Great Films with Child Stars
by Ten-Inch-Toni | created - 28 Mar 2019 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicFilms with great child stars that played their roles very well.
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1. For the Love of Willadean (1964 TV Movie)
92 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Nostalgic tale of two brothers and their new neighbor, who all fight over the attention of Willadean, the pretty girl from the farmhouse down the road.
Director: Byron Paul | Stars: John Anderson, Terry Burnham, Walt Disney, Barbara Eiler
Votes: 37
2.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
For the Love of Willadean: Treasure in the Haunted House
(1964)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The new boy was dared to enter a supposedly haunted house. In the house they uncover a bag of money stolen in a bank robbery.
Director: Byron Paul | Stars: Terry Burnham, Roger Mobley, Michael McGreevey, Bill Mumy
Votes: 25
3.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
For the Love of Willadean: A Taste of Melon
(1964)
Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Nostalgic tale of two brothers and their new neighbor, who all fight over the attentions of a pretty girl name Willadean and who should steal a prize-winning watermelon.
Director: Byron Paul | Stars: Terry Burnham, Roger Mobley, Michael McGreevey, Bill Mumy
Votes: 81
4. Oliver Twist (2007–2008)
TV-PG | 35 min | Drama, History
The adventures of the orphaned Oliver Twist in Victorian London.
Stars: William Miller, Tom Hardy, Sophie Okonedo, Sarah Lancashire
Votes: 3,126
5. Oliver Twist (1948)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 13,652
6. Oliver Twist (I) (1982 TV Movie)
103 min | Crime, Drama
The classic Charles Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: George C. Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern, Timothy West
Votes: 564
7. The Yearling (1946)
Approved | 128 min | Drama, Family, Western
A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills
Votes: 6,467 | Gross: $5.20M
8. The Other (1972)
PG | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky
Votes: 6,982 | Gross: $0.48M
9. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,303 | Gross: $0.65M
10. Crossed Swords (1977)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Poor boy Tom Canty and Edward, Prince of Wales exchange identities, but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine
Votes: 2,113
11. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price
Votes: 14,769
12.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Door Without a Key
(1962)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A man goes to a police station claiming memory loss, followed by a boy who says he was accidentally left behind by his father, but the desk sergeant is suspicious of both their stories.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Claude Rains, John Larch, Connie Gilchrist
Votes: 448
13. The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 102,718 | Gross: $71.20M
14. Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Family
Dagwood and Blondie are overjoyed when Mr. Dithers invites them to stay in an old mansion with servants and everything else--including ghosts.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 331
15. Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)
Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 423
16. Blondie Goes Latin (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Dagwood disguises himself as a drummer in the ship's conga band to sneak aboard a South American cruise ship. Blondie performs several song-and-dance routines.
Directors: Frank R. Strayer, Robert Sparks | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 328
17. Blondie in Society (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. A highlight of this film is the canine burping display.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy
Votes: 366
18. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Votes: 20,866
19. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,400 | Gross: $0.03M
20. The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
PG | 103 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Young Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Jeni Courtney, Eileen Colgan, Mick Lally, Pat Slowey
Votes: 9,871 | Gross: $6.10M
21. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
TV-PG | 507 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world.
Stars: Neil Sterenberg, Beccy Henderson, Nathalie Emmanuel, Taron Egerton
Votes: 27,122
22. Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
PG | 112 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Six years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph," Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.
Directors: Phil Johnston, Rich Moore | Stars: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Taraji P. Henson
Votes: 182,744 | Gross: $201.09M
23.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
It's a Good Life
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: John Larch, Cloris Leachman, Don Keefer, Bill Mumy
Votes: 4,542
24.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Fugitive
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Jenny and the other kids don't realize that the kindly yet magical old duffer they play with in the park is really an intergalactic fugitive hiding out till two serious men come looking for him, asking questions that test their friendship.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Susan Gordon, J. Pat O'Malley, Nancy Kulp, Wesley Lau
Votes: 2,452
25.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
I Sing the Body Electric
(1962)
TV-G | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.
Directors: William F. Claxton, James Sheldon | Stars: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, Vaughn Taylor, Doris Packer
Votes: 2,458
26.
Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode:
Mr. George
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Priscilla, a young girl, lives with her scheming relatives who are trying to get hold of her inheritance... and a ghostly protector, Mr. George.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Boris Karloff, Virginia Gregg, Howard Freeman, Lillian Bronson
Votes: 231
27.
One Step Beyond (1959–1961)
Episode:
Goodbye Grandpa
(1960)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A brother and sister are devastated by the death of their grandfather, to whom they were inordinately close. However, they soon begin to suspect that he may be trying to contact them from beyond the grave.
Director: John Newland | Stars: Edgar Stehli, Candy Moore, Anna Karen, Donald Losby
Votes: 111
28.
One Step Beyond (1959–1961)
Episode:
The Tiger
(1961)
Approved | 30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Miss Cartwright is hired to be the new governess to young Pamela. Cartwright immediately dismisses Pamela's beloved nanny, Mrs. Murphy, and finds a punishment room for the child in the ... See full summary »
Director: John Newland | Stars: Pamela Brown, Elspeth March, Pauline Challoner, Edward Underdown
Votes: 63
29. Fido (2006)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
In an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Currie | Stars: Kesun Loder, Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Kaye
Votes: 30,145 | Gross: $0.30M
30. Parents (1989)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects that his parents are cannibalistic murderers.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky
Votes: 8,580 | Gross: $0.87M
31. Isle of Dogs (2018)
PG-13 | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban
Votes: 190,755 | Gross: $32.02M
32. Scrooged (1988)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover
Votes: 116,414 | Gross: $60.33M
33. Shoot Out (1971)
GP | 95 min | Drama, Western
A former bank robber searches for his double-crossing partner who left him for dead, while having to look after an six-year-old girl.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gregory Peck, Patricia Quinn, Robert F. Lyons, Susan Tyrrell
Votes: 2,301 | Gross: $0.10M
34. Journey for Margaret (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance, War
John Davis, a married American newspaper reporter in London, covers the story of a home for children displaced by the war and meets two kids who grow attached to him.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Herbert Kline | Stars: Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 965
35. A Little Princess (1995)
G | 97 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Sara is sent to a strict boarding school after her father enlists in WWI. When he is presumed dead, the headmistress, knowing she will not receive any more money, forces the girl to become a servant.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Rusty Schwimmer
Votes: 36,692 | Gross: $10.02M
36. Sling Blade (1996)
R | 135 min | Drama
Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
Director: Billy Bob Thornton | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter
Votes: 98,787 | Gross: $24.48M
37. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 26 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam | Stars: Boris Karloff, June Foray, Dal McKennon
Votes: 59,012
38. Mosby's Marauders (1967)
80 min | Action, Adventure, History
A young Private in the Confederate Army, Willie Prentiss, is assigned to guard a remote river outpost during the American Civil War. Lonely Willie becomes pals with his Union army ... See full summary »
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: James MacArthur, Nick Adams, Jack Ging, Kurt Russell
Votes: 119
39. A Christmas Story (1983)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz
Votes: 168,602 | Gross: $20.61M
40. The Full Monty (1997)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
Director: Peter Cattaneo | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Wim Snape
Votes: 114,096 | Gross: $45.95M
41. Who Killed 'Doc' Robbin? (1948)
Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
Director: Bernard Carr | Stars: Larry Olsen, Eilene Janssen, Peter Miles, Ardda Lynwood
Votes: 352
42. The People (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 688
43. Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
G | 92 min | Adventure, Drama
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Michael Douglas, Jodie Foster, Johnny Whitaker, Will Geer
Votes: 1,093
44. The Southerner (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
The life of the poor Tucker family who worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature was against them.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 3,874
45. Flipper (1964–1967)
Not Rated | 30 min | Adventure, Family
Ranger Porter Ricks is responsible for the animal and human life in Coral Key Park, Florida. Stories center on his 15-year-old son Sandy and 10-year-old Bud and, especially, on their pet dolphin Flipper.
Stars: Brian Kelly, Luke Halpin, Tommy Norden, Flipper
Votes: 2,916
46. Flipper (1963)
G | 87 min | Adventure, Family, Drama
Sandy is distraught when, having saved Flipper by pulling out a spear, his father insists the dolphin be released. A grateful Flipper, however, returns the favor when Sandy is threatened by Sharks.
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Connie Scott, Jane Rose
Votes: 1,993
47.
