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This list of movies highlights films about people who choose to change their fate, follow their destiny and live a more extraordinary life. If you need to get inspired or find a few role models, take a look at these films. And if you have a favorite movie you think belongs on this page, send us an e-mail.
Movie List
Anna and The King of Siam / The King and I
(1946, NR, Musical, Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison)
A Victorian woman travels to Siam to become a teacher (life path 6) to the King's children and ends up changing the destiny of those around her.
Breaking Away
(1979, PG, light hearted Drama, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid)
A young man seeks to dreams of living a more extraordinary life as he impersonates an Italian college student and follows his passion for bicycle racing.
Bridget Jones's Diary
(2001, R, Romantic Comedy, Rene Zellweger, Hugh Grant)
A young woman seeks to find love and her place in the world as a publicist (life path 4) and news reporter (life path 3) when she struggles to change her fate and seek a more extraordinary life.
Dead Poet's Society
(1989, PG, Drama, Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke)
A teacher (life path 6) inspires his students to make their lives extraordinary by creating their own destiny and following their life calling as they struggle with the coming of age obstacles of overcoming self limiting beliefs and family job preferences.
Disney's The Kid
(2000, PG, Drama, Bruce Willis, Jean Smart)
An image consultant (life path 2) undergoes a midlife crisis, sees how his life has veered from following his childhood dreams, and changes his destiny to life a more extraordinary life.
James Bond Films
(1962 to present, PG, Action, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan)
A spy (life path 5) uses his many gifts and technical gadgets (things) to fight evil and protect Britain's interests.
Joe Versus The Volcano
(1990, PG, Comedy, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan)
A man leaves his Job from Hell and trades his future to briefly live an extraordinary life.
Inn of the Sixth Happiness
(1958, NR, Drama, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat)
A woman is called to go to China (place) and help the people there -- and in the process uses active compassion to overcome cultural and racial taboos in her many professions as inn keeper (life path 8), nurse (life path 2), and government official (life path 4).
Kiki's Delivery Service
(1988, G, Action Comedy, Anime)
A young girl seeks to find her place in the world by traveling to the city and working to discover her talent and learning how to turning it into a livelihood -- a delivery service business (life path 8).
Mame (1974, PG, Musical Comedy, Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur) or Auntie Mame (1958, Rosalind Russell)
An unusual woman, who loses her wealth and briefly becomes a shop girl (life path 4), seeks to teach her nephew how to live an extraordinary life.
My Brilliant Career
(1979, G, Drama, Judy Davis, Sam Neill)
A young woman struggles to explore her gift for storytelling and become a writer (life path 3).
My Fair Lady
(1964, G, Musical Romance, Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison)
A flower girl on the streets follows up an opportunity to study with a language scientist (life path 7) in order to better her life and ends up realizing more of her potential than anyone expected.
The Mirror Has Two Faces
(1996, PG-13, Drama, Barbara Streisand, Jeff Bridges)
A college professor (life path 6) overcomes self limiting beliefs and family assumptions to develop her potential and live a more extraordinary life, upsetting her platonic relationship with her writer (life path 3) husband.
My Left Foot
(1989, R, Drama, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker)
A disabled boy shows a develops his gifts for painting and writing into a celebrated career (life path 3) when he is encouraged by his family to develop his potential and embrace life when he falls in love with a nurse (life path 2).
October Sky
(1999, PG, Drama, Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern)
A group of young boys are inspired by their teacher and the space race in the 1950s to follow their passion and change their destiny.
Powder
(1995, PG-13, Drama, Sean Patrick Flanery, Mary Steenburgen)
A young man struggles to be accepted despite his unusual gifts.
Princess Caraboo
(1994, PG, Comedy, Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline)
A young maid (life path 2) challenges work and cultural taboos against rising above your low station in life when she uses her gift of imagination to tell stories and reinvent herself into a foreign princess, who fools everyone except a writer (life path 3).
Rudy
(1993, PG, Drama, Sean Astin, Ned Beatty)
What you love - Place & Activity: Notre Dame, football
A young man realizes his dream of becoming a college athlete (life path 5) despite a lack of education and family support.
Serendipity
(2001, PG-13, Romantic Comedy, John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale)
A film maker (life path 3) and a therapist (life path 6) struggle to change their fate and reconnect with each other.
Shirley Valentine
(1989, PG, Comedy, Pauline Collins, Tom Conti)
A home maker (life path 2) seeks a more extraordinary life and takes off on an adventure to Greece (place).
The Sound of Music
(1965, NR, Musical Romance, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer)
A young governess (life path 2) with a passion for music and gifts for establishing rapport and seeing the good in everyone falls in love with a naval captain (life path 5) just before WWII.
South Pacific
(1958, NR, Musical Romance, Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi)
During WWII, a nurse (life path 2) falls in love with a plantation owner (life path 2 and 8).
That Thing You Do
(1996, PG, Musical Drama, Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler)
Four young musicians (life path 3) write a hit song and undergo a fast rise to the top of the charts as they struggle to keep their band together with the help of their manager (life path 8).
Under The Tuscan Sun
(2003, PG-13, Drama, Diane Lane, Sandra Oh)
A newly divorced writer (life path 3) falls in love with Tuscany (place) on a vacation and struggles to a new extraordinary life for herself.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(1964, NR, Drama, Debbie Reynolds)
A backwoods woman struggles to create a new destiny after becoming wealthy.
Victor, Victoria
(1982, PG, Romantic Comedy, Julie Andrews, James Garner)
A talented signer (life path 3) reinvents herself as singer of opposite gender in order to get work.
Working Girl
(1988, R, Comedy, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford)
A secretary (life path 4) struggles against a lack of the right background and work taboos to not to rise above your low status in order to follow her passion for business mergers and acquisitions and become an executive (life path 8) using her gifts for seeing connections, opportunities & asking pivotal questions.
