Movies and TV shows like Dinotopia 2002

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Dinotopia (2002)
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Dinotopia (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Frank Scott, a wealthy American, crashes his plane into the Caribbean. His two teenaged sons, Karl and David, survive, only to find themselves castaways on Dinotopia. Karl and David are constantly at odds, even as they struggle to adjust to life in their strange new world where talking dinosaurs live side by side in an uneasy alliance with humans.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, spiritual, offbeat
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, danger, survival, escapades, siblings relations, utopia, lost world, island, misfit, gang, supernatural power, marooned, love interest, talking animal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, air disaster, criminal, prehistoric creature, pluto, reptiles, lost civilization, airplane crash, heroes, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: medieval times
Place: fictional island
Keyword: preschoolers, short lived

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, semi serious, humorous and captivating films and TV series with plots about escapades, danger, heroes, dinosaur, youth, imaginary and family relations mostly in Adventure, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Dinotopia: Prehysteria! (1993), Land of the Lost (1974), The Lost World (2001), Fantasy Island (1977), My Secret Identity (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dinotopia (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 250 min.
TV show
Story: Carl and David, two boys flying a small aircraft over the ocean with their father, crash land near an uncharted island. The boys swim safely to shore, but their father unfortunately drowns in the crash. On their own, the brothers explore the island ...
Style: serious, exciting, feel good, colorful, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, utopia, giant creature, expedition, island, dangerous animal, sibling rivalry, family relations, human animal relationship, imaginary kingdom, tyrannosaurus rex, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: fictional island
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Prehysteria! (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young boy and his family embark on a series of adventures when the boy finds some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, humorous, feel good, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, single parent, kaiju, stop motion, prehistoric animal, giant monster, kids and family, monster, family relations, museum, youth, heroes ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1993, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Côte d'Ivoire
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
Style: serious, weird
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, lost world, kaiju, giant monster, reptiles, monster, giant creature, prehistoric creature, explorer, jungle adventure, expedition ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1985, 80s, prehistory
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Land of the Lost (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly were on a weekend expedition rafting trough a river when an enormous earthquake diverts them to an eclectic alien world inhabited by dinosaurs, chimpanzee-like cavemen called Pakuni, and aggressive, ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, stylized, epic fantasy ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, lost civilization, cave woman, tyrannosaurus rex, prehistoric animal, alternate reality, reptiles, magic, kaiju, prehistoric creature, pop culture, fish out of water ...
Time: prehistory, 70s, prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
Style: gothic horror, epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: pre-teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teens
Plot: dinosaur, archaeologist, imaginary kingdom, reptiles, prehistoric creature, lost world, steampunk, underground, kaiju, explorer, monster, prehistoric animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, 19th century, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Lost World (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, psychotronic, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: jungle, dinosaur, dangerous animal, rivalry, adventurer, escapades, heroic mission, danger, love triangle, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, giant monster ...
Time: 1900s, prehistoric times, 20th century, 1910s
Place: south america, brazil, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fantasy Island (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.
Style: semi serious, feel good, anthology, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resort, wish come true, adventurer, dream come true, escapades, mysterious place, magic, exotic locale, occult, hotel, intelligence agency, self discovery ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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Voyagers! (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Voyagers! is an American science fiction time travel-based television series that aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season. The series stars Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce.
Style: exciting, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: time machine, time travel, paradox, anarchist, super powers, youth, time, alternate history, righting the wronged, adventurer, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: europe, france
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100%
The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
Style: exciting, humorous, stylized, mockbuster, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, boys' night, family outing, kids
Plot: dinosaur, lost world, island, survival, disorder, missing person, isolation, forces of nature, chases and races, supernatural, adventurer, escapades ...
Time: prehistory
Place: fictional island
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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, kaiju, animal, puppet, kidnapping, prehistoric animal, giant monster, heroes, imaginary, youth, danger, space and aliens ...
Time: prehistory, 1900s, prehistoric times, stone age
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Dinosapien (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Dinosapien is a British/Canadian children's television program produced jointly by BBC Worldwide and Cambium Catalyst International with SEVEN24 Films. Overall 15 episodes were made, each 21 and half minutes long. The series is filmed in Bragg ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, young heroes, parents and children, escapades, family relations, friendship, youth, danger, imaginary, dangerous animal, friends, animal life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Power Rangers Dino Charge (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: On prehistoric Earth, an alien entrusted powerful Energems to 10 dinosaurs, but when the dinosaurs went extinct, the Energems were lost. Now an intergalactic bounty hunter is determined to reclaim the Energems and destroy our planet. A new team of ...
Style: exciting, super sentai, suspenseful, semi serious, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: power rangers, space and aliens, escapades, heroic mission, save the world, danger, imaginary, partner, rivalry, young heroes, youth, heroes ...
Time: 2010s
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Dino Dan (2010)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: Join paleontologist-in-training Dan Henderson as he takes kids on a Jurassic journey to the land where lizards were as long as three school buses and terrifying T-Rex’s ruled.
