Les premiers films, dont certains ne durent que quelques secondes, ont été réalisés dans la dernière décennie du XIXe siècle après que Thomas Edison a inventé le kinétoscope. Au fur et à mesure que la technologie progressait rapidement, la demande pour plus d'images animées, plus longues et avec des scénarios plus élaborés, augmentait. Au début du XXe siècle, l'industrie cinématographique telle que nous la connaissons aujourd'hui commençait à émerger. Et le reste, comme on dit, appartient à l'histoire.
Les choses dans l'industrie cinématographique ont radicalement changé depuis ces débuts, y compris la façon dont nous évaluons les films. Par exemple, en 1922, au début des studios, William Hays a formé les producteurs et distributeurs de films cinématographiques d'Amérique. Cet organe directeur allait ensuite créer les directives de censure morale, ou le code Hays, comme on l'appelait souvent, qui réglementait les types de contenu pouvant ou non être affichés à l'écran. Le code Hays, qui est resté en place pendant près de 40 ans, était incroyablement strict avec des règles telles que « les films ne peuvent présenter que des normes de vie correctes », « le crime et l'immoralité ne peuvent jamais être présentés sous un jour positif » et « la religion ne peut jamais être dépeint de manière moqueuse.”
Puis, en 1968, le système moderne de classification volontaire des films est né. Le nouveau système a classé les films G, M, R et X et s'est moins concentré sur la détermination de ce que le public pouvait voir et plus sur l'offre aux parents d'un système qu'ils pourraient utiliser pour décider ce qui était approprié pour leur famille. Ce système moderne a connu plusieurs étapes de raffinement au fil des ans, mais depuis le début, la cote G indique qu'un film convient à un public de tous âges.
Dans les diapositives suivantes, Stacker a rassemblé une liste des 100 meilleurs films classés G à regarder en famille. Pour ce faire, nous avons compilé des données sur tous les films classés G pour obtenir un score Stacker, un indice pondéré réparti de manière égale entre les scores IMDb et Metacritic. Pour se qualifier, le film devait être classé G sur IMDb, avoir un Metascore et avoir au moins 5 000 votes. Les égalités ont été rompues par Metascore et d'autres égalités ont été rompues par la notation des utilisateurs IMDb.
De "Bugsy Malone" à "Blanche-Neige et les sept nains", n'importe lequel de ces films ferait un excellent choix pour votre prochaine soirée cinéma en famille.
1 / 100
- Réalisateur :Alan Parker
- Score Stacker :76
- Metascore :71
- Note utilisateur IMDb :6,9
- Durée :93 min
De manière générale, les films de gangsters classiques ne conviennent pas exactement aux enfants à cause de choses comme la violence et le langage. La seule exception à cette règle est "Bugsy Malone", une parodie classée G de ces films classiques où tous les gangsters sont des enfants et les mitrailleuses sont remplacées par des "pistolets à folie" qui tirent à la crème. Le film met en vedette Jodie Foster (qui venait de terminer le très adulte "Taxi Driver") et Scott Baio.
2 / 100
- Réalisateur :Don Bluth
- Score Stacker :76
- Metascore :66
- Note utilisateur IMDb :7,4
- Durée :69 min
Prenez les mouchoirs avant de vous installer avec ce film, car "The Land Before Time" est certainement un déchirant. Dans les premiers instants du classique des dinosaures produit par George Lucas et Steven Spielberg, la mère de Littlefoot meurt alors qu'elle tente de le protéger d'un carnivore. Pour le reste du film, Littlefoot et ses copains, Cera, Ducky, Petrie et Spike, combattent le T-Rex meurtrier et se rendent dans la Grande Vallée où il y a plus de gens du genre de Littlefoot.
3 / 100
- Réalisateur :John Lee Hancock
- Score Stacker :77
- Metascore :72
- Note utilisateur IMDb :6,9
- Durée :127 min
"The Rookie" est l'un de ces films de bien-être basés sur une histoire vraie. Il s'agit d'un entraîneur de baseball de lycée (joué par Dennis Quaid) dont les rêves de ligue majeure ont été interrompus par une blessure à l'épaule. Il conclut un accord avec son équipe de dernière place selon laquelle s'ils remportent les championnats de district, il essaiera pour les ligues majeures, et est rapidement en passe de devenir la recrue la plus âgée de la MLB.
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- Réalisateurs :Wolfgang Reitherman, James Algar, Jack Kinney
- Score Stacker :77
- Metascore :65
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,6
- Durée :78 min
Librement basé sur le livre de Rudyard Kipling, le classique d'animation de Disney "The Jungle Book" était le dernier film auquel Walt Disney lui-même avait participé. La première ébauche du conte d'aventure sur un garçon élevé par des loups et ses copains de la jungle a été jugée trop sombre pour le jeune public, et il a dû être complètement réécrit avant que le chef de studio ne l'approuve.
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- Réalisateur :Brian Henson
- Score Stacker :77
- Metascore :64
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,7
- Durée :85 min
Une version Muppet du conte classique de Charles Dickens, "The Muppet Christmas Carol" est idéal à regarder pendant la saison des fêtes et toute l'année. Une grande partie du scénario a été tirée directement du livre, mais les marionnettes - qui remplissent tous les rôles sauf celui de Scrooge, joué par Sir Michael Caine - aident à atténuer les éléments effrayants pour les jeunes téléspectateurs.
6 / 100
- Réalisateur :Jim Henson
- Score Stacker :77
- Metascore :70
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,2
- Durée :97 min
"The Great Muppet Caper" est le deuxième film de muppet en direct. Dans le film, Kermit, Fozzie et Gonzo doivent effacer le nom de Miss Piggy après qu'elle ait été accusée d'un braquage de bijoux. Film des Muppets souvent sous-estimé, la photo de 1981 marque les débuts de Jim Henson en tant que réalisateur, et l'une de ses chansons, "The First Time It Happens", a été nominée pour un Oscar.
7 / 100
- Réalisateur :Hiroyuki Morita
- Score du Stacker :77
- Metascore :70
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,2
- Durée :75 min
Une production du Studio Ghibli, "The Cat Returns" parle d'une jeune fille japonaise qui sauve la vie d'un chat qui s'avère être un prince et évite de justesse de se faire piéger dans le royaume des chats après l'avoir raccompagné chez lui. Anne Hathaway et Peter Boyle prêtent leur voix à la version anglaise de ce conte de fées fantastique.
