Movies like Leave It to Beaver

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Leave It to Beaver (1997)
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Leave It to Beaver (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio - wise father Ward, loving mother June, teen-age son Wally and 8-year-old "Beaver" Theodore. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school football team and he makes it, only to be embarrassed. The bike he gets is quickly stolen. Meanwhile Wally is trying to help his friend Eddie Haskell to get the heart of pretty classmate Karen, but Karen seems to like Wally more, and that leads to tensions between the friends.
Style: melancholic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, epic, scary, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure, sweet ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: when the parents are away, childhood, family relations, happy ending, parents and children, family life, prank, american football, friendship, high school life, mischievous children, nothing goes right, child as adult, fish out of water, bullying, youth, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, football, school, teacher, child, humour, bike, dating ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 50s, 1990s
Place: ohio, usa
Keyword: football movie, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and realistic films with plots about youth, family relations, disorder, mischievous children, parents and children, boy and family life mostly in Comedy, Family and Crime genres. Some movies like Leave It to Beaver: The Little Rascals (1994), Problem Child (1990), It Runs in the Family (1994), House Arrest (1996), Little Monsters (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Little Rascals (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style: feel good, light, sentimental, sweet, not serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: childhood, children, child, bully, dog, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, precocious child, youth, friendship, rich kid ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
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Problem Child (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: adoption, mischievous children, chase, spoiled brat, troublemaker, children, child hero, child, friends, dark humor, kidnapping, childhood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
It Runs in the Family (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. Ralphie is searching for the perfect top to use to beat the school bully with, the Old Man is in battle with their hillbilly ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: youth, family life, contests and competitions, disorder, nothing goes right, love and romance, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, father son relationship, coming of age, feud ...
Time: 1940s, 1900s, year 1994
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 9K
House Arrest (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: divorce, childhood, family relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, love, hostage, kidnapping, couples, bullying, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: hawaii, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Little Monsters (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games ...
Style: light, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: monster, brother brother relationship, friendship, coming of age, young heroes, halloween, mischievous children, curses spells and rituals, child as adult, fish out of water, wish come true, imaginary ...
Time: year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Little Nicholas (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, hilarious, cute ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: mischievous children, children, friendship, school, family relations, plan gone awry, parents and children, family life, friends, school teacher, teacher student relationship, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny, teen ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: large family, children, family relations, teenager, parenthood, dysfunctional family, chaos, parents and children, eccentric family, nothing goes right, siblings relations, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 39K
Major Payne (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, absurd, clever ...
Audience: kids, manly, teens, teen drama
Plot: military, children, military life, foul language, sarcasm, teacher, soldier, violence, disorder, stupidity, mentor, teaching ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 127K
Home Alone 3 (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try break into his house to get it back.
Style: feel good, humorous, slapstick, christmas classics, hilarious ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, prank, home alone, winter, kids and family, children, little boy, crime gone awry, snow, young heroes, bravery ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago, hong kong, illinois, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.6
 28K
Baby Geniuses (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.
Style: humorous, entertaining, intense, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, teens
Plot: twins, baby, genius, mistaken identity, mad scientist, babies and infants, mischievous children, children, imaginary, prank, scientist, hypnosis ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Babysitters Beware (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: family relations, when the parents are away, nanny, mischievous children, parents and children, disorder, youth, save the day, rivalry, friendship, little boy, babysitter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Boys Will Be Boys (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two young brothers talk their strict father Lloyd Clauswell into allowing them to babysit themselves for the first time while their parents attend a corporate barbecue...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: youth, twins, family relations, police detective, child in peril, silly humor, young heroes, danger, nothing goes right, mischievous children, heroes, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: family life, sibling rivalry, family relations, high school life, teenage life, social misfits, siblings relations, parents and children, friends, child, middle school, diary ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.8
 1K
Opposite Day (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The world goes backwards on Opposite Day. The kids become adults, and the adults become kids.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, melancholic, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: child as adult, parents and children, switching roles, fish out of water, disorder, misfit, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations, wish come true, youth, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, youth, coming of age, bully, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, bullying, love and romance, rivalry, friends, couples ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Slappy and the Stinkers (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Five 2nd-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, ...