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, friendship, imaginary, parents and children, suburbs, escapades, animal life, youth, family relations, society, mischievous children, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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Power Rangers DinoThunder (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: An eccentric scientist and his partner, veteran Power Ranger Dr. Tommy Oliver, have created Dinosaur like robots called Bio Zords. After their laboratory is attacked by the evil Mesogog, Tommy narrowly escapes and retreats to the nearby city of ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, super sentai ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: power rangers, robot, good versus evil, heroes, monster, partner, young heroes, save the world, androids and robots, superhuman powers, teenage life, secret identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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31%
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The Zack Files (2000)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: The Zack Files is a science fiction television program that revolves around a young boy, played by Robert Clark, who is a magnet for paranormal activity and attends Horace White High School for Boys along with his three friends Cam, Gwen, and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, offbeat
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: youth, supernatural, supernatural power, young heroes, teenage life, buddies, supernatural ability, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, childhood love, family relations, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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31%
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Dinosaurs (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
Style: sitcom, humorous, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, adult
Plot: dinosaur, puppet, eccentric family, mischievous children, workplace situations, everyday life, parents and children, boss and employee, society, disorder, stupidity, anthropomorphism ...
Time: 90s, prehistory, 20th century, prehistoric times
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30%
The Lost World (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Premiered in the fall of 1999, it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a ...
Style: scary, serious, stylized, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: lost world, dinosaur, dangerous animal, jungle, expedition, exploration, adventurer, time travel, monster, supernatural, stranded, imaginary ...
Time: prehistory
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Land of the Lost (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Land of the Lost is a half-hour Saturday-morning children's series that debuted on ABC in the fall of 1991. Re-runs were later picked up by Nickelodeon. Tiger Toys received the license to produce a toyline based on the series, which included ...
Style: retro
Audience: kids
Plot: dinosaur, portal, volcano, family relations, parallel universe, lost world, teenager, prehistoric animal, missing person, reptiles, kaiju, prehistoric creature ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory
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30%
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Five teenagers must locate and secure ancient relics with unbelievable power, while at the same time stop a demonic corporation who want the relics for their power.
Style: exciting, semi serious, stylized, captivating, fast ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: power rangers, heroes, save the day, rivalry, secret identity, young heroes, corporate crime, partner, danger, escapades, chases and races, superhuman powers ...
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The Troop (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The Troop is an American-Canadian live-action, single camera comedy-adventure television series about a trio of teenagers who fight and capture monsters and other supernatural phenomena that invade the fictional town of Lakewood. Created and ...
Style: humorous, exciting, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: supernatural, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, young heroes, youth, danger, friendship, teachers and students, parallel world, high school, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
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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 ...
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A Knight in Camelot (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: time travel, heroic mission, legends and myths, imaginary, good versus evil, arthurian legend, escapades, friendship, rivalry, disorder, fish out of water, heroes ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages
Place: england, europe, usa, connecticut
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The Jim Henson Hour (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The Jim Henson Hour is a short-lived television series that aired on NBC in 1989. It was developed as a showcase for The Jim Henson Company's various puppet creations, including the popular Muppet characters. Only nine of the twelve episodes ...
Style: anthology, exciting, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: puppet, muppets, sesame street, heroes, escapades, ambition, danger, buddies, workplace, disorder, toys, friends ...
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Barney's Animal ABCs (2008)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Barney and his friends are playing a game and finding an animal for each letter of the alphabet, and everyone is excited to give it a try.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat, educational
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: friendship, disorder, youth, misfit, escapades, animal life, animal that acts human, friends, tyrannosaurus rex, dinosaur
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Ocean Girl (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual girl named Neri who lives alone on an island, and the ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, stylized
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: human animal relationship, female protagonist, underwater, mermaid, environmentalism, family relations, teenage life, boat, monster, ship, animal, water ...
Time: future
Place: australia, egypt
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Unnatural History (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Teenager Henry Griffin acquired many skills through years of travelling the world with his anthropologist parents. Sent to live with his uncle and cousin in Washington DC, and with the help of his cousin Jasper and friend Maggie, he must now use ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: high school, teenage life, friendship, danger, social relations, escapades, teen superhero, supernatural, anthropologist, magic, high school life, artifact ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
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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 ⇓
29%
The Sparticle Mystery (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: An experiment gone wrong causes everyone over the age of 15 to disappear from planet Earth.
Style: exciting, bleak, rough, suspenseful, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: parallel world, teenage life, supernatural ability, danger, heroes, escapades, grownups, save the world, survival, dystopia, youth, missing child ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Power Rangers Jungle Fury (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Casey, Theo and Lily are at a loss when Camille, Dai Shi's second in command, employs the powerful Pangolin to launch an assault against the city in preparation for the resurrection of Carnisoar, the Sky Overlord. When they realize that the ...
Style: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, super sentai ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, teen fantasy
Plot: power rangers, good versus evil, martial arts, chaos, escapades, danger, androids and robots, save the day, secret identity, wizards and magicians, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals ...
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