Recommended films and videos
[This page has not been updated in a long time. The kids are older and hence the range of films they can watch comfortably is much more extensive than when this page was created. Rather than mix up films appropriate for very different ranges of ages, I will leave this as it is unless, of course, I receive a direct query about specific types of films.]
Educational
- Marie Soleil (4 different titles): These are films with songs by
Suzanne Pinel in French. They come with the lyrics.
Full-length films for kids
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Fantasia: this comes with a warning that some of the images and
music were very frightening for our kids when they were younger
All-ages films
None of these are movies marketed as movies for kids, but our kids
enjoyed them all. We have also watched many BBC Shakespeare
productions, operas, and dance, thanks to the library for their
collection.
- Amadeus
- Afterlife
- The Bicycle Thief (subtitles, black and white)
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Casablanca
- Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) (subtitles, black
and white)
- 42nd Street
- From Mao to Mozart (documentary)
- The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
- Gone With the Wind
- The Lady Eve
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
- My Fair Lady
- Night at the Opera (Marx brothers)
- The Philadelphia Story
- Singing in the Rain
- Some Like it Hot
- Wallace and Gromit (animated)
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