Movies like George's Island
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George's Island (1989)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This is a tale about two children who are put in a foster home, and then on Halloween they breakout and are rescued by their eccentric grandfather who is in a Halloween costume of an eyeball. They then go to George's island to try and find the treasure of Captain Kidd. Written by Andrew Hazeden
Plot:
pirate, island, halloween, ghost, boy, child protagonist, foster home, little boy, grandfather grandson relationship, halloween party, halloween costume, trick or treating
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, realistic and semi serious films with plots about island, adventure, pirate, escapades, danger, ocean and family relations mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like George's Island: Flipper's New Adventure (1964), The Silent One (1984), Shipwrecked (1990), Treasure Island (1999), Stranded (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, exciting
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
island, beach, dolphins, social differences, friendship, ocean, ocean or sea, animal life, captivity, family in danger, isolation, kidnapping ...
Time:
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Place:
bahamas, florida, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A baby is washed up on a Pacific Island and is adopted by a childless woman. The tribal priest takes an instant dislike to the child, proclaiming him a demon. The child is deaf and mute and therefore excluded from hunting with the other young ...
Plot:
little boy, swimming, island, baby, foundling, turtle, south seas, village, adrift
Place:
pacific ocean, new zealand
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82%
Genre: Adventure, Family
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Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Joachim, a preteen Norwegian boy, has an obsession with pirates. When his parents object, he takes their outboard rubber dinghy out and begins a dream of an exciting and dangerous adventure -- involving Captain Sabertooth's ship and treasure. ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
norway
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78%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Norway, Sweden, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.
Style:
serious, exciting, feel good
Audience:
preschoolers, kids, family outing
Plot:
ship, island, pirate, rescue, stowaway, child in peril, daring rescue, family, adventurer, heroes, gang, coming of age ...
Time:
19th century, victorian, victorian era, 1850s
Place:
england, europe, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Young Jim Hawkins and peg-legged Long John Silver set sail for adventure in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of dastardly pirates, swashbuckling heroes, buried treasure and a young boy's amazing courage. The narrative diverges from ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, surprise ending
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kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
island, pirate, danger, survival, daring rescue, family relations, family in danger, adventure, isolation, family life, estrangement, confined ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
143
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
When Young Phillip is separated form his mother and found by a black man named Timothy and his cat Stewcat, Phillip becomes blind and they all end up on an island. Will they survive or will they die?
Plot:
blindness, stranded, prejudice, cat, island, survival, boy
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65%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Adventure - A heartfelt story of an estranged brother and sister who must put aside their differences in order to solve an elaborate treasure hunt, left for them in the will of their eccentric father.
Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Angelino Jack Robinson gets a new job in Australia, he decides to take his sissy wife Ann, brave sons Shane and Todd and wining daughter Elisabeth 'Lizzy' by sailing yacht from Hong Kong to Syndney. The gun he gets thrown in by ...
Style:
serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Harvey Cheyne, Jr., second richest person in the world, orphaned and spoiled rotten, encounters a cigar and the sea on his way to England for boarding school. Seasick, over the rail for real, rescued by Dan Troop of a Gloucester fishing sailboat. ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
sailing, coming of age, fishing, sea, spoiled brat, friendship, adventurer, youth, young heroes, mischievous children, pirate, family relations ...
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Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
Style:
rough, exciting, serious, realistic
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Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Joseph, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Brotherly Love) star in this thrilling, action-packed sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods (Joseph Lawrence) and ...
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57%
Genre: Family, Adventure
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Spain, Liechtenstein, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Family
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Duration: 50 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
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Story:
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Story:
Danny Quinn (Seth Bernard) lives with one great dream... he wants to prove his late father was right about a pirate treasure in the depths of Lake Michigan.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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