8 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
- Score Stacker :77
- Metascore :68
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,4
- Durée :75 min
Basé sur les livres de Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" et "Through the Looking-Glass", "Alice in Wonderland" a tendance à être l'un des projets les moins appréciés de Disney. Walt Disney avait initialement envisagé le film comme une partie d'action réelle, mettant en vedette nulle autre que Mary Pickford, et une partie animée, avant de réaliser qu'il pouvait faire beaucoup plus avec un film entièrement animé.
10 / 100
- Réalisateurs :John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :74
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :6,9
- Durée :78 min
"The Rescuers" est un classique de Disney sur une détective de souris nommée Miss Bianca et son assistant, Bernard, tous deux membres de la Rescue Aid Society, qui entrent en action pour sauver une fille humaine nommée Penny de la méchante Madame Méduse. Pendant un certain temps, une rumeur a circulé selon laquelle une femme aux seins nus pourrait brièvement être vue en arrière-plan d'une scène, mais n'ayez crainte, les images ont été supprimées dans chaque version actuelle du film.
11 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :74
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :6,9
- Durée :91 min
"Le Bossu de Notre-Dame" contient des thèmes plus lourds que certains autres films de Disney, comme l'abus d'autorité, le racisme et l'importance de l'action civique pour mettre fin aux injustices. Librement basé sur le roman du même nom de Victor Hugo, les studios Disney s'attendaient en fait à ce que le film obtienne une note PG du comité de notation MPAA en raison de ces thèmes plus lourds. En fin de compte, il a conservé la note G et a ouvert en 1996 avec une réponse décevante au box-office.
12 / 100
- Réalisateur :Arthur Hiller
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :72
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,1
- Durée :101 min
Dans "The Out of Towners", George et Gwen, un couple d'une petite ville de l'Ohio, sont partis pour la grande ville (New York, pour être précis) après que George y ait reçu un entretien d'embauche. Les problèmes de voyage rendent leur voyage frustrant, et il faut un avion, un train, un taxi et une bonne marche à l'ancienne pour amener George et Gwen à leur destination. Selon John Mahoney de The Hollywood Reporter, le film de Neil Simon est "le film sonore qui se rapproche le plus du génie de la comédie de poursuite muette".
13 / 100
- Réalisateur :Peter Collinson
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :70
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,3
- Durée :99 min
Dans la version 1960 de "The Italian Job", Michael Caine joue un escroc britannique qui envisage de voler des millions de dollars d'or à un convoi de voitures à Turin, en Italie, en réparant les feux de circulation afin d'établir une impasse qui permettrait lui de se faufiler. Irrévérencieux et maladroit, le film a l'une des fins de cliffhanger les meilleures et les plus copiées de tous les temps.
14 / 100
- Réalisateur :Mark Dindal
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :70
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,3
- Durée :78 min
Un jeune empereur arrogant apprend sa leçon après qu'un conseiller intrigant l'a transformé en lama dans "The Emperor's New Groove". Situé dans l'ancien empire inca, le film s'intitulait à l'origine "Royaume du soleil" et aurait été un conte de type "Prince et le pauvre" jusqu'à ce qu'une refonte totale nous donne ce joyau classique de la comédie.
15 / 100
- Réalisateur :George Pal
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :67
- Note utilisateur IMDb :7,6
- Durée :103 min
Adaptation fidèle du classique de H.G. Wells, "The Time Machine" raconte l'histoire d'un scientifique qui tente le destin en créant une machine qui lui permet de sauter dans trois périodes différentes du futur. Les effets spéciaux, y compris la conception de la machine à remonter le temps susmentionnée, étaient un obstacle majeur pour les cinéastes, mais au final, ils ont réussi à réaliser des exploits assez impressionnants et ont même remporté un Oscar pour les meilleurs effets spéciaux.
16 / 100
- Réalisateur :Robert Wise
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :63
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :8,0
- Durée :172 min
La comédie musicale "The Sound of Music" a pris d'assaut le monde, gagnant 158,7 millions de dollars au box-office et remportant cinq Oscars. Basé sur la dernière comédie musicale jamais réalisée par Rodgers et Hammerstein, le film raconte l'histoire d'une gouvernante (Julie Andrews) qui tombe amoureuse de son employeur (Christopher Plummer) et est forcée de fuir l'Autriche avec lui et leurs sept enfants après avoir refusé de rejoindre le parti nazi.
17 / 100
- Réalisateurs :James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :74
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,0
- Durée :68 min
"Les aventures d'Ichabod et de M. Toad" sont en fait deux histoires animées différentes regroupées dans un seul film. Le premier, sur le riche M. Toad qui cherche à obtenir une voiture par tous les moyens, est dérivé de "Le vent et les saules", tandis que le second, sur un maître d'école qui est pris dans un triangle amoureux et qui a une peur mortelle du Cavalier sans tête, a été tiré de "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". À l'origine, le film devait s'intituler "Two Fabulous Characters", établissant une distinction plus claire entre les contes et les personnages, dont le seul véritable lien est leur vulnérabilité au désastre.
19 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Ron Clements, John Musker
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :73
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,1
- Durée :97 min
Situé à la Nouvelle-Orléans dans les années 1910 et 20, "La princesse et la grenouille" parle d'une jeune femme rêvant de posséder son propre restaurant, qui embrasse un prince grenouille, se transforme elle-même en grenouille et doit demander l'aide de une prêtresse vaudou afin de retrouver sa forme humaine. Le film est remarquable parmi les classiques de Disney, car c'est le premier film à présenter des personnages afro-américains depuis "Song of the South" de 1946, un film profondément raciste qui a été enfermé dans le coffre-fort de Disney pendant des années.
20 / 100
- Réalisateurs :John Lasseter, Joe Ranft
- Score Stacker :78
- Metascore :73
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,1
- Durée :117 min
Lorsque la voiture de course Lightning McQueen tombe de sa remorque sur le chemin d'une course importante, il se retrouve à Radiator Springs, où il rencontre de nouveaux visages comme Tow Mater et Sally, et apprend le vrai sens de l'amitié. Outre le fait que les voitures peuvent parler, le film était réputé pour son réalisme et la plupart des personnages du film sont basés sur de vraies voitures, comme un Volkswagen Microbus des années 1960 et un Ford Model T de 1932. "Cars" était un tel succès qu'il a depuis engendré toute une franchise de films et une émission télévisée Disney +.
