A Movie List Designed Just for Your Next Family Night, Movies that Everyone can Agree on!

Watching movies with your famly can be a complicated process, especially when everyone needs to agree on one out of a million things to watch. This list is designed just for that. And family movies aren’t all drama based movies either! some are action based (see #11 on this list), and some are inspired by true stories (see #15). No need to fight over what to watch anymore, nominate any top choices from this list and you’ll soon be sitting back and enjoying the credits roll. Enjoy!

1

Like Stars on Earth

Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra
Aamir Khan
2007

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

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8.4 IMDB
2

Coco

Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt
Lee Unkrich
2017

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

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8.4 IMDB
3

Children of Heaven

Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi
Majid Majidi
1997

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits...

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8.3 IMDB
4

My Father and My Son

Çetin Tekindor, Fikret Kuşkan, Binnur Kaya
Çağan Irmak
2005

A left-wing journalist whose wife died while giving birth to his son during a military coup returns to his family's farm. Estranged from his father for turning his back on the family farm and wasting his life with political activism instead, he tries to reconnect with him so that his son will have a place to live as his health is deteriorating due to the extensive torture he had to endure.

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8.3 IMDB
5

Inside Out

Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind
Pete Docter
2015

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.

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8.2 IMDB
6

The Colour of Paradise

Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi
Majid Majidi
1999

The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammed over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Mohammed's father eventually takes him home.

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8.2 IMDB
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Big Fish

Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Tim Burton
2003

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

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8 IMDB
8

Lion

Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel, Rooney Mara
Garth Davis
2016

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

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8 IMDB
9

Wonder

Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, Julia Roberts
Stephen Chbosky
2017

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

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8 IMDB
10

My Grandfather's People

Çetin Tekindor, Yiğit Özşener, Gökçe Bahadır
Çağan Irmak
2011

A feature film that tells the story of the director's grandfather who was forced to leave Crete in the 1920s during the Greek-Turkish population exchange.

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8 IMDB
11

The Incredibles

Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson
Brad Bird
2004

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.

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8 IMDB
12

Little Women

Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson
Greta Gerwig
2019

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

7.9 IMDB
13

The Song of Sparrows

Mohammad Amir Naji, Hamid Aghazi, Kamran Dehghan
Majid Majidi
2008

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.

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7.9 IMDB
14

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler
Dean DeBlois
2014

The thrilling second chapter of the epic How To Train Your Dragon trilogy brings back the fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless five years later. While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island's new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.

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7.8 IMDB
15

The Blind Side

Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw
John Lee Hancock
2009

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

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7.6 IMDB
16

The Farewell

Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin
Lulu Wang
2019

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

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7.6 IMDB
17

Hugo

Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley
Martin Scorsese
2011

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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7.5 IMDB
18

Secondhand Lions

Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment
Tim McCanlies
2003

"Secondhand Lions" follows 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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7.5 IMDB
19

Frozen

Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
2013

Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.

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7.5 IMDB
20

My Sister's Keeper

Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Abigail Breslin
Nick Cassavetes
2009

Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.

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7.4 IMDB
21

The Descendants

George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller
Alexander Payne
2011

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

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7.3 IMDB
22

Mirai

Moka Kamishiraishi, Haru Kuroki, Gen Hoshino
Mamoru Hosoda
2018

The movie follows a 4-year old boy who is struggling to cope with the arrival of a little sister in the family until things turn magical. A mysterious garden in the backyard of the boy's home becomes a gateway allowing the child to travel back in time and encounter his mother as a little girl and his great-grandfather as a young man. These fantasy-filled adventures allow the child to change his perspective and help him become the big brother he was meant to be.

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7 IMDB
23

The Lion King

Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Oliver, James Earl Jones
Jon Favreau
2019

Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.

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6.9 IMDB
24

Crazy Rich Asians

Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh
Jon M. Chu
2018

An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.

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6.9 IMDB