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Do you want some fantastic ideas for movies you and your kids will all enjoy? It can be tricky to find family movies that everyone likes… so we’ve come up with our top ten picks for family friendly movies.

10 Best Movies for Family Nights

For fun family nights, make some tasty snacks, get comfy on the couch and laugh along to one of these movies…

  1. Matilda – “Story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable.”
  2. Aladdin – “When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie’s magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her.”
  3. Mary Poppins – “A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker’s unhappy family.”
  4. Ratatouille – “A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant.”
  5. Home Alone – “An 8-year old troublemaker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.”
  6. Toy Story – “A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy’s room.”
  7. Monsters, Inc. – “Monsters generate their city’s power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley finds his world disrupted.”
  8. Bean – “The bumbling Mr. Bean travels to America when he is given the responsibility of bringing a highly valuable painting to a Los Angeles museum.”
  9. The Goonies – “In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate’s ancient treasure.”
  10. Mrs. Doubtfire – “After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.”

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26 Comments

  2. Great list. I just showed this to my nieces and nephews so we’re gonna see how much we can watch before Spring break ends!!!

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  5. Oh, so many good ones on this list! I LOVE Aladdin. Matilda is always a family favorite. Mrs. Doubtfire is a classic that I must have watched over 100 times as a child. As a child I just loved that the dad dressed up as a lady!!! Hahah

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  10. Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire have always been childhood faves! I’m so glad this generation is revisiting them

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  14. I have to agree on your choices for the 10 Best Movies for Family Nights. Mrs. Doubtfire will always be my very favorite and I still laugh till it hurts every time I watch it. These are great movies to watch will your kids because not only are they funny but they teach a hidden message. Thank you always Robin Williams.

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  18. We haven’t seen them all as a family yet, though I’m another one who would add Star Wars to the list. But, I’m really excited to watch and share “Mrs.Doubtfire” or “Mary Poppins” (my fave!) with the whole family.

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  25. Fun list! I too am so glad you included “Mrs. Doubtfire”–a movie that brought much enjoyment to our whole family. A couple others were “Beethoven” (w/ brief appearances by a pre-X-Files David Duchovny and a pre-Raymond Patricia Heaton) and — perhaps a bit girl-centric, enjoyed by my daughter and me many times — “A Little Princess.” “The Sound of Music” is a classic, and for the holidays, “The Grinch” with Jim Carrey.

    Marcy Axness
    author, “Parenting for Peace”

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