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968–1970)
Episode:
Banana Splits Show # 1/Joining of the Knights/The Littlest Musketeer/Danger Island 1/Danger Island 2/The Hillybilly Bears
(1968)
TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A pop group consisting of four anthropomorphic animals host a variety of cartoons, songs, and skits.
Directors: Tom Boutross, Richard Donner | Stars: Frank Aletter, Jeff Winkless, Kim Kahana, Terence H. Winkless
Votes: 38
48. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Family
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp
Votes: 26,479
49. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Approved | 129 min | Crime, Drama
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 332,773
50. The War (1994)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, History, War
A Vietnam veteran helps his kids battle over a tree house while recovering from his traumatic war experience.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Elijah Wood, Kevin Costner, Mare Winningham, Lexi Randall
Votes: 13,548 | Gross: $16.55M
51. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
115 min | Crime, Drama
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey, Marie Burke
Votes: 7,455
52. It (1990)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
Stars: Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Annette O'Toole, Harry Anderson
Votes: 140,840
53. Hondo (1953)
PG | 83 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate
Votes: 12,411
54. Just William (1940)
72 min | Comedy
William Brown has a good-intentioned yet naughty nature that challenges his family's patience. He and his friends live various adventures weedening a garden, pursuing a secret agent, looking for a baby sister and deactivating a bomb.
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Richard Lupino, Fred Emney, Basil Radford, Amy Veness
Votes: 65
55. Man Hunt (1941)
Passed | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Votes: 6,435
56. Confirm or Deny (1941)
74 min | Drama, War
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Directors: Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang | Stars: Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, John Loder
Votes: 310
57. The Pied Piper (1942)
87 min | Drama, War
While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger
Votes: 736
58. My Friend Flicka (1943)
Passed | 89 min | Action, Drama, Family
Ken McLaughlin struggles to please his family in any way. He comes back from boarding school boasting poor grades and facing going through the fifth grade again, much to his fathers dismay.... See full summary »
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell
Votes: 1,054
59. Lassie Come Home (1943)
Passed | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 5,932
60. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance, War
Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan
Votes: 1,804
61. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, War
A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner
Votes: 3,092
62. The Chalk Garden (1964)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Mystery
An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed, spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice as an example of love and grows into a better person.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans
Votes: 2,490
63. Hubie Halloween (2020)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem (and its Halloween celebration), Hubie Dubois is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something is going bump in the night, and it's up to Hubie to save Halloween.
Director: Steven Brill | Stars: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Julie Bowen, Ray Liotta
Votes: 58,649
64.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Miri
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Kim Darby, Michael J. Pollard
Votes: 4,469
65.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Corbomite Maneuver
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After the Enterprise is forced to destroy a dangerous marker buoy, a gigantic alien ship arrives to capture and condemn the crew as trespassers.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Anthony D. Call, Clint Howard
Votes: 4,881
66. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure
In 1935, Indiana Jones is tasked by Indian villagers with reclaiming a rock stolen from them by a secret cult beneath the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri
Votes: 535,130 | Gross: $179.87M
67. Supersonic Saucer (1956)
50 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.
Director: Guy Fergusson | Stars: Marcia Manolescue, Gillian Harrison, Fella Edmonds, Andrew Motte-Harrison
Votes: 189
68. Billy Elliot (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Votes: 142,754 | Gross: $22.00M
69. Mamma Mia! (2008)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd | Stars: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 274,185 | Gross: $144.13M
70. Poltergeist (1982)
PG | 114 min | Horror, Thriller
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Votes: 179,509 | Gross: $76.61M
71. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror
The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins
Votes: 29,870 | Gross: $41.00M
72. Tom Sawyer (1973 TV Movie)
78 min | Adventure
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, two friends in a Mississippi River town, have one adventure after another - including attending their own funeral and being pursued by a murderer.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Josh Albee, Jane Wyatt, Buddy Ebsen, John McGiver
Votes: 132
73. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Unrated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
Directors: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills
Votes: 11,587
74. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Approved | 158 min | Biography, Drama, War
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens, Michael David
Votes: 5,420
75.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Christmas Carol
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While visiting family for Christmas, Scully receives a mysterious phone call that leads to a woman's apparent suicide and a young girl who may be her sister Melissa's daughter.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Sheila Larken, Melinda McGraw
Votes: 3,646
76.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Emily
(1997)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scully and Mulder search for a cure to Emily's strange illness.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Pyper-Ferguson, Sheila Larken
Votes: 3,553
77.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
The Goldberg Variation
(1999)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man is tossed off the top of a 29 story building by gangsters. Amazingly, he gets up and walks away unscathed. Mulder and Scully investigate when Mulder suspects this man may have ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Willie Garson, Alyson Reed
Votes: 3,644
78. Hell's Kitchen (1939)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A group of tough city kids have 'graduated' from reform school and are assigned to a "Boy's Town" type of inmate self-government city shelter. The shelter is run by Hiram Krispan (Grant ... See full summary »
Directors: Ewald André Dupont, Lewis Seiler | Stars: The Dead End Kids, Margaret Lindsay, Ronald Reagan, Stanley Fields
Votes: 386
79. Dead End (1937)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The lives of a young man, a young woman, an notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Votes: 8,584