21 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, John Musker
- Score Stacker :79
- Metascore :73
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,2
- Durée :74 min
Basil of Baker Street, un détective de souris, vit dans le même appartement londonien que Sherlock Holmes et partage ses mêmes capacités de résolution de mystères. Dans "The Great Mouse Detective", il est engagé par la fille souris d'un fabricant de jouets enlevé pour retrouver son père et découvre un complot contre la couronne en cours de route. Le film a rapporté 25,3 millions de dollars au box-office, ce qui a aidé Disney Studios à récupérer une partie des pertes de "The Black Cauldron", un flop coûteux qui avait été créé l'année précédente.
22 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
- Score Stacker :79
- Metascore :70
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,5
- Durée :92 min
Mia Farrow prête sa voix au personnage principal de "The Last Unicorn", jouant une jeune créature effrayée qui entreprend de sauver son espèce des mains maléfiques du roi Haggard, trouvant l'aide d'un doux sorcier nommé Schmendrick en cours de route. Décrit comme très imaginatif et innovant, le dessin animé, qui traite de thèmes tels que la perte et le regret, est basé sur un roman de Peter S. Beagle, qui a également écrit le scénario. Une note intéressante :l'animation a été réalisée par un studio qui allait s'appeler Studio Ghibli.
24 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
- Score Stacker :79
- Metascore :74
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,2
- Durée :63 min
Trois des A.A. Les histoires de Milne's Hundred Acre Woods sont réunies pour créer ce film "Winnie the Pooh" de 2011. L'animation douce de la main ajoute un niveau de magie à ce film qui suit l'équipage alors qu'ils recherchent la queue manquante de Bourriquet et entreprennent de sauver Christopher Robin de ce qui pourrait être un éventuel enlèvement. Approprié même pour les plus jeunes téléspectateurs, il n'y a rien dans ce film qui pourrait inspirer des cauchemars.
27 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Ron Clements, John Musker
- Score Stacker :80
- Metascore :74
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,3
- Durée :93 min
L'une des seules incursions de Disney dans la mythologie grecque, "Hercule" parle du mi-homme, mi-dieu qui a été forcé de vivre sur Terre parmi les mortels et de prouver sa valeur afin de retrouver sa place sur le mont Olympe avec les dieux. Le long métrage d'animation de 1997 mettait en vedette les voix d'acteurs comme James Woods, Tate Donovan et Danny DeVito. Il a été récemment rapporté que Disney prépare un remake en direct de ce film classique.
28 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
- Score Stacker :80
- Metascore :71
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,6
- Durée :88 min
Basé sur la légende chinoise de Hua Mulan, "Mulan" a été le premier film de l'œuvre de Disney à présenter une princesse asiatique. L'histoire d'une jeune femme qui se mobilise pour défendre son pays à la place de son père et finit par sauver toute la Chine, a remporté des critiques élogieuses de la part des critiques pour avoir amené une héroïne aussi forte, autonome et courageuse sur grand écran. La reine guerrière est vraiment un modèle inspirant pour les enfants de tous âges.
29/100
- Réalisateur :Norman Jewison
- Score Stacker :80
- Metascore :67
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :8,0
- Durée :181 min
Adaptation primée aux Oscars d'une comédie musicale populaire de Broadway, « Un violon sur le toit » parle de la vie dans un village juif russe avant la révolution. Tevye, le personnage principal, est le père de cinq filles, et il passe une grande partie de son temps à chercher à les marier tout en maintenant les traditions culturelles et religieuses qui sont rongées par des influences extérieures. Le film est joyeux et affirmatif tout en montrant un profond respect pour les valeurs et les traditions de ce groupe spécifique de personnes.
30 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Will Becher, Richard Phelan
- Score Stacker :80
- Metascore :79
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :6,9
- Durée :86 min
Un film de science-fiction et d'argile, "A Shaun the Sheep Movie:Farmageddon" commence par un crash de vaisseau spatial extraterrestre atterrissant sur Mossy Bottom Farms. Shaun se lie rapidement d'amitié avec la créature à l'intérieur, l'aidant à trouver un moyen de rentrer chez lui avant d'être capturé par une agence gouvernementale. Bien qu'il ne soit pas exactement le film le plus stimulant de cette liste, il parvient tout de même à conserver une cote d'audience assez élevée sur IMDb.
31 / 100
- Réalisatrice :Carol Reed
- Score Stacker :80
- Metascore :74
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,4
- Durée :153 min
Basé sur l'adaptation musicale de Broadway de l'œuvre classique de Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist", les personnages exagérés du film plaisent aux enfants tandis que les adultes peuvent savourer le grand scénario. Le film raconte l'histoire d'un jeune orphelin qui rencontre un groupe de gamins des rues dirigé par Artful Dodger et Fagin, seulement pour qu'ils se retournent contre lui lorsqu'une riche cible, M. Brownlow, lui offre une maison. Le célèbre critique de cinéma Roger Ebert a appelé "Oliver!" un "trésor d'un film."
32 / 100
- Réalisateurs :Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters
- Score Stacker :81
- Metascore :82
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :6,7
- Durée :115 min
Dans "Gigi", le personnage titulaire a été élevé pour devenir une courtisane dans la "tradition familiale", mais ne s'intéresse pas aux charmes et à l'étiquette qu'elle doit apprendre pour réussir et rêve plutôt d'amour et de mariage. Bien que certains des sujets du film puissent être plus risqués, ils sont abordés dans un tel jargon codé qu'ils survoleraient la plupart des enfants, qui seront certainement plus fascinés par l'histoire d'amour centrale et la comédie musicale. chiffres de toute façon.
- Réalisateur :Byron Haskin
- Score Stacker :81
- Metascore :78
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,1
- Durée :85 min
Autre film de science-fiction basé sur un roman de HG Wells, la version 1953 de "La guerre des mondes" est beaucoup moins effrayante que les éditions plus récentes grâce à ses effets spéciaux datés (dignes d'un Oscar à l'époque) et son ton plus familial . Cela colle à la même histoire, à propos d'une machine de guerre extraterrestre qui s'écrase sur la Terre et commence à tuer des gens au hasard. Leur seul espoir de salut ? "Les plus petites choses que Dieu, dans Sa sagesse, avait mises sur cette terre."
34 / 100
- Réalisateurs :John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton
- Score Stacker :81
- Metascore :77
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,2
- Durée :95 min
Inspiré de la fable d'Ésope "La fourmi et la sauterelle", "A Bug's Life" parle d'une fourmi nommée Flick qui commet une énorme erreur qui risque la vie de sa colonie et doit trouver un moyen de les sauver des infâmes sauterelles. Des heures et des heures de travail ont été consacrées à l'animation de ce long métrage Pixar sur les insectes, et l'équipe du film s'est penchée sur des vidéos prises du "point de vue d'un insecte" afin de bien faire les choses.
