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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(2001)

K
| 2h 32min | Adventure, Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 12,814 votes)

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

Directed by Chris Columbus - With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, ...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets(2002)

Κ
| 2h 41min | Adventure, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 10,293 votes)

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.

Directed by Chris Columbus - With Daniel Radcliffe, Warwick Davis, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Alan Rickman, ...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(2004)

K
| 2h 21min | Adventure, Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 10,114 votes)

Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all.

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón - With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Richard Griffiths, ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(2007)

K12
| 2h 18min | Adventure, Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 9,166 votes)

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students to defend themselves against the dark arts.

Directed by David Yates - With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, ...
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Peter Pan(1953)

1h 17min | Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure, Fantasy
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.

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

The NeverEnding Story(1984)

1h 42min | Adventure, Fantasy, Kids & Family, Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,777 votes)

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen - With Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Moses Gunn, Thomas Hill, Patricia Hayes, ...

The Ant Bully(2006)

1h 28min | Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.9/5 (with 614 votes)

Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.

Directed by John A. Davis
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Spy Kids: All the Time in the World(2011)

1h 29min | Kids & Family, Comedy, Action
2.4/5 (with 424 votes)

Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca and Cecil must team up with their hated stepmother. Carmen and Juni have since also grown up and will provide gadgets to them.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez - With Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, Rowan Blanchard, Ricky Gervais, ...

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over(2003)

1h 24min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 960 votes)

Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez - With Daryl Sabara, Alexa PenaVega, Ricardo Montalbán, Sylvester Stallone, Ryan Pinkston, Robert Vito, ...

Problem Child(1990)

1h 21min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 352 votes)

Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.

Directed by Dennis Dugan - With John Ritter, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver, Gilbert Gottfried, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Richards, ...
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Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie(1997)

1h 39min | Action, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 125 votes)

The legendary Power Rangers must stop the evil space pirate Divatox from releasing the powerful Maligore from his volcanic imprisonment on the island of Muranthias, where only the kindly wizard Lerigot has the key to release him. The hope of victory lies in the Ranger's incredible new Turbo powers and powerful Turbo Zords.

Directed by Shuki Levy, David Winning - With Johnny Yong Bosch, Nakia Burrise, Steve Cardenas, Jason David Frank, Austin St. John, Catherine Sutherland, ...
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Stormbreaker(2006)

1h 33min | Adventure, Action, Kids & Family
2.6/5 (with 297 votes)

Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.

Directed by Geoffrey Sax - With Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Damian Lewis, ...
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House at the End of the Street(2012)

Κ-18
| 1h 41min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 804 votes)

A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.

Directed by Mark Tonderai - With Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows, Elisabeth Shue, Nolan Gerard Funk, Joy Tanner, ...

Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow(2022)

1h 30min | Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 67 votes)

After being put on indefinite leave by his chief of police uncle, the highly intelligent and arrogant huntsman spider Inspector Sun boards a San Francisco bound seaplane. Joined by an intrepid young fan, Sun is pulled into a murder case where the turnout could affect both the insect and human worlds.

Pippi on the Run(1970)

1h 34min | Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.

Directed by Olle Hellbom - With Inger Nilsson, Pär Sundberg, Maria Persson, Hans Alfredson, Walter Richter, Benno Sterzenbach, ...

The Brothers Lionheart(1977)

1h 42min | Adventure, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 36 votes)

9-year old Karl Lejon, 'Skorpan' is suffering from tuberculosis and knows that he will die soon. But his older brother Jonathan tries to comfort him by promising that they one day will meet in Nangijala, a magic country beyond the stars. Jonathan dies soon after in a house fire and Skorpan also passes away not long after. They meet in Nangijala, a country divided into the Cherry Blossom Valley and the Briar-Bush Valley. The people in the later are oppressed by the black knight Tengil and his dragon Katla. The two brothers, who now call themselves Jonathan and Karl Lion Heart, decide to help the freedom fighters against the oppression.

Directed by Olle Hellbom - With Staffan Götestam, Lars Söderdahl, Allan Edwall, Gunn Wållgren, Folke Hjort, Per Oscarsson, ...

My Fairy Troublemaker(2022)

K
| 1h 25min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

Violetta (337), a curious and cheeky fairy, gets lost in the human world. To find her way back to the fairy world, she teams up with the human girl Maxie (12) and discovers her true destiny.

Directed by Caroline Origer

Woyzeck(1979)

1h 22min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler, Volker Prechtel, ...

Treasure Island(1999)

1h 38min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Action
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Young Jim Hawkins and peg-legged Long John Silver set sail for adventure in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of dastardly pirates, swashbuckling heroes, buried treasure and a young boy's amazing courage. The narrative diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim out of his rightful share of the treasure and so Jim then teams up with Silver.

Directed by Peter Rowe - With Jack Palance, Kevin Zegers, Patrick Bergin, Christopher Benjamin, Malcolm Stoddard, David Robb, ...

Little Big Men(2010)

53min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

In 1982, Cody Webster and a small group of friends from Kirkland, Washington, sat anxiously in a dugout waiting to take the field for the championship game of the Little League World Series. Their focus was just about what you’d expect from any 12-year-old: hit the ball, throw strikes, cross your fingers and then maybe – maybe – you’ll win. Adults in the stands and watching from home saw a much broader field of play. The memories of American hostages and a crippling oil crisis were still fresh; the economic malaise of the late 1970s still lingered; and the new President was recovering from an assassination attempt even while confronting new threats from the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, back on that tiny baseball field in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, no American team had won a true international Little League World Series Championship in more than a decade. When the Kirkland players rushed from their dugout that day, they stepped onto a much bigger field than the one they saw.

Children's War(1980)

1h 26min | Kids & Family, Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A school closes due to heavy debt which brings the children into action by doing naughty deeds so as to persuade the real estate agency to reopen the school, and since this didn't work, they kidnap the school's owner in order to be heard.

Directed by Javier Aguirre - With Constantino Fernández Fernández, Yolanda Ventura, David Muñoz Forcada, Gemma Prat Termens, Manuel Alexandre, Ricardo Merino, ...

AURORA 663(2022)

1h 40min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A stranger with a mysterious past witnesses an airplane crash, and sets out to save the only survivor...a nine year old girl. Out-numbered, out-gunned, and relentlessly hunted for a crime he did not commit, the stranger must escape an army of blood-thirsty bounty hunters, as he desperately searches to save the injured child.

Lessons in Red(2020)

15min | Drama, History

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.