Movies to show my 9 year old? (1 Viewer)

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

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!

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)

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?

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

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!

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...

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!

The NeverEnding Story.

That one always fascinated me when I was younger.

Earth vs the Flying Saucers
The Time Machine
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
George of the Jungle

Cartoons:
The Pink Panther
George of the Jungle
Rocky & Bullwinkle

In my haste, I forgot to list one obvious title:

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949) --any nine-year-old would love this, just for the tug-o-war scene between Joe and the wrestlers!

Also:

THE VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969) --cowboys vs. dinosaurs!

And if he likes "caper" movies, try TOPKAPI (1964), THE ITALIAN JOB (1969) and DANGER: DIABOLIK (1968).

If, from his exposure to FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, GOLDFINGER and THUNDERBALL, he's becoming a budding James Bond fan, introduce him to James Coburn in OUR MAN FLINT (1966) and IN LIKE FLINT (1967). He may also like DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (1967), and Michael Caine in THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) and BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (1967) (FUNERAL IN BERLIN (1966) is good too, but might be a bit dull for a younger viewer)

TV shows:

JONNY QUEST
THE WILD WILD WEST
THE AVENGERS (the shot-on-film Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson seasons)
JIM HENSON'S THE STORYTELLER
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER
LAND OF THE GIANTS
LAND OF THE LOST
MR. BEAN
THE OUTER LIMITS (1960s version)
POLICE SQUAD!
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER
DRAGNET

Don't forget classic-era cartoons and comedy shorts:

* LOONEY TUNES / MERRY MELODIES
* Fleischer Studios' POPEYE cartoons
* Fleischer Studios' SUPERMAN cartoons (featured on the recent SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE and SUPERMAN II discs, as well as in solo collections)
* Most of the cartoons in the WOODY WOODPECKER & FRIENDS VOL. 1 & 2 collections
* THREE STOOGES shorts (especially the recent Sony chronological collection of the 1934-36 shorts, the next set, 1937-39, is coming out at the end of May)
* OUR GANG / LITTLE RASCALS

The good stuff just keeps coming! And more good cartoons! He loves the cartoons before the feature!

My nephews are 6 and 8 and they love watching Toby Tyler, Old Yeller, Savage Sam and ET. As for cartoons, they love Pluto, Tom & Jerry, Loony Tunes and Popeye (The Fleischer ones, especially with Swee' Pea).

Couple of recommendations off the beaten path:
Zathura (10 times better than Jumanji)
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Castle in the Sky
Howl's Moving Castle
Johnny English

How about:

-Willow

-Red Sonja

-War Games

-Legend(1986 US theatrical cut)

-Splash

-JAWS

Flight Of The Navigator
Apollo 13
Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey
A Christmas Story
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Corpse Bride
James And The Giant Peach
Cool Runnings
The Rocketeer
The Dark Crystal
Labyrinth
The Muppet Movie
The Great Muppet Caper
The Muppets Take Manhatten
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Muppet Treasure Island
Muppets From Space
Dick Tracy
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Batteries Not Included
The Elephant Man
Empire Of The Sun
Evolution
The Family Man
Field Of Dreams
Dances With Wolves
What About Bob
Independence Day
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3
K-Pax
Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra
Men In Black
Men In Black II
Millions
Mirrormask
Murder On The Orient Express
Nacho Libre
Napoleon Dynamite
School Of Rock
National Treasure
National Treasure 2
Once Upon A Time In The West
Popeye
The Right Stuff
Robin Hood-Prince Of Thieves
Secondhand Lions
The Music Man
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
Sky High
Sneakers
Spaceballs
Strange Brew
The Straight Story
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II-The Secret Of The Ooze
To Kill A Mockingbird
Wallace And Gromit-The Curse Of The Were Rabbit
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2
Young Sherlock Holmes
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
A Bug's Life
Monsters Inc
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
Ratatouille
Rio Bravo
3 Godfathers
The Cowboys
October Sky
Dr. Strangelove
Mars Attacks
Batman
Batman Begins
12 Angry Men
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Lady Vanishes
The Wrong Man
The Sting
Arsenic And Old Lace
My Fair Lady

A few classic fantasy / science-fiction films:

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
The Borrowers (film and / or BBC TV version)
At The Earth's Core
Warlords of Atlantis
The Land That Time Forgot / The People That Time Forgot
Doctor Who and the Daleks (1965 film version with Peter Cushing)
Daleks:Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966 sequel to the above)
Edward Scissorhands
The Comedy of Terrors / The Raven
Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon)
Dragonheart
The Fifth Element
Jack The Giant Killer
Return to Oz
Silent Running
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Secret of Roan Inish
Small Soldiers
Spy Kids 1 & 2
The Island at the Top of the World
Krull

Action movies:

The Mask of Zorro
The Vikings

Animated films:

The Road To El Dorado
Atalantis: The Lost Empire
Chicken Run
The Iron Giant
Steamboy
Tarzan (Disney)
Treasure Planet

A couple of fantasy mini-series

Gulliver's Travels (Ted Danson version)
The 10th Kingdom

A great compilation of kid-friendly monster movie trailers:

All Monsters Attack

What about some Sherlock Holmes films (or the Jeremy Brett Adventures of... TV series)?

Or... Doctor Who (the BBC TV series - either the 1963-1989 version, or the 2005-present version)

...and one I can't believe no-one's mentioned: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (and the recent remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).