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Tom Thumb (2001)
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Tom Thumb (2001)
Original name: Le Petit Poucet
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.
Style: fairy tale, serious, stylized, captivating, exciting, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, forest, poverty, heroes, young heroes, life is a bitch, escapades, danger, siblings relations, favoritism among siblings, little boy, medieval, children, moon, castle, family relations, farm, imaginary, child in peril, deadly creature, woods, queen, house, hunger, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 16th century
Place: europe

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Most similar movies to Tom Thumb

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, fairy tale, humorous and feel good films with plots about escapades, youth, danger, imaginary, family relations, young heroes and heroes mostly in Family, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like Tom Thumb: The Brothers Lionheart (1977), Hansel and Gretel (1987), The Snow Queen (2005), The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989), The Wylds (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Brothers Lionheart (1977)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Iceland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 9-year old Karl Lejon, 'Skorpan' is suffering from tuberculosis and knows that he will die soon. But his older brother Jonathan tries to comfort him by promising that they one day will meet in Nangijala, a magic country beyond the stars. ...
Style: touching, serious, exciting, epic, stylized ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: knight, boy, pagan, religious, magic, social justice, nature, coming of age, nordic, european, sorcery, working class ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hansel and Gretel (1987)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman everything she seems...?
Style: fairy tale, humorous, feel good, stylized, mysterious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: youth, woods, curses spells and rituals, witch, siblings relations, danger, escapades, parents and children, coming of age, hansel and gretel, magical, high school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Snow Queen (2005)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 56 min.
Story: When Gerda befriends penniless Kay their growing friendship is cut short as one cold winter night a fragment of glass pierces Kay's eye, turning his heart cold. Enchanted by the Snow Queen he is swept away on her chariot over the glittering ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: young heroes, evil queen, heroic mission, rescue, good versus evil, rivalry, daring rescue, escapades, friendship, imaginary, danger, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens (2008)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Billy turns 11 on November 11 he realises he is no ordinary boy.
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, good versus evil, danger, imaginary, legends and myths, wizards and magicians, heroes, young heroes, birthday, friends, escapades, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bonnie and cousin Sylvia, two very young children, are left at home in Willoughby Hall while their parents travel overseas. Only the servants and the prowling wolves are their companions. News arrives that Lord and Lady Willoughby are missing and an ...
Style: spooky, independent film, serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, orphan, alternate history, coming of age, child in peril, chase, heroes, young heroes, escapades, good versus evil, rescue, danger ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Wylds (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: (Long Synopsis) "This action-packed, fantasy-fueled family adventure – inspired by the revered literary Christian classic, The Pilgrim’s Progress – overflows with outrageous characters, special effects … and a moral message. In The ...
Style: allegory, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: wilderness, danger, escapades, on the road, life is a bitch, youth, society, survival, social decay, journey, fictional war, monster ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
After the Wizard (2011)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A 12-year-old Kansas orphan turns to the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman for help during a difficult time. She imagines that things have not gone well in Oz since the Wizard left and that the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman must travel to Kansas to find ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, getting home, young heroes, heroes, orphan, escapades, imaginary, hopes, wizards and magicians, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, danger ...
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum (1999)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: While visiting a museum, two siblings Ben and Kim a fierce electrical storm creates a passage between the real world and worlds within the paintings. They are magically whisked through time to the 1600's and find they must square off against a ...
Style: exciting, humorous, stylized
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: time travel, youth, painting, lightning, jewelry, medieval, siblings relations, village life, village, wizards and magicians, teleportation, space and aliens ...
Time: 17th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Ronya lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronja ...
Style: modern fairy tale, feel good, semi serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: forest, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, adventurer, nudist, castle, boy, friendship, medieval, family relations, parents and children, imaginary ...
Time: year 1984
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Sleeping Beauty (1987)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, independent film, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night, preschool
Plot: sleeping beauty, sleeping, magical, beauty, cinderella, princess, king, queen, curse, magic, elf, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 16th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Magic Silver 2 (2011)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's the harshest winter in memory, and the gnomes' very existence is in danger. Eager to help, Queen Fjellrose betrays one of their strictest rules and goes out looking for the Blue Horn, a magical instrument that can alter the weather.
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, light
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: imaginary, heroes, danger, imaginary kingdom, save the kingdom, escapades, young heroes, youth, prophecy, strong female character, princess, strong female lead ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Secret of Moonacre (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hungary, UK, France, Australia, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, sentimental, captivating, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, young heroes, orphan, imaginary, teenage life, family relations, youth, curses spells and rituals, magic spell, estate, rivalry, heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, puppet, friendship, youth, escapades, imaginary, mischievous children, heroes, innocence lost, danger, friends ...
Time: year 1996
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 137
Yellow Day (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yellow Day chronicles a young man's life-changing and inspirational journey through the mysterious Yellow Day. To many, the Yellow Day is simply a fun day celebrating outreach at a kid's camp, but to some, God bestows visions and miracles, ...
