Top 30 feel-good content to watch on OSN streaming platform

Dubai: In case you need a boost to get you by the coming weeks, OSN Streaming, OSN’s content streaming platform, has you covered with the most cheerful and feel-good content to watch. Here are the top 5 movies and top 5 series offering you the right distraction and binge-worthy entertainment you need:

Movies

Watch Tom Hanks while wishing him a quick recovery

• The Green Mile - A supernatural tale set on death row, where a gentle giant (Michael Clarke Duncan) possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments and the cellblock's head guard (Tom Hanks) tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
• Captain Phillips - Biographical drama starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi and Barkhad Abdirahman, based on the true story of the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama. An incident during which merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage.
• Saving Mr. Banks - Biographical comedy telling the story of how Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) courted author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) into letting him option the rights to Mary Poppins, and how he realised that a sensitive chapter from Travers' youth could be the key to clinching the deal.
• Toy Story 1 - Animated feature. The rivalry between a pull-string cowboy toy and a high-tech space-ranger action figure belonging to wide-eyed youngster Andy is put to the test when the well-being of all Andy's toys is threatened.
• Toy Story 2- When Woody, now a rare and valuable collector's item since his model went out of production, is stolen by an avid collector, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the toys venture forth to rescue their friend before their proud owner Andy returns from summer camp.
• Toy Story 3- Just before Andy leaves for college the toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care centre instead of the attic, so it falls on Woody to convince the other toys they weren't abandoned and to return home.
• The newest kids movies include Incredibles 2, The Secret Life of Pets 2, How To Train Your Dragon: Hidden World to name a few.
• Moana - Young navigator Moana (voice of Auli'i Cravalho) teams with demigod Maui (voice of Dwayne Johnson) to locate a legendary island, and together the pair explore fantastical lands and encounter incredible sea creatures in this animated Disney adventure.
• Overboard – an award-winning comedy starring Anna Faris and Eva Longoria about a wealthy yacht owner who gets thrown overboard and loses his memory. An employee he mistreats and unjustly fires takes advantage of the situation and convinces him that they are married.
• I Feel Pretty - Comedy starring Amy Schumer. A woman struggling with insecurity wakes from a fall believing she is the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet. Her new confidence empowers her to live fearlessly, but what happens when she realizes her appearance never changed?
• Mary Poppins Returns - Family musical starring Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep. Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.
• Monsters University - Animated comedy. A trip back in time to when Monsters, Inc. employees Mike Wazowski and James P. "Sulley" Sullivan were just two promising students and a heated competition to be the most fearsome in their class saw them ejected from the prestigious Scare Programme.

And for the ultimate feel-good, a brand new collection of Hallmark movies is now available to stream, including:

• Love, Of Course - Romantic Comedy. A helicopter mom follows her daughter to college and lands a job on campus. When she meets a charismatic professor, she learns more about herself and discovers a life of her own.
• Love Struck Café - Romantic Drama. Megan Quinn, an aspiring architect, faces multiple tasks, all while also dealing with the return of her childhood sweetheart, Joe, who broke her heart.
• Love, Take Two - Romance. Lily produces a wedding reality show, but her success driven world is flipped when her ex, Scott, is cast as groom-to-be. Lily must revisit her past if she's to find her own happily ever after.
• Love to the Rescue - Romance. Two single parents come head to head when their kids want to adopt the same dog. Agreeing to co-foster, free-spirited Kate and type-A Eric must work together to find the dog's forever home.
• Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead - Allie is at a wedding as photographer when the groom is killed. Nobody sees the shooter. Allie's brother is the bride's ex and thus a suspect. Can the police or Allie and friends solve the murder?
• Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds - Photographer Allie and Detective Sam's investigation into a priceless stolen necklace leads to danger and an unexpected death.
• Rome in Love - An unknown actress lands the role of a lifetime in Rome. Paired with an American journalist writing a profile, she will discover surprises about love and life in the eternal city.
• The Perfect Catch - Drama. When Jessica Parker’s former high school boyfriend, superstar baseball player Chase Taynor, returns to town, she finds the inspiration to reinvent her struggling diner… and revisits the past to find something even better for the future.
• Truly, Madly, Sweetly - Romantic Drama. Natalie, a cupcake food truck owner has always dreamed of owning her own bakery. Eric has always wanted his own business. When an inheritance throws these two opposites together, neither could have imagined what fate had in store for them.
• Winter's Dream - Romantic Drama. Former pro skier, Kat, is asked to coach a younger skier, named Anna, and finds love with the girl's widowed father, Ty.

Series

• The Daily Show has been retitled “The Social Distancing Show” - an award-winning programme that looks at the day's top headlines through a sharp, reality-based lens. Along with the help of "The Best News Team Ever", Trevor Noah covers the biggest news stories in politics, pop culture and more.
• Grand Hotel - Bold, provocative upstairs/downstairs drama set at the last family-owned hotel in multicultural Miami Beach. Wealthy and beautiful guests bask in luxury, but scandals, escalating debt and explosive secrets hide beneath the picture-perfect exterior.
• Saturday Night Live - Over the last three decades this show has launched the careers of many of the best comedy performers and presents an impressive lineup of celebrity guests from film, television, music and sports.
• AVENUE 5 - 40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard.
• Enlightened - Comedy drama following the story of Amy Jellicoe, a self-destructive executive who, after the implosion of her professional life and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, tries to get her life back together.
• Hung – Forced to find an alternative source of income, Ray Drecker, a middle-aged basketball coach and high school teacher, puts his exceptional physical endowments to use, aided by his pimp and new business partner, Tanya.
• The Office - This razor-sharp workplace comedy lays bare the lives of a handful of listless, young and middle-aged adults. As they discuss their respective personal lives, the gang share daily concerns and keep a watchful eye on the inevitable office politics, common to us all.
• High Maintenance – A comedy drama series following a cannabis delivery man and his clients in New York City.

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