Spirited Away (2001)
Animation, Adventure, Family
Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside, much to Chihiro's dismay. On the way to their new home, Chihiro's father makes a wrong turn and drives down a lonely one-lane road which dead-ends in front of a tunnel. Her parents decide to stop the car and explore the... [show more]
Daveigh Chase
Suzanne Pleshette
Miyu Irino
Hayao Miyazaki
WALL·E (2008)
Animation, Adventure, Family
In a distant, but not so unrealistic, future where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerized with trinkets of... [show more]
Ben Burtt
Elissa Knight
Jeff Garlin
Andrew Stanton
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon... [show more]
Hitoshi Takagi
Noriko Hidaka
Chika Sakamoto
Hayao Miyazaki
The Princess Bride (1987)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An elderly man reads the book "The Princess Bride" to his sick and thus currently bedridden adolescent grandson, the reading of the book which has been passed down within the family for generations. The grandson is sure he won't like the story, with a romance at its core, he prefers something with... [show more]
Cary Elwes
Mandy Patinkin
Robin Wright
Rob Reiner
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Having lived a life in selfishness, young Prince Adam is cursed by a mysterious enchantress to having the appearance of a monstrous beast. His only hope is to learn to love a young woman and earn her love in return in order to redeem himself. Ten years later, his chance shows itself when a young... [show more]
Paige O'Hara
Robby Benson
Jesse Corti
Gary Trousdale
Kirk Wise
Castle in the Sky (1986)
Animation, Adventure, Family
A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, army and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machines, eventually searching for Sheeta's identity in a... [show more]
Mayumi Tanaka
Keiko Yokozawa
Kotoe Hatsui
Hayao Miyazaki
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Animation, Drama, Family
A young Japanese middle school girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow... could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants... [show more]
Yoko Honna
Issey Takahashi
Takashi Tachibana
Yoshifumi Kondô
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween Town to help him put on... [show more]
Danny Elfman
Chris Sarandon
Catherine O'Hara
Henry Selick
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Animation, Adventure, Family
A love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sophie, cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, and a magician named Howl. Under the curse, Sophie sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Howl's strange moving castle. In the castle, Sophie meets Howl's fire demon, named Karishifâ. Seeing... [show more]
Chieko Baisho
Takuya Kimura
Tatsuya Gashûin
Hayao Miyazaki
Mary Poppins (1964)
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
When Jane and Michael Banks are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with he and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, they try to pass on some of her sunny attitude to their... [show more]
Julie Andrews
Dick Van Dyke
David Tomlinson
Robert Stevenson
My Fair Lady (1964)
Drama, Family, Musical
Pompous phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn),... [show more]
Audrey Hepburn
Rex Harrison
Stanley Holloway
George Cukor
A Little Princess (1995)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth. Sara's belief that... [show more]
Liesel Matthews
Eleanor Bron
Liam Cunningham
Alfonso Cuarón
A Christmas Story (1983)
Comedy, Family
Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother's immediate reaction is that he'll shoot his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for his teacher but her reaction is like his. He... [show more]
Peter Billingsley
Melinda Dillon
Darren McGavin
Bob Clark
October Sky (1999)
Biography, Drama, Family
In a 1950's mining town called Coalwood, Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957, everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event, Homer becomes inspired to learn how... [show more]
Jake Gyllenhaal
Chris Cooper
Laura Dern
Joe Johnston
The Music Man (1962)
Comedy, Family, Musical
It's the early 20th-century American Midwest. A con man going by the assumed name Harold Hill has used several different schemes to bilk the unsuspecting, and now travels from town to town pretending to be a professor of music - from the Gary (Indiana) Conservatory of Music, class of '05 - who... [show more]
Robert Preston
Shirley Jones
Buddy Hackett
Morton DaCosta
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother washed out to sea in a cradle shaped like a boat;... [show more]
Jeni Courtney
Eileen Colgan
Mick Lally
John Sayles
The Sound of Music (1965)
Biography, Drama, Family
