Six sliders. No stars.
Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
52 films tagged for kids, showing 50
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2017 · Family
A small bear with very good manners takes odd jobs around London to buy his aunt a birthday present, then loses it to a thief nobody believes exists. He keeps his temper and his marmalade habit throughout.
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2007 · Animation
A rat with an exceptional nose and a taste for cooking ends up steering a hopeless kitchen boy around a famous Paris restaurant. Nobody can be allowed to know.
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1995 · Animation
A boy's toys come alive when he leaves the room, and the cowboy who has always been his favourite is shoved aside by a new space ranger. The two of them end up lost together, some way from home.
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2010 · Animation
A family of four-inch people live under the floorboards of a country house, borrowing what they need, until the daughter is seen by the boy who has come to stay. Slow and quiet, with everything sized from her point of view.
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2014 · Animation
A teenage robotics whiz in a city that is half San Francisco and half Tokyo teams up with a soft inflatable healthcare robot his brother built. It is bright and fast, with a real sad streak running under the jokes.
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2000 · Animation
The hens on a Yorkshire chicken farm keep trying to get over the fence, and then a rooster who says he can fly drops in. Stop-motion, quick, and built exactly like a prison break film.
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2017 · Animation
A boy from a Mexican family that has banned music wants to play, and on the Day of the Dead he ends up in the land where his ancestors live. Bright, quick, and built around songs.
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2009 · Animation
A bored girl moves into an old house and finds a small door into a version of her home where her parents pay attention and everything is better. Stop-motion, made for children, and properly creepy.
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2023 · Animation
In a city where fire, water, earth and air people keep to their own neighbourhoods, a shopkeeper's daughter made of fire meets a water guy who cries at everything. Bright, busy, and built around her parents' shop.
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2021 · Animation
Every child in a Colombian family gets a magical gift on their fifth birthday, except Mirabel, and now the house is cracking. Songs every few minutes and a lot of relatives to keep straight.
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2009 · Animation
A fox who promised his wife he would stop stealing chickens takes one more run at the three meanest farmers in the valley, who come after his whole neighbourhood. Stop-motion, dry jokes, everyone talking fast.
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2003 · Animation
A clownfish whose son is scooped up by a diver swims the length of the ocean to get him back, with a fish who forgets everything for company. Bright and quick, and funny most of the way.
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2024 · Animation
A cat wakes to a rising flood and ends up sharing a boat with a dog, a lemur, a bird and a capybara. There is no dialogue at all, just animals, water and sound.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2013 · Animation
A princess sets out across the mountains to find her older sister, who has run from the kingdom after her power to freeze things got away from her. A musical for children, with big songs and a talking snowman.
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2004 · Fantasy
In his third year at Hogwarts, Harry learns that the man who broke out of the wizard prison is looking for him. Greyer and rainier than the first two, and it moves quickly for a long film.
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2010 · Animation
A Viking teenager who is no good at killing dragons brings one down, finds it hurt, and starts working out what dragons actually want. Flying scenes, and a father who is hard to talk to.
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2004 · Animation
A quiet young hatmaker is cursed into the body of an old woman and takes shelter in the walking castle of a wizard everyone is afraid of. Hand-drawn, warm, and it wanders rather than hurries.
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2015 · Animation
The feelings inside an eleven-year-old girl run her from a control room in her head, and two of them get lost the week her family moves across the country. Bright and fast, with a lot underneath.
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2024 · Animation
Riley turns thirteen and a new crew of feelings, Anxiety among them, muscles into the control room in her head just as she leaves for hockey camp. Bright, fast, and mostly set inside her mind.
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2019 · Animation
A spoiled postman is posted to a frozen island where the two halves of town have feuded for generations, and finds a woodsman with a cabin full of toys. Hand-drawn, funny, and made for children.
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2025 · Animation
A K-pop girl group sell out arenas by day and hunt demons at night, until a rival boy band turns up with a suspiciously good debut. Animated, fast, and packed with full-length songs.
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2016 · Animation
A one-eyed boy in old Japan makes origami move with a stringed instrument, and has to find his father's armour before his grandfather's spirits find him. Stop-motion, and it goes to dark places for a kids' film.
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2008 · Animation
A noodle shop panda who knows every kung fu legend by heart is picked, by accident, to train with masters who did not ask for him. Bright and quick, with fights built like slapstick.
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2021 · Animation
Two sea monster boys pass as human in a seaside town on the Italian coast for one summer, chasing a Vespa and a place in the local race. Sunny, quick, and aimed squarely at kids.
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2016 · Animation
The daughter of a Pacific island chief sails past the reef her people never cross, looking for a demigod who can put right what he took. Bright, fast and full of songs, with a lot of open ocean.
