Movies like George of the Jungle
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George of the Jungle (1997)
89K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of human relationships, while Ursula's lover Lyle is looking for her and the one who took her. After they are found, Ursula takes George to the USA.
Style:
parody, slapstick comedy, humorous, spoof, slapstick, feel good, semi serious, funny, light, absurd ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
jungle, fish out of water, childhood, jungle adventure, gorilla, tarzan, monkey, happy ending, elephant, heiress, beefcake, bully comeuppance, rescue, goofy hero, friendship, profanity, lion, treasure hunt, air disaster, bully, bad guy, comic hero, talking animal, lgbt, wild animal ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, africa, usa, las vegas
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Most similar movies to George of the Jungle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, light and entertaining films with plots about family, mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, destiny, dialogue and fantasy world mostly in Comedy, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like George of the Jungle: King Kong (2005), The Jungle Book (1994), Larger Than Life (1996), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), The Lost City (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
468K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, scenic, action adventure, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
king kong, creature, jungle, dinosaur, giant animal, monster, gorilla, giant ape, beast, rescue, island, dangerous animal ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, prehistoric times, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, fictional island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boone, who wants both Kitty's hand and the treasures of Monkey City – a place only Mowgli can ...
Style:
cute, intense, tense, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, self discovery, survival, orphan, tiger, destiny, animal, wilderness, friendship, jungle adventure, fish out of water ...
Time:
90s, victorian era, 19th century, year 1994, 1880s
Place:
india, asia, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away, and has left a ...
Style:
light, touching, funny, feel good, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
nothing goes right, inheritance, friendship, rescue, on the road, elephant, animal, goofy hero, fish out of water, hitchhiker, philosophy, writers ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".
Style:
spoof, humorous, feel good, not serious, parody
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, friendship, fish out of water, gambling, escapades, mischievous children, nothing goes right, buddies, disorder, rescue, danger ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the ...
Style:
light, cute, lighthearted, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, family outing, kids, adult ...
Plot:
muppets, island, childhood, swashbuckler, ship, pirate ship, puppetry, youth, hunter, treasure hunter, water, young heroes ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
100%
175K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, funny, cute, rom com, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
kidnapping, treasure, treasure hunt, novelist, jungle, snake, bodyguard, cargo plane, model, woman in jeopardy, volcano, agoraphobia ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
canary islands, fictional island
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had -- a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old ...
Style:
funny, feel good, entertaining, epic, family comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
jungle, fish out of water, teenage boy, culture clash, childhood, parents and children, eccentric family, mischievous children, disorder, nothing goes right, youth, 13 year old ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
new york, venezuela, brazil, usa, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, intense, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gold rush, u.s. canadian border, stereotypes, mountie, cons and scams, village life, escapades, goofy hero, gold, destiny, crisis of conscience, motorcycle ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
canada, seattle, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't ...
Style:
entertaining, light, 3d animation, not serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
cat, talking animal, pets, happy ending, disorder, animal life, rescue, adaptation, animal shelter, runaway, comic book, truth ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, exciting, light, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, jungle, unlikely couple, opposites attract, chase, adventurer, escapades, jungle adventure, treasure map, travel, map, stranded ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place:
south america, colombia, new york, latin america, central america
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, detective, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
good versus evil, rescue, robot, superhuman powers, escapades, police detective, fighting crime, imaginary, master villain, goofy hero, secret identity, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying to find their home across the Golden Gate Bridge. But the road is blocked by a series of hazards, ...
Style:
retro, hilarious, semi serious, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
pets, dog, animal, childhood, lost dog, talking cat, talking dog, heartwarming, road trip, cat, golden retriever, dog attack ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, bay area, canada, california, usa
Similarity:
41%
3K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Style:
light, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
gorilla, animal, socialite, zoo, camp, eccentric woman, friendship, unlikely friendships, adaptation, wilderness, family relations, kids and family ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1997, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago, new york, brooklyn new york city, philadelphia ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Garfield is back and this time Garfield and his canine sidekick Odie follows their owner, Jon Arbuckle, to England, the U.K. may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle.
Style:
entertaining, funny, not serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, teens ...
