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title: "Family films"
canonical: "https://film.one/films/genre/family"
region: "US"
total: 311
shown: 60
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# Family films

A family film has to hold two audiences in the same room, and the ones we score highly do it without winking at the adults over the children's heads. What we are judging is whether the film takes its young hero's trouble seriously: a child's shift in a spirit bathhouse, a rat's wish to cook, a robot's romance. Sentiment is allowed; sentiment the film has not paid for is not. The shelf leans towards animation and towards the last two decades.

Start with [Spirited Away](/film/spirited-away), 92, which is frightening in ways children handle better than their parents. Then [Toy Story](/film/toy-story), also 92, for its quarrelling voices and tight construction. [WALL·E](/film/walle), 92, is the one to show anyone who says animation is not for them. After that, [The Wizard of Oz](/film/the-wizard-of-oz) or [It's a Wonderful Life](/film/its-a-wonderful-life), both of which earn their sentiment the hard way.

For US. 311 titles; 60 listed here. Add `?region=XX` for another country.

- [*Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom*](https://film.one/film/shaun-the-sheep-the-beast-of-mossy-bottom.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 77 · PG · 1h 21m · Animation/Comedy
  Aardman’s third Shaun the Sheep feature drops the flock into an old monster film and gets steady laughs out of it for 81 minutes. It is a long episode of the television programme, which is no bad thing, and it is not more than that.
- [*Coyote vs. Acme*](https://film.one/film/coyote-vs-acme.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 78 · PG · 1h 43m · Comedy/Adventure
  Dave Green’s cartoon courtroom comedy is funny, affectionate and unexpectedly touching. The corporate satire settles for easy targets, but the friendship between a coyote and his lawyer gives the silliness someone to care about.
- [*The Magic Faraway Tree*](https://film.one/film/the-magic-faraway-tree.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 64 · PG · 1h 50m · Adventure/Family
  Simon Farnaby’s adaptation of Enid Blyton is bright, kind and often funny, with a cast who know exactly what sort of film they are in. It is also so determined that nothing should worry anyone that not much happens for long.
- [*PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie*](https://film.one/film/paw-patrol-the-dino-movie.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 43 · PG · 1h 28m · Animation/Adventure
  Cal Brunker’s family animation has some dinosaur diversion and treats Rex with care, but the thin writing and blunt lessons make it hard to recommend beyond households already devoted to the pups.
- [*Moana*](https://film.one/film/moana-2026.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 50 · PG · 1h 55m · Family/Fantasy
  Thomas Kail’s live-action Moana follows the 2016 cartoon closely enough to make you wonder why anyone bothered. Catherine Lagaʻaia sings it well and the songs still land, but the sea is a tank, the island a screen, and the adventure has gone.
- [*Minions & Monsters*](https://film.one/film/minions-and-monsters.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 70 · PG · 1h 30m · Adventure/Animation
  Pierre Coffin’s third standalone Minions film sends its yellow chorus to 1920s Hollywood and, for about an hour, has more ideas about cinema than we expected. Then it becomes the film it always was. Still the best of them.
- [*Toy Story 5*](https://film.one/film/toy-story-5.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 66 · PG · 1h 42m · Animation/Family
  Andrew Stanton brings the toys back to face a tablet, with the wit and craft the series has always had. What it lacks is nerve: it raises the question of screens and children, then puts it down and goes home.
- [*The Breadwinner*](https://film.one/film/the-breadwinner.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 35 · PG · 1h 40m · Comedy/Family
  Nate Bargatze writes, produces and stars in a stay-at-home-dad comedy that borrows its premise from 1983 and adds a phone. It is bright, amiable and almost entirely without jokes, and we were bored well before the first load of laundry was done.
- [*The Sheep Detectives*](https://film.one/film/the-sheep-detectives.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 76 · PG · 1h 49m · Comedy/Family · on Amazon Prime Video
  Kyle Balda’s farmyard whodunnit is funny and unexpectedly moving, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus giving its sheep detective a persuasive voice. The human characters are less convincing, and the cosy mystery sometimes struggles to keep up with the flock.
- [*The Super Mario Galaxy Movie*](https://film.one/film/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 38 · PG · 1h 38m · Family/Comedy · on Peacock
  The brothers go to space and the film goes with them at a sprint, never holding a shot long enough for a joke to land. Handsome to look at, tiring to sit through, and most critics have said so. Poor.
