The ultimate back-to-school movie marathon guide for families

As back-to-school season approaches, emotions run high.

Kids feel a mix of excitement and jitters while parents might experience relief tinged with nostalgia.

Here are 20 films that capture the school experience and might just get everyone pumped to take on another (or first) academic year.

Rated: TV-G Streaming: Disney+ Basketball star Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) faces the ultimate teen dilemma: Should he follow his newfound and unexpected passion for singing or stick with his jock identity? Watch Troy navigate high school politics as he goes against the status quo and proves no one has to stick to just one thing.

Rated: PG Streaming: Netflix Brilliant Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson) might have the worlds worst parents and a school principal of nightmares.

When she discovers her telekinetic powers, on top of her already bright mind, Matilda chooses to use her powers for good.

She makes loyal friends and finds one amazing teacher to help her along the way, proving that you dont have to be a grown-up to make a difference.

Rated: G Streaming: Disney+ Before they were scaring icons, Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P.

Sully Sullivan (John Goodman) were college rivals.

A monstrous prequel to Monsters Inc.

shows how competition can lead to friendship and proves that sometimes your enemy might just become your best ally.

Rated: PG Streaming: Disney+ Twelve-year-old Greg Heffrey (Brady Noon) is just trying to survive the warfare that is middle school.

Between dodging bullies, social catastrophes and the dreaded cheese touch, Greg captures just what a day in the life of middle school survival is like.

Rated: G Streaming: Disney+ Max (Jason Marsden) is headed to college, ready to be a top contender for the X-Games and to spread his wings and fly from the nest.

However, his college dreams become his worst nightmare when his dad, Goofy (Bill Farmer), enrolls in the same university.

Goofy is just yearning for some learning as he joins his son on campus, showing that youre never too old to learn and sometimes your embarrassing parent might just become your best college friend.

Rated: PG Streaming: Disney+ An 11-year-old Minnesotan girl, Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), is a hockey fiend with a happy-go-lucky attitude.

Her whole world is turned upside-down, however, when her parents decide to move to San Fransisco.

The move sends her emotions, Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith), into overdrive.

Inside Out goes inside Rileys head to show her emotions all working together to figure out how to navigate their new world, although they sometimes conflict on the best way to do so.

Rated: PG Streaming: Disney+ Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) do not understand each others points of view at all and disagree on just about everything.

A big fight and a fortune cookie change everything for the mother-daughter duo when they wake up one morning to find they have switched bodies.

The two get the ultimate lesson in empathy, gaining better understanding of one another after walking a mile in each others shoes (or bodies).

Rated: PG Streaming: Hulu Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), an orphaned boy, discovers he is a wizard and enrolls at one of the top schools for wizards, Hogwarts.

While this school might have magical staircases and flying lessons, Harrys first-year experiences making friends, dealing with bullies and finding his place capture the essence of starting at a new school.

Plus, who wouldnt want an owl as a school pet? Rated: PG Streaming: Disney+ Thirteen-year-old Meis (Rosalie Chiang) puberty comes with an unusual twist: She turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets emotional.

Set in 2002 Toronto, this coming-of-age tale captures the early 2000s middle school experience, complete with boy band obsessions and Meis struggle between pleasing her parents and finding herself.

Rated: G Streaming: Disney+ First day of school jitters get real when Nemos (Alexander Gould) overprotective dad, Marlin (Albert Brooks), faces his worst fears.

His son is flying the nest, or swimming out of the anemone.

When Nemo is taken by divers in the open sea on a school field trip, Marlin sets off on a mission to bring his son back home safe and makes unexpected friends along the way who help him find his son.

Rated: G Streaming: Disney+ Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael (Matthew Garber) Banks are getting a new nanny and are not overly excited about the process, but their attitudes change when Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) arrives.

She takes them on some supercalifragilistic adventures with her friend Bert (Dick Van Dyke), and they turn learning into an adventure with spoonfuls of sugar and flying a kite.

Rated: PG Streaming: Disney+ Ferdinand (John Cena) is a bull with a big heart, but when hes mistaken for being a dangerous animal, hes torn away from his home and everything he knows to go to a Spanish bull-training camp.

The gentle giant is determined to return to his family and enlists the help of friends along the way, but some events happen that have people thinking he is more fierce than he truly is.

Ferdinands journey celebrates kindness and is a back-to-school message about embracing differences and viewing them as strengths.

Rated: PG Streaming: Disney+ Identical twins Annie and Hallie (Lindsay Lohan) were separated at birth, each raised by one of their biological parents, and meet for the first time at a summer camp, turning it into a family reunion.

Initially the two are sworn enemies, but after realizing they are biological twins, the pair set out to get their parents back together.

Rated: G Streaming: Hulu Shut up awkward teen Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) just found out she is the heir to the throne of Genovia.

After being raised by a single mom, Mia finds out after the recent death of her absent father that he was the crown prince of Genovia.

Now Mia must choose between remaining in her old life in San Francisco or stepping up to her royal duties.

Before she chooses, Mia must first learn how to act like a princess, but does it with her own flare.

Rated: PG Streaming: Disney+ Will Stronghold (Michael Angarano), the son of two famous superheroes, is facing his first day of high school, but not just any high school: a high school for kids with superhuman powers.

The only problem? Will isnt sure if he has powers of his own and fears the life of becoming a sidekick.

He discovers he does have supernatural abilities after all, but will he learn to use these powers in time to fend off school bullies, win the girl of his dreams and save his parents from a longtime nemesis? Rated: PG-13 Streaming: HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube TV Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) is the son of the great Chief Stoic (Gerard Butler), chief of the Viking village Berk, where dragons are their biggest pests.

Vikings are born to kill dragons, except Hiccup.

Hiccup finds himself trying to prove his worth and ability to his father, despite his small frame, when he happens upon a dragon that will become his best friend.

Hiccup and Toothless set out on a mission to help Vikings and dragons get along.

Rated: G Streaming: Disney+ Villains have kids too? Kids of infamous Disney villains Jafar, Maleficent, Cruella De Vil and Evil Queen are invited to attend school at Auradon Prep, leaving their home, Isle of the Lost, where their parents were banished to.

When invited to the school, the teens are sent with a special mission from Maleficent (Kristin Chenoweth) to steal the Fairy Godmothers magic wand to break down the barrier keeping them trapped on the isle.

Rated: PG-13 Streaming: Disney+ Teen boy Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Leavitt) is desperate to date Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik), the girl of his dreams.

However, under the rules of her overprotective and paranoid father, Bianca cannot date until her shrew older sister, Kat (Julia Stiles), has a date, too.

Cameron schemes with his friend Michael (David Krumholtz) to find Kat her own date and finds the perfect candidate, Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger), a bad boy with a mysterious reputation.

The only thing left is to discover if Patrick and Kat get along, and if Cameron will be able to win Biancas heart, or if everything will end in disaster.

Rated: PG Streaming: Available to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video Yetis know humans dont exist, but that all changes when one yeti, Migo (Channing Tatum), discovers a human, or a smallfoot.

The other yetis refuse to believe Migo and banish him from their village.

Follow Migo as he sets off on an adventure to find the creature that will make his friends believe him and bring him back to his village..

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