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The world is astounded when Willy Wonka, for years a recluse in his factory, announces that five lucky people will be given a tour of the factory, shown all the secrets of his amazing candy, and one will win a lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as⦠his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is a treat, buying enough bars to find one of the five golden tickets is unlikely in the extreme. But in movieland, magic can happen. Charlie, along with four somewhat odious other children, get the chance of a lifetime and a tour of the factory. Along the way, mild disasters befall each of the odious children, but can Charlie beat the odds and grab the brass ring? (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age cult film |
Themes: | inheritance wealth greed rivalry redemption poverty dance surrealism |
Mood: | poetic justice |
Locations: | tunnel germany urban setting elevator boat school restaurant |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationship single mother girl teacher boy children mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | chocolate factory candy store candy bar television addiction paddlewheel boat competing businesses imaginary creature test of character used car dealer sudden change in size couch potato confectioner scanimate tinker laundress β¦used car salesman overweight child manufacturer steamboat industrial espionage wallpaper grandparent newsstand geese spoiled child paperboy pleading lifting male in air belch gluttony screenplay adapted by author invalid wish fulfillment spoiled brat miniaturization industrialist goose recipe ticket montana recluse trapdoor friends who live together famous score psychotherapy rags to riches forgery honesty chewing gum tour guide luck schoolteacher tv reporter prize laundry candy chocolate contract auction cane disfigurement arizona child protagonist child's point of view inventor imagination dwarf white house ransom impersonation eccentric fbi agent lifting someone into the air fainting flying tv news ampersand in title class differences six word title split screen gift contest factory spy television river birthday computer slow motion scene punctuation in title character name in title based on novel (See All) |
Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, Matilda is misunderstood by her family because she is very different from their ways of life. As time passes, Matilda finally starts school that has a kindly teacher, loyal friends and a sadistic principal. As she gets fed β¦up with the constant cruelty, Matilda begins to realize that she has a gift of telekinetic powers. After some days of practice, Matilda suddenly turns the tables to stand up to her parents and outwit the principal. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | single mother girl teacher mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship family relationships |
Story: | overweight child child protagonist child's point of view fbi agent lifting someone into the air flying gift character name in title based on novel |
An adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Land, where an ongoing war between Peter's gang of rag-tag runaways and the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | surrealism |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | girl boy children father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | friends who live together child protagonist impersonation lifting someone into the air flying character name in title based on novel |
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.
Locations: | elevator school restaurant |
Characters: | girl boy children mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | overweight child gluttony candy chocolate lifting someone into the air fainting gift birthday based on novel |
Zahra's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zahra until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed?
Themes: | poverty |
Locations: | urban setting school |
Characters: | girl boy children mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | schoolteacher prize laundry child's point of view river |
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur's grandfaβ¦ther returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks. (Read More)
Locations: | tunnel boat |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationship boy father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | sudden change in size miniaturization child's point of view inventor imagination eccentric river birthday character name in title based on novel |
Bastian is a young boy who lives a dreary life being tormented by school bullies. On one such occasion he escapes into a book shop where the old proprieter reveals an ancient story-book to him, which he is warned can be dangerous. Shortly after, he "borrows" the book and begins to read it in the schβ¦ool attic where he is drawn into the mythical land of Fantasia, which desperately needs a hero to save it from destruction. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | girl boy father son relationship |
Story: | pleading wish fulfillment friends who live together famous score luck child protagonist imagination flying based on novel |
Musical adaptation of 'Charles Dickens (I)' (qv)'s classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
Themes: | wealth redemption poverty dance |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | friends who live together famous score rags to riches child's point of view class differences punctuation in title character name in title based on novel |
An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.
