Movies like Iron Will
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Iron Will (1994)
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh weather and terrain. This young man will need a lot of courage and a strong will to complete this race.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, touching, romantic, humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, absurd, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
dog sled, dog, disney, animals, survival, treasure hunt, underdog, nature, winter, race, snow, death, love, catastrophe, end of the world, fashion, jungle, wolf, mountain, children, natural disaster, loneliness, hunting, talking animals, betrayal ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
alaska, canada, minnesota, cuba, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, sweet and touching films with plots about friendship, adaptation, mentor, dialogue, storytelling, catastrophe and destiny mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Iron Will: Alaska (1996), Flipper (1996), Fly Away Home (1996), Snow Dogs (2002), Free Willy (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet paper across the mountains. During an emergency delivery in a storm his plane goes down somewhere in the ...
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light, sweet, feel good, captivating, sentimental ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, ...
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Time:
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Place:
florida, usa
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a ...
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uplifting, emotional, touching, serious, feel good ...
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kids, teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night ...
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goose, aviation, rescue, father daughter relationship, bird, animals, single father, childhood, environmental, tragedy, against the odds, loss of mother ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, new zealand, north carolina
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
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feel good, humorous, entertaining, inspirational, scenic ...
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kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, disney, pets, dog sled, fish out of water, small town, adoption, talking animals, animals, against the odds, friendship, race ...
Time:
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alaska, cuba, usa
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Mexico
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, ...
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kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
animals, killer whale, human animal relationship, freedom, friendship, animal life, animal training, children, ocean, happy ending, childhood, rescue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
portland oregon, oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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In a depressed Texas town, British foreign exchange teacher Anna attempts to inject some life into her hopeless kids by introducing them to soccer. They're terrible at first, but Anna and her football-hero assistant whip them into shape. As ...
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100%
Genre: Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An update of the Lassie legend stars Thomas Guiry as a troubled city kid whose family retreats to the country, where he befriends the famous collie and changes for the better. Conflict develops when a ruthless sheep rancher causes trouble for ...
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
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feel good, inspirational, funny, sexy, humorous ...
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Time:
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Place:
canada, california, caribbean, jamaica
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67%
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.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
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touching, humorous, melancholic, road movie, unusual plot structure ...
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kids, preschoolers, teens, family outing, girls' night
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dog, disney, cat, animals, wilderness, friendship, beautiful scenery, pets, switching places, vengeance, secrets, island ...
Time:
60s
Place:
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29%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. In this masterful, atmospheric adventure, a courageous young girl (Meredith Salenger) confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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28%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A boy and his dog, White Fang, must try to save the noble Haida tribe from evil white men in turn-of-the-century Alaska.
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sexy, feel good, unusual plot structure, enigmatic, melancholic ...
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Place:
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28%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Benji has become stranded on a remote island after a boating accident. He finds himself struggling to survive in the wilderness, avoiding close encounters with a wolf, a bear, and a territorial female cougar with her cub.
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kids, preschoolers, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and ...
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, exciting, tense, motivational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, dog sled, suspense, escapades, snow, save the day, friendship, delivery, blizzard, puppy, plague, serum ...
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1920s, future, 1910s
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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sentimental, humorous, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
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Place:
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26%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A heartwarming Disney classic in which a cougar, who was rescued as a cub and raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest, reverts back to his natural instincts, leading to hilarious (and dangerous) consequences.
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feel good, humorous, unusual plot structure, dark fantasy, clever ...
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kids, pre-teens, family outing
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Place:
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25%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, b ears and moose.
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humorous, feel good, intense, entertaining, semi serious ...
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kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
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Place:
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25%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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touching, sweet, feel good, exciting, campy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
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Story:
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Time:
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22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Far from home in the lush bamboo forests of China, ten-year-old Ryan Tyler, with the help of a young girl, goes on a wonderful journey to rescue a baby panda taken by poachers.
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Audience:
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21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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21%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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