Best Family movies of 1980s

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

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 : David Sluga, Kaja Stiglic, Boris Kralj, Marjana Karner,
Directors : Tugo Stiglic,

Young Tomaz has many problems. Not only is he quite lonely, but he also has to leave his hometown and move to the city with his family because of his father's new job. In these difficult ...

Actors : Erik Lindgren, Björn Gustafson, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Ewa Fröling,

Pelle is a cat who was born without a proper tail. He compensates this by studying hard and, much to the dismay of his archrival Måns, receives a fancy degree very few cats in Sweden have ...

Actors : Vijayshanti, Saeed Jaffrey, Anil Kapoor, Asha Sachdev,

Ishwar is a simple-minded and honest young man, devout and religious, he cares for everybody. He meets with a young widow with a son and marries her. This story is about him and his trials and triumphs.

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 : Pat Fraley, Barry Gordon, Bob Holt, Bob Arbogast,

To fight evil, a young rabbit can transform into a star spangled superhero.

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 : 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 : Farooq Shaikh, Naseeruddin Shah, Supriya Pathak, Smita Patil,
Directors : Sagar Sarhadi,

Najma and Salim are in love, but their's is a platonic relationship, as Salim is a deep thinker and prefers that women like Najma be financially independent, and not be dependent on men. On...

Actors : Sreenivasan, Mammootty, Asokan, Mohanlal,
Directors : Sathyan Anthikad,

A jobless Malayali youth poses as a Nepali to get a job as a watchman.

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 : Rebecca De Mornay, John Savage, Yossi Graber, Michael Schneider,
Directors : Eugene Marner,

To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.

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 : 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 : Jason Connery, Yossi Graber, Christopher Walken, Carmela Marner,
Directors : Eugene Marner,

A cat belonging to a poor miller's son thinks up a great plan for bringing a title, wealth, and marriage for his owner. He begins to carry it out, using a few birds and rabbits as gifts for...

Actors : Ivo Rogulja, Emil Glad, Nada Rocco, Dragan Milivojevic,
Directors : Milan Blazekovic,

Thistle the magician and his forest friends (from _The Elm Chanted Forest (1986)_) take on an ice emperor, Mrazomor, and his horde.

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 : Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Hamid Jebeli, Fariba Jeddikar, Adel Bezdoudeh,

Probably the most famous puppet show for children and all ages. Mice who have to leave their school and immigrate because of a wild cat who wants to eat them up. Eventually the mice defeat the cat and go back to their home.