Themes: | surrealism |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | children family relationships |
Story: | famous score candy inventor eccentric flying factory spy birthday based on novel |
Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Petβ¦er Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | girl boy children mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | miniaturization friends who live together child's point of view lifting someone into the air character name in title based on novel |
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. β¦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. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | surrealism |
Locations: | tunnel boat |
Characters: | girl boy father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship |
Story: | wallpaper candy cane child protagonist eccentric lifting someone into the air computer character name in title based on novel |
Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside, much to Chihiro's dismay. On the way to their new home, Chihiro's father makes a wrong turn and drives down a lonely one-lane road which dead-ends in front of a tunnel. Her parents decide to stop the car and explore the β¦area. They go through the tunnel and find an abandoned amusement park on the other side, with its own little town. When her parents see a restaurant with great-smelling food but no staff, they decide to eat and pay later. However, Chihiro refuses to eat and decides to explore the theme park a bit more. She meets a boy named Haku who tells her that Chihiro and her parents are in danger, and they must leave immediately. She runs to the restaurant and finds that her parents have turned into pigs. In addition, the theme park turns out to be a town inhabited by demons, spirits, and evil gods. At the center of the town is a bathhouse where these creatures go to relax. The owner of the bathhouse is the evil witch Yubaba, who is intent on keeping all trespassers as captive workers, including Chihiro. Chihiro must rely on Haku to save her parents in hopes of returning to their world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | greed rivalry surrealism |
Locations: | tunnel elevator restaurant |
Characters: | girl boy husband wife relationship family relationships |
Story: | gluttony famous score child protagonist flying river character name in title |
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth. Sara's belief that "eβ¦very girl's a princess" is tested to the limit, however, when word comes that her father was killed in action and his estate has been seized by the British government. (Read More)
Themes: | poverty |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | girl teacher father daughter relationship |
Story: | friends who live together child protagonist child's point of view imagination lifting someone into the air class differences birthday based on novel |
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling, and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit roβ¦oftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life--free of grown-up rules--while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates. (Read More)
Locations: | school |
Characters: | girl teacher boy children mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | pleading child protagonist child's point of view lifting someone into the air flying slow motion scene character name in title based on novel |
Characters: | boy children |
Story: | chocolate factory chocolate factory character name in title |
Eccentric actor Daniel Hillard is an amusing and caring father. But after a disastrous birthday party for his son, Daniel's wife Miranda draws the line and files a divorce. He can see his three children only once a week which doesn't sit well with him. Daniel also holds a job at a TV studio as a shiβ¦pping clerk under the recommendation of his liason. But when Miranda puts out an ad for a housekeeper, Daniel takes it upon himself to make a disguise as a Scottish lady named Mrs Doubtfire. And Daniel must also deal with Miranda's new boyfriend Stu Dunemyer. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | single mother children father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | child's point of view impersonation eccentric lifting someone into the air television birthday character name in title based on novel |
Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground. But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New Yoβ¦rk too, plotting a huge holiday heist! Kevin's ready to welcome them with more battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget! (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | surrealism |
Locations: | urban setting elevator |
Characters: | boy husband wife relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | wish fulfillment chewing gum child protagonist lifting someone into the air flying gift television slow motion scene |
Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was encβ¦hanted. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | redemption dance surrealism |
Mood: | poetic justice |
Characters: | girl father daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | recluse famous score disfigurement inventor eccentric slow motion scene character name in title |
The richest kid in the world, Richie Rich, has everything he wants, except companionship. While representing his father at a factory opening, he sees some kids playing baseball across the street. Richie wants to join in, but they don't want him around. When a plot to kill the Rich family is devised β¦by Rich Industries' top executive, Laurence Van Dough, Richie must take over control of the company while searching for his lost parents with the help of some new friends. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | wealth |
Characters: | father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | overweight child gluttony lifting someone into the air class differences factory computer character name in title |
