Movies like The Legend of Johnny Lingo

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The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2002)
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The Legend of Johnny Lingo (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens, even to the point of the tribal chief adopting him as a successor. However, with time as hardships are blamed upon Tama (as he is named), he is finally outcast to live with the poorest people on the island, Mahana and her drunken father. Mahana is considered homely and undesirable, but Tama feels differently, so when he is old enough to build a craft to sail away, he vows to return for her one day. A lucky stroke brings him to land upon the island of the legendary Johnny Lingo, the wealthiest trader in the islands, and after years of service to him, Tama has learned much about life and himself as he dreams of honoring his pledge to Mahana.
Style: exciting, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: island, youth, friendship, tragic love, starting over, young heroes, heroes, orphan, family life, adoption, escapades, social misfits, village, injustice, babies and infants, mormon, self esteem, pacific islander, ocean, friends, family relations, village life, unfulfilled love, innocence lost, love ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: pacific ocean
Keyword: ocean or sea

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, feel good, humorous and exciting films with plots about youth, heroes, friends, escapades, friendship, family relations and danger mostly in Family, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Legend of Johnny Lingo: Elephant Tales (2006), Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006), Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar (1967), Joey (1997), Bear with Me (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Elephant Tales (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A tale of two elephant brothers, Tutu and Zef, in search of their mother, and the menagerie of wild creatures they encounter along the way. Just days after the birth of baby elephant Tutu, human hunters arrive late at night and decimate the herd. ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, sincere, touching, fairy tale
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adventurer, mischievous children, righting the wronged, family life, escapades, rescue, orphan, danger, getting home, elephant, hunter, jungle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
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Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It is the story of an average, popular American teenager named Wendy Wu who discovers that in order to win the coveted crown she must first learn the way of the warrior. Wendy Wu has a one track mind, and that track leads directly to the title of ...
Style: feel good, exciting, semi serious, humorous, teen
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: life turned upside down, follow your dream, obsessive quest, ambition, friendship, self discovery, teenager, obsession, rivalry, contests and competitions, youth, escapades ...
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Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar (1967)
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.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult
Plot: cougar, animal, friendship, wilderness, cat, survival, orphan, pets, bear, wild animal, heroes, danger ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: washington state
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30%
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Joey (1997)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: youth, meme, kangaroo, family relations, child in peril, friends, disorder, animal life, heroes, mischievous children, rescue, danger ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
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29%
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Bear with Me (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her and release her back into the wild. Three years go by, and Emily is lost deep in the forest. Cold, frightened and alone in the darkness, she falls and ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, sincere
Plot: young heroes, missing child, friendship, environmental issue, deforestation, escapades, danger, getting home, family life, woods, poacher, environmental ...
Time: 90s
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K-9 Adventures: Legend of the Lost Gold (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Kassie and her friends stumble across an old, broken pocket watch they begin an unexpected journey to unlock the secret of the legendary Garrison Gold. They'll have to solve riddles and follow clues to find the lost treasure. With the help ...
Style: exciting, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: treasure hunt, best friend, escapades, pets, youth, young heroes, journey, dog, friendship, rivalry, german shepherd, police dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Once in a Blue Moon (1995)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Late-1960s suburban Canadian children work on building a rocket vessel, with the intention of delivering one or two neighborhood children to the moon, whilst dealing with social issues of the coming-of-age, orphan-hood and family veins.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, rocket, moon, family relations, siblings relations, family life, eccentric family, adoption, obsessive quest, escapades, friendship between boys, children ...
Time: 60s
Place: canada
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The Kids Who Saved Summer (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A group of youngsters trying to save their playground from an unscrupulous developer who wants to build a factory there.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, disorder, friends, mischievous children, family life, factory, friendship, deception, heroes, activism, bicycle ...
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Napoleon (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Australia, Japan, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, pets, golden retriever, balloon, family relations, survival, odd couple, youth, getting home, rescue, young heroes, danger ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
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24%
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
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24%
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Castle Rock (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Left alone in the wilderness after her grandfather suffers a heart attack, a teenage girl is befriended by a mysterious drifter. Soon, she finds herself on the adventure of her life when her new acquaintance turns out to be a fugitive from justice ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: wilderness, desert, survival, danger, escapades, youth, rebelliousness, teenage life, wanted, german shepherd, dog, teenage girl ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, texas
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24%
Wickie the Mighty Viking (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Vicky is a viking-boy who lives with his parents Halvar and Ylva in the small village Flake. He is a typical viking boy, but rather fearful. He is also not very strong but smart. One day he sails with the grown up vikings out to the sea and to ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: viking, parents and children, youth, danger, rescue, young heroes, competition, children, child, knight, bully, monkey ...