Style: stylized, feel good, surreal, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: teenage life, looking for love, youth, love and romance, escapades, camp, christian, imaginary, journey, girl, young
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Legend of Tillamook's Gold (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Julie, a lonely fourteen year old girl, moves to Manzanita, an Oregon seaside town, from Los Angeles after her writer father, Robert, loses his job. Her family, including mother Kathryn and older sister Susan, has trouble adjusting to life in a ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, light, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: treasure hunt, family relations, ancient mystery, adventurer, family life, haunted by the past, small town, youth, young heroes, escapades, coming of age, danger ...
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Spiderwebhouse (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Jonas’ mother leaves to “fight her demons”, he steps up as head of the household, becoming the unofficial guardian to his younger siblings. With food and money running out, the children retreat into a world of their own where, ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: youth, child in peril, child as adult, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, isolation, family in crisis, family problems, life turned upside down, family relations, danger, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Blue Bird (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, light, folk tale, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: surrealism, obsessive quest, family relations, imaginary, self discovery, youth, afterlife, escapades, young heroes, siblings relations, imaginary kingdom, fate ...
Time: year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Beauty and the Beast (1987)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.
Style: fairy tale, heartfelt, mysterious, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids, date night
Plot: beauty, beauty and the beast, magical, castle, forest, beast, imaginary, love and romance, opposites attract, danger, unlikely couple, escapades ...
Time: 16th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Hansel & Gretel (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hansel and Gretel is a 2002 film adaptation of the Brothers Grimm children's story. It stars Jacob Smith and Taylor Momsen as the eponymous characters. It includes the Sandman, played by Howie Mandel and Sinbad as a raven.
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, whimsical
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: witch, adventurer, forest, good versus evil, young heroes, escapades, danger, siblings relations, troll, evil stepmother, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Red Riding Hood (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The high spirited daughter of the village lord and her mother have been living in the forest for seven years near her wise grandmother. They wait for her father to come home, meanwhile, her literally heartless uncle rules. He sells his soul for the ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, grindhouse, independent film, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, magical, twins, self discovery, friends, family relations, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, legends and myths, woman in danger, siblings relations, parallel world ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of ...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, adventurer, young heroes, danger, escapades, legends and myths, friends, disorder, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, adventure hero, magic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious, stylized ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: school, discrimination, escapades, missing person, siblings relations, solace, family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, apprentice, mother daughter relationship, strong female character ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Tales from the Neverending Story (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 375 min.
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Story: Twelve-year-old Bastian Balthazar Bux had lost the wonderful imagination he had as a child somewhere between growing older, watching TV, going to school and playing with his Gameboy. But when his mother dies suddenly, Bastian's limitless ...
Style: touching, stylized, feel good, semi serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, heroic mission, young heroes, empress, save the kingdom, self fulfillment, self discovery, danger, escapades, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Bye Bye, Red Riding Hood (1989)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Hungary
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has three encounters that will change her life forever: an apparently kind and gentle wolf, a city boy ...
Style: fairy tale, serious, thought provoking, psycho sexual
Audience: family outing
Plot: woman, little red riding hood, woods, woman in danger, village, legends and myths, social differences, imaginary, fighting the system, dangerous animal, youth, feminism ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed "Two-Two" for having to say things twice to be heard. One day, he decided to buy the groceries for his parents. There is a misunderstanding ...
Style: independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: youth, store, prison, island, family relations, death in the family, showbiz, single parent, losing-it hero, escapades, on the run, heroes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.0
 292
Monster Makers (2003)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Monster Makers is based on Tim Stoker's experience as a Monster movie geek. The monsters in an old non released movie come out of the movie and Tim and his friends in the real world must find a way to stop the monsters.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: youth, save the day, young heroes, supernatural, disorder, family relations, parents and children, danger, escapades, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, prank ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.1
 762
Puss in Boots (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A cat belonging to a poor miller's son thinks up a great plan for bringing a title, wealth, and marriage for his owner. He begins to carry it out, using a few birds and rabbits as gifts for the king, his own wit, and a pair of boots that make ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, semi serious, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: magical, mermaid, theater, ogre, partner, love and romance, escapades, unlikely partners, fall in love, imaginary, friends, family relations ...
Time: 18th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 589
Magic Silver (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Princess Bluerose is a small gnome living deep in the Norwegian mountains. A small community of gnomes is responsible for making the transition between daylight and night. This is called the magic hour, and is created by the magic silver which only ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, captivating, exciting, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: young heroes, imaginary kingdom, danger, escapades, fairy, courage, prophecy, save the day, supernatural, pursuit, friendship, journey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Magic Journey to Africa (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jana’s magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination. It is a spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids, full of mysteries, adventures and discoveries
Style: semi serious, captivating, sincere, light, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, youth, animal life, young heroes, escapades, friends, legends and myths, journey, supernatural, imaginary, girl, young
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, touching, feel good
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: coal mining, pony, coming of age, bike, girl horse relationship, friendship, child as adult, escapades, youth, good versus evil, fighting the system, danger ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: yorkshire, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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