When you're all partied out, there's nothing better than settling down to a good old-fashioned feel-good film at Christmas. We've selected 10 of the happiest flicks for your pleasure

Bridget Jones' Diary

Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) reaches a mid-life crisis and falls in love with her boss (Hugh Grant) only to discover that her feelings aren't reciprocated. She decides that she needs to change. She vows to lose weight, smoke and drink less, and she'll write it all in her diary.
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Grease

Danny (John Travolta) is leader of the T-Birds, a leather jacket clad gang. He has a fling with Sandy, (Olivia Newton John), only to discover that she now attends his high school. Trying to keep his 'bad boy' image he pushes Sandy away, but realises he can't live without her.
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Mamma Mia! The Movie

Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried) is about to get married on the Greek island on which she lives with mother Donna (Meryl Streep). Sophie has never known her father and she is determined to have him there to give her away. Finding that she has three potential fathers, Sophie invites all three to her wedding!
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Singing in the rain

Don, a famous actor, accidentally meets aspiring actress Kathy Selden while escaping from his fans and falls in love with her. Lina, Don's female counterpart, has trouble her voice so Don dubs her voice with Kathy's to save their movie. When Lina decides to sing to the audience, the truth comes out.
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Dirty Dancing

Starring the late Patrick Swayzee as Johnny Castle, the film follows Castle as he sweeps a girl called Baby off her feet when her family visit a holiday resort. Her father doesn't want her seeing Johnny, but she falls madly in love with him as he teaches her Latin dance.
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Love Actually

Starring Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley and Liam Neeson, the film interweaves eight different love stories that eventually are all related in some way. It does have its tearful moments but ends on a high with a great performance from Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister.
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Pretty Woman

Originally intended to be a dark drama, Pretty Woman is a modern day fairytale. Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) works as a prostitute in Hollywood, when she runs into ruthless businessman Edward Lewis (Richard Gere). He falls for Vivian, changing his perspective on life and gives her everything she'd ever dreamed of.
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It's a wonderful Life

This 1946 film is a Christmas classic. George Bailey is broken and suicidal due to misplacing an $8000 loan. He is visited by his guardian angel, Clarence who shows him and shows him how his town, family, and friends would turn out if he had never been born at all.
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Hairspray

Tracy Turnblad gets the chance to appear on the Corny Collins show, a song and dance spectacular. Tracy's dancing skills attract the attention of teenage heartthrob, Link Larkin (Zac Efron). Not everyone is happy with the decision to have her on the show. Manager Velma von Tussle (Michelle Pfeiffer) will do anything to get Tracy off.
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Footloose

When streetwise teenager Ren and his family move from Chicago to a small town in the West, Ren can't quite believe he's living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. Then he meets Ariel, and Ren makes it his mission to change things in the town.
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