Time: middle ages
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24%
White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A two-week trek through the Cascade Mountains tries the survival instincts of five adventurous teenagers. At first, it's all a good time. Shooting the rapids, exploring caves and making new friends. But when an accident occurs, Mother Nature ...
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: wolf, camp, dog, camping trip, nature, wilderness survival, camping, hiking, cave, wilderness, mountain, animal life ...
Time: 90s
Place: oregon, russia
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Adventures of Bailey: Christmas Hero (2012)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's "Christmas time" at the Baker household, and Bailey is at it again. Worried that he will not get any presents from Santa because he's been a bad doggie, Bailey learns about a mysterious Native American Indian called the ...
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Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, family life, friendship, family relations, getting home, siblings relations, hopes, on the road, youth, animal, wish come true ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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
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Flipper (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into ...
Style: melancholic, touching, exciting, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dolphins, youth, ocean, coming of age, healing power, animal, young heroes, friendship, danger, teenage life, boy, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: florida, usa
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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 ...
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Spooky House (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers.
Style: touching, semi serious, feel good, spooky, independent film
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: halloween, youth, magician, orphan, mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, heroes, pets, haunted house, haunting, magic ...
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22%
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Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When does the little Vicky finally a real Viking? This question can his father Halvar no rest. But when the terrible Sven kidnapped the chief of Flake, has to prove himself unexpectedly Vicky: As deputy chief, he leads the strong men and it gets ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, exciting
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: viking, boy, young heroes, imaginary, rivalry, treasure hunt, escapades, legends and myths, heroes, legend, knight, master villain ...
Time: year 2011, middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Famous Five 3 (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Family
Country: Germany, Thailand
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In their third cinema adventure the Famous Five are searching for a pirate treasure...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, dog, friends, brother brother relationship, talking parrot, strong female character, best friend, escapades, danger, heroes, youth, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
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Rusty: A Dog's Tale (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two orphans named Jory and Tess live with their grandparents. However, their cousins Bart and Bertha try to take them away because the two kids have trust funds from their dead parents. When Bart and Bertha kidnap the newborn puppies, Rusty the dog ...
Style: independent film, humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: dog, family relations, rescue, anti hero, family life, animal life, friends, disorder, heroes, pets, mischievous children, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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21%
Percy, Buffalo Bill and I (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Ulf think this is going to be an ordinary summer. Going to his grand parents and swim in the lake and tease his brother. But that's not the case, because this summer he will fall in love with Pia.
Style: sentimental, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, fall in love, best friend, family life, youth, escapades, family relations, summer vacation, love, boy, swimming, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Veritas, Prince of Truth (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA, UK, Puerto Rico, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kern has to fight an evil menace that could destroy the earth when Veritas, his favorite comic book hero, comes to life and seeks his help.
Style: exciting, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: escapades, self discovery, danger, rivalry, injustice, battles, legends and myths, child, superhero, friendship, supernatural, youth ...
Place: usa
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The Skippers of the Cameleon (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two young boy twins receive a boat of their own by a stroke of luck. It turns out to be very fast and they use their boat to help out their friends.
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: rescue, twins, friendship, friends, family relations, escapades, youth, competition, brother brother relationship, smuggling, gift, mayor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Beethoven's 5th (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, chase, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
20%
The Secret of Arkandias (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Theo, not the most popular boy at his school, dreams of escaping the dreary everyday life, experiencing adventure and accomplishing great heroic deeds. His dream seems to be fulfilled when, one day, he finds a very old and magical book in the ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, feel good, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: young heroes, youth, escapades, supernatural, teenage life, best friend, magic, friendship, magical potion, heroes, friends, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Jumping Ship (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Joseph, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence (TV's Brotherly Love) star in this thrilling, action-packed sequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie Horse Sense. It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods (Joseph Lawrence) and ...
Style: exciting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: resort, pirate, treasure hunt, chase, danger, siblings relations, daring rescue, disorder, parents and children, ship, family life, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: ocean, beach, dolphins, creature, animal, youth, buddies, young heroes, daring rescue, danger, escapades, pirate ...
Time: 60s
Place: bahamas, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Body Troopers (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A little kid shrinks himselfs so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.
Style: cult classic, exciting, surreal, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, friends, chase, young heroes, heroes, save the day, escapades, danger, chases and races, heroic mission, boy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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