- [*Hoppers*](https://film.one/film/hoppers.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 76 · PG · 1h 44m · Adventure/Animation · on Disney+
  Pixar’s beaver body-swap is the studio’s funniest film in some years: quick, odd and unafraid of a nasty joke. The plot carries more than it needs and the last act loses its nerve, but the first hour is a pleasure.
- [*David*](https://film.one/film/david.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 58 · PG · 1h 49m · Animation/Family · on Netflix
  The available critical accounts suggest accomplished animation but disagree about whether the film earns our affection. Our provisional assessment is mixed: reported visual care gives it appeal, but concerns about the drama prevent a recommendation.
- [*Zootopia 2*](https://film.one/film/zootopia-2.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 70 · PG · 1h 48m · Animation/Adventure · on Disney+
  Howard and Bush’s sequel is quick, dense and often funny, and Ke Huy Quan’s Gary De’Snake is Disney’s best new character in some time. The mystery around him is busier and less sure-footed than the first film’s.
- [*Arco*](https://film.one/film/arco.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 74 · PG · 1h 29m · Adventure/Animation · on Hulu
  *Arco* is a warm, colourful family adventure that makes hope feel reasonable. Ugo Bienvenu gives its children enough curiosity to carry us through, though the time-travel rules and comic adults need more work.
- [*Little Amélie or the Character of Rain*](https://film.one/film/little-amelie-or-the-character-of-rain.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 80 · PG · 1h 17m · Animation/Drama
  Maïlys Vallade and Liane-cho Han make early childhood feel strange, absorbing and worth taking seriously. The animation rewards close attention, though the toddler’s viewpoint can be difficult to follow; we recommend it with that reservation.
- [*The Twits*](https://film.one/film/the-twits.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 45 · PG · 1h 39m · Animation/Comedy · on Netflix
  Margo Martindale and Johnny Vegas make the Twits as foul as Dahl wrote them, and the film spends the rest of its length apologising for them. Grubby, noisy and funny in patches, it is a black comedy with the black rinsed out.
- [*Freakier Friday*](https://film.one/film/freakier-friday.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 65 · PG · 1h 50m · Comedy/Fantasy · on Disney+
  Twenty-two years on, Lohan and Curtis swap again, and this time take two teenagers with them. Curtis is funny enough to carry it; the four-way plot is not, and the film keeps stopping to check we remember the first one.
- [*Elio*](https://film.one/film/elio.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 64 · PG · 1h 38m · Animation/Adventure · on Disney+
  The opening half hour, about a lonely boy who wants to be taken away, is close to Pixar’s best. What follows is bright, busy and kind, and it is also the story you expect, told at the pace of someone who has told it before.
- [*How to Train Your Dragon*](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 60 · PG · 2h 05m · Fantasy/Family · on Netflix
  Dean DeBlois remakes his own animated film almost shot for shot, with real rock, real weather and a Toothless you could touch. The flying still works and Mason Thames is a fine Hiccup, but it is longer, slower and adds almost nothing the first one lacked.
- [*Lilo & Stitch*](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 58 · PG · 1h 48m · Family/Science Fiction · on Disney+
  Dean Fleischer Camp’s remake of the 2002 cartoon is warmer than most of Disney’s live-action retreads, and Maia Kealoha and Sydney Agudong make the sisters count. It is also tamer, longer and about half as funny as the film it copies.
- [*A Minecraft Movie*](https://film.one/film/a-minecraft-movie.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 52 · PG · 1h 41m · Family/Fantasy
  Jared Hess gets some of his own oddness into a hundred minutes of shouting, and Jason Momoa is funnier than anything written for him. But a game about building whatever you like has been turned into a film that builds it for you, and it looks like it.
- [*Snow White*](https://film.one/film/snow-white.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 47 · PG · 1h 49m · Family/Fantasy · on Disney+
  Rachel Zegler sings well enough to carry a better film than this one. Around her, Marc Webb’s remake fusses over its changes, stalls whenever Gal Gadot speaks, and hands the story’s heart to seven digital dwarfs who never look her in the eye.
