The ultimate best in family viewing streaming now on Disney+
When it’s raining outside or you have a million and one things to do and need a break from the kids, or just want to entertain your inner child, Disney+ delivers some of the absolute best in family friendly content.
Here are our top picks of the BEST family movies to watch that are available to stream now on Disney+.
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
Release date: 22 May 2025
Live-action remake of Disney’s animated classic ‘Lilo and Stitch’.
Duration: 108 mins
Rating: PG
Little Mermaid (2023)
The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.
Rating: PG
Running time: 135 mins
Elemental (2023)
Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
Rating: PG
Running time: 109 mins
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Streaming now
Released: June 2023
Harrison Ford returns to the role of the legendary hero archaeologist for this fifth instalment of the iconic franchise. Starring along with Ford are Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”), Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”), John Rhys-Davies (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”), Shaunette Renee Wilson (“Black Panther”), Thomas Kretschmann (“Das Boot”), Toby Jones (“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”), Boyd Holbrook (“Logan”), Oliver Richters (“Black Widow”), Ethann Isidore (“Mortel”) and Mads Mikkelsen (“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”). Directed by James Mangold (“Ford v Ferrari,” “Logan”), the film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Simon Emanuel, with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas serving as executive producers. John Williams, who has scored each Indy adventure since the original “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981, is once again composing the score
Running time:154 mins
Rating: M
Wish (2023)
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Wish” is an all-new musical-comedy welcoming audiences to the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish.
Rating: PG
Running Time: 95 mins
Haunted Mansion (2023)
A single mom hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest, and a historian to help exorcise their newly bought mansion; after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.
Rating: PG
Running time: 122 mins
Raya and The Last Dragon (2021)
New to the Disney+ platform, this epic adventure is sure to keep the kids entertained as they travel into the fantasy world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons co-existed together long ago in harmony.
However, when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people.
Featuring the voices of Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina
Rating: PG
Cruella (2021)
Cruella is a live action film about the early days of Curella de Vil set in London in the 1970s during the punk rock revolution. This movie will appeal to families with tweens and teens more than younger children.
Staring: Emma Stone and Emma Thompson
Rating: PG
Family favourites streaming on Disney+
Moana (2016)
An all-time favourite, Moana will have everyone in the family singing along to its original catchy tunes! You will fall in love with the breathtaking Island of Motunui and its soon-to-be leader, Moana.
Adventurous teenager Moana finds herself inspired to leave the safety and security of her island and embark on a daring journey to save her people. Inexplicably drawn to the ocean, Moana convinces the mighty demigod Maui to join her mission, and he reluctantly helps her become a wayfinder like her ancestors who sailed before her. Together, they voyage across the open ocean on an action-packed adventure, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds, and along the way, Moana fulfils her quest and discovers the one thing she’s always sought: her identity.
Featuring the voices of Auli‘i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson and Temuera Morrison
Rating: PG
Up (2009)
This Disney+ classic will tug on even the most hardened of heartstrings! Loved by many for over a decade, Up should be on your must-watch bucket list.
Carl Fredricksen, a retired balloon salesman, is part rascal, part dreamer and ready for his last chance at high-flying excitement. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, Carl sets off to the lost world of his childhood dreams. But unbeknownst to Carl, Russell, an overeager 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer who has never ventured beyond his backyard, is in the wrong place at the wrong time… Carl’s front porch. The world’s most unlikely duo reach new heights and meet fantastic friends along the way, making Carl realise that sometimes life’s biggest adventures aren’t the ones you set out to have.
Featuring the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer and Jordan Nagai
Rating: PG
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
While you are stuck indoors, The Chronicles of Narnia will take the family on a whimsical, mysterious adventure – all from the comfort of your couch! Adapted from C.S. Lewis’ timeless novel, this is the ultimate in family viewing.
Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter are four siblings who find the world of Narnia through a wardrobe while playing a game of “hide-and-seek” at the country estate of a mysterious professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, once peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs, and giants that has been turned into a world of eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a climactic battle to be free of the Witch’s glacial powers forever!
Starring Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes and William Moseley.
Rating: PG
Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Episode VII (2015)
It’s a staple in every film collection – and there is a reason for that. If you haven’t introduced your kids to Stars Wars yet, now may be a good time to start!
Visionary director J.J. Abrams brings to life the motion picture event of a generation. As Kylo Ren and the sinister First Order rise from the ashes of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is missing when the galaxy needs him most. It’s up to Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, a defecting stormtrooper, to join forces with Han Solo and Chewbacca in a desperate search for the one hope of restoring peace to the galaxy.
Starring Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher.
Rating: M
Marvel Studio's Black Panther (2018)
This action-packed film is better suited for the older kids, but it is visually an incredible film to watch. There are moments that will certainly have you on the edge of your seat in this thrilling instalment.
After the death of his father, the king of Wakanda, young T’Challa returns home to the isolated high-tech African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king. But when a powerful enemy appears, T’Challa’s mettle as king – and Black Panther – is tested as he’s drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, he must release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and their way of life.
Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o.
Rating: M