Movies like Into the West 1992

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Into the West (1992)
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Into the West (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
Style: surreal, crying, fairy tale, touching, feel good, semi serious, independent film, light, inspirational, road movie ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: horse, stallion, children, childhood, magic realism, chase, magic, hunting, redemption, storytelling, drinking, youth, pagan, children in wartime, st. patrick's day, friendship, family relations, singer, baby, classical music, widower, desperation, death of mother, poor family, pop music ...
Time: year 1992
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
Keyword: irish, movie theatre, watching a movie

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Most similar movies to Into the West

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, feel good, touching and humorous films with plots about youth, family relations, escapades, danger, boy, friendship and young heroes mostly in Family, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Into the West: The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Peter Pan (2003), The Gnome-Mobile (1967), Magic in the Water (1995), Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother ...
Style: scenic, fairy tale, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: children, island, mermaid, seal the animal, friendship, legend, celtic, ancient mystery, magic, young heroes, magic realism, social relations ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 1940s, year 1946
Place: ireland, europe
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Peter Pan (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand
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, exciting, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, fantasy world, fairy, children, boy, magic, teenager, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, friendship, youth ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place: fictional island, london, europe, big ben london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, teen ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: harry potter, magic, wizard, witch, friendship, fantasy world, magical, boarding school, chosen one, youth, children, school ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, year 1991, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place: england, europe, london, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, youth, chase, st. patrick's day, holiday, magical creature, kidnapping, car chase, mental institution, gnome, raccoon ...
Time: year 1967
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Magic in the Water (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: creature, sea monster, youth, loch ness monster, vacation, giant monster, monster, kaiju, dinosaur, family relations, boy, father son relationship ...
Place: british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Soviet Union, Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story: They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real ...
Style: fairy tale, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, orphan, good versus evil, danger, heroes, supernatural, parallel world, hopes, rivalry, daring rescue, kidnapping, heroic mission ...
Place: ussr, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Nim's Island (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
Style: exciting, scenic, captivating, sad, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: island, little girl, young heroes, exotic island, imaginary friend, writers, family relations, single father, danger, scientist, jungle, poacher ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: fictional island, san francisco, patagonia, pacific ocean, indonesia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Puppeteer Geppetto becomes a puppet himself after drinking an elixir that Pinocchio bought from a traveling carnival.
Style: mysterious, independent film, serious, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, pinocchio, magical, rescue, stop motion, friends, family relations, curses spells and rituals, friendship, parents and children, escapades, good versus evil ...
Time: 90s, 17th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: "Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay (Kelly Reno), he's much more. So, when the amazing animal is stolen, Alec will stop at nothing to get him back. Alec ...
Style: independent film, humorous, semi serious, tense
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: horse, horse race, desert, friendship, animal, youth, chase, human animal relationship, girl horse relationship, kidnapping, family relations, animal life ...
Time: year 1983
Place: morocco, africa
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40%
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The White Pony (1999)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The search for a mystical pony in Ireland.
Style: feel good, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, leprechaun, magical creature, family relations, unicorn, magic, friends, disorder, heroic mission, curses spells and rituals, village life ...
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.3
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Dumbo (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Circus owner Max Medici enlists former star Holt Farrier and his children Milly and Joe to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the ...
Style: fairy tale, emotional, touching, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot: circus, elephant, boy, flying, train, children, family relations, experiment, wild animal, interwar period, magic realism, magical ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 2019, 20th century, year 1919
Place: florida, missouri, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.7
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Hildegarde (2001)
Genre: Family, Adventure
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A family's adventure to save one of their own - their beloved pet duck.
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, family relations, young heroes, heroes, rescue, pets, danger, family life, brother brother relationship, smuggling, bird, childhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Shipwrecked (1990)
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: action adventure, exciting, serious, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: pirate, boy, ocean, shipwreck, island, ship, coming of age, youth, historical event, child, water, treasure hunter ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988)
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: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: friends, love affair, exploitation, kids and family, family relations, travel, disorder, orphan, imaginary, rivalry, danger, rescue ...
