Family films
-
AnimatedThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Animated / Family 2026 / 97 minutes Rating: 6/10 What they say about sequels never being as good as the original bears out here. Plumbers…
-
AnimatedUp
Family 2009 / 96 min Rating: 9/10 Boy meets girl, they fall in love, get married, make plans for an adventurous trip, life gets in…
-
AnimatedWall-E
Animated / Dystopian / Family 2008 / 98 min Rating: 9/10 Wall-E is a small robot with a big job – he has to tidy…
-
AnimatedFinding Nemo
Animated / Family 2003 / 100 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is an ocean-crossing epic, with a father willing to travel to the ends of the…
-
FamilySnuf de Hond in Oorlogstijd (Sniff the Dog in Wartime)
Drama / Family 2008 / 95 minutes RATING: 8/10 If you came to this review as a huge fan of the Piet Prins’ Scout series,…
-
Movie lists300 movies Christians can love
Great minds think alike, and the same month I was first compiling this article two of those great minds belonged to a missionary in Brazil…
-
AnimatedChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Animated 2023 / 101 minutes RATING: 8/10 Twenty-three years ago, Rocky and Ginger were trying to break out – they had to get off their…
-
FamilyThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Family / Drama 2005 / 125 minutes Rating: 8/10 For those who have not read the C.S. Lewis book of the same name, this takes…
-
DramaLord Jeff
Drama / Black & White / Family 1938 / 85 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a fantastic film… and a hard sell for any modern…
-
AnimatedThe Fox and the Hound
Family 1981 / 83 minutes Rating: 8/10 This one begins with an emotional punch to the gut – we watch a fox mother, holding her…
-
FamilyLassie come home
Drama 1943 / 89 minuytes RATING: 8/10 No boy has ever had a more loyal and loving dog than young Joe Carraclough – each day…
-
AnimatedThe Corrie ten Boom Story
Animated / Biography / Drama 2013 / 34 minutes Rating: 7/10 What’s an appropriate age to expose our children to the truth about Nazis, concentration…
-
FamilyTwelve
Family / Sports 2019 / 92 minutes RATING: 7/10 Kyle Cooke is an 11-year-old baseball prodigy who’s always the best kid on the field. When…
-
FamilyA century of cinema for your family
While most other art forms have been around for centuries and millennia, “motion pictures” have only existed for just over a century. Back in March…
-
FamilySwitched
Comedy / Family 2020 / 104 minutes Rating: 6/10 In this Christian spin on Freaky Friday, Cassandra Evans is the brilliant nerdy girl who gets…
-
DramaGrace Unplugged
Drama 2013 / 102 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is a story about two prodigals. The first, Johnny Trey, was a one-hit wonder pop star who…
-
FamilyMy friend Flicka
Family 1943 / 89 minutes Rating: 7/10 All Ken wants is a colt of his own, and seeing as his dad raises horses, that doesn’t…
-
Movie listsTop 10 films on PureFlix right now
Pureflix is a per-month subscription streaming service that provides Christian content on both sides of the US/Canadian border. While much of its content is mediocre,…
-
FamilyBack of the Net
Sports / Family 2019 / 86 minutes Rating: 7/10 Cory Bailey is an American teen science nerd whose next stop is a semester-long trip on…
-
FamilyThe Legend of 5 Mile Cave
Western / Family 2019 / 90 minutes RATING: 7/10 The Legend of 5 Mile Cave begins with a bang, a fleeing cowboy being shot right…
-
AnimatedLong Way North
Animated / Family 81 minutes / 2015 RATING: 7/10 It’s the 1880s, the North Pole has yet to be reached, and a Russian explorer dreams…
-
FamilyThe 3 worlds of Gulliver
Family / Children’s 1960 / 99 minutes Rating: 7/10 The film manages one upgrade on the book. In the original Gulliver’s Travels, Dr. Lemuel Gulliver is all…
-
FamilyThe Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
Family / Drama 91 minutes / 2007 Rating: 7/10 The Three Investigators started as a book series that ran from 1964-1987 and included more than…
-
AnimatedJungle Beat – fun for the kids that will have the adults laughing too
Family / Animated 750+ min RATING: 10/10 I’m always on the hunt for films or shows my kids will enjoy that I’ll enjoy too. There…
-
FamilyThe Red Balloon
Family / Foreign 1956 / 34 minutes RATING: 7/10 This Oscar-winning short film tells the story of a boy and the bright red balloon that…
-
FamilyThe Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Family / Romance 113 minutes / 1968 Rating: 7/10 Horses, humor, and a little romance will make this one a favorite among the preteen girls…
-
DramaA Royal Christmas
Drama / Romance 87 minutes / 2014 RATING: 7/10 How would you react if you found out that the wonderful, thoughtful, fun, quiet someone you…
-
FamilyThe Jensen Project
