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Good Movies for 4-Year-Olds

Updated September 28, 2020 8.9k votes 2.1k voters 196.4k views41 items

List RulesVote up the best films appropriate for a four year old to watch.

This list has awesome and entertaining movies for 4 year olds, ranked from best to worst by user votes. The best movies for 4 year olds come in many forms and from many genres. Some great movies for four year olds to watch are live action classics while other good films for four year olds are beloved animated movies. It should come as no surprise that Disney and Pixar are responsible for many of the top films for 4 year olds.

What films are ranked on this best movies for 4 year olds list? They are movies that balance humor and education with some great CGI to boot. But the bet movies for four year olds tend to have some great jokes for adults as well. Be sure to vote up the movies that you would share with your own 4 year old and vote down any that other parents should avoid.

Which film do you think is the best for preschoolers? Look below to discover the best movie for a four year olds of all time!

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Minions
2015
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan
Directed by: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda
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Moana
2016
Actors: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Jemaine Clement
Directed by: Ron Clements, John Musker
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Finding Dory
2016
Actors: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1977
Actors: Clint Howard, Howard Morris, Sterling Holloway, Ralph Wright, Sebastian Cabot
Directed by: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
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Curious George
2006
Actors: Drew Barrymore, Will Ferrell, Ariel Winter, Dick Van Dyke, David Cross
Directed by: Matthew O'Callaghan
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Finding Nemo
2003
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Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
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Cars
2006
Actors: Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, Sheryl Crow, Paul Newman, John Goodman
Directed by: John Lasseter, Joe Ranft
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Tangled
2010
Actors: Mandy Moore, Ron Perlman, Zachary Levi, Brad Garrett, Laraine Newman
Directed by: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
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The Gruffalo
2009
Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Ringo Starr, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Robbie Coltrane
Directed by: Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
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Frozen
2013
Actors: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Alan Tudyk, Ciarán Hinds, Jonathan Groff
Directed by: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
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Madagascar
2005
Actors: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Schwimmer
Directed by: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
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The Peanuts Movie
2015
Actors: Bill Melendez
Directed by: Steve Martino
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Ice Age
2002
Actors: Jack Black, Ray Romano, Jane Krakowski, Denis Leary, Alan Tudyk
Directed by: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
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The Snowman
1982
Actors: David Bowie, Raymond Briggs, Mel Smith
Directed by: Dianne Jackson
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Coco
2017
Actors: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt
Directed by: Lee Unkrich
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Paddington
2014
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi
Directed by: Paul King
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Horton Hears a Who!
2008
Actors: Selena Gomez, Jim Carrey, Isla Fisher, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell
Directed by: Steve Martino, Jimmy Hayward
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My Neighbor Totoro
1988
Actors: Noriko Hidaka, Ikue Ōtani, Sumi Shimamoto, Shigeru Shiba, Naoki Tatsuta
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
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The Lion King
1994
Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Jeremy Irons, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Rowan Atkinson
Directed by: Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers
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The Jungle Book
1967
Actors: Clint Howard, George Sanders, Louis Prima, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley
Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman
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Inside Out
2015
Actors: Amy Poehler, Diane Lane, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Lewis Black
Directed by: Pete Docter
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Abominable
2019
Actors: Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Eddie Izzard, Sarah Paulson
Directed by: Jill Culton
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The Muppet Movie
1979
Actors: Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Bob Hope, Orson Welles
Directed by: James Frawley
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