30 Movies to Watch With Your Relatives

I loved the Godfather movie series very much. This is the movie I can watch again and again. The list seems good. I will try to watch some of these.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles! is one of our family favs–funny and sweet. We also love Scrooge with Albert Finney–it has to be the one with Albert Finney.

I wish this was in your Romance list – Walk To Remember :(
but its not there.

The Family Stone is a great Christmas movie but can be enjoyed any time of year.

I would add Chef – have you seen it? So good and it’d be so fun to watch with family! Also, Swedish film Force Majeure. Kinda depressing but in a hilarious way if that’s possible.

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Dan in Real Life, The Family Stone and Meet Me in St. Louis are our family favourites. We watch these all the time when we get the whole family together.

Dan in Real Life is one of my faves. So lovely. And clean enough that I watch it with my 10-year-old daughter. Steve Carell all sweet and funny. :)

Jo (I’m also a “Jo” but my dad gets mad when people call me that. “That’s not your name!”) He swears with the best of them btw. ;)

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I’m laughing about not watching The Graduate with older relatives. The older relatives have probably already seen The Graduate.

We heart Keeping the Faith (Ed Norton and Ben Stiller) and The Family Stone.

A River Runs Through It

So good!

Some good recommendations in the comments! We tend to gravitate toward classics and BBC programs: Sherlock Holmes is really good along with Poirot series. Also all the Star Wars movies are good go-to’s. Everyone seems to be a fan!

Also, multi-generational ladies group would enjoy “Rebecca”: Alfred Hitchcock’s first movie and a great psychological thriller.

‘The Chef’ is a recent movie that is a sweet story and good for kids and adults. I don’t remember if there’s swearing but definitely no sex, which is much more than I can say for ‘Her’! One of the first things after watching ‘The Chef’ that I thought of was how family-friendly it was. I also think you have to take into consideration the story the movie is telling, when thinking about a crowd pleaser. ‘Her’ seemed to me to be to avant garde for everyone.

And I love The Great Escape! It is amazingly based on real events. I especially recommend watching it with older relatives (50s-70s) because they’ll likely enjoy seeing movie starts of their era in their prime. Steve McQueen of course, but James Garner, too, makes for great viewing!

Love Actually would be perfect if not for the super awkward porn storyline.

My parents would hate Tenenbaums unfortunately.

Walk the Line works though.

Haha, the idea of Grease as a movie for the whole family reminds me of when I desperately wanted to watch it in middle school, and my mother said I had to watch it with her and discuss the messages at the end (she didn’t like that it encourages changing yourself for a man. Also, she pointed out in “Summer Lovin'” that when women think they’re in love, men just want to make out under the boardwalk. She is a tough cookie).

O Brother Where Art Thou? is the perfect everyone-has-fun / nothing-awkward movie. Enjoyable but smart, funny but not gross, and nobody can complain about looking at George Clooney for two hours.

I would add Spanglish to the list. That is such an underrated movie. Great cast, great message, leaves you feeling good!

I scanned the comments quickly…did anyone mention The Family Stone? It’s not amazing or anything but fun to watch at Christmas (love Diane Keaton). Yes, there’s a little sadness, but a lot of sweet family stuff too(: