Childhood films that made you think, why the hell did they make this for me?

[JesusInTheCabbageVan]

To take our minds off... everything.

Watership Down goes without saying.

Plague Dogs - two abused dogs escape from laboratory. Swim out to sea and drown (which, incidentally, was NOT how the book ended).

Animal Farm. Why make a cartoon about that? Boxer

I would be interested to know if anyone else remembers Little Nezha (pronounced NIGH-ah). Chinese animated film about (TLDR) a small boy who cuts his throat after his father rejects him. There's a bit more to it than that (dragons) but that's the gist.

Rock-a-doodle

Return to Oz
Loved the Last Unicorn but I was upset and scared by bits of it
Raggedy Ann and Andy
Fantasia
The Little Match Girl
The Witches
Grandpa
BBC Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (when Aslan dies )

I feel like a lot of children’s stuff was quite “trippy”...there always felt like there was a part where it all got a bit weird, even in the Disney Alice In Wonderland.

[quote JesusInTheCabbageVan]@FishDontHaveFingers YES I REMEMBER THAT! They got drunk eating the plants and there was a bit with an arena/colosseum type thing with a giant Dougal (?). Who can name it?[/quote]
Yes!!!! Oh my god!!

If anyone can name it, I'll be massively impressed.

Watching Little Nehza now

Escape from the Dark. As a pony mad small child, my Dad thought it would be a great family film choice, it wasn’t. I think he may have cried more than I did though!

As an adult, Grave of the Fireflies.

Definitely Kes. I remember being shown it in primary school, aged about 10? My god, the sobbing at the end...

Watership Down obvs. I'm another one who can't hear 'Bright Eyes' without dissolving into tears.

Neverending Story - horse sucked into swamp scene. But the song kicks arse, still love it!

Black Beauty, as a horse obsessed child this was probably the worst. The cruelty was just hideous. And don't get me started on Ginger....
I absolutely love the music from BB, but it always makes me think of my old childhood pony, who I had for 23 years before he died, (I was mid thirties by then!), so I often end up sobbing to that too.

I can't believe we all got traumatised by the same films! There are only about four films on the whole thread I don't recognise.

Someone please help out me and @FishDontHaveFingers with the spaceship one? There was an old man who stayed on the ship and mansplained everything.

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I can't believe we all got traumatised by the same films! There are only about four films on the whole thread I don't recognise.

Someone please help out me and @FishDontHaveFingers with the spaceship one? There was an old man who stayed on the ship and mansplained everything.

I have been googling for the last hour because it's driving me mad!

On the other hand - Little Nehza is just odd

@JesusInTheCabbageVan OMG I JUST FOUND IT!!!

it was called The Masters of Time (originally a French film called Les Maitres du Temp).

Please tell me it's the one you were thinking of too??

Yes that's it!! Thank you! I tried googling too, but had no luck with my effort. 'Outer space spaceship strawberries drunk mansplaining.'

The best thing is - the video I had cut out right after Sinister Dougal entered the arena. So now I can find out what happened!

I'm now watching it on YouTube. Problem is, Little Nehza was really rubbish when watching as an adult, so I'm worried it'll kill the memory

Been trying to remember the name of this for years!

Pinocco when they turned into donkeys!

This one 100%.

Dot and the kangaroo.

The original Care Bears Movie in the 80s - there was this green faced evil demon thing in a spell book and she was fucking terrifying!

Also the original My Little Pony - there was this demon red faced horned horse villain thing and it was so scary!

I remember simultaneously loving and being traumatised by The Last Unicorn.

Also a film called Scruffy about an orphaned dog. Her mum was shot dead (after they had been abandoned by their owners and had already escaped their house being burnt down) and then she got adopted by a tramp who had a heart attack and died, it was so sad!

@JesusInTheCabbageVan I have watched Time Masters and can confirm it is as amazing as it was in the eighties. Loved it!!

I have no idea whether I imagined this or it was genuinely some horrific episode. But in my little pony, they get tempted away to some place and the ones that end up there had veils over there mouths because they were all shrivelled up?

I showed dc Bridge to Terabitha
It is not a heart warming family film, we were blinking traumatized, it should come with a warning.

The last unicorn- bloody terrifying. Nobodies boy- bloody miserable. Juts why.

@PunishmentSnart

Dumbo gets me every time. It's heart-breaking.

Does anyone remember Granpa? I watched it from the age of about 2 and used to sob every time. Why my mum still put it on for me I'll never know?

I remember grandpa. It was so heartbreaking. My mum still can't watch it either.

This is probably outing but I hate The Snowman. The bit where he goes to the party and squeezes through the snowman makes me feel claustrophobic and when they are all dancing and spinning around I feel sick. I dont like how he melts at the end either, the way the boy runs out all excited and he is gone.

Bambi. I spent the whole film waiting for Bambi's mother to come back. I was four. 😭

Nobody told me the cold war had ended till I was about 13, so I just assumed as a child that it was only a matter of time until they dropped the bomb.

YES! ME TOO! I spent my childhood believing it was 50:50 whether we would all be annihilated!

When I mentioned this to my mum as an adult, she laughed heartily. But nobody told me it was unlikely to happen!

Kes at primary school? I can just imagine the MN thread on it, if that happened today.

My dd (then 5) went to see the Muppets 2, and was completely hysterical over Kermit’s incarceration

@Summerstorms

yeah, but what about that one scene with the horse in that one film? Traumatised an entire generation!

Artax died because he got too sad and gave up 😩😭

Watership down had me crying my eyes out as well as Charlottes Webb.
The witch in Chorlton and the wheelies.
Moon dial was another program I loved but freaked me out.