Everyone loves watching a good, wholesome movie with the family. Unfortunately, good family movies can be so hard to find. Never fear! Here are the 47 best family movies of all time for your next family night, in no particular order.
#1 – The Princess Bride (1987)
This isn’t your regular fairytale. With a dashing pirate, an evil prince, a young farm girl, a kindly giant, and a swordsman bent on revenge, you’ll laugh your heart out watching this beautiful love letter to fairytales.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 38m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Fandango
#2 – The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
This clever and hilarious tribute to the Batman franchise, “The Lego Batman Movie,” tells the story of how the sarcastic loner, Batman, accidentally adopts an orphan named Dick Grayson and has to teach him how to fight crime while being awesome.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 44m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Netflix, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime, YouTube TV
Where to Rent or Buy: Fandango, Apple TV, Google Play
#3 – The Karate Kid (1984)
When a young fatherless boy moves to a new city and encounters bullies, the elderly janitor (who happens to be a karate master) takes him under his wing and teaches him how to defend himself, along with some valuable life lessons that will resonate with every family.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 2hr 6m
Where to Watch with Subscription: YouTube TV, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Starz
Where to Rent or Buy: Fandango, Apple TV, Google Play
#4 – How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
On the Viking island of Berk, humans are at constant war with the dragons. That is, until the chief’s undersized son, Hiccup, befriends a wounded dragon in the forest and decides to protect the dragon from the rest of his Viking clan.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 33m
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Fandango, Google Play
#5 – Song of the Sea (2014)
Song of the Sea is a beautifully animated Irish fairytale that sweeps you away. When Ben and his sister Saoirse are forced to move to the city by their strict grandmother, Ben tries to run away to make it back home and discovers that his sister is a Selkie and that the villainous Owl Witch is after her. They must work together to save the other magical creatures the witch has turned to stone.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 33m
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#6 – The Lego Movie (2014)
This funny kids’ movie will also appeal to adults. When Emmet, a regular Lego minifig, finds out that he is the Chosen One, he must join the fierce rebel Wildstyle, a wise wizard, and Batman on an adventure to save the Lego world from the infamous Lord Business.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 40m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Netflix
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#7 – Spirit (2002)
Spirit is a beautiful animated adventure in the wild American West. When Spirit, a wild, headstrong horse, is captured by the Calvary, a young Lakota man named Little Creek frees him, and Spirit embarks on an adventure to find his herd.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 22m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Netflix
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#8 – The Court Jester (1955)
A medieval musical comedy about mistaken identity. Danny Kaye stars as Hubert Hawkins, a lowly member of the Black Fox’s rebellion. He must pretend to be the wicked king’s court jester to protect the true heir to the throne. Along the way, he gets hypnotized by a desperate witch, falls in love with maid Jean, accidentally makes the princess fall for him, gets knighted, and ultimately helps put the true heir back on the throne.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 41m
Where to Rent or Buy: Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#9 – Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)
“Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where lay our scene…”
Gnomeo is a blue gnome. Juliet is a red gnome. They are destined to hate each other, yet when they meet outside of their gardens, a star-crossed romance is ignited, and they must find a way to stop the feud between their people to save their love.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 24m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#10 – The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
This hilarious animated comedy is sure to make everyone in the family happy. When a spoiled emperor is turned into a llama by his advisor, he must rely on a humble llama herder to help him get his throne back.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 18m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#11 – Treasure Planet (2002)
A twist on the classic story, this sweeping tale is about responsibility and father/son relationships and has beautiful animation. When a dying pirate leaves a mysterious treasure map in the hands of young Jim Hawkins, Jim decides to embark on a death-defying adventure to find the Treasure Planet.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 35m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#12 – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
This classic story by C.S. Lewis is beautifully brought to life by director Andrew Adamson. When four siblings find a passage to another world, they discover they are part of an ancient prophecy and must help save the citizens of Narnia from eternal winter.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 2hr 30m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV
#13 – Hoodwinked (2005)
All is not what it seems in this hilarious spoof of the traditional fairytale. Red is a delivery girl who dreams of adventure and fears that her family recipes will be stolen. Wolf is an investigative journalist who will stop at nothing to discover who the cookie bandit is. Grandma is a cookie-baking woman with a secret life she has been hiding from Red for years. It’s a laugh-out-loud spectacle the entire family will enjoy on movie night.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 20m
Where to Watch: Prime Video or YouTube
