Saturday 30 August, 10.00am - 12.10pm, Movie Mix

HEIDI (2005, UK)
In this adaptation of the classic novel, Emma Bolger plays 8-year-old orphan Heidi who is sent to live with her curmudgeon grandfather in the Swiss Alps, where she makes friends with local boy Peter (Sam Friend). She is just settling in when she is sent to Frankfurt as a companion to 11-year-old crippled girl Clara (Jessica Claridge). Videocaps

Saturday 30 August, 1.00pm - 2.50pm, Film4
Tuesday 2 September, 5.20pm - 7.10pm, Film4

The LAST MIMZY (2007, US)
Siblings Noah (Chris O'Neil) and Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) develop special powers after finding a box of mysterious 'toys' on the seashore which they learn have been sent from the future and play a vital role in the future of humanity. Videocaps

Saturday 30 August, 2.50pm - 5.00pm, Film4

TOOTH FAIRY (2010, US/Can)
An ice hockey player is transformed into a real-life fairy as punishment for telling his girlfriend's daughter, 6-year-old Tess (Destiny Whitlock), that tooth fairies don't exist. Chase Ellison plays Randy, Tess's teenage brother.

Saturday 30 August, 10.45pm - 1.00am, ITV

PARENTHOOD (1989, US)
An overly anxious father is determined that his children will have a better childhood than he did. He discovers, however, that parents' expectations for their offspring rarely match reality. His children are Kevin (Jasen Fisher), Taylor (Alisan Porter) and Justin (Zachary La Voy). Other children include moody teenager Garry (Leaf Phoenix), Cool (Alex Burrall) and the precocious Patty (Ivyann Schwan). Videocaps

Saturday 30 August, 11.25pm - 1.25am, Film4

INTRUDERS (2011, UK/Sp)
Two children, Juan (Izán Corchero) and Mia (Ella Purnell), living in different countries are visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take possession of them.

Sunday 31 August, 8.30am - 10.20am, Movie Mix

MADELINE (1998, US/Ger)
Orphan Madeline (Hatty Jones) faces her greatest challenge when the owner of the school she attends announces he wants to sell the property. Features twelve 10-year-old girls! Videocaps

Sunday 31 August, 1.30pm - 3.10pm, ITV

The BORROWERS (1997, UK)
A film based on Mary Norton's children's books about tiny people who live under the floorboards and 'borrow' small domestic items from the 'human beans' above. Quite cute. Features Flora Newbigin as Arrietty and Tom Felton as Peagreen, her little brother. Bradley Pierce plays Petey, a human boy. Videocaps

Sunday 31 August, 2.50pm - 4.40pm, Film4

SPYKIDS 4: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (2011, US)
When a retired spy is called back into action she invites her stepchildren Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) along for the adventure to stop the evil Timekeeper from taking over the world. Videocaps

Sunday 31 August, 3.45pm - 5.40pm, ITV2

The LITTLE VAMPIRE (2000, Ger/Neth/UK/US)
Children's fantasy about 8-year-old Tony (Jonathan Lipnicki), who feels isolated when his family move from California to Scotland but soon finds friendship and spooky adventures with Rudolph (Rollo Weeks), a little vampire boy. Anna Popplewell plays Rudolph's vampire sister Anna. Videocaps

Sunday 31 August, 5.10pm - 7.00pm, 5*

ZOOM (2006, US)
A retired superhero makes a comeback to help train the next generation of comic-book saviours, including 6-year-old Cindy (Ryan Newman) and 12-year-old Tucker (Spencer Breslin). Videocaps

Sunday 31 August, 9.00pm - 11.45pm, ITV4
Friday 5 September, 10.55pm - 1.35am, ITV4

WATERWORLD (1995, US)
In the future when the icecaps have melted and the whole world is flooded a trader (Kevin Costner) and Enola (Tina Majorino) search for dry land assisted by a map tattooed on Enola's back. Videocaps

Monday 1 September, 1.00pm - 3.00pm, True Entertainment
Monday 1 September, 9.00pm - 11.00pm, True Entertainment

The CHILDREN OF AN LAC (1980, US)
Drama about three women trying to evacuate hundreds of Vietnamese orphans prior to the fall of Saigon. Features Bongchi Miraflor as Than.

Monday 1 September, 11.00pm - 1.00pm, True Entertainment

MOCKINGBIRD DON'T SING (2001, US)
Drama based on a true story. 13-year-old Katie (Tarra Steele) had been brutalised and isolated in a room for most of her life by her mentally deluded parents. But even when she was released from this living hell, Katie's misery was far from over as well meaning professionals descended on the traumatised girl in droves, each eager to claim the miracle of 'curing' her. Videocaps

Tuesday 2 September, 11.50pm - 2.00am, ITV4

MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (1983, UK)
A set of comic sketches, notably including "Every Sperm is Sacred", a large scale musical number featuring a father with an unfeasibly large number of children. (Some of the children also briefly appear in the endpiece set in Heaven.) Videocaps

Wednesday 3 September, 11.00pm - 1.00am, Film4

ALONG CAME A SPIDER (2001, US/Ger)
Following the abduction of 12-year-old Megan Rose (Mika Boorem) from school, a psychological profiler is forced to join the hunt when he's contacted by the kidnapper. Anton Yelchin plays Dimitri, Megan's schoolfriend. Videocaps

Wednesday 3 September, 11.00pm - 1.00am, True Entertainment

INVISIBLE CHILD (1999, US TVM)
Family drama about Annie, potty mother of 10-year-old 'Doc' (Mae Whitman) and 4-year-old Sam (David Dorfman), who believes in the existence of imaginary 5-year-old daughter Maggie. Her husband and daughter humour her and Sam thinks he has an invisible sister. But a new nanny is too concerned for the family's welfare to allow the fantasy to continue. Videocaps

Wednesday 3 September, 3.00am - 4.50am, Movie Mix

BOB THE BUTLER (2005, Can/UK)
Comedy about an inept butler whose lackadaisical approach to his job wins over the family's children, Tess (Genevieve Buechner) and Bates (Benjamin Smith). (Master Bates - geddit?) Videocaps

Thursday 4 September, 9.00pm - 11.20pm, Film4

KNOWING (2009, Aus/US/UK)
In 1959, a class of elementary schoolkids make drawings of future life for a time capsule, except for Lucinda (Lara Robinson), an odd child who writes a series of apparently random numbers. Fifty years later the capsule is opened and the drawings distributed to the current children and Lucinda's 'drawing' given to Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), the son of an astrophysicist who decides that the numbers represent the dates of disasters, past and future. (Lara Robinson also plays Lucinda's granddaughter, Abby.) Videocaps