50 films children should see before the age of 14

A conference in London in the summer of 2005 came up with this list of 50 films that every child should see before the age of 14.

I know I haven't seen the majority of the foreign films, and I haven't sat through The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 version or The Night of the Hunter. I'm sure I would not have ranked Some Like it Hot ahead of the Jungle Book. I'm surprised that Bambi, Pinnochio, and Fantasia didn't make the cut. I think Ladyhawke (1985), and Forest Gump (PG-13 ) were some of the best fables of the last three decades.

No Lion King, Aladdin, Harry Potter, Spiderman or Jurassic Park. Not to mention the PIXAR film The Incredibles which was released in 2004. I didn't like the Lord of the Ring movies, so I would much rather a kid read the books, but many people thought those movies were good.

Any thoughts?

Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton/Lee Unkrich	2003	USA
Romeo + Juliet	Baz Luhrman	1996	USA
Toy Story	John Lasseter	1995	USA
Beauty and the Beast	Gary Trousdale/Kirk Wise	1991	USA
Edward Scissorhands	Tim Burton	1990	USA
The Princess Bride	Rob Reiner	1987	USA
Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	1985	USA
The Outsiders	Francis Ford Coppola	1983	USA
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Steven Spielberg	1982	USA
Raiders of the Lost Ark	Steven Spielberg	1981	USA
Star Wars	George Lucas	1977	USA
To Kill a Mockingbird	Robert Mulligan	1962	USA
Some Like it Hot	Billy Wilder	1959	USA
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton	1955	USA
Singin' in the Rain	Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly	1952	USA
It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	1946	USA
The Wizard of Oz	Victor Fleming	1939	USA
The Adventures of Robin Hood	Michael Curtiz/William Keighley	1938	USA
A Day at the Races	Sam Wood	1937	USA
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Disney	1937	USA
King Kong	Merian C.Cooper/Ernest B.Schoedsack	1933	USA
The Kid	Charles Chaplin	1921	USA
The Secret Garden	Agnieszka Holland	1993	UK/USA
Jason and the Argonauts	Don Chaffey	1963	UK/USA
Rabbit-Proof Fence	Phillip Noyce	2002	Australia
Etre et Avoir	Nicolas Philibert	2002	France
Les Quatre cents coups	Francois Truffaut	1959	France
The Red Balloon	Albert Lamorisse	1956	France
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday	Jacques Tati	1953	France
Le Voyage dans la lune	Georges Melies	1902	France
La Belle et la bête	Jean Cocteau	1946	France / Luxembourg
Kirikou et la sorcière	Michel Ocelot	1998	France/Belgium/Luxembourg
Playtime	Jacques Tati	1967	France/Italy
Au revoir les enfants	Louis Malle	1987	France/W.Germany
Pather Panchali	Satyajit Ray	1955	India
The White Balloon	Jafar Panahi	1995	Iran
Where is the Friend's House?	Abbas Kiarostami	1987	Iran
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica	1948	Italy
Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki	2001	Japan
My Neighbour Totoro	Hayao Miyazaki	1988	Japan/USA
Whale Rider	Niki Caro	2002	New Zealand
The Spirit of the Beehive	Victor Erice	1973	Spain
My Life as a Dog	Lasse Halstrom	1985	Sweden
Show Me Love	Lukas Moodysson	1998	Sweden/Denmark
Walkabout	Nicholas Roeg	1971	UK
The Railway Children	Lionel Jeffries	1970	UK
Kes	Ken Loach	1969	UK
Whistle Down the Wind	Bryan Forbes	1961	UK
Oliver Twist	David Lean	1948	UK
Billy Elliot	Stephen Daldry	2000	UK/France

Quote: pacomartin

I'm surprised that Bambi, Pinnochio, and Fantasia didn't make the cut. I think Ladyhawke (1985), and Forest Gump (PG-13 ) were some of the best fables of the last three decades.

Bambi is the one Disney movie I've seen I recall little about. Pinocchio is like a horror film for kids, it gave me nightmares way back when. Ladyhawke was ok, except for the massive ignorance of the hero, who should know when an eclipse is being described.

For the rest, any list of movies people should see or books they should read is merely a list of prejudices and biases of one group or another. Remember the AFI lists of "best" movies fo the XX Century?

I agree "The Incredibles" is a ggreta animated movie, though not as clear in its theme as "Ratatouille."

As for the Lord of the Rings, you sir are a sadist :P

Subscribed to this so I can find it later. I agree such lists are suspect in a way, but I have a notion some of the foreign films I need to see. An amazing local video store has everything on the list I bet.