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Lost Horizon (1973)
 5.2
 3K
Lost Horizon (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton's Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music. While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La. Hidden from the rest of the world, Shangri-La is a haven of peace and tranquility for world-weary diplomat Richard Conway. His ambitious brother, George, sees it as a prison from which he must escape, even if it means risking his life and bringing destruction to the ancient culture of Shangri-La.
Style: exciting, feel good, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: utopia, aviation, dancing, lost world, explorer, airplane crash, kidnapping, hijacking, revolution, heroes, rescue, love and romance, showbiz, escapades, danger, imaginary, on the run, clergy, artists and showbiz, imaginary kingdom, love, school, chess, mountain, children ...
Place: himalaya, china, asia, tibet, oxford university, southeast asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, feel good and exciting films with plots about heroes, escapades, danger, love and romance, love, dancing and imaginary mostly in Adventure, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Lost Horizon: The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), Camelot (1967), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will ...
Style: harsh, suspense, captivating, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, aviation, disaster, thirst, pilot, isolation, airplane accident, crew, rescue ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: sahara, libya, africa, middle east
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 6.5
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Camelot (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: King Arthur establishes the ideals and laws of Camelot but is tragically forced to enforce these laws against his own wife.
Style: emotional, colorful, lyrical, intense, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: medieval, king arthur, arthurian legend, sword and sorcery, betrayal, sword fight, heroes, broadway, jousting, intrigue, rivalry, mentor ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 1967
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this ...
Style: romantic, educational, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: boys' school, teacher student relationship, boarding school, teaching, world war two, teacher, education, fall in love, youth, love, vacation, dedicated educator ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, year 1969, 1930s
Place: italy, greece, pompeii, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, puppet, friendship, youth, escapades, imaginary, mischievous children, heroes, innocence lost, danger, friends ...
Time: year 1996
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.
Style: light, sweet, cute, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: flying car, inventor, car, childhood, fantasy world, racing, kids and family, heartwarming, fictional country, youth, zeppelin, children ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1900s, 1910s
Place: england, britain, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: balloon, flying, camel, space, steampunk, adventurer, slave girl, escapades, heroes, journalism, danger, treasure hunt ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1860s
Place: africa, west africa, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
High Road to China (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Yugoslavia, Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
Style: retro, semi serious, exciting, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: biplane, aviation, world war one, medieval, pilot, missing person, treasure hunt, airplane, space, may december romance, great war, superhero ...
Time: year 1983, 1920s, 20th century
Place: china, afghanistan, nepal, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.4
 33K
Always (1989)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young ...
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, emotional, intense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: afterlife, airplane, aviation, ghost, rescue, guardian angel, supernatural, grief, love, firefighter, pilot, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: usa, colorado, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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The Music Man (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, realistic
Audience: kids, pre-teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, fall in love, lifestyle, couples, society, artists and showbiz, love and romance, racism, clergy, music, dancing, librarian ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.6
 789
Babin (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: As scripted by Quebecois raconteur Fred Pellerin and directed by Luc Picard, this offbeat fantasy comedy details the adventures of Babine (Vincent Guillaume Otis), the son of a witch and a village pariah, as he ventures forth into the world and ...
Style: fairy tale, exciting, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: escapades, heroic mission, clergy, danger, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, rivalry, save the day, witch, love, magic, society ...
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 7.0
 17K
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Matchmaker, Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.
Style: period piece, feel good, retro, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: dancing, broadway, love, music, music and dance, dance, merchant, railway, theater, progress, gilded age, teenager ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, 1800s, 1890s
Place: new york, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.8
 4K
She (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: reincarnation, immortality, queen, danger, supernatural, rivalry, adventurer, oasis, mystery woman, valet, tribe, battles ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era
Place: africa, egypt, cairo egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.5
 17K
The Wiz (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she ...
Style: stylized, cult classic, sweet, dark drama, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: wizard of oz, broadway, black, magic, dancing, fantasy world, music, african american, black history, disco, urban, black woman ...
Time: year 1978
Place: new york, harlem, new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Peter Pan Live! (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Following in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful The Sound of Music LIVE! - which drew over 18 million viewers - comes this musical masterpiece that tells the beloved story of Peter Pan, the mischievous little boy who ran away to Neverland. ...
Style: exciting, feel good, semi serious, captivating, fairy tale
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: peter pan, pirate, adventurer, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, good versus evil, heroes, rivalry, imaginary, escapades, disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Babes in Toyland (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, cute, christmas classics, psychotronic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, toys, holiday, dancing, broadway, toy soldier, dance, greed, magic, christmas spirit, wedding, kidnapping ...
