Good movies for boys

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Honestly, all of the films you’ve listed are for both boys and girls. If he is enjoying films with female protagonists maybe that just means he enjoys female protagonists. To mix it up, here are some films with female leads that are great for all kids and may be more towards you son’s taste.

Zootopia
Inside Out
Finding Dory
Coraline
Spirited Away
Brave
Mulan
Pocahontas
Ferngully
Anastasia
Tangled
Kiki’s Delivery Service
 
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I don’t have a problem with him liking and enjoying the movies with female protagonists. I just want him to see some good movies about boys as well. If the movies are good, my daughter will enjoy watching such films as well.
 
Allegra said:
I do recall my younger brother enjoying Simba (which we already have), Toy Story, and Angels in the Outfield. Does anyone have any really great movies for little boys? Extra points if they have a moral or emphasize a virtue of some kind. Double points if they have some catchy songs in them that might replace “Tomorrow” in my son’s repertoire, because that is only going to be adorable for so much longer.
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Here are some movies that my boys like now or that they have liked in the past, that I believe are reasonably wholesome and family-friendly:
  • The Apple Dumpling Gang
  • Swiss Family Robinson (an all-time favorite with our family – great for kids across a fairly wide age range)
  • Any Pixar movies, especially the older ones. Some favorites: The Incredibles, Cars, Cars 2, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3
  • The Perfect Game (highly recommended if your son likes baseball)
  • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (a bit of parental guidance is needed on this one, but mostly it’s fine for kids, and my kids enjoyed it quite a lot)
  • Robin Hood (very old live action movie)
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
  • All of the Star Wars movies, especially the original trilogy (but watch out for some violence and scary scenes, especially in the newer ones that are PG-13)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (some violence, not for very young kids)
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (some violence, not for very young kids)
(If your son is very young, he may not be old enough for some of these movies yet. I’m not sure what his age is, but I get the impression from your original post that he may be quite young still.)
 
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BartholomewB said:
All four of the Indiana Jones movies.
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I would add the caveat that “Temple of Doom” dials up violence and especially gore to a higher level than the other Indiana Jones movies. Don’t go into this one expecting it to be as family-friendly as “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or “The Last Crusade.”
 
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There are several movies based on the works of Alexander Dumas with great morals and solid men as heroes, like the Count of Monte Cristo and some of Musketeer movies. There is also the Never-ending Story, Free Willy. E.T.
 
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Blackbeard’s Ghost
The Sword and the Stone
Swiss Family Robinson
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family
Odd Squad
Spy Kids
The Neverending Story
How to Train Your Dragon
Big Hero 6
 
Paul71 said:
I would add the caveat that “Temple of Doom” dials up violence and especially gore to a higher level than the other Indiana Jones movies. Don’t go into this one expecting it to be as family-friendly as “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or “The Last Crusade.”
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A young relative of mine, who first watched The Temple of Doom at the age of about seven or eight, liked it a lot, particularly the scenes featuring Short Round. For a long time he would refer to any food he didn’t like as “snake surprise.”
 
Can’t do the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. We don’t have cable, and the one time we saw it was when we were on vacation in Wisconsin in a hotel that didn’t receive PBS and it was the only kids show we could find. I would very quickly become homicidal if I had to listen to that crap for more than a short time. I can’t understand how any one, child or adult, could watch that show and not get gradually more stupid the longer they watch it. It was literally the most brain-dead thing I had ever seen and every blessed episode of it seems to be exactly the same. I would rather watch Calliou. And that’s saying something.
 
The Sword in the Stone is a good one! I loved that as a kid! I’ll have to see about getting that one!
 
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BartholomewB:
All four of the Indiana Jones movies.
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I would add the caveat that “Temple of Doom” dials up violence and especially gore to a higher level than the other Indiana Jones movies. Don’t go into this one expecting it to be as family-friendly as “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or “The Last Crusade.”
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Raiders of the Lost Ark has both sex and graphic violence. Be careful with young ones. My son never saw this movie until his teen years and by then he was able to handle the violence (remember the fight scene near the plane, where the propellers are running…).
 
Allegra said:
I would rather watch Calliou. And that’s saying something.
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😂 well all right then.

I should let you know my sister-in-law regularly tunes her 2-yr-old into Mickey Mouse club non-stop YouTube roll-over. The same program goes on repeat 40 times. 😩
 
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Gertabelle said:
Raiders of the Lost Ark has both sex and graphic violence. Be careful with young ones. My son never saw this movie until his teen years and by then he was able to handle the violence (remember the fight scene near the plane, where the propellers are running…).
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I agree that parents should exercise caution with any of the Indiana Jones movies. None of them are appropriate for very young children.
 
-Newsies
-Aladdin
-Hook
-Swiss Family Robinson
-Robin Hood (both Disney and the 1939 version)
-Huck Finn
-The Karate Kid
-ET
 
I agree with Swiss Family Robinson and Apple Dumpling Gang. We also enjoyed Pete’s Dragon (the original one, not the recent release) and the Herbie “Love Bug” movies.
 
I’m enjoying this thread as our first child, a boy, is almost two months now. I noticed the other day that Mr. Rogers is on Amazon prime. Probably better for their brains.
 
LittleWay16 said:
I’m enjoying this thread as our first child, a boy, is almost two months now. I noticed the other day that Mr. Rogers is on Amazon prime. Probably better for their brains.
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As a little boy- before Mr. Rogers started his program, I enjoyed and thought I earned a lot from the 3 Stooges.
 
I’m sure you did learn a lot from them. You can “learn” from almost anything.
 
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