What Family Movies to watch on Plex

An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.

"Luis" tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who makes friends with three lovable little aliens, who crash their spaceship at an abandon gas station near his house. In return for Luis' help in finding the home-shopping channel stuff they came for, they save Luis from boarding school - and an exciting adventure follows.

Tapestry is the story of a man (Stephen Baldwin) in the midst of a heavy personal and spiritual crisis. Aided by his Father (Burt Young), and his family, he embarks on a personal journey that will forever change him.

A boy winds up in the adventure of a lifetime when Luna, a baby tiger cub, escapes from an animal sanctuary and follows him home. It is up one boy, his friend, and his dog to return Luna to her home before she playfully destroys his parents' home.

Eva is a girl that is feeling left out and ignored when her new baby half-brother, Jack, arrives. Nothing is going well for her until she finds a new friend, a monkey named Dodger. They become close friends and entertain crowds at the Boardwalk. That is until she finds out that he has a hidden talent - he's a trained pickpocket.

Lawyer and widower Eddie Serrano is extremely busy, but he tries to be there whenever his daughter Naomi needs parental support. When a parent volunteer from her Scout troop falls ill at the last minute before a camping trip, he volunteers to take her place. Alas, it's run in military style by the tyrannical Miss Hulka, who can't appreciate Eddie's pragmatic approach. Nerdy Harry Matthews, who was supposed to stand in at the law firm, passes by with some papers but gets involved in the scheming which mainly opposes Naomi's troop and rival Skylar's.

After her family has to file for bankruptcy, a young woman (Jessy Schram) travels to the country, in hopes of fixing up a struggling pumpkin farm that her father (Willie Aames) bought as an investment. Hoping to get the family back on their feet financially, she finds purpose and love.

In Montana, a young girl attracts the attention of an evil stranger after she rescues a hurt wolf.

New York widower and advertising executive Tyler 'Ty' Decker spends his scarce free time coaching his skiing teen daughter Anna, who chose to spend this winter in Bliss, Colorado, hoping to get lessons from retired ski champion Maddy Morrison. Instead they bump into Kat Miller, the other retired ski star local, who helps in her family's winter sports store. Like young Jasper, who inherited the rickety only resort, she's desperate to help the town compete with neighboring Epic, which has lots of cash and top-notch facilities, but no atmosphere. Ty agrees to set up a marketing campaign in exchange for ski lessons.

It’s a close encounter of the Baby Geniuses kind, when a mysterious “Space Baby” from the planet Toddleron crash lands on Earth, and the Baby Squad must race against time, traveling from Russia, to China, to Egypt and back, to stop evil villain Moriarity from kidnapping Space Baby and taking over the universe!

A child meets the monster that lives under his bed. He even becomes one of his best friends. Soon the child discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.

Dazzling special effects make this version of the legendary fairy tale remarkably contemporary. Kerwin Matthews plays the daring Jack who rescues a princess (Judi Meredith) from the evil Pendragon.

Hunter Toys CEO Drake Hunter turned his father's company from a cozy quality manufacturer into a ruthless, profitable business. After denying his staff any further festive generosity, the scrooge is suddenly and magically transformed into Kris Krandal. That forces him to work as a Santa in Norm Dobson's toy store, with weird would be-actor Sebastian. Drake reassesses his values and priorities in life.

When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor.

For never-do-well compulsive gambler Fong, there's only one thing more fearsome than debtors at his doorstep - having to coax a crying baby. But what if the baby becomes his golden goose to fend off his debtors? Can he overcome his phobia of diapers, milk bottles, and cloying lullabies?

When their father's ranch is threatened, the two kids must work together to protect the horses they love from poachers--and in the process discover for themselves the secrets hidden in Grizzly Mountain.

On Christmas Eve, divorced Shannon McManus-Johnson is having trouble making Christmas merry for her adolescent son Trevor McManus-Johnson because of their post-divorce tight financial situation. She works as a driver for a limousine service while working toward getting licensed as a CPA to make a better life for Trevor and herself. She is being forced to work on Christmas Eve, driving around wealthy businessman Fred Nickells. She is initially unaware that Fred, who has never met her, specifically requested her to be his driver due to a shared history about which Shannon is further unaware. On this day, Fred seems determined to make it a Merry Christmas for anyone he encounters by spreading his wealth freely to others. Into their midst comes television reporter Peter Archer, who hears about Fred's actions and wants to get an exclusive on Fred's story. Partly from Peter's intervention, Fred and thus Shannon's story comes to light in bits and pieces, and which may include Fred actually being crazy. Peter has to decide how much he will actually put on their air, especially if what he discovers is potentially explosive or sensational in nature, as in competing priorities he feels he needs that one big story to secure his promotion to the national bureau in Washington DC, he one of two in the running, while he slowly starts to fall for Shannon and doesn't want to hurt her by making any of the information public.

A romantic family comedy about what happens when a thirty-something lovable conman who owes money to the mob stands to receive a twenty million dollar inheritance if he can prove he's forsaken his street days and settled down with a family. Dave Coulier stars. (2007)

After a well-to-do woman divorces her cheating husband, she ends up homeless through a series of mishaps.

Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves the life of a small boy.

When Dr. Hugo Robbin's laboratory is blown up, his nurse Ann Loring is charged with murdering the doctor. During her trial, a group of children continually disrupts the courtroom, claiming to have important evidence. The children are finally allowed to testify, but as a result of their testimony, their friend Dan, who runs a repair shop, is now charged with the crime instead of the nurse. The children are now determined to prove Dan's innocence, and they go to the abandoned laboratory to look for evidence, leading to a series of hazardous adventures.

In the tradition of such classic films as "Miracle On 34th Street", a hip, eccentric marketing genius teaches a widow and her son the miracle of Christmas.

Maya Angelou's story of the family stresses that occur when an older sister (Diahann Carroll) attempts to maintain a home, left by her revered father, in an ultra-moralistic way (regardless of the fact that she is secretly having an affair with the married preacher). Nevertheless, her uptight need to maintain a sense of propriety of course goes against the wishes of her much younger sister (Irene Cara) who, as an accomplished ice skater, is striving for her own independence. And if this isn't enough, into it is suddenly thrust a third sister (Rosalind Cash), who is a single mother with a pre-teen son, who "comes home" with her boy after living for years in the ghettos of Detroit. And because she is the complete antithesis of her older sister in morals and deportment, she immediately sides with her younger sister against the strictures set down in the home.

In this in-name-only sequel to Munchies (1987), a new kid in town, Gage Dobson, can't find his place in the new environment despite having such a cool name. The kids at school bully him, the girl he likes and his mom is about to marry a scoundrel. Everything changes for Gage Dobson when he stumbles into Munchie, a friendly gremlin-like creature that dresses like a lounge singer, sounds like a stand-up comedian and has magic powers.