Family Movies Bucket List

Ariel under the sea and the start of the Disney Renaissance.

Robin Williams as the Genie, a magic carpet ride and "A Whole New World".

Jack Skellington kidnaps Santa; Selick and Burton's stop-motion musical.

Hogwarts for the first time, Quidditch and the Mirror of Erised; the series begins.

The first animated film nominated for Best Picture; the ballroom scene.

Cuaron's darker Hogwarts, Dementors and a time-turner; the one fans rate highest.

A cat survives a flood with a capybara, a lemur and a bird; no dialogue, made in Blender.

A Colombian family with magical gifts, and the one daughter without; "We Don't Talk About Bruno".

George Bailey sees the world without him and Bedford Falls at Christmas became a ritual.

A Scottish princess refuses her betrothal and turns her mother into a bear.

A rabbit cop and a fox con man in a city of animals, with a plot about prejudice.

An emperor penguin who cannot sing but can tap dance.

Elderly parents visit their busy children in Tokyo; regularly voted the greatest film ever made.

A clownfish crosses the ocean to find his son; Dory forgets why.

A family of retired superheroes in suburbia; Pixar does a Bond film.

Thirty years of a mother and daughter, from comedy to a hospital corridor.

A governess, seven children and the Salzburg hills; still the musical everyone can sing.

The first computer-animated feature: a cowboy doll and a space ranger fight over a boy.

Woody is stolen by a collector and learns he was once a TV star.

A rat with a palate cooks in Paris, and a critic remembers his mother's food.

One California family, nineteen adopted children, most of them disabled or refugees from Vietnam.

How Willy Wonka got the factory, as a musical with Chalamet and a Hugh Grant Oompa-Loompa.

Ira Wohl films his cousin Philly, fifty-two and intellectually disabled, learning to live without his parents.

A board game that empties the jungle into a New Hampshire town, and the boy who was stuck inside it.

A grown-up Peter Pan, played by Robin Williams, has to remember how to fly.

A divorced father disguises himself as a Scottish housekeeper to see his children.

Shrek signs away a day of his old life to Rumpelstiltskin and wakes in an ogre resistance.