Pls recommend a happy or cosy Netflix/Amazon film for tonight for a grieving person

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Please could you suggest anything you've loved.

Doesn't actually have to be happy or a comedy. A cosy watch would do as would a non-ARRGH type of thriller - something mentally engaging or challenging. Something good that is not going to be distressing.

No love/romance/happy ever after.
No horror or violence or anything aggitating.
Nothing with jump scares.
Nothing very slow or boring - so not like Potato Peel Society, that one about the seashanty men, or the one with the woman who opens a bookshop in the middle of nowhere.

For example things I've enjoyed that would fit what I'm looking for but I've already seen
Wine Country (group of women on a holiday to Napa Valley)
Red Notice (Ryan Reynolds)
Red One (Christmas film about santa being kidnapped)
Spy (Miranda Hart, Melissa - comedy spy film)
The Glass Onion (I know this does feature death but I was ok with this sort of thing - cosy murder type)

I hate this as I end up scrolling and scrolling and not picking anything so thought I'd ask for some help!

Can You Ever Forgive Me with Melissa McCarthy is brilliant. And I think it meets your brief.

How about the classic Poirot with David Suchet?

Or classic films from the 40s and 50s such as any Hitchcock.

Disney+ has every season of The Golden Girls. It's my go-to comfort TV.

On Netflix there's a Kristen Bell/ Kelsey Grammar film called Like Father which I found enjoyable.

Keeping Mum (rowan atkinson, maggie smith)
Deadpool vs wolverine

The Heat with Melissa McCartney and Sandra Bullock

A Good Year - with Russell Crowe

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How are you? I just wanted to mention Anne with an E on Netflix, a Canadian series of Anne of Green Gables. I'm also going through an extremely challenging time and I am finding this series comforting and therapeutic. If you liked the book as a child, you will love this. It's multi-award winning and critically acclaimed. I'm working my way through the first series but I believe there are two more.

A man Called Otto is gentle, it's with Tom Hanks 💞🌺

Ah sorry I see you said bandits and enjoyed it. Grief can be so hard.

I came back to this to recommend to anyone in the same boat
Mystery Island which is on my5 at the moment.
it's sort of like a poor man's Knives Out/ Glass Onion

Dr Emilia Priestly goes to an immersive murder-mystery-themed luxury place on a secluded island. There is a murder but it's all very light and cosy in Midsummer murders/Agatha Christie way and doesn't have any deep romantic or traumatic storylines.

It's no Oscar winner but easy light watching if you are looking for non-challenging distraction.

Not a film as such bu having gone through gruelling chemo last year for ovarian cancer "Virgin River" series is so comforting .like a warm blanket .Otherwise I love "Nanny Mc Phee" and 101 dalmatians (have one as well)! hugs to you Im sorry you are grieving .A nice warm milk and some chocolate for you too I think xx

Not a film but This Is US on 4od is lovely. Touches on some sad stuff but is hopeful at the same time.

Thanks for the rec. DD is 10 and adores cosy murder mysteries will add this to the list.

I find aurora teagarden mysteries fairly cosy. Usually on ch5 or great movies catch up.

I have to confess I gravitate towards christmas films when I need a bit of comfort. My favourite is The Christmas Chalet followed by A Song for Christmas (the one with the country singer as theres another film with the same name) both of which are on prime.

Mrs Harris goes to Paris is a lovely feelgood film ❤️

Not appropriate as an easy watch for someone mourning.
We aren't mourning and DH and I wept buckets over this.
Great film but not in this case.

Ah OK, sorry! Good film though :)

Hunt for the Wilderpeople ?

Only murders in the building if you like glass onion.

I’m sorry for your loss.

A walk in the woods (Robert Redford goes hiking across USA with a friend from his college years). Amazon.

Under the Tuscan Sun. A woman moves to Italy to reinvent herself after getting divorced. Amazon.

The Night Manager. John Le carre thriller with Hugh Grant and tom Hiddleston on iPlayer.

The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Mrs Harris goes to Paris

All creatures Great and Small - old or new
Old version of Darling Buds
Jeeves and Wooster with Fry and Laurie
The Dectectorists

I just watched Champions, with Woody Harrelson, really good

I thought that was brilliant

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Not a film but This Is US on 4od is lovely. Touches on some sad stuff but is hopeful at the same time.

I actually can't believe you've posted this. Are you crazy to recommend this to a grieving person? Fortunately I previously started to watch this before I was bereaved ages ago and stopped because I didn't like it - it started well but then became very traumatic and sad. I found that it upset me when I was fine. Thank god I know that this is not suitable for me now. The main theme of it certainly in the first couple of series is adult children dealing with the fall out of the death of their father.

This is emphatically not a a suitable watch for anyone in my boat so please ignore this if you are grieving too.

Anyway I was after films when I started this thread which was why I came back to suggest Mystery Island in case anyone else grieving is looking for lighter stuff.

Edited to add: thank you for taking the time to recommend something and apologies if this sounds too attacking but I am very anxious no one in my position tries to watch this if they are feeling very vulnerable and came to this thread looking for distraction as it would be too upseting IMO.