Entertainment
Great Movies That Take Place In Autumn
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Vote up your favorite movies that have an autumnal aesthetic, with colorful changing leaves and the brisk scent of fall in the air.
Colorful leaves and cool breezes make fall many people's favorite time of year. Maybe that's why it's such a popular setting for films. The best movies set in the autumn months feature compelling characters who fall in love and pursue new adventures at this beautiful time of year. This is a list of the greatest movies set in the fall including everything from When Harry Met Sally to Dead Poets Society to The Blind Side. They also make for great movies to watch in the fall.
What films will you find on this list of good fall movies? Good Will Hunting captured an autumnal feel with its MIT setting. Few movies are made about Thanksgiving, but Planes, Trains and Automobiles celebrated the spirit of the season on the big screen. Other good movies featured on this best fall movies list include Hannah and Her Sisters, Rushmore, and October Sky.
Which movie set during fall is your favorite? Give the best films a vote up and vote down any films that other fans should skip.
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- 1Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Peter Weir
A new English teacher, John Keating (Robin Williams), is introduced to an all-boys preparatory school that is known for its ancient traditions and high standards. He uses unorthodox methods to reach ...more - 2Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Kenny Ortega
After moving to Salem, Mass., teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz) explores an abandoned house with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and their new friend, Allison (Vinessa Shaw). After dismissing a story ...more - 3Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau ...more - 4Lisa DeFaria, Christopher Shea, Bill Melendez
- Released: October 27, 1966
- Directed by: Bill Melendez
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television movie based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. A Halloween special, it was the third Peanuts ...more - 5Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Chris Columbus
Three years after divorcing Jackie (Susan Sarandon), the mother of his children, Luke Harrison (Ed Harris) decides to take the next step with his significantly younger girlfriend, fashion ...more - 6Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Griffin Dunne
Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian Owens (Nicole Kidman), born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov (Goran Visnjic), ...more - 7Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Tim Burton
Set in 1799, "Sleepy Hollow" is based on Washington Irving's classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Faithful to the dreamy custom-bound world that Irving paints in his story, the film mixes ...more - 8Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Brad Silberling
Casper (voiced by Malachi Pearson) is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey (Bill Pullman) arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow ...more - 9Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Henry Selick
The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack ...more - 10Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Chris Columbus
Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses ...more - 11Bill Melendez
- Released: 1973
- Directed by: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the tenth prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on November 20, ...more - 12Irene Bedard, Judy Kuhn, Mel Gibson
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
This is the Disney animated tale of the romance between a young American Indian woman named Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) and Capt. John Smith (Mel Gibson), who journeyed to the New World with other ...more - 13Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Rob Reiner
In 1977, college graduates Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) share a contentious car ride from Chicago to New York, during which they argue about whether men and women can ...more - 14Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
Harry Potter's (Daniel Radcliffe) third year at Hogwarts starts off badly when he learns deranged killer Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from Azkaban prison and is bent on murdering the ...more - 15Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Steven Spielberg
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas). Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, ...more - 16Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Young Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too ...more - 17Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell
- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Andrew Fleming
After transferring to a Los Angeles high school, Sarah (Robin Tunney) finds that her telekinetic gift appeals to a group of three wannabe witches, who happen to be seeking a fourth member for their ...more - 18Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
A summer camp provides a play about the first Thanksgiving...and the Addams family just keeps it Fall all year long to boot.
The members of the odd Addams Family are up to more macabre antics in this sequel. This time around, Gomez Addams (Raul Julia) and his wife, Morticia (Anjelica Huston), are celebrating the arrival of ...more - 19Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany
- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Carroll Ballard
After Amy (Anna Paquin) loses her mother in a car accident, she must uproot her life and move to Canada to live with her father, Thomas, (Jeff Daniels), an oddball inventor with whom she has no ...more - 20Sebastian Cabot, John Fiedler, Sterling Holloway
- Released: 1977
- Directed by: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reithermann
Sebastian Cabot narrates the adventures of bumbling bear Winnie the Pooh as he battles a nest of vicious bees over a trove of honey, weathers a terrible wind storm and endures the foibles of the ...more - 21Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Nora Ephron
Struggling boutique bookseller Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) hates Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), the owner of a corporate Foxbooks chain store that just moved in across the street. When they meet online, however, ...more - 22Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Mike Newell
Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society ...more - 23Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Joe Johnston
John Hickam (Chris Cooper) is a West Virginia coal miner who loves his job and expects his sons, Jim (Scott Miles) and Homer (Jake Gyllenhaal), to follow in his footsteps. But Jim gets a football ...more - 24George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Wes Anderson
After 12 years of bucolic bliss, Mr. Fox (George Clooney) breaks a promise to his wife (Meryl Streep) and raids the farms of their human neighbors, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Giving in to his animal ...more - 25Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: John Hughes
Easily excitable Neal Page (Steve Martin) is somewhat of a control freak. Trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife (Laila Robins) and kids, his flight is rerouted to a ...more
