Top 35 films in Family
The Wizard of Oz
Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, King Vidor | 102 min | 1939
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
It's a Wonderful Life
Directed by Frank Capra | Rated PG | 130 min | 1946
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Directed by Steven Spielberg | Rated PG | 115 min | 1982
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.
Modern Times
Directed by Charles Chaplin | Rated G | 87 min | 1936
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
The Sound of Music
Directed by Robert Wise | Rated G | 174 min | 1965
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Directed by William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen | 83 min | 1937
Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen soon learns of this and prepares to feed her a poison apple.
My Fair Lady
Directed by George Cukor | 170 min | 1964
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
WALL·E
Directed by Andrew Stanton | Rated G | 98 min | 2008
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
The Princess Bride
Directed by Rob Reiner | Rated PG | 98 min | 1987
While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Directed by Michael Anderson, John Farrow | Rated G | 175 min | 1956
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says.
Mary Poppins
Directed by Robert Stevenson | 139 min | 1964
A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family.
Bambi
Directed by James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright | 70 min | 1942
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Directed by Vincente Minnelli | 113 min | 1944
In the year before the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.
Spirited Away
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki | Rated PG | 125 min | 2001
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Driving Miss Daisy
Directed by Bruce Beresford | Rated PG | 99 min | 1989
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Fantasia
Directed by James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen | Rated G | 125 min | 1940
A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music.
Oliver!
Directed by Carol Reed | Rated G | 153 min | 1968
A young boy runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
Pinocchio
Directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen | 88 min | 1940
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.
How to Train Your Dragon
Directed by Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders | Rated PG | 98 min | 2010
A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
Beauty and the Beast
Directed by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Rated G | 84 min | 1991
Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead, unaware her captor to be an enchanted prince.
Hugo
Directed by Martin Scorsese | Rated PG | 126 min | 2011
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
The Goonies
Directed by Richard Donner | Rated PG | 114 min | 1985
In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient valuable treasure.
Babe
Directed by Chris Noonan | Rated G | 91 min | 1995
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
Finding Neverland
Directed by Marc Forster | Rated PG | 106 min | 2004
The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
The Railway Children
Directed by Lionel Jeffries | Rated G | 109 min | 1970
After the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.
Summer Hours
Directed by Olivier Assayas | 103 min | 2008
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession.
The Kid
Directed by Charles Chaplin | 68 min | 1921
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.
The Greatest Show on Earth
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille | 152 min | 1952
The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
The Thief of Bagdad
Directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies | 106 min | 1940
After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
How Green Was My Valley
Directed by John Ford | 118 min | 1941
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
The Bad News Bears
Directed by Michael Ritchie | Rated PG | 102 min | 1976
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
A Majority of One
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy | 156 min | 1961
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.
Fiddler on the Roof
Directed by Norman Jewison | Rated G | 181 min | 1971
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Mrs. Doubtfire
Directed by Chris Columbus | Rated PG-13 | 125 min | 1993
After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.
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