Classic movies from 2010 to as far back as you can go.

Krazy_Kat
Krazy_Kat Posts: 212
edited 9:09AM in Chit-Chat
My daughter and I watch a movie every night, we don't watch TV otherwise. We're quickly getting through all we want to watch and are running out of ideas. Just finished the Narnia series, about to start on the Lord of the Rings Trio. We'll watch the Terminator series. Sound of music. Anything. All genres would be good. I'd like to cover Westerns, foreign, Anime, Action, adventure, comedy anything !!!

What's you favourite movies of all time. Suitable for a 12 y/o. No explicit sex Scenes, but themes ok. Not too much horror, gore is ok, but not prefered.

I'd also like to introduce some education without being obvious like, history, geography and politics.

Whenever I get to the movie store I get a mental blank, so I'd like to take a list in.

I need 190 movies! Go!
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  • Krazy_Kat
    Krazy_Kat Posts: 212
    bumpity

    Maybe we'll watch the Star Wars series as well
  • MarriSunshine
    MarriSunshine Posts: 26
    I love Peter Pan, both movie & cartoon, The Last Airbender....
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Pink Flamingoes
  • Doing_The_Unstruck
    Doing_The_Unstruck Posts: 241 Member
    The Big Lebowski
  • Maurice1966
    Maurice1966 Posts: 419 Member
    Conan the Barbarian (with the "Governator")
  • Shelgirl001
    Shelgirl001 Posts: 477 Member
    Star wars is a great series.I always liked the obvious teen movies in the 80's like the Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller's Day off. Have you guys watched E.T yet? Or Grease(the original)?
  • GetSkinny97
    GetSkinny97 Posts: 11
    Matilda :)
  • superdrood
    superdrood Posts: 129 Member
    Legend
  • Onaughmae
    Onaughmae Posts: 873 Member
    The Harry Potter series
  • usernamekelly1
    usernamekelly1 Posts: 1,941 Member
    My daughter loves the happy potter movies, and the LOR. , But there's also Short circuit 1&2, back to the future trilogy, Indian Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, the spider-man trilogy, X-Men, The mighty Ducks, go look on the IMDB at the top 250 also :)
  • threasarenee
    threasarenee Posts: 78 Member
    The Labrynth...ANY musical :) Are some of my favorites. Swing Kids is a good one that has some history included in it. There are SO many great movies out there :)
  • kateschneider
    kateschneider Posts: 6 Member
    LOVE Swing Kids. :) That and Field of Dreams are my two favorites.
  • DieVixen
    DieVixen Posts: 790 Member
    kid friendly...hmmm so no clown porn...no fear & loathing

    have you tried

    legand

    Flight of the navigator

    watershipdown

    the big red one (this one was actually one of my favs when i was little)
  • lilrette
    lilrette Posts: 23 Member
    Sixteen Candles.
  • seventwenty
    seventwenty Posts: 565 Member
    Hmmm well since you said classic movies:

    Dr. Strangelove
    Citizen Kane
    Casablanca
    All Jimmy Stewart movies (esp. Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith)
    The Great Dictator
    King Kong
    Wizard of Oz
    Gone with the Wind
    Shawshank Redemption (I think it's okay for a 12 yr old)
    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Modern Classics:
    Fantasia
    Akira (might not be okay for a 12 yr old)
    Ghostbusters
    Monty Python (...ehh.... may wait until 15)
  • Bucky83
    Bucky83 Posts: 1,194 Member
    Wayne's World (I loved this movie at that age, though some comments went over my head)
    Clueless (Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd)
    When in Rome (with Josh Duhamel, Kristen Bell)
    What a Girl Wants (with Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth)
    She's the Man (also Amanda Bynes)
  • DaughterOfTheMostHighKing
    DaughterOfTheMostHighKing Posts: 1,436 Member
    my daughter loves the classic musicals, Oklahoma!, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Chitty-chitty Bang-Bang, The King and I (with Yul Brenner), Flower Drum Song... :)
  • jenkidney
    jenkidney Posts: 149 Member
    Some of the "classic" movies my 9 year old son and I have watched recently are:

    Rookie of the Year
    The Wizard
    The Princess Bride
    all the Harry Potter series
    The Goonies
    all the Mighty Ducks movies
    the Twilight series
    Men in Black & MIB2
    Little Big League
    Parenthood
  • duhblond
    duhblond Posts: 138 Member
    The king and I
    Anna and the King
    Spider man movies
    Orig Superman series (there is some profanity in it)
    Maverick (mild sex scene)
    Shanghai Noon
    Lethal weapon movies
    James bond (any of them)
    Robin hood prince of thieves
    Oscar (with Stallone :D )
    Any Audrey Hepburn movie - my fair lady, roman holiday and great.
    Sabrina (old and new version are both good)
    Any Kathrine Hepburn movie
    Gone with the wind
    Kiss the girls
    Jerry Lewis (nutty professor is a great one)
    Princess Diaries
    Pride and prejudice (bbc edition with Colin firth)
    Benny and Joon
    Newsies
    The journey of natty gann
    Top Gun
    Mission impossible movies

    :)

    for anime...

