Comfort viewing: the most wholesome films on each service
Kind characters, low stakes and nothing that keeps you up at night. These are the most wholesome well-rated films on each major service, and how much comfort viewing each one carries.
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What we found
- Disney+ (US) has the highest share of wholesome films: 56% of 285. Paramount+ (US) has the lowest, at 6%.
- Leaving Disney+ aside, NOW (UK) and Netflix (UK) are the warmest, at 19% of 342 and 323 films respectively.
Share of wholesome films by service
Share of each service's scored films with a wholesomeness score above 4.
- Disney+ (US)56% · 160 of 285
- Disney+ (UK)36% · 172 of 477
- NOW (UK)19% · 65 of 342
- Netflix (UK)19% · 62 of 323
- ITVX (UK)16% · 18 of 110
- Netflix (US)15% · 36 of 237
- HBO Max (US)13% · 29 of 215
- Prime Video (UK)10% · 44 of 420
- Hulu (US)10% · 17 of 170
- Prime Video (US)9% · 27 of 299
- BBC iPlayer (UK)9% · 5 of 54
- Paramount+ (US)6% · 11 of 171
Netflix
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Disney+
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Prime Video
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NOW
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HBO Max
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Hulu
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How we worked this out
Wholesomeness is one of our ten attributes, scored 0 to 5 (higher is warmer and kinder; lower is darker and more unsavoury). We count a film as wholesome above 4. Picks leave out crime, war, horror and thrillers, and have a TMDB rating of at least 7 from 500 or more votes; each shows whether it streams in the UK, the US or both. We used films rather than TV because our TV attribute scores are less reliable for this. Our pool is the best-known, best-rated films and shows in the Boxlist catalogue (at least 500 TMDB votes for a film, 150 for a show), so the figures describe that slice of each service, not its whole library. Availability counts subscription streaming only, not rental or purchase.
Scores and catalogue data as of 8 November 2026; streaming availability checked on 8 November 2026. Line-ups change, so check a title's page for where it streams today. How we score films and shows