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Human memory is an extremely bizarre thing. It happens that sometimes we forget very important facts and moments that took place quite recently, while for whole decades we remember to the smallest detail all sorts of films or cartoons that we saw only a couple of times in our childhood.

We remember well the names of the characters of these films, their signature lines, and as soon as someone sings just a couple of notes from the musical theme of these films, we happily pick up and sing until the end of the whole day. We may even forget the name of the film, but we will never dismiss from mind our emotions when watching it.

The AskReddit community once asked the question "What's a movie you saw as a kid that only you seem to remember?" and the thread went viral instantly, with nearly 13.4K upvotes and over 20.6K comments across different generations of redditors. At least among the answers there are films from the seventies, as well as relatively recent ones that came out at the beginning of this century.

Bored Panda made a selection of the most popular, touching and nostalgic comments for you, so feel free now to scroll to the very end, and then - who knows, maybe you will take an old and dust-covered VHS player with your favorite cassette from the attic, plug in the cables and, for an hour or so, go back to that beautiful, unattainable childhood...

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#1

People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group InevitablePiano6848 said:
An American tail

Famous-Honey-9331 added:
Ah yes, the animated mouse musical that taught me about immigration at the turn of the century. Pogroms, "no cats in America and the streets are paved with cheese" random Ellis Island name changes, the rise of social justice, suffrage, labor movements, and Tamanny Hall! "Are we men, or are we mice?!" "MICE"

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    #2

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group UGotUrsIGotMine wrote:
    The rescuers!

    Ashitaka1013 responded:
    The example that first comes to mind of a movie- particularly a Disney movie- where the sequel was better than the first. Rescuers Down Under.

    UGotUrsIGotMine , Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Report

    #3

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group hiyoneighbourino wrote:
    Fern gully

    Thor42o added:
    Basically all these movies are just dances with wolves. Fern gully, Atlantis, avatar, the last samurai, pocahontas and quite a few others all follow the same premise. Good guy from bad group gets enmeshed with locals, usually falls for a girl, discovers their magical culture, ends up joining them and defends them from his group.

    hiyoneighbourino , 20th Century Fox Report

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    #4

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group All dogs go to heaven

    This film was so traumatizing even tho it was a kids movie, its seems like a nightmare that just became a movie.

    Basically about dogs that are gambling and taking drugs lol

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    #5

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group InevitablePiano6848 wrote:
    The Indian in the cupboard!

    tooglam2giveadamn adds:
    My grandparents had this movie and the vhs case came with a key and a tiny figurine. The opening of the vhs had a “keyhole” and the backside of the cover insert looked like wood paneling so you could flip it backwards to make the entire thing look like a cupboard and then put the figurine inside

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    #6

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group MrLittle237 wrote:

    Milo and Otis. Anyone???

    Jamileem responded:
    Yes I remember this. As a kid I used to confuse this one and Homeward Bound because they were both about lost pets trying to find their way.

    MrLittle237 , Columbia Pictures Report

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    #7

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group tonybeetzzz wrote:
    The last unicorn

    Pacman_Frog adds:
    AND it's a movie about travelling through a desert with a horse with no name!

    I always cry when poor old Molly Grue admonishes The Unicorn and then immediately forgives her. It takes strength to accept life as it is given to you.

    tonybeetzzz , Jensen Farley Pictures Report

    #8

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group icarus_swims answered:
    The brave Little toaster

    Vetiversailles added:
    I rewatched the whole thing this year. Still f**king incredible. The cars singing while being destroyed—that whole scene and song is pure art.

    God that movie f**king slaps

    icarus_swims , Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Report

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    #9

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group For years, none of my friends believed that The Black Cauldron existed. I saw it in the theater, and never saw it again until several years ago. Convincing my friends that it existed (before the internet) was no easy task.

    ericwimberly , Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Report

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    Gossameringue
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Based of Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain series, a YA fantasy sequence of which The Black Cauldron was the 2nd of 5 books.

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    #10

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group prettyugly1 wrote:
    Fly away home

    Jill4ChrisRed added:
    My partner worked on a film recently with Anna Paquin in it and although she's famous for a ton of other things, THIS is the film I remember her for!

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    #11

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Environmental-Fix-71 wrote:
    Also Flight of the Navigator

    HerrIndos answered:
    Wasn't Paul Reubens (aka Peewee Herman) Max, the ship's robot?

    Also, I remember this movie feeling super intense, though I know it wasn't. It's weird how movies can generate such strong feelings as a kid.

    Environmental-Fix-71 , Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Report

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    Mark Fuller
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was bloody brilliant. And so fun as a kid, making you feel like you were flying...

