Oh dear. I had Sounder and Old Yeller confused. I read Sounder to the girls, and we were all ready to slit our wrists by the end. They still look at me reproachfully when the subject is brought up. In fact, they often bring the book up
in order to reproach me for being a terrible mother.
Soooo we won't be watching that movie. But, in that vein, I doubt we'll watch Old Yeller either. We're just not into sad movies where animals die.
Other than that, there are some terrific suggestions here. I'm going to compile them into a list and go from there.
(Nin, my older daughter would probably love the French movie. She is studying French and is currently in love with anything French.)
(I should also add that we read Sounder right after reading a very graphic book about missionaries in Papua New Guinea. It included cannibalism and extremely disturbing depictions of post-death rituals. I edited it on the fly as much as I could but still ended up reading quite a bit of it to them. They were afraid of what book I'd pick next after those two!
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We're currently reading Little Women, and I'm saving the movie as a treat for afterwards. Katie has seen it before but doesn't remember it very well. Sarah doesn't remember seeing it at all, so that will be fun for them to watch. (I have the Winona Ryder version.)
Anyway, I'm excited to start having some good movies to watch with them. Like I said, we've seen many of the newer movies that were suggested, but I've not seen many of the older ones (pre-1970s).
I have that Netflix Queue waiting for me to fill it all back up again, and when I get there I forget every movie I ever said I wanted to watch. 
