Christmas holidays are one of the ideal moments to take advantage of and spend time with the family, sharing moments together and doing various activities to create new memories and continue strengthening the bond.
One of these activities is to sit down as a family to enjoy a movie that not only serves as entertainment, but also leaves us a message or something that we can reflect on together. From all the Baby team and more, we share you the 29 best movies to watch this Christmas with your teenage children.
The Goonies
A true classic of the eighties, in this film we accompany a group of friends, who throw themselves in search of a treasure after finding an old map of the coastal town where they live. With him, they hope to solve an economic problem that threatens to leave them homeless and that distressed their parents.
A world to suit you (The Mighty)
This movie tells the story of two very particular boys who can't find their place in society. One of them has prodigious intelligence, but has physical problems, while the other is the opposite. Together they will form a great friendship and living incredible adventures will realize that together they are capable of great things.
They call me Radio (Radio)
Based on a true story, this film tells the special relationship that arises between a football coach and a mentally handicapped boy. In her, we will see the coach look for ways to help the boy to integrate into society and to the soccer team, helping to change the mentality of the people they live in and leaving a great lesson about friendship.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
This musical tells the story of seven brothers who lived in a cabin and work as lumberjacks. His life takes a drastic turn when the older one decides to marry and takes his girlfriend to live in the cabin, which motivates his six brothers to look for girlfriends also for them.
It is one of the most acclaimed classic musicals in Hollywood and despite the time (it is from the fifties) still captivating hearts with the nostalgia and joy that leaves us.
Stardust
Tristan is a young man who is in love with Victoria and swears to give him a star as a sign of his love. But it is not about any star, but a very special one that falls on the other side of a wall that lies on the edge of the town where they live, where there is a world of magic and fantasy.
For this, he will travel to a mysterious country, in which he will realize that he is not the only one in search of the star, and that on that side of the wall, the star is not just a star that fell from the sky, giving a completely unexpected turn to your trip.
Soul Surfer
Inspired by the life of the surfer Bethany Hamilton, the film tells how she is young, who is a survivor of a shark attack at age 13 and in which lost his left arm, manages to regain strength and confidence in her to resume his career as a surfer.
A gangster for a miracle (Pocketful of Miracles)
This comedy of the 60s tells the story of a mother who was selling apples during the era of Dry Law in the United States, and whose main client was a gangster.
She she will be forced to take action to pretend to be a lady of high society and not to disappoint her daughter, after this one, who grew up in a convent in Spain and does not know the true life of his mother, announces that he will travel to visit her accompanied by his fiance and his father, Count Alfonso Romero.
The Bélier family (La Famille Bélier)
This French comedy follows the life of the Bélier family, in which Paula, a 16-year-old girl is responsible for helping her father and brother, both deaf, in your daily activities as your interpreter. One day, a music teacher discovers that she has talent for singing, so she motivates her to audition in a musical contest that could open a new path for her university studies.
Unfortunately, for that he would have to leave his family, who in his condition are not familiar with music or understand its importance to Paula, putting her at a difficult crossroads.
A possible dream (The Blind Side)
Based on a book inspired by real events and for which Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for best actress, the film follows the story of Michael Oher, a 17-year-old boy who has spent much of his life in foster homes with different families Because he always escaped. Thanks to a favor asked by a friend of his father, Michael is accepted into a school, in which the coach looks at him with the potential to join the football team for his strength and large size.
A mother, whose children attended that same school, noticed Michael's situation, and after talking with her husband, decided to take him home after a while and after many difficulties, adopt it in your family, giving him a future that Michael never probably imagined.
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In a prestigious American university where discipline is the rule by which all its students and teaching staff are governed, the arrival of a new professor of literature, whose teaching methods are not consistent with the traditional model of the institution.
A group of students, inspired by Professor Keating to live the moment, achieve their dreams and not waste their lives, they start the club of the dead poets, in which they express freely everything they feel, live and think.
