Family Movie List

Movies on the list to watch. This is a collection of "possible" movies. The boys decide which movie is next on the list. We will then rate it and stick it on one of the watched lists. Some of them might not be suitable, but you will have to judge for yourself by using the Parents Guide link they provide with each movie in IMDB.

The Movies are ordered by certificate rating. PG, 12, 15. So Scroll down until you see one you want to know more about, and just click on the image and it will bring you to IMDB.com which will include trailers etc.

The List is sorted by IMDB rating for the moment. We will update the rating once we watch it

PG Movies

Fantastic Mr. Fox

IMDB Rating: 7.9

Certificate: PG

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDbDirected by Wes Anderson. With George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman. An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

IMDB Rating: 7.3

Certificate: PG

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) - IMDbDirected by Ben Stiller. With Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Jon Daly, Kathryn Hahn. When both he and a colleague are about to lose their job, Walter takes action by embarking on an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.

Men in Black

IMDB Rating: 7.3

Certificate: PG

Men in Black (1997) - IMDbDirected by Barry Sonnenfeld. With Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio. A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.

The Mask of Zorro

IMDB Rating: 6.7

Certificate: PG

The Mask of Zorro (1998) - IMDbDirected by Martin Campbell. With Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, José María de Tavira. A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.

Clockwise

IMDB Rating: 6.6

Certificate: PG

Clockwise (1986) - IMDbDirected by Christopher Morahan. With John Cleese, Penny Leatherbarrow, Howard Lloyd-Lewis, Jonathan Bowater. An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.

Death Becomes Her

IMDB Rating: 6.6

Certificate: PG

Death Becomes Her (1992) - IMDbDirected by Robert Zemeckis. With Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini. When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.

Twister

IMDB Rating: 6.4

Certificate: PG

Twister (1996) - IMDbDirected by Jan de Bont. With Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz. Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.

Twister

IMDB Rating: 6.3

Certificate: PG

Oz The Great and Powerful (2013) - IMDbDirected by Sam Raimi. With James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis. A frustrated circus magician from Kansas is transported to a magical land called Oz, where he will have to fulfill a prophecy to become the king, and release the land from the Wicked Witches using his great (but fake) powers.

Sky High

IMDB Rating: 6.2

Certificate: PG

Sky High (2005) - IMDbDirected by Mike Mitchell. With Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, Michael Angarano, Danielle Panabaker. Set in an era where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young William Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.

The Time Machine

IMDB Rating: 6.0

Certificate: PG

The Time Machine (2002) - IMDbDirected by Simon Wells. With Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law. Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

First Knight

IMDB Rating: 6.0

Certificate: PG

First Knight (1995) - IMDbDirected by Jerry Zucker. With Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross. Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, who is due to be married to King Arthur. Meanwhile, a violent warlord tries to seize power from Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

IMDB Rating: 6.0

Certificate: PG

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - IMDbDirected by Kerry Conran. With Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi. After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

Joe Versus the Volcano

IMDB Rating: 5.8

Certificate: PG

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) - IMDbDirected by John Patrick Shanley. With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack. When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live.

12 & 12A & PG-13 Certificate Movies

The Abyss

IMDB Rating: 7.6

Certificate: PG-13

The Abyss (1989) - IMDbDirected by James Cameron. With Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester. A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

The Abyss

IMDB Rating: 7.8

Certificate: 12

About Time (2013) - IMDbDirected by Richard Curtis. With Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson. At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.

Bridge of Spies

IMDB Rating: 7.6

Certificate: 12A

Bridge of Spies (2015) - IMDbDirected by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan. During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Scott Pilgram vs the world

IMDB Rating: 7.5

Certificate: 12A

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) - IMDbDirected by Edgar Wright. With Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick. Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.

AI

IMDB Rating: 7.2

Certificate: 12

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - IMDbDirected by Steven Spielberg. With Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards. A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

The Adjustment Bureau

IMDB Rating: 7.0

Certificate: 12A

The Adjustment Bureau (2011) - IMDbDirected by George Nolfi. With Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Lisa Thoreson, Florence Kastriner. The affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

IMDB Rating: 6.9

Certificate: 12

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - IMDbDirected by Kevin Reynolds. With Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater. When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw.

Clueless

IMDB Rating: 6.8

Certificate: 12

Clueless (1995) - IMDbDirected by Amy Heckerling. With Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd. Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.

Unstoppable

IMDB Rating: 6.8

Certificate: PG-13

Unstoppable (2010) - IMDbDirected by Tony Scott. With Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee. With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.

Blast from the Past

IMDB Rating: 6.6

Certificate: 12

Blast from the Past (1999) - IMDbDirected by Hugh Wilson. With Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek. A naive man comes out into the world after spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter.

Mr & Mrs Smith

IMDB Rating: 6.5

Certificate: 12

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) - IMDbDirected by Doug Liman. With Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody, Vince Vaughn. A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.

Selfless

IMDB Rating: 6.5

Certificate: 12A

Self/less (2015) - IMDbDirected by Tarsem Singh. With Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley. A dying real estate mogul transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body, but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem.

The Perfect Storm

IMDB Rating: 6.4

Certificate: 12

The Perfect Storm (2000) - IMDbDirected by Wolfgang Petersen. With George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane. An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.

The Day After Tomorrow

IMDB Rating: 6.4

Certificate: PG-13

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - IMDbDirected by Roland Emmerich. With Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok. Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

Upside Down

IMDB Rating: 6.4

Certificate: 12A

Upside Down (2012) - IMDbDirected by Juan Solanas. With Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall, Blu Mankuma. Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love.

