Movies and TV shows like The Secret Garden 1975
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The Secret Garden (1975)
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story:
TV miniseries adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.
Style:
uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, friendship, estate, children, orphan, family relations, winter, neglected child, garden, gardener, transformation, mysterious stranger, friends, misfit, self discovery, society, spoiled brat, mischievous children, disability, secret place, countryside, social relations, master and servant, mysterious character, young heroes ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, victorian
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, touching, realistic and sentimental films and TV series with plots about family relations, youth, orphan, friendship, child's point of view, friends and society mostly in Drama, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Secret Garden: Anne with an E (2017), The Railway Children (1970), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1995), Malory Towers (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
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:
touching, atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, orphan, countryside, girl, friendship, garden, little girl, beautiful scenery, children, old mansion, uncle, magic ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
india, england, yorkshire, africa, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style:
compassionate, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
orphan, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, small town, child's point of view, school, family relations, parents and children, children's home, society, mischievous children ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
canada
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100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Waterbury family are completely happy until mysterious men take their father away and they have to move up to Yorkshire without him. The three open-hearted children soon make many friends including their Old Gentleman whom they regularly wave to ...
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
teenage girl, child's point of view, train, friendship, countryside, railway, children, human spirit, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, missing person ...
Time:
edwardian era, 70s, 19th century, victorian era, 20th century
Place:
england, yorkshire, london, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American Western drama series created by Beth Sullivan and starring Jane Seymour who plays Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, a physician who leaves Boston in search of adventure in the American West and who settles ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, medical drama
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family values, old west, doctors and patients, small town, parents and children, love and romance, female doctor, children, american indian, couple relations, society, interracial relations ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
colorado, usa
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story:
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
estate, youth, rich and poor, family relations, power relations, master and servant, society, rise to the top, misfit, mischievous children, social differences, family life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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TV series like Anne with an E
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the adventures of Darrell Rivers as she leaves home for the first time to attend an all-girls’ boarding school. Set in post-war Britain on the sun-drenched cliffs of the Cornish coast, the series explores a nostalgic world of midnight ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
girls' school, girls' boarding school, teenage life, boarding school, post war, adolescence, lifestyle change, teenager, teenage girl, coming of age, ghost, ancient ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
britain
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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:
fairy tale, touching, sincere, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
orphan, garden, little girl, family relations, uncle, mansion, friendship, family problems, mischievous children, family life, child's point of view, youth ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
642
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
orphan, mountain, family relations, youth, physical disability, girl, governess, friendship, disability, friends, optimism, escapades ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps, alps, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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2K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 193 min.
TV show
Story:
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.
Style:
sad, fairy tale, emotional, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
disney, youth, orphan, physical disability, smart kid, aging, disability, friendship, family relations, rich and poor, custody, parents and children ...
Place:
swiss alps, alps, europe, switzerland, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story:
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, gloomy
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
orphan, disney, youth, charles dickens, children, injustice, friends, gang, young heroes, life is a bitch, society, coming of age ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Series like Little House on the Prairie
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
grandfather granddaughter relationship, youth, family relations, village, family life, escapades, goat, power relations, village life, isolation, orphan, mischievous children ...
Time:
1880s
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps, alps, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
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, touching, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
orphan, family relations, children, friendship, hopes, destiny, friends, human nature, coming of age, grandmother granddaughter relationship, girl, teenage girl ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
orphan, canadian, family relations, child's point of view, young heroes, coming of age, uncover truth, starting over, youth, family problems, island, family life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, turn of the century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Kindhearted Samantha Parkington's world starts to change the day Nellie O'Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and her two little sisters have moved in next door to be servants for the Ryland family. Though they come from ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, feel good, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
family relations, rich and poor, master and servant, christmas, friendship, young heroes, teenage life, best friends, uncle niece relationship, orphan, society, youth ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, sentimental, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nanny, family relations, butler, child abuse, bittersweet, youth, babies and infants, master and servant, love and romance, society, lifestyle, power relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
TV show
Story:
Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
charles dickens, single parent, family relations, boarding school, society, orphan, dysfunctional family, boarding school life, rich and poor, siblings relations, social differences, down on your luck ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled across years before - but faces a battle with the housekeeper over whether to nurture it.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, atmospheric, serious
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, orphan, friendship, young heroes, obsessive quest, save the day, destiny, escapades, estate, child's point of view, secret, child ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are pre-occupied with their own young families and her adopted son ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, feel good, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teaching the ways of the world, family life, orphan, adoption, friendship, couples, widow, doctors and patients, golden years, family relations, estrangement, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Seperated from her prostitute mother as the woman flees on foot down the filthy mid-19th century streets of Newcastle from the police, ten year old Millie is taken under the wing of rag lady Aggie Winkovski and her crippled helper, Ben. Young Millie ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
age difference, pimp, prostitute, friendship, homeless, kids in trouble, friends, starting over, society, young heroes, orphan, youth ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have dreams and problems. Marcello wants to fly but feels like an absolutely useless human being, Fatima wants to play soccer - which is not acceptable for ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, captivating, contemplative
Plot:
youth, children, family relations, friends, friendship, parents and children, strong female character, bullying, soccer, hopes, strong female lead, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Films like Lark Rise to Candleford
523
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
disney, disability, deaf, dedicated educator, girl, school, family relations, power relations, mute or deaf, rise and fall, downfall, hopes ...
Time:
20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
529
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
"Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the care of his Hispanic ranch hand (Blades) and his wife (Delany). Once in high school, Eddie ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
family relations, society, introspection, self discovery, youth, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, friends, hopes, orphan, eccentric family ...
Time:
50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After young Marty Peterson rescued Shiloh from his abusive owner, Judd Travers, he thought his troubles were over. But when Judd starts threatening to take "his" dog back, Marty is afraid of losing the best friend he's ever had. Even ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dog, youth, rescue, childhood, redemption, family relations, boy, animal actor, boy and dog, single parent, young heroes, pets ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Argentina, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
horse, youth, countryside, family relations, friendship, ranch, sibling relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, animal life, farm, friends, coming of age ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story:
Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, step parent, orphan, youth, stepfather stepson relationship, rise to the top, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, power relations, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Anne of Green Gables similar movies
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 386 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s.
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy, bleak, emotional
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
orphan, child abuse, charles dickens, child in peril, life is a bitch, coming of age, young heroes, society, confined, youth, injustice, rich and poor ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In Victorian London, feisty heroine Hetty Feather is trapped in the Foundling Hospital, the strict institution ruled over by the formidable Matron Bottomley. Aided by friends and thwarted by enemies, Hetty battles to win her freedom and finally find ...
Style:
entertaining, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
orphan, bully, nursing, treatment, gang, teenager, youth gang, hospital, brother sister relationship, teenage gang, friendship, life ...
Time:
victorian era, 1880s, 19th century
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, feel good, uplifting
Audience:
girls' night, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
dancing, ballet, family problems, against the odds, follow your dream, ambition, youth, siblings relations, family relations, orphan, hopes, talent ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
383
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, having nothing in common but their love for dogs, notably Adam's precious champion ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dog, youth, german shepherd, orphan, farmer, family relations, family problems, friends, disorder, farm, animal life, pets ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A little girl leaves home with her pet dog and rabbit to escape abuse and find the ocean in the hopes of feeling closer to her father who has passed away.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
civil rights, dog, friendship, youth, hopes, pets, family life, estrangement, wilderness, child's point of view, mother, family relations ...
Time:
60s
Place:
alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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