Favorite movies for kids

Seven Beauties

The Exorcist

Across 110th Street

Experiment in Terror

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

101 Dalmatians

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Rescuers featuring Geraldine Page as Madame Medusa. I was watching Sweet Bird of Youth the other day and realized how much the animators lifted from her performance there, especially the scene where she rips off her eyelashes.

Se7en Rosemary's Baby Alien

The Moon Spinners with Hayley Mills. Perfect travelogue adventure story. The part where she's hanging on the windmill's sails! And Pola Negri with her pet leopard. I remember making my parents special order it for me from Blockbuster.

The Muppet films, especially the Great Muppet Caper and Muppets Take Manhattan

Charlotte's Web

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

R6 missed the thread’s point

Blackbeard’s Ghost The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

I loved the anarchic energy of Pippi Longstocking. She thumbed her nose at every convention, especially school, which I hated, and ran her home independently, efficiently, and insanely. Plus, her pets included a househorse and a monkey.

The 1969 movie was cobbled together from episodes of the Swedish TV series, but I saw it in the theater.

I also recall laughing out loud while reading the books by Astrid Lindgren.

Another nod for Parent Trap and Swiss Family Robinson.

Is the the Ghost and Mr. Chicken streaming?

R7, what is your issue with r6?

r9 Efficiently? She threw her dishes away after using them! I remember in the 90s stumbling on a website claiming Pippi is the antichrist. I got scared my parents were going to ban me from watching it.

Wild Strawberries

R12, and those dishes were DONE!

She had a stash of gold coins, so replacement cost was never an issue.

Emperor's New Groove

A favorite movie when I was a kid was definitely The Parent Trap (original). Also The Ugly Dachshund, and The Gnome Mobile. Three Lives of Thomasina, and The Sword in the Stone.

Also the Hans Christian Anderson movie with Danny Kaye.

I loved this Russian The Snow Queen. Especially Gerda being voiced by Miss Sandra Dee.

CBS ran The Wizard of Oz every spring. My parents couldn’t have imagined how lucky they were to have had me before VCRs came around.

I would have been watching it daily.

I'm always amazed when parents tell me their kids watch some movie like TWOO every day.

r7 No, you did.

The Tom and Jerry movie from 1992, if only for this scene with Charlotte Rae as the villainous Pristine Figg and her sidekick Lickboot.

r19 Wow, that truly sounds "amazing."

R22 If you're my age, when you were a kid and had to wait one year to see a film like The Wizard of Oz, then someone says their kid watches it every day...I don't have kids or even neices and nephews, so I just forget that kids can and do watch their favorite movies on a daily basis. I guess I shouldn't have commented.

Fantasia, Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Signin’ in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, and Hans Christian Andersen (I loved the wind up doll scene).

Also almost any Hammer horror and classic Universal monster film.

R11 duh. The joke is about adult movies that kids can see (…used to see). But then parent panic became the norm.

Mt dad took us to see Cleopatra Jobes—we loved it. I was 10 years old.

Jones*

Where in the World Is Dawson’s 50 Load Weekend?

I was repelled/fascinated by Pippi Longstocking, especially the ridiculous special effects when she would lift up a horse or something. Still, I watched it every time.

And my inner gayling Rex Reed would come into play when the theme song came on: "I am Pippi Longstocking/If you say it fast, it's fun-ny ... "

"No, it's not," I'd think. "It's really not."

I loved the Sinbad movies too.

The Bad News Bears movies from the 70s were made specifically for kids, and featured kids drinking, smoking, cursing. They were great.

What about Favorite Movies for Gaylings? For me , it was any movie where some cute guy took off his short a lot.

Bad news for you!

The 400 Blows

Wait til next year!

The Cat From Outer Space!!!!!!!!

That was funny and fantastic.

The Herbie movies. Plus some of the ones mentioned.

R25, your “duh” response makes even less sense than the one you made at r7.

Why single out r6 for making an earnest response that did, in fact, follow the OP’s example of The Parent Trap, when earlier posters r3 and r5 also followed the example with children’s films?

Your own facile and unfunny r1 listing Lina Wertmüller, Hollywood horror, and blaxploitation films is quite obviously an attempt to subvert the thread with adult fare. We get it. Did you expect everyone else to follow your lead, and now you are complaining because not enough posters are digging an already stale, cynical joke an even deeper grave?

