Movies like FairyTale: A True Story

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FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
Style: fairy tale, costume drama, touching, mysterious, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, light, inspirational, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot: fairy, childhood, children, writers, world war one, friendship, beautiful scenery, pagan, family relations, heroes, miraculous event, supernatural ability, hopes, school, chess, magician, photographer, girl, child, magical, youth, witchcraft, past, paranormal, afterlife ...
Time: 1910s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1917, 1900s
Place: england, london, europe, africa, united kingdom, yorkshire, france
Keyword: life lessons

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Most similar movies to FairyTale: A True Story

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out fairy tale, touching, feel good and atmospheric films with plots about youth, children, imaginary, friendship, magic, magical and family relations mostly in Family, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like FairyTale: A True Story: Peter Pan (2003), Hook (1991), Secret of the Wings (2012), Photographing Fairies (1997), The Indian in the Cupboard (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Peter Pan (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, fantasy world, fairy, children, boy, magic, teenager, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, friendship, youth ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place: fictional island, london, europe, big ben london, england ...
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Hook (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, stylized, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, kidnapping, magic, children, fairy, good versus evil, father son relationship, rescue, peter pan, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, madagascar, california, new york, san francisco ...
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100%
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India, Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story: During a summer stay on the mainland, Tinker Bell is accidentally discovered while investigating a little girl's fairy house. As the other fairies, led by the brash Vidia, launch a daring rescue in the middle of a fierce storm, Tink develops a ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, semi serious, computer animated, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot: fairy, imaginary kingdom, rescue, tinkerbell, friendship, peter pan, mischievous children, heroes, disorder, danger, curses spells and rituals, human ...
Time: 2010s
Place: europe, england
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100%
Secret of the Wings (2012)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Tinkerbell wanders into the forbidden Winter woods and meets Periwinkle. Together they learn the secret of their wings and try to unite the warm fairies and the winter fairies to help Pixie Hollow.
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, computer animated, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, preschool
Plot: fairy, imaginary kingdom, magic, winter, imaginary, magical, friendship, secret, woods, friends, escapades, tinkerbell ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s
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100%
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Photographing Fairies (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of ...
Style: psychological, grindhouse, mystic, esoteric, spiritual ...
Plot: photograph, photography, world war one, photographer, afterlife, paranormal, creature, pagan, magical creature, magic realism, folk horror, occult ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england, alps, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
Style: touching, clever, light, epic, grindhouse ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: native american, friendship, toys, coming of age, toy comes to life, magic, boy, child protagonist, toy soldier, cowboy, childhood, escapades ...
Time: 90s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
Finding Neverland (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style: touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, inspirational, clever ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot: writers, single parent, peter pan, friendship, writer's life, biopic, parents and children, death, family relations, stage play, human nature, artists and showbiz ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, future, 1910s ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, teen ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: harry potter, magic, wizard, witch, friendship, fantasy world, magical, boarding school, chosen one, youth, children, school ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, year 1991, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place: england, europe, london, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Nanny McPhee (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: witch, magic, childhood, nanny, family values, children, single father, mischievous children, parents and children, widower, prank, family relations ...
Time: edwardian era, year 2005, year 2006, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, scenic, touching, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: magic, nanny, witch, children, countryside, mischievous children, kids and family, world war two, farm, wartime life, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, sweet, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: childhood, bad luck, job interview, child's point of view, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, family relations, birthday party, coming of age, friends, mischievous children ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: australia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Pan (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save ...
Style: fairy tale, visually appealing, stylized, serious, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, chick flick, adult
Plot: pirate, magic, fantasy world, childhood, mischievous children, young heroes, good versus evil, heroes, child in peril, child hero, orphan, treasure hunt ...
Time: 1940s, future, year 2015, 1930s
Place: vietnam, fictional island, london
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100%
Song of the Sea (2014)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as ...
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, fairy tale, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot: folklore, young heroes, children, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, ocean, getting home, celtic, legends and myths, lighthouse, seal the animal ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teen fantasy, adult, teen drama
Plot: monster, mythology, fantasy world, macabre, creature, imagination, magical, legends and myths, good versus evil, maze, young heroes, imaginary ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: spain, europe
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100%