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decidβ¦e to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | dance |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | single mother girl boy children mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | famous score child protagonist child's point of view lifting someone into the air flying character name in title |
James' happy life at the English seaside is rudely ended when his parents are killed by a rhinoceros and he goes to live with his two horrid aunts. Daringly saving the life of a spider he comes into possession of magic boiled crocodile tongues, after which an enormous peach starts to grow in the garβ¦den. Venturing inside he meets not only the spider but a number of new friends including a ladybug and a centipede who help him with his plan to try and get to New York. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | rivalry surrealism |
Characters: | family relationships |
Story: | lifting male in air friends who live together child's point of view lifting someone into the air gift birthday character name in title based on novel |
A little boy named Andy loves to be in his room, playing with his toys, especially his doll named "Woody". But, what do the toys do when Andy is not with them, they come to life. Woody believes that he has life (as a toy) good. However, he must worry about Andy's family moving, and what Woody does nβ¦ot know is about Andy's birthday party. Woody does not realize that Andy's mother gave him an action figure known as Buzz Lightyear, who does not believe that he is a toy, and quickly becomes Andy's new favorite toy. Woody, who is now consumed with jealousy, tries to get rid of Buzz. Then, both Woody and Buzz are now lost. They must find a way to get back to Andy before he moves without them, but they will have to pass through a ruthless toy killer, Sid Phillips. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | rivalry redemption |
Locations: | urban setting |
Characters: | single mother boy family relationships |
Story: | friends who live together lifting someone into the air flying birthday slow motion scene |
It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family named Kevin got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz and was sent to his room which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the famβ¦ily was in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed, and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about two burglars, Harry and Marv, about to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin acts quickly by wiring his own house with makeshift booby traps to stop the burglars and to bring them to justice. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Characters: | boy husband wife relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | lifting male in air ticket famous score laundry child protagonist child's point of view imagination lifting someone into the air flying television |
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 coβ¦mes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny. Now, whenever Adam comes near anything electrical, the electricity causes him to grow. Adam soon starts to grow to the height of over 100 feet. And he is now walking through Las Vegas which he thinks is one big play land. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Characters: | girl boy mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | sudden change in size miniaturization inventor fainting six word title |
A baby girl is discovered in a river by Ranon and Mims, the children of Willow Ufgood, a dwarf farmer and magician and the baby girl is taken into the care of Willow's family. But when a terrifying dog-like creature attacks Willow's village, whilst tracking down the baby. Willow consults the village⦠council and the wizard The High Aldwin. The High Aldwin gives Willow a task and Willow leaves the village and embarks on the task to give the baby girl to a responsible person. But Willow soon learns the baby is Elora Danan, the baby girl destined to bring about the downfall of the evil sorceress Queen Bavmorda. Joined by his allies: swordsman Madmartigan, sorceress Fin Raziel and the Brownies Franjean and Rool, Willow takes it upon himself to protect Elora from Queen Bavmorda, who intends to kill Elora and prevent Elora from fulfilling her destiny. And Willow and his allies are pursued by Queen Bavmorda's daughter Sorsha and the evil commander of Queen Bavmorda's army General Kael, whom are searching for Elora and bring her back to Queen Bavmorda's castle, where Queen Bavmorda bids to kill Elora in a ritual and prevent the prophecy of her downfall. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | redemption surrealism |
Mood: | poetic justice |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | girl children father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | trapdoor dwarf lifting someone into the air river character name in title |
Alice is a daydreaming young girl. She finds learning poems and listening to literature boring. She prefers stories with pictures and to live inside her imagination. One day, while enduring just such a poetry reading, she spots a large white rabbit...dressed in a jacket and carrying a large watch. Hβ¦e scurries off, saying he's late, for a very important date. She follows him through the forest. He then disappears down a rabbit hole. Alice follows, leading her to all manner of discoveries, characters and adventures. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | surrealism |
Characters: | girl |
Story: | sudden change in size miniaturization cane child's point of view imagination birthday character name in title based on novel |
When Jane and Michael, the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family, are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert, the sibβ¦lings try to pass on some of their nanny's sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents. (Read More)
Themes: | dance |
Characters: | girl boy children father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | famous score child's point of view lifting someone into the air character name in title based on novel |
