Can’t Be Heaven (1998)
Rating: ★
Coming of Age/Ghostly Saxophonist
Director: Richard Friedman
Actors: Diane Ladd, Ralph Macchio, Bryan Burke, Michelle Trachtenberg, …
Category: Fantasy
Cashback (2006)
Rating: ★★★½
Youth Can Freeze Time
Director: Sean Ellis
Actors: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Stuart Goodwin, Shaun Evans, …
Category: Fantasy
The Divine Ryans (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Family Saga/Father’s Ghost/Surreal Dreams
Director: Stephen Reynolds
Actors: Pete Postlethwaite, Wendel Meldrum, Robert Joy, Jordan Harvey, …
Category: Fantasy
E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Rating: ★★★★★
Cute Alien
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
Category: Science Fiction
Earth to Echo (2014)
Rating: ★★
Kids Discover Cute Alien
Director: Dave Green
Actors: Teo Halm, Brian Astro Bradley, Reese Hartwig, Ella Wahlestedt, …
Category: Science Fiction
Eve’s Bayou (1997)
Rating: ★★★★
Backwater Louisiana Childhood/Voodoo
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Actors: Lynn Whitfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Debbi Morgan, …
Category: Fantasy
Explorers (1985)
Rating: ★★★½
Teenagers Build Spaceship
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Dick Miller, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Fields (2011)
Rating: ★★½
Coming of Age Story/Backwoods Happenings
Director: Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni
Actors: Joshua Ormond, Bev Appleton, Tom McCarthy, Tara Reid, …
Category: Horror
Frankenstein and Me (1996)
Rating: ★★★
Genre Fan Childhood
Director: Robert Tinnell
Actors: Jamieson Boulanger, Burt Reynolds, Myriam Cyr, Ricky Mabe, …
Category: Horror
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Rating: ★★
Clairvoyance/Stephen King Adaptation
Director: Scott Hicks
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boreem, …
Category: Fantasy
Heavy Traffic (1973)
Rating: ★★★½
Adult Animation/Growing Up in Brooklyn
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Actors: Joseph Kauffmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank De Kova, Terri Haven, …
Category: Fantasy
How I Live Now (2013)
Rating: ★★
England Invaded/Outbreak of Nuclear War
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Actors: Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, …
Category: Science Fiction
I Kill Giants (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Girl Believes in Giants
Director: Anders Walter
Actors: Madison Wolfe, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Art Parkinson, …
Category: Fantasy
It (1990)
Rating: ★★★½
Stephen King Adaptation/Killer Clown Monster
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
Actors: Tim Curry, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Annette O'Toole, …
Category: Horror
It (2017)
Rating: ★★
Stephen King Adaptation/Killer Clown Monster
Director: Andy Muschietti
Actors: Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, …
Category: Horror
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Young Witch’s Adventures
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy
Lady in White (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Ghost Story
Director: Frank LaLoggia
Actors: Lukas Haas, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson, Alex Rocco, …
Category: Horror
Matinee (1993)
Rating: ★★★½
B-Movie Homage/Genre Fandom Childhood
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, …
Category: Science Fiction
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Children Befriend Mysterious Creature
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy
Onward (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Pixar Animation/Alternate Present Inhabited by Magic Creatures
Director: Dan Scanlon
Actors: Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, …
Category: Fantasy
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Rating: ★★
Time Travel/Housewife Revisists Her Youth
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Barry Miller, Kevin J. Connor
Category: Fantasy
Radio Flyer (1992)
Rating: ★★★
Childhood Abuse/Fantasy of Flight
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Elijah Wood, Lorraine Bracco, Joseph Mazzello, Adam Baldwin, …
Category: Fantasy
Red Dawn (1984)
Rating: ★
Communist Invasion of the USA
Director: John Milius
Actors: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Powers Boothe, …
Category: Science Fiction
Red Dawn (2012)
Rating: ★
North Korean Invasion of the USA
Director: Dan Bradley
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Scarecrow (1982)
Rating: ★★★½
New Zealand Gothic
Director: Sam Pillsbury
Actors: John Carradine, Tracy Mann, Jonathan Smith, Daniel McLaren, …
Category: Horror
Slash (2016)
Rating: ★★
The World of Slash Fandom
Director: Clay Liford
Actors: Michael Johnston, Hannah Marks, Michael Ian Black, Peter Vack, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Spirit of the Beehive (1974)
Rating: ★★★★★
Spanish Childhood/Ghost of the Frankenstein Monster
Director: Victor Erice
Actors: Ana Torent, Isabel Telleria, Fernan Gomez, Tersea Gimpera, …
Category: Fantasy
Star Wars (1977)
Rating: ★★★★★
Space Opera
Director: George Lucas
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, …
Category: Science Fiction
Summer of 84 (2018)
Rating: ★★
Retro 80s Film/Teens Believe Neighbour May Be a Serial Killer
Director: Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell
Category: Horror
Super 8 (2011)
Rating: ★★½
Alien Monster/1980s Coming of Age Tale
Director: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, …
Category: Science Fiction
Three Wishes (1995)
Rating: ★★★
1950s Coming of Age Tale/Mysterious Stranger
Director: Martha Coolidge
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy, …
Category: Fantasy
Tomorrow When the War Began (2010)
Rating: ★★
Australia Invaded/Teenagers Fight Back
Director: Stuart Beattie
Actors: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Colin Friels, Chris Pang, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Tree of Life (2011)
Rating: ★★★★½
Lost American Childhood/The Evolution of Life on Earth
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, …
Category: Fantasy
Village of Dreams (1996)
Rating: ★★
Mischievous Twins’ Childhood/Magical Realism
Director: Yoichi Higashi
Actors: Keigo Matsuyama, Shogo Matsuyama, Mieko Harada, Komatsu Hosei, …
Category: Fantasy
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Coming of Age Story/Eccentric Psychic Father
Director: Peter Hewitt
Actors: Michael Legge, Tom Courtenay, Laura Fraser, Stephen Fry, …
Category: Fantasy
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Ghost Story
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Category: Fantasy