Place: australia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Dragonworld (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Young John McGowan travels to Scotland to live at his grandfather's castle after he loses his parents in a traffic accident. At the wishing tree he conjures up a dragon friend, Yowler. They grow up together, and one day documentary film maker ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, stylized, feel good, offbeat
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: stop motion, amusement park, sword and sorcery, sorcery, creature feature, dinosaur, monster, castle, countryside, daring rescue, youth, pets ...
Time: year 1994
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.2
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Kids World (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, New Zealand, USA
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: humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film, suspense
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, child as adult, wish come true, mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, experiment gone awry, teenage life, best friend, rescue, danger, family life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
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, chocolate, children, fantasy world, contests and competitions, imaginary, magic, social differences, child protagonist, factory, imagination, poverty ...
Time: year 2005, 1920s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: bavaria, denver colorado, colorado, japan, new delhi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy along. They both end up experiencing more excitement than Mickey ...
Style: semi serious, sincere, touching, captivating, mythical ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: environmentalism, rescue, young heroes, heroes, danger, treasure hunt, escapades, wilderness, family life, legends and myths, river, father son relationship ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Hook (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, stylized, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, kidnapping, magic, children, fairy, good versus evil, father son relationship, rescue, peter pan, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, madagascar, california, new york, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Crystalstone (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Deserted by their father and with their mother dead, nine-year-old Pablo and his little sister Maria refuse to be separated from each other by their caretaker aunt. With a cross as their guide, they embark on a perilous, but ultimately rewarding ...
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, touching
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: coming of age, youth, pirate, orphan, supernatural ability, treasure hunt, danger, escapades, heroes, family relations, girl, train ...
Time: 1900s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan's representatives, granting him three wishes.
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, semi serious, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: snow white, princess, magic, good versus evil, danger, parents and children, heroic mission, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, medieval, imaginary, evil witch ...
Time: medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Welcome to the world of stamps with Tommy Tricker and friends as they learn the magic of travelling through time and space for the mere price of the postage. Though of course, nothing is as easy as it seems as they soon learn when they try to rescue ...
Style: semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: time travel, friendship, family relations, friends, disorder, imaginary, danger, youth, rescue, race against time, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, puppet, friendship, youth, escapades, imaginary, mischievous children, heroes, innocence lost, danger, friends ...
Time: year 1996
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Little Monsters (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games ...
Style: light, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: monster, brother brother relationship, friendship, coming of age, young heroes, halloween, mischievous children, curses spells and rituals, child as adult, fish out of water, wish come true, imaginary ...
Time: year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Thief Lord (2006)
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: mischievous children, orphan, imaginary, friendship, young heroes, magic, youth, police, escapades, secret, supernatural, child ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Water Horse (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, War
Country: New Zealand, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
Style: entertaining, scenic, emotional, fairy tale, mystical ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: loch ness monster, boy, sea monster, friendship, young heroes, monster, twists and turns, animal, beautiful scenery, underwater, coming of age, dragon ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 20th century, 2000s
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
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, touching ...
Audience: family friendly, kids, family outing, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: dragon, magic, fantasy world, imagination, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, book, bookstore, child protagonist, school, evil force, boy ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, future, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself. This ...
Style: funny, humorous, detective, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: childhood, mole, train, obsession, friendship, rat, rabbit, courtroom, lawyer, monty python, rodent, mammal ...
Time: year 1996
Place: england, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Once again, Bastian is transported to the world of Fantasia which he recently managed to save from destruction. However, the land is now being destroyed by an evil sorceress, Xayide, so he must join up with Atreyu and face the Emptiness once more.
Style: fairy tale, stylized, surreal, action adventure, tripping ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: childhood, imaginary kingdom, sword and sorcery, magic, good versus evil, sorcery, youth, destiny, giant, swamp, boy, imagination ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
Style: fairy tale, feel good, light, inspirational, touching
Plot: hypnosis, bullying, teenage girl, friendship, strong female character, orphan, strong female lead, child protagonist, magic, mockery, escapades, escape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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