#66. Peter Pan (1953)
- Réalisateurs :Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney
- Score Stacker :81
- Metascore :76
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,3
- Durée :77 min
À sa mort, l'auteur J.M. Barrie a laissé les droits de "Peter Pan" au Great Ormond Street Hospital. Lorsque Walt Disney a décidé qu'il voulait adapter l'histoire du garçon qui ne grandit jamais, il a dû conclure un accord avec l'hôpital plutôt qu'avec la succession de l'auteur, ce qui est plus standard, afin de recevoir les droits d'animation. En fin de compte, cela en valait la peine :le film a rapporté plus de 40 millions de dollars après sa sortie initiale.
36 / 100
- Réalisateur :Stanley Donen
- Score Stacker :81
- Metascore :75
- Note utilisateur IMDb :7,4
- Durée :102 min
Bien qu'il soit basé sur l'histoire décidément pas familiale, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" donne une tournure saine et humoristique à l'histoire. La comédie musicale raconte l'histoire de six frères bûcherons incultes qui sont inspirés pour trouver l'amour après que leur frère aîné a ramené à la maison une belle femme. Cependant, ils s'y prennent de la mauvaise manière, tentant de kidnapper les femmes qui les intéressent, au grand dam de leur village.
37 / 100
- Réalisateur :Robert Wise
- Score Stacker :81
- Metascore :74
- Note des utilisateurs IMDb :7,5
- Durée :112 min
Bien que techniquement classé G, ce film d'horreur discret ne convient pas aux enfants sujets aux cauchemars. In “The Haunting,” four people (an anthropologist, an ESP, a lonely woman with experience in supernatural events, and the heir of the mansion in question) set out to spend the night in a house that’s rumored to be haunted and quickly discover that the old stories are true. The film would make a good watch around Halloween.
38 / 100
- Director:Fred Zinnemann
- Stacker score:81
- Metascore:72
- IMDb user rating:7.7
- Runtime:120 min
In “A Man for all Seasons,” Sir Thomas Moore seeks to remain true to his convictions even in the face of treason charges that were leveled against him after he refused to help King Henry VIII obtain a divorce. The movie is not quickly paced, but it’s historically accurate, and its message about remaining true to the things you believe in is one for the ages.
39 / 100
- Director:Zhang Yimou
- Stacker score:81
- Metascore:71
- IMDb user rating:7.8
- Runtime:89 min
A beautiful love story, “The Road Home” tells the story of the courtship between Luo Changyu and Zhao Di via a series of flashbacks as their son returns home to their small village in order to make the necessary preparations for his father’s funeral. The movie received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, who even called it one of the best films of 2001.
40 / 100
- Directors:Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young
- Stacker score:82
- Metascore:85
- IMDb user rating:6.5
- Runtime:71 min
A mix of animation and live-action, “The Three Caballeros” is made up of four short stories featuring Donald Duck as he travels around to various countries in South America. If the plot strikes you as odd, that’s because it is. The film was one of the Disney company’s contributions to the war effort under the Good Neighbor Policy, which sought to develop closer bonds with neighboring countries in an effort to keep Axis powers’ influence at bay.
41 / 100
- Director:Chris Noonan
- Stacker score:82
- Metascore:83
- IMDb user rating:6.7
- Runtime:91 min
One of the few children’s films to have ever been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, “Babe” is about a talking pig who learns he has talent as a sheepherder. A live-action movie, Babe and all of his farm friends are a mixture of real, trained animals and animatronic doubles, all of whom “speak” thanks to a computer program that made their mouths move in the correct patterns.
42 / 100
- Director:James Frawley
- Stacker score:82
- Metascore:74
- IMDb user rating:7.6
- Runtime:95 min
The big-screen debut of the muppets, “The Muppet Movie” is an original story starring Kermit the Frog, who sets out to go meet a talent agent in Hollywood, and is captured by Doc Hopper, an evil villain who sells frog legs in his restaurant. Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, and the rest of the gang have to jump into action in order to save Kermit before it’s too late. One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is the finale, which featured 250 different puppets who all had a unique role to play, and required Jim Henson to hire 150 extra puppeteers through the Los Angeles Guild of Puppeteers of America.
43 / 100
- Director:Zhang Yimou
- Stacker score:82
- Metascore:73
- IMDb user rating:7.7
- Runtime:106 min
“Not One Less” is an incredibly interesting film for many reasons, the chief among them being there are no professional actors in it. Instead, the actual residents of the small village the film was shot in play its various characters, giving the movie an incredibly authentic feeling. The story of the movie is about a 13-year-old girl, Wei Minzhi, who is tasked with acting as a substitute teacher at the local school when the regular teacher, Gao Inman, is unexpectedly called away. Before he leaves, Inman instructs Minzhi to make sure all of the students are still there when he returns, as the school’s subsidy is dependent on numbers—when one boy leaves in search of work, Minzhi goes to great lengths to find him and bring him back.
44 / 100
- Directors:Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
- Stacker score:82
- Metascore:78
- IMDb user rating:7.3
- Runtime:76 min
“Lady and the Tramp,” the 1955 Disney movie about a pampered pooch and a streetwise dog who fall in love, was first inspired by sketches that one of the animators, Joe Grant, made of his own springer spaniel. As the studio worked up a treatment to accompany the sketches, other influences, like a short story by Ward Green titled “Happy Dan the Whistling Dog,” were mixed in, in an effort to create a film that contained the classic Disney formula. Funnily enough, the movie’s most classic scene, where the two pups share a plate of spaghetti, almost didn’t make the cut, after Walt complained that it didn’t really make much sense.
45 / 100
- Director:David Mamet
- Stacker score:83
- Metascore:79
- IMDb user rating:7.3
- Runtime:104 min
Based on a 1940s play by Terence Rattigan, which was inspired by the true story of the Winslow family, “The Winslow Boy” is about the lengths a father will go to in order to clear his son’s—and by association his own—name. After being accused of theft, Ronnie Winslow is expelled from his school, his father, convinced that his son is innocent, spares no expense in publicly clearing the boy’s name, all but ruining the rest of his family in the process. A tense film at times, this movie places more importance on character development than it does on plot, making it an interesting watch for adults as well as kids.
46 / 100
- Directors:Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
- Stacker score:83
- Metascore:79
- IMDb user rating:7.3
- Runtime:88 min
Edgar Rice Burroughs first came up with the character of Tarzan in his 1912 novel, “Tarzan of the Apes.” In 1999, Disney studios brought the tale of an orphaned boy raised by kindly apes in the African wilderness to life. English musician Phil Collins wrote and recorded most of the music included in the movie.