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    #12

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Hello_Mr_Fancypants answered:
    Anybody else remember Batteries Not Included?

    BlackwoodBear79 added:
    This movie hits so differently when I was a kid, versus when I was an adult.

    I always knew there was something wrong about Faye's issues but I didn't understand/couldn't process what it was. But I was a kid, and WOO alien spaceships.

    Watching it as an adult I realize how broken she was.

    Hello_Mr_Fancypants , Universal Studios Report

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    Mark Fuller
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To this day I cannot fathom how they managed to inject such powerful emotion into the near death of what was virtually a flying saucepan. You fight for your life little dude, we're all rooting for you!!

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    #13

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group DingusFap said:
    Rikki Tikki Tavi

    kingdomheartsislight replied:
    So many of these forgotten movies are Chuck Jones’ work. Cartoon Network used to have Chuck Jones marathons and it made me love so much of his movies and shorts. I wish they would go back to showcasing a certain animator’s work. It was cool to see what their specific styles looked liked.

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    #14

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group BigCheifGrubzReport wrote:
    Drop Dead Fred

    scrapperfromwayback added:
    I have the DVD. Haven't watched it for like a decade. Put it on to keep my kids busy for 90minutes.... F**k it's inappropriate for children.

    BigCheifGrubz , New Line Cinema Report

    #15

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Pagemaster. Remember that? MacAulay Culkin gets sucked into lots of books in a library. Loved it as a kid. Haven’t seen it since

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    #16

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group koala_loves_penguin told:
    The Borrowers

    InfinityLDog answered:
    In 2010 Stubio Ghibli did a version called "Arriety"

    LadyBug_0570 added:
    I remember watching that movie on cable when I was in the hospital post surgery.

    You may know the kid who played Arietty's younger brother. Tom Felton. AKA Draco Malfoy.

    koala_loves_penguin , PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Report

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    DrBronxx
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember the BBC show from a few years before, starring Ian Holm (Bilbo from the Lord of the Rings films). It's the first thing I remember seeing him in.

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    #17

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Time Bandits. Scared the hell out of me as a kid. Get in bed and a damn horse jumps out of the closet. The whole movie could be different child nightmares.

    Edit: Big thanks to everybody who commented. Makes me feel a little more normal hearing the similar stories.

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    #18

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group “A little Princess”
    Nobody seems to remember it but I remember it so vividly! It was a bit sad for a kids movie

    emma0070 , Warner Bros. Report

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    Christien Newbury
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I adore this movie. My MIL bought the video along with The Secret Garden for my girls. Best thing she could have done.

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    #19

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Melopossum wrote:
    The animated version of The Hobbit

    Wetworth replied:
    That was a great film, but did you know that Leonard Nimoy released a song called Bilbo Baggins?

    🎶 Bilbo! Bilbo Baggins, greatest little hobbit of them all 🎶

    Melopossum , Warner Bros Report

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    Remi (He/Him)
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That Nimoy song!! The music video is so hippie. Go check it out on YouTube people!! I can't decide if it's awesome or awesomely bad

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    #20

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group When I was a kid I had a crush on a girl who was in a really dumb movie...she was friends with a seal. I wanna say it was called Andre.

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    #21

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Thenightswatchman answered:

    Not a movie but a tv show called David the Gnome. He had a fox he rode around on named Swift, I don't remember much else

    lindseyangela added:
    My favorite! He was an animal doctor and went around helping animals. I have the Gnomes book by Brian Froud and it has some amazing illustrations.

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    #22

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Pippi Longstocking! It was an animated movie from 1997 that I loved as a kid, and I’ve never heard anyone ever mention it before.

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    #23

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group No body I know personally watched anything from the busy world of Richard Scaryy. Not a movie but I bought a DVD copy of the entire show series and my wife had 0 clue what it was.

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    #24

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group jniemela78 responded:
    the show zoomboomafu

    KnockMeYourLobes added:
    The ONLY reason I didn't mind watching this with my kid was because the Kratt Brothers were (and still are, I assume) incredibly hot. :D

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    #25

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group schrodingersb-tch wrote:
    We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

    lilac-aesthetic answered:
    YES! This is one of my favourite movies of all time! Professor Screw Eyes is a classic villain and the little girl who wants the hat always gets me in the beginning.

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    WatermelonTheDutchie
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i vaguely remember this from watching it when i was little. i thought it was some kind of weird nightmare until now lmao

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    #26

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group bnturner92 wrote:
    Rock-a-doodle

    *Thanks! Im glad so many people share the love!

