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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937)

3.6/5 (with 3,368 votes)

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

Peter Pan(1953)

3.6/5 (with 2,423 votes)

Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. But while in Neverland, the kids must face Captain Hook and foil his attempts to get rid of Peter for good.

High School Musical(2006)

3.3/5 (with 2,126 votes)

Troy, the popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella, the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club, break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the school's musical. As they reach for the stars and follow their dreams, everyone learns about acceptance, teamwork, and being yourself.

Directed by Kenny Ortega - With Corbin Bleu, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Alyson Reed, ...

The Next Karate Kid(1994)

PG
| 1h 47min | Action, Drama, Kids & Family, Adventure
2.7/5 (with 436 votes)

Mr. Miyagi decides to take Julie, a troubled teenager, under his wing after he learns that she blames herself for her parents' demise and struggles to adjust with her grandmother and fellow pupils.

Step Brothers(2008)

R
| 1h 38min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1,358 votes)

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

Juno(2007)

3.5/5 (with 3,242 votes)

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

Magnolia(1999)

R
| 3h 9min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 1,558 votes)

An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Carrie(2002)

R
| 2h 12min | Drama, Horror, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 203 votes)

Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.

Finding Neverland(2004)

PG
| 1h 46min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,630 votes)

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan'.

To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

NR
| 2h 9min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1,110 votes)

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging(2008)

3.2/5 (with 368 votes)

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring(2003)

1h 43min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 454 votes)

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.

Directed by Kim Ki-duk - With Kim Ki-duk, Oh Yeong-su, Kim Jong-ho, Seo Jae-kyeong, Park Ji-a, Kim Yeong-min, ...
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Wild Things 2(2004)

R
| 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 77 votes)

Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and sexual games with a sleazy insurance investigator who has his own plans for the money.

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid(1992)

2.6/5 (with 511 votes)

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.

Mohabbatein(2000)

PG
| 3h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 95 votes)

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

About a Boy(2002)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 995 votes)

Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.

Finding Forrester(2000)

PG-13
| 2h 16min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 464 votes)

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

Riding in Cars with Boys(2001)

PG-13
| 2h 12min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 199 votes)

In 1965 a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

Muriel's Wedding(1994)

R
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 184 votes)

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

Ronia, The Robber's Daughter(1984)

3.4/5 (with 75 votes)

Ronya lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronja have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.

Whale Rider(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 162 votes)

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Take Me Home Tonight(2011)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 290 votes)

Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, walks in and invites him to an end-of-summer party. With the help of his twin sister and his best friend, Matt hatches a plan to change the course of his life.

City of Men(2007)

1h 46min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 122 votes)

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

Walking Out(2017)

1h 36min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 63 votes)

A city teen travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father, only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear.

Directed by Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith - With Matt Bomer

My Summer of Love(2005)

R
| 1h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 110 votes)

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.

Thumbsucker(2005)

R
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 96 votes)

Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.

Private Parts(1997)

R
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 143 votes)

The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.

Kevin & Perry Go Large(2000)

1h 22min | Music, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 62 votes)

When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't prepared for the interference of top DJ Eyeball Paul, not to mention the embarrassment factor of Kevin's long-suffering parents.

Requiem(2006)

1h 32min | Drama, Horror
3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

Running with Scissors(2006)

R
| 1h 56min | Drama, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 101 votes)

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

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