- [*Paddington in Peru*](https://film.one/film/paddington-in-peru.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 64 · PG · 1h 46m · Adventure/Comedy · on Netflix
  Dougal Wilson’s third Paddington film is kind, brisk and handsomely made, and Olivia Colman’s singing Reverend Mother is worth the ticket on her own. It is also the first of the three that plays like a sequel.
- [*Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl*](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 81 · PG · 1h 19m · Animation/Adventure · on Netflix
  Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham make a warm, funny adventure whose silent characters do the finest work. The plot is familiar and the police detours can drag, but the animation and the central friendship earn our recommendation.
- [*Mufasa: The Lion King*](https://film.one/film/mufasa-the-lion-king.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 57 · PG · 1h 58m · Adventure/Family · on Disney+
  Barry Jenkins puts a real film-maker’s eye behind the photoreal lions, and for stretches it shows: a flood, a brotherhood, a villain with Mads Mikkelsen’s voice. But the songs are forgettable and the framing device keeps stopping the story to make jokes.
- [*Sonic the Hedgehog 3*](https://film.one/film/sonic-the-hedgehog-3.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 61 · PG · 1h 50m · Action/Science Fiction · on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+
  Jeff Fowler’s third Sonic film is louder and a little better than the two before it, chiefly because Jim Carrey plays both Robotniks and is allowed to run. Around him is a fast, competent family film that tries for grief and settles for volume.
- [*Moana 2*](https://film.one/film/moana-2.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 55 · PG · 1h 40m · Adventure/Animation · on Disney+
  This return to Moana’s ocean is as handsome as the first film and a good deal emptier. The water is a wonder, Cravalho is still the reason to watch, and the new songs go in one ear and out the other.
- [*Flow*](https://film.one/film/flow.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 83 · PG · 1h 25m · Adventure/Animation
  Gints Zilbalodis’s wordless film about a cat adrift on a rising sea is patient, exact and more frightening than its U certificate suggests. It drifts in the middle and its ending reaches further than it grasps, but we recommend it, adults included.
- [*Kensuke's Kingdom*](https://film.one/film/kensukes-kingdom.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 76 · 1h 24m · Animation/Adventure · on The Roku Channel, Tubi
  Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry’s hand-drawn adventure is quietly affecting, especially when its drawings carry the feeling. The island’s dangers are softened too much, but the central friendship makes this worth a family’s evening.
- [*The Wild Robot*](https://film.one/film/the-wild-robot.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 80 · PG · 1h 42m · Family/Animation · on Amazon Prime Video
  Chris Sanders’s film about a robot raising a gosling is the warmest film DreamWorks has made in years, painted like a picture book and honest about death. We recommend it, with a caveat: the last third swaps feeling for action.
- [*Transformers One*](https://film.one/film/transformers-one.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 70 · PG · 1h 44m · Animation/Science Fiction · on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+
  Josh Cooley’s animated prequel gives Optimus Prime and Megatron a shared youth as miners and a friendship worth caring about, and it is funnier and clearer than anything the live-action films managed. The plot goes where you know it will, and the last act is mostly noise.
- [*Despicable Me 4*](https://film.one/film/despicable-me-4.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 55 · PG · 1h 34m · Animation/Comedy · on Amazon Prime Video
  The fourth Gru film is 94 minutes of sketches with a plot stapled on: bright, noisy, sometimes funny, and never in the same story for more than ten minutes. The children will not mind. The adults will check their watches.
- [*Inside Out 2*](https://film.one/film/inside-out-2.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 68 · PG · 1h 37m · Animation/Adventure · on Disney+
  Kelsey Mann’s sequel puts a thirteen-year-old’s head in the hands of Anxiety and follows the first film’s map almost turn for turn. It is kind, funny and well made, and one sequence late on is the real thing. The rest is a good copy.
- [*The Garfield Movie*](https://film.one/film/the-garfield-movie.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 47 · PG · 1h 41m · Adventure/Animation · on Hulu
  Mark Dindal finds some good physical comedy in Garfield’s outdoor adventure, but the cat’s dry indifference gets lost in the bustle. Appealing images and a lively Hannah Waddingham cannot make the routine story worth a family evening.
- [*IF*](https://film.one/film/if.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 56 · PG · 1h 44m · Comedy/Fantasy · on Netflix, Paramount+
  John Krasinski’s fantasy about abandoned imaginary friends is handsome, sincere and short on jokes, and it never settles what its own world is for. Cailey Fleming holds it together almost single-handed; the film around her keeps changing its mind.