In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria (Dame Julie Andrews) is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When Navy Captain Georg Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The... [show more]
Julie Andrews
Christopher Plummer
Eleanor Parker
Robert Wise
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Drama, Family, Musical
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man... [show more]
Topol
Norma Crane
Leonard Frey
Norman Jewison
Kes (1969)
Drama, Family
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (David Bradley), a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher Mr. Farthing (Colin Welland)... [show more]
David Bradley
Brian Glover
Freddie Fletcher
Ken Loach
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is having a tough time with his relatives (yet again). He runs away after using magic to inflate Uncle Vernon's (Richard Griffiths') sister Marge (Pam Ferris), who was being offensive towards Harry's parents. Initially scared for using magic outside the school, he is... [show more]
Daniel Radcliffe
Emma Watson
Rupert Grint
Alfonso Cuarón
Family, Fantasy, Musical
The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as... [show more]
Gene Wilder
Jack Albertson
Peter Ostrum
Mel Stuart
Whale Rider (2002)
Drama, Family
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male,... [show more]
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Rawiri Paratene
Vicky Haughton
Niki Caro
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
While living the quiet life in a swamp, Kermit the Frog is approached by a Hollywood agent to audition for the chance of a lifetime. So Kermit takes this chance for his big break as he makes the journey to Hollywood. Along the way, Kermit comes across several quirky new friends including comedic... [show more]
Jim Henson
Frank Oz
Jerry Nelson
James Frawley
Action, Adventure, Drama
The continuing quest of Frodo and the Fellowship to destroy the One Ring. Frodo and Sam discover they are being followed by the mysterious Gollum. Aragorn, the Elf archer Legolas, and Gimli the Dwarf encounter the besieged Rohan kingdom, whose once great King Theoden has fallen under Saruman's... [show more]
Elijah Wood
Ian McKellen
Viggo Mortensen
Peter Jackson
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side... [show more]
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
Irvin Kershner
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children... [show more]
Henry Thomas
Drew Barrymore
Peter Coyote
Steven Spielberg
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
This is the story of a young witch, named Kiki who is now 13 years old. But she is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a talking cat named Jiji by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly... [show more]
Kirsten Dunst
Minami Takayama
Rei Sakuma
Hayao Miyazaki
Field of Dreams (1989)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the... [show more]
Kevin Costner
James Earl Jones
Ray Liotta
Phil Alden Robinson
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Comedy, Drama, Family
Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard girl pitching ace Amanda Whurlizer, the daughter of a... [show more]
Walter Matthau
Tatum O'Neal
Vic Morrow
Michael Ritchie
Savannah Smiles (1982)
Comedy, Family
The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not-so-bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures to her. A surprising bond of love and redirection forms among the trio as the police close down on the supposed kidnappers.
Mark Miller
Donovan Scott
Bridgette Andersen
Pierre De Moro
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The Imperial Forces, under orders from cruel Darth Vader, hold Princess Leia hostage in their efforts to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon, work together with the companionable droid duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the... [show more]
Mark Hamill
Harrison Ford
Carrie Fisher
George Lucas
Back to the Future (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and... [show more]
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Robert Zemeckis
Action, Adventure
The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Karen Allen
Paul Freeman
Steven Spielberg
Toy Story (1995)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A little boy named Andy loves to be in his room, playing with his toys, especially his doll named "Woody". But, what do the toys do when Andy is not with them, they come to life. Woody believes that his life (as a toy) is good. However, he must worry about Andy's family moving, and what Woody does... [show more]
Tom Hanks
Tim Allen
Don Rickles
John Lasseter
Finding Neverland (2004)
Biography, Drama, Family
1903 London. Renowned playwright J.M. Barrie (James)'s latest effort has garnered less than positive reviews, something he knew would be the case even before the play's mounting. This failure places pressure on James to write another play quickly as impresario Charles Frohman needs another to... [show more]