Aladdin is a poor street urchin who spends his time stealing food from the marketplace in the city of Agrabah. His adventures begin when he meets a young girl who happens to be Princess Jasmine, who is forced to be married by her wacky yet estranged father. Aladdin's luck suddenly changes when he reβ¦trieves a magical lamp from the Cave of Wonders. What he unwittingly gets is a fun-loving genie who only wishes to have his freedom. Little do they know is that the Sultan's sinister advisor Jafar has his own plans for both Aladdin and the lamp. (Read More)
Themes: | poverty |
Mood: | poetic justice |
Characters: | girl father daughter relationship |
Story: | wish fulfillment friends who live together rags to riches luck impersonation lifting someone into the air character name in title based on novel |
Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the⦠Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | wealth dance |
Characters: | single mother father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship |
Story: | laundry lifting someone into the air fainting split screen slow motion scene punctuation in title |
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomoβ¦rrowland." (Read More)
Themes: | redemption surrealism |
Locations: | elevator restaurant |
Characters: | girl boy father daughter relationship father son relationship |
Story: | recluse chewing gum inventor flying factory slow motion scene |
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Togetβ¦her, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen. This friendship helps Jess deal with the tragedy that makes him realize what Leslie taught him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | girl teacher boy father daughter relationship mother daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | child's point of view imagination lifting someone into the air birthday based on novel |
Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie wants only one thing: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun. When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother's immediate reaction is that he'll put his eye out. He then decides on a perfect theme for his teacher but her reaction is like his. He fantasiβ¦zes about what it would be like to be Red Ryder and catch the bad guys. When the big day arrives he gets lots of present under the tree including a lovely gift from his aunt that his mother just adores. But what about the BB gun? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | teacher boy children father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | prize child protagonist child's point of view lifting someone into the air gift based on novel |
While Andy is away at summer camp Woody has been toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy collector and proprietor of "Al's Toy Barn"! In this all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm springs into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece. They β¦must find a way to save him before he gets sold in Japan forever and they'll never see him again! (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | greed redemption |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | single mother husband wife relationship |
Story: | friends who live together tour guide flying slow motion scene |
In the depths of the 1930's, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver⦠Warbucks. Quickly, she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly cold-hearted Warbucks cannot help but learn to love this wonderful girl. He decides to help Annie find her long lost parents by offering a reward if they would come to him and prove their identity. However, Miss Hannigan, her evil brother, Rooster, and a female accomplice, plan to impersonate those people to get the reward for themselves which put Annie in great danger. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | wealth poverty |
Characters: | girl children mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship |
Story: | industrialist laundry child's point of view lifting someone into the air character name in title |
It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the momeβ¦nt he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna? (Read More)
Themes: | wealth |
Locations: | elevator restaurant |
Characters: | boy children mother daughter relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | wish fulfillment honesty luck tv reporter tv news birthday computer |
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | surrealism |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | boy children mother son relationship |
Story: | child protagonist child's point of view eccentric flying river slow motion scene character name in title based on novel |
Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Coβ¦llins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show.....without denting her 'do! (Read More)
Themes: | dance |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | teacher mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | candy bar laundress fainting tv news television |
Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads enβ¦ter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | surrealism |
Characters: | girl boy mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship family relationships |
Story: | candy bar geese imagination eccentric fainting based on novel |
Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had⦠no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities. (Read More)
Locations: | elevator school |
Characters: | girl boy husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | belch candy dwarf fainting tv news character name in title |
To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. It's a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor - and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties. To survive the nβ¦ever-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises an endless series of can't-miss schemes, all of which, of course, go awry. And he's getting it all down on paper, via a diary - "it's NOT a diary, it's a journal!" Greg insists, preferring the less-sissyfied designation - filled with his opinions, thoughts, tales of family trials and tribulations, and (would-be) schoolyard triumphs. "One day when I'm famous," writes Greg, "I'll have better things to do than answer people's stupid questions all day." So was born the Wimpy Kid's diary. (Read More)
