Movies like The Canterville Ghost 1996

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The Canterville Ghost (1996)
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The Canterville Ghost (1996)
Genre: Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back home, and her dad, believing the ghost's pranks are Ginny's, is ready to send her back. But then Ginny actually meets the elusive 17th-century Sir Simon de Canterville (not to mention the cute teenaged duke next door), and she sets her hand to the task of freeing Sir Simon from his curse.
Style: spooky, captivating, semi serious, baroque
Audience: family outing
Plot: curse, ghost, magical, batman, paranormal, prank, meme, literary, friendship, family relations, haunted house, redemption, supernatural, youth, friends, supernatural ability, teenage life, escapades, estate, curses spells and rituals, teenager, village, castle, book, church ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, feel good and captivating films with plots about youth, family relations, supernatural, friendship, ghost, magic and supernatural power mostly in Fantasy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like The Canterville Ghost: A Christmas Carol (1984), The Haunted Mansion (2003), Susie Q (1996), A Christmas Carol (1999), Casper (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Christmas Carol (1984)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
Style: touching, atmospheric, sentimental, christmas classics, christmas horror ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, scrooge, miser, holiday, christmas carol, ghost, charles dickens, happy ending, xmas, business, afterlife, christian ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, 1840s
Place: england, europe, london
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The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner, Sara get a call one night from mansion owner, Edward Gracey wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrive at the mansion a butler takes them to dine with Gracey. Gracey takes one look at ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, stylized, gothic, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, kids, pre-teens ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, magic, secret passageway, family relations, supernatural, danger, haunted, curses spells and rituals, escapades, children, reincarnation ...
Time: year 2003, victorian era, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Canterville Ghost (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. The only way he can escape is if one of his descendants performs an ...
Style: creepy, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: ghost, castle, halloween, youth, old dark house, haunted house, supernatural, curse, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, curses spells and rituals, chaos and mayhem, heroes ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Susie Q (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Susie Q was going to a dance one night when she and her boyfriend got into a car crash and fell off a bridge. Years later, a teenager named Zach Sands moves into Susie's old house. Zach's father died in a car accident so his family is his ...
Style: teen, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: ghost, reincarnation, teenager, high school, supernatural, batman, adolescence, car crash, basketball, afterlife, friends, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 1950s, year 1995, 50s, year 1955
Place: washington d.c., washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Christmas Carol (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge ...
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, christmas horror, gothic horror, semi serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, scrooge, ghost, miser, redemption, regret, christmas carol, holiday, clerk, benefactor, transformation, charles dickens ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, future, 1800s
Place: turkey, 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
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Beetlejuice (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the ...
Style: gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: afterlife, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, surrealism, dark humor, goth, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, monster, seance, attic ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: america, usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
22%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home. He enlists the aid of a woman and her ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, xmas, oil, youth, new year, brother brother relationship, arctic, father son relationship, north pole, santa claus, saving christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Brother the Pig (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: If you act like an animal, you just may become one!
Style: independent film, humorous, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, nanny, animal life, disorder, prank, danger, mischievous children, ghost, family life, curses spells and rituals, teenage life ...
Place: latin america, france, europe, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Secret Garden (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style: costume drama, touching, feel good, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, beautiful scenery, friendship, little girl, children, secret, mansion, old mansion ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 90s ...
Place: india, england, britain, eastern europe, africa ...
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20%
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The Lamp (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Suffering from the loss of his only child, Stanley has secluded himself to a dark and lonely place. Sullen and without hope, he continues to hide from and neglect those he loves despite their attempts to reach out to him. In what seems to be the ...
Style: sincere, light, thought provoking, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: genie, hopes, introspection, self discovery, wish come true, mysterious character, miraculous event, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, curses spells and rituals, life turned upside down ...
Place: london, england, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Last Keepers (2013)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: captivating, disturbing, entertaining, light, serious ...
