Family Movies
The Sun Comes Up

The Sun Comes Up

The Sun Comes Up
IMDb: 6.4
93

Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy…

Odor of the Day

Odor of the Day

Odor of the Day
IMDb: 6.7
7

On a cold winter’s day, a stray dog is looking for shelter, then finds and sneaks into a cabin with an open fireplace and a cozy bed. But he has…

Melody Time

Melody Time

Melody Time
IMDb: 6.1
75

In the grand tradition of Disney’s great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters. You’ll be sure to tap your toes…

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama
IMDb: 7.8
134

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family…

Genre: Drama, Family
Green Grass of Wyoming

Green Grass of Wyoming

Green Grass of Wyoming
IMDb: 6
89

The romance of a rancher’s niece and a rival rancher’s son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.

Genre: Drama, Family, Western
The Cat That Hated People

The Cat That Hated People

The Cat That Hated People
IMDb: 7.2
7

A much-abused cat really hates living with people, so decides to go to the moon for some peace and quiet.

The Boy with Green Hair

The Boy with Green Hair

The Boy with Green Hair
IMDb: 6.7
82

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Rescue Dog

Rescue Dog

Rescue Dog
IMDb: 6.5
7

The snow covered mountains; but not to worry, rescue dog Pluto is on duty. Actually, given that he barely keeps himself safe, maybe you should worry. A playful seal keeps…

Life with Father

Life with Father

Life with Father
IMDb: 7.1
118

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Fun and Fancy Free

Fun and Fancy Free

Fun and Fancy Free
IMDb: 6.3
73

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.

Driftwood

Driftwood

Driftwood
IMDb: 7.1
88

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

Genre: Drama, Family
Bush Christmas

Bush Christmas

Bush Christmas
IMDb: 6.1
77

In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.

Banjo

Banjo

Banjo
IMDb: 5.8
68

Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when she’s sent to live with her aunt in Boston.

Genre: Drama, Family
The Yearling

The Yearling

The Yearling
IMDb: 7.2
128

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?

Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Song of the South

Song of the South

Song of the South
IMDb: 6.9
94

Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br’er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents’ separation as well as his new life on the plantation.

Genre: Animation, Family
Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf
IMDb: 7.7
15

Disney’s animated adaptation of Prokofiev’s masterpiece, in which every character is represented musically by a different instrument. Young Peter decides to go hunting for the wolf that’s been prowling around…

Genre: Animation, Family
Make Mine Music

Make Mine Music

Make Mine Music
IMDb: 6.1
75

In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as “Peter and the Wolf”, narrated by the beloved…

It’s a Wonderful Life

It’s a Wonderful Life

It’s a Wonderful Life
IMDb: 8.6
131

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George’s modest…

Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
The Hick Chick

The Hick Chick

The Hick Chick
IMDb: 6.7
7

In this triangle drama a country chicken chooses between a country rooster and a city rooster.

Black Beauty

Black Beauty

Black Beauty
IMDb: 5.8
74

Based on Anna Sewell’s novel. In rural England of the 1880’s, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their…

Genre: Drama, Family
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka

Thunderhead: Son of Flicka

Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
IMDb: 6.3
78

A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.

The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros

The Three Caballeros
IMDb: 6.3
71

For Donald’s birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico…

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia
IMDb: 7.1
90

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been ‘stolen’ by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father’s…

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
IMDb: 7.6
105

Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and Arnold, who learn about their world…

Genre: Drama, Family
The Friendly Ghost

The Friendly Ghost

The Friendly Ghost
IMDb: 6.6
9

Casper struggles to find friends who won’t run away scared when they meet him.

The Children

The Children

The Children
IMDb: 6.4
102

Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.

Genre: Drama, Family
National Velvet

National Velvet

National Velvet
IMDb: 7.3
123

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses…

Genre: Drama, Family
My Pal, Wolf

My Pal, Wolf

My Pal, Wolf
IMDb: 6.4
75

A lonely child, neglected by her parents, encounters and befriends a German Shepherd, but she’s unaware the animal is a military dog being trained for service in WW2.

Genre: Family
Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis
IMDb: 7.5
114

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

The Punch Bowl

The Punch Bowl

The Punch Bowl
IMDb: 7.7
97

Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was…

Genre: Comedy, Family
Broadway Rhythm

Broadway Rhythm

Broadway Rhythm
IMDb: 5.9
115

Broadway producer Johnny Demming is only interested in big-name talent and scoffs that his sister, father and other small-time talent could be used in a successful show.

Batty Baseball

Batty Baseball

Batty Baseball
IMDb: 6.9
6

A series of visual gags about baseball. One running gag has an angry fan screaming “Kill the ump!” Be careful what you wish for…..

Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble

Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble

Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble
IMDb: 6.5
107

Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees…

What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard?

What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard?

What’s Buzzin’ Buzzard?
IMDb: 7.2
8

Two buzzards suffer from acute food shortage and make up for it by cooking each other, or at least trying to.

The Underground World

The Underground World

The Underground World
IMDb: 6.6
8

Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “At the Earth’s Core”.

Secret Agent

Secret Agent

Secret Agent
IMDb: 6.4
8

A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives.

The Mummy Strikes

The Mummy Strikes

The Mummy Strikes
IMDb: 6.4
8

Egyptologists are attacked by mummies, drawing the attention of Superman.

My Friend Flicka

My Friend Flicka

My Friend Flicka
IMDb: 6.5
89

Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When Ken returns home from school with failing grades, his father, Rob, blames the…

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home
IMDb: 7.1
88

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from…

Jungle Drums

Jungle Drums

Jungle Drums
IMDb: 6.2
8

Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.