Family 95 minutes / 2010 Rating: 8/10 Claire and Matt Thomspon seem like a couple of average parents, who, along with their 15-year-old son are…
-
DocumentaryLife’s Story 2: the reason for the journey
Documentary 2006 / 107 minutes Rating: 6/10 This is the sequel to Life Story: the one that hasn’t be told, and once again there’s loads of…
-
DocumentaryIncredible Creatures That Define Design
Documentary 62 min / 2011 Rating: 7/10 The folks who brought us the 3-film series Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution are back, and with a fun…
-
AnimatedCurious George
Animated / Family 86 min / 2006 Rating: 8/10 George is a monkey whose curiosity always gets the best of him. And in this, the…
-
FamilyFree film: The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry
Family / Drama 96 minutes; 2008 RATING: 6/10 In the summer of 1970 three boys develop a friendship with an elderly man, Jonathan Sperry, who…
-
FamilyUnitards
Family / Comedy 2010 / 107 minutes Rating: 8/10 The producers bill this as “High School Musical meets Napoleon Dynamite” but I’ll have to take their…
-
FamilyThe Incredible Journey
Family 1963 / 80 minutes Rating: 8/10 What do Elsa and Anna, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Pollyanna, and even Huey, Duey and Louie all…
-
FamilyOdd Squad: The movie
Children’s / Family 65 minutes / 2016 Rating: 7/10 Odd Squad is an organization founded to correct the “strange, the weird, and most especially the…
-
FamilyThe Sword and the Rose
Family / Drama 1953 / 92 minutes Rating: 7/10 When I first found this film and read in the description that the hero was Mary…
-
FamilyThe Fighting Prince of Donegal
Drama / Family 1966 / 110 minutes Rating: 7/10 Halfway through The Fighting Prince, I figured out why I was enjoying this so much, and why…
-
AnimatedTorchlighters: the Eric Liddell Story
Animated / Family 2007 / 31 minutes Rating: 6/10 Eric Liddell is best known for the stand he took to not compete in the 1924…
-
FamilyThe Sparky Chronicles: The Map
Family / Children’s 28 min / 2003 Rating: 7/10 When their beloved Sparky is dognapped by the infamous international criminal known only as “The Clip,”…
-
FamilyHans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Family 90 min / 1962 Rating: 8/10 When Hans’ father is hurt repairing a dike, young Hans drops out of school to take care of…
-
FamilyJack and the Beanstalk
Children’s 1952 / 83 minutes Rating: 7/10 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in their own version of this classic tale. The story begins with…
-
FamilyBabes in Toyland
Family /Musical 1961 / 105 minutes Rating: 7/10 Babes in Toyland stars all your children’s nursery rhyme favorites. There’s Little Jack Horner, Simple Simon and the pieman,…
-
FamilyThe Sign of Zorro
Family / Drama 1958 / 90 minutes Rating: 8/10 Is Zorro a Spanish version of Robin Hood? The Spanish California of the 1800s stands in…
-
AnimatedLost and Found
Animated / Family 24 minutes / 2013 Rating: 8/10 This short film made my girls cry and that’s okay. It is a classic boy meets…
-
AnimatedTwo Martin Luther animated shorts
If you’re looking for some longer Martin Luther-related films, check out our “Martin at the movies” post on three films that are all currently available…
-
DocumentaryA Lego brickumentary
Documentary 93 minutes / 2015 Rating: 7/10 If you have kids who are too young to watch anything with tension then that limits your viewing…
-
FamilySpace Buddies
Children’s film 2009 / 84 minutes RATING: 7/10 If the sequel is never as good as the original, then what kind of expectation should we…
-
AnimatedThe Gruffalo
Animated / Family 27 min / 2009 Rating: 8/10 How can a mouse meet up with a hungry fox, snake, and owl, and live to…
-
AnimatedThe Boxcar Children
Animated / Children’s 2013 / 81 minutes Rating: 7/10 The Boxcar Children is the first title in a popular and still expanding children’s series of…
-
AnimatedCurious George 3: Back to the Jungle
Animated / Children 81 Minutes / 2015 Rating: 7/10 We might wonder why it hadn’t happened sooner. The third film begins with the unflappable man…
-
FamilyAntboy
Family / Superhero 2013 / 77 minutes RATING: 7/10 Pelle is a 12-year-old boy who goes entirely unnoticed at his school…except when he ruins a…
-
AnimatedWinnie the Pooh
Animated / Children / Family 63 min, 2011 Rating: 8/10 Our favorite silly little bear starts his newest adventure in bed, waking up only at…
-
FamilyPollyanna
Family 2003 / 99 minutes Rating: 8/10 Aside from a change of setting, this is a faithful adaption of the source book. Yes, moving it…
-
FamilyBeyond the Mask
Christian / Action / Drama / Family 103 minutes / 2015 RATING: 8/10 William Reynolds is an 18th-century assassin and the righthand man to the…
-
FamilyOvercomer
