Best Family movies of 1980s

Actors : Yôko Asagami, Keiko Takeshita, Tarô Shigaki, Asao Koike,
Directors : Kimio Yabuki,

A prince falls in love with a princess cursed to change into a swan by day, but their love is threatened by the sorcerer who keeps her imprisoned.

Actors : Klári Tolnay, Levente Igaz, Eszter Kárász, József Székhelyi,
Directors : József Gémes,

When young Vili starts shooting at birds, a fairy decides to teach him a lesson and turns him into a sparrow.

Actors : Josef Kemr, Vladimír Dlouhý, Ondrej Vetchý, Jana Dítetová,
Directors : Hynek Bocan,

Petr's greedy stepmother steals everything from her stepson. Meanwhile, Petr meets two daughters of a local duke. He falls in love with one of them, but she is very proud and Petr means ...

Actors : Katsue Miwa, Junko Hori, Ryouko Kitamiya, Kazuko Sugiyama,

A story about how joy and happiness can be the most powerful weapon ever. A young unicorn is ordered to be taken from his home by the gods. They are envious of little Unico's power to bring...

Actors : Nicola Stapleton, Juliette Caton, Charlie Sheen, Joanna Clarke,
Directors : Christopher Leitch,

In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I.

Actors : Piotr Fronczewski, Slavek Wronka, Leon Niemczyk, Bronislaw Pawlik,
Directors : Krzysztof Gradowski,

Ten-year-old Adas, beginning his education at the Academy, finds the hideout of Bird Matt, who used to be a prince. Touched by his fate, he promises to find the magic button which has the power to restore him to human shape.

Actors : Lisa Jai, Gavin Magrath, Elizabeth Hanna, Gordon Pinsent,
Directors : Alan Bunce,

In his spectacular film debut, young Babar, King of the Elephants, must save his homeland from certain destruction by Rataxes and his band of invading rhinos.

Actors : Nancy Cartwright, Ruth Buzzi, Cathy Cavadini, Greg Berg,
Directors : Pierre DeCelles,

On a magical artifact called the Bone of Scone, that gives "Puppy Power" to the Pound Puppies and Pound Purries. However, a villain named Marvin McNasty plans to take it and use it for ...

Actors : Anastasiya Zuyeva, Mikhail Zimin, N. Boronina, Aleksey Zolotnitskiy,

Czar marries one of three sisters and they have a son. The other two consumed by jealousy throw the girl and the boy into the sea. They end up on an island where the boy meets a magical swan who grants wishes. The boy uses three.

Actors : Dick Beals, Art Clokey, Dal McKennon, Paul Frees,
Directors : Arnold Leibovit,

Salute to the revolutionary Oscar winning stop motion animated Puppetoons created by sci-fi fantasy film legend George Pal. Gumby, Pokey and Arnie the Dinosaur host 12 of Pal's milestone ...

Actors : Ion Popescu-Gopo, Gilda Manolescu, Ingrid Celia, Medeea Marinescu,
Directors : Ion Popescu-Gopo,

Two little girls - Maria and Mirabella - go to the woods for a walk and encounter several magical characters, among them a frog with his feet frozen in ice, a fireworm whose shoes keep ...

Actors : Clive Revill, Helen Hunt, Aileen Quinn, John Paragon,
Directors : Jackson Hunsicker,

Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a good friend and princess with the help of a "tall frog."

Actors : Tommy Cannon, Roy Kinnear, Bobby Ball, Suzanne Danielle,
Directors : Val Guest,

Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they ...

Actors : Frank Robert, Kai Remlow, Elisabeth Sand, Anders Danielsen Lie,
Directors : Erik Gustavson,

"Herman", based on Lars Saabye Christensen's novel of the same name, tells the story of the young boy Herman who suddenly loses his hair and becomes bald at the age of eleven. He follows ...

Actors : Ülari Kirsipuu, Ines Aru, Egert Soll, Anna-Liisa Kurve,
Directors : Helle Karis,

Nukitsamees (English title: Bumpy) is a family musical which somewhat echoes the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. A brother and sister called Kusti and Iti get lost in a forest while ...

Actors : Veselin Prahov, Lyudmila Filipova, Martin Stoyanov, Emil Dimitrov,
Directors : Dimitar Petrov,

This film reminds us that childhood is the best period in human's life. The story is filled with love for the children and colored with special child humor.

Actors : Tanikella Bharani, Sridevi, Brahmanandam, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : K. Raghavendra Rao,

A man finds a ring that gives the bearer great power but the goddess to whom the ring belongs wants it back.

Actors : SriRam Edida, Sarath Babu, Kamal Haasan, Radhika Sarathkumar,
Directors : K. Viswanath,

The story is of mentally slow man, whose life is recapped to his grand-daughter. How he meets his wife (who was a widow), earns his living and fights the injustice he and his wife face.

Actors : Mário Cardoso, Renato Aragão, Baiaco, Maria Cláudia,
Directors : J.B. Tanko,

Four humble and goofy employees of a prominent circus, all of them with a natural comedic talent, rebel against their tyrannical boss and his unscrupulous illusionist assistant.

Actors : Dilip Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri, Waheeda Rehman,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

A chain of events changes Raja's life - from black marketer to journalist to an underworld Don and a Racketeer in order to combat Vardhan.