Spooky season is upon us and we can feel the atmosphere and excitement around us start to take hold as the weather changes from sunny rays to cloudy days. Thunderstorms, rain, and fog call for pancakes with hot beverages on the comfy couch snuggled up in front of the TV while watching the cloudy day take hold of your lazy stay-at-home mood.
But what is a successful cloudy day’s itinerary without including some of the best movies and series to accompany it? We have gathered a list of classic films and TV series to dive into to either up your mood when you’re feeling under the weather or further immerse yourself into an ominous gloomy day.
Top 20 movies to watch on a cloudy day:
1. Harry Potter Series
Dark and cloudy days call for all-time cult classics. Immerse yourself into the world of magic and follow Harry Potter on his adventure where trouble awaits him around every corner.
2. Twilight Saga
Love, darkness, and mythical creatures snuggle up in a blanket while Bella falls in love with a vampire that will change her life forever.
3. Hocus Pocus Series
Spooky season calls for eerie witchcraft and childhood classics that made us fear telling tales that could leave us haunted. Evil witches and powerful dark spells, indulge yourself on an adventure to stop dark magic from immortalizing a coven.
4. Jurassic World Series
Let your imagination run free on a lazy day in front of the TV by watching an ever-spanning tension film of life-threatening dinosaurs on the hunt for prey.
5. Finding Nemo
Dive into an underwater journey to help find Nemo and get him back home. A must on cloudy days to boost your morale and leave you filled with good energy.
6. The Holiday
Let a film whisk you away from a cloudy that than can make you feel under the weather. A romantic journey of 2 couples unintentionally finding love while on holiday.
7. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Bad weather is the name and Rom-Con is the game. Beat a cloudy day by falling in love while leaving a smile on your face.
8. The Matrix
Dark and gloomy you said? What about a film that will make you question reality? Pick your pill as the chosen one, Noah, explores a machine-dominated world to battle the Matrix for the survival of humanity.
9. Natural Born Killers
An ominous day can be best resolved by pouring your depression into a Quentin Tarantino all-time classic. Following the thrilling adventure of a couple united by uncommon love for serial killing.
10. Interstellar
A complicated movie to watch on a cloudy day, but the obscure darkness of what awaits a professor in space as he crosses a never-ending wormhole to find humanity on a new planet, is never a bad idea for sci-fi adventure lovers.
11. Dune
Another sci-fi must-watch as malevolent forces explode into conflict over a fictional planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their own fear will survive.
12. Gladiator
Set in the ancient Roman Empire, feel empowered on your cloudy day as you follow the ultimate gladiator battling it out to clear his name and stand up against the emperor.
13. Beautiful Mind
Watch an agonizing journey of self-discovery as John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematical genius, finds his life-changing for the worse after he accepts an assignment from William Parcher.
14. Zodiac
Channel your inner Sherlock Holmes on a cloudy day as you investigate and try to clue together who’s the serial killer behind some of San Francisco’s most vicious murders. A killer that names himself the Zodiac and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages, ciphers, and menacing phone calls.
15. Batman: The Dark Knight
A cloudy day can make you think of a city that is always captured by darkness; Gotham. Follow Batman as he fights to keep Gotham City safe from the chaos caused by a vile young criminal calling himself the Joker.
16. Murder On The Oriental Express
A lavish trip through Europe quickly unfolds into a race against time to solve a murder aboard a train. Let the setting of the movie immerse you even deeper into your sunshine-absent day
17. Mary Poppins
Bring some of Mary Poppins’s magical sunny energy into your day by embarking on a series of fantastical adventures of a nanny everyone wishes they had.
18. The Shining
Cloudy days can evoke thoughts of horror and make us in the mood for some psychological thrillers. Watch as a writer tries to cure his writer’s block by checking himself and his family into a hotel. He quickly discovers the hotel’s dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family.
19. Secret Life of Pets
A cartoon feel-good movie to lift your spirits when feeling under the weather. Let the adventures of pets and their secret lives take you on a moral journey of fun, laughter, and moments of sadness.
20. The Pianist
Some of the most successful horrors are based on true stories. Discover the hard life of a radio station’s pianist as he tries to survive life as a prisoner in Warsaw during WW2.
