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Plot Summary:
Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972, featuring songs and stories from many current celebrities of the day (credited as "Marlo Thomas and Friends") such as Alan Alda, Rosey Grier, Cicely Tyson, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross, among others. An ABC Afterschool Special using poetry, songs, and sketches, followed two years later in March 1974. The basic concept is to encourage a post-60's gender neutrality, while saluting values such as individuality, tolerance, and happiness with one's identity. A major thematic message is that anyone, whether a boy or a girl, can achieve anything.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: educational, fairy tale
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Really Rosie (1975)
Plot Summary:
Really Rosie is a musical with a book and lyrics by Maurice Sendak and music by Carole King. The musical is based on Sendak's books "Chicken Soup with Rice", "Pierre", "One was Johnny", "Aligators All Around" (Which comprise the 1962 book "The Nutshell Library"), and "The Sign on Rosie's Door". Sendak based the story on a demonstrative little girl who used to sing and dance on the stoop of her building, whom he observed while he was a little boy growing up in Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: crying
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How Do You Spell God? (1996)
Plot Summary:
Children from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds offer candid views on God, miracles, prayer, angels and faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags:
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Once Upon A Potty For Her (1990)
Plot Summary:
Potty training movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country:
Duration:
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A Family Circus Easter (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Easter special featured jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie as the Easter Bunny.[13].
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
Plot Summary:
A darker version of the classic children's fairy tale of a wooden puppet that transforms into a real living boy.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, fairy tale, 3d animation, exciting, touching, captivating, entertaining, retro, epic, dark
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Popples (1986)
Plot Summary:
Popples was a Saturday morning cartoon, based on the Popples toys, that aired in the United States from 1986 to 1987. The pilot was a live-action Shelley Duvall special, in which they were puppets and marionettes; after this was well-received, it was decided to make a cartoon series with the same characters. The cartoon was produced by DIC Entertainment and LBS Communications in association with The Maltese Companies. Like the toys they're based on, the Popples resemble colorful teddy bears or rabbits with long, pompom-tipped tails, and they have pouches on their backs that can be everted so they resemble fuzzy balls. The name "Popple" is a reference to the popping sound they make when unfolding themselves from such a ball, or pulling objects from their pouches. In the cartoon Popples commonly pull large items from their pouches that couldn't possibly fit inside, which come from hammerspace; in "Popples Alley", one of the Popples' human friends looks inside one of their pouches and sees numerous objects floating in a void. Nine of the Popples live with a human brother and sister, Billy and Bonnie Wagner. Billy and Bonnie think they are the only kids who have Popples until a neighbor family moves in and they have their own Popples — the Rock Stars, Pufflings, and Babies. The Popples tend to come around and mess up whatever the kids are trying to do; e.g., if the kids are trying to brush their teeth, the Popples end up spilling water, toothpaste and soap all over the bathroom. If the kids are trying to clean their rooms, the Popples come along, mess up the room even worse and then help them get everything back to normal just in the nick of time. The plot revolved around the children's efforts to hide the existence of the Popples from the adults around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: children's program
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)
Plot Summary:
A retelling of the popular fairy tale that mixes live action and animation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic
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U (2006)
Plot Summary:
Since her parents passed away, Princess Mona lives by herself in a castle with two hideous, ghastly characters, Goomi and His Lordship. One day her sobs draw the attention of a unicorn, called U, who wants to comfort and protect Mona for as long as she needs. U becomes Mona's companion, her confidant and her inseparable friend. While Mona grows into a beautiful princess, a group of charming, peaceful and fanciful Yeah-Yeah’s settles in the neighboring forest. They have no particular special powers, yet they soon bring about major changes in everyone's lives, especially in Kulka, the dreamy musician.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, anime
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Wish (2023)
Plot Summary:
Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force – a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe - the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico - to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: computer animated, fairy tale, crying, creepy, 3d animation, 2d animation
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The Princess and the Dragon (2018)
Plot Summary:
On her 7th birthday, Princess Barbara discovers a magical book that transports her to Wonderland, an enchanted place filled with dragons and fantastic creatures.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Russia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sincere, sweet, colorful, fairy tale, light, anime, colourful
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The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after the Royal Family adopts a young girl named Alise, she is taken away into the forest. Princess Odette, Derek and their woodland friends, must work together to find a way to bring her home to the castle.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, India, South Korea
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: feel good, serious, humorous, fairy tale, computer animated, 3d animation
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Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (2017)
Plot Summary:
The classic Roald Dahl tale gets a modern twist when Tom and Jerry enter the amazing world of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, funny, light, feel good, captivating
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The Loud House (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Loud family travel to Scotland and discover they are descendants of Scottish royalty as they move into their giant ancestral castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, 2d animation, fun
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Gabby's Dollhouse (2021)
Plot Summary:
This colorful series leads preschoolers room to room through a fantastical dollhouse of delightful mini-worlds and irresistible kitty characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: educational, 3d animation, computer animated
