Top Family Movies


The Top Family Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Family List". Lists are calculated daily.

141. Letters to God

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Nixon, Patrick Doughtie
Actors: Robyn Lively, Jeffrey Johnson, Maree Cheatham, Tanner Maguire
Plot: A young boy with cancer writes to God as a friend helping him cope with his journey. A post man with his own troubled life finds hope and comfort in these letters. In the end, the letters will impact more than just one man, as family, friends and a community finds their own faith renewed.

142. Escape to Witch Mountain

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Hough
Actors: Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards
Plot: Tia and Tony are two orphans possessing amazing abilities. Millionaire Aristotle Bolt seeks to exploit their powers, but they meet up with a cynical widower who reluctantly agrees to take them to Witch Mountain.

143. The BFG

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Mark Rylance, Rebecca Hall, Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement
Plot: A young girl, Sophie, encounters a BFG (Big Friendly Giant) who, despite his appearance, is a gentle, kind soul. She finds out he has been outcast because, unlike his peers, won't eat little boys and girls. The two set out on an adventure to make sure the aggressive giants leave the human world alone.

144. Hachi-ko ( Hachikô monogatari )

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Seijirô Kôyama
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Toshinori Omi, Toshirô Yanagiba
Plot: A film starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mako Ishino and Masumi Harukawa. It tells the real story of a loyal Akita Dog named Hachikō and his master Professor Ueno.

145. The Lion King 1 1/2

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bradley Raymond
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin
Plot: The story of The Lion King is retold through the eyes of the meerkat Timon and his warthog friend Pumbaa, along with what happened before they met Simba.

146. My Dog Skip

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jay Russell
Actors: Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Kevin Bacon
Plot: A shy boy finds a way to grow out of his shell in 1940s Mississippi when he is given a terrier puppy he names Skip, and the dog becomes much beloved in the community and opens up a new world for him.

147. I Remember Mama

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Philip Dorn, Rudy Vallee

148. Treasure Island

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald
Plot: Young Jim Hawkins searches for "pieces of eight" along with wily, one-legged pirate of all pirates Long John Silver

149. Little Men

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ira Sachs
Actors: Jennifer Ehle, Alfred Molina, Greg Kinnear, Talia Balsam

150. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ken Hughes
Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe
Plot: An eccentric professor with a knack for building weird and wonderful machinery can't seem to be able to catch a break. Things change when he build a revolutionary car, but a foreign government uses underhanded techniques to have the design for themselves.

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