Movie or TV rec request

[vom_marlowe]

As some of you know, one of my relatives is terminally ill.  We've recently found out that she's worsened.  In between doing research on end of life care, I'm doing my best to be supportive of my mom, who is losing her dearest sister. 

I'm looking for distracting movies, audiobooks, or TV shows to watch with mom.  She likes Terry Pratchett (we've read/watched them all), Tomb Raider, some fantasy (Lord of the Rings, yes, Star Trek, no), British dramas, Jane Austen (original books as well as movies), certain kinds of anime (Howls Moving Castle yes, Fruits Basket no), old fashioned stories like Anne of Green Gables or the Secret Garden, and documentaries (one Christmas, we watched a documentary about a Norwegian mens choir--I don't even know, man).  

She dislikes comedies, gore, sexual violence, and people dying of cancer. 

Does anyone have recommendations?  Ideally, I'd like to find something restful.

Netflix has some David Attenborough documentaries, which I've heard are very good, but I don't want to show anything that is all The Earth is DYING DYING I TELL YOU if you see what I mean.  Sharks eating seals would be fine, though. 

Suggestions?  Anti-recs?

Comments

[mme_hardy]

British murder mysteries. The classic cozy ones are very, very soothing and gore-free. I especially recommend Tuppence and Tommy (Francesca Annis in wildly over-the-top costumes), any of the David Suchet Poirots, the Mrs. Bradley mysteries (Diana Rigg being arch!!!!), Rosemary and Thyme (modern mysteries that are loosely garden-based with spectacular scenery). I can go on and on.

British "cozy" murder mysteries are a large part of what got us through the last two years.

[loligo]

Slings and Arrows? I myself haven't watched it yet, so I don't know if it has any cancer in it. But it seems to be liked by people who like the things you've listed.

[0jack]

I was going to suggest exactly what Mme Hardy did. There are some lovely mysteries available on Netflix. Also on Netflix is a good selection of BBC classic lit miniseries. I've really enjoyed them. If you can get your hands on the All Creatures Great and Small series, it's very long and wonderfully written, warm and cozy and loving and funny. There are some sad eps but mostly it's happy animal stories.

[heavenscalyx]

Joan Hickson's Miss Marple is particularly soothing. Also Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, especially the first series with the good (and slashy) Watson.

The Attenborough Life of Mammals series is quite decent, just avoid the last show (the ones with humans in). They're mostly about different animal specializations, and not so much about everything dying, IIRC.

Save Totoro for a really bad day. But don't show her Pom Poko like, ever.

[boxofdelights]

Georgette Heyer audiobooks? I always find them amusing in a restful way.

Most of Anthony Trollope is similarly satisfying. The Way We Live Now, both the book and the miniseries is less restful.

I second loligo's suggestion of Slings & Arrows, at least the first season. The third season has a character dying of cancer.

[boxofdelights]

No, sorry, you said no comedies. Slings & Arrows is not a laugh-track sort of thing, but it's a comedy.