Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (12 Years and Over)
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"Kids deserve to watch great films, especially in these times. But where to turn when you need a quality watchlist of family films?
Pixar to the rescue! A bunch of the renowned studio's filmmakers have shown up in your hour of need, to make personal recommendations from the Pixar vault and far beyond, separated into three age groupings: All Ages, 7 to 12 Years and 12 Years and Over.
Enormous thanks to Angus MacLane (co-director of Finding Dory and director of BURN·E, Toy Story of Terror! and Small Fry), Domee Shi (director of Bao), Kristen Lester (director of Purl), Daniel Chong (story artist on Cars 2, Inside Out, Toy Story of Terror!, and creator of We Bare Bears!), Peter Sohn (director of The Good Dinosaur), Valerie LaPointe (Head of Story on Toy Story 4, director of Lamp Life), Brian Fee (director of Cars 3), Enrico Casarosa (director of La Luna), and Andrew Stanton (director of WALL·E, Finding Nemo and Finding Dory).
A note about this twelves-and-over list: the directors acknowledge some of their choices lean more ‘adult’, and advise discretion. “My kids love horror and I’m a bad parent. Anything horror. Even bad horror,” says Brian Fee, while Peter Sohn notes that his Hitchcock choices are “obviously for older kids, but I showed my kids The Empire Strikes Back and when they blew up C-3PO, that apparently was scarier than anything in Rear Window”.
Meanwhile, Valerie LaPointe has included “an ’80s Extravaganza list for older kids. Guaranteed something offensive or ridiculous but great fodder for your children to mock your childhood. So naturally, I will force them upon my own children. Talking points!”
We encourage you to read the notes to see individual director recommendations (and some explanations!). For age groupings, you know your children best so explore all three lists and screen at your discretion. We cross-checked the age groupings with Common Sense Media, and then asked children's film specialist Nicola Marshall to finesse them. Read more from Nicola in our blog."
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Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (All Ages)
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Adventures in Babysitting
1987 — a.k.a. A Night on the Town, in 0 top lists Check -
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Alien
1979, in 30 top lists Check -
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Army of Darkness
1992, in 6 top lists Check -
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Attack the Block
2011, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ladri di biciclette
1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check -
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Big
1988, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Birds
1963, in 18 top lists Check -
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Black Panther
2018, in 9 top lists Check -
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Can't Buy Me Love
1987 — a.k.a. Boy Rents Girl, in 0 top lists Check -
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Creed
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
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Edward Scissorhands
1990, in 10 top lists Check -
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Eve's Bayou
1997, in 6 top lists Check -
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun
1985, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
1980, in 2 top lists Check -
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Groundhog Day
1993, in 22 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2001, in 5 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002, in 3 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004, in 9 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005, in 4 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007, in 4 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009, in 3 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010, in 4 top lists Check -
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011, in 10 top lists Check -
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Hearts Beat Loud
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Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
1958 — a.k.a. The Hidden Fortress, in 9 top lists Check -
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Intouchables
2011 — a.k.a. The Intouchables, in 7 top lists Check -
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Iron Man
2008, in 8 top lists Check -
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It
1990, in 1 top list Check -
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Jurassic Park
1993, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Kings of Summer
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mean Girls
2004, in 4 top lists Check -
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Men in Black
1997, in 6 top lists Check -
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Napoleon Dynamite
2004, in 4 top lists Check -
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Poltergeist
1982, in 9 top lists Check -
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Pride & Prejudice
2005, in 1 top list Check -
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Rear Window
1954, in 31 top lists Check -
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Sense and Sensibility
1995, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Shining
1980, in 28 top lists Check -
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Sing Street
2016, in 3 top lists Check -
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SpaceCamp
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
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Splash
1983, in 3 top lists Check -
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Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
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Zatôichi monogatari
1962 — a.k.a. The Tale of Zatoichi, in 2 top lists Check -
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Us
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Young Frankenstein
1974, in 14 top lists Check
Last updated on Apr 15, 2020; source