Best Family movies of 1980s

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 : Josef Kemr, Vladimír Dlouhý, Jana Dítetová, Ondrej Vetchý,
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 : 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 : 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 : Vera Alentova, Sergey Nikonenko, Irina Cherichenko, Nina Ruslanova,
Directors : Yuriy Kara,

This movie is based on a novel by Boris Vasiliev and describes life in a small Russian provincial town in 1940 - one year before Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Two school girls for the ...

Actors : Tony Danza, Danny DeVito, Stacey Nelkin, Jessica Walter,
Directors : Jeremy Joe Kronsberg,

When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Foster inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the orangutans or ...

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 : 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 : Denis Bernard, Mahée Paiement, Doris Blanchet-Vasiloff, Véronique Lavoie,
Directors : André Mélançon,

Fanny is a young orphan girl who is sent to live with her detached Uncle Jonathan when her grandmother enters a nursing home. As Jonathan prepares for an organ recital of music by Bach, he ...

Actors : Shammi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Prem Chopra, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Rahul Rawail,

Sunny owns a small livestock farm and lives a poor but happy life style with his mother, Sumitra. They wanted the farm to become up to date, so Sumitra decides to make a move abroad in ...

Actors : Nicola Stapleton, Billy Barty, Diana Rigg, Sarah Patterson,
Directors : Michael Berz,

Dame Diana Rigg (TV's "The Avengers"), Billy Barty ("Willow") and Sarah Patterson ("The Company of Wolves") as Snow White star in this feature-length, live-action, musical version of the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

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 : Youssra, Adel Imam, Hussien El Sherbiny, Essad Youniss,
Directors : Raafat El-Mihi,

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...