Plot:
talking cat, talking animal, animal, cat, dog, partner, friendship, disorder, resort, rescue, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
20th century, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
40%
37K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he ...
Style:
humorous, absurd, semi serious, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
sailor, abandoned baby, bully, childhood, rescue, twists and turns, family relations, kidnapping, love triangle, love and romance, eccentric family, escapades ...
Time:
80s
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Vicky is a viking-boy who lives with his parents Halvar and Ylva in the small village Flake. He is a typical viking boy, but rather fearful. He is also not very strong but smart. One day he sails with the grown up vikings out to the sea and to ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
parents and children, danger, young heroes, rescue, youth, competition, viking, fog, knight, monkey, bully, children ...
Time:
middle ages
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, parody, spoof, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot:
fantasy world, children, child spy, mad scientist, secret agent, heroes, rivalry, monster, spy spoof, telepathy, villain, animal ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sweet, not serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
childhood, children, bully, child, gang, dog, child romance, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, friendship, rich kid ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 1930s
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, after he misses his son's karate exposition, his son tells Howard that he wants for Christmas is an action figure ...
Style:
humorous, hilarious, slapstick, melancholic, christmas classics ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, father son relationship, holiday, christmas time, chase, santa claus, postman, shopping, toys, motorcycle, neighbor, xmas ...
Time:
90s, year 2016, 20th century
Place:
minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, canada
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his ...
Style:
clever, funny, feel good, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot:
baby, teenage girl, shrinking, inventor, businessman, nothing goes right, fish out of water, inventions and discoveries, childhood, giant, stuffed toy rabbit, electrocution ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged marriage to the brooding and ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, light, rom com, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, couples, society, rescue, fictional country, elephant, teenager, royalty, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, thailand
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her friends to help her get back home before she is caught by a dognapper who wants to ransom her.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, melancholic, slapstick, family comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
dog, chihuahua, pets, police dog, animal life, lifestyle, friendship, animal, rescue, childhood, urban, getting home ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
beverly hills, california, mexico, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician, get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, not serious, funny, anamorphic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, chase, kangaroo, goofy hero, nothing goes right, desert, escapades, cons and scams, disorder, organized crime, australian outback, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
australia, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, oceania ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem is that Missy's owner, Regina, wants to sell the puppies and tear the clan apart. ...
Style:
feel good, light, hilarious, light hearted, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dog, pets, puppy, animal, bullying, childhood, children, dysfunctional family, divorce, love, saint bernard dog, human dog relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, montana, san francisco
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, romantic, light, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, kids, boys' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, desert, adventurer, archaeologist, couple relations, love and romance, treasure, happy ending, novelist, culture clash, escapades, treasure hunter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, middle east, egypt, french riviera, south of france ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three young boys, Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum together with their neighbor girl, computer whiz Amanda are visiting Mega Mountain amusement park when it is invaded by an army of ninjas led by evil Medusa, who wants to take over the park and hold the ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
martial arts, child martial arts, ninja, ak 47, young heroes, wrestler, violence, childhood, hostage, youth, heroic mission, eccentric family ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's ...
Style:
sweet, melancholic, feel good, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
dog, dolphins, friendship, youth, animal, rescue, single parent, odd couple, daring rescue, mischievous children, escapades, young heroes ...
Time:
year 1997
Place:
bahamas
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Japan, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
Style:
light hearted, cult classic, grindhouse, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
ninja, superhero, martial arts, vigilante, time machine, time travel, ninja turtle, comic book, female warrior, samurai, childhood, villain ...
Time:
90s, year 2016, 17th century, year 1993, 1900s ...
Place:
japan, new york, astoria oregon, asia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Australia, South Africa, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
Style:
exciting, fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
tarzan, jungle, treasure hunt, archaeologist, obsessive quest, jungle adventure, magic, chase, violence, fictional country, explorer, monkey ...
Time:
year 1998, 1910s, edwardian era
Place:
africa, europe, england, new jersey
Similarity:
37%
25K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift ...
Style:
cult classic, light, feel good, retro, epic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, ufo, space travel, friendship, space, bullying, coming of age, children, fantasy world, adolescence, teenager, youth ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1985
Place:
maryland, washington d.c., canada
Similarity:
37%
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