
Parent-Child Family movies
Family stories focused on parent-child bonds: care, responsibility, trust, generational tension, and repair.

11. The Lego Batman Movie
Animation Action Comedy Family Family Animation2017•1h 44min
Australia, Denmark
Director: Chris McKay
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A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.
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12. A Monster Calls
Fantasy Adventure Family Supernatural Fantasy Parent-Child Family2016•1h 48min
Spain, United States
Director: J. A. Bayona
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12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.
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13. Minions: The Rise of Gru
Family Comedy Adventure Animation Science Fiction2022•1h 27min
United States
Director: Kyle Balda
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A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.
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14. Stand by Me Doraemon
Animation Adventure Science Fiction Drama Family2014•1h 34min
Japan
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
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Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the present.
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15. Despicable Me 2
Animation Comedy Family Family Animation Parody2013•1h 38min
United States
Director: Pierre Coffin
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Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.
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16. Hugo
Adventure Drama Family City Adventure Family Drama2011•2h 6min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
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17. Despicable Me
Family Comedy Animation Science Fiction Family Animation2010•1h 35min
United States
Director: Pierre Coffin
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Villainous Gru lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy when he hatches a plan to steal the moon from the sky. But he has a tough time staying on task after three orphans land in his care.
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18. Storks
Adventure Animation Comedy Family Family Animation2016•1h 27min
United States
Director: Doug Sweetland
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Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl...
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19. Ballerina
Animation Adventure Comedy Family Family Animation2016•1h 29min
Canada, France
Director: Eric Summer
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In 1879 Paris, a young orphan dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
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20. The Croods
Animation Adventure Family Comedy Family Animation2013•1h 39min
United States
Director: Kirk DeMicco
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The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk, and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night. When a more evolved caveman named Guy arrives on the scene, Grug is distrustful, but it soon becomes apparent that Guy is correct about the impending destruction of their world.