The objectives of the research are 1) to explain how positive politeness is used by the characters of “Before Sunrise” movie and 2) to explain the factors influencing the characters to apply those strategies in “Before Sunrise” movie. Before Sunrise is a 1995 American drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Linklater and Kim Krizan. This is a descriptive, qualitative research. Descriptive qualitative method is done by collecting, analyzing, classifying, and interpreting the data.  The techniques used to collect the data are watching the movie, reading the movie transcript, taking notes on the kinds of positive politeness strategy used, identifying the utterances, and giving code to the utterances. The researcher analyzes each data based on context, positive politeness strategy, and factors influencing the use of positive politeness strategy. The findings of the research are 1) positive politeness employed in every utterance which has specific context that can be identified by the situation when the sentences is uttered, and the goals that the speaker wants to be achieved and 2) there four factors influencing the use of positive politeness strategy in the movie, which is, payoff, social distance, relative power, and ranking of imposition. Keywords: politeness, positive politeness strategy