Family-Friendly Movies
In addition to our extensive collection of children’s and family DVDs in the Youth Services Department, there are many family movies in the Adult Collection on the main floor. Here’s a great list of movies rated G, PG, (and a few PG-13 films) that you might enjoy watching with your kids or teens. Click on the movie titles to check the call number or read more information. Enjoy a family movie tonight!
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Errol Flynn, PG)
Amazing Grace (PG)
American Graffiti (1973, PG)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956, G)
Batman Begins (PG-13)
(Batman) The Dark Knight (PG-13)
Beetlejuice (1988, PG)
Bella (PG-13)
Bend It Like Beckham (PG-13)
Big (1988, Tom Hanks, PG) also in Juvenile collection
Breaking Away (1979, PG)
Bride and Prejudice (PG-13, Bollywood)
Camelot (1967, G)
Charly (1968, Cliff Robertson, PG-13)
A Christmas Story (1983, PG)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, PG)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (PG-13)
Dead Poets Society (1989, PG)
Doctor Dolittle (1967, Rex Harrison, G)
Duma (PG)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986, PG-13)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971, not rated)
Field of Dreams (1989, PG)
Forrest Gump (PG-13)
Funny Girl (1968, Barbara Streisand, PG)
The Golden Compass (PG-13)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Henry Fonda, PG)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988, directed by Isao Takahata, PG)
Grease (1978, John Travolta, PG)
Groundhog Day (PG)
Harvey (1950, Jimmy Stewart, not rated)
Hello, Dolly (1969, Barbara Streisand, G)
Hoop Dreams (1994, PG-13)
Hoosiers (1986, PG)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, PG)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, PG)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, PG-13)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, PG-13)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963, G)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1947, not rated)
Jaws (PG-13)
The King and I (1956, Yul Brynner, G)
King Kong (1933, not rated)
King Kong (2005, PG-13)
Local Hero (1983, PG)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (PG-13)
Mad Hot Ballroom (PG)
Marley and Me (PG) also in Juvenile collection
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Judy Garland, not rated)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947, not rated)
My Fair Lady (1964, Audrey Hepburn, G)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, G)
National Velvet (1944, Elizabeth Taylor, G)
The Nutty Professor (1963, Jerry Lewis, not rated)
Oklahoma! (1955, musical, G)
Oliver! (1968, Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, G)
Oliver Twist (1948, not rated)
Phantom of the Opera (2004, musical, PG-13)
The Pink Panther Film Collection (Volumes 1-5, G)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, PG-13)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006, PG-13)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007, PG-13
Planet of the Apes (2001, PG-13)
The Prestige (PG-13)
Princess Bride (PG) also in J collection
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975, G)
Rocky (1976, PG)
Romancing the Stone (1984, PG)
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (PG-13) Sisterhood #1 is in Juvenile collection
Son of Rambow (PG-13)
Sounder (1972, Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, G)
Spider-man (PG-13) only in Juvenile collection
Spider-man 2 (PG-13)
Spider-man 3 (PG-13)
Star Wars I The Phantom Menace (PG)
Star Wars II Attack of the Clones (PG)
Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith (PG-13)
Star Wars IV A New Hope (1977, PG)
Star Wars V The Empire Strikes Back (1980, PG)
Star Wars VI Return of the Jedi (1983, PG)
The Sting (1973, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, PG)
Stranger than Fiction (PG-13)
That’s Entertainment! (1974, G)
Superman Returns (PG-13)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Gregory Peck, not rated)
Warm Springs (TVPG)
Whale Rider (PG-13)
X-Men (PG-13)
The Yearling (1946, Gregory Peck, G) also in Juvenile collection
Yellow Submarine (1968, The Beatles, G)
Young @ Heart (PG)
Young Frankenstein (1974, Gene Wilder, PG)