    BronzeHeart92 adds:
    That was the movie where this boy encounters an owl and the owl starts barfing weirdly colored stars at him which turns him into a kitten, correct?

    woobawooba21 answers:
    Yes, that's correct

    bnturner92 , The Samuel Goldwyn Company Report

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    Hy0criticalTypewriter
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This movie is something that never left my brain until I found it like last year

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    #27

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group mutombochaoskampf wrote:
    The Mouse and the Motorcycle

    ShiraCheshire added:
    I remember the book really fondly though. I remember some kid asking the mouse how he makes the motorcycle go, and the mouse tells him he just makes motorcycle noises and it works. Kid me was like "oh of course, that makes sense" but looking back that's hilarious.

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    #28

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Something Wicked This Way Comes. I loved it, and I think I saw it alone because my friends bailed on me.

    MusicalLifeForever , Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Report

    #29

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group I obsessively watched “Bedknobs and Beoomsticks” and “Pete’s dragon” as a kid, and have never met anyone else who’s ever watched either of them. I recently watched the original Pete’s Dragon and realized I still know it off by heart. And still sincerely enjoy it. Better than the remake.

    I also once watched “Wild Hearts Can’t be Broken” as a kid and LOVED it. Thought about it for years afterwards but whenever I asked anyone else about “This movie about a girl who performs a stunt where she jumps on a running horse at the top of a tall tower and jumps with the horse into a pool. And then goes blind but does it again anyway.” Everyone thought I was crazy. Thank you Disney Plus for confirming it DOES exist, I DIDN’T make it up, and got major nostalgia watching it again.

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    Kel Gal
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to love Pete’s Dragon! I can still remember some of the songs.

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    #30

    No-Salamander-2001 said:
    Small Soldiers?

    Talnadair answered:
    Tommy Lee Jones as the bad guy soldier was classic!

    awildsforzemon1 added:
    This movie launched the rodeo burger at Burger King. So not only a great movie, but introduced the world to arguably the best burger that place has ever had

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    #31

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group A movie that took place on the Ewok planet (not Return of the Jedi) where a little girl and her brother crash land and are helped by the Ewoks, and they get caught in a giant spiderweb, and one of them gets sucked under a lake and can't break the surface of the water because it'a like glass.

    GoBoltsAmelie88 , 20th Television Report

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    DDmaybeandor
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh wow! THAT’S what it’s called. I remembered that there was another Ewok movie that I liked when I was little.

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    #32

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Champion_Kitchen wrote:
    I am adamant that this movie has to exist. It’s about two cats, a white girl cat and a black male cat. It’s some sort of oldies French setting where the female cat gets stolen by a villain cat and the black cat goes after her and tries to save her. I swear to god this movie exists but I have only ever seen it once and it was back when I was like 6 or 7. But gosh sometimes bits and pieces of that movie will pop in my head and I just can’t place a name on it or it could have been something I dreamt up..

    RMMacFru added:
    The name of the movie is Gay Purr-ee.
    The female cat (Mewsette) was voiced by Judy Garland.
    The hero make cat (Jaune-Tom) voiced by Robert Goulet.
    The villain cat (Meowrice) was voiced by Paul Frees.
    And one of the writers was Chuck Jones.
    If you couldn't tell, I adore this movie.

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    #33

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Stanley's Magic Garden (also known as A Troll in Central Park in later years).

    Edit: Apparently it was Stanley's Magic Garden in the UK and A Troll in Central Park in North America.

    Edit edit: there seems no rules to what name you'd get lol. I'll leave this alone now.

    knowyourdarkness , Warner Bros. Report

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    // A r n a h u n a s //
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This movie is Don Bluth’s weakest by a lot, but “Absolutely Green” is a banger.

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    #34

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Loose_Prior_4683 replied:
    It's a TV show Sagwa the Chinese siamese cat

    slutghetti added:
    The theme song plays in my head all the time!

    Hao peng you, hao peng you,
    Sagwa shi wo de hao peng you
    Hao peng you, hao peng you,
    Sagwa shi wo de hao peng you...
    Sagwa, you're my best friend...
    Sagwa...

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    Ellie
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh. My. God. I knew this show existed, but it's just one blurry memory from when I was really little. I thought I made it up. Nice to know the name of it

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    #35

    People Remember Watching These 35 Movies As Kids But Nobody Else Seems To Recall Them, As Shared In This Online Group Cats Dont Dance. I remember watching it a lot back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I think people just have forgotten about the movie.

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    Ovata Acronicta
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Worth a rewatch, the music is *incredible*. And if you haven't watched it, maybe give it a shot.

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