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Family-Oriented Adventure

A type of adventure aimed at the kids demographic and/or suitable for family viewing. These films usually involve a child, adolescent, or family that gets involved in a fight against the elements of nature or caught up in intrigue; yet any violence or harm inherent in adventure films is minimal, and there is consistently a happy ending to these stories. The blueprint for these films can be found in the Disney film The Swiss Family Robinson, in which a shipwrecked family sets up their own personal paradise on a South Sea island while fighting off nature and other enemies. Similar variations on the theme followed, with films like The Sea Gypsies and Adventures of the Wilderness Family placing a close-knit family in danger only to see them triumph over adversity. Other adventure-themed kids popped up in the 1980s and 1990s, as the larger video market for family-oriented films encouraged filmmakers to meet the demand.

Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1995 A Close Shave   Nick Park
  9 Stars 1956 The Red Balloon   Albert Lamorisse
  8 Stars 1997 The Children of Heaven   Majid Majidi
  8 Stars 1979 The Muppet Movie   James Frawley
  8 Stars 1979 The Black Stallion   Carroll Ballard
  7 Stars 1998 A Bug's Life   John Lasseter
  7 Stars 1986 Castle in the Sky   Hayao Miyazaki
  7 Stars 1996 Fly Away Home   Carroll Ballard
  7 Stars 1992 Porco Rosso   Hayao Miyazaki
    7 Stars 1995 The White Balloon   Jafar Panahi
  7 Stars 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory   Mel Stuart
  7 Stars 1952 Crin Blanc   Albert Lamorisse
  7 Stars 1950 Treasure Island   Byron Haskin
  7 Stars 1960 The Swiss Family Robinson   Ken Annakin
  7 Stars 1990 Haakon Haakonsen   Nils Gaup
    7 Stars 1934 Little Miss Marker   Alexander Hall
  7 Stars 1943 Lassie Come Home   Fred Wilcox
  7 Stars 1967 The Jungle Book   Wolfgang Reithermann
  7 Stars 1985 The Journey of Natty Gann   Jeremy Kagan
    7 Stars 1965 Heidi   Werner Jacobs
  7 Stars 1966 Born Free   James H. Hill
  6 Stars 1996 Matilda   Danny DeVito
  6 Stars 1942 The Jungle Book   Zoltan Korda
  6 Stars 1963 The Incredible Journey   Fletcher Markle
  6 Stars 1966 Fantastic Voyage   Richard Fleischer
    6 Stars 1981 The Electric Grandmother   Noel Black
  6 Stars 1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks   Robert Stevenson
  6 Stars 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea   Richard Fleischer
  5 Stars 1998 Madeline   Daisy von Scherler Mayer
  5 Stars 1998 Paulie   John Roberts
  5 Stars 1997 Free Willy 3: The Rescue   Sam Pillsbury
  5 Stars 1996 Shiloh   Dale Rosenbloom
  5 Stars 1994 Lassie   Daniel Petrie
  5 Stars 1980 Popeye   Robert Altman
  5 Stars 1991 White Fang   Randal Kleiser
  5 Stars 1966 The Trouble With Angels   Ida Lupino
  5 Stars 1965 Those Calloways   Norman Tokar
    5 Stars 1978 The Sea Gypsies   Stewart Raffill
  5 Stars 1970 The Railway Children   Lionel Jeffries
  5 Stars 1960 Pollyanna   David Swift
    5 Stars 1979 Orphan Train   William A. Graham
  5 Stars 1968 The Love Bug   Robert Stevenson
    5 Stars 1979 Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang   Theodore J. Flicker
    5 Stars 1975 Huckleberry Finn   Robert J. Totten
  5 Stars 1987 Harry and the Hendersons   William Dear
  5 Stars 1993 Free Willy   Simon Wincer
  5 Stars 1986 Flight of the Navigator   Randal Kleiser
  5 Stars 1966 The Fighting Prince of Donegal   Michael O'Herlihy
    5 Stars 1977 Bröderna Lejonhjärta   Olle Hellbom
  5 Stars 1938 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer   Norman Taurog
  4 Stars 1998 Tom's Midnight Garden   Willard Carroll
    4 Stars 1981 The White Lions   Mel Stuart
    4 Stars 1936 Deti Kapitana Granta   D. Gutman
  4 Stars 1976 The Adventures of the Wilderness Family   Stewart Raffill
  4 Stars 1986 Spacecamp   Harry Winer
  4 Stars 1977 The Prince and the Pauper   Richard Fleischer
  4 Stars 1972 Napoleon and Samantha   Bernard McEveety
  4 Stars 1977 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo   Vincent McEveety
  4 Stars 1985 The Goonies   Richard Donner
  4 Stars 1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang   Ken Hughes
  3 Stars 1997 Pippi Longstocking   Clive A. Smith
  3 Stars 1995 Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home   Dwight H. Little
  3 Stars 1993 Beethoven's 2nd   Rod Daniel
 
 
 
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