Movies like Durango Kids
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Durango Kids (1999)
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two of the town's youngest private detectives, Tim and his younger brother Nick, have the biggest case of their lives on their hands. A mysterious litle man leaves a suspicious package for the brothers to guard with their lives when, mysteriously, the dwarf-like man disappears and the police want answers! Stars Curtis Williams, Christina Milian, Berndon Ryan Barrett and Austin Nichols. When four preteen kids discover a hidden mine shaft, it transports them back in time to the Old West. There, they encounter all sorts of danger and adventure in their pursuit of a lost treasure--a treasure which their greedy school principal is also trying to get his hands on!
Style:
humorous, feel good, suspenseful, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
time travel, old west, adventure, youth, treasure hunt, family, heroes, misfit, family life, imaginary, mischievous children, escapades, criminal heroes, disorder, rivalry, rescue, americana, young heroes, school, bank robbery, ghost, children, train, doctor, bicycle ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
colorado
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, feel good and exciting films with plots about family, escapades, youth, adventure, young heroes, heroes and imaginary mostly in Family, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Durango Kids: Escape to Grizzly Mountain (2000), One Little Indian (1973), Kids World (2001), The Nutcracker (1993), Dog Gone (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jimmy, a young boy trying to gain acceptance from his peers, is horrified when he sees a circus trainer abusing a bear cub. One of the circus employees tells Jimmy that there is a magic cave in the hills nearby that can transport people to another ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, surprise ending
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
circus, time travel, wilderness, grizzly bear, rescue, young heroes, heroes, adventure, survival, animal life, escapades, youth ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An Army deserter (James Garner) flees by camel across the desert with a white boy (Clay O'Brien) raised by Indians.
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semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
on the run, native american, partners, chase, escapades, soldier, chases and races, family, opposites attract, adventure, old west, countryside ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
What would you wish for if you were eleven and could have anything in the world? Your parents don't understand you. Your teenage brother is constantly getting you in trouble...for things he did! You're in love with the twelve-year-old girl ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, suspense
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
adventure, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, teenage life, experiment gone awry, child as adult, best friends, youth, disorder, family life, wish come true ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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:
legends and myths, danger, adventure, imaginary, good versus evil, heroes, youth, family, young heroes, wizards and magicians, birthday, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie falls asleep and dreams herself into a fantastic world in which her toys become larger than life. She meets up with the Nutcracker Prince who takes her on a journey to his kingdom and defends her from the ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, stylized, humorous, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
ballet, danger, family, young heroes, rescue, family relations, disorder, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, escapades, christmas movie, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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708
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
caper, dog, rescue, disorder, rivalry, escapades, crime gone awry, adventure, stash, heist, odd couple, nothing goes right ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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:
stylized, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
teleportation, animals, teenager, animal, train, kidnapping, dinosaur, puppet, teen angst, teenage life, computers and web, time travel ...
Time:
stone age, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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, pre-teens
Plot:
ghost, adventure, supernatural, youth, escapades, small town, family, small town life, danger, palaces castles and temples, social relations, heroes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, offbeat ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
wish fulfillment, adventure, heroes, young heroes, mischievous children, youth, disorder, rivalry, danger, supernatural, parents and children, fish out of water ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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, fairy tale, captivating, sincere
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
young heroes, imaginary kingdom, adventure, heroic mission, good versus evil, rescue, daring rescue, escapades, rivalry, youth, danger, hopes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The search for a mystical pony in Ireland.
Style:
semi serious, offbeat, humorous, feel good
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
family relations, misfit, countryside, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, wish come true, friendship, family life, village life, village, legends and myths, fish out of water ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.
Style:
feel good, exciting, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
young heroes, youth, rescue, family, danger, escapades, adventure, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, queen, king, goblin ...
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55%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father ...
Style:
stylized, entertaining, sentimental, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
adventure, good versus evil, family, heroic mission, treasure hunt, adventurer, daring rescue, imaginary, young heroes, on the run, rescue, rivalry ...
