heart-warming 
adjective
Emotionally rewarding or uplifting: heart-warming stories about life as a country vet...
- For a film that's honestly committed to being heart-warming and uplifting, it just about gets there.
- It's a heart-warming story of love, loss, love, biscuits, tea, friendship, tea, token Americans, tea and love.
- This film tells the heart-warming story of a Belgian woman trying to make it in an economically depressed former mining town.
Synonyms
touching, moving, affecting, heartening, stirring, rewarding, uplifting, pleasing, cheering, gladdening, encouraging, gratifying, satisfying, warming, soul-stirring
literary gladsome