Best Family movies of 1960s

The Incredible Mr. Limpet(1964)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Meek and mild mannered bookkeeper Henry Limpet has few passions in life. It's mid-1941 and he would love to join the Navy but has been rated 4F. His friend George Stickle is in the Navy and...



Blackbeard's Ghost(1968)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 8

On the Carolina coast, Godolphin College's new track coach lodges at Blackbeard's Inn, run by the Daughters of the Buccaneers who claim to be descendants of the notorious pirate and who risk losing their hotel to the local mobster.



Finian's Rainbow(1968)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 11

An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.



Scrooge(1970)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.



The Absent Minded Professor(1961)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.



Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes(1965)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Sabotage efforts damage an international air race.



The Ghost and Mr. Chicken(1966)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Luther Heggs aspires to being a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion ...



Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.(1966)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 10

The Daleks' fiendish plot in 2150 against Earth and its people is foiled when Dr. Who and friends arrive from the 20th century and figure it out.



Yours, Mine and Ours(1968)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.



The Incredible Journey(1963)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 6

The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?



The Trouble with Angels(1966)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.



Please Don't Eat the Daisies(1960)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A university professor leaves his job to become a theater critic, creating problems with his family and friends.



Mysterious Island(1961)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.



The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes(1969)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, ...



That Darn Cat!(1965)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an SOS, the FBI assigns a cat-allergic agent to the case.



Mad Monster Party?(1967)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 7

When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there ...



Son of Flubber(1963)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 6

When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.



Frosty(1964)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A fairy-tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.



Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven(1970)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

With the help of her friends Tommy and Annika, Pippi Longstocking ventures to the South Pacific island Porto Piluse to rescue her father, who was captured by ruthless pirates.



Cinderfella(1960)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 4

This was Jerry Lewis' answer to the classic Cinderella story. When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons, Maximilian and ...




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