Spy Kids (2001)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The children of secret-agent parents must save them from danger.
Starring: Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Meet Dave (2008)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
A massive fireball from space hits New York's Central Park and an ordinary man emerges unscathed. The man turns out to be a spaceship operated by 100 human-looking aliens who are one-quarter inch tall and seeking a way to save their planet; complications ensue when their captain falls in love with an Earth woman who's always picked losers for previous romances.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms
Director: Brian Robbins
A Simple Wish (1997)
Comedy | Fantasy | Family
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" – that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.
Starring: Robert Pastorelli, Ruby Dee, Martin Short, Mara Wilson
Director: Michael Ritchie
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Anime | Romance | Family | Drama | Music
A young girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow… could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants to be a violin maker like his grandfather.
Starring: Youko Honna, Kazuo Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana
Director: Yoshifumi Kondô
The Missing Lynx / El lince perdido (2008)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Follows the adventures of a group of animals in their quest to escape from being kidnapped by an unscrupulous hunter, hired by a benevolent millionaire to start a new Noah's ark. The animals will have to spoil the hunter's plan and liberate their peers from his hands.
Starring: David Robles, Cecilia Santiago, Conchi López Rojo
Director: Raul Garcia, Manuel Sicilia
Bedtime Stories (2008)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Hotel handyman Skeeter Bronson's life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn Skeeter's life upside down.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand, Richard Griffiths
Director: Adam Shankman
Space Buddies (2009)
Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
Adorable golden retriever puppies Rosebud, Buddha, Budderball, B-Dawg, and Mudbud return in an epic adventure that takes them farther than they ever dreamed. In a delightful new escapade, the inquisitive pooches travel to the moon in search of a dream, only to realize that what they want is back on earth. Moving at warp speed, dodging asteroids and more, the Buddies and their two new friends, Spudnick, a sweet bull terrier and Gravity, a resourceful ferret, must summon their courage and ingenuity to launch plans for a moon landing and a rocketing trip back home. Will they have the right stuff?
Overflowing with intergalactic action and heart, 'Space Buddies' is an inspiring tale of teamwork, and loyalty that celebrates the journey of life and the friendships made along the way. It's Buddy-loving fun the whole family will enjoy again and again.
Starring: Diedrich Bader, C. Ernst Harth, Field Cate, Josh Flitter, Amy Sedaris
Director: Robert Vince
White Lion (2010)
Drama | Family
A young African boy named Gisani finds himself destined to protect a rare and magnificent white lion cub name Letsatsi.
Starring: John Kani, Thabo Malema, A.J. Van Der Merwe, Brendan Grealy, Jamie Bartlett
Director: Michael Swan
Animals United / Konferenz der Tiere (2010)
Animation | Family
A group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam for a leisure resort. The animals endeavor to save the delta and send a message to the humans not to interfere with nature.
Starring: Billy Beach, Jim Broadbent, James Corden
Director: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe
The Fox and the Child / Le renard et l'enfant (2007)
Adventure | Drama | Family
A woman recounts her childhood friendship with a fox as a young girl.
Starring: Bertille Noël-Bruneau, Isabelle Carré, Thomas Laliberté
Director: Luc Jacquet
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A hunter, a scientist, a vampire, an invisible man, an immortal, a spy, a beast…when a masked madman known as "The Fantom" threatens to launch global Armageddon, legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) commands a legion of superheroes, the likes of which mankind has never seen. Now, despite fighting their own personal demons – and each other – they mush join forces to save the world. Sean Connery leads a stellar cast in this breathtaking, "thrill-a-minute" (Jeffrey Lyons, NBC-TV) extravaganza loaded with "eye-popping effects and amazing action!" (Bill Bregoli, Westwood One)
Starring: Sean Connery, Shane West, Stuart Townsend, Richard Roxburgh, Peta Wilson
Director: Steve Norrington
Zathura: A Space Adventure / Zathura / Jumanji 2 (2005)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
In this heart-racing sci-fi adventure two squabbling brothers are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they discovered in the basement of theirold house. On their fantastic journey, they are joined by a stranded astronaut and must survive meteor showers, hostile lizard-like aliens, a rocket-propelled robot run amok and an intergalactic spaceship battle. Unless they finish the game and reach the planet Zathura, they could be trapped in outer space forever.
Starring: Jonah Bobo, Josh Hutcherson, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart, Tim Robbins
Director: Jon Favreau
Jumanji (1995)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Thriller
When two kids play an old magic board-game they found, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
Starring: Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth
Director: Joe Johnston
Moon Castle The Space Adventure / Xi Yang Yang Yu Hui Tai Lang Zhi Tu Nian Ding Gua Gua (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Rabbit from the moon, a small music magician (Wong Cho Lam speech sound) Take a giant candy spacecraft from heaven, Pleasant little music in See it found that he was the savior of the moon! Moon on the original "Candy Town"is King was bitter (Mak Cheung Ching acoustic speech) aggression faced destruction, in order to defend peace, Xi Yang Yang, Lazy (Kate acoustic performances) and so a public proceeding to the Moon Yang Yang clan, the wolf had just been driven out of the Wolf (Michael Tse acoustic performances), a, is also a kind of accident with the launch … Xi Yang Yang was found The moon had this crisis, and his parents went so far as relevant? More surprising was that Wolf's "Tears, " turned out to be key to success?
Starring: Liqing Zu, Lin Zhang, Yuting Deng, Ying Liang, Weitong Xie, Quansheng Gao, Na Zhao
Director: Sung Pong Choo
Rango (2011)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Western
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty
Director: Gore Verbinski
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
The mouse Stuart Little and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend from a villainous Falcon.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie
Director: Rob Minkoff
Stuart Little (1999)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
In E.B. White's world, it's hardly surprising that human parents would adopt "outside their species." The smooth-talking mouse Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) seems the perfect new child for parents Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie, especially with an adorable wardrobe of very small sweaters and pants. Harder is fitting in with the Little's family cat, Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane, who also deftly voiced Timon in director Rob Minkoff's last feature, The Lion King). The simple story deals with Stuart trying to fit in with his new life, including big brother George (Jerry Maguire's scene-stealing Jonathan Lipnicki). And of course there's an adventure when Snowbell's schemes lead Stuart into true danger, in the form of the devious plans of an alley cat named Smokey (voiced by Chazz Palminteri).
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie
Director: Rob Minkoff
Rio (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Tracy Morgan, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Jamie Foxx
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
Starring: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Ashley Jensen, Michael Caine, Jim Cummings
Director: Kelly Asbury
