20 Fall Movies And Shows That Are Basically A Pumpkin Spice Latte For Your Eyes

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Autumn has been my favourite play for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember. I emotion the changing leaves, the crisp air, the layered manner — and yes, adjacent back-to-school season. Give maine cinnamon, apple, pumpkin, oregon maple everything. Give maine stacks of blankets, scarves, and jackets. I privation combat boots and burgundy lips and Folklore. And of course, you'll find maine curled up with a cozy enigma novel, waiting for the rain. My hubby and I adjacent got joined successful the autumn — our archetypal day is coming up this October. So yeah, I’m a autumn girlie done and through.

With September (finallyyy) astir the corner, I’m sharing my eventual autumn watchlist to get you acceptable for cinnamon-and-spice season. Don’t interest — thing excessively spooky here. I’ll prevention my horror movie obsession for October. For now, fto September conscionable be September. So cozy up and drawback a PSL, these picks shriek "Falllllll!"

1. I cognize this isn’t news, but Gilmore Girls is the quintessential autumn show. Sure, it spans afloat years, but schoolhouse is ever astatine the halfway — and Stars Hollow feels similar a perpetual autumn town. Even its wintertime scenes (because Lorelia needs a fewer episodes to "smell snow") conscionable marque that gazebo and java store consciousness much idyllic and romantic. Lorelai’s scarf-and-coat combos are unmatched, and with her drinking blistery java year-round, this is genuinely the amusement wherever autumn ne'er ends.

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2. You’ve got to emotion autumn successful New York. Add Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, and you’ve got the eventual autumn flick. You’ve Got Mail is axenic coziness — pumpkins, crunchy leaves, indie bookstores, pome markets, and aureate retriever walks done Central Park. It adjacent teaches america that a autumn acold tin beryllium cured with daisies — “the friendliest flower.” No wonderment this movie screams autumn and remains 1 of my all-time faves.

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3. The archetypal Knives Out is the pinnacle of autumn fun. Any enigma acceptable successful a cozy, gothic Victorian mansion surrounded by towering yellowish trees is the cleanable setup for an autumn-frenzied whodunnit. Add Chris Evans successful a cable-knit sweater and Daniel Craig successful a floor-length coat, and it couldn’t beryllium thing but fall. A affluent patriarch sipping beverage by a campfire and speechmaking a book? Come on. The full wardrobe and acceptable plan — wood greens, mustard yellows, burnt oranges, and java browns — consciousness similar an ode to autumn, and I’m present for it.

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4. It’s hard to representation Buffy successful a heap of leaves — possibly due to the fact that Sunnydale is simply a fictional Southern California town. But with its school-day mounting and vampire spookiness, Buffy the Vampire Slayer inactive is one-hundred-percent a autumn show. Sure, it leans Halloween-y, but the precocious nights successful the library, chilly patrols (yep, successful a graveyard), and after-school make-out sessions springiness it large autumn energy.

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5. Meg Ryan does it again — the cleanable autumn-in-New-York rom-com. Sure, When Harry Met Sally ends with that iconic New Year’s Eve scene, but the bulk of the communicative is acceptable successful fall, starting with a school-based meet-cute and a roadworthy travel from Chicago to New York. Maybe Meg Ryan conscionable truly knows however to propulsion disconnected a autumn overgarment oregon a mustard-yellow cardigan, but either way, I always privation her falling successful emotion arsenic the leaves alteration successful Central Park portion her dainty, gloved hands clasp blistery coffee.

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6. First, let’s instrumentality a infinitesimal for the 1 and lone Robin Williams. I inactive can’t judge we’re without him. Dead Poets Society is simply a testament to his unmatched talent. If you haven’t seen it, you’ve astatine slightest heard its iconic line: “O Captain, my Captain.” And if you have, you cognize nary authorities does autumn similar New England. Add a boarding school, Walt Whitman poems, and the eventual teacher of each time, and you’ve got the cleanable autumn film. I can't accent however overmuch I emotion this one. But I don't request to — everyone who knows knows.

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7. I know, I cognize — Harry Potter mightiness consciousness similar a cop-out, but perceive maine out. It’s back-to-school vibes, gloomy English skies, and conscionable the close premix of magic and spook — the cleanable mode to get excited astir fall. Add uniforms, textbooks, people schedules, and a sprinkle of Potions class, and it's the pinnacle of autumn. Dumbledore by Hagrid's pumpkin spot says it all. I tin practically sensation the food beer.

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8. Another cleanable Robin Williams prime for fall: Good Will Hunting makes maine outcry each time, and immoderate of the monologues from some Matt Damon and Robin Williams inactive instrumentality with maine to this day. Give maine chalkboards afloat of equations, schoolhouse janitors with genius IQs, and autumn leaves scattered crossed campus. With Boston successful the autumn and its taxable of caller beginnings, it’s the eventual autumn film.

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9. For those who’ve work the publication oregon watched the films, we each cognize that the precise archetypal page, well, adjacent the archetypal sentence, regards Christmas — but Little Women genuinely has immoderate of its astir breathtaking crippled points successful the fall. Set successful Massachusetts — 1 of the prettiest autumn states with its vibrant foliage — the communicative brims with bookish moments, chases done aureate fields, and beverage by the fire. Everything screams cozy autumn vibes, adjacent arsenic it spans years.

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10. Maybe Fantastic Mr. Fox feels similar a autumn movie due to the fact that foxes conscionable look autumnal — oregon possibly it’s the information that it’s acceptable successful the fall, with animation awash successful orange, cream, and yellowish hues. This feel-good masterpiece delivers cozy vibes that past each the mode until the archetypal snow. But you person to admit — adjacent conscionable from the trailer — the full colour palette of this animation is each shadiness of autumn.

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11. Maybe it’s the iconic motorcycle country against an orangish sky, the trick-or-treating infinitesimal with E.T. nether a sheet, the back-to-school months — oregon simply the information that the communicative is acceptable successful autumn — but everything astir E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is autumn. Add a small October spook, and it's perfect.

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12. Since Stranger Things draws truthful overmuch from ’80s sci-fi, it’s nary astonishment it follows successful E.T.’s footsteps. Especially successful Seasons 1 and 2, Hawkins, Indiana, is simply a golden-leafed autumn town, acceptable successful November with chill winds, hoodies pulled tight, blustery motorcycle rides, and rosy cheeks. If you privation to relive the ’80s with a dash of Halloween vibes, this is the cleanable cozy autumn mystery.

13. If you’ve work the publication oregon watched the film, you cognize Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s is acceptable successful New York successful autumn — the cleanable backdrop, IMO. Think Audrey Hepburn successful agelong coats, turtlenecks, and fabulous boots. Add kisses successful the autumn rain, singing connected occurrence escapes, and runs done metropolis streets nether falling leaves, and you’ve got the epitome of autumn romance.

14. Sure, schoolhouse movies mightiness consciousness a small connected the nose, but Mean Girls is simply a classic. I’d ticker it immoderate clip of year, but it feels other fitting successful the fall. A homeschooled miss navigating nationalist school, cliques, tests, mathematics clubs, and studying connected the leaf-covered lawn? How could it not beryllium a autumn movie? Still, it’s worthy watching each twelvemonth long. Plus, Tina Fey is my imagination teacher.

15. I’m usually not 1 for animated shows, but Over the Garden Wall is the coziest, cutest happening you’ll ever watch. The “Unknown” — the onshore the 2 brothers get mislaid successful — feels similar the astir autumn-tinted spot of each time. I tin practically sensation the pumpkin and odor the maple. Add successful woodland creatures, and you’ve got a fall-forest fairytale.

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16. I cognize Coco feels similar cheating — it’s astir Día de los Muertos, truthful it leans spooky. But it’s acceptable successful November, and those aureate marigold petals swirling arsenic Miguel strums his guitar are axenic autumn magic. It’s evidently a autumn film, excessively bully not to mention, and 1 I support connected repetition the infinitesimal September hits. Also, the euphony slaps.

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17. Maybe it’s each the jogging scenes framed by crimson foliage, but Silver Linings Playbook is simply a autumn movie to me. It’s astir caller beginnings, renewal, and each the themes that align with September. Add successful late-night walks, romanticist creation sessions, and diner dates, and you’ve got a cozy, heart-wrenching movie that’s cleanable for autumn.

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18. Another schoolhouse movie? I know. But autumn is for schoolhouse — and schoolhouse is for fall. They are 1 and the same. Legally Blonde is the cleanable field rom-com, with Elle Woods stumbling into Harvard Law, pursuing a guy, and someway winning a case. Any communicative wherever chasing emotion turns into discovering yourself is 1 I’ll ever motion up for, particularly if it means pursuing them to school.

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19. Feminism. Julia Roberts. A field successful the fall. And art? All things I love. Mona Lisa Smile is the cleanable “f**k the patriarchy” film, afloat of badass women successful cute hats. I emotion a movie wherever a teacher pushes the adjacent procreation to deliberation bigger and integrate change. Add immoderate chic autumn jackets and autumn leaves, and I’m in.

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20. And finally: Okay, good — The Social Network is really good. I cognize that’s not news, but I enactment it disconnected forever. A movie astir the commencement of Facebook sounded similar a drag, but the penning is witty and sharp, the acting is impeccable, and the communicative is mode much absorbing than I expected. Add field parties, assemblage dropouts, and unmatched innovation, and you’ve got the cleanable autumn flick.

What astir you — what are your favourite non-spooky, non-Halloween autumn vibes movies oregon TV shows? Drop successful the comments which ones you can’t ticker without smelling cinnamon successful the aerial oregon imagining yourself wrapped successful an oversized cozy sweater.

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