Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (All Ages)

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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. The films are shown in alphabetical* order by date of release.

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 all-ages list: the films have been chosen with under-sixes in mind, but don’t write them off as movies for babies! Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Studio Ghibli films feature here—they’re obviously suitable for the whole family.

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."

Note: The original list says "chronological order", but the films are clearly listed alphabetically by their title in English.

Full list on iCM
Pixar's Picks: Family Films
The other lists on iCM
Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (7 to 12 Years)
Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (12 Years and Over)

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    Annie

    1982, in 2 top lists Check
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    Babe

    1995, in 12 top lists Check
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    Bambi

    1942, in 13 top lists Check
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    Charlotte's Web

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
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    A Close Shave

    1995, in 2 top lists Check
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    Crac

    1980, in 2 top lists Check
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    Duck Amuck

    1953, in 11 top lists Check
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    Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century

    1953, in 3 top lists Check
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    Ernest et Célestine

    2012 — a.k.a. Ernest & Celestine, in 4 top lists Check
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    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
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    George of the Jungle

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
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    Gerald McBoing-Boing

    1950, in 4 top lists Check
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    A Goofy Movie

    1995, in 1 top list Check
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    A Grand Day Out

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Kid

    1921, in 17 top lists Check
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    Lassie Come Home

    1943, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Lion King

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Little Mermaid

    1989, in 8 top lists Check
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    Long-Haired Hare

    1949, in 2 top lists Check
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    Make Mine Music

    1946, in 1 top list Check
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    L'homme qui plantait des arbres

    1987 — a.k.a. The Man Who Planted Trees, in 8 top lists Check
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    Mary Poppins

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
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    Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot

    1953 — a.k.a. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, in 22 top lists Check
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    Moonbird

    1959, in 2 top lists Check
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    Tonari no Totoro

    1988 — a.k.a. My Neighbor Totoro, in 23 top lists Check
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    The Nightmare Before Christmas

    1993, in 15 top lists Check
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    Gake no ue no Ponyo

    2008 — a.k.a. Ponyo, in 3 top lists Check
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    Rabbit Fire

    1951, in 2 top lists Check
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    Le ballon rouge

    1956 — a.k.a. The Red Balloon, in 11 top lists Check
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    Rooty Toot Toot

    1951, in 3 top lists Check
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    Shaun the Sheep

    2007, in 1 top list Check
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    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
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    Toy Story

    1995, in 25 top lists Check
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    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
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    Windy Day

    1968, in 1 top list Check
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    Winnie the Pooh

    2011, in 1 top list Check
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    The Wrong Trousers

    1993, in 7 top lists Check
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Last updated on Apr 15, 2020; source