Time:
1900s
Place:
texas, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Broadway musical adaptation of the fabled children's story.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, exciting, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
pirate, young heroes, adventurer, heroes, good versus evil, adventure, adolescence vs adulthood, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, escapades, youth, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
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, scary ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
save the day, young heroes, supernatural, adventure, danger, youth, supernatural ability, family, escapades, parents and children, disorder, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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:
humorous, sentimental, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
ghost, friendship, misfit, young heroes, family, mischievous children, youth, hopes, supernatural, friends, family relations, disorder ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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:
stylized, humorous, exciting
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
time travel, painting, lightning, jewel, jewelry, escapades, imaginary, rivalry, wizards and magicians, teleportation, village life, siblings relations ...
Time:
17th century, 1600s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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:
touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
friends, family relations, miniaturization, part animation, wish come true, disorder, rescue, family, danger, imaginary, heroes, memory loss ...
Place:
australia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Following in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful The Sound of Music LIVE! - which drew over 18 million viewers - comes this musical masterpiece that tells the beloved story of Peter Pan, the mischievous little boy who ran away to Neverland. ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, exciting, fairy tale, captivating
Audience:
family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
pirate, adventurer, young heroes, mischievous children, good versus evil, heroes, friendship, disorder, imaginary, escapades, danger, adolescence vs adulthood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Arthur unwittingly discovers the secret to stopping an evil dragon who threatens to destroy all civilization.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, exciting, light
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dragon, teenage life, imaginary, young heroes, adventure, heroes, danger, escapades, best friends, friends, school, family ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Fantasy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading ...
Style:
offbeat, semi serious, feel good, humorous
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family outing, kids, pre-teens
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46%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While sketching one day, 13 year old Jo encounters a mysterious art dealer who buys a few of her drawings and commissions her to do some more. Some time thereafter she reads a news story about a million dollar sale of some drawings of a young ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time travel, crimes, heroes, forgery, hopes, dishonesty, adventure, performer's life, cons and scams, family, imaginary, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
amsterdam, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the ...
Style:
exciting, epic, suspenseful, stylized, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time travel, adventure, heroic mission, young heroes, heroes, escapades, rivalry, youth, danger, race against time, rescue, imaginary ...
Time:
middle ages, 13th century, 21st century, 2000s
Place:
holy land, middle east, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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:
feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
love and romance, escapades, youth, family, betrayal, friends, family relations, heroic mission, true love, cinderella story, teenage life, imaginary kingdom ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
europe, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A young boy finds a crate of green beans. When they're planted, they grow a beanstalk to the clouds, where a castle of giants are habited.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
small town, giant, mischievous children, young heroes, danger, save the day, chases and races, family, escapades, heroes, youth, adventure ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Luke Malloy is freaking out. He doesn't want tomorrow to come because tomorrow means starting Middle School...saying goodbye to summer break and hello to homework. And even worse, hello to getting picked on by Meat, the terrible torturer of new ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining, light
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, date night, pre-teens
Plot:
time loop, skateboarding, summer, boy, introspection, youth, young heroes, teenage life, friends, hopes, mischievous children, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"Pirates of the Plain" details the adventure of Jezebel Jack, a pirate with a heart of gold that is sent to the future where he meets Bobby, a young boy with an overactive imagination.
Style:
humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
heroes, pirate, adventurer, heroic mission, family, escapades, adventure, youth, danger, young heroes, rescue, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, 20th century
Place:
nebraska, usa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jack Carlisle is a disillusioned 13-year old boy. His mother is always away at work since his father left. He decides to run away, as his mom won't miss him. As he is ready to leave, his nanny, convinces him to read this 'magic book'. ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
mermaid, island, treasure map, nanny, pirate, family, imaginary, child in peril, parents and children, imaginary kingdom, teenage life, fall in love ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anything is possible when the Professor tells Tim about a supernova that grants wishes. Unfortunately, when Tim's wish doesn't go as planned, he finds himself in a dog's body!
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, exciting
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
mischievous children, adventure, wish come true, escapades, heroes, treasure hunt, danger, family life, hopes, daring rescue, child as adult, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This holiday-themed children's film offers a unique take on the legend of Santa Claus and his tiny reindeer. In this movie, a young boy finds a deer in the forest he is sure is Santa's beloved Prancer. Determined to return the creature to ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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