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Drama
In order to protect her identity, young Princess Evelyn (Fiona Perry) is sent to live with distant relatives in America. She initially has difficulty adjusting to life in the town until she befriends a pony held captive by a shady carnival owner.
After the death of his parents in a car crash, Jackson Mayhew is sent to live with his aunt who works in a hotel. He comes across an elderly gentleman named Sam and tells his aunt and the other children that Sam is actually Santa Claus on vacation. Sam recommends a psychiatrist to help Jackson work through his grief and enlists Jackson to help him give away some presents to vacationing children at the hotel.
Comedy, Computeranimation
In 1968, B.O.B's birthday was celebrated. Dr. Cockroach gave him a cake made of a bucket, frosting, and inedible objects.
Cartoon
thumb|The film Bosko sings and dances with a banjo playing pig in the furthest boxcar of a train. They are quite jolly until Bosko starts a mournful rendition of Crying for the Carolines, at which the pig starts to cry. The train proceeds to go up an absurdly steep anthropomorphic mountain, knocking the pig out cold as they lose balance.
Comedy
The Stooges are employed as paperhangers who concurrently attend to the care of Mary, an invalid purportedly unable to walk. However, Mary's apparent physical limitations belie her clandestine scheme to defraud her insurance company of $25,000 by feigning disability. Amidst their professional duties of affixing posters, the Stooges chance upon an advertisement promoting the services of a renowned hypnotist, Svengarlic, renowned for his purported ability to elicit profound transformations in individuals.
Coming-of-age, Drama, family film
The plot revolves around two kids who decide to help a bull moose stranded on an island by floating a female moose to the island.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=15|Bear Shooters Spud wants to take a camping trip and shoot bears with Jackie, Chubby and Farina, but his mother has forced him to mind his little brother Wheezer, who has croup. Spud must periodically apply ointment to Wheezer's chest. He tries to persuade his sister Mary Ann to tend to Wheezer, but she insists on going camping.
Comedy drama
Donald Bridges and his wife Alice have a young son, Andy, who is emotionally disturbed due to a near-drowning accident. The parents frequently argue with each other about how to raise their son until they have uninvited houseguests when a plane carrying Jarvis Moody and Pepper Upper falls from the sky and crashes right onto their roof. Jarvis and Pepper are a pair of wealthy eccentrics who give Donald and Alice a lesson in how to enjoy life.
Action, Adventure, family film
Against the wishes of his parents (who are in the midst of a messy divorce), a young boy steals the ashes of his dead Grandfather and runs away into the wilderness with his dog. The boy is determined to fulfill his beloved Grandpa's dying wishes and spread his ashes atop a remote mountain. Along the treacherous journey, the boy and the dog are accompanied by the ghost of his Grandpa, who helps them on their journey, brings the family back together and gives the boy one last chance to say goodbye.
fantasy film
Scenes are introduced using lines of the poem. Santa Claus, played by Harry Eytinge, is shown feeding real reindeer and finishes his work in the workshop. Meanwhile, the children of a city household hang their stockings and go to bed, but unable to sleep they engage in a pillow fight.
Action, Adventure, children's film, Western
The Wolfman, a mysterious masked figure, is leading an Indian uprising to drive local settlers off their land. The Wolfman kills Jimmy Carter's father and Alan Scott's brother, which leads the two heroes and Alan's dog Rinty to hunt down and defeat the villain.
children's film, family film
Travis Maclaine and his two daughters, Courtney and Samantha, set off on a dangerous trip around the world on a sailboat. Along for the trip is Kelly Zimmerman, a journalist who has been assigned to cover the voyage. Also, Jesse, a stowaway, is found aboard adding a fifth person on the trip.
children's film
In a British suburban community, groundskeeper Crickle prepares for a school's re-opening after the holidays. One of its staff, Professor P. Popper, is a diminutive and bespectacled science teacher who is extremely eccentric.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film
16-year-old David seems to have a normal middle-class life in the suburban world outside New York City. When David's father leaves his alcoholic wife after 17 years, David is forced to become parent to his siblings and caregiver to his alcoholic mother. Theater coach Kenny becomes enamored of David.
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Drama, Family Drama
An ex-member of the French Foreign Legion holds the German government responsible for the death of his family and goes on a killing spree to stop the operation of a nuclear plant. The police are helpless and so the ex-instructor of the killer is brought to Germany to hunt the killer down.
Action, exploitation film, Splatter Film, Western
After the end of the Civil War, Confederate army captain Justice Cain (Scott Brady) retires from the military. He becomes a farmer and lives a peaceful life with his son, Jody (by his deceased first wife) and his new wife, Angie (Tereza Thaw), the biracial ex-slave of Cain's former father-in-law. Unbeknownst to Cain, a group of six soldiers previously under Cain's command (and known as "Cain's Cutthroats"), Ameson (Robert Dix), Billy-Joe (Darwin Joston), Tucker (Bruce Kimball), Farrette (Don Epperson), Mason, and Crawford, has recently been released from a Union prison.
Drama, Family Drama, Heimatfilm
Poet Yusuf learns about the death of his mother Zehra and goes back to his hometown, Tire, where he had not been for years. In his mother's house, a young girl, his cousin Ayla, awaits him. Yusuf had not been aware of Ayla, who had been living with his mother for five years.
Dark Comedy, Family Drama, fantasy film, Stop motion
George T. Edison (Boothe) is an oddball inventor who hears with his teeth instead of his ears as a result of a bizarre childhood train accident. By day he toils away in his cluttered laboratory, and by night he listens to phonograph records by chewing on the giant metal horn that conducts the sound.
A family musical with heart, Rising Stars explores the sacrifices that come with fame in reality television-obsessed culture. Challenged with creating songs and music videos, three musical acts find more than their futures on the line when the competition gets fierce and their lives are caught on tape broadcast to the nation. Egos clash and worlds collide as these teens find how far they will go to win the coveted prize and achieve stardom.
family film
Drama
Raymond Graham is a prisoner on death row after committing murder. He is in the final hours of his life before his scheduled execution as his lawyer pursues a last-ditch hope of having his execution stayed by the governor.
The film is a semi-biographical story based upon the early life and rise to prominence of Native American dog musher George Attla, Jr. (1933–2015). Attla, known as "the Huslia Hustler," took his nickname from one of his mentors, Jimmy Huntington, who first began winning races during Attla's childhood.
Drama
A hermit, Uncle John, communicates with animals and cares for the forest. He is at odds with a forester who wants to cut down all the trees, and wants any impediments (like Uncle John and the boy) removed. The child, Jackie, had been washed downstream after a trainwreck in a storm.
family film
When weary Old Dan collapses at Sydney Central Railway Station, he entrusts his beloved dog Molly to young Maxie. Maxie takes up the challenge, developing a soft spot for her special new companion - a dog with the rare ability to sing in tune.