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Ella Bella Bingo (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ella Bella Bingo and Henry are best friends, but one day a new boy moves into the neighbourhood and everything changes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: Norway
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, captivating
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Barbie Princess Adventure (2020)
Plot Summary:
With new friends in a new kingdom, Barbie learns what it means to be herself when she trades places with a royal lookalike in this musical adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: Denmark, Canada, USA, China
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001)
Plot Summary:
"Barbie" stars as Clara in this animated retelling of the classic Christmas ballet, complete with Tchaikovsky soundtrack and ballet choreography.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, entertaining, feel good, computer animated, semi serious, stylized, light, captivating, humorous, independent film
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Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (2012)
Plot Summary:
Tori is a blonde princess who is bored of living her royal life, and has dreams of becoming a popstar. Keira, on the other hand, is a brunette popstar who dreams of being a princess. When the two meet, they magically trade places, but after realising it is best to be themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, humorous
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Barbie and the Diamond Castle (2008)
Plot Summary:
Liana and Alexa (Barbie and Teresa) are best friends who share everything, including their love of singing. One day while walking through the forest home from the village, the girls meet an old beggar who gives them a magical mirror. As they clean the mirror and sing, a musical apprentice muse named Melody appears in the mirror's surface, and tells the girls about the secret of the Diamond Castle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, computer animated, fairy tale, semi serious, exciting
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O' Christmas Tree (1999)
Plot Summary:
Featuring the voices of Edward Asner, Tim Conway and Marie Osmond. This heartwarming animated tale begins in a snowy forest on Christmas Eve, where a forlorn little pine tree feels she is too homely to ever realize her dream of being a real Christmas tree. With the help of a comical Baby Bear, a happy-go-lucky Squirrel, a cynical Nutcracker, and a host of other forest critters, as well as a visit from Santa Claus himself, the little tree discovers the true beauty of the season... shines from within!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, feel good, light, entertaining, touching, offbeat, humorous, stylized, semi serious, 2d animation
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Babes in Toyland (1997)
Plot Summary:
Everyone's favorite nursery rhyme characters come magically and musically to life in this animated adventure based on the classic holiday tale.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: mysterious, anime, independent film, fairy tale, touching, humorous, semi serious, christmas special
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A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alvin learns the true meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, uplifting, touching, humorous, not serious, christmas special
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Barbie: A Perfect Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
Join Barbie and her sisters Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea as their holiday vacation plans turn into a most unexpected adventure and heartwarming lesson. After a snowstorm diverts their plane, the girls find themselves far from their New York destination and their holiday dreams. Now stranded at a remote inn in the tiny town of Tannenbaum, the sisters are welcomed by new friends and magical experiences. In appreciation for the wonderful hospitality they receive, they use their musical talents to put on a performance for the whole town. Barbie and her sisters realize the joy of being together is what really makes A Perfect Christmas!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: feel good, christmas special, light, funny, captivating, entertaining, sweet, touching, humorous, semi serious
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The Swan Princess: A Royal Myztery (2018)
Plot Summary:
Your favorite characters are back in an all-new royal adventure! It seems that a mysterious “Z” is appearing as a mark on the palace residents. Who is behind the mark and what does it mean? Princess Odette, Derek, Scully and all the Swan Princess friends work as a team to uncover the secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sincere, 3d animation, computer animated
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Happily Ever After (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Wicked Queen is dead but her brother, Lord Maliss, seeks for revenge. Using the Magic Mirror to locate Snow White and the Prince, he transforms into a dragon and attacks. Maliss takes the Prince to the Realm of Doom. Snow White, with the aid of the Seven Dwarfesses, cousins of the Sevens Dwarves, must embark on a quest to save her true love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious, 2d animation
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Tangled: Before Ever After (2017)
Plot Summary:
Rapunzel grapples with the responsibilities of being a princess and the overprotective ways of her father. While she wholeheartedly loves Eugene, Rapunzel does not share his immediate desire to get married and settle down within the castle walls. Determined to live life on her own terms, she and her tough-as-nails Lady-in-Waiting Cassandra embark on a secret adventure where they encounter mystical rocks that magically cause Rapunzel's long blonde hair to grow back. Impossible to break and difficult to hide, Rapunzel must learn to embrace her hair and all that it represents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, feel good, captivating, funny, anime, 2d animation
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The Jungle Book (1967)
Plot Summary:
The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, funny, touching, feel good, sentimental, light, sweet, cute, humorous, sincere
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (2007)
Plot Summary:
Your little princess will want to follow her dreams as she tags along on an adventure with two of Disney's most popular princesses in this new animated fairy tale. Aurora, star of the beloved classic Sleeping Beauty, and Jasmine, from the Academy Award-winning film Aladdin, journey to faraway lands and make new discoveries about themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, anthology, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting
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Encanto (2021)
Plot Summary:
The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal—every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional family's last hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: inspirational, emotional, light, captivating, funny, uplifting, thought provoking, touching, feel good, sentimental
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Moana (2016)
Plot Summary:
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 367000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, touching, entertaining, computer animated, colorful, sweet, emotional, 3d animation, anime