Movies like Shapeshifter 1999

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Shapeshifter (1999)
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Shapeshifter (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Alex Brown inherits the awesome task of saving his ex-secret agent parents and protecting the planet from evil powers bent on controlling the world's plutonium supply. To do this Alex uses his new found magical shapeshifting power.
Style: exciting, serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: mind power, brain, psychokinesis, shapeshifting, psychic power, spy, gypsy, plutonium, heroes, supernatural, youth, kidnapping, wizards and magicians, rescue, family relations, profanity, supernatural ability, teenage life, escapades, rivalry, danger, imaginary, good versus evil, superhuman powers, young heroes ...
Place: romania

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, exciting, humorous and captivating films with plots about escapades, youth, imaginary, danger, young heroes, heroes and good versus evil mostly in Family, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Shapeshifter: My Secret Identity (1988), The Secret Kingdom (1998), A Wrinkle in Time (2003), The Evermoor Chronicles (2014), Mystery Monsters (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Secret Identity (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: superhero, missing person, high school, disorder, family relations, radiation, danger, youth, young heroes, save the day, imaginary, heroes ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1991 ...
Place: north dakota, usa, canada
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100%
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 ⇓
67%
The Secret Kingdom (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three kids discover a tiny kingdom beneath their kitchen sink and are drawn inside, becoming involved with the miniature world's civil war.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: time travel, youth, magical creature, shrinking, revolution, family relations, rivalry, young heroes, good versus evil, danger, heroes, corrupted ruler ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 251 min.
Story: Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, spiritual, psychotronic
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: guardian angel, youth, good versus evil, time travel, space and aliens, supernatural, parallel world, heroic mission, daring rescue, young heroes, escapades, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Evermoor Chronicles (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A young girl and her blended family move to the small cottage town of Evermoor. All is well until sinister things start to happen, magic tapestries, an enchanted typewriter. Only a few of the strange things found in the town of Evermoor.
Style: enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: good versus evil, young heroes, danger, wizards and magicians, teenage life, village, supernatural, witch, magic, escapades, family relations, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Mystery Monsters (1997)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special effects crew gets the monsters to work. Imagine his surprise when he discovers ...
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, horror comedy
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: puppet, monster, guts, little creatures, creature, youth, profanity, disorder, save the day, evil alien, escapades, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Light in the Forest (2003)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Britta, the new girl in school Highland, has reason to be jubilant this Christmas: Her sadness has served to invoke Holly Boy, the holiday spirit, waking him from his deep slumber imposed by a dark elf, King Otto. This sets off a battle earthly and ...
Style: exciting, light, captivating, contemplative, offbeat
Audience: family outing
Plot: teenage life, good versus evil, rivalry, school, danger, contests and competitions, family life, supernatural, escapades, family relations, youth, wizards and magicians ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Body Troopers (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A little kid shrinks himselfs so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.
Style: cult classic, exciting, surreal, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, friends, chase, young heroes, heroes, save the day, escapades, danger, chases and races, heroic mission, boy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: friends, love affair, exploitation, kids and family, family relations, travel, disorder, orphan, imaginary, rivalry, danger, rescue ...
Place: australia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Up, Up, and Away! (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A boy is the only family member without superpowers in this Disney Film. The world depends on him saving his family from computerized brainwashers. Will he realize that it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero in time to help them defeat the ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: youth, good versus evil, save the day, young heroes, daring rescue, master villain, danger, escapades, rivalry, eccentric family, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: Ben tenison is back in this all new Comedy Central, Movie, Based on the current Alien Force story. Alien swarm picks up with Ben 10 as a full fledged plumber but he's about to leave the ranks to do what he believes is right.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, fast ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: superhero, heroes, space and aliens, good versus evil, heroic mission, young heroes, save the world, ben 10, imaginary, escapades, rivalry, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this sequal to "Escape From Witch Mountain," Tia and Tony leave their safe refuge on witch mountain for a trip to Los Angeles. Tony is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Gannon and his spinster partner Letha and brainwashed into helping Gannon ...
Style: humorous, saga, epic, gothic, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: alien, boy, kidnapping, mad scientist, witch, supernatural, greed, gang, ufo, intergalactic, siblings, psychic ...
Time: year 1978
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Soviet Union, Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story: They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real ...
Style: fairy tale, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, orphan, good versus evil, danger, heroes, supernatural, parallel world, hopes, rivalry, daring rescue, kidnapping, heroic mission ...