Style: epic, family comedy, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: youth, sea lion, family relations, rescue, school, friends, power relations, animal life, disorder, coming of age, dedicated educator, daring rescue ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had -- a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old ...
Style: light, funny, feel good, entertaining, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: fish out of water, jungle, culture clash, childhood, teenage boy, eccentric family, parents and children, mischievous children, disorder, nothing goes right, youth, 13 year old ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, venezuela, usa, latin america, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Even Stevens Movie (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Stevens think that they've won an all-expenses-paid trip to an island that's halfway around the world. When their house is destroyed, their food stolen, and their bacon eaten, the Stevens family breaks apart in front of all their ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, tropical, teen
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: youth, family relations, family life, parents and children, teenage life, mischievous children, nothing goes right, disorder, island, siblings relations, brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 766
Lloyd (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A boy learns that confidence and self-esteem are the greatest gifts.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, misfit, love and romance, friendship, friends, school, teachers and students, fall in love, mischievous children, hopes, win over, disorder ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Getting Even with Dad (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ray, an ex-con and widower, is planning a coin heist with two accomplices to help him to buy his own bakery. However, he doesn't expect his son Timmy, who was living with Ray's sister, to show up at the house right in the middle of ...
Style: humorous, satirical, melancholic, semi serious, realistic
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: heist, parents and children, family life, disorder, dishonesty, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, going straight, single parent, childhood, father son relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Christmas Story (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
Style: christmas special, funny, christmas classics, hilarious, period piece ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: christmas, bullying, holiday, childhood, boy, children, christmas season, bully, childhood memory, school, little boy, father son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. ...
Style: christmas special, semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, comedy of errors, mischievous children, nothing goes right, family relations, lifestyle, step siblings, disorder, friends, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.2
 18K
Daddy Day Camp (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
Style: humorous, melancholic, not serious, slapstick, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, competition, mischievous children, father son relationship, children, childhood, happy ending, colonel, family relations, buddies, escapades, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Mr. Troop Mom (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Public Defender Eddie is a widower with a 13 year-old daughter, Naomi. A classic workaholic, Eddie has been M.I.A. for most of Naomi's big moments. But when an unfortunately timed accident gives Eddie the opportunity to become the "Team ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, parents and children, treasure hunt, family life, camp, siblings relations, friends, family relations, woods, obstacle course, climbing, embarrassment ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A boy witnesses his mother kissing what he believes to be is the real Santa Clause and retaliates with mischief.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, single parent, family gatherings, fish out of water, family relations, disorder, couple relations, mischievous children, couples, nothing goes right ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: christmas, family life, holiday, youth, eccentric family, coming of age, society, love, adaptation, destiny, escapades, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, year 1946, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.5
 11K
The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It's the story about seven very different best friends, and one summer that will bring them together like never before.
Style: light, feel good, semi serious, humorous, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: friendship, camp, nanny, coming of age, children, childhood, teenager, bullying, teenage life, parents and children, nothing goes right, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Beethoven's 4th (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The family is pleasantly surprised and puzzled when Beethoven suddenly becomes obedient. Turns out it's a prince and the pauper scenario, with the real Beethoven now living with a pompous rich family.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, pets, youth, family relations, human dog relationship, saint bernard dog, partner, mistaken identity, fish out of water, parents and children, escapades, disorder ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Shredderman Rules (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nolan Byrd (Devon Werkheiser) is a scrawny and shy 9th grader who, like all the other kids, is bullied by Bubba Bixby (Andrew Caldwell). When their teacher, Mr. Green (Tim Meadows), allows the students to do a computer project, Nolan, who has a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: youth, teenage life, cons and scams, prank, save the day, misfit, friendship, family relations, teacher, bullying, high school life, heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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