80. Portia on Trial (1937)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton).
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Walter Abel, Frieda Inescort, Neil Hamilton, Heather Angel
Votes: 88
81. Crime School (1938)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.
Directors: Lewis Seiler, William Clemens | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, The Dead End Kids, Gale Page, Billy Halop
Votes: 1,400
82. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,198
83. Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life, but he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Bernard Punsly, Leo Gorcey
Votes: 572
84. Pride of the Bowery (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Drama
New York City street principles get an East Side kid in trouble at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Kenneth Howell, Mary Ainslee
Votes: 628
85. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 659,229 | Gross: $260.00M
86. Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
PG | 93 min | Comedy
A carefree single mother challenges the local PTA after they threaten to expel her daughter from school, due to her lifestyle.
Directors: Richard C. Bennett, Ralph Senensky | Stars: Barbara Eden, Ronny Cox, Nanette Fabray, Louis Nye
Votes: 1,267
87. The Others (2001)
PG-13 | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann
Votes: 393,115 | Gross: $96.52M
88. Soul (2020)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.
Directors: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House
Votes: 379,457
89. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
PG-13 | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House
Votes: 141,833 | Gross: $5.20M
90. The 'Burbs (1989)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block is part of a murderous Satanic cult.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman
Votes: 83,473 | Gross: $36.60M
91. Dragonwyck (1946)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan
Votes: 5,398
92. Dragonwyck (1946)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan
Votes: 5,398
93. Home, Sweet Homicide (1946)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A mystery writer's three children confuse a police detective working on a murder.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 361
94. Baffled (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A US racing champion is haunted by intense visions of an American woman in some kind of danger in a English mansion. A British ESP and occult expert believes that his visions will really happen and asks him to help her investigate them.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, Vera Miles
Votes: 440
95. Wide Awake (1998)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A 10-year-old boy goes on a search for God after his grandfather dies.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Joseph Cross, Timothy Reifsnyder, Dana Delany, Denis Leary
Votes: 4,533 | Gross: $0.26M
96.
Lost in Space (1965–1968)
Episode:
The Keeper: Part 2
(1966)
Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Troubles with The Keeper would be over if Dr. Smith hadn't skulked aboard his ship and released all the animals, putting The Keeper in a position to blackmail the Robinsons for their children.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen
Votes: 262
97.
Lost in Space (1965–1968)
Episode:
The Sky Pirate
(1966)
Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Will becomes fast friends with Captain Alonzo P. Tucker, an Earthling who escaped his alien captors to become a wandering space buccaneer. But Tucker's roguish charm hides a secret that could destroy them all.
Director: Sobey Martin | Stars: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen
Votes: 253
98.
Lost in Space (1965–1968)
Episode:
The Magic Mirror
(1966)
Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Penny stumbles into an alien mirror and finds a universe occupied by one very lonely boy.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen
Votes: 284
99.
Lost in Space (1965–1968)
Episode:
The Challenge
(1966)
Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
John and Will fight a battle with an alien father and son that is to the death.
Director: Don Richardson | Stars: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen
Votes: 270
100.
Lost in Space (1965–1968)
Episode:
All That Glitters
(1966)
Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Dr. Smith and Penny obtain a ring that will turn anything to platinum.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen
Votes: 242
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