47 / 100
- Director:Don Bluth
- Stacker score:83
- Metascore:76
- IMDb user rating:7.6
- Runtime:82 min
An adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning children’s novel, “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH,” “The Secret of NIMH” was made and directed by a whole team of former Disney animators. It’s about a widowed mouse who must move her home and children before they’re crushed by the farmer’s plow. When one of her children comes down with an illness, she turns to the rats of NIMH, who have heightened intelligence, and who give her a sacred object that will help her get the job done.
48 / 100
- Director:George Dunning
- Stacker score:83
- Metascore:79
- IMDb user rating:7.4
- Runtime:85 min
The Beatles (or at least their images) star in this animated film about a city called Pepperland that is under siege by the music-hating Blue Meanies. Pepperland’s last hope, the group is called in to save the day by playing some of their hits, which the Blue Meanies stand no chance against. While this is touted as a Beatles film, John, Paul, George, and Ringo actually only appear in the final scene of “Yellow Submarine,” throughout the rest of the flick they’re voiced by other actors.
49 / 100
- Directors:Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck
- Stacker score:83
- Metascore:75
- IMDb user rating:7.8
- Runtime:178 min
A G-rated war film about the D-Day landings in Normandy, this flick probably isn’t appropriate for young audiences or sensitive viewers, but it would be a great watch with older children and teenagers. “The Longest Day” shows what happened on several different fronts on D-Day, and provides a historically accurate and atmospheric retelling of the biggest event in WWII, making it both educational and entertaining.
50 / 100
- Director:Yoshifumi Kondô
- Stacker score:84
- Metascore:75
- IMDb user rating:7.9
- Runtime:111 min
Another Studio Ghibli movie, “Whisper of the Heart” is about an avid young reader named Shizuku who notices that all of the library books she’s taken out have also been checked out by a mysterious young man named Seiji. Believing the boy to be her soulmate, Shizuku sets out on a journey to find him. The animated movie was based on a Japanese anime of the same name.
51 / 100
- Director:Richard Fleischer
- Stacker score:84
- Metascore:83
- IMDb user rating:7.2
- Runtime:127 min
In “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Captain Nemo is an eccentric (and possibly mad) submarine captain who tries to cross the seven seas with his ragtag crew of captured sailors in tow. The group must uncover Nemo’s real motive for the deadly journey before it’s too late. While the story is, by now, a familiar one, viewers will delight in the extravagant set design that brings the story to life in an entirely new way.
52 / 100
- Directors:Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
- Stacker score:84
- Metascore:83
- IMDb user rating:7.2
- Runtime:79 min
Artists drew more than 6 million spots in the course of animating the 1961 Disney classic “101 Dalmations.” For viewers who have never seen the movie, it’s part love story between dalmatian parents Pongo and Perdita and their owners Roger and Anita, and part adventure story as Pongo and Perdita must save their own 15 puppies, plus 84 others, from the greedy hands of Cruella de Vil, who would turn them into a coat.
53 / 100
- Director:Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Stacker score:85
- Metascore:80
- IMDb user rating:7.6
- Runtime:94 min
“The Secret World of Arrietty” is about a 14-inch tall teenager named Arrietty who lives with her family underneath the floorboards of another family’s home. On one of her above-board missions to gather supplies, she meets a normal-sized boy named Shawn and begins to develop a relationship with him, a relationship that could threaten the safety and future of her people. This Studio Ghibli film is loosely based on “The Borrowers,” a novel by Mary Norton.
54 / 100
- Director:Gabriel Axel
- Stacker score:85
- Metascore:78
- IMDb user rating:7.8
- Runtime:103 min
A Danish film, “Babbette’s Feast” is about the almost magical meal a refugee from Paris cooks for the two sisters who are hosting her as well as their aging congregation, and the impact it has on their small village. A commentary on art and divine grace, this movie is a true feast for the eyes and mind.
55 / 100
- Directors:Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
- Stacker score:85
- Metascore:85
- IMDb user rating:7.2
- Runtime:75 min
When “Sleeping Beauty” premiered in 1959, it did so poorly at the box office and with critics that Disney didn’t release another fairytale for 30 years, until “The Little Mermaid” in 1989. Critics found the linear-styled artwork “oppressive” and New York Times critic Bosley Crowther questioned whether the film was appropriate for young children due to the story’s scary villain, Maleficent.
56 / 100
- Director:Carroll Ballard
- Stacker score:85
- Metascore:84
- IMDb user rating:7.3
- Runtime:118 min
One of the best-loved horse movies of all time, “The Black Stallion” is about the bond shared between a horse and a boy as they’re stranded on a deserted island together and then, upon their rescue, as they prepare for the most anticipated horse race of the year. It’s beautifully shot and, as Roger Ebert noted, full of “terrific energy, beauty, and excitement.”
57 / 100
- Director:Robert Stevenson
- Stacker score:85
- Metascore:84
- IMDb user rating:7.3
- Runtime:83 min
Another movie you simply must have tissues on hand for, “Old Yeller” has been previously ranked as one of the “saddest kid’s movies of all time” by TIME. The Disney film is about an adopted yellow lab who proves time and again how loyal and worthy of love he is, before meeting one of the most tragic endings that’s ever existed in cinema.
58 / 100
- Director:Byron Haskin
- Stacker score:86
- Metascore:89
- IMDb user rating:6.9
- Runtime:96 min
One of many adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel “Treasure Island,” this 1950s movie was one of Disney’s first attempts at a live-action adventure film. Bobby Driscoll, who played the main character Jim Hawkins, appeared in several more Disney films including “Peter Pan.”
59 / 100
- Directors:Peter Lord, Nick Park
- Stacker score:86
- Metascore:88
- IMDb user rating:7.0
- Runtime:84 min
A stop-motion animation film, “Chicken Run” was released in 2000, but production on the picture had actually started four years earlier in 1996. Stop-motion is a very involved form of filmmaking, and it took a team 20 months to finish the principle photography, shooting 100 seconds a week in their most productive periods. The finished movie is about a group of foul, lead by the fearless Ginger and Rocky the Flying Rooster, who are trying to escape their evil owners at the Tweedy Chicken Farm.
60 / 100
- Directors:Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
- Stacker score:86
- Metascore:85
- IMDb user rating:7.3
- Runtime:74 min
“Cinderella” is literally a tale as old as time, with the earliest known versions of the story dating back to the sixth century B.C. The version, popularized by the 1950 Disney animated film, is Charles Perrault’s, which was written in 1697. The movie was a massive success, having been nominated for three Academy Awards, and essentially saved the company, which was over $4 million in debt prior to the release.