Hancock

IMDB Rating: 6.4

Certificate: 12A

Hancock (2008) - IMDbDirected by Peter Berg. With Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Jae Head. Hancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.

Spectral

IMDB Rating: 6.3

Certificate: PG-13

Spectral (2016) - IMDbDirected by Nic Mathieu. With James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Bruce Greenwood, Max Martini. A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.

Spectral

IMDB Rating: 6.1

Certificate: PG-13

RoboCop (2014) - IMDbDirected by José Padilha. With Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish. In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy, a loving husband, father and good cop, is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.

The Meg

IMDB Rating: 5.6

Certificate: PG-13

The Meg (2018) - IMDbDirected by Jon Turteltaub. With Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis. A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.

15 & 15A Certificate Movies

Schindler's List

IMDB Rating: 8.9

Certificate: 15

Schindler's List (1993) - IMDbDirected by Steven Spielberg. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall. In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

The Untouchables

IMDB Rating: 7.9

Certificate: 15

The Untouchables (1987) - IMDbDirected by Brian De Palma. With Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith. During the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.

Moon

IMDB Rating: 7.9

Certificate: 15

Moon (2009) - IMDbDirected by Duncan Jones. With Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw. Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

Arrival

IMDB Rating: 7.9

Certificate: 12

Arrival (2016) - IMDbDirected by Denis Villeneuve. With Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg. A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.

The Fugitive

IMDB Rating: 7.8

Certificate: 12

The Fugitive (1993) - IMDbDirected by Andrew Davis. With Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore. Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.

Serenity

IMDB Rating: 7.8

Certificate: 15

Serenity (2005) - IMDbDirected by Joss Whedon. With Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alan Tudyk. The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of their members who is telepathic.

The Last Emperor

IMDB Rating: 7.7

Certificate: 15

The Last Emperor (1987) - IMDbDirected by Bernardo Bertolucci. With John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying. The story of the final Emperor of China.

The Others

IMDB Rating: 7.6

Certificate: 12

The Others (2001) - IMDbDirected by Alejandro Amenábar. With Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann. A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.

A Simple Plan

IMDB Rating: 7.5

Certificate: 15

A Simple Plan (1998) - IMDbDirected by Sam Raimi. With Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe. Three blue-collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash and make a plan to keep their find from the authorities, but it isn't long before complications and mistrust weave their way into the plan.

True Grit

IMDB Rating: 7.6

Certificate: 15

True Grit (2010) - IMDbDirected by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin. A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.

Baby Driver

IMDB Rating: 7.6

Certificate: 15

Baby Driver (2017) - IMDbDirected by Edgar Wright. With Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González. After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

Big Trouble in Little China

IMDB Rating: 7.3

Certificate: 15

Big Trouble in Little China (1986) - IMDbDirected by John Carpenter. With Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong. A rough-and-tumble trucker helps rescue his friend's fiancée from an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.

Meet Joe Black

IMDB Rating: 7.2

Certificate: 12

Meet Joe Black (1998) - IMDbDirected by Martin Brest. With Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber. Death, who takes the form of a young man, asks a media mogul to act as a guide to teach him about life on Earth, and in the process, he falls in love with his guide's daughter.

Coherence

IMDB Rating: 7.2

Certificate: 15

Coherence (2013) - IMDbDirected by James Ward Byrkit. With Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen. Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.

Tremors

IMDB Rating: 7.1

Certificate: 15

Tremors (1990) - IMDbDirected by Ron Underwood. With Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross. Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.

Cloverfield

IMDB Rating: 7.0

Certificate: 15

Cloverfield (2008) - IMDbDirected by Matt Reeves. With Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller. A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.

Sliding Doors

IMDB Rating: 6.7

Certificate: 15

Sliding Doors (1998) - IMDbDirected by Peter Howitt. With Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn. A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.

Arq

IMDB Rating: 6.4

Certificate: 15

ARQ (2016) - IMDbDirected by Tony Elliott. With Robbie Amell, Rachael Taylor, Shaun Benson, Gray Powell. Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity.

Surrogates

IMDB Rating: 6.3

Certificate: 12A

Surrogates (2009) - IMDbDirected by Jonathan Mostow. With Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike. Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Mars attacks

IMDB Rating: 6.3

Certificate: 12

Mars Attacks! (1996) - IMDbDirected by Tim Burton. With Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening. Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.

Dark Shadows

IMDB Rating: 6.2

Certificate: 12A

Dark Shadows (2012) - IMDbDirected by Tim Burton. With Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter. An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

Van Helsing

IMDB Rating: 6.1

Certificate: 12A

Van Helsing (2004) - IMDbDirected by Stephen Sommers. With Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, Shuler Hensley. The notorious monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose.

I Kill Giants

IMDB Rating: 6.1

Certificate: 12A

I Kill Giants (2017) - IMDbDirected by Anders Walter. With Madison Wolfe, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Sydney Wade. Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.

Lockout

IMDB Rating: 6.1

Certificate: 15

Lockout (2012) - IMDbDirected by James Mather, Steve Saint Leger. With Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan. A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.

Mystery Men

IMDB Rating: 6.1

Certificate: 12

Mystery Men (1999) - IMDbDirected by Kinka Usher. With Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria. A group of inept amateur superheroes must try to save the day when a supervillain threatens to destroy a major superhero and the city.

IO

IMDB Rating: 4.7

Certificate: 12

IO (2019) - IMDbDirected by Jonathan Helpert. With Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston, Tom Payne. As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.

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