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother ...
Style: scenic, fairy tale, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: children, island, mermaid, seal the animal, friendship, legend, celtic, ancient mystery, magic, young heroes, magic realism, social relations ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 1940s, year 1946
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A little girl discovers dreams can come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago. But after ...
Style: fairy tale, christmas classics, sentimental, touching, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, christmas season, thanksgiving, court, lawyer, department store, children, courtroom, friendship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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50%
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, dark fantasy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, harry potter, witch, magical, boarding school, fantasy world, creature, wizard, teacher, supernatural, youth, chosen one ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 2002, year 1992, year 1993 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style: emotional, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, magical, fantasy world, loneliness, classmate, school, imaginary, friends ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
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22%
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Harry starts his fourth year at Hogwarts, competes in the treacherous Triwizard Tournament and faces the evil Lord Voldemort. Ron and Hermione help Harry manage the pressure – but Voldemort lurks, awaiting his chance to destroy Harry and all that ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, atmospheric, saga ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: magic, magical, witch, harry potter, boarding school, friendship, dragon, teenager, wizard, good versus evil, school, chosen one ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 1995, year 1994, 20th century ...
Place: england, europe
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42%
The Secret Garden (1987)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She ...
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, light, disturbing ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: orphan, garden, little girl, family relations, uncle, mansion, friendship, family problems, mischievous children, family life, child's point of view, youth ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
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41%
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: As Harry begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as 'Property of the Half-Blood Prince', and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting, entertaining, saga ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: harry potter, witch, magic, magical, school, good versus evil, witchcraft, chosen one, wizards and magicians, young heroes, boarding school, boarding school life ...
Time: year 2009, year 1997, year 1996, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Fuchsia the Mini-Witch (2010)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Great adventures can hatch from the smallest eggs. Fucsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and so is pleased as punch when she is allowed to go to witches' school. There, Fucsia learns to make wind and conjures with the clouds. ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: witch, children, friendship, magic, supernatural power, magician, witchcraft, school, flying, magical, magical girl, wizards and magicians ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students – ...
Style: exciting, saga, scenic, tense, teen ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot: witch, magic, magical, harry potter, teenager, school, creature, boarding school, chosen one, wizards and magicians, supernatural ability, young heroes ...
Time: year 2007, year 1995, year 1996, 20th century, year 1994 ...
Place: london, england, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Christopher Robin (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Working-class family man Christopher Robin encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life.
Style: fairy tale, sincere, touching, sad, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot: winnie the pooh, childhood, bear, father daughter relationship, magic realism, animal, supportive friend, children, talking animal, anthropomorphism, friend, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, future, 2010s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Skellig (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ordinary boy named Michael is going through some extraordinary changes in his life. His family has just moved into an unfamiliar house, and his brand new baby sister has fallen ill. One day, while cleaning out the garden shed, he stumbles across ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, apocalyptic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night
Plot: coming of age, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, boy, human spirit, hopes, family life, suburban life, child illness, male bonding, friendship between men, owl ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (2010)
Genre: Action, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1920's Vienna, this is the tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve.
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, atmospheric, exciting, entertaining
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens
Plot: christmas, nutcracker, children, youth, toy comes to life, young heroes, godparent, escapades, save the day, heroes, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Little Ghost (1997)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While on location in a spooky Italian villa with his Hollywood big-shot mom and her dorky boyfriend, twelve-year-old Kevin befriends a Renaissance-era girl ghost who helps him cause unrest on the set.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, independent film
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: ghost, youth, childhood love, children, batman, friendship, misfit, young heroes, hopes, mischievous children, supernatural, disorder ...
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts -- Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Style: stylized, touching, dark fantasy, light, talky ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: childhood, creature, mischievous children, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, imagination, loneliness, island, children, coming of age, youth, anger ...
Time: year 2009, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Frog Prince (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a good friend and princess with the help of a "tall frog."
Style: fairy tale, costume drama, mysterious, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, broadway, mermaid, magical, princess, friends, legends and myths, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, love and romance, friend, girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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