Your zone for family TV movies

1971 to 1999

The classic TV movie years.

The Parent Trap II poster★ 5.5
The Parent Trap II

Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York.

1986 · 81 minEN

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story poster★ 7.3
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.

1971 · 99 minEN

Switching Goals poster★ 5.9
Switching Goals

Twin sisters Emma and Sam come up with a scheme to switch places so each can play in the soccer team they prefer.

1999 · 85 minEN

Can of Worms poster★ 4.8
Can of Worms

A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.

1999 · 84 minEN

Horse Sense poster★ 6.8
Horse Sense

After treating his rancher cousin shoddily in L.A. Michael Woods is sentenced by his parents to spending a month on the ranch with his cousin and aunt.

1999 · 92 minEN

On the 2nd Day of Christmas poster★ 6.2
On the 2nd Day of Christmas

Trish and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday shoppers with fat wallets, they run into a little snag - a department store security guard named Bert catches them in the act. The store owner wants them arrested, but decides to wait until Christmas is over. To ensure they don't make a run for it, he entrusts their care to Bert. With jail on the horizon, Trish and Patsy are scared for their future. But as the holiday nears its end, it looks as though a budding romance might just save them after all.

1997 · 89 minEN

14 Going on 30 poster★ 5.6
14 Going on 30

Danny is hopelessly in love with his teacher Peggy Noble. Of course she doesn't even notice him while she plans to marry the obnoxious coach Roy "Jack-jaw" Kelton. When Danny's friend Lloyd invents a growth accelerator for fruit and vegetables to "solve world hunger", Danny uses it on himself and as an adult tries to show her Roy's real personality. However at his first appearance at school as an adult, he's mistaken for someone else...

1988 · 94 minEN

A Very Brady Christmas poster★ 6.2
A Very Brady Christmas

Almost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a structural problem in one of the buildings he designed. As he is inspecting the problem, the building collapses, trapping him inside. As the whole family waits by the pile of rubble, they fear the worst. Will Dad be all right?

1988 · 94 minEN

Brink! poster★ 6.3
Brink!

Andy "Brink" Brinker and his in-line skating crew--Peter, Jordy, and Gabriella--who call themselves "Soul-Skaters" (which means they skate for the fun of it, and not for the money), clash with a group of sponsored skaters, Team X-Bladz--led by Val--with whom they attend high school in southern California. When Brink discovers his family is in financial trouble, he goes against the wishes of his parents and his friends and joins Team X-Bladz. Brink tries to lead a double life but will be able to pull it off?

1998 · 91 minEN

Get Smart, Again! poster★ 5.5
Get Smart, Again!

KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.

1989 · 96 minEN

Sarah, Plain and Tall poster★ 7.1
Sarah, Plain and Tall

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.

1991 · 98 minEN

Rent-a-Kid poster★ 5.6
Rent-a-Kid

Harry Habert, owner of a rental company, has an original idea—to rent baby's from a nearby orphanage to local families. He rents the Ward siblings, 2 boys and a girl, to his first customers.

1995 · 85 minEN

Out There poster★ 5.0
Out There

A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.

1995 · 98 minEN

Christmas Comes to Willow Creek poster★ 6.2
Christmas Comes to Willow Creek

Two brothers' lives are changed forever when they hit the road to a snowbound Alaskan village. Brother Ray and Pete had been feuding for years. So, when their ailing father asks them to drive a semitruck full of gifts and supplies from California to the isolated Alaskan village of Willow Creek, they agree ---- reluctantly. Along the way, they pick up trouble when they're joined by Jessie, who is Ray's estranged wife and Pete's ex-girlfriend. Then, a blizzard strands the truck deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles from help, with time running our fast, they realize only a miracle can save them. But, as they are about to be reminded, Christmas...is the season for miracles.

1987 · 94 minEN

A Holiday for Love poster★ 5.8
A Holiday for Love

A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.

