These are my embarrassing "I know they're low brow but they got to me" feel-good films :

Officer and a Gentleman -- Richard Gere and Debra Winger burn up the screen with pain and chemistry. A "townie" girl and a would-be naval officer beat the odds. A few powerfiul side-plots with David Keith and an Oscar performance from Lou Gossett Jr.

The Goodbye Girl -- Neil Simon script, Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason. Oscar for Dreyfuss as a hapless actor who gets the role of Richard III but has to play him to the bizarre specifications of the wacked-out director, meanwhile battling his forced roommate situation with Marsha Mason. Predictable results but the cab in the rain at the end brings it home.

Getting Straight -- A 1970s oldie. Elliott Gould and Candace Bergen caught in the free-speech riots at a Berkeley-like university. The world falls apart for Gould but Bergen comes back to him after a brief dalliance with a professor; Gould is denied a teaching credential because of a test he had someone take for him. Moving, poignant.