Best Family movies of 1970s

Haathi Mere Saathi(1971)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Orphaned Raju, in the company of four elephants, has to perform with them at street corners, in order to keep alive. Slowly he amasses a fortune, and is able to build his own private zoo, ...



Hot Lead and Cold Feet(1978)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This saga of the old west involves twin brothers who compete for possession of a rickety cow town founded by their father while a crooked mayor tries to put an end to the competitors so he can inherit the town himself.



Dívka na kosteti(1972)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Saxana has the enthusiasm, but lacks the right talent to become a witch. So she's kept in for 300 years - nothing unusual for a sorceress' school. Being bored, she skims through the ...



Mili(1975)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A reclusive, depressed man and a bubbly young woman fall in love but then find out that she has cancer.



Na samote u lesa(1976)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Lavicka's, a Czech family from the city, rents a house in the country with the option to buy. However, old Mr Komarek seems reluctant to sell the house as they agreed.



The Water Babies(1978)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This children's fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel.



The Blue Bird(1976)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by...



La flûte à six schtroumpfs(1976)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A villain named McCreep steals the Smurfs' magic flute, an instrument that makes people dance wildly, and uses it to rob them. The Smurf King sends out Peewit to track down the thief and retrieve the flute.



The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams(1974)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After fleeing into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder, woodsman "Grizzly Adams" discovers an uncanny bond to the indigenous wildlife of the region after rescuing an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he adopts and calls "Ben".



Gamera tai Daimaju Jaiga(1970)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When an ancient statue is moved for display in Expo '70, a giant, vaguely Triceratops-like monster is released. The monster goes to Japan in pursuit of the statue and ends up battling Gamera, the giant flying turtle.



Scandalous John(1971)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.



Parichay(1972)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jaya Bhaduri, A.K. Hangal, Jeetendra, Pran,
Gulzar,

In desperate need of a job, unemployed Ravi (Jeetendra) goes to his maternal uncle (A.K. Hangal) and aunt (Leela Mishra) in their village for a few days. His uncle decides that he can be a ...



Tatsu no ko Tarô(1979)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young boy has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.



Hayat sevince güzel(1971)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Turkish Pollyanna's story.



Actorul si salbaticii(1975)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0



Jack and the Beanstalk(1974)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young boy named, Jack, climbs a giant beanstalk and stumbles upon a city in the clouds ruled by an evil queen.



Saudagar(1973)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Moti sells gurd in the market. He collects the raw material and takes them to an older woman, Mahjubhi, who makes exemplary gurd. Moti loves a village girl but is unable to afford to pay ...



Guddi(1971)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."



Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World(1973)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!



Anderusen dôwa ningyo-hime(1975)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mermaid falls in love with a human prince, which leads to tragedy.




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