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The Last Mimzy (2007)
 6.2
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The Last Mimzy (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine.
Style: inspirational, touching, serious, spiritual, mystical, epic, entertaining, apocalyptic, mystic, spooky ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: time travel, children, psychic, magic, toys, young heroes, mentor, supernatural ability, heroic mission, alien, danger, parent child relationship, imaginary, imaginary friend, teacher, science, genetics, storytelling, travel, time, supernatural, youth, witchcraft, magician, space travel ...
Time: future, year 2007
Place: seattle, usa, seattle washington
Keyword: new age

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Most similar movies to The Last Mimzy

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, epic, serious and cult classic films with plots about youth, imaginary, heroes, child, danger, coming of age and escapades mostly in Family, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Last Mimzy: Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Tomorrowland (2015), Escape to Witch Mountain (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
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, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, magical, fantasy world, loneliness, classmate, school, imaginary, friends ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, ...
Style: exciting, intense, semi serious, epic, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: robot, space travel, brother brother relationship, board game, sibling rivalry, childhood, outer space, child, game, alien, space, youth ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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, inspirational, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, friendship, childhood, children, coming of age, ufo, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, friendly alien, boy, chase, child protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, future, year 1982, 90s
Place: california, usa, persia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.4
 191K
Tomorrowland (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Spain, France, Canada, UK, China, Italy, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and ...
Style: exciting, visually appealing, thought provoking, visually stunning, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: utopia, youth, young heroes, time travel, androids and robots, robot, apocalypse, alternate reality, heroes, post apocalyptic, artificial intelligence, obsessive quest ...
Time: future, year 2015, 60s, 2010s
Place: florida, new york, paris france, houston texas, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. ...
Style: epic, saga, gothic, spiritual, serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: orphan, alien, telekinesis, witch, magic, psionic power, mansion, boy, space, adoption, chase, supernatural ...
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 7.0
 173K
Matilda (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.7
 2K
Joey (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspense, slasher, scary ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: telekinesis, ghost, evil doll, puppet, good versus evil, afterlife, monster, doll, young heroes, battles, family in danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Style: fairy tale, exciting, scary, semi serious, visual ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: magical creature, fantasy world, magical, fairy, children, imaginary, magic, siblings relations, family relations, estate, parent child relationship, supernatural ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 177K
Wonder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: bullying, child, school, middle school, friendship, happy ending, father son relationship, deformity, family relations, fight, hospital, science teacher ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: time travel, ufo, nasa, benign alien, space and aliens, space travel, outer space, flying saucer, robot, alien, getting home, young heroes ...
Time: year 1978, year 1986, 80s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
Style: dark fantasy, fairy tale, visual, light, visually appealing ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: puppetry, good versus evil, sword and sorcery, fantasy world, wizard, medieval, race against time, mission, crystal, magic, monster, puppet ...
Time: 90s, year 1982, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 11K
Synchronicity (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this mind-bending 'Sci-Fi Noir' a daring physicist folds time to travel into the past, trying to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, stylized, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Plot: time travel, parallel universe, time loop, alternate reality, travel, science, time machine, life & death, twists and turns, love story, violence, corruption ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Airbender (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, stylized, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: martial arts, supernatural, destiny, imaginary, friendship, supernatural ability, master warrior, young heroes, good versus evil, youth, chosen one, heroic mission ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.1
 130K
Eragon (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Style: fairy tale, exciting, mythical, serious, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: dragon, chosen one, imaginary kingdom, heroic mission, supernatural ability, imaginary, good versus evil, young heroes, fantasy world, legends and myths, danger, sword and sorcery ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.2
 75K
Lost in Space (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find ...
Style: surreal, exciting, stylized, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: time travel, space travel, robot, alien, space and aliens, outer space, space exploration, spaceship, save the world, space, deep space, spacecraft ...
Time: future, year 1998
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students – ...
Style: exciting, saga, scenic, tense, teen ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot: witch, magic, magical, harry potter, teenager, school, creature, boarding school, chosen one, wizards and magicians, supernatural ability, young heroes ...
Time: year 2007, year 1995, year 1996, 20th century, year 1994 ...
Place: london, england, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: As Harry begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as 'Property of the Half-Blood Prince', and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, exciting, entertaining, saga ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: harry potter, witch, magic, magical, school, good versus evil, witchcraft, chosen one, wizards and magicians, young heroes, boarding school, boarding school life ...
Time: year 2009, year 1997, year 1996, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for another magic-filled year. Harry comes face to face with danger yet again, this time in the form of escaped convict, Sirius Black – and turns to sympathetic Professor Lupin for help.
Style: gothic, fairy tale, dark fantasy, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: harry potter, magic, witch, magical, fantasy world, wizard, witchcraft, time travel, werewolf, teenager, friendship, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.6
 253K
Ender's Game (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Style: futuristic, serious, exciting, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: alien, chosen one, invasion, space wars, training, battles, space travel, young heroes, space and aliens, genius, prodigy, child prodigy ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, dark fantasy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, harry potter, witch, magical, boarding school, fantasy world, creature, wizard, teacher, supernatural, youth, chosen one ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 2002, year 1992, year 1993 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
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, entertaining, gothic, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot: time travel, magic, fantasy world, time loop, children, monster, imaginary, youth, orphan, beautiful scenery, supernatural power, witch ...
Time: victorian era, year 1943, year 2016, 2010s, 1940s ...
Place: england, wales, europe, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this sequal to "Escape From Witch Mountain," Tia and Tony leave their safe refuge on witch mountain for a trip to Los Angeles. Tony is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Gannon and his spinster partner Letha and brainwashed into helping Gannon ...
Style: humorous, saga, epic, gothic, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: alien, boy, kidnapping, mad scientist, witch, supernatural, greed, gang, ufo, intergalactic, siblings, psychic ...
Time: year 1978
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 5.7
 20K
Earth to Echo (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and ...
Style: exciting, stylized, sentimental, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: ufo, alien, friendship, found footage, children, youth, childhood, benign alien, investigation, friends, space, child ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Style: entertaining, clever, suspenseful, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: time travel, space travel, space and aliens, changing the past or future, space wars, good versus evil, space, space opera, alien, stargate, parallel universe, heroic mission ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, 1930s, year 1939 ...
Place: atlantic ocean, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Ewok Adventure (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani's are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, saga, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: rescue, star wars, space and aliens, magic, battles, friendship, bravery, good versus evil, save the world, parent child relationship, space exploration, heroic mission ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Little Princess (1995)
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, feel good, fairy tale, heartbreaking, serious ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, orphan, childhood, imagination, princess, little girl, fantasy life, servant, children, girls' boarding school, magic, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, future, victorian era ...
Place: new york, india, england, africa, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
We Can Be Heroes (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.
Style: entertaining, feel good, witty, not serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: child, supernatural ability, heroic mission, superhero, parents and children, female protagonist, friendship, alien, villain, alien invasion, boy hero, fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, spy comedy, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot: children, child hero, child spy, espionage, heroes, spy, save the world, young heroes, hidden identity, heroic mission, undercover, imaginary ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
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