Drama /Family 2019 / 119 minutes RATING: 7/10 This was going to be John Harrison’s year. The high school basketball coach had all his best…
-
DramaFREE FILM: The Amazing Adventure
Drama / Black & White / Family 62 minutes / 1936 RATING: 7/10 Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) is a young man who has inherited a…
-
FamilyJohnny Tremain
Historical drama / Family 80 min / 1957 RATING: 7/10 Walt Disney clearly loved American history, and Johnny Tremain is another of his homages to…
-
AnimatedThe Lord of the Rings animated “trilogy”
Peter Jackson wasn’t the first to put J.R.R. Tolkien’s books on film. Two decades before the first of Jackson’s live-action/CGI films hit theaters, three animated versions were…
-
FamilyThe Wild Brothers: 8-episode DVD series (+ free vlog series)
Reality / Documentary Each episode is 28-30 min / 2015-2016 Rating: 7/10 Everyone in our family enjoyed this DVD series, from our 2-year-old all the…
-
Family20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Family / Classic 127 minutes / 1954 RATING 7/10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a childhood favorite that I’ve been looking forward to sharing…
-
FamilyBuddy Davis’ Amazing Adventures
Buddy Davis is a musician, dinosaur sculptor, and children’s entertainer. In his “Buddy Davis’ Amazing Adventures” series, he’s teamed up with the folks at Answers…
-
AnimatedCurious George: Royal Monkey
Animated / Children’s 2019 / 86 minutes RATING: 7/10 In this homage to The Prince and the Pauper, our monkey friend George accidentally switches places with his…
-
AnimatedMinuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants
Animated / Family 2014 / 89 minutes Rating: 8/10 In this utterly unique film, a lost ladybug teams up with a colony of black ants…
-
FamilyThe Giver
Drama / Family 97 minutes / 2014 RATING: 8/10 My brother Jeff wrote a review of the book this film is based on that hits…
-
AnimatedSgt. Stubby: an unlikely hero
Animated / Family 2018 / 84 minutes Rating: 8/10 I read a review by a parent who arrived at the movie theater with his four-year-old…
-
FamilySwallows and Amazons
Drama / Family 2016 / 96 minutes RATING: 7/10 I remember my older brother reading Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons to me when I was very young,…
-
DramaThe man who shot Liberty Valance
Western 1962 / 123 minutes RATING: 8/10 What does it mean to be a man? In this classic Western, Hollywood offers up two answers. Tom…
-
DramaThe Seahawk
Drama / Action 109 minutes / 1940 RATING: 8/10 While The Seahawk is set in 1585, and pitches Spain against England, this film was all…
-
FamilyBorn free
Family / Drama 1966 / 95 minutes RATING: 8/10 When a man-eating lion has to be shot, and his mate too, three little cubs are…
-
DramaThe Spirit of St. Louis
Family / Biography 1957 / 135 minutes RATING: 7/10 Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 flight wasn’t the first to cross the North Atlantic. That was accomplished 8…
-
FamilyThe absent-minded professor
Family 1961 / 96 minutes RATING: 8/10 The classic begins with a bang – a lab accident blows up Ned Brainard’s garage and leaves the…
-
FamilyMisty
Family / Drama 1961 / 91 minutes RATING: 7/10 If you have girls in your home there’s a good chance you’ve already heard of Marguerite…
-
FamilyStorm and Luther’s forbidden letter
Family / Drama 105 minutes / 2017 RATING: 7/10 Storm Voeten is the 12-year-old son of a printer, living in 1500s Antwerp. Martin Luther has…
-
Movie Reviews4 fun family-friendly films
Don’t know what to watch with the family tonight? If you have some younger children, here’s four possibilities that might just fit the bill. (And…
-
Movie listsMartin at the movies
All four of these films can be viewed, for free at RedeemTV.com (you will have to sign up for a free account and provide your…
-
AnimatedTorchlighters: the Martin Luther Story
Animated / Family 2016 / 34 minutes Rating: 7/10 The strength of this film is its short length. At just 34 minutes, it can be…
-
FamilySwiss Family Robinson
Drama/Adventure 126 min/1960 RATING: 8/10 Based on the classic 1812 Johann Wyss book, Swiss Family Robinson tells the tale of a family of five that gets shipwrecked…
-
FamilyCity of Ember
Adventure/Family 95 min/2008 RATING: 7/10 For humanity’s remnant to survive they have to hide deep underground for 200 years in a specially prepared city –…
-
FamilyCondorman
Action/Adventure 90 min/ 1981 RATING: 7/10 When comic book creator Woody Wilkins gets the chance to help out the CIA he jumps at it. But…
-
Parenting4 for family movie night
The last decade has seen a big shift in how families watch films. With a screen in every pocket, there’s now no need to gather…
-
AnimatedThe Peanuts Movie
Animated 88 min/2015 RATING: 9/10 The comic strip Peanuts was always a little hit and miss for me. I liked Linus and Snoopy and PigPen…