- [*Kung Fu Panda 4*](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda-4.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 54 · PG · 1h 34m · Action/Adventure · on Amazon Prime Video
  Po’s fourth outing is brisk, bright and fitfully funny, with Viola Davis’s shape-shifting sorceress the one new thing in it. What is missing is the feeling the earlier films kept underneath the slapstick, and without it the film passes pleasantly and leaves nothing behind.
- [*Soul*](https://film.one/film/soul.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 80 · PG · 1h 41m · Animation/Family · on Disney+
  Pete Docter makes a funny, moving animation about the pressure to find a purpose. The rules of its soul world need pruning, but Jamie Foxx and the jazz give *Soul* enough life to earn a warm recommendation.
- [*Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget*](https://film.one/film/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 64 · PG · 1h 41m · Family/Animation · on Netflix
  Aardman’s sequel swaps the prison camp for a heist and keeps the clay. It is neat, handsome and mostly pleasant, and only once, in a room full of grinning hens, does it find something as sharp as the original.
- [*Wonka*](https://film.one/film/wonka.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 68 · PG · 1h 57m · Comedy/Family · on HBO Max
  Paul King brings the Paddington manner to Roald Dahl, and the result is handsome, kind and funny whenever Hugh Grant is on screen. It is also sweet without pause for 117 minutes, and Dahl’s bite is nowhere to be found.
- [*Wish*](https://film.one/film/wish.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 49 · PG · 1h 35m · Animation/Family · on Disney+
  Disney’s hundredth-birthday picture is handsome, brief and almost entirely empty. Ariana DeBose sings well and Chris Pine enjoys being wicked, but the story is a collection of nods to better films, and the songs are gone before the credits finish.
- [*Trolls Band Together*](https://film.one/film/trolls-band-together.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 58 · PG · 1h 31m · Animation/Family · on Amazon Prime Video
  The third Trolls film is 91 minutes of boy band jokes for the parents and colour for the children, made with real care in the textures and much less in the story. Small children will be happy; nobody else will remember it by Tuesday.
- [*Nimona*](https://film.one/film/nimona.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 74 · PG · 1h 39m · Animation/Family · on Netflix
  Nick Bruno and Troy Quane’s animated fairytale about a framed knight and a shapeshifting teenager is funnier and better drawn than its plot, which you will see coming from the castle walls. Worth your evening, particularly with a child present.
- [*Elemental*](https://film.one/film/elemental.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 64 · PG · 1h 42m · Animation/Comedy · on Disney+
  Peter Sohn’s fire-and-water romance is one of the handsomest things Pixar has made in years and one of the most cluttered. When it leaves Ember and Wade alone together it is lovely; the rest of the time it is filing paperwork.
- [*The Little Mermaid*](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 58 · PG · 2h 15m · Adventure/Family · on Disney+
  Halle Bailey sings ‘Part of Your World’ as if her life depends on it, and for four minutes the film is alive. Around her, Rob Marshall’s remake is long, murky under the water and afraid to change anything.
- [*The Super Mario Bros. Movie*](https://film.one/film/the-super-mario-bros-movie.md) — 2023 · Fi1m 56 · PG · 1h 33m · Family/Comedy · on Peacock
  Bright, brisk and dutiful, Horvath and Jelenic’s Mario gets every pipe and mushroom right and gives Jack Black a lava castle to sing in. Children will be happy for ninety minutes, and it has almost nothing to say about the two plumbers in the title.
- [*Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical*](https://film.one/film/roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 80 · PG · 1h 57m · Family/Comedy · on Netflix
  An energetic, moving family musical, led with assurance by Alisha Weir and softened by Lashana Lynch’s kindness. The children are worth the noise, though the staging sometimes needs to leave them alone.
- [*Minions: The Rise of Gru*](https://film.one/film/minions-the-rise-of-gru.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 66 · PG · 1h 27m · Animation/Comedy · on Netflix
  Kyle Balda’s cartoon delivers enough inventive slapstick to justify an undemanding evening. Pierre Coffin’s Minions do most of the work; the fragmented story and lengthy action stretches make the film more tiring than it needs to be.
