Aro Favourite: Family
21 Family Films have attained the hallowed status of Aro Favourite
- Inside Out (2015)
- Pixar's beautifully realised and inventive fantasy follows a young girl who is uprooted from her mid–western life and moved to San Francisco,…
- Blu-Ray
$19.95 $14.95
- Wind Rises, The (2013)
- Hayao Miyazaki's glorious swansong is the poignant story of aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi and his dreams of designing the perfect flying machine…
- DVD $34.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- A Monster in Paris (2011)
- A delightfully off–beat Francophile animation exudes class and nostalgia in its heartfelt tale of a friendship between a sassy singer, a…
- DVD $29.95
- Arrietty (The Secret World of Arrietty) (2010)
- Studio Ghibli's latest animated triumph respectfully borrows from the classic English children's tale of 'The Borrowers', about a family of tiny…
- DVD $34.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- 9 (Nine) (2009)
- Successfully expanded from an Oscar–nominated animated short, this quite extra–ordinary fable pits nine thumb–sized creations…
- Blu-Ray $29.95
- Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) (2008)
- Utterly irresistible, Miyazaki’s latest animated triumph is one for all ages (even toddlers!); a Little Mermaid–inspired adventure of a…
- DVD $34.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- Yet another miraculous animated odyssey from Hayao Miyazaki, who finds a perfect vehicle in the English fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, about a…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- Whale Rider (2003)
- A stirring, widely–acclaimed adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel about a young girl’s struggle to win the approval of her patriarchal…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
- Spirited Away (2002)
- Animation visionary Hayao Miyazaki gets to fully unlock his boundless imagination through the otherworldly adventures of an innocent young girl that…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- Castle, The (1997)
- Uniquely Antipodean comedy about a blissfully naïve family that become forced to take on the council Goliath who wish to convert their beloved…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Into the West (1993)
- A grand ol' Irish tale about two gypsy boys who 'steal' back a majestic white mare and take off into the wild green yonder. Magical,…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
- My Neighbour Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) (1988)
- Dir. Miyazaki’s first huge hit in Japan is a model family film: realistic characters responding to realistic crises in a realistic way, though…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- Footrot Flats - A Dog's Tale (1987)
- Murray Ball brings his indigenous comic strip to animated life – Dog, Wal, Jess, Horse and the villainous Murphys provide corka entertainment…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Castle in the Sky (Laputa) (1986)
- A triumph of craft and narrative sophistication, this is an epic, supremely imaginative feature from master animator/storyteller Miyazaki that will…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
- George Lucas' epic trilogy of space adventure begins "long ago and far far away", with the life of Luke Skywalker being disturbed by the galactic war…
- DVD
$30 $22.50
- Happy Days (TV Series) (1974)
- Rockin’ and rollin’ time capsule nostalgia recaptures the simple, all–American life of the Cunninghams in the jukebox fifties, and their…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
- Thunderbirds (TV Series) (1965- 1966)
- The complete series of Gerry Anderson's exemplary puppet suspense TV series that continues to enthrall new generations.
Set around the…
- DVD $89.95
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- Masterpiece of fantasy based on Greek mythology features the best stop–motion animation work from Ray Harryhausen. The skeleton…
- Blu-Ray $24.95
- Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
- Sabu stars in this magical, intoxicating vision of the Arabian Nights, some twenty years before the genre was revived in SINBAD. Romance, tragedy,…
- DVD $14.95 | Blu-Ray $19.95
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
- The world's best loved film down through and across the generations, and a key cultural icon.
MGM pulled out all the stops to realise L. Frank…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95
- Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
- The remakes look stodgy next to this stirring and vibrant original which basks in breakthrough technicolour and the definitive presence of Errol…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70