[Brian Saur]

Hello,
new to the forum but a big movie fan. I have a 9 year old step son who I have a regular movie night with every Friday night. We have been doing this for more than a year and a half. We have a regular schedule of watching a cartoon, then some trailers for upcoming movies we might watch, then our feature. I began with showing him some more kiddie stuff and then branched into movies I liked when I was younger(I'm 33). He is very open to all kinds of films-sci-fi(love Star Wars of course), adventure, even old black and whites. Below is a list of most of the movies I have shown him over the past year and a half. Starting to run out of ideas, so was hoping to get some suggestions if possible? 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s to the present all fair game. He has enjoyed all these films so maybe these will help determine some others people on this board might think he'd like. thanks for any suggestions! Trying to keep my Netflix queue stocked...

Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Midnight Madness
Big Trouble In Little China
Never a Dull Moment
Kenny and Co.
Star Wars 1-6(he'd seen these already and liked them)
Clash of the Titans
War of the Gargantuas
Them
Poseidon Adventure
Towering Inferno
Rollercoaster
the Swarm
Pee Wees Big Adventure
The Car
Kingdom of the Spiders
Planet of the Apes 1-5
Omega Man
Star Trek 2-4
Indiana Jones 1-3
Blue Thunder
Tron
Goonies
Monster Squad
Cloak and Dagger
Red Dawn
My Bodyguard
Ghostbusters
Gremlins 1-2
Critters 1-2
Goldfinger
From Russia With Love
Thunderball
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
UHF
Airplane!
MSt3k-Various episodes
Star Trek Original series-Various episodes
Twilight Zone- a few episodes

cartoons:
Thundaar the Barbarian
Hong Kong Phooey
Dynomutt
Home Movies
Garfield and Friends
G.I. Joe



On the dockett to watch soon:
Flash Gordon
Young Frankenstein
Fiend Without a Face
Jason and the Argonauts
Day The Earth Stood Still
Moonraker
The Three Amigos
The Sea Gypsies

[JeremyErwin]

Adventures of Baron Munchhausen. Time Bandits.
Hunt for Red October (maybe?)

Master and Commander

[Brian Saur]

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeremyErwin

Adventures of Baron Munchhausen. Time Bandits.
Hunt for Red October (maybe?)

Master and Commander

Thank you good call on these! I forgot that I showed him Time Bandits and he liked it, so Munchausen is a good logical next step. And he'd love Red October too! Putting them in the queue now!

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

Try these--

Action-Adventure movies:

KIM (1950)
THE CRIMSON PIRATE (1952)
SCARAMOUCHE (1952)
THE NAKED JUNGLE (1954)
THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963)
ZULU (1964)
THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967)
WHERE EAGLES DARE (1969)
THE WIND & THE LION (1975)

Westerns:

THE SEARCHERS (1956)
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960)
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)
THE PROFESSIONALS (1966)

Fantasy Adventure:

THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1958)
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961)
ONE MILLION YEARS BC (1966)
THE GREAT YOKAI WAR (2005)

Animated feature films:

YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968)
THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO (1979)
LUPIN THE THIRD: THE FUMA CONSPIRACY (1987)
CASTLE IN THE SKY (1986)
SPIRITED AWAY (2001)

Sci-Fi:

INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)
WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954)
THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955)
FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957)
THE MYSTERIANS (1957)
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1959)
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON (1964)
ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS (1964)
FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966)
THE SUPER INFRAMAN (1976)
THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION (1984)

Horror movies:

HORROR OF DRACULA (1958)
HOUSE OF WAX (1953)
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (1971)
DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN (1972)
MR. VAMPIRE (1985)
STEPHEN KING'S CAT'S EYE (1985)
POLTERGEIST (1982)

Monster Movies:

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951)
TARANTULA (1955)
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954)
TWENTY MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957)
RODAN (1957)
THE BLOB (1958)
KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962)
GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA (1964)
GHIDRAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964)
FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD (1965)
INVASION OF THE ASTRO MONSTERS (1965, aka GODZILLA VS. MONSTER ZERO)
KING KONG ESCAPES (1968)
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968)
GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH (1971, aka GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER)

Suspense:

NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
THE LAST VOYAGE (1960)
THE BIRDS (1963)
DUEL (1971)
JUGGERNAUT (1974)
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1979)

Fantasy:

DARBY O'GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE (1959)
THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (1961)
THE 7 FACES OF DR. LAO (1964)

Comedies:

IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (1963)
THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
A SHOT IN THE DARK (1964)
HELP! (1965)
THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN (1976)
INNERSPACE (1987)
BEETLEJUICE (1988)
UNCLE BUCK (1989)

Drama:

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952)
THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS (1957)
MY BODYGUARD (1979)
BREAKING AWAY (1979)
CINDERELLA MAN (2005)
INVINCIBLE (2006, Mark Wahlberg)

Nature/Animal flicks:

BORN FREE (1966)
RING OF BRIGHT WATER (1969)
THE BLACK STALLION (1979)
NEVER CRY WOLF (1983)
MICROCOSMOS (1996)
TWO BROTHERS (2004)
DUMA (2005)


And some prime pre-1950s flicks:

THE GENERAL (1927, Buster Keaton)
FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)
KING KONG (1933)
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
GUNGA DIN (1939)
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1939)
DR. CYCLOPS (1940)
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940)
THE BANK DICK (1940)
THE DEVIL & DANIEL WEBSTER (1941)
THE WOLF MAN (1941)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946)
OLIVER TWIST (1948)
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)

[GlennH]

A few comedies you might consider:

Galaxy Quest
The Princess Bride
The Court Jester
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Mouse Hunt
Back to the Future trilogy
Short Circuit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

[george kaplan]

My son is 7, and he loves the following that I've shown him:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 39 Steps
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Across the Pacific
The Adventures of Robin Hood
After the Thin Man
Another Thin Man
Back to the Future
The Bishop's Wife
Block-Heads
Boy, Did I get a Wrong Number
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Buck Privates
Christmas in Connecticut
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Circus
The Court Jester
Dr. No
E.T.
Elf
Fantastic Voyage
Father of the Bride
The Fellowship of the Ring
From Russia With Love
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
The Gold Rush
The Great Dictator
The Great Locomotive Chase
Groundhog Day
Gunga Din
Hans Christian Andersen
A Hard Day's Night
Harry Potter & the ...
Hatari!
High Noon
Home Alone
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's a Wonderful Life
It Happened One Night
Jurassic Park
The Long, Long Trailer
Man's Favorite Sport?
Meet Me in St. Louis
Mission: Impossible
Modern Times
Mon Oncle
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
North by Northwest
The Parent Trap
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Royal Wedding
Safety Last
Scrooge
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Shadow of the Thin Man
The Simpson's Movie
Singin' in the Rain
The Sound of Music
South Pacific
That Thing You Do
The Thin Man Goes Home
Third Man on the Mountain
The Third Man
To Catch a Thief
To Have & Have Not
Top Hat
The Trouble with Harry
The Two Towers
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Wizard of Oz
Yellow Submarine

[Brian Saur]

Wow, great lists here with TONS of good stuff! Many of my personal favorites(Duel, The Birds, The Last Voyage, Breaking Away, Quatermass and the Pit...)

You guys were right on the mark with a lot of these suggestions as I was considering many of them already(Buckaroo Banzai, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Forbidden Planet, Great Train Robbery, Uncle Buck, The Wolf Man, Princess Bride, Galaxy Quest, Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein)
So many others I hadn't thought of! Fantastic!

[Bob Graham]

Two not quite so obvious suggestions:

HOPE AND GLORY
MY LEFT FOOT.

These aren't necessarily though of as kids' films, but my kids loved them. When you watch HOPE AND GLORY with a child you really get to experience it through a child's eyes and you realize what a brilliant and unique film it is.

[Brian Saur]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Graham

Two not quite so obvious suggestions:

HOPE AND GLORY
MY LEFT FOOT.

These aren't necessarily though of as kids' films, but my kids loved them. When you watch HOPE AND GLORY with a child you really get to experience it through a child's eyes and you realize what a brilliant and unique film it is.

I'll throw this in the queue, haven't seen Hope and Glory for YEARS...

[Jacob McCraw]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Saur

I forgot that I showed him Time Bandits and he liked it, so Munchausen is a good logical next step.

That is awesome! Has he seen the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? My 3 year old daughter loves "Jack the Sparrow" and we watch these a lot along with Lady and the Tramp.

How about:

The Natural
Fletch
Hoosiers
Second Hand Lions

[Brian Saur]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jacob McCraw

That is awesome! Has he seen the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? My 3 year old daughter loves "Jack the Sparrow" and we watch these a lot along with Lady and the Tramp.

How about:

The Natural
Fletch
Hoosiers
Second Hand Lions

Yeah he dug the Pirates movies also. Haven't shown him these others though. Am curious if he would like Fletch or not. I think he would. I love it!

[Shaun]

The NeverEnding Story.

That one always fascinated me when I was younger.