Best Family movies of 1980s

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Ally Sheedy, Austin Pendleton, Fisher Stevens,
Directors : John Badham,

Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.

Actors : Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Kathryn Mullen,

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Desmond Davis,

Perseus must battle both Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

Actors : Raymond Bussières, Jean Martin, Agnès Viala, Pascal Mazzotti,
Directors : Paul Grimault,

A chimney sweep and a shepherdess seek to escape from the clutches of a tyrannical king.

Actors : Pat Morita, Thomas Ian Griffith, Robyn Lively, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.

Actors : Cliff De Young, Paul Reubens, Veronica Cartwright, Joey Cramer,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship.

Actors : Jean Marsh, Fairuza Balk, Piper Laurie, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Walter Murch,

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.

Actors : Vincent Price, Val Bettin, Barrie Ingham, Susanne Pollatschek,

Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan.

Actors : Elias Koteas, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, John Travolta,
Directors : Amy Heckerling,

This time, a new baby is on the way, and it's a girl. Wrapped together with the standard conflict between mother and father, Mikey engages in a bit of sibling rivalry with his new sister.

Actors : River Phoenix, Ethan Hawke, Bradley Gregg, Jason Presson,
Directors : Joe Dante,

A boy obsessed with 50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?

Actors : Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver, John Ritter,
Directors : Dennis Dugan,

A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Frank McRae, Jessica Tandy, Elizabeth Peña,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.

Actors : Anna Paquin, Mark Hamill, Cloris Leachman, James Van Der Beek,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Actors : Shigesato Itoi, Chika Sakamoto, Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.

Actors : Tim Blaney, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Fisher Stevens,
Directors : Kenneth Johnson,

Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.

Actors : Pat Morita, Eddie Smith, Ralph Macchio, Bruce Malmuth,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.

Actors : Christine Ebersole, Lauren Stanley, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.

Actors : Steve Guttenberg, Nancy Travis, Tom Selleck, Ted Danson,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guys' girlfriends.

Actors : John Wesley Shipp, Kenny Morrison, Jonathan Brandis, Clarissa Burt,
Directors : George Miller,

A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.