Time: year 1961
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive ...
Style: dorama, semi serious, serious, exciting, offbeat ...
Plot: wuxia, martial arts, true love, kung fu, fight club, monk, legends and myths, heroic mission, destiny, danger, escapades, imaginary ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
At Long Last Love (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, stylized, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gambling, singer, great ending, filmmaking, filmmaker, fall in love, couples, performer's life, lifestyle, love and romance, artists and showbiz, master and servant ...
Time: year 1975, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Magic Sword (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.
Style: grindhouse, mythical, arthurian, classic horror, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: sorcery, sword and sorcery, wizard, dungeon, sword, chess, witch, dinosaur, kingdom, dungeons and dragons, arthurian legend, pagan ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Barney's Great Adventure (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Mom and dad dump son Cody, daughter Abby, her best friend Marcella and a baby on the farm with Grandpa and Grandma. Purple dinosaur Barney soon appears to entertain kids, and when a large colorful egg deposited on a farm by a shooting star is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot: dinosaur, chase, youth, children, meme, barney, puppet, disorder, friends, fish out of water, imaginary kingdom, countryside ...
Time: 90s
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Valley of Flowers (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: India, France, Japan, Germany
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A Himalayan legend of a love struggling against the inevitability of death, an astonishing tale spanning from the early 19th century mountain existence, to hectic, bustling modern day Tokyo.
Style: captivating, tense, romantic, sensual, philosophical ...
Plot: impossible love, love, suicide, immortality, love of one's life, changing lives, escapades, gang, caravan, change of heart, criminal gang, love interest ...
Place: himalaya, tibet, tokyo
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Grimm's Snow White (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the King is killed by ferocious reptile beasts, his Queen takes control of the kingdom. She tries to kill her beautiful stepdaughter SNOW, but she escapes into the enchanted forest...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, exciting, mockbuster, romantic ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: snow white, imaginary kingdom, sword fight, rescue, imaginary, escapades, danger, woman in danger, love and romance, heroes, elf, cinderella story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, aviation, flying, airplane, air disaster, world war, photojournalism, female journalist, exotic locale, pilot, u.s. air force, disaster ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 8.0
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Big Fish (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style: surreal, sentimental, feel good, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
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72%
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Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A musical set in the great Busby Berkeley style. In Chicago during the depression, sheet music salesman, Arthur Parker, is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's ...
Style: surreal, stylized, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: dancing, bittersweet, melancholy, murder, pop music, female protagonist, great depression, teacher, marriage, traveling salesman, infidelity, bank ...
Time: 1930s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.2
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Willow (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Fearful of a prophecy stating that a girl child will be born to bring about her downfall, the evil Queen Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women within the formidable stronghold of Nockmaar. A child, Elora Danan, is born in the Nockmaar dungeons and ...
Style: fairy tale, scenic, exciting, atmospheric, epic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: wizard, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, prophecy, imaginary kingdom, magic, queen, baby, black magic, castle, mother daughter relationship, medieval ...
Time: middle ages, future, 90s, 1900s, 20th century ...
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71%
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Peter Pan (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, fantasy world, fairy, children, boy, magic, teenager, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, friendship, youth ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place: fictional island, london, europe, big ben london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.0
 17K
Fame (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
Style: romantic, melancholic, intense, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, chick flick
Plot: dancing, teacher, dance, high school, music, music business, follow your dream, desire for fame, youth, showbiz, dream come true, teenage life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When the Sultan's first born is taken by an evil sorcerer, Sinbad is tasked with traveling to a desert of magic and creatures to save her.
Style: exciting, feel good, captivating, tense, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: sinbad, good versus evil, danger, heroic mission, imaginary kingdom, wizards and magicians, daring rescue, folk hero, medieval, imaginary, master villain, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.2
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Oh, My Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Orphaned and homeless Ranbir Raj re-locates to a small town and orders a glass of milk in the RK Bar. He befriends a prostitute by the name of Gulabji, who invites him to spend the night with her, and when he refuses, she re-directs him to Lillian ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: unrequited love, couples, friendship, love and romance, prostitute, couple relations, fall in love, love affair, tragic love, hopes, idealism, small town life ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: charles dickens, family reunited, dysfunctional family, greed, betrayal, haunted by the past, family relations, rescue, uncle nephew relationship, boarding school, fall in love, siblings relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2002, 1830s, 1850s
Place: london, europe, liverpool, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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