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

31. Secondhand Lions
Family Comedy Parent-Child Family Awkward Comedy2003•1h 51min
United States
Director: Tim McCanlies
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The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
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32. Toy Story 2
Animation Comedy Family Family Animation Parent-Child Family1999•1h 32min
United States
Director: John Lasseter
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Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.
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33. Ramona and Beezus
Comedy Family Parent-Child Family2010•1h 43min
United States
Director: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
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Ramona is a little girl with a very big imagination and a nose for mischief. Her playful antics keep everyone in her loving family on their toes, including her older sister Beezus, who's just trying to survive her first year of high school. Through all the ups and downs of childhood, Ramona and Beezus learn that anything's possible when you believe in yourself and rely on each other.
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34. Meet the Robinsons
Animation Comedy Family Family Animation Parent-Child Family2007•1h 35min
United States
Director: Stephen J. Anderson
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Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.
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35. Mulan
Animation Family Adventure Family Animation Parent-Child Family1998•1h 28min
United States
Director: Tony Bancroft
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To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
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36. Monster House
Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Family Animation2006•1h 31min
United States
Director: Gil Kenan
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Three tech-obsessed teens treat Halloween like a game, until a cranky neighbor’s decrepit house turns into a living, breathing monster that targets them, trapping their gadgets, their friends, and their courage inside its walls.
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37. Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
Drama Family Family Drama Parent-Child Family2005•1h 46min
United States
Director: John Gatins
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Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.
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38. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Adventure Epic2005•1h 55min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Tim Burton
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A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
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39. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Adventure Comedy Family City Adventure Dark Comedy2004•1h 48min
United States
Director: Brad Silberling
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Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
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40. Millions
Comedy Crime Drama Family Dark Comedy2004•1h 38min
United Kingdom
Director: Danny Boyle
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Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?