Top 20 series to watch on a cloudy day:
1. Peaky Blinders
Follow a gangster family from Birmingham as they climb the ranks in society through unconventional business deals and their street gang crimes that leave dangerous enemies in their wake.
2. Stranger Things
Monsters, evil doctors, and mind-blowing superpowers are the 3 best words to describe one of the best tv series to watch on a dark cloudy day. Follow the lives of a group of teenagers as they battle it out to save their friends and family.
3. Friends
An all-time cult classic for a good pick-me-up. Friends is a 90’s Comedy TV show, based in Manhattan, about 6 friends who go through just about every life experience imaginable together.
4. Grey’s Anatomy
A medical romantic drama focused on the lives of surgical interns, residents, and attendings as they develop into seasoned doctors while balancing personal and professional relationships.
5. You
Cloudy days that make you feel in tune with your emotions do not always require a classic take on a romantic story, but sometimes even a psychotic twist of what love can lead obsessed people to do.
6. Dahmer
Follow the horrific series of murders committed by the famous serial killer Jeffery Dahmer as he leaves a trail of families in pain of his atrocious crimes against innocent victims.
7. The Witcher
Mythical creatures and monsters of dystopian universes on a cloudy day can be the remedy to cure your magical wishes. Follow the story of a sole hunter who struggles to find his place in the world as he slays monsters with his magical powers and finds love and friendship on the way.
8. The Sandman
God and all of the historic tales are brought to life as Morpheus, the king of dreams and one of the seven Endless is captured in an occult ritual. After being held captive for 105 years, he escapes and sets out to restore order to his kingdom of the Dreaming
9. Ozark
Staying at home on a cloudy day might make some of you cook up some ideas on how to come up with more money to stay at home every day! Watch Ozark to follow a financial advisor dragging his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss.
10. Breaking Bad
Another cult-classics to watch how good guys do bad things for the right reasons to make more money is Breaking Bad. Follow the story of a chemistry professor and a bummed-out high school dropout on how they cook the best drugs to make money fast.
11. Riverdale
Spooky, eerie, and cloudy day perfection as a series unravels the tale of a murdered teenager within the town of Riverdale. A group of teenagers, the jock Archie, the girl next door Betty, the new girl Veronica and the outcast Jughead try to unravel the evils lurking within this seemingly innocent town.
12. Black Mirror
What’s scarier than the idea that a horror story can actually be real? Black Mirror unveils how modern technologies can backfire and be used against their makers, every episode is set in a slightly different reality with different characters combating different types of technologies, and this is a definite must for horror fanatics on cloudy days.
13. The Crown
Follow the story of the world’s most powerful Monarch as the biography series details how The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, but a new era of Monarchy is dawning.
14. Bridgerton
A series that will cling to the heartstrings of every Romantic out there on a cloudy day, follow the Bridgerton family as they navigate London high society in search of love, surrounded by friends and rivals alike with a tell-all gossiper on the loose.
15. New Amsterdam
Another medical drama for the lovers of Grey’s Anatomy, New Amsterdam follows Dr. Max Goodwin as he becomes the medical director of one of the United States’ oldest public hospitals, aiming to reform the neglected facility by tearing up its bureaucracy to provide exceptional care to patients.
16. Blue Planet
Cloudy weather can make us feel in the adornment of nature. The Blue Planet is a BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough, exploring the different types of marine habitats – from the deepest seas to the coastal seas and the Antarctic to the Arctic – and how each of the creatures living there survives.
17. Our Great National Parks
Another nature-focused docuseries is Our Great National Parks which is a five-part Netflix documentary series about some of the world’s national parks and their wildlife. It is presented by former president of the United States Barack Obama
18. The Queen’s Gambit
A motivational tale that will get you out of the cloudy day depression by following the development of an orphan chess prodigy, Elizabeth Harmon, during her quest to become an elite chess player while struggling with emotional problems, drugs, and alcohol dependency.
19. The Watcher
If the weather doesn’t make you feel like staying at home then one of Netflix’s most recently featured favorites will. The Watcher is an exciting psychological thriller that takes a unique look into the minds of both a serial killer and the man who must, reluctantly, pursue him.
20. Little Women
In the mood for a mystery family drama? Little women is a dark-tone TV series that’s based around the lives of the 3 sisters.
Make the best out of the weather by filling your cloudy days with some of the best classics that will leave your film fanatic passion fulfilled.
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