- [*Marcel the Shell with Shoes On*](https://film.one/film/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 77 · PG · 1h 30m · Animation/Comedy
  Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer Camp stretch their one-inch shell to feature length, and he mostly survives it. Funny, gentle and thinner than it should be when it turns to fame, the film is carried home by Isabella Rossellini as the grandmother.
- [*Sonic the Hedgehog 2*](https://film.one/film/sonic-the-hedgehog-2.md) — 2022 · Fi1m 58 · PG · 2h 03m · Action/Adventure · on Netflix, Paramount+
  Jim Carrey supplies the laughs, and the animated characters make agreeable company. But a distracting wedding subplot and 123-minute runtime stretch a modest family adventure beyond what its story can sustain.
- [*Sing 2*](https://film.one/film/sing-2.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 63 · PG · 1h 50m · Animation/Comedy · on Amazon Prime Video
  Garth Jennings’s animated musical makes decent family entertainment out of engaging voices and elaborate musical numbers. Its crowded story and relentless song snippets are harder to enjoy, particularly when the performers stop to deliver another lesson.
- [*Encanto*](https://film.one/film/encanto.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 80 · PG · 1h 42m · Animation/Comedy · on Disney+
  A warm, perceptive family musical with an engaging heroine and a house worth getting to know. Its eagerness to tidy up difficult feelings is the chief reservation, but we recommend it warmly.
- [*Ron's Gone Wrong*](https://film.one/film/rons-gone-wrong.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 71 · PG · 1h 47m · Animation/Science Fiction · on Disney+
  An amiable family comedy about a boy and a faulty robot, with enough affection to make its familiar story worth an evening. The friendship is convincing; the warnings about technology need more thought.
- [*Luca*](https://film.one/film/luca.md) — 2021 · Fi1m 78 · PG · 1h 35m · Animation/Family · on Disney+
  Enrico Casarosa’s seaside fantasy is funny and affecting, and its Italian coastal town is a pleasure to explore. The friendship holds our attention more reliably than the loose, sometimes meandering story.
- [*Pinocchio*](https://film.one/film/pinocchio-2019.md) — 2019 · Fi1m 76 · PG-13 · 2h 04m · Drama/Family · on Tubi
  Matteo Garrone gives *Pinocchio* a vulnerable wooden face and a father worth worrying about. The creatures and performances make this an affecting fairy tale, though its episodic storytelling needs more discipline.
- [*The Croods: A New Age*](https://film.one/film/the-croods-a-new-age.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 70 · PG · 1h 35m · Animation/Family · on Peacock
  Joel Crawford’s prehistoric family comedy has bright creatures, sharp voice performances and more bustle than it needs. The rivalry between its families is funny enough to make the predictable story worth tolerating.
- [*Wolfwalkers*](https://film.one/film/wolfwalkers.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 84 · PG · 1h 42m · Animation/Family · on Apple TV
  Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart draw the town in hard lines and the wood in loose pencil, and it is the best-looking hand-drawn film we have seen in years. The villain is a stick figure and the story a familiar shape. We recommend it anyway.
- [*Roald Dahl's The Witches*](https://film.one/film/roald-dahls-the-witches.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 54 · PG · 1h 44m · Comedy/Fantasy
  Robert Zemeckis’s version of Dahl’s book has a Grand High Witch who is fun whenever she is on screen and a film around her that is too clean and too soft to frighten anyone. Octavia Spencer is the reason to stay.
- [*The One and Only Ivan*](https://film.one/film/the-one-and-only-ivan.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 64 · PG · 1h 33m · Family/Comedy
  Sam Rockwell gives *The One and Only Ivan* a sadness worth taking seriously. Thea Sharrock’s family drama is less convincing when it softens the conditions behind that sadness or hurries towards the next emotional cue.
- [*Artemis Fowl*](https://film.one/film/artemis-fowl.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 32 · PG · 1h 34m · Adventure/Fantasy
  Kenneth Branagh’s *Artemis Fowl* makes its young hero too agreeable, then surrounds him with explanations. This is a poor family adventure, despite some lively supporting performances and a house worth exploring.
- [*Onward*](https://film.one/film/onward.md) — 2020 · Fi1m 74 · PG · 1h 42m · Adventure/Animation · on Disney+
  *Onward* is a warm, funny family adventure whose brothers deserve a less predictable quest. The fantasy setting supplies good jokes, but the awkward affection between them gives us a reason to stay.

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