Movies like Iron Will

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Iron Will (1994)
 6.6
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Iron Will (1994)
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: inspirational, feel good, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, exciting, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot: dog sled, dog, survival, treasure hunt, animal, racing, underdog, winter, world war one, human animal relationship, nature, canine, snow, death, wolf, mountain, cold, wrestling, best friend, treasure hunter, inspiration, frozen, wilderness, coming of age, puppy love ...
Time: year 1994, 1910s, 20th century
Place: alaska, minnesota, canada, usa, cuba
Keyword: reboot, sport, challenge, dreams

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Most similar movies to Iron Will

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, touching, realistic and semi serious films with plots about friendship, animal, friends, dog, survival, escapades and danger mostly in Family, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Iron Will: Snow Dogs (2002), Togo (2019), Alaska (1996), Fly Away Home (1996), Free Willy (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Snow Dogs (2002)
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.
Style: feel good, entertaining, inspirational, humorous, scenic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: dog, dog sled, pets, fish out of water, small town, animal, friendship, against the odds, talking animal, dentist, adoption, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, antarctic, usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 55K
Togo (2019)
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: suspense, exciting, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot: dog, snow, dog sled, escapades, delivery, save the day, friendship, puppy, plague, blizzard, winter, storm ...
Time: 1920s, future, 1910s, year 2019
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 6K
Alaska (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, 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 ...
Style: light, feel good, captivating, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: childhood, missing person, family relations, rescue, danger, wilderness, escapades, parents and children, mountain, survival, winter, coming of age ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 27K
Fly Away Home (1996)
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 ...
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: goose, rescue, aviation, bird, father daughter relationship, single father, environmental, animal, childhood, heartwarming, tragedy, against the odds ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: canada, new zealand, north carolina, new york, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Free Willy (1993)
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, ...
Style: sentimental, touching, uplifting, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: human animal relationship, freedom, animal, killer whale, friendship, animal life, animal training, kids and family, whale, happy ending, ocean, childhood ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: astoria oregon, portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Call of the Wild (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
Style: captivating, disturbing, sincere, inspirational, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, survival, dog sled, wolf, snow, gold rush, danger, friendship, wolf pack, animal, grizzly bear, gold ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 20th century, victorian era, 2020s
Place: alaska, yukon
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.3
 12K
Flipper (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, 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, ...
Style: exciting, cult classic, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: childhood, animal, coming of age, summer, fish, water, heartwarming, friendship, youth, dolphins, boat, batman ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy ...
Style: sex comedy, romantic drama, romantic, existential, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, animal, equestrian, orphan, great depression, women, world war one, age difference, coming of age, young love, medicine ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, georgia, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
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 ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, exciting, serious
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, boy dog relationship, wilderness, survival, animal, youth, childhood, friendship, young heroes, danger, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place: british columbia, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 7K
Lassie (1994)
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 ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet, light ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, boy dog relationship, pets, coming of age, friendship, animal, childhood, mischievous children, family life, countryside, teenage life, lassie ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: usa, virginia, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 113K
Cool Runnings (1993)
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.
Style: feel good, inspirational, funny, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: underdog, reggae, snow, childhood, olympics, winter, kids and family, heartwarming, racing, transformation, african american, winter olympics ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1988, year 1987
Place: canada, caribbean, antarctic, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.4
 2K
Chilly Dogs (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A man must participate in the Iditarod dog race across Alaska to inherit property from his legendary grandfather, but ends up getting much more than he bargained for.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, independent film
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dog, ambition, rivalry, danger, friendship, contests and competitions, escapades, fish out of water, winter, dog sled, snow, silly humor ...
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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White Fang (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, epic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, survival, human animal relationship, wilderness, treasure, pets, friendship, animal, dog sled, unlikely friendships, daring rescue, winter ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1991, 1890s
Place: alaska, yukon, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 11K
