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See our guide to the best sleepover movies for kids! We love these picks for a stay-up-all-night marathon—just don't tell Mom.
Hosting your kid's sugar-fueled sleepover or sleepover party tonight? We're here to help: These fantastic flicks are perfect sleepover movies! We've selected some fun picks for your kids, tweens and teens (labeled by age for children ages 8 and up) for an all-around great time.
Queue up the original Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl or The Goonies for thrills and suspense, or marathon feel-good picks like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 10 Things I Hate About You or Pitch Perfect for plenty of laughs.
For even more fantastic movie ideas, browse our guides to the best family comedy movies, family movies on Netflix (updated every month) and the best family movies of all time.
One of our favorite feel-good films of all time, the action-packed tale of Princess Buttercup and Farm Boy/Dread Pirate Roberts/Westley (as read to young Fred Savage by his grandfather) steals our hearts with great one-liners, suspense and even some romance. Also...who could forget the fire swamp and Rodents of Unusual Size? Ages 8 and up.
This nine-hour Saturday detention is not like the others. Five high school students (who, for the most part, run in different circles) must spend the day together and write a 1,000-word essay about who they think they are. What happens by the end of their time together surprises them all. Ages 12 and up.
Ferris Bueller is determined to play hooky, and he's cooked up a plan that's sure to work. While he and his girlfriend enjoy Chicago to the fullest, Bueller's principal Ed Rooney is maddened by his student's absence and will stop at nothing to foil his "sick days" forever. Ages 12 and up.
Oh no! Marty McFly is accidentally transported back to the '50s thanks to his quirky scientist friend's time-travel machine. There, he encounters his parents and has to make sure they end up falling in love (after all, he won't exist otherwise). He also has to rush back to the—er—future to make sure Doc Brown is okay too. Good luck, Marty! Ages 10 and up.
College freshman (and wannebe deejay) Beca (Anna Kendrick) gets pushed into joining a club at school by her teacher father. After reluctantly joining the Barden Bellas, an all-female acapella group on campus, she helps the group refresh their routines and take on their rivals in competition. Ages 13 and up.
Every kid dreams of finding buried treasure, but to Mikey, it means staying in his neighborhood and saving his family home. A team of young friends go in search of treasure using an ancient map—and the booby traps, suspense and quirky characters they encounter along the way will keep kids totally captivated. Ages 11 and up.
In this classic story of "Just because you can doesn't mean you should," a team of scientists bring the dinosaur back to life from DNA with the aspiration of making tons of money on a magical live dinosaur theme park. But is it really a good idea? The park consults two paleontologists and brings them to tour the facility, only to have everything go terribly wrong. Ages 12 and up.
Beloved neighborhood record store Empire Records—haven for young music junkies—is in danger of being bought out by mega-store Music City. The store's current manager is saving to buy the place, but his well-meaning friend accidentally loses everything by trying to double the savings at a casino. We're rooting for young Renee Zellweger, Liv Tyler, Robin Tunney and the rest of the gang as they try to save the day. Ages 15 and up.
Calling all muggles, big and small! Watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to follow our favorite Gryffindor as he enters the magical world of Hogwarts, makes new friends and faces enemies head-on (including his terrifying Potions teacher and ruthless class bully, Draco Malfoy). Ages 8 and up.
In 1971, a white high school in Alexandria, Virgina is mandated to integrate African American students, and an African American coach (Denzel Washington) is hired above the current white coach for the school's star football team. The boys and coaches must learn to work together to become a symbol of unity for the town. Ages 10 and up.
Based on the original Disney theme park ride of the same name, Pirates of the Caribbean, this film offers plenty of heroism and action for young viewers. A blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) teams up with a thieving, crusty pirate (Johnny Depp) to save his true love (Keira Knightley) from a pirate kidnapping, and we're all about it. Ages 12 and up.
Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles come together for a modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, where a popular young girl is told she can't date until her guarded, feminist sister goes out too. A young boy wants to date Bianca and plots to have a handsome troublemaker Patrick (Heath) at school paid to get Kat (Julia) out of the house. Things get weird when the two actually start to get along. Ages 13 and up.
Who's to fly a plane when everyone falls ill? Ted follows his true love onto a flight where she works as cabin crew, even though she has no interest in being together anymore, and has the unusual chance to be a hero. Ages 13 and up.
