Best Family movies of 1980s

The Peanut Butter Solution(1985)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair...



Rasmus på luffen(1981)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Rasmus lives at an orphanage. He's OK, but wants a mom and a dad, and from time to time some comes to find a child, but they always chose little girls curls. Rasmus realizes he has to run away and find parents himself.



Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel(1983)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Bumble the Bear (Olivier Bommel) finds an egg that, it turns out, has a cute little dragon in it. However, this dinosaur grows huge every time it is upset. As this causes a lot of problems, Ollie Bommel has to face a difficult dilemma.



Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night(1987)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Pinocchio and his friends, a glow worm and a marionette, search for a magic music box. However, so is the evil Scalawag and the Emperor of the Night.



Fracchia la belva umana(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life!



Ubit drakona(1989)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people.



Frog Dreaming(1986)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Still grieving the loss of his parents, a young boy living in Australia finds himself caught up in the magic of an Aboriginal myth that might be more real than anyone knows.



Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island(1983)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the ...



Bingo Bongo(1982)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A monkey like man found in the jungles of Congo is brought to Milan, Italy and is called Bingo Bongo. Only Laura, an anthropologist, believes in his human qualities.



Khubsoorat(1980)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Nirmala Gupta runs her household and family in a very strict and authoritarian manner. While most of her family resent this, they do obey her and carry out her instructions, so as to be on ...



Madicken på Junibacken(1980)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Madicken never means for anything to go wrong, but somehow it gets that way. Neither this time, when her little sister got a concussion, and it's not her fault that she puts a pea up her own nose.



Nukie(1987)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An alien called Nukie searches for his brother Miko, who has been captured by the U.S. government.



Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller(1988)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around ...



Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer(1985)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Rainbow Brite must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra.



Gummi-Tarzan(1981)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As...



S tebou me baví svet(1983)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three middle-aged men go for a vacation with their children and learn to cope with their needs without their wives. Quickly, they plan to exhaust the kids to have some time off, but nothing really works out as planned.



Night Crossing(1982)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two men want to escape from East Germany, but they will only go if they can take their families with them.



Cudesna suma(1986)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A painter who can temporarily talk to the creatures of an enchanted forest, must help them stop the evil Cactus King, who's building an army of magical living weapons and machines to turn the forest into a wasteland perfect for the cacti.



Resan till Melonia(1989)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.



The Three Veterans(1984)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three veterans are given magic artifacts by elves that can magically create gold, servants and any other object. They encounter greedy characters and one of them falls in love with a princess.




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