Locations: | school |
Characters: | grandfather grandson relationship girl teacher boy children father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | candy child protagonist child's point of view fainting computer based on novel |
Nim Rusoe is a girl who joins her father, a scientist, when he does research on marine life on an island. It's just the two of them but she spends her time making friends with all the animals she encounters, chatting on the computer and reading the adventure books of Alex Rover. When her father goes⦠to do some research but when a storm strikes the island he doesn't come back, she gets worried and frightened. She then e-mails Alex Rover hoping that he will come but what she doesn't know is that Alex Rover is a woman who is agoraphobic and germaphobic. But her creation comes to life and eggs her to go. Unfortunately she has never gone anywhere before and is denied her necessities like her sanitary gel by the customs officer at the airport. In the meantime, Nim tries to be strong while waiting for Alex to arrive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | surrealism |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | girl boy mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | recluse child's point of view lifting someone into the air computer slow motion scene character name in title based on novel |
This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect hβ¦im by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | single mother boy mother son relationship |
Story: | schoolteacher chocolate child's point of view flying character name in title based on novel |
An old man makes a living by selling bamboo. One day, he finds a princess in a bamboo. The princess is only the size of a finger. Her name is Kaguya. When Kaguya grows up, 5 men from prestigious families propose to her. Kaguya asks the men to find memorable marriage gifts for her, but the 5 men are β¦unable to find what Kaguya wants. Then, the Emperor of Japan proposes to her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | wealth greed poverty |
Characters: | girl children |
Story: | rags to riches child protagonist class differences character name in title |
The Addams step out of 'Charles Addams' (qv)' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long⦠lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | inheritance greed |
Characters: | mother daughter relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship family relationships |
Story: | trapdoor eccentric lifting someone into the air character name in title |
Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle's estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly yβ¦oung boy...and a secret garden. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth redemption |
Characters: | girl boy father son relationship family relationships |
Story: | child's point of view lifting someone into the air based on novel |
This is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the groβ¦unds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | girl boy husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship family relationships |
Story: | trapdoor dwarf lifting someone into the air birthday slow motion scene character name in title based on novel |
Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy assigns Jiminy Cricket to act as Pinocchio's "conscience" and keep him out of trouble. Jiminy is not too successful in this endeavor and most of the film⦠is spent with Pinocchio deep in trouble. (Read More)
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | boy father son relationship |
Story: | wish fulfillment famous score inventor lifting someone into the air character name in title based on novel |
Molly Mahoney is the manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, the awesome toy store owned by Mr. Edward Magorium. Molly was a promising composer and piano player when she was a girl, and now she is a twenty-three year-old insecure woman who feels stuck in her job. Among the costumers of the Emporiβ¦um is the lonely hat collector, Eric Applebaum, who has only Molly and Mr. Magorium for friends. When the last pair of shoes that Mr. Magorium bought in Toscana is worn, he hires the accountant, Henry Weston to adjust the accounts of the Emporium. Furthermore, he claims that he is two hundred and forty-three years old and his time to go has come; he gives a block of wood called Congreve cube to Molly and asks Henry to transfer the Emporium to her name. Molly tries to convince Mr. Magorium to stay in his magical toy store instead of "going". (Read More)
Themes: | inheritance |
Characters: | girl |
Story: | goose child's point of view imagination eccentric fainting punctuation in title character name in title |
Abandoned after an accident, baby Mowgli is taken and raised by a family of wolves. As the boy grows older, the wise panther Bagheera realizes he must be returned to his own kind in the nearby man-village. Baloo the bear however thinks differently taking the young Mowgli under his wing and teaching β¦that living in the jungle is the best life there is. Bagheera realizes that Mowgli is in danger, particularly from Shere Khan the tiger who hates all people. When Baloo finally comes around, Mowgli runs off into the jungle where he survives a second encounter with Kaa the snake and finally, with Shere Khan. It's the sight of a pretty girl however that gets Mowgli to go the nearby man-village. (Read More)
Themes: | surrealism |
Characters: | girl boy |
Story: | friends who live together famous score child protagonist lifting someone into the air river based on novel |
Down and out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prβ¦odigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | girl teacher boy family relationships |
Story: | impersonation contest computer |