Best Feel-Good & Light Movies & TV Shows

In a Violent Nature

The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness unleashes an iconic new killer after a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower that entombed its rotting corpse.

Run time: 94m Tagline: Nature is unforgiving. Release: 2024-05-31

Stars: Alexander Oliver Andrea Pavlovic Cameron Love Charlotte Creaghan Lea Rose Sebastianis Liam Leone Reece Presley Ry Barrett Sam Roulston Timothy Paul McCarthy

Ticket to Paradise

Divorced couple Georgia and David find themselves on a shared mission: they team up and travel to Bali to stop their daughter Lily from making the same mistake they once made 25 years ago.

Run time: 104m Tagline: They’re in this together for better or worse. Release: 2022-09-08

Stars: Arielle O'Neill Billie Lourd Cintya Dharmayanti Dorian Djoudi Geneviève Lemon George Clooney Julia Roberts Kaitlyn Dever Lucas Bravo Maxime Bouttier

Iron Man 3

When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

Run time: 130m Tagline: Unleash the power behind the armor. Release: 2013-04-18

Stars: Ben Kingsley Don Cheadle Guy Pearce Gwyneth Paltrow James Badge Dale Jon Favreau Paul Bettany Rebecca Hall Robert Downey Jr. Stephanie Szostak

21 Jump Street

When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go under cover as high-school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.

Run time: 109m Tagline: The only thing getting blown tonight is their cover. Release: 2012-03-14

Stars: Brie Larson Channing Tatum Chris Parnell Dave Franco Dax Flame DeRay Davis Ellie Kemper Ice Cube Jonah Hill Rob Riggle

22 Jump Street

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.

Run time: 112m Tagline: They're not 21 anymore Release: 2014-06-05

Stars: Amber Stevens West Channing Tatum Ice Cube Jillian Bell Jonah Hill Keith Lucas Kenneth Lucas Nick Offerman Peter Stormare Wyatt Russell

Blue Valentine

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

Run time: 112m Tagline: A Love Story. Release: 2010-12-26

Stars: Ben Shenkman Faith Wladyka James Benatti Jen Jones John Doman Marshall Johnson Maryann Plunkett Michelle Williams Mike Vogel Ryan Gosling

Kinds of Kindness

A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

Run time: 164m Release: 2024-05-30

Stars: Emma Stone Fadeke Adeola Hong Chau Hunter Schafer Jesse Plemons Joe Alwyn Mamoudou Athie Margaret Qualley Willem Dafoe Yorgos Stefanakos

Humane

In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.

Run time: 93m Tagline: Dying makes all the difference in the world. Release: 2024-04-26

Stars: Alanna Bale Blessing Adedijo Emily Hampshire Enrico Colantoni Jay Baruchel Martin Roach Peter Gallagher Sebastian Chacon Sirena Gulamgaus Uni Park

Abigail

A group of criminals kidnap a teenage ballet dancer, the daughter of a notorious gang leader, in order to obtain a ransom of $50 million, but over time, they discover that she is not just an ordinary girl. After the kidnappers begin to diminish, one by one, they discover, to their increasing horror, that they are locked inside with no normal little girl.

Run time: 109m Tagline: Children can be such monsters. Release: 2024-04-16

Stars: Alisha Weir Angus Cloud Dan Stevens Giancarlo Esposito Kathryn Newton Kevin Durand Matthew Goode Melissa Barrera William Catlett

Bodies Bodies Bodies

In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.

Run time: 94m Tagline: This is not a safe space. Release: 2022-08-05

Stars: Amandla Stenberg Chase Sui Wonders Conner O'Malley Lee Pace Maria Bakalova Myha'la Pete Davidson Rachel Sennott

All of Us Strangers

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

Run time: 105m Release: 2023-12-22

Stars: Ami Tredrea Andrew Scott Carter John Grout Claire Foy Jamie Bell Paul Mescal