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2001 · Animation
In a city powered by children's screams, the top scare team's day goes wrong when a little girl follows one of them home through a closet door. Bright and fast, made for kids with plenty of jokes over their heads.
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2014 · Family
A talking bear from Peru arrives at a London station with a suitcase and a label asking someone to look after him, and one family takes him in for a night. It is warm and fast, built for children with jokes aimed over their heads.
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2012 · Animation
A boy who can see and talk to dead people turns out to be the only one who can stop a three-hundred-year-old curse waking up his New England town. Stop-motion, funny, and scarier than most films aimed at kids.
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2008 · Animation
A goldfish with a human face escapes her father's underwater kingdom, washes up in a jar, and decides she wants to be a little girl and stay with the boy who found her. Made for small children, hand-drawn, and full of water.
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2022 · Animation
Puss in Boots learns he is down to his last life and sets off after a wishing star, with several other parties chasing the same map. Bright, fast and funny, with fights that stop and hold still.
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2023 · Animation
A lonely dog in 1980s New York orders a robot for company, and the two of them spend a summer together. Nobody speaks a single word in the whole film.
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2003 · Comedy
A broke guitarist takes his flatmate's substitute teaching job at a posh prep school and quietly turns his fourth-grade class into a rock band. Loud, silly, and mostly kids learning to play.
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2001 · Animation
An ogre who just wants his swamp back agrees to fetch a princess from a dragon's tower for the small lord who dumped every fairy tale creature on his land. Fast, loud, and full of jokes aimed over the kids' heads.
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2014 · Animation
A boy on an Irish lighthouse island takes his little sister, who has never spoken, on the long way home past the creatures of old Irish stories. Hand-drawn, gentle, and full of singing.
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2020 · Animation
A New York middle school band teacher finally lands the jazz gig he has wanted his whole life, and that same day ends up somewhere else entirely. A Pixar film about what a life is for, with a lot of piano in it.
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2018 · Animation
A Brooklyn teenager gets spider powers and finds himself sharing the city with Spider-People pulled in from other dimensions. It is fast, loud and drawn like a comic book page.
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2010 · Animation
A girl who has spent eighteen years in a tower with seventy feet of hair blackmails a thief into taking her to see the floating lights. Songs all the way through, and mostly the two of them on the road.
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2004 · Animation
Superheroes have been banned for years, and a bored insurance clerk who used to be one takes a secret job that pulls his whole family into it. Fast and funny, and half of it is a marriage under strain.
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2014 · Animation
An ordinary construction worker in a Lego city follows the instructions like everyone else, until he is mistaken for the one person who can stop the president gluing the world in place. Very fast, very silly, and packed with gags you will miss first time.
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2009 · Animation
A boy in a walled Irish monastery is meant to be helping build the wall against Viking raids, and instead helps a visiting monk work on an illuminated book. Short, flat and patterned like the drawings in the book itself.
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2024 · Animation
A shipping robot washes up on an island with no people on it and ends up raising an orphaned gosling, with a fox helping. Lovely to look at, made for kids, and it does not pretend nature is gentle.
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2010 · Animation
Andy is leaving for college, and his toys end up donated to a daycare full of children who play rough. Funny and fast for children, and heavier in places than you might expect.
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2019 · Animation
Woody's new kid makes a toy out of a plastic fork, and when it runs off he sets out to bring it back. Bright and funny, with a long stretch in an antiques shop and a carnival.
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2022 · Animation
A thirteen-year-old in Toronto who is good at everything discovers that strong feelings turn her into a giant red panda. Loud, fast, funny, and full of 2002 boy bands.
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2009 · Animation
A widowed balloon seller ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats it towards South America, with an eight-year-old scout on the porch by accident. Bright and funny, with one very sad stretch early on.
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2008 · Animation
Seven hundred years after people left, one small robot is still tidying up the rubbish on Earth, until a sleek probe drops out of the sky. The first forty minutes are almost wordless.
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2005 · Animation
A cheese-loving inventor and his silent dog run a humane pest control business in an English village getting ready for its giant vegetable show, and something is eating the crops at night. Clay animation, stuffed with puns and jokes hidden in the background.
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2020 · Animation
In 1650s Ireland, the daughter of an English wolf hunter sneaks out to the forest and meets a girl who runs with the pack at night. Hand-drawn, and the woods look nothing like the town.
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2012 · Animation
The bad guy in an old arcade game is tired of being the bad guy and sneaks into other machines to win himself a medal. Bright, quick, and packed with games you may recognise.
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2001 · Animation
A sulky ten-year-old moving house wanders with her parents into an abandoned town, and by nightfall she is working in a bathhouse for spirits. She has to keep her job, and her name, to get her family out.
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