61 / 100
- Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
- Stacker score:86
- Metascore:79
- IMDb user rating:8.0
- Runtime:112 min
“Planet of the Apes” is now a full-blown franchise that includes nine feature-length films, but it was this 1968 film that started it all. The movie is about three human astronauts who find themselves stranded on a planet where walking, talking apes are the rulers and humans are their slaves. A sharp social commentary, the movie doesn’t sacrifice any action or adventure in the quest to make its point.
62 / 100
- Directors:Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich
- Stacker score:86
- Metascore:79
- IMDb user rating:8.0
- Runtime:92 min
Singer-songwriter Randy Newman, a staple in the Disney Pixar world, won his first Oscar for the closing song of “Monsters, Inc.” called “If I Didn’t Have You.” The touching ballad was a fitting end to the sweet comedy about the monsters under your bed. The central story of which is this:best friends and colleagues, Mike and Sully work for the most successful scream factory in the world and enjoy plenty of professional success until they accidentally let a human girl into Monstropolis, almost ruining everything.
63 / 100
- Director:Alfonso Cuarón
- Stacker score:87
- Metascore:83
- IMDb user rating:7.7
- Runtime:97 min
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s other big novel, “A Little Princess” has also been turned into a film starring Liesel Matthews, Liam Cunningham, and Camilla Belle. The movie is about a young girl sent to boarding school who suffers a huge reversal of fortunes and must make the best of her poor new situation. It’s a heartwarming and magical tale that’s sure to be enjoyed by audiences of all ages.
64 / 100
- Director:Clarence Brown
- Stacker score:88
- Metascore:89
- IMDb user rating:7.2
- Runtime:128 min
In 1947, Claude Jarman Jr. won the best juvenile actor Oscar for his portrayal of Jody in “The Yearling.” A tragic tale about the son of a Florida farmer and his pet fawn, the movie was praised by The New York Times’ Bosley Crowther for its precise portrayal of the “innocence and trust and enchantment that are in the nature of a child [and] the yearning love and anxiety that a father feels for his boy.”
65 / 100
- Directors:Steve Box, Nick Park
- Stacker score:88
- Metascore:87
- IMDb user rating:7.4
- Runtime:85 min
“Wallace &Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” is the big-screen debut of the two titular characters, who had previously only starred in a number of shorts. In the stop-motion movie, the two pals open a pest control business and are given the job of stopping a giant rabbit from eating all of the town’s crops. Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, and Ralph Fiennes lend their voices to this laugh-out-loud tale.
66 / 100
- Director:Hayao Miyazaki
- Stacker score:88
- Metascore:83
- IMDb user rating:7.8
- Runtime:103 min
In “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” a witch-in-training named Kiki and her talking black cat set up a delivery service in their local community, which is threatened when Kiki begins to doubt herself and her abilities. Before the film’s 1989 release, Studio Ghibli had been struggling and was actually on the verge of bankruptcy, but luckily for audiences everywhere, Kiki’s success saved them all.
67 / 100
- Director:Josh Cooley
- Stacker score:88
- Metascore:84
- IMDb user rating:7.8
- Runtime:100 min
Reviews have been decidedly mixed since “Toy Story 4” was released in 2019. Many critics raved about the film, praising its layered metaphors and the franchise’s ability to reinvent itself, while many viewers expressed frustration over the story line and choices made by the characters which they felt weren’t in line with the personalities they’d come to know and love. Whichever side of the debate you stand on, it’s hard to argue that the movie wasn’t a success, as it earned more than $1 billion at the box office globally.
68 / 100
- Director:William Wyler
- Stacker score:89
- Metascore:89
- IMDb user rating:7.4
- Runtime:151 min
Barbra Streisand’s first film role was as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl.” The stage musical turned film is about a vaudeville star whose career takes off as her private life—namely her marriage—begins to falter.
69 / 100
- Director:Gene Saks
- Stacker score:89
- Metascore:86
- IMDb user rating:7.7
- Runtime:105 min
“The Odd Couple” is a buddy comedy starring Walter Matthau (Oscar) and Jack Lemmon (Felix) as two polar-opposite best friends. After splitting up with his wife, Felix moves in with Oscar, but his neurotic ways soon get on his pal’s nerves, threatening their living arrangements. The movie is laugh-out-loud funny, so successful that it ended up being the inspiration for an ABC sitcom of the same name.
70 / 100
- Director:Hayao Miyazaki
- Stacker score:89
- Metascore:86
- IMDb user rating:7.7
- Runtime:101 min
A different sort of retelling of “The Little Mermaid,” animated by Studio Ghibli, “Ponyo” is about a princess fish who wants to become human. After meeting and befriending a little boy named Sosuke, Ponyo decides she will no longer be contained to the sea, but in the process of breaking free, she accidentally releases the magical Water of Life, which disrupts the balance of nature and threatens to destroy the whole world. Several recognizable stars lent their voices to the English version of the film, including Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson, Betty White, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Frankie Jonas, and Noah Cyrus.
71 / 100
- Directors:James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi
- Stacker score:89
- Metascore:91
- IMDb user rating:7.3
- Runtime:70 min
“Bambi” is based on a novel by Felix Salten, titled “Bambi, a Life in the Woods.” While the novel is intended for adults, Walt Disney reworked the material about a young fawn and his forest friends to be appropriate for children. Some, including his own daughter, argue that he didn’t change it enough, saying that he should have cut the entire story line where Bambi’s mother dies, which is truly one of the more tragic moments in the Disney canon.
72 / 100
- Directors:Ron Clements, John Musker
- Stacker score:89
- Metascore:88
- IMDb user rating:7.6
- Runtime:83 min
“The Little Mermaid” as we know it today almost never made it to the big screen. Initially, the CEO of Disney nixed the film entirely as the studio was already working on another mermaid picture. When he finally relented, the movie’s most iconic song, “Part of Your World,” nearly landed on the cutting room floor after the first round of test audiences weren’t into it. Luckily, the production team stuck with their film, because in 1990, it won Disney its first Oscar since 1972.
73 / 100
- Director:Robert Stevenson
- Stacker score:90
- Metascore:88
- IMDb user rating:7.8
- Runtime:139 min
Audiences around the world have adored the magical nanny Mary Poppins ever since she landed on the big screen in 1964. However, the author of the “Mary Poppins” books P.L. Travers famously did not. When she attended the premiere of the movie, she reportedly cried through the entire thing, furious with Disney for bastardizing her tale.