The Big Green (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: inspirational, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot: soccer, school, underdog, childhood, youth, athlete and trainer, football, high school life, against the odds, small town life, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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Eight Below (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, breathtaking, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: survival, dog, wilderness, expedition, rescue, dog sled, pets, snow, husky dog, animal, winter, storytelling ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 90s
Place: antarctica, astoria oregon, antarctic, new zealand, oregon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.1
 5K
Snow Buddies (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Dylan Sprouse, Jim Belushi and Kris Kristofferson lend their voices to this family-friendly tale about a feisty pack of golden retriever puppies that embarks on an Alaskan adventure. When they find themselves stranded in the northern wilderness, the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, pets, golden retriever, getting home, animal life, contests and competitions, against the odds, snow, friends, friendship, rescue, dog sled ...
Time: 2000s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994)
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.
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, period drama
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, survival, treasure hunt, human animal relationship, friendship, forest, canine, treasure hunter, wilderness, legends and myths, pets, rivalry ...
Time: year 1994, 1890s, 90s, 19th century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
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 ...
Style: touching, scenic, entertaining, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: great depression, friendship, coming of age, wolf, dog, youth, animal, on the road, human animal relationship, hopes, custody, against the odds ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1935
Place: usa, washington state, chicago, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Incredible Journey (1963)
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?
Style: road movie, touching, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, cat, wilderness, animal, friendship, pets, bear, camp, puppy love, camping trip, canine, wildlife ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
My Side of the Mountain (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to ...
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: survival, mountain, wildlife, nature, youth, treasure hunt, runaway, childhood, animal, owl, treasure hunter, camping ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A family film about Nikki, a half-wolf, half-dog raised in the Yukon during the gold rush era. After being separated from her master, Nikki must fend for herself amidst bears, the harsh Yukon weather, and a trapper who wants her skin.
Style: retro, exciting, serious
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: gold rush, dog, wilderness, survival, animal, wolf, nordic, puppy love, landscape, nature, trapper, animal life ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: yukon, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Biscuit Eater (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a misfit hound into a hero. Tennessee farmer and dog trainer Harve McNeil (Earl ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, youth, animal, friendship, pets, canine, boy and dog, family relations, interracial relations, power relations, disorder, friends ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 1940s
Place: tennessee, usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
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Silver Wolf (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A ranger (Michael Biehn) and his 16 year old nephew (Shane Meier) struggle to save a wolf from a rancher (Roy Scheider), who is out to kill it.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: wolf, snowboarding, survival, death of father, uncle nephew relationship, teenage life, human spirit, friendship, wilderness, pets, danger, daring rescue ...
Time: 90s
Place: british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 5.6
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Seven Alone (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of the real-life adventure of the Sager family. Travelling with a wagon train from Missouri to Oregon, things are going well for the Sagers, until father Sager dies from blood poisoning following an Indian attack, and mother ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, youth, treasure hunt, winter, snow, wagon train, wilderness survival, nature, treasure hunter, landscape, stranded, orphan ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: oregon, missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Benji the Hunted (1987)
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.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, wilderness, fox, camp, forest, survival, hunter, lost at sea, canine, camping trip, wildlife ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: oregon, astoria oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: UK, France, Norway, West Germany, Italy, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Academy Award winner Charlton Heston plays John Thornton, a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel ...
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, semi serious, bleak, touching ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, nature, animal, german shepherd, wolf, snow, wildlife, forest, tomb raider, canine, friends, animal life ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: alaska, canada, yukon
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
100%
 6.0
 921
White Fang (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, captivating, euro western
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: winter, dog, snow, canine, frozen, landscape, cold, supernatural, small town, wilderness, animal life, friends ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: canada, usa, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, exciting, epic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, cat, wilderness, pets, beautiful scenery, animal, friendship, unlikely friendships, childhood, fish out of water, talking animal, journey ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, nevada, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)
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.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: panda, survival, animal, human animal relationship, family relations, coming of age, bear, treasure hunt, parents and children, animal life, friends, disorder ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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