Family
Fantastic Voyage
(1966)
Harry Kleiner (screenplay), David Duncan (adaptation), Otto Klement (story), Jerome Bixby (story)
Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.
It's a Wonderful Life
(1946)
Frances Goodrich (screenplay), Albert Hackett (screenplay), Frank Capra (screenplay) ,Philip Van Doren Stern (story)
Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination.
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. He has always longed to travel but never had the opportunity in order to prevent rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town. All that prevents him from doing so is George's modest building and loan company, which was founded by his generous father. But on Christmas Eve, George's Uncle Billy loses the business's $8,000 while intending to deposit it in the bank. Potter finds the misplaced money and hides it from Billy. When the bank examiner discovers the shortage later that night, George realizes that he will be held responsible and sent to jail and the company will collapse, finally allowing Potter to take over the town. Thinking of his wife, their young children, and others he loves will be better off with him dead, he contemplates suicide. But the prayers of his loved ones result in a gentle angel named Clarence coming to earth to help George, with the promise of earning his wings. He shows George what things would have been like if he had never been born.
Kes
(1969)
Barry Hines (book), Barry Hines (adaptation), Ken Loach (adaptation), Tony Garnett (adaptation)
Won 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
(1972)
Lionel Jeffries, Antonia Barber (novel)
N/A
A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years previously. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do??