I would’ve loved Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold had I seen it as a child, though.

To me they all movies were for kids, if I found them accessible and they didn't have too much man-woman lovey-dovey stuff.

The Wizard of Oz

Black Orpheus

Jason and the Argonauts

Dracula (1931)

The Wolfman (1941)

Hold That Ghost (and i loathed Lou Costello, but...)

Snow White (Disney)

Swiss Family Robinson (crush on James MacArthur from 6 on)

Rear Window

Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

R36 not facile in the least. I saw all three movies with my parents. Don’t impose your repressed childhood on the rest of us. I also saw and loved Bad News Bears— that scene was filmed near Chatsworth.—I posted the final scene. Do you know where that is? The 70s were a great time to grow up…we weren’t so bitter as you.

The Secret of NIMH

Just so you know—Casino of Gold sucked eggs

Return to Oz, flopped because it apparently was too scary for kids, but 6 year old me loved it. It was clever how they had real life counterparts for the characters she encountered in Oz, like the shock treatment machine became Tik Tok in Oz.

Looking for Mr Goodbar

I must confess I like to watch both "Cheaper by the Dozen" films with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt.

Plus you had Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo and eye candy consisting in Tom Welling, Jared Padalecki (only in the 1st movie). And, on part 2: Robbie Amell, Shawn Roberts, Taylor Lautner and Jonathan Bennett.

Since I can't stand Ashton Kutcher, I always rooted for the little brats when they were pulling off heavy pranks on him, cause he was such a douche.

R42 The wheelies and that headless princess scared me and my favorite movie was The Shining. Always wanted a lunchbucket from thtrees in that movie.

Little Darlings is another totally inappropriate for kids kids movie, as is Rock and Roll High School as a teen movie (although Dee Dee playing bass in my shower would've been a welcome sight any day).

We loved all those Disney pictures in the 60s with Dean Jones.

The World of Henry Orient

One of the best kids movies ever made because it was also a movie adults loved. Worked for everyone of every age (well, maybe except those below 8).

R44 sad. Very. Very sad.

The original, quality, version was shown on the Million Dollar Movie, the 3:30 Movie, the Late Night Movies…over and over ..long before TCM.

r36 is correct. r25 You are a moron.

You made up your own version, not at all what the OP asked. Learn to read while you're taking your little break.

Why are you so sensitive? Threads meander. YMMV

I have watched the parent trap (with Haley Mills) my whole life. When I was a kid, I had to wait for it to come on TV. My mom and I used to watch it together. Now I watch it (at least part of it) probably twice a month. There's something about it I just love. I remember asking my mom how come they didn't notice that the twins (one from Carmel CA and the other from Boston MA) had a British accent. She said they all loved her so much they didn't care. Others are Imitation of life, Magnificent Obsession, Madam X, Auntie Mame, Glass bottomed boat, Riverboat, The guns of Navarone, LaLa Land, The greatest show on earth, so many.....

But OP specifically states "movies for kids."

Lots of parents took their kids to see different movies.

The Absent-minded Professor

The Love Bug

The Parent Trap

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Escape to Witch Mountain

Freaky Friday

r53 No shit, Sherlock

So that means lots of different movies are for kids, no? Why the hostility? Can a kid not contemplate and enjoy The Exorcist and The Parent Trap?

Isn’t one of the themes of the Exorcist that a parent is literally trapped trying to help her child? A smart kid gets that…

r56 Give it up, sweetheart. You appear foolish.

Flubber!

I never liked kids movies. Nobody monitored what I watched so I liked Mannequin and this really depressing movie called Made in Heaven when I was a kid

Kids can certainly enjoy all kinds of movies, but some of them were not made for kids to enjoy. Exorcist was not created as a "movie for kids". I grew up watching all kinds of adult movies on "The 4:30 Movie" and "Million Dollar Movie". As others mentioned, I waited with anticipation to see my favorites again, once a year. Many of these "movies for kids" were never programmed via those broadcasts. The 4:30 Movie had a lot of commercials and longer movies were two day events. Also my mom and dad had low tolerance if dinner was being served before 6 pm and I was glued to "Some Like it Hot" and resisted the call to the dinner table. I think the Parent Trap was programmed on the 4:30 Movie. Wizard of Oz of course never was. That was a cash cow for another Network.