Hidden Figures (Hidden Figures)
Based on the nonfiction book with the same name, this is the biographical history of the three African-American women who helped calculate flight paths which helped the United States, represented by astronaut John Glenn, be the first to make a complete orbit of the earth. Along with these events, which occurred during the 1960s, the struggle for civil rights of the African-American population in the United States continues.
The City of Stars - La La Land (La La Land)
Without doubt the most famous and acclaimed musical of recent years, and which is inspired by many classic Hollywood movies, La La Land follows the story of Mia, a waitress who aspires to be an actress and Sebastian, a jazz pianist who also has great ambitions.
For reasons of destiny, they meet and start a relationship in which they accompany each other while both struggle to achieve their dreams, traveling a path in which various obstacles will interpose They begin to put their relationship at risk.
Invictus
Based on historical facts, the film tells how after being released and becoming president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela uses the 1995 Rugby World Cup to help build national unity and reduce racial tensions in the country, which could have led to a civil war.
Life imprisonment (The Shawshank Redemption)
Considered one of the best films of the 1990s, it tells the story of Andy and Red, two men who meet at Shawshank Prison and among whom a great friendship arises that is born of admiration. It is a movie that inspire not to lose hope, even in the most inhospitable conditions.
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a boy born with an intellectual disability and who also needs to use prostheses on his arms and legs due to a problem with his back. In spite of everything, he stays with a good heart and thanks to his positivity and tenacity, he witnesses different important events in history.
In his life, there are some people who mark him and inspire him to move on, like his friend Bubba, and Jenny, his love since childhood. It is one of the most emblematic and acclaimed Hollywood movies, thanks to the messages it contains about friendship and that continues to be valid over the years, inspiring different generations.
Our last summer in Scotland (What We Did On Our Holiday)
Doug and Abi are a couple who are going through a separation when they must make a trip to Scotland for Doug's father's birthday. Together with his three young children, who have some eccentrics, they must appear to be the perfect familyWell, Grandpa is seriously ill.
The impossible (The Impossible)
Based on the real and tragic experience of the Spanish doctor María Belón, "The impossible" follows a couple and their three children go on a trip during the Christmas holidays to Thailand, where they plan to enjoy and live good times as the united family What are they. However, two days after arriving, the tsunami occurred in 2004 floods and sweeps the place where they were.
The mother and her eldest son manage to emerge together from the water and with the help of the locals they are taken to a local hospital to take care of the serious injuries she suffered. Meanwhile and even in what was left of the hotel where they were staying, there are the father and the two minor children, whom he later leaves in charge of a woman who will take them to a safe place, in order to continue his search for His wife and son.
Super 8
In a small town in the United States in the late 1970s, a group of children were filming a movie with a Super 8 camera when they witness the derailment of a train when crashing into a vehicle that jumped the barrier.
Without being aware that an alien presence had been released during this accident, in the village a series of strange and mysterious events begin to occur, as well as the disappearance of many people.
Down with love (Down with Love)
Located in the sixties, "Down with love" follows the story of Barbara Novak, a novice feminist writer who is living success after writing a book in which It shows women that it doesn't take a man to be happy and that they can make better use of the time they spend thinking about love, to follow your goals and be successful.
Everything changes when Catcher Block, the star reporter of a men's magazine and famous for being a seducer, is affected by the success of the book and is now rejected by all the women he approaches. To prove that the writer is a fraud, an alias is invented and pretends to be someone else to fall in love with and prove that she wants the same as everyone: love and marriage.
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Inspired by a real-life story, "Champions" presents the story of Marco, a coach recently fired and with many personal problems, who is involved in a traffic accident that forces him to choose between two years in jail or 90 days of community service.
After choosing to do community service, he is surprised and disgusted to learn that this it will consist of training a basketball team composed of athletes with various disabilities, that in an unexpected way for him, they will give him great life lessons.
