Movies like Hugo
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Hugo (2011)
348K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Style:
touching, visually appealing, period piece, visually stunning, fairy tale, visual, aesthetic, atmospheric, emotional, light ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
steampunk, orphan, friendship, filmmaking, boy, childhood, street kid, longing, robot, harry potter, magical, destiny, child's point of view, train crash, child, kids in trouble, storytelling, youth, danger, hopes, child protagonist, coming of age, mission, escapades, secret place ...
Time:
year 2011, post world war one, 20th century, year 1931, 1930s, 2010s, 1920s ...
Place:
paris france, france, iran, madagascar, europe
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Most similar movies to Hugo
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out fairy tale, whimsical, touching and feel good films with plots about youth, child, boy, storytelling, family, magic and coming of age mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Hugo: The Secret Garden (1993), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Wonderstruck (2017), The NeverEnding Story (1984), A Little Princess (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style:
costume drama, touching, feel good, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, friendship, beautiful scenery, mansion, little girl, sick child, children, old mansion ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 90s, year 1993 ...
Place:
india, england, liverpool, eastern europe, africa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
Style:
dark fantasy, fairy tale, gothic, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
time travel, fantasy world, time loop, magic, children, monster, imaginary, youth, superhuman powers, beautiful scenery, supernatural power, orphan ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1943, year 2016, 2010s, 1940s ...
Place:
england, wales, florida, europe
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sad, tear jerker, teen ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, fantasy world, classmate, loneliness, magical, imaginary, teenage girl, loss of friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Style:
visually stunning, thought provoking, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
bookstore, deafness, friendship, boy, deaf, father son relationship, chase, pursuit, multiple storylines, twists and turns, sign language, deaf girl ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1977, 1920s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, minnesota
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, light, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, kids, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dragon, magic, fantasy world, imagination, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, book, child protagonist, evil force, child hero, boy, medieval ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, future, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, heartbreaking, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
boarding school, imagination, childhood, princess, orphan, servant, little girl, fantasy life, child, girls' boarding school, coming of age, children ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, future, victorian era, 90s ...
Place:
india, new york, england, britain, africa ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, ...
Style:
exciting, dark fantasy, visually stunning, apocalyptic, visual ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, post apocalypse, save the day, danger, dystopia, uncover truth, survival, underground city, girl, underground, puzzle, ancient mystery ...
Time:
future, year 2008, 20th century, distant future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a ...
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, offbeat, dark comedy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
children, orphan, death in the family, child in peril, danger, dishonesty, steampunk, child, boy, siblings relations, destiny, nobility ...
Time:
year 2004, victorian era, 1940s
Place:
peru
Similarity:
100%
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477K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, sentimental, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
surrealism, fish, journey, storytelling, fantasy world, father son relationship, childhood, mermaid, magic, loneliness, adventurer, free spirited ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place:
texas, usa, alabama, southern usa, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
69K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Australia, India, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save ...
Style:
fairy tale, visually appealing, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, chick flick, adult
Plot:
magic, childhood, fantasy world, pirate, pirate ship, good versus evil, young heroes, mischievous children, child hero, heroes, youth, treasure hunt ...