Johnny Depp
Kate Winslet
Julie Christie
Marc Forster
The Black Stallion (1979)
Adventure, Family, Sport
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a desert island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued,... [show more]
Kelly Reno
Mickey Rooney
Teri Garr
Carroll Ballard
Duma (2005)
Adventure, Drama, Family
During a nightly Porsche ride with his doting rascal Xan, white South African farmer Peter finds and adopts an orphaned cheetah cub, dubbed Duma (just Swahili for cheetah). It becomes the boy's inseparable playmate, even taking it to bed. Peter made clear from the start that the cheetah should be... [show more]
Alex Michaeletos
Campbell Scott
Hope Davis
Carroll Ballard
Action, Adventure, Drama
An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist of fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it.... [show more]
Elijah Wood
Ian McKellen
Orlando Bloom
Peter Jackson
The Goonies (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Mikey and his friends have always wanted to go on an adventure. One night they are all in Mikey's attic and Mikey stumbles across an old map. Mikey has always wanted to know if One-eyed Willy ever was a real person and now he might. They set off and later realize that they have to go through the... [show more]
Sean Astin
Josh Brolin
Jeff Cohen
Richard Donner
Oliver! (1968)
Drama, Family, Musical
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
Mark Lester
Ron Moody
Shani Wallis
Carol Reed
The Karate Kid (1984)
Action, Drama, Family
Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California. She has a wonderful new job, but Daniel quickly discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights, but he is finally cornered by several... [show more]
Ralph Macchio
Pat Morita
Elisabeth Shue
John G. Avildsen
Action, Adventure, Drama
The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth. Frodo and Sam reach Mordor in their quest to destroy the One Ring, while Aragorn leads the forces of good against Sauron's evil army at the stone city of Minas Tirith.
Elijah Wood
Viggo Mortensen
Ian McKellen
Peter Jackson
The Lion King (1994)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince grows up beyond the Savannah, living by a philosophy: No worries for the rest of your days. But when his past comes to haunt him, the young prince must... [show more]
Matthew Broderick
Jeremy Irons
James Earl Jones
Roger Allers
Rob Minkoff
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Animation, Action, Adventure
While protecting his village from rampaging boar-god/demon, a confident young warrior, Ashitaka, is stricken by a deadly curse. To save his life, he must journey to the forests of the west. Once there, he's embroiled in a fierce campaign that humans were waging on the forest. The ambitious Lady... [show more]
Yôji Matsuda
Yuriko Ishida
Yûko Tanaka
Hayao Miyazaki
Up (2009)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
As a boy, Carl Fredricksen wanted to explore South America and find the forbidden Paradise Falls. About 64 years later he gets to begin his journey along with Boy Scout Russell by lifting his house with thousands of balloons. On their journey, they make many new friends including a talking dog, and... [show more]
Edward Asner
Jordan Nagai
John Ratzenberger
Pete Docter
Bob Peterson
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Woody, Buzz and the whole gang are back. As their owner Andy prepares to depart for college, his loyal toys find themselves in daycare where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it's all for one and one for all as they join Barbie's counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog... [show more]
Tom Hanks
Tim Allen
Joan Cusack
Lee Unkrich
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Animation, Action, Adventure
Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup... [show more]
Jay Baruchel
Gerard Butler
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Dean DeBlois
Chris Sanders
Coraline (2009)
Animation, Drama, Family
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true.... [show more]
Dakota Fanning
Teri Hatcher
John Hodgman
Henry Selick
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes') power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint), and Hermione (Emma Watson) decide to finish Dumbledore's (Sir Michael Gambon's) work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark... [show more]
Daniel Radcliffe
Emma Watson
Rupert Grint
David Yates
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Harry's (Daniel Radcliffe's) fourth year at Hogwarts is about to start and he is enjoying the summer vacation with his friends. They get the tickets to The Quidditch World Cup Final, but after the match is over, people dressed like Lord Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes') "Death Eaters" set a fire to all... [show more]
Daniel Radcliffe
Emma Watson
Rupert Grint
Mike Newell