    Skip beat!
    Fruits basket
    Itzura na kiss
    story of saiunkoku
    gakuen alice
    Ouran high school host club (some mild inappropriate stuff)
    Black butler (rather dark and violent)
    Love Com (aka lovely complex)
    Howls moving castle
  • Onemoodycuss
    Onemoodycuss Posts: 95 Member
    Hmmm.
    Check out The Court Jester with Danny Kaye. The Princess Bride. Legend is great--Tim Curry is one of the most underrated actors. Sleep Hollow's a lot of fun
  • Onemoodycuss
    Onemoodycuss Posts: 95 Member
    That should be Sleepy Hollow.
  • Jjmcgaffey
    Jjmcgaffey Posts: 15
    Miyazaki movies - Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds, etc.
    Robin Hood - the Errol Flynn version, and the Disney one - there are lots more, but either I haven't seen them or they're hard to find. Or they're really bad.
    I second Watership Down - the 1978/2008/2010 version (the latter are 'deluxe edition' DVDs), not the TV cartoon which was also released on DVD.
    Spirit, Stallion of the Cimmaron
    The Incredibles
    The Gods Must Be Crazy
    Galaxy Quest, especially if either of you like Star Trek
    The Librarian series (Quest for the Spear and I forget the other two)

    I watch a lot of anime/animation - these are good stories, not saccharine-sweet children's stuff, though. Some of them have somewhat scary scenes, but I have a very low tolerance for horror, so if your daughter can handle "some gore", they should be fine.
  • deadgirl81
    deadgirl81 Posts: 412 Member
    Hm...

    Indiana Jones
    Ghostbusters
    Big
    The Goonies
    ET
    Lost Boys (Think its a 15 but I don't think theres that much "gore" in it)
    Hook
    Zulu (If you have the patience to sit down for 3 odd hours to watch it :smile: )
    Any of the Carry On films (Plenty of them to keep you going for a while)
    Any of the James Bond films
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Jurassic Park
  • EmilyTwist1
    EmilyTwist1 Posts: 206 Member
    Brave. It just came out in theaters tonight, but it is a wonderful mother-daughter movie!
  • Krazy_Kat
    Krazy_Kat Posts: 212
    Sorry I had to leave.

    I am writing a list of most peoples suggestions here, minus ones we've seen or are unsuitable got HEAPS already.

    Thanks so much
  • Krazy_Kat
    Krazy_Kat Posts: 212
    16 Candles
    As You Like It
    Back to the Future 1
    Back to the Future 2
    Back to the Future 3
    Breakfast Club
    Conan the Barbarian
    Dead Poets Society
    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    E.T.
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
    Field of Dreams
    Flight of the Navigator
    Grease
    Hamlet
    Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    Julius Caesar
    Jurassic Park
    Legend
    Macbeth
    Matilda
    MidSummer Nights Dream
    Much Ado About Nothing
    Peter Pan
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Short Curcuit 1
    Short Curcuit 2
    Sound of Music
    Spider Man 1
    Spider Man 2
    Spider Man 3
    Star Wars 1
    Star Wars 2
    Star Wars 3
    Star Wars 4
    Star Wars 5
    Star Wars 6
    Swing Kids
    Terminator 1
    Terminator 2
    Terminator 3
    The Big Lebowski
    The Incredible Journey
    The Last Airbender
    The Merchant of Venice
    Watership Down
    White Fang
    X-Men


    That's just so far, whew
  • sho3girl
    sho3girl Posts: 10,799 Member
    Mama Mia !
  • yummymommy78
    yummymommy78 Posts: 25
    kid friendly...hmmm so no clown porn...no fear & loathing

    have you tried

    legand

    Flight of the navigator

    watershipdown

    the big red one (this one was actually one of my favs when i was little)

    My kids *LOVED* Flight of the Navigator! They like all the old movies from when I was a kid. LOL! Legend, Willow, Labrynth, The Goonies, etc.
  • imacupcakerawr
    imacupcakerawr Posts: 1
    John Wayne movies are always a great way to go for westerns. McClintock! is a lot of fun for kids aka the 'fight' in the mud pit. The Searchers is considered one of the top 100 movies of all time. I know that the American Film *kitten*. has a book that lists their top ranks which I would totally look up. She may be a bit young to understand all themes but I think it is wonderful to give kids an introduction and hopefully a love for classic movies.
  • UrbanRunner81
    UrbanRunner81 Posts: 1,207 Member
    Matilda :)

    this is such a cute movie!!

    yes back to the future movies, ghostbusters movies!
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