Place: ussr, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Witches Don't Exist (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On her 13th birthday Katie, a talented young girl, receives a magical amulet. This amulet was on a quest to find the fifth and last witch to complete the order of the star witches. Because in it's incomplete form, the order is unable to protect ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, exciting, captivating, spooky
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: witch, magic, best friend, amulet, supernatural, young heroes, good versus evil, rivalry, youth, escapades, wizards and magicians, fantasy world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Beyond (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the final days of WWII, chaos ruled. The German submarine U-461 went down along with its entire crew just off the coast of Denmark. U-461 however, was no ordinary submarine. 50 years after the war ended, two brothers go scuba diving for fun ...
Style: serious, exciting, sincere, captivating
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: youth, submarine, diving, adventurer, young heroes, danger, supernatural, escapades, rescue, save the day, family relations, unstoppable ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Spellbinder (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Spellbinder is a fantasy teen drama/science fiction television series, produced by Film Australia & Telewizja Polska in association with the Australian Children's Television Foundation. The series is a 1995 serial of 26 episodes, ...
Style: exciting, tense, semi serious, captivating, humorous
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen fantasy
Plot: parallel world, danger, teenager, technology, young heroes, friendship, getting home, imaginary, youth, escapades, disorder, time travel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Power Rangers Mega Force (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: When the evil Warstar aliens attack Earth, the supernatural guardian Gosei and his faithful robot assistant Tensou recruit five teenagers with attitude to combat the invading forces. Equipped with powers that grant them mastery over martial arts and ...
Style: super sentai, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: power rangers, space and aliens, partner, imaginary, rivalry, danger, good versus evil, supernatural ability, heroes, escapades, supernatural, recruit ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Castle Ra-Tim-Bum (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young wizard must create new spells in his magic book before the planets align. His uncle and aunt, powerful mages themselves, help him achieve that. Based on the award-winning Brazilian TV series.
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: family relations, curses spells and rituals, family life, eccentric family, wizards and magicians, supernatural, danger, young heroes, supernatural ability, heroes, escapades, imaginary ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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 ⇓
36%
The Legend of Galgameth (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The kingdom of Donnegold is being subverted from within, and young prince Davin must defend against the traitors with the help of a legendary, metal-eating dragon called Galgameth.
Style: daikaiju, fairy tale, independent film, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, medieval, true love, creature, batman, monster, wizard, family relations, friends, hopes, buddies ...
Time: middle ages
Place: romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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 ⇓
36%
The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: The Russo family and friends are headed to Tuscany, Italy, to meet their long lost relatives... but when Alex tries to prove she's more than a seemingly carefree young Wizard, she inadvertently conjures a spell that creates a Good Alex and an ...
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: good versus evil, wizards and magicians, family reunited, young heroes, supernatural ability, save the world, family relations, save the day, escapades, youth, curses spells and rituals, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue ...
Style: semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: time travel, friendship, family relations, friends, disorder, imaginary, danger, youth, rescue, race against time, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Antboy (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 77 min.
Story: 12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy. Slowly things start to happen in the surburban ...
Style: humorous, exciting, captivating, light, tense ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: youth, superhuman powers, superhero, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, coming of age, master villain, imaginary, laboratory, boy, comic book ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.4
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Zoom (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action by the government, Jack is tasked with turning a ragtag group of kids with special powers into ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: superhero, teenage superhero, high school, fight scenes, save the world, good versus evil, invisible man, comic book, space travel, friendship, superhero team, female hero ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Every hundred years, the evil sorceress Morgana returns to claim Fingall's talisman from Merlin, with which she intends to destroy the world. For the last fourteen hundred years she has failed... now she intends to conquer all. Young Ben Clark ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, exciting, arthurian, colorful ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: legend, time travel, superhuman powers, save the world, heroes, good versus evil, wizards and magicians, escapades, imaginary, danger, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Under the Mountain (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland's volcanoes.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: wizards and magicians, alien, young heroes, good versus evil, save the world, heroes, teenage life, siblings relations, alien invasion, alien disguised as human, disaster, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate ...
Style: exciting, epic, entertaining, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen fantasy ...
Plot: mythology, greek mythology, supernatural, legends and myths, good versus evil, demi god, monster, teenage life, centaur, greek god, young heroes, half breed ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: empire state building manhattan new york city, las vegas, tennessee, ancient greece, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: "Ben 10: Race Against Time" has Ben back in his hometown of Bellwood. Even though he's back in school and leaving his hero adventures behind him, it seems that Ben will be facing his greatest challenge yet.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: race against time, heroic mission, young heroes, ben 10, rescue, escapades, good versus evil, master villain, superhuman powers, save the world, danger, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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 ⇓
33%
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