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White Lion (2010)
1K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: South Africa
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
According to the legend of the Shangaan, white lions are the messengers of the gods, but it has been years since one has been seen in their remote African valley. When a white lion is miraculously born into that valley, a young Shangaan named Gisani, finds himself destined to protect this rare and magnificent creature at all costs. This young lion, whom will be known as Letsatsi, is cast from his pride and forced to embark upon a perilous journey of survival.
Style:
sincere, emotional, exciting, colorful, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, colourful
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
lion, wilderness, hunter, friendship, wild animal, danger, legends and myths, teaching the ways of the world, death of friend, friends, escapades, crocodile, children, snake, hunting, boy, journey, owl, safari, camping, hyena, elephant, lion cub, giraffe, storytelling ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa, south africa
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Most similar movies to White Lion
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about family, friendship, youth, friends, family relations, escapades and coming of age mostly in Family, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like White Lion: Magic Journey to Africa (2010), Pride (2004), The Maiden and the Wolves (2008), The Fox and the Child (2007), Duma (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, young heroes, friends, escapades, journey, supernatural, friendship, imaginary, animal life, legends and myths, cheetah, zebra ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, spain, barcelona
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854
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, sincere, semi serious, colorful
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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emotional, serious, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
wolf, mountain, beast, escapades, danger, wilderness, world war one, female protagonist, animal rescue, wild animal, great war, forest ...
Time:
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Place:
alps, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
nature, fox, human animal relationship, little girl, wild animal, friendship, forest, animal human communication, friends, environmentalism, woods, vixen ...
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sweet, sentimental, touching, captivating, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
wild animal, lion, childhood, rescue, wilderness, animal, boy, adolescence, bully, youth, cheetah, bullying ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
africa, south africa, kenya
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film, wild
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
lion, wildlife, animal, pets, lion cub, jungle adventure, animal lover, danger, escapades, hopes, heroes, getting home ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
africa, south africa, kenya
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29%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, sincere, entertaining, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids
Plot:
wolf, human animal relationship, lion, animal, animal human communication, wild animal, dangerous animal, animal lover, family drama, friendship, human animal friendship, friends ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tensions rise as Jack and Fog clash over drilling plans on Jack's land near a wilderness preserve. Fog surprises the town by announcing a natural spring water business instead. Jack, skeptical, is jailed for allegedly sabotaging Fog’s well. ...
Style:
romantic, serious, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, Germany, South Africa, Switzerland, Monaco, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
Style:
inspirational, captivating, scenic, sincere, exciting
Audience:
kids
Plot:
wild animal, teenage girl, lion, animal rescue, conservation, lion cub, picnic, teenager, family farm, christmas present, tough girl, strong female character ...
Place:
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Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
alabama, usa
Similarity:
25%
307
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When her mother died, 10 year old girl Misa's world stopped. And when her father, along with her new girlfriend, wants to spend the summer in the Swedish province Skåne she refuses to come with them. Misa's father reluctantly agrees that ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
wolf, wilderness, coming of age, friendship, youth, fish out of water, woods, remarry, girl, nature, hunting, hiking ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
compassionate, sincere, exciting, light, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
elephant, animal rescue, circus, friendship, poaching, rescue, animal, animal rights, parents and children, teenage girl, empathy, bonding ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Mark goes for a visit with his uncle he's thrown into a world he knows not much about. Little does he know it'll be a world he's going to have to become very familiar with. One character Mark becomes very familiar and friendly ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
bear, youth, friendship, rescue, family life, orphan, danger, animal life, wilderness, escapades, family relations, cartoon bear ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Born Free (1966) is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, non fiction, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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24%
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Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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semi serious, feel good, humorous, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Family
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While out and about tending to his herd, young shepherd Larus meets a mysterious little girl named Tinke. Quickly realizing that the girl is alone, Larus brings Tinke some food and slowly builds a friendship with her. Tinke, whose parents died ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
orphan, children, family relations, friendship, hopes, friends, destiny, human nature, coming of age, girl, teenage girl, shepherd ...
Time:
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Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When his grandfather's drive-in cinema and home in the outback town of Wyndham is threatened with demolition, a twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia's bush country — equipped only with ancient survival skills — ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, friendship, friends, family relations, youth, best friend, desert, society, escapades, aborigine, save the day, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
23%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, sincere, captivating, nature documentary ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada, british columbia
Similarity:
23%
20K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.
Style:
touching, scenic, visually stunning, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
bear, nature, wilderness, survival, dog, rocky mountains, friendship, bear cub, animal, poacher, forest, environment ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place:
canada, persia, british columbia, antarctica
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
christian film, serious, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Whispers, an innocent and adorable baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his loving mother, Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast ...
Style:
scenic, colorful, captivating, touching, serious
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
elephant, adventurer, wilderness, jungle adventure, survival, animal life, friendship, jungle, danger, parents and children, rescue, poacher ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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independent film, exciting, realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
missing person, social differences, parents and children, danger, youth, family relations, society, friendship, culture clash, escapades, getting home, kidnapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, kenya
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
pets, coming of age, friendship, fish out of water, teenage life, save the day, youth, young heroes, escapades, family relations, immigrant, farm ...
Time:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, family relations, parents and children, village life, coming of age, father son relationship, father and son, sport team, friends, village, youth, self confidence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
736
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, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, iowa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, feel good, touching
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After young Kirra (Bindi Irwin) leaves her Australian home to summer with her grandfather (Beau Bridges) in South Africa, she soon discovers a baby orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather’s rundown seaside amusement park. She names the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, uplifting
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
animal rescue, killer whale, orca, family relations, friendship, confined, captivity, young heroes, heroes, mischievous children, ocean, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa, australia
Similarity:
21%
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