Coraline (2009), Neco z Alenky (1988), A Stitch in Time (1963), Anne of Green Gables (1934), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979), They Might Be Giants (1971), The Witches (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Children's Literature movies.
Storyline: When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true. When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, animation, adventure, dark fairy tale, family, mystery, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll's novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', mixing one live actor (Alice) with a large variety of stop-motion animated creatures, ranging from the complex (the White Rabbit) to the incredibly simple (the Caterpillar, consisting of a sock, a couple of glass eyes and a pair of false teeth). The original story is followed reasonably faithfully, though those familiar with this director's other films won't be the least bit surprised by the numerous digressions into Svankmajer territory, living slabs of meat and all. As the opening narration says, it's a film made for children... perhaps?
Plot Keywords: fantasy, surrealism, animation, adaptation, dark fairy tale, stop motion, experimental film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An accident in the butcher's shop leads Norman and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Norman finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Norman decides to help.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, fantasy, children, adventure, magic, time travel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anne Shirley, an orphan, is adopted by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to help with their farm work. However, they accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: classic film, family, drama, literary adaptation, coming of age, orphan, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four children from the same family have to leave their town because of the bombings of WWII. A women and a professor take the children to their house. While playing a game of hide-and-seek, the youngest member of the family, Lucy, finds a wardrobe to hide in. She travels back and back into the wardrobe and finds a place named Narnia. After going in twice, the four children go in together for the last time. They battle wolves, meet talking animals, encounter an evil white witch and meet a magnificent lion named Aslan. Will this be the end of their journey to Narnia or will they stay?
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, children's literature, magic, war, epic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The beloved fantasy tale by C.S. Lewis is given the animated treatment in this adaptation. After four orphaned British siblings find a passageway at the back of a wardrobe to the magical world of Narnia, they embark on an exciting journey, encountering talking animals and mythical creatures. Ultimately, the children get caught up in an epic conflict between a heroic lion and a sinister witch. Amidst the battle between good and evil, the kids wonder if they'll ever return home.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, lion, witch, classic, children's literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: They Might be Giants chronicles the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in modern-day New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point. Dr. Watson follows Holmes across Manhattan and is, against her better judgment, drawn into the master detective's world of intrigue and danger. This is a sweet, goofy and fairly romantic film that asks the questions "Whose reality is right...and does it really matter?"—John Gerrath <jagerrat@uoguelph.ca>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, comedy, musical, children, allegory, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid England of all children.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, comedy, family, adventure, children, dark, magic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival, Blefuscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefuscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: adventure, fantasy, animation, classic, family, comedy, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a mythical land, woodcutter Jonathan agrees not to chop down the oldest tree in the forest in return for three wishes granted by the Forest Queen. After he wastes two wishes bickering with his wife, the third brings them Tom, a thumb-sized child. The couple dote upon him, but are unable to protect him when, on his way to the village, the innocent Tom falls in with villainous Ivan and Tony.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: fairy tale, fantasy, musical, family, adventure, comedy, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, classic, adaptation, special effects, family, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An orphan (Amanda Root) joins a friendly giant (David Jason) in a fight against evil ones who have a taste for children.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, children, animation, fairy tale, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the coast range mountains on the western edge of the Salinas Valley is a ranch where Tom, a lad of about ten, longs for a pony. He lives with his mom, who was born there, her dad, a talkative pioneer who misses the old West, Tom's dad Fred Tiflin, who comes from the city and after years on the ranch doesn't feel at home there, and Billy, their trusted hand, a real cowboy. While Fred has to sort out whether he wants to stay a rancher and come to terms with his son being closer to Billy than to himself, Tom gets a pony and learns directly about responsibility and loss. What lessons can each learn, and are tragedy and hard choices all that life offers? Are laughter and joy anywhere?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: family, coming of age, farm life, childhood, horse, father-son relationship, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A girl no bigger than her mother's thumb feels all alone in the world knowing she is the only person her size. Her wish for a companion at last comes true when the Prince of the fairies arrives at her window sill. However, the naive Thumbelina's life goes downward from there when a toad kidnaps her. While she tries to find a way home, she begins to grow up and learns about hope with the help of the friends she always wanted.
Plot Keywords: animation, fairy tale, family, musical, adventure, fantasy, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lucy and Edmund Pevensie are stranded in Cambridge, living in the house of their obnoxious cousin Eustace, while the grown-ups Susan and Peter are living in the USA with their parents. When a painting of a ship sailing on the sea of Narnia overflows water in their room, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace are transported to the ocean of Narnia and rescued by King Caspian and the crew of the ship The Dawn Treader. Caspian explains that Narnia has been in peace for three years but before he took his throne back, his uncle tried to kill the seven lords of Telmar, who were the closest and most loyal friends of his father. They fled to The Lone Island and no one has ever heard anything about them. Now Caspian is seeking out the lords of Telmar with his Captain Drinian, the talking mouse Reepicheep and his loyal men. Soon, they discover that an evil form of green mist is threatening Narnia and the siblings and their cousin join Caspian in a quest to retrieve the seven swords of the seven lords of ...
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, novel adaptation, voyage, magic, friendship ...
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