74 / 100
- Director:David Lynch
- Stacker score:90
- Metascore:86
- IMDb user rating:8.0
- Runtime:112 min
A great American road movie about slowing down and focusing on what’s meaningful in life, “The Straight Story” was inspired by a true event that occurred in 1994. In the movie, an aging farmer named Alvin Straight sets out to make things right with his younger brother Lyle, who has just suffered a stroke. Unfortunately for Alvin, he doesn’t own a car, so he decides to make the multistate journey on his lawnmower.
75 / 100
- Directors:Ron Clements, John Musker
- Stacker score:90
- Metascore:86
- IMDb user rating:8.0
- Runtime:90 min
The late, great Robin Williams was truly one of the brightest gems in Hollywood. He particularly shines in his role as Genie in Disney’s “Aladdin,” which was designed, created, and scripted just for him. In order to convince him to accept the role, Disney animated Genie performing a number of Williams’ own stand-up sets, which helped demonstrate to the comedian the amount of potential there was in the blue wish-granter.
76 / 100
- Director:Éric Rohmer
- Stacker score:91
- Metascore:91
- IMDb user rating:7.6
- Runtime:113 min
“A Summer’s Tale” is a French arthouse film about a young man named Gaspard who goes on vacation and finds himself in love with three different women for three different reasons. The romance film is certainly chaste enough to watch with the whole family, but as it’s in French and deals solely with more adult relationships, it wouldn’t make a good family movie night pick in homes that have younger audiences.
77 / 100
- Directors:John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich
- Stacker score:91
- Metascore:88
- IMDb user rating:7.9
- Runtime:92 min
In the second installment of the “Toy Story” franchise, Andy heads off to cowboy camp for the summer, leaving his toys home alone for a whole season of adventures. After Woody is kidnapped by a toy collector, he discovers that he’s a highly valued collectible with his own TV show and is at risk of being sent off to a toy museum. The rest of the gang must band together in order to rescue Woody and his newfound friends Jessie and Bullseye before Andy returns home.
78 / 100
- Director:Stanley Kubrick
- Stacker score:91
- Metascore:84
- IMDb user rating:8.3
- Runtime:149 min
When “2001:A Space Odyssey” premiered in 1968, its lack of a strong narrative or clear main characters caused many to hate it, and several of the day’s biggest stars even walked out of the premiere. Today, it’s often regarded as one of the most important and influential films of the 20th century. The movie becomes especially impressive when you consider that the computerized special effects so many sci-fi movies rely on today didn’t even exist back then, and so many of the film’s features, like the moon sand and the black monolith, were created entirely by hand.
79 / 100
- Directors:Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen, John Elliotte
- Stacker score:91
- Metascore:96
- IMDb user rating:7.2
- Runtime:64 min
“Dumbo” premiered at the Broadway Theater in New York City in 1941, and The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther called it “the most genial, the most endearing, the most completely precious cartoon feature film ever to emerge from the magical brushes of Walt Disney's wonder-working artists!” The movie is about a circus elephant with unusually large ears. His ears get him bullied for most of his young life until he learns that they actually allow him to fly and he’s able to take control of his own destiny.
80 / 100
- Director:Hayao Miyazaki
- Stacker score:91
- Metascore:86
- IMDb user rating:8.2
- Runtime:86 min
Real-life sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning brought the English-language versions of animated sisters Satsuki and Mei to life in “My Neighbor Totoro” in 2005. The animated Japanese movie is about two sisters who move into a new house in the countryside only to find out that it’s “haunted.” Their new neighbor, a spirit named Totoro who can only be seen by children, introduces them to the friendly creatures that inhabit their new home.
81 / 100
- Director:François Truffaut
- Stacker score:92
- Metascore:94
- IMDb user rating:7.5
- Runtime:83 min
A story in the vein of “Tarzan” or “The Jungle Book,” “The Wild Child” is about a young boy who has been raised by wolves. He’s discovered by hunters and sent to Paris, where the kindly Dr. Itard sets out to civilize him. Shot in black and white, the movie, about the pains of adolescence, is regarded as a poetic masterpiece.
82 / 100
- Directors:William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen
- Stacker score:93
- Metascore:95
- IMDb user rating:7.6
- Runtime:83 min
Based on the Brothers Grimm fairytale of the same name, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was Disney’s first animated feature and the first full-length animated film in U.S. history. The project took three years to complete and was massively expensive—Walt Disney had to mortgage his own home in order to finance the production. But some 80 years on, it still remains one of the most beloved films of all time.
83 / 100
- Director:William Wyler
- Stacker score:93
- Metascore:90
- IMDb user rating:8.1
- Runtime:212 min
“Ben-Hur” was a record-breaking movie in more ways than one. Not only did the film have the largest budget of any movie up to that point at $15 million, but it also took home 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards ceremony. A Christian story, though not a biblical one, the epic drama follows an Israelite Jew as he takes on the Roman Empire during the lifetime of Christ himself.
84 / 100
- Directors:Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
- Stacker score:93
- Metascore:90
- IMDb user rating:8.1
- Runtime:100 min
When his son Nemo swims too close to the surface at the beginning of “Finding Nemo” and is captured by a diver, overprotective parent Marlin must set out on an epic journey to save him. Ellen DeGeneres voices Marlin’s absent-minded but devoted friend Dory who accompanies him in his quest. Beloved by audiences of all ages, “Finding Nemo” is a surprisingly scientifically accurate portrayal of marine life (minus the anthropomorphism, of course).
85 / 100
- Director:Richard Lester
- Stacker score:93
- Metascore:96
- IMDb user rating:7.6
- Runtime:87 min
The second Beatles film on this list, “A Hard Day’s Night,” was actually the band’s feature film debut. A mockumentary-style film, the movie coincided with their third studio album that shared the same name. Even so, long after its release, the movie remains a funny, irreverent look at the life of these rock ‘n‘ roll idols.
86 / 100
- Director:Charlie Chaplin
- Stacker score:93
- Metascore:90
- IMDb user rating:8.2
- Runtime:72 min
The oldest movie on our list, “The Circus” was the last project Charlie Chaplin made during the silent film era. Despite its famously troubled production, the movie, featuring Chaplin’s most famous character The Tramp who evades pursuing officers by fleeing into the circus and posing as a performer, was wildly successful, earning Chaplin his first Academy Award.
