 #130 #197 #200
K
Kate & Leopold #131
The Karate Kid #157
The Kid #179
L
The Lake House #131
The Last Mimzy #132
Laws of Attraction #131
Life or Something like it #160
The Lion King #167
Live Free or Die Hard #104
Local Hero #14
Lord of the Rings trilogy #47 #90 #96
M
The Matrix #5 #39 #57 #64 #84 #100 #119 #128
Meet Dave #182
Meet Joe Black #20 #45 #96 #131 #166
Memento #17
Millions #169
Minority Report #121
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life #144
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town #31 #47 #73 #148
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington #31 #47
Multiplicity #98
N
Night At The Museum #193
Nim’s Island #147
The Nutty Professor #107
O
Outsourced #192
P
P.S. I Love You #173
The Pacifier #58
Parenthood #167
Patch Adams #46
Pay It Forward #2 #81 #126 #190
Peaceful Warrior #69 #92 #95 #96 #100 #101 #119 #152 #200
The Pianist #47
Pinocchio #35
Planes, Trains and Automobiles #176
Planet of the Apes #146
Pleasantville #1 #30 #71 #197 #200
The Prestige #112
The Pursuit of Happyness #22 #23 #40 #47 #84 #122 #136 #147 #197
R
Raiders of the Lost Ark #155
Rocky #197
S
The School of Rock #59 #67 #122 #197
The Secret #9 #32 #38 #56 #57 #82 #96
The Shadow #57
The Shawshank Redemption #47 #123 #188 #200
She’s All That #4
Signs #13
The Sixth Sense #76
Sliding Doors #51
Son of Rambow #159
Space Cowboys #104
The Sphere #57
Spider-Man 3 #53
The Spiderwick Chronicles #139
Star Wars #57
Stardust #83
Stranger Than Fiction #21 #52 #63 #93 #121 #122 #130 #153 #197
Stuart Little #67
T
Take The Lead #198
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three #162
Tampopo #111
The Ten Commandments #146
The Terminal #123
That Thing You Do! #199
Titanic #131
300 #102
Tropic Thunder #187
U
The Ultimate Gift #96
V
Vanilla Sky #184
Vicky Cristina Barcelona #180
W
What Dreams May Come #116
What The Bleep Do We Know? #57
When Harry Met Sally #74
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory #28
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Y
You Don’t Mess With The Zohan #182
You’ve Got Mail #131
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