Films that are kind to you

Warm, playful and comforting at once — all three, not two out of three. Films like this were 35.4% of the catalogue in the 1990s and are 27.1% today. But more of them exist now than in any decade before, because the catalogue grew faster than the share fell. They are not gone. They are buried.

play 92comfort 92warmth 88

play 90comfort 90warmth 92

play 88comfort 88warmth 88

play 88comfort 85warmth 88

play 92comfort 85warmth 80

play 85comfort 90warmth 88

play 95comfort 80warmth 85

play 90comfort 85warmth 85

play 90comfort 85warmth 85

play 88comfort 85warmth 85

play 88comfort 82warmth 88

play 88comfort 85warmth 80

play 80comfort 85warmth 88

play 88comfort 82warmth 85

play 90comfort 80warmth 80

play 82comfort 85warmth 88

play 95comfort 80warmth 75

play 90comfort 85warmth 75

play 82comfort 82warmth 82

play 80comfort 85warmth 85

play 80comfort 85warmth 85

play 82comfort 80warmth 82

play 88comfort 80warmth 80

play 92comfort 80warmth 75

play 90comfort 80warmth 80

play 80comfort 85warmth 85

play 80comfort 80warmth 85

play 80comfort 85warmth 85

play 88comfort 80warmth 82

play 92comfort 80warmth 75

play 85comfort 80warmth 82

play 80comfort 85warmth 85

play 75comfort 82warmth 88

play 82comfort 82warmth 78

play 92comfort 75warmth 75

play 92comfort 80warmth 75

play 95comfort 75warmth 70

play 88comfort 75warmth 82

play 88comfort 75warmth 80

play 92comfort 80warmth 75

play 80comfort 80warmth 82

play 80comfort 82warmth 82

play 78comfort 82warmth 82

play 80comfort 80warmth 80

play 78comfort 80warmth 82

play 78comfort 80warmth 82

play 95comfort 75warmth 70

play 85comfort 80warmth 75

play 88comfort 80warmth 75

play 95comfort 75warmth 75

play 80comfort 82warmth 82

play 90comfort 75warmth 75

play 88comfort 80warmth 75

play 85comfort 80warmth 82

play 80comfort 85warmth 80

play 78comfort 82warmth 82

play 80comfort 80warmth 85

play 70comfort 80warmth 88

play 90comfort 80warmth 75

play 88comfort 75warmth 78

Every film here scores at least 55 for playfulness, 50 for comfort and 55 for warmth on Cinnamon DB’s twenty-dimension reading — each floor cleared on its own, so nothing qualifies by being extremely warm and otherwise bleak. Children’s films are left out, not because they fail the test but because they pass it so completely that they crowd out everything else; the top of this shelf without that filter is Winnie the Pooh and Pixar shorts.