87 / 100
- Directors:Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen
- Stacker score:94
- Metascore:99
- IMDb user rating:7.4
- Runtime:88 min
Very few of Walt Disney’s early works were original stories, and “Pinocchio” is no exception. The 1940 animated flick was based on the 1883 Italian children’s novel called “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” which is about a puppet whose nose grows every time he lies. The movie won two Academy Awards for its soundtrack and contained Walt Disney’s favorite animated character, the kitten Figaro.
88 / 100
- Director:George Cukor
- Stacker score:94
- Metascore:95
- IMDb user rating:7.8
- Runtime:170 min
“My Fair Lady” is a movie musical starring Audrey Hepburn as a cockney-class working girl turned proper lady and Rex Harrison as the phonetics professor who transforms her on a bet. The film version is the third iteration of the story, which started out as a stage play by George Bernard Shaw called “Pygmalion,” then became a stage musical by partners Lerner and Loewe, before finally winding up as an eight-time Academy Award-winning film.
89 / 100
- Directors:Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
- Stacker score:94
- Metascore:88
- IMDb user rating:8.5
- Runtime:88 min
“The Lion King” was advertised as the first Disney film to have a completely original story line, though many argue that it was obviously pretty heavily influenced by William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Its degree of originality has never seemed to be an issue for audiences who flocked to see the movie about a pride of lions in the plains of Africa. “The Lion King” holds the title as the highest-grossing hand-drawn animated feature of all time, bringing in more than $986 million at the box office worldwide.
90 / 100
- Directors:James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
- Stacker score:95
- Metascore:96
- IMDb user rating:7.8
- Runtime:125 min
When a team set out to restore “Fantasia,” the animated classical music concert, in time for its 50th anniversary in 1990, they had their work cut out for them. Disney’s third full-length animated film, “Fantasia” is also the longest with a runtime of two hours and five minutes. The length was not the only issue:the original negatives had been locked in the vault since 1946 and were in bad condition and the original soundtrack had also been lost. In the end, it took the team two years to bring the movie back to its (almost) former glory.
91 / 100
- Directors:Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
- Stacker score:95
- Metascore:95
- IMDb user rating:8.0
- Runtime:84 min
Six-hundred animators and artists worked on the 1991 smash hit “Beauty and the Beast.” Their work was so impressive that the film became the first fully animated feature flick to ever be nominated for a best picture Oscar. Although they lost in that category, the movie, about a prince cursed to spend his days as a monster and the young woman whose true love may turn him back, brought home two other trophies.
92 / 100
- Director:Lee Unkrich
- Stacker score:95
- Metascore:92
- IMDb user rating:8.3
- Runtime:103 min
“Toy Story 3” marked the end of an era in the movie’s universe as Andy, now all grown up, heads off to college, and the toys find themselves in the hands of a new owner after making a pit stop at a daycare center along the way. Hilarious and heartfelt, the movie will certainly be a tear-jerker for those who grew up alongside Andy and the toys.
93 / 100
- Directors:Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
- Stacker score:96
- Metascore:96
- IMDb user rating:8.0
- Runtime:111 min
In “Ratatouille,” a young rat named Remy has dreams of becoming a gourmet chef, but his furry little body has proven to be an obstacle that’s too big to overcome. Upon arriving in Paris, Remy teams up with a hopeless chef named Luigi, exercising his skills through the human while remaining in hiding. His ultimate success proves that “a great artist can come from anywhere,” according to Anton Ego of The New York Times.
94 / 100
- Directors:Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
- Stacker score:97
- Metascore:97
- IMDb user rating:8.1
- Runtime:238 min
A Civil War drama starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, “Gone with the Wind,” released in 1939, remains the highest-grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. In total, the movie about a woman who’s torn in love and fighting to restore her family’s plantation, which earned eight Academy Awards, has grossed more than $3.44 billion.
95 / 100
- Director:John Lasseter
- Stacker score:97
- Metascore:95
- IMDb user rating:8.3
- Runtime:81 min
“Toy Story” holds the record as being the first full-length film to be fully animated via computers. It’s about a group of toys that comes to life when they’re out from under the eyes of their watchful humans. When Woody and Buzz get left behind on moving day, the formerly feuding rivals must work together if they’re going to escape the clutches of their evil neighbor Sid and be reunited with their boy, Andy.
96 / 100
- Director:Andrew Stanton
- Stacker score:97
- Metascore:95
- IMDb user rating:8.4
- Runtime:98 min
The last robot on Earth, Wall-E is destined to spend his days cleaning up the planet that has been trashed by humans. When he meets Eve, a robot who has been sent back to Earth on a scanning mission, he quickly falls in love and sets out across the galaxy to be with her. There are very few spoken lines in this film, but “Wall-E” still manages to pack an emotional punch.
97 / 100
- Directors:Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor
- Stacker score:98
- Metascore:100
- IMDb user rating:8.0
- Runtime:102 min
The classic musical “The Wizard of Oz” stars Judy Garland as Dorothy, a young girl swept away from her Kansas home by a tornado, landing in the magical land of Oz, where she and her new friends—a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion—follow the yellow brick road toward the Emerald City in order to obtain the deepest desires of their hearts. The often imitated film struggled through several production challenges, like an ever-rotating cast of directors, on-set accidents, and costume paint that caused health issues for several cast members. But in the end, it came together, winning two Oscars and cementing itself as one of the most beloved films of all time.
98 / 100
- Director:Charlie Chaplin
- Stacker score:98
- Metascore:96
- IMDb user rating:8.5
- Runtime:87 min
Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 film “Modern Times” marked the last on-screen appearance of his character, the Little Tramp. In the movie, the character struggles to hold on to gainful employment in this modern, industrialized world. Along the way, he befriends an orphan girl with whom he joins forces, facing the world they don’t quite fit into together.
99 / 100
- Directors:Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
- Stacker score:99
- Metascore:99
- IMDb user rating:8.3
- Runtime:103 min
A movie about making movies, Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds sing and dance their way through “Singin’ in the Rain.” While the film, which came before the Broadway show, had an original script and original dance numbers, almost everything else in it, from the music to the costumes to the sets, had been borrowed from previous MGM films.
100 / 100
- Director:Charlie Chaplin
- Stacker score:100
- Metascore:99
- IMDb user rating:8.5
- Runtime:87 min
The title for best G-Rated movie of all time goes to “City Lights” by Charlie Chaplin. The ultimate installment in the Little Tramp chronicles, the movie sees the character doing everything in his power to earn money so that he can take care of the blind flower girl he’s fallen in love with. It’s not until he accidentally saves a millionaire’s life and earns a giant reward that he’s able to do so, and everything begins to fall together.