1996 · 105 minEN

Love Leads the Way: A True Story poster★ 7.1
Love Leads the Way: A True Story

Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.

1984 · 99 minEN

Genius poster★ 6.4
Genius

Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.

1999 · 82 minEN

I'll Be Home For Christmas poster★ 6.8
I'll Be Home For Christmas

Christmas romance about long-separated high school sweethearts who find each other again after 20 years. She's never married and is a smalltown mayor; he's a widowed doctor and single dad who's come back to visit his father for the holidays and is pressured to stay because there's need for a local doc.

1997 · 94 minEN

Billboard Dad poster★ 6.2
Billboard Dad

High above Hollywood Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are playing Matchmakers! One's a surfer. The other's a high diver. When these two sisters team up to find a new love for their newly single Dad, it's a fun-loving, eye-catching California adventure gone wild. Mary-Kate and Ashley star in this fabulously funny love-struck comedy filled with crazy schemes and cool surprises. Determined to find their Dad, Max, a new love, the girls paint a personal ad on a giant billboard in the heart of Hollywood. After a few disastrous dates, Max finally meets Brooke and it's love at first sight. There's just one hitch, her unruly skateboarding son is the girls' arch rival. Now, with the girls plotting every action-packed step of the way, they've got to find out if love really does conquer all. Full of outrageous events, mixed-up matches and lots of laughs, Billboard Dad tops the charts as Mary-Kate and Ashley's coolest mischief-making adventure ever!

1998 · 87 minEN

The Secret Garden poster★ 7.7
The Secret Garden

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She wishes to discover what has caused him so much sorrow and to bring joy back to the household. It all must have something to do with the screams and wails which echo through the house at night and no one wants to talk about.

1987 · 100 minEN

The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon poster★ 5.2
The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon

A Philadelphia garbageman is discovered by the Philadelphia Eagles and signed by them to become a kicker.

1998 · 78 minEN

A Horse for Danny poster★ 8.1
A Horse for Danny

Danny is a smart little girl. She lives at the track where her uncle is a horse trainer. She knows her uncle needs just one great horse to make his name.

1995 · 92 minEN

The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island poster★ 5.2
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

The Harlem Globetrotters' chartered plane crash lands on the atoll inhabited by the happily marooned Gilligan and fellow castaways, and they all must play basketball against a specially programmed squad of robots controlled by a mad scientist.

1981 · 94 minEN

Splash, Too poster★ 5.3
Splash, Too

A sequel to the popular romantic mermaid drama, in which Allen and Madison return to New York - one to save his business, the other to save a Dolphin in captivity. You can guess which does which.

1988 · 87 minEN

Christmas Eve on Sesame Street poster★ 7.6
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

Everyone on Sesame Street is preparing for Christmas: Bert and Ernie exchange gifts in a "The Gift of the Magi" fashion, Cookie Monster wants to get his most desired treat this year, and Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve, nobody would get presents. Luckily for him, Grover and Kermit the Frog (along with some interviewed kids) decide to help with his investigation, but when Big Bird decides to take matters into his own hands, all of Sesame Street is thrown into a mad dash to find him.

1978 · 60 minEN

The Brady Girls Get Married poster★ 5.4
The Brady Girls Get Married

Made-for-tv movie, the pilot for a "Brady Bunch" revival series, "The Brady Brides." Jan and Marcia have met the men of their dreams and decide to tie the knot. They agree to hold the weddings together in the family's back yard, but fight over whether to have a modern ceremony or a traditional one. Can the marriages be saved? All of the original cast members (except cousin Oliver) put in a return appearance.

1981 · 100 minEN

Not Quite Human II poster★ 5.9
Not Quite Human II

Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?

1989 · 91 minEN

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss poster★ 7.4
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

From Jean Shepherd (A Christmas Story) comes the story of 14 year old Ralphie's first job, and the family vacation the family is planning to a rustic fishing cabin on Lake Michigan. Originally made for the Disney Channel, this film is a delightful family comedy.