Around the World in 80 Days

Mr. Bug Goes to Town aka Hoppity Goes to Town

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Mysterious Island

King Kong vs. Godzilla

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

An American Tale

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

Silent Movie

Anything with Lon Chaney.

“Mourning Becomes Electra”

Oliver!

Annie (1982)

Annie (Disney)

Annie (2014)

Melody Time is exquisite animation.

Anythign by set designer john Box

Bumble Boogie from Melody Time

Bambi

Mary Poppins

The Devil in Miss Jones

Treasure Island

My favorite from Melody Time - Blame it on the Samba

Disney did trippy *so* well.

Brave Little Toaster (1987). I watched it recently and it still holds up. Good songs and voice acting.

Tobey Tyler

Old Yeller

Pollyanna

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (pretty fucking scary Disney movie -- if you're 7 -- with Patrick McGoohan).

Anything that I used to see on the Wonderful World of Color (which most of us watched in black and white).

Candleshoe with Jodie Foster was another good one from Disney.

Katy the caterpillar The Fantastic Adventures of Unico Journey Back to OZ Raggady Ann and Andy a Musical adventure The Mouse and His Child Child of Glass Summer Magic Pollyanna Tubby the Tuba, with Dick van dyke and Pearl Bailey, Hermione Gingold voicing.

oh sweetie thats quite a movie title.

I know r78, I am embarrassed myself, if only I could have deleted or edited my incompetence.

"Summer Magic Pollyanna Tubby" might be an interesting movie.

"Andy a Musical Adventure" - 1970s teen flick, a bit too sexualised.

The "Stuart Little" films.

I'm actually surprised that Sony Pictures hasn't done any reboot of the franchise in all these years.

R73 I came across the Brave Little Toaster movie on cable when I was in my 20s and high as fuck. I thought I imagined the whole thing until I was at my sister’s house and my little nephews were watching it. What a relief. It was good.

One I had completely forgotten about for decades and has recently popped up in my mind is "The Boy who could fly" from 1986. Such a sweet movie, and I was so obsessed with it as an 80s frau-ling. It was about an autistic mute teen guy and his relationship with his new neighbor, a girl who's dad was terminally ill and had just killed himself. It was pretty dark for a movie directed at kids/preteens (no way would it be done now) but it was really sweet and had some great lessons

The Wizard of Oz

The Sound of Music

The Ten Commandments

007 films

Von Ryan's Express

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Bugsy Malone

Hand in Hand

There was some movie about a kid wandering around, that was on TV once in a while when I was a kid. It was made in the 50s.

(I'll look it up.)

Little Fugitive (1953). A kid thinks he killed his brother, and runs away. "The film was filmed on location at Coney Island and in Brooklyn using a unique concealed strap-on camera, which made it possible for Engel to work without a tripod or a large crew and allowed him to have thousands of beach-going New Yorkers as extras without their knowing it."

Considered a precursor to the French New Wave.

I loved anything on Saturday afternoon "Chiller" but the one that made an impression was the 1953 Invaders from Mars. The weird color saturation, the forced perspectives, and the paranoia that a little boy feels when everyone around him changes scared me to death but didn't stop me from watching.

And the Martian leader head in the crystal ball was very Wizard of Oz.

"The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T." about a boy who dreams himself into a fantasy world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher enslaving children to practice piano forever.

Caught this really bad movie on some lazy saturday afternoon when i was seven, but it was a technicolor musical and since i had a cunt of a piano teacher myself it struck a chord.

Disney’s Dexter Riley series with cute young Kurt Russell as Dexter and Cesar Romero as the evil millionaire with nefarious plans for Dexter.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

The Strongest Man in the World

R90 It's based on Dr Suess designs.

Depends on the age. I loved 101 Dalmatians when I was 6. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman and the giant bug movies were more my speed when Iwas 8. By the time I was 10, Mary Poppins was too juvenile for me.

Ahhh how could I forget about Willy Wonka? I still watch it as an adult.

I've never seen Willy Wonka.