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The Dust Factory (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ryan is a teenager who lacks the ability to speak. One day, Ryan falls off a bridge and he finds himself transported to a strange fantasy world where he encounters his Grandpa Randolph (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and a pretty girl named Melanie (Hayden ...
Style: touching, semi serious, sad, teen
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: youth, afterlife, teenage life, young heroes, friendship, self discovery, grandparent grandchild relationship, introspection, road not taken, destiny, adolescence vs adulthood, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Christmas Spirit (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cynical youth whose mother is about to lose her job right before the holidays is visited by a magical Christmas spirit.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, family life, youth, family relations, unemployment, parents and children, supernatural, friendship, miraculous event, dog, stupid kid, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, spooky, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: ghost, youth, supernatural, parents and children, disorder, teenage life, haunted house, starting over, family relations, pets, family life, afterlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Namiya (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Based on Keigo Higashino's international bestseller The Miracles of the Namiya General Store comes director Han Jie's take on the fantastical novel. TFBoys' Karry Wang stars as Xiao Bo, one of three orphans on the run who take refuge ...
Style: captivating, psychological, contemplative, sincere, unusual plot structure
Plot: friendship, memory, time loop, supernatural, time portal, family relations, time travel, society, escapades, friends, youth, changing the past or future ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters. And he is not disappointed.
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, parody ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: werewolf, vampire, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, imaginary, escapades, siblings relations, family relations, disorder, save the day, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: romania, europe, usa
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18%
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The Craft (1996)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
Style: gothic, teen, dark, satanic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, magic, high school, witchcraft, bullying, goth, black magic, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of Blue Owls (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Poor Bibi - due to her bad marks in maths she has to spend the whole summer in the boarding school of Altenberg to scrape through a series of exams - otherwise she'd stay down in school, being forced to repeat the year. No camping, no ...
Style: semi serious, entertaining, captivating, spooky
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: teenage life, supernatural ability, friendship, friends, curses spells and rituals, witch, mischievous children, teenage witch, imaginary, boarding school, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.
Style: light, exciting, intense, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: supernatural ability, good versus evil, chosen one, coming of age, time travel, heroic mission, mythology, young heroes, supernatural, transformation, boy, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 17th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Secret Garden (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven. She meets her sickly cousin Colin and the two children find a wondrous ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, sentimental, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: orphan, imagination, estate, old mansion, secret, curse, flowers, gardening, mansion, true love, child, garden ...
Time: 2020s, 1940s, year 1947, 19th century, post world war two
Place: yorkshire, england, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Little Ghost (2013)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Little Ghost lives in the castle over looking a small town and awakens for precisely one hour after the clock strikes midnight. Follow him on this adventure to see his first sunrise ever!
Style: humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: ghost, youth, supernatural, coming of age, escapades, small town, small town life, life after death, young heroes, social relations, kids in trouble, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Smitty (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a ...
Style: sincere, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, pets, coming of age, single parent, farm, dog, redemption, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, friends ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Good Witch's Family (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young witch visits her cousin in a small town during a heated mayoral election race. Her kind-hearted cousin, the town’s beloved “good witch” and newlywed with two teenage step-kids, is running for office, but must keep her family from ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, saga
Audience: family outing
Plot: supernatural, good witch, eccentric family, supernatural ability, family relations, nothing goes right, family life, curses spells and rituals, magic, witch, witchcraft, psychic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: fairy, childhood, children, writers, world war one, friendship, beautiful scenery, pagan, family relations, miraculous event, supernatural ability, hopes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1917, 1900s
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, yorkshire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Good Witch's Wonder (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Cassie Nightingale (Bell) finds herself with only days to plan her stepson Brandon's (Knight) wedding to Tara (Leggat) when the happy couple unexpectedly pushes up the date for their big day. Meanwhile, Martha (Disher), the newly elected mayor ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, touching
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: good witch, uncover truth, friendship, family relations, small town, supernatural, witch, psychic, clairvoyant, wedding, christmas, magic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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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 ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
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