#14 – Nacho Libre (2006)
Nacho is a monk who longs for more out of life. When he sees an ad for a lucha libre fight, he decides to go in disguise and win the prize money. This movie is extremely quotable.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 32m
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#15 – The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Mario and Luigi are brothers who just started their own plumbing company. Their lives are turned upside down when a pipe sucks them into a fantastical world where the evil Bowser is threatening to destroy Princess Peach’s kingdom.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 32m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Netflix
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#16 – Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Po, a panda who works at his father’s noodle shop, secretly dreams of being a kung fu master. When a wise master proclaims that he is destined to be the Dragon Master, Po discovers that his dream wasn’t everything he thought it would be.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 32m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Peacock
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#17 – Atlantis (2001)
Atlantis is an adventurous animated story about Milo Thatch, a young cartographer, who is convinced he has discovered a way to the legendary city of Atlantis. Joining him are a ragtag crew of a doctor, a teenage engineer, an explosives technician, a military commander, a secretary, a chef, a chain-smoking radio operator, and a mineralogist.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 35m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#18 – Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
We can all agree that all the original Star Wars movies, including their prequels, are classics. Introduce your younglings to the movie that started it all. When young Luke Skywalker, a farm boy, finds a holographic transmission for help from Princess Leia, who is in the clutches of the evil Darth Vadar, he leaves on an epic journey with a wise Jedi master, a tough wisecracking smuggler, and his co-pilot, to save Princess Leia and join the rebel alliance.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 2hr 1m
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#19 – Holes (2003)
the classic book by Louis Sachar is brought to the screen. When Stanley Yelnats, an adolescent boy who is under a family curse, is wrongfully accused of a crime, he is sent to camp Green Lake, which is neither green nor a lake, where the delinquent teens are forced to dig holes all day. He befriends Zero, a homeless boy whose past is connected to Stanley’s. Zero and Stanley begin to discover the true reason behind Camp Green Lake.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 2hr
Where to Watch with Subscription: Hulu, Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#20 – Matilda (1996)
Matilda is a young, neglected child genius who is finally going to school for the first time. Her teacher, Miss Honey, discovers that Matilda is much too advanced –however, the evil principal, Miss Trunchbull, who despises children, insists that no child is bright. Matilda decides to use her newly found telekinesis powers to help free her school from the heartless Trunchbull.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 38min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Netflix, Sling TV
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#21 – Megamind (2010)
Megamind is an evil supervillain who, in his spare time, likes to escape prison, kidnap Roxanne Ritchey, create new inventions, and attempt to kill Metroman. His life is perfect. Except when he succeeds in killing Metroman and taking over the city, he realizes his life isn’t complete without a hero. He decides to create a new hero to make everything perfect again.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 35min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Amazon Prime Video, The Roku Channel
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#22 – The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)
Everybody hates Lloyd Garmadon. This is because his father, the evil Lord Garmadon, is constantly trying to destroy Ninjago City. The Green Ninja and his crew of fellow secret ninjas are the only ones who can protect Ninjago from Lord Garmadon. This is why everyone loves the green ninja. What everyone doesn’t know, including Lord Garmadon, is that Lloyd and the green ninja are the same person.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 41min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Amazon Prime Video
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#23 – Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Lilo, a strange and lonely girl, finds a blue dog at the pound and decides to adopt him so she can have a friend. Little does she know, the blue dog (named Stitch) is an alien on the run from the galactic federation who seeks to destroy him because they believe him to be an “abomination”.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 25min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#24 – Ice Age (2002)
When the last woolly mammoth, Manny, finds a human baby, he decides to bring the baby back to his family. He’s aided by a pesky sloth, Sid, and a mysterious sabertooth tiger named Diego. Along the way, they have to run from predators seeking to destroy the child.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 21min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#25 – Secondhand Lions (2003)
Secondhand Lions is about a young boy who is sent to live with his two great-uncles. At first, he thinks they’re just crazy, but as he gets to know them he discovers their stories of India and adventures are true.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 51min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Tubi
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube TV, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#26 – Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Based on the book by Johann David Wyss, which was first published in 1812, Swiss Family Robinson is an exciting, heartwarming story about a family moving from Sweden to South America. When they shipwreck on a desert island, they have to learn to survive.