1988 · 89 minEN

Parent Trap III poster★ 5.9
Parent Trap III

When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.

1989 · 86 minEN

P.U.N.K.S poster★ 5.4
P.U.N.K.S

Drew Utley, Miles Kitchen, Lanny Nygren and Jonny P. comprise a club called 'P.U.N.K.S.'. Their mission is to protect and serve peace.

1999 · 98 minEN

The Christmas Star poster★ 5.7
The Christmas Star

A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.

1986 · 94 minEN

One Christmas poster★ 5.7
One Christmas

Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..

1994 · 86 minEN

Student Exchange poster★ 5.9
Student Exchange

Carol and Neil are are successful in terms of grades, but not very popular at their highschool. When Carol comes to know that two foreign exchange students from France and Italy were redirected to another school, she figures she and Neil could take their places and be in the middle of public interest for one semester.

1987 · 88 minEN

Family Ties Vacation poster★ 5.0
Family Ties Vacation

In this two-hour TV movie episode of Family Ties, the Keaton family goes on vacation to London, England and becomes entangled in an espionage plot.

1985 · 96 minEN

Quarterback Princess poster★ 6.9
Quarterback Princess

The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a girl. With everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor against her, she's out to prove that not only can she can play football, but she can win the state championship. (Based on a true story)

1983 · 96 minEN

Not Quite Human poster★ 5.4
Not Quite Human

Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the mechanical boy.

1987 · 97 minEN

A Christmas Romance poster★ 5.9
A Christmas Romance

A widowed mother with financial woes comes to the aid of a bill collector who crashes his car in a snowstorm.

1994 · 94 minEN

The Christmas Tree poster★ 6.4
The Christmas Tree

A story about a forming friendship between an elderly nun, Sister Anthony, and New York's Rockefeller Center's head landscape architect Richard Reilly, who wants to fell a tree she's been growing for decades and move it to New York for Christmas display.

1996 · 93 minEN

Skylark poster★ 7.0
Skylark

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.

1993 · 95 minEN

The Leftovers poster★ 7.1
The Leftovers

A close-knit group of orphans and their father-figure, Max, try to keep their home from being shut down. Helping them out are a single mom and the elderly butler from Max's aunt's mansion, where Max grew up.

1986 · 94 minEN

Day-O poster★ 5.1
Day-O

A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reappears to help her.

1992 · 120 minEN

The House Without a Christmas Tree poster★ 6.7
The House Without a Christmas Tree

A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.

1972 · 87 minEN

The Christmas Gift poster★ 5.6
The Christmas Gift

A widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone believes in Santa Claus.

1986 · 120 minEN

Looking for Miracles poster★ 6.7
Looking for Miracles

Sixteen-year-old Ryan Delaney has won a scholarship, but it's not a full one, so he needs a summer job to pay for his university expenses. And although he's not eighteen, he can't swim, and has never been to camp, he manages to get a job as a camp couselor. But his mother makes him take his younger brother, Sullivan, with him to camp, since she can't look after him while she's working. But camp turns out to be harder than both Ryan and Sullivan thought it would be; and as they fight their battles, they learn about each other, themselves, and what they can do together.

1989 · 103 minEN

Summertime Switch poster★ 7.5
Summertime Switch

For the summer, troublemaker Freddie Egan is being sent to a camp-style juvenile detention center, while spoiled rich-kid Frederick Egan III is going to a luxurious getaway for kids of the elite. Until a name mix-up at the bus-boarding area sends the boys to each other's destinations, and while Eddie gets a taste of the good life, Frederick has to deal with being without all his usual comforts. Eventually, they both learn some valuable life-lessons.

1994 · 85 minEN

Christmas Snow poster★ 6.1
Christmas Snow

A shop owner who is being evicted at Christmas rescues her Scrooge-like landlord from an accident.

1986 · 60 minEN