A monster comes to see me (A Monster Calls)
Based on the novel of the same name, the film focuses on Conor, a teenager trying to deal with terrible circumstances: his mother has cancer, his father went to another country to create another family, and in school he suffers bullying. The days are terrible and the nights are not better, because in dreams he is tormented by the same nightmare.
Refugee in his imagination to cope with each day, one day he decides to create an illustration of a monster, for which he was inspired by an old tree outside his window. Finally One night his creation comes true and he tries to help Connor face his reality by telling four stories, of which the last one will be the most difficult for him.
Chain of favors (Pay It Forward)
Interested in social work, a physics teacher proposes to his students a challenge: to find a solution to improve the world. Trevor, a 12-year-old boy with a strong sensitivity and greater maturity than his peers, idea a system to help motivate happiness collectively, through the realization of a favor to three different people, who in turn should help three others and so on.
Trevor's proposal is received with great enthusiasm and without knowing it, his initiative it becomes a huge chain of favors, which returns to the same place where it all began.
The Five Club (The Breakfast Club)
Allison, Andrew, John, Brian and Claire are five students who spend a Saturday together punished in the school library for various reasons. Each one of them, fits into one of the stereotypes that used to be seen in schools during the eighties, decade in which history takes place.
After spending a full Saturday together meeting and revealing personal details of each of them, they will realize that they are much more than their labels of "the rare", "the athlete", "the criminal", "the intellectual" and "the princess", and that in reality, they have more things in common than they thought.
In search of happiness (The Pursuit of Happiness)
Based on the true story of the millionaire businessman Chris Gardner, he follows the difficult story of a father, who is an excellent seller with a lot of talent, but who due to circumstances of destiny is left without work and his wife leaves him.
Due to the lack of fixed income, he ends up losing his flat in San Francisco and with his five-year-old children, every day he looks for a way to find a safe place to sleep. One day he is presented with the opportunity to do internships to compete for a job in a prestigious brokerage, which will make him fight every day and not lose hope of giving his son a better future.
Upside Down (Inside Out)
An animated film that we consider essential to watch, regardless of age, because it leaves us all very different messages but they are certainly positive. In her, we know the different emotions we feel, how they affect us and how we usually react, In addition to transmitting important values such as friendship, courage, empathy and inclusion.
A bridge to Terabithia (Bridge to Terabithia)
Jess is a lonely boy who loves to draw, is the only male child in the family and feels misunderstood because his family doesn't pay attention to him. Leslie, on the other hand, is an outgoing girl who loves to invent stories.
They they meet at school and immediately connect and their friendship leads them to unite their talents to invent an imaginary world called "Terabithia" which can only be accessed by swinging with a rope over a stream. In the afternoon, they visit their imaginary place, where they face enemies.
I want to be like Beckham (Bend it like Beckham)
Referring to the famous English footballer David Beckham, the film tells the story of Jess, an Indian girl whose dream is to play as the footballer, although her parents have other more traditional plans for her. With the help of another girl, she joins a women's soccer team and thus begins not only a great friendship between them, but the search for Jess to achieve her dream.
You can't buy my love (Can't buy me love)
In his quest to be popular in his school, a teenager does a favor to the most popular girl and to whom he is secretly in love. But this favor, which helped the girl out of a problem, has a price, because she must impersonate her girlfriend, hoping that he can be as famous as she is. With time, things do not go as he expected and he realizes that being popular is not everything.
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
Jacob Portman is a boy who grew up listening to his grandfather's incredible stories about "peculiar" children. After his death and in an attempt to deal with the nightmares that have plagued him since then, decides to travel to the island where the peculiar children were supposedly, to investigate the grandfather's past and know more about the stories I told him.
When you get there, discover an orphanage where very special children live, with unusual abilities, who are protected by Miss Peregrine, a magical guardian and director of the orphanage. There Jacob will not only meet and help protect each of these extraordinary characters, but he will discover that he also has a peculiarity.
We hope that with these recommendations of movies to enjoy at Christmas with your teenage children (even if they are not Christmas), you can enjoy a good time with your family and reflect on the stories that each one contains.
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