Rating: G
Run Time: 2hr 6min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play
#27 – Haunted Mansion (2023)
This funny movie is about a man struggling with grief, who is approached by a priest about helping him get ghosts out of a haunted house. He reluctantly agrees, but after he gets back, he finds that a ghost has followed him home. To stop the haunting he has to first get the evil out of the haunted mansion.
Rating: PG-13
Run Time: 2hr 3min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube TV, Fandango, Apple TV
#28 – The Prince of Egypt (1998)
The Prince of Egypt is a beautiful Animated drama musical based on the story of Moses from the Bible.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 39min
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube TV, Fandango, Apple TV
#29 – The Land Before Time (1988)
This adorable cartoon from the 80’s is about a young longneck dinosaur, Littlefoot, and his friends. After being separated from their families, they band together to try to survive the wilderness.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 9min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Netflix
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube TV, Fandango, Apple TV
#30 – Rise of the Guardians (2012)
Rise of the Guardians is about Jack Frost, a loner who spreads ice and snow. After the infamous Pitch Black starts spreading bad dreams and making children lose their faith in their heroes, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny, and the Sandman try to recruit Jack Frost to help them stop Pitch.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 37min
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube TV, Fandango, Apple TV
#31 – Over the Hedge (2006)
Over the Hedge is an animated comedy. When a raccoon gets caught stealing a bear’s food, the bear threatens to kill him if he doesn’t bring him back the same things in one month. The raccoon leaves and finds a newly built suburban paradise, the perfect place to collect all the things to pay back the bear. He finds a small group of animals in what’s left of the forest and pretends to help them stick up for the winter to get all of the food in time. His plan works perfectly, but can he turn us back on the animals that have become his family?
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 25min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Hulu
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, YouTube TV, Fandango, Apple TV
#32 – The Bad Guys (2022)
Bad Guys is an animated comedy about your classic cartoon villains: snake, tarantula, piranha, shark, and finally the big bad wolf. Together they have pulled off many heists, but they want to pull off their biggest ever. Unfortunately, they get caught in the act, and a philanthropist decides to take them in and teach them to be “good guys.”
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 40min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Amazon Prime
Where to Rent or Buy: Google Play, Fandango, Apple TV
#33 – Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
This is a story about a girl who gets turned into a giant on her wedding day. Afterward, she is taken to Area 51 and meets a human cockroach, the “missing link,” a giant butterfly, and Bob (a talking blob). Together, they are recruited by the government to fight an alien invasion.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 42min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Netflix
Where to Rent or Buy: Google Play, Fandango, Apple TV, Amazon Prime
#34 – Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
A moving Studio Ghibli fantasy about a self-conscious young woman having to free an infamous wizard from a fire demon to break a curse cast upon her by a sorceress.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 2hr 9min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Max, Amazon Prime Premium
Where to Rent or Buy: Google Play, Fandango, Apple TV, Amazon Prime
#35 – Hercules (1997)
Hercules is a hilarious animated sensation about the classic Greek myth. When Hercules, a boy outcast who can’t control his strength, discovers that he is the demigod son of Zeus, he goes on a quest to become a hero and earn his immortality so he can go to Mount Olympus, where the rest of his family is.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 33min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, YouTube
#36 – Babe (1995)
Babe is the story of a small pig that is adopted by a sheepdog. Babe earns the trust of the sheep and makes many friends around the farmyard. As he grows up, the farmer discovers that Babe is an exceptional sheepdog. Despite his wife’s objections, the farmer decides to take Babe to the annual sheepdog contest, as his dog.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 31min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Hulu, Amazon Prime Premium
Where to Rent or Buy: Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#37 – Sky High (2005)
Sky High is the funny underdog story of Will Stronghold, the son of the two most powerful heroes in the world. Unfortunately, Will doesn’t have any powers, and he continually tries to keep this a secret from his parents. When he goes to his first day of high school, he and his friends are categorized as “sidekicks’ and must learn to be the backup for their superhero peers. They also have to deal with bullies, crushes, and the nefarious plot of a mysterious supervillain.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 40min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Google Play, YouTube TV
#38 – It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
This classic Christmas movie should be a tradition in every family. It tells the life story of George Bailey, a man who has failed to escape his small town, and yet has made life better for all the people in it. When he finds himself in financial turmoil, he attempts to jump off a bridge but meets a strange angel instead. When George says he wishes he was never born, the angel grants his wish and shows him what life would’ve been like had he never been born.
This beautiful story is poignant, and funny, and shows us that if we focus on what’s truly important, we all can have a wonderful life.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 2hr 10min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Amazon Prime
Where to Rent or Buy: Google Play, YouTube TV, Xumo Play, PLEX, The Roku Channel, Apple TV, Fandango
#39 – Enchanted (2007)
Enchanted is a hilarious spoof of the Disney princess subgenre. When Giselle is transported to modern New York by the evil stepmother of Prince Edward, she befriends a young girl named Morgan and her father. They help her survive in the modern world, as her squirrel friend, Pip, tries to keep her safe from the evil queen’s attempts to assassinate her.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 47min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+, Hulu
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Fandango
#40 – Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Flight of the Navigator is an 80’s fantasy story about a boy who wakes up eight years in the future. He decides to escape from the medical institution and free an alien saucer piloted by a robot from the government to make it back to his own time.
Rating: PG
Run Time: 1hr 30min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Fandango
#41 – Brother Bear (2003)
Kenai, a young native American boy, kills the bear that is responsible for his brother’s death. He is then turned into a bear by his dead brother’s spirit, who wants to teach him a lesson about needless killing. Afterward, he must learn to survive as a bear and meets Koda, the orphaned cub of the bear Kenai killed.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 25min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango
#42 – Mulan (1998)
Mulan is the story of a young woman who, after being rejected by the local matchmaker, disguises herself as a male soldier to save her crippled father from having to go to war. Along the way she meets Mushu, a small dragon who was one of the family guardians until he lost the favor of the ancestors. He helps her navigate the army, with hilarious results.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 28min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango, YouTube TV
#43 – Tarzan (1999)
Tarzan is the story of a boy who, as a baby, was shipwrecked on an island. A female gorilla takes him in and raises him as her own, protecting him from the bloodthirsty tiger that killed Tarzan’s parents. When Tarzan grows up, a woman named Jane and her father, an explorer, show up on the shore of the island. Tarzan befriends them, but now he must protect them from the tiger, and choose between the two worlds to which he belongs.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 28min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango, YouTube TV
#44 – The Lion King (1994)
Simba is the young prince of his lion clan. When his evil uncle, Scar, murders Simba’s father, Simba is banished from his home. Years later, Simba’s long-lost friend Nala finds him and convinces him that he must come back and reclaim his throne from the evil Scar.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 28min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango, YouTube TV
#45 – The Lion King 1½ (2004)
The story we all know and love, but from Timon and Pumbaa’s perspective! Find out how they met, how they found their oasis, how they raised Simba, and how they defeated the hyenas.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 18min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango, YouTube TV
#46 – Robin Hood (1973)
The legendary story is about the charming thief who “robs from the rich to give to the poor.” This Disney version has Robin Hood as a literal fox who rebels against the evil prince John and his snake advisor Sir Hiss, as he keeps his allegiance to King Richard the Lionheart.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 23min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango, YouTube TV
#47 – The Aristocats (1970)
When a pampered French cat and her kittens are thrown into the countryside by a jealous butler, a tough alley cat comes to help them make their way back home.
Rating: G
Run Time: 1hr 18min
Where to Watch with Subscription: Disney+
Where to Rent or Buy: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV, Fandango, YouTube TV
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