Time:
1940s, future, year 2015, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
fictional island, vietnam, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts -- Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Style:
touching, visually stunning, talky, fairy tale, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
childhood, imaginary kingdom, children, creature, imagination, child, fantasy world, loneliness, island, boy, surrealism, mischievous children ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 21st century
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, Canada, France, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Style:
fairy tale, epic, visually stunning, epic fantasy, mystical ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, steampunk, journey, magical, alternate reality, orphan, witch, parallel universe, parallel world, imaginary, heroes, literary ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
england, london, oxford university
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sad, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
alien, friendship, childhood, children, coming of age, ufo, friendly alien, space and aliens, chase, boy, child protagonist, bicycle ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982, 90s, future
Place:
california, usa, persia, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
little people, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, mischievous children, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, rescue, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, light, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
orphan, garden, little girl, child's point of view, family relations, uncle, friendship, mansion, family problems, mischievous children, family life, cholera ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
single parent, writers, friendship, writer's life, parents and children, death, biopic, peter pan, stage play, country house, passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, turn of the century, future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, uplifting, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
animal, human animal relationship, friendship, killer whale, animal training, rescue, whale, animal life, freedom, coming of age, boy, kids and family ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, portland oregon, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France, Australia, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Style:
touching, road movie, emotional, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
genius, young heroes, prodigy, children, coming of age, childhood, on the road, child prodigy, train, loneliness, tragedy, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
montana, usa, washington d.c., chicago
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
85K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Style:
fairy tale, touching, costume drama, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
fictional reality, young heroes, adventurer, medieval, writers, imaginary, supernatural, book, parents and children, magic, kidnapping, heroes ...
Time:
year 2008, middle ages
Place:
alps, italy
Similarity:
100%
84K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, captivating, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, fantasy world, pirate, fairy, children, boy, pirate ship, magic, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, peter pan, youth ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
london, fictional island, europe, big ben london, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, poignant, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
childhood, autism, 9/11, asperger's syndrome, boy, child protagonist, orphan, acceptance, disability, coming of age, bereavement, single mother ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2001, 2000s, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style:
atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, cute, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boy scout, children, adolescence, first love, camp, youth, island, summer camp, orphan, search party, childhood ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965, 2010s
Place:
new england, rhode island, nebraska, usa, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, stylized, offbeat, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
childhood, children, fantasy world, chocolate, contests and competitions, imaginary, magic, social differences, child protagonist, imagination, poverty, food ...
Time:
year 2005, 1920s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
bavaria, new delhi, japan, europe, georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise. When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town's sleepy facade magically springs to life with a secret world of witches and ...
Style:
spooky, entertaining, humorous, fairy tale, gothic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, horror for children, adult
Plot:
halloween, magic, haunted house, witch, witchcraft, spell, magician, child, illusionist, medieval, paranormal, book of magic ...
Time:
1950s, year 1955, 50s
Place:
michigan, germany
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The son of the world's greatest detective embarks on a high-stakes adventure in this action-packed adaptation of the beloved book by Israeli writer David Grossman. (TIFF)
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, detective, crying
Plot:
coming of age, escapades, passion, child's point of view, rescue, family relations, self discovery, husband wife relationship, friendship, youth, dream, child in peril ...
Place:
europe, france, holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, exciting, detective ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
escapades, friendship, orphan, imaginary, magic, mischievous children, police, youth, young heroes, abuse, rejuvenation, siblings relations ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
italy, venice
Similarity:
50%
297K
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Iceland, UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, feel good, dark fantasy, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
witch, magic, true love, fantasy world, magical, curses spells and rituals, sword fight, love and romance, imaginary kingdom, fall in love, chase, imaginary ...
Time:
19th century, year 2007, 2000s, future, 50s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven. She meets her sickly cousin Colin and the two children find a wondrous ...
Style:
fairy tale, mysterious, sentimental, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, toddlers
Plot:
orphan, imagination, estate, mansion, true love, old mansion, garden, dead mother, curse, flowers, mourning, gardening ...
Time:
2020s, 1940s, 19th century, post world war two, year 1947 ...
Place:
england, yorkshire, india
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
Style:
visually stunning, offbeat, surreal, cerebral, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot:
circus, coming of age, fantasy world, magic, imaginary kingdom, alternate reality, alternate dimension, good versus evil, trippy, parallel universe, imaginary, drawing ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
brighton, england
Similarity:
100%
109K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake, he and his campmates are forced by the warden to dig holes in order to build character. What they don't know is that they are digging ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, touching, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, curse, desert, friendship, treasure, camp, destiny, youth, coming of age, interracial romance, children, boy ...
Time:
year 2003, 1890s, 1900s, 19th century, 1850s ...
Place:
texas, usa, north america, latvia
Similarity:
50%
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