Best Family movies of 1980s

Cheetah(1989)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 5

An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. ...



Momo(1986)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the village of Momo the pace of time goes very slowly. Nobody is bothering about stress but everyone has time to chat and rest - until the day the grey men arrive. With a great selling ...



Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn(1986)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of the children who live in Bullarby, Sweden, through the spring and summer months.



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!



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.



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.



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.



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.



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 ...



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 ...



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...



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.



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.



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 ...



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.



Busters verden(1984)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Buster is an aspiring magician battling his status as a geek. Making things more difficult is his small size. This movie chronicles Buster's unique way of dealing with bullies, school, his ...



A Gnome Named Gnorm(1990)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Los Angeles